Guffy

Is ths advise from the man who deleted his sonic?

Harv, being team dependant you might want to pick something like hasten. Although not obvious with your build it's a power that will greatly help with all aspects of your controling primary powers and won't soak up loads of slots that I'm guessing you are fighting for at the moment.

I love the single holds on my trolleys, the quicker I have it to use again to stack on a boss the better - it generally gives an AoE focused team nice feelings to know that the boss ain't gonna be after them and their mass-aggroing ways.

Maybe if you changed your primary for something with good control, great damage and some pets.....lets say fire.

Then maybe tweek your secondary to a more foe focused set that won't have you switching targets between good guys and bad, with a load of nice debuffs......er lets say Rad.

Then I think you'll have it about right

What FF realy means is fire/rad superteam FTW!

Hear that? That's the sound of a humungus slap headed your way

Oh and thanks Mirkoman - good to be back. (not that I've really been anywhere )

I guess that the only reason I got QT to 50 was so I'd have more options in STF - bring it on!

Back to the OP however, in order to make space in the SG I'll remove all over 100 day toons so that we can start rebuilding with happy shiney new players.

I suspect with the new TF 'rules' that will be hard to beat, under an hour is always a good time in my book.

Thanks Tommy, it's a wholesale new look SG, so don't expect daily STFs just yet

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Please don't make me pick between them - sadly in my opinion one of the most underwhelming 'rewards' of the game. I hope they suit you better than I and gl with the push to 50.

I'm up for it - june/july though? I'll hsve forgotten by then!

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Still think you'll be disappointed with /Rad for farming now that you've been doing it with a /kin a while. /Rad is a different way of playing, easyer/lazyer (whatever you want to call it) but it will be significantly slower than /kin.

In short fire/rad is great for the journey to 50 and continuing to play as a fun toon/badger. Fire/Kin however is a more intense experience which comes into it's own much later in the game.

If all I wanted to do was farm I'd go with Fire/Kin for everything else there is the shear delight that is Fire/Rad. Have pmed you Scars current build as requested, enjoy.

I have an ill/Sonic and I only really enjoy the sonic part, should have remade her while she was a lowbie but there was I thinking that everything would be ok once she had tons of pets, the only shining light is her most recent power - liquify - is lots of fun

Maybe you should consider running a ladder rather than leagues? Personally I’d be proper up for this type of event, not really got into PvP in the past, however Tuesday is about as bad a night as you can get for me.

Nice one - proper gratz!

Not had a real long look at your build but one thing I think you might want to consider changing is Assult, from time to time those naughty little monkeys will agrro 12 unintended groups each, whereas you might not be able to save them Manouvers (stacked twice) will provide one of your few buffs (from a /rad build) for the both of you. Assult is good but with containment, imps and multi AM damage won't be a problem. Not sure how good an earth and fire rad trolleys will work, as fire is very 'jump in' agressive whereas earth is more 'ranged'. Whoever plays the earth will be very green by your mid 30s

Have to agree with the majority here - fire/rad works great with fire/rad. Don't worry about tanking pets, you'll both be mezzing the pants of the bad guys with flashfire that you will want all the damage you can get. You'll not always get time to apply your deuffs before they are all dead with this duo.

I like the 'feel' of Defiant, the times I've played on Union I've been spammed with blinds despite search comments I've put in.

My advise to those who are 'used to' union ways, when playing, on defiant need to bare in mind that there is less broadcast chat and much fewer blind invites, teams however (inc. PuGs) are as good as they get, owning enemies is usually the order of the day and teaming usually reflects this.

Can't help but think that the population however on Defiant wasn't helped by the 'extra' DXP weekend Union had.

*Sobs* need LR and BS for my badger, will be there as early as possible but not likely till closer to 8 :-( (ScarRad fire/rad trolley)

I'm a bit gutted to be missing these on a regular basis (really need the bomb planting badge) as I don't usually start playing till 8pm ish. My question is; do you just do the one raid or continue on late into the night?

Hey matey, I made one of these the other day, but doubt I'll play it for a while. Some of the lessons I've learned from having a /kin (from my corruptor) are as follows (in no particular order);

For an offensive toon (which we know fire control is) I find SB a right royal PITA. Your target is nearly always foes but then in the heat of battle 5 ppl at once shout "SB MEH!" either you switch to friendly targets and risk not firing off your flashfire or risk getting anoyed by their ever increasing demands. Slotting wise, if you're really gonna spam it out you want EndMod in it and resign your heroics to a buffer.

Both fire control and Kinetics need heaps of tohit, nearly all the good stuff just HAS to hit 95% of the time to become 'da man' in PvE.

Inertial Reduction is fun in itself but of no real benefit, I went without a travel power (relying on temps and IR) which helped me thru the lower levels but getting it after your travel power might be a waste of a power.

FS has one too many acc slots in.


In general I'd suggest a revamp with a respec (if you have one kicking about) which could include;

Getting rid of fly and use SJ with the opportunity of Acrobatics later on. Does a fire trolley not do enough damage that they need Air sup?

Lose IR and fire shield (afterall you're gonna have them all tied up and dancing with monkeys to be hit ) And get tactic in there early.

Use respecs with a /kin often, once you have transferance some of your slotting won't be optimal anymore.

Cinders is a great backup for when your flashfire doesn't recharge in time from one group to the next. Slot it and slot it well, IMO this power needs 6 slots, in old money 2 acc, 2rech & 2hold.

Decide what kind of /kin you're gonna be with respect to SB, don't let it spoil (like it has me) what is an excellent powerset.

Just looking at the powers (cos I'm too lazy about the slotting) I'd suggest getting smoke later (slightly before imps) and flashfire ASAP - slot it and love it, you've not gone for leadership so I suggest putting 2 even 3 acc on your AoE primary powers.

Some folk don't like cinders, me I love it but it is a bit meh without 6 slots (2 acc, 2 hold, 2 rech) - or a bunch of HOs.

Not sure I'd go with the fighting pool - to be a fire trolley you must (IMO) not give them a chance at touching you. Fire has good control with Flashfire being the most used power in the set.

Wot no accrobatics?

As for slotting - go with what feels right at the time - you'll likely want to respec when you hit 35 ish, not sure you'll need both transferance and consume.

My fire trolley (in normal PvE) don't let the bad guys get in an attack before they are controlled and so the fire shield in theory looks good but by the time you get to that level it maybe a wasted power.

SB is the reason I hate playing kins, however it needs slotting for either team use (3 endmod) or for solo (i.e. Imps, mabe a run or two). It's a great power but folk are usually pretty rude when it comes to dishing it out. In all honesty there is no shame in leaving it out but you'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Sorry if this sounds too critical, I know that when ppl have their say it can sound rude, it's only my opinion and I don't mind if you think it's not for you, tbh, I probably wouldn't listen to someone called Guffy either.

*coughs* "Fire/Rad" *looks round all innocent like* "OK I like to burn stuff"

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49 minutes is very impressive, how was the team made up with ATs? The best I've been a part of was approx 3 hrs.

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Err - my memory is very bad but we were(from what I can remember);

Stone/?? tank
Fire/Fire blaster
Ice/?? blaster
Ill/kin? Trolley
Fire/rad trolley
sonic trolley/defender
kin? trolley/Defender
ANother

you prolley wish I hadn't bothered *hangs head in shame* - it was all over too quick.

Thanks, that sounds good to to me, the folk I've got interested (at the moment) all have heavy altitis so I'm not sure how well we'll go but once all their characters are created hopefuly we'll be ready to have a fair session or two come DXP w/e. On a slightly sad note I had to leave the EVIL rejects due to there not being enough spaces for those who I wanted to recruit, therefore have created a new VG (for fire/rads). Maybe, if you have space, we can coalition with you?

I've got into EVIL rejects - which will get us in contact with the ST in EVIL itself.

Tired now so logging - but will invite next time I'm on - am now level 9 and got a bank mission waiting.