GuyPerfect

I was on an attempted LGSF just the other night and Hamidon's damage was not a problem. Nobody had EoEs and nobody needed them.

The issue was the hold protection on the green mitos. With two Controllers, two Blasters with holds, and me with three holds, we didn't have enough. And then I did the math and noticed that a team of 8 Controllers isn't guaranteed to have enough.

I'd wait for the patch on test to go live before attempting a LGTF in the first place, let alone a Master run. It simply cannot be completed with anything resembling a conventional team.

Your words of sound reason are lost on your audience.

I think you will find that you are not the only one who has been around for a while.

This is no longer true. Any +HP set bonuses or accolades no longer count against progress towards damage badges. The level 52 Guide I was getting hit by dealt 1028 damage per swing, and my progress bar went up by 1028 every time I got hit.

This MUST be counting additional HP, because Mastermind only gets 802 by default, which means I got more progress per swing than I would have been able to take total if the extra HP wasn't counting towards the badge.

You mean a surprise speed, right? Plowing is the normal way and speeding is the exception. (-:

We gotta get the phrase "lft plow" commonplace in this community!

Technically, that's just outside of missions. "On patrol" is pretty much everywhere except "On Mission Map"

You have dishonored the honorable Spectacles. He will place a curse on you that makes you only able to speak Klingon.

(Why is it that my web browser doesn't think "Klingon" is misspelled, but it thinks "colour" is misspelled?)

In practice, I use the power more as a heal than an attack; Siphon Life tends to wind up as a filler if everything else is decharged. Since I use it as a heal personally, I slotted it as a heal.

Additionally, your suggested slotting yields only 1.5X Accuracy, which is about half way to where I like to play. Some people like too much Recovery; I like too much Accuracy. Had it not mattered, I'd have stuck an Damage IO in there instead of Accuracy.

There is at the moment, but the Worldwide Holiday Committee is considering making it Middle Class White Male Heritage Day. Problem is, giving a holiday to that particular minority is considered racist.

I warn you against giving slots to powers before you know what Enhancements you're going to put into them, and for that reason I hope you haven't already... erm... respuc your character. You might have to do it again if you did. Efficient Frankenslotting (or slotting in general) takes Enhancements into account first, then allots slots for them.

This is the procedure I personally use:

Step 1: Ideal Boosts
The first thing I do is determine what I want to do with the power, then figure out what the ideal boosts would be for that power given how I will be using it.

Step 2: Prioritizing Boosts
Usually, you won't be able to achieve all the ideal boosts in a power, so you're gonna have to shave something off. Prioritizing the boosts gives you something to focus on, and you can make compromises better on the lower stuff.

Step 3: Splitting Boosts across Enhancements
Once I have the desired boost values and the prioritized boosts, I find the available Enhancements that I can slot into the power. While I generally like to stick to IOs, sometimes a Hamidon Enhancement is the best way to go. In general, though, I shoot for my boosts in order of priority with IOs, and trim off numbers from the lower priorities until everything fits.

Step 4: Slot Reduction
Once all of my powers in a build are specified with whatever given Enhancements, I'm usually a few slots over. Characters receive 67 additional slots by the time they're 50, and I often have to sacrifice slots to make everything fit in the build. As with the boosts, the lowest priorities are the first to go. Additionally, slots come out of lower-priority powers before higher ones.


Example: Petless Mastermind Knockout Blow
On my petless Mastermind, I took Knockout Blow as a complementary melee attack. Knockout Blow is one heck of a dynamic power, as it's good for all sorts of stuff such as knockback, hold, and high damage. It is also unusually accurate and has hefty Endurance cost and recharge. To slot this sucker effectively takes a lot of planning ahead of time.

Step 1:
The power accepts a variety of Enhancement boosts, including Accuracy, Damage, Endurance Reduction, Hold, Recharge and Knockback. I have no interest in using the power for Knockback, however, so I can focus on the other five aspects instead. I keep a few things in mind:

• I like my powers to have 1.9X accuracy, as this is typically the maximum for 1.0X powers. Knockout Blow has 1.2X base, however, which means it only needs a 59% boost.
• Damage, Endurance Reduction, Recharge and Hold are theoretically best if they each have the maximum 95% boost.

Step 2:
Since there's no way I can fully enhance all of the power's attributes to the values that would be ideal, I need to prioritize so I know where to cut fat from:

• Accuracy: +59% boost minimum. Non-negotiable.
• Hold: Should be more effective than Recharge if I have to pick one
• Recharge: Should be as high as I can get it at this point; preferably perma
• Endurance: Ditto, but without cutting into Recharge
• Damage: Gets whatever is left after all the others

Step 3:
This particular power got slotted up with the following Enhancements:

• Lockdown: Acc/End/Rech/Hold
• Lockdown: End/Rech/Hold
• Ghost Widow's Embrace: Ach/Hold/Rech
• Ghost Widow's Embrace: Acc/Rech
• Ghost Widow's Embrace: End/Hold
• Invention: Damage

The final boost values are as follows:

• Accuracy: 66.25% = 2.0X
• Hold: 85.7% = 27.67s
• Recharge: 85.7% = 21.54% (perma)
• Endurance: 66.25% = 13.92
• Damage: 42.4% = 155.05

The Accuracy was boosted higher than it needed to be, and the hold/recharge ratio is perma. Endurance is at a good level, and damage was boosted after everything else. Additionally, due to a secondary goal of the build, this power also grants the character +1.88% HP through Ghost Widow's Embrace.

Step 4:
This power remains 6-slotted in the final build. Slots were removed from other powers.

To give everyone the benefit of the doubt, let me express that my comments were not meant to be humorous, but to shamelessly belittle marketing.

I'll be sure to inform the people who actually know me.

I think the best irony here is the fact that in the villain arc, you CAN save your clone.

Where does "Silmon" come from? He is quite explicitly "just Leonard" in the game and the story arc suggests his last name is Milton, not Silmon.