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Those are easy to get cheap. Just go begging lowbs in Galaxy for those!

I also avoid Stamina like the plague on all my characters; I am not part of any Super Group; I do not take the Leadership pool on my Masterminds or the Fighting pool on my Tankers or Brutes; and I've been known to post Luck of the Gambler: +7.5% Recharge on the market for 10 inf just to see what the highest bidder was paying. I also have a petless Mastermind at level 33 and growing. It has the ranged attacks, and a secondary emphasis on melee. It's fun to play.

The unrest is indeed present, but it's not like I'm going around provoking anybody. People just look at me and say "OMG that's now how I would have done it so you suck!!!" and I continue doing what I'm doing. It's a game. Have fun.

Depends on the damage type of the alpha. Electric Armor, with SOs, has about 90% resistance to Energy and 40% resistance to everything else but Toxic (which includes Psionic). So you're fighting Rikti? No problem. Fighting Cimerorans? Might be an issue.

Also, Power Surge has a 16 minute, 40 second recharge. I'm not sure what you mean by 2 minute cooldown, as I can't imagine having THAT much global +Recharge.


Base heal of 10% makes for a 20% heal slotted. I've been playing with Dark/Elec lately and the survivability went WAY up with that 1/5 of a bar of HP heal every time the attack fires off.

Having said that, Energize slotted will be a 50% heal every 60 seconds, so I might slot Siphon Life a bit differently when that change makes it to live.


Got my Dark/Elec to 35 last night and was expecting Rikti to be juuuust a bit more difficult. The bosses barely hurt, even on Relentless, which is a HUGE difference from when I leveled my Willpower a while back. Still the issue of hitting the Drones, but that's nothing a little Soul Drain can't fix.


This is a classic case of looking at the numbers without actually seeing how it plays out in practice.

My Dark/Elec was originally Dark/Energy before I made the switch from defense to resist, and that build did indeed have Stamina, Dark Consumption, Energy Drain, Conserve Power and Endurance Reduction Enhancements in every power. Guess what? The blue bar kept going down; somewhat quickly. I relied on Energy Drain and, to a lesser extent, Dark Consumption to keep it topped off.

Sounds like I'm agreeing with you, doesn't it? (-:

The point here is that even WITH Stamina and EndRdx Enhancements, my Endurance still fizzled out like a blue rose during a drought. It wasn't an immediate exhaustion, but it was certainly enough of a drain that taking those Enhancements out would have been a bad thing. None of the attacks had Recharge Enhancements; the only +Recharge I got was from Hasten.

To summarize the above paragraph: Stamina is not powerful enough to remove EndRdx from Dark Melee, let alone replacing them with Recharges.

Now, the flipside of that coin is that my Endurance was always at a good level. This was due mostly because of Energy Drain, and in some situations where Energy Drain was not available, there was still Dark Consumption and I never--I repeat, NEVER--had to worry about my Endurance going dry.

When I re-rolled as Electric Armor, I kept Hurdle, because my character was Huge and didn't feel like he jumped high enough without it... And I kept Health, because my Primary and Secondary powersets weren't sufficient to keep my HP full all the time... But I dropped Stamina because my Primary and Secondary powers WERE sufficient to keep my Endurance full all the time.

As for situations where there's only one enemy to draw from, well... you have two powers that give +25 Endurance base; +50 slotted. It's not an understatement to suggest that you can in fact recover ALL your endurance on that single AV or whatever you happen to be fighting.

I think you might need to be a bit more specific. Saying "northern Firebase Zulu" is like saying "one of Hamidon's pixels"...

Yeah, actually, it does.

Ah, but you really think Statesman would make a good Darth Vader? *Rimshot*

You might be interested to know that in the destroyed future Atlas Park map where Villains fight Lord Recluse at the end of their patron arcs, the only identifiable building not in complete rubble is El Super Mexicano, which is still apparently open for business. I've likened it to the Blue Steel of Mexican restaurants.

Don't forget that Elec is immune to Endurance Drain, has Conserve Power (soon to be a self heal) and Power Sink to help the blue bar. All the other secondaries are quite good at depleting Endurance, but Electric Armor is best for keeping it topped off.

Not a good assumption to make, as there are people like me out there who take powers according to performance and not according to some preconceived notion that certain powers will be necessary. For instance, to date, only two of my characters have Stamina. My Dark/Elec Brute does not have Tough, Weave or Stamina... and his Endurance is still difficult to deplete, even without using Dark Consumption or Power Sink.

My above Brute was originally Dark/Energy. The Defense is somewhat inferior, the self-heal is absolute rubbish, there's very little in way of Resistance, and it has no failsafe (read: Hibernate) or self-rez for when things go south.

If you scrape the very bottom of the barrel, you'll find a few layers down that there is, buried in the muck, another barrel, and at the bottom of that one you'll find Energy Aura.

Actually, they've been posting out of the beta boards and got nailed by the marketing department. It's the devs' version of initiation hazing. Positron started the tradition, of course. Pos... Positron Haze...


Television killed the Radio, don't you remember? Oh, snap... Quick, someone check the dev dungeon in Grandville! I think I know who the laughing voice and whip-cracker is now!..

Wait, no. I understand BaB already did that one for... animation purposes. (A fact disguised as a joke!)


Make a welcome thread for themselves? I gotta try that someday. "I welcome all you active members to my forums! You may have been here years before I ever showed up, but you all belong to me now. Did you hear about marketing? They totally just--..."

Hmm, well... You know how semantics works. Even in the event that "all" the remaining epics got a fifth power, would not "most" still be true?

It's a response like this that makes me glad my earlier post got overlooked. (-:

Blasters with Melt Armor, you say? That's an interesting idea.

Ha ha, yeah. That would be sooooo crazy!

Let's see now...
* Blaster/Force Mastery should get Repulsion Bomb. I mean, Blasters aren't quite repulsive enough as it is...
* Controller/Psionic Mastery needs World of Confusion. The power isn't over-used enough yet.
* Defender/Dark Mastery already has a good mix of Dark Melee and Dark Armor, but where's Soul Transfer?
* Defender/Power Mastery would be a bit more interesting with Force of Nature, don't you think?
* Scrapper/Darkness Mastery would be complete if only it had Night Fall.
* Scrapper/Body Mastery and Tanker/Energy Mastery both sure could go for an auto power that boosts both Regeneration and Recovery. But what would we call it?
* Brute/Mu Mastery doesn't have enough of that "Force Lightning" feel to it. Perhaps an addition of Static Discharge is in order?
* All VEAT epic sets need to have the fifth powers given to Brutes added. Then they'd be identical again like the old days.
* Scrapper/Blaze Mastery? I dunno, what would go good in that one? I'm purely conjecturing, in alphabetical order: Char, Fire Ball, Fire Blast, Ring of Fire and... heck, let's throw in Melt Armor for that one as well.

Oh, snap, should I delete my not-yet-50 Brute, then?