Hyperstrike

How, precisely, is healing someone AFTER taking massive damage superior to preventing them from taking damage in the first place? (Hint: It isn't.)

If you wanted to play a "healing" set instead of a defensive buff set, WHY THE HELL DID YOU TAKE */FF?

And drop the "constantly buffing" line. You're not "constantly healing" either.

Tactical bubbling (on the fly when you see someone in trouble) and strategic bubbling (planned before going in against very difficult foes) are really not THAT hard to pick up. You use it almost identically to the way you'd perform a spot heal. And the bubbles last a lot longer than the green numbers do in really chunky fights.

I know that you think buff-botting with bubbles is required behavior (like people who think the same thing about SB and */Kin/*). In short, you've been sold a phony bill of goods.

Okay first off, you have three antivirus solutions? Or did you run one, uninstall, run the next, uninstall, run the next?

If you have all three installed simultaneously, NO *BLEEP!*ING WONDER your machine is slower than frozen whale snot. You essentially have three different AV mechanisms duking it out for for supremacy on the system. Worse, you have them eating pretty much all your system resources to do it. And to toss snow onto this mountain, the things they're trying to "clean" are EACH OTHER.

Yes but at lesser values.

If.

And, even after what, 18-19 issues? Say they ARE finally able to "fix" it (due to the way they flag these enhancements that's going to be a hell of an ugly fix), relief is only a respec away.

Yes. As others have pointed out, you have to continue the subscription to continue playing.

However, there are things you can do to minimize sub fees, such as paying, up front, for longer periods of subscription.

• 1 month: $14.99*
• 3 months: $41.85* (equivalent to $13.95 per month)
• 6 months: $77.70* (equivalent to $12.95 per month)
• 12 months: $143.40* (equivalent to $11.95 per month)

Also, around Christmas, they've been running deals for 12+2 months for the regular 12 month price (Basically ten bucks and change a month).

That's essentially the price of a single movie ticket a month and it's (more or less) always on, and always there when you want to play. You can play as much or as little as you want.

Honestly this game has SAVED me an enormous amount of money. Instead of getting bored, going looking for SOMETHING to do to keep me occupied (and spending stupid amounts of money doing so), I just log on and lay some smack down on various bad people.

I also understand some of the frustration with "rent to pwn". I used to be militantly against it myself. I'd like to think I've wised up. There's more to do in this game than just about any stand-alone game out there. Plus the level of social interaction with my fellow players makes it much more enjoyable.

Are you talking:

• Raw dimensions?
• Volume?
• Capacity?

How do you know what "they" hoped to bring in?

Ohyeah. I can see that we have a LOOOOOONG way to go with this one...

Oh, and remind me not to snigger when I'm at GenCon Indy next year.

OHBOY! FRESH MEAT!

Okay, on straight SO's, or common IOs, SS is "okay".

Typed defenses all cap out around 29% with maximum enemies in range.
Resists for S/L are 90%+ and low 30's for everything else.

It's possible, with well-chosen sets, to softcap an SS/Inv to S/L/E/N/F/C. This route can be somewhat expensive.

A slightly more economical path would be to softcap S/L (the most common damage type in the game) and bring the other defense types up a bit more (but not to softcap). This gives you roughly 80-90% of the durability (as most attacks have at least SOME S/L component), and you can make up the difference with inspies on the occasions you fight those flinging pure E/N/F/C attacks.

Resists don't really get much higher though.

Most of the time your defenses keep you perfectly safe.

If it's carrying a normal crew complement, cruiser.
If it's carrying a metahuman crew content, destroyer.

Again, I said the damage assessment was simplified. I wasn't going to drop into a massive dissertation on exact timings and damage boosting powers (that's why we have Arcanaville).

Yes and no. As you noted, it can make a difference in what the attack chain is (or simplify the attack chain if the higher-damage powers come up enough to become their own fillers).

But it also makes a difference if the entire attack chain is coming up faster as a whole. This devolves into "how fast can you mash buttons", and I wasn't (and still am not) prepared to start dissecting this.

Which is why I avoided them and a highly detailed breakdown of every corner case in the arsenal.


Yay for the first page! The OP asked for an opinion. I honestly don't give a damn about 30 other people's opinions when giving mine.

Apparently some people missed that I specifically said that is was a simplified assessment of basic damage over time. I even specifically mentioned that other modifiers outside of the basic sample itself were deliberately not taken into account.

Also, as was noted elsewhere, greater recharge CAN lead to an alteration in attack chain (swapping out lower damage, faster-charging attacks for higher damage, slower-charging ones or eliminating lower damage attacks because the higher damage, slower-charging ones come up enough faster to keep the chain seamless). It can also mean simply more occurrences of the same attack chain in the same amount of time.

I think you overstate the severity of the problem.
Yes, damage output is reduced by resistance. As a blaster you're STILL putting out phenomenal amounts of it though.

Everything burns...
Everything...

Please clarify.

Again, this is why I stated that it was done in a vacuum where things like Hasten, and massive amounts of set-based recharge aren't factored in.

Yes, if you're built for recharge with 100+ global recharge, it might make more sense to go for the damage boost. Usually such a build would benefit more from Cardiac though (as high recharge builds tend to burn through End like a hungry fat man at a hot dog eating contest.

Missing the point. In the downtime between this "one attack", you fill in with other attacks that are also recharge boosted. Essentially your entire attack chain cycles faster. Period.

Having your entire attack chain to cycle through faster will output more damage over time than the simple damage enhancement would.

Okay let's look at it this way.

For your damage-doing attacks, you're somewhere between 90 and 100% enhanced for damage from slotting. Correct?

Now, by the same token, you're only 40-70% enhanced for recharge right?

Let's take a look at something like Knockout Blow. Now, I'm not going to be taking into account Arcanatime or anything like that. It'd changed my numbers a bit for sure, but the basic point remains.

Take KO blow and 6-slot it for Crushing Impact.

You're at roughly 101% damage enhancement and 69% recharge enhancement.

Note: Rounding to the nearest integer for simplicity's sake

A Common Incarnate would add 10% damage or 33% recharge due to the portion that ignores ED, you're getting pretty much the full recharge value of the enhancement out of it.
An Uncommon would add 16% damage or 33% recharge.
A Rare would add 21%-27% (33% or 45% boost) damage or 33%-45% recharge.
A Very Rare would add 27-35% damage or 33%-45% recharge.

Now I'm taking this into account beyond all other recharge bonuses beyond just the base recharge enhancement and the 5% of the set.


Unmodified for various critter types, resists, etc and assuming all attacks actually hit.
In a 1 minute period KO blow would do:

(Damage Mod/Rech Mod)

• Unenhanced: 316/316
• IO Enhanced: 955/955
• Common: 1005/1273
• Uncommon: 1031/1273
• Rare33: 1057/1273
• Rare45: 1085/1592
• VRare: 1083/1273
• VRare: 1121/1592

Now, on the flip side, DoT "aura" powers (hot feet, etc) gain approximately NO advantage from extra recharge and might benefit more from the extra damage than the recharge. However, they might also benefit more from extreme EndRedux. It really depends on how much damage is being done.

Take Hot Feet on a */Fire blaster. 6-slotted for damage will get you about 27-28 damage. A Rare/VeryRare will get you 31-32 damage.

Straight up max-damage kill-em-all "Watch-the-EB-melt" blast-tasticness?

NightSable hit it on the head. Fire/Fire/Fire (SHUT UP BEAVIS!)

Check the seating of the heatsink. Also, what kind of heatsink are you using? And does it have a fan built onto it or are you trying to use a huge passive one and case air flow?

Actually paste/grease makes almost zero difference. Just make sure you're using a decent brand from a reputable company. The only time you're really worried about it is when you start futzing around with overclocks. If you put too MUCH of either on, or it's spread unevenly, yeah, that'd account for higher temps.

Realistically, you probably won't notice an extra 120mm fan much.