Ironblade

He's level 10. So, first, he should do the Positron TF for 66 merits.
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But there's no point to this. Once upon a time, you suffered less penalty (i.e. could act sooner) but that was fixed. The duration during which you can not act is exactly the same whether you are hovering or not.

Well, I guess there could be a point if you're concerned about the lateral distance traveled. But I think most people are interested in the duration during which you are helpless and Hover does NOTHING to reduce that.

The limit is 5 of the same NAME bonus. There are a few cases where the same numeric bonus has a different name and you can stack them. Best known: Luck of the Gambler 7.5% recharge has a different NAME from the set bonus 7.5% recharge so you can have five of each.

I would think it's because of the "crazy" part, rather than the "stalker" part.

"Wrong" as in "you're a bad person"? No.
"Wrong" as in "misleading"? Yes.

My main character is #3 badger on Infinity. I have other level 50's with well under 200 badges. You'd draw dramatically different conclusions, at least one of which is completely wrong, based on what character I'm playing.

Emphasis on SOME neat effects. The simple fact is that most of the IO sets do not have the optimum combination of effects and slotting a full set will genuinely gimp the power in exchange for the set bonuses. Please note, I'm not saying you'll end up worse than if you used SO's. I'm saying that slotting a full set will often give WORSE enhancement to the power than if you slotted multiple partial sets or went completely frankenslot.

Each IO set needs to be evaluated for how close to optimum it gets (some are really good - some are just horrible) and how much you are willing to sacrifice to get particular set bonuses. If you're going for recharge or certain types of defense and resistance, these are often the 4th or 5th bonus, forcing you to slot all or most of what may be a suboptimal set.

Well, that's not a problem with lining it up. If you get a 'Miss' message, that means you lined it up just right..... but missed.

In fact, that went live today. We'll see how it works.

Too bad he didn't spell it 'lawlz'. That looks like it would rhyme with 'balls' and has all sorts of potential.

Because suffering a 'death' in a game with zero consequences is *SO* similar to spending tens of hours of time dealing with the insurance company, repair shop, etc.

What a fatuous and completely irrelevant comparison you've made.

True. However, in my opinion, resistance sets really suck at low levels. My ice tank and my shield tank seemed to have much greater survivability than invuln before SO's.

To the OP: I have a level 50 ice/SS tank and he's great. The first time you encounter Knives of Artemis and they drop overlapping caltrop fields and you walk right through it to wipe the floor with them, you will be thrilled.

Overall, ice is very nice. Sure, you'll get hit a bit, but you have a +HP/heal, a +END power, the best taunt aura in the game and Rage just kicking all your attacks up a notch.
Rage + Footstomp + Icicles + Ice Storm (Arctic Mastery) = utter devastation

I took every power in the primary. I would say Permafrost is the most skippable, but I needed somewhere to put an IO resistance set.

It gives 10 endurance.

(20% chance of it. Maybe that's where you got the 20.)

Exactly correct.
The same situation applies with regeneration and extra hit points.

No and yes. An extra 4% endurance is not noticeable. I would say you don't really notice any benefit until you get past 20% improvement. (Stamina by itself is 25%.)


For any newbs reading:
Base character recovery will take you from 0 endurance to full in 100 seconds. Base regeneration will take you from 1 hit point to full in 240 seconds. If you have more hit points than the guy next to you, you will still get to full in 240 seconds. At low level you might have 200 hit points and heal them in 240 seconds. A high level tank could have 3,000 hit points and still heal them in 240 seconds.

Anything that increases your recovery or regeneration will get you there faster. Anything that increases your endurance or hit points will take just as long to get to full, but "full" is a higher number. Having more hit points AND faster regeneration will work together.

um... er... it's a trade-off.
Generally, frankenslotting will get you better performance on that one power at the expense of set bonuses. Slotting a full set always seems to throw in some effects that you really don't care about, that could have been something you actually wanted, and WOULD have been if you were frankenslotting.

The axe is absolutely nuts against those guys. On a ghost, it does more damage than fully slotted Headsplitter.

True, *BUT*, my most-played character has about 40% global accuracy plus the Kismet +to hit unique and Tactics. His vet attacks don't miss very much.

Also, there are situations where the vet attacks are really useful. On a Superstrength character, when Rage drops you have a 10,000% damage debuff. However, just as the vet attacks can not be buffed, they can't be debuffed either. They work at normal effectiveness while all your other attacks will be hitting for 1-2 points.

So, yes, for most characters they start to suck at higher level. For some builds, though, they range from useful to priceless.

Yes, I've run into that a few times. I'll send someone a tell, they reply, then they tell me I'm hidden. But it's not telling me that I'm hidden when I send the tell. And I'm showing up on globals and SG listings.

The global friend issue is different. One method of adding the global friend simply failed with no notification while a different method worked properly. Something in there is broken.

As pointed out, it's not that simple. It's also worth mentioning that you can't directly compare clock speeds on different CPU's. Previously, I had a Pentium 4 system with a clock speed of 2.4GHz. I replaced it with a Core2Duo with a clock speed of 2.4GHZ. On some computationally intensive tasks, the new computer is 5-6 times faster.

I do exactly the same thing even though I'm on a business class DSL. It's a ridiculously large image.

Whoa! Deja vu!