Kosmos

Well, without know what you've taken it's hard to say. Hasten, Combat Jumping, Provoke, Recall Friend, Grant Invisibility, Detonator, ???

No, rez powers only work on players.

I'd lean towards the Defender myself.


I think Siolfir's numbers are off a bit somewhere. Here's what I come up with...

Def Dmg = 0.65 * (1 + 0.95 + 0.25 + 0.3) * (1 + 0.3 + 0.2 * 3) = 3.0875

That's the base multiplier times the enhancements plus buffs times the -Res effect.

Corr Dmg = 0.75 * (1 + 0.95 + 0.2) * (1 + 0.225 + 0.15 * 3) = 2.7009375

That's a 14.3% advantage to the Def without considering Scourge and giving the Defender the full Vigilance buff. In practice I find I get about an 11% damage buff from Scourge when solo'ing.


As for Scourge versus AVs... theoretically it should produce roughly a 22% buff to damage.

The best way I can think of to illustrate why this is the case is to use an analogy to a car trip where you speed up as you near your destination. What we're interested in is the trip time since we'll assume in both cases that you'll reach the end and therefore travel the same distance (i.e. do the same total amount of damage). It's the time that will vary in the DPS determination. We'll set the Corr's speed sans Scourge to a nominal 1. So the average speed with Scourge minus 1 will be the effective damage buff of Scourge.

Now, the speed one travels towards 0 HP for the foe depends upon your place in the trip. Up to half way it's 1. Over the last 10% it's 2. In between those two points it is 1 + 0.025 * (50% - distance from the finish expressed as a percentage). This is a linear equation, so the average speed for this segment is 1/2 of the sum of the speeds at the start and finish of the segment, or 1.5. So it takes us 0.5 / 1 + 0.4 / 1.5 + 0.1 / 2 = 81.67% of the time to finish as it would without Scourge. 1 / 0.8167 - 1 = +22.4%.

Note that I assumed the same total amount of damage in this. If your foe is Regenerating this assumption won't be true as shortening the trip time also reduces the total number of HP you have to do and so increases the value of Scourge. I also ignored the overkill effect that has a large impact on Scourge's effective damage buff when fighting foes with few HP and is why I get a much lower number in practice.

I find getting fillers - including someone willing to park a toon till you finish - for solo'ing the high level TFs is more trouble than just doing the TFs. Especially the short ones. Here are the TFs that drop components and some key points:

ITF: 6 to start, L35+. Soloable by any AT with a quality build and patience. A favorite of players looking for Shards, so not too hard to get a team together for this one, especially when it's the WST as it is right now. It will take up to 2 hours for teams after Shards though. Speed runs are very practical for almost any time budget however.

Dr Kahn TF: 4 to start, L45+. It's not practically soloable, which is a shame since it is not that hard to come up with 3 fillers. This TF can be really quick though, so it's best just to run it with a team.

Barracuda SF: 4 to start, L45+. This one is not practically soloable either, and low DPS teams can take some time to finish it, so it's not as friendly as Kahn.

LGTF: 8 to start, L45+. Soloable by many as long as they have Hold powers to deal with Hamidon. Like the ITF this is a highly popular TF, especially for speed runners.

STF: 8 to start, L45+. Probably not soloable by a Corr.

LRSF: 8 to start, L45+. Also probably beyond a Dark Corr's ability to solo except with both tremendous skill and patience.

Apex: 8 to start, L50 and those with no Alpha slotted suffer a -4 Level debuff. Probably not soloable by a level 50. Given how short the TF is and the need for 8 50s to start, it's probably a lot easier to just do the TF with a team.

Tin Mage II: 8 to start, L50 and those with no Alpha slotted suffer a -4 Level debuff. The same story as Apex.


Basically, none of these is suitable for solo play either because of the team size needed to start them or the challenges in the TF itself. Many WST are however, if you can get fillers.

Unfortunately the devs really haven't released the solo friendly Incarnate content yet.

I have nothing to add to simplify the instructions, but I do have some advice for the solo player. Solo'ing to get the T1 Alpha is fairly easy, but getting the higher tier ones is not. I have 27 characters with Alphas slotted, most (23 or 24) earned the T1 solo, while only one or two of 14 with level shifts have gotten their higher tiers that way.

Some points that may help for solo progress:

• Any foe of equal combat level or higher may drop a Shard. So you can get Shards when Ex, such as when doing Flashback arcs. This can provide you with something fun to do while getting the Shards rather than just farming for them.
• Bosses, and to a lesser extent Lieutenants, are more likely to drop Shards than Minions. So if you do decent single target damage make sure you have Bosses turned on.
• Defeats are the key, so turn difficult up to the top of your comfort zone for the +0 level setting. Don't go beyond that comfort zone though, as you'll end up slowing your earnings rate down. Don't raise the level unless your bored and already at x8. Don't lower the level or most of the foes will not drop Shards.
• Look at the components you need to get the buff you want. If there is a Gr'ai Matter in the mix you can buy that from the Vanguard terminals using Vanguard Merits. So if that's the case, make sure to log out in the Vanguard base for the day job bonus and take Rikti missions whenever you can. It costs 150 Vanguard Merits for a Gr'ai Matter, which is the equivalent of 4 Shards. Doing arcs such as Levantera's "Welcome to Vanguard" or Serpent Drummer's "Dreams of Peace and Acts of War" through Flashback can just about double your effective Shard drop rate if you can use a Gr'ai Matter. For the latter arc, set the difficulty low for the first two missions to get them out of the way fast (I often autocomplete or deliberately fail the 2nd mission), then up the diff after that. And note that the last mission is one you can clear after completing and has LOTS of Rikti in it. For simplicity, you can run Borea's repeatable missions, but I tend to prefer something that will also give me a few Reward Merits at the end (the L40-44 arc "Division: Line" from Angus McQueen is one that I'll often speed run for RM with the VM as a bonus) and has some big maps in it.

Not particularly. It does decent damage (Damage Scale 1.05), END drain (-7) and -Recovery (100% for 8s). But it pays for those with a the longish cast time (2.376s in ArcanaTime) and DoT (6.3s for full damage) and a short duration compared to the other MM Epic Holds (which vary from 11.92 to 17.88s in duration). The -END/-Rec isn't all that useful and its 8s Mag 3 Hold means it only a 23.3% base up time and isn't generally effective against Bosses since it's too low in Mag to hold them with one application and can't be practically stacked. However, since you're /Poison, you can use Weaken to make bosses vulnerable to it, and it does provide a mezz to take out pesky Lts.

It's KB, and well over the cutoff.

The Monsoon seems to stick by my side for the most part, and only enters melee if I do. However, since you're talking about a Tier 4 I suggest you get the components and copy to the Training Room and test it out to make sure it works with your play style before crafting in on Live.

To expand on Strato's reply: It doesn't push stuff as much as Storm Summoning's Hurricane as it lacks the Repel. However, while the KB is only a 5% chance, it ticks every 0.25s. So it's a pretty common occurrence. Half of all foes will be KBed at least once after 3.4s on average (That is, there's a 50-50 chance of getting 13.5 ticks at 5% without a single success). It KBs foes more often than regular Hurricane, as the latter often pushes foes out of its effect with Repel (the Repel lasts 1s and so foes will often continue to be Repelled beyond the 25' radius) and so reduces the number of KB checks a bit.

I find it's not that hard to utilize, but then I have them on a Fire/Storm Controller that spams Fire Cages anyway.

I find Keyes material reward rate to be about half as good as the other two. If you highly value the Empyrean merit or simply want a change of pace then it's worth it.

However, the dearth of Incarnate content and high desirability of the goodies you can get with the rewards leads to that content being used as farms - and as a farm Keyes truly sucks.

I've only played two trials with toons that didn't have everything unlocked and both set new record lows for me by a wide margin. 4% towards Lore on the first BAF then an even lower 3% on the next.

IMO, Stalker followed closely by Scrapper and then Tanker and Brute tied a good step back. However, Stalker doesn't get Power Siphon, so I considered Scrapper the clear cut choice for me.

Pretty much any Scrapper secondary can be made to work well with KM. The real issue for me was making a Scrapper that played differently to the ones I already had on Pinnacle: DM/SR, Kat/Dark and MA/WP. That eliminated /SR and /WP and I couldn't come up with a /SD build that I liked, so I fell back to /Fire for the synergy between +DMG and Fiery Embrace.

For Stalker I like /Nin.

AVG and Avast are not better than NOD32. I personally have one machine running NOD32 and one using AVG and consider NOD32 the superior software. Avast is one I've use in the past and I like it better than AVG and would probably go with it over NOD32 now too, as it scans faster, but I don't think there's really enough difference in quality between the two to justify a switch.

As for the NOD32 false positive on CoH, I simply did my research to make sure it was a false positive and then added an exception.

A good site to start with if you're looking to upgrade your AV software is www.av-comparatives.org.