Miss Chief

you'll probably need a recharge in Divine Avalanche to get it to stack with hasten.

TA is all about debuffs, either -dam res, -recharge, - speed or -def. it's a bit like Dark in that it doesn't directly affect the team, but makes them much more able to despatch the mobs. Kin is all empowering the team, TA is about depowering the bad guys. If you want to protect your team then i'd say TA isn't really for you, there's basically nothing that can have a direct effect on your teammates. I picked aid other cos I wanted aid self. Apart from that I have nothing that does anything to the team itself.

Hmm, a TA/Rad defender would do amazing levels of defdebuff then, with oil slick and irradiate.

me like Catz, me like!!!!

Yeah, TA/pointy sticks can be hard work getting through the high teens and low 20's and solo they positively suck the big one, but in a big team the carnage that ensues when you start laying down the debuffs is immense. Stick with it, find a semi regular team or get Sk'd up and TF's are a wonderful source of Xp as well. They begin to shine from the mid 20's upwards.

Could have used the same post for both questions See my reply in your build post.

Hmm, just dreaming about power boost and all the AoE madness that fire brings, sounds lovely. oooh, build up, Aim, power boost, inferno. ooooooh!!!!!

You might want acro earlier than 49 as it's what stops you falling over, and when you're flat on your back you can't shoot anything. You could possibly swap it with Conserve Power as you'll have stamina which should keep you going and you'll nearly always have the odd blue or Kin/Empath/Rad to top up on. Not sure 3 slotting health is such a good idea either, it's not that big a +regen TBH. Perhaps the other 2 slots from health as to-hit buffs in build up?

Not a fan of low level Firey melee either, but you do get a big fire sword, then later on a HUGE fire sword, so it's not too bad. not many things have good fire resistance either.

NO problem, all in good time etc. I figured you'd been sidetracked by soemthing important. Please don't rush anything on my account!

I've never been a fan of SS, and it's all smashing damage which is one of the best resisted damage types in the game.

DM on the other hand has a good Cone attack in shadow maul, it's possible to get by with 4 attacks in your chain (Smite, Shadow Punch, Shadow maul and Air Sup) has a PBAoE +acc +dam opener and also has an immob later on which does good damage. Also the Self heal, while not huge can be very useful as a minor top up. It's also a 'dual' damage primary, and it's very rare you find a bad guy that has good resistances to both. The Acc debuff on everything as well is hugely useful, and you get a fear, which is not well resisted, has a huge acc debuff and can also act like a hold and take a bad guy basically ouy of the fight for a few seconds. The only thing counting against it is the fact it's not a huge single amount of damage set, unlike SS which does damage in one big BANG, DM is more chipping away at the bad guys health until they're arrested. I love DM, it's got alot of useful things in it, but it's not overloaded with actual attacks that do direct damage, but is still a great set.

No doubt someone will pop in with why SS is good, but that's the nice thing about the forums, conflicting points of view! I believe SS has Foot Stomp which is a good opener and has a mass PBAOE disorient, but apart from that I'm not too clued up on it.

Is that Wed/Thurs this week, or last week?

Just for the record, Invuln isn't a totally resistance based set. In fact I'd say most of your survivability will be from your defence, rather than your resistance (which is only really good to smashing and lethal, although they are the 2 most common damage types).

Invuln requires a different approach to Scrapping. /SR's and /Regens (this is before they run away or have to start madly clicking buttons ) are usually quite happy to run up to the closest bad guy and start pummelling on them. Invuln requires a slightly more suicidal approach (at least to those scrappers who have yet to see the light!).

When you're an Invuln the absolutely, positively best thing you can do is get right inside the mob, surround yourself with as many bad guys as possible. Then you'll get all the +def you can manage, and you get a to-hit bonus too!

I love my Invuln Scrapper to bits, but there has been times when she makes me want to cry. I remember one such mission, against Siege, the praetorian AV in the big factory map. The bad guys all had NRG powers, which I was weak to having not bothered with as it was a passive, and, quite frankly, not worth the bother. SO all the minions, LT's and bosses have NRG Blast, which is another thing Invuln is [censored] at, ranged powers. Well, ranged anything really. So both together made it very difficult to survive, never mind anything else. Basically, try to get as many bad guys around you, if there's someone far away you can't get to get out of their line of sight and hope that you're up against bad guys who like melee and hate ranged attacks. once you've mastered the way Invuln works it's a good fun set to play, and has been proved via testing that it's actually only slightly worse than Dark Armour!

So, you do realise that with only headsplitter, hack and Disembowel that if you miss with 2 out of 3, or, <insert chosen deity here> forbid, you don't actually manage to take down whoever you're up against with that combination, there's an awful lot of waiting around for them to come back, right? Of course, with just those 3 attacks, as good as they are, you'll be utterly shafted in PvE, but maybe that's intentional.

You're correct, Rain of Arrows has no end crash or any high amount of End Drain either.

As Spad has said, DM/EA, despite it's borked appearance (and it's actual borked state) it's not that bad a combination. I got by at lower levels with shadow punch, Smite Shadow maul and air sup and using Dark Consumption at the beginning. Now I have the mass Immob from patron and Midnight grasp to help out, but you can certainly manage with just those 4, no problem.

Of course, being able to go without stamina (and I miss hurdle and sprint more than stamina itself TBH) helps loads cos it frees up more power choices.

Rad secondary has some good AoE's, but then I'm biased cos I'm usually topped up on damage thanks to FS.

Possibly you might be more effective choosing something that does -acc, namely Dark. NRG has Energy Torrent, which is a great cone attack, I've sent whole mobs flying with it, and I've also annoyed a tank to the point he kicked me for it.

OK, and I take it other than packing an empath running tactics and stacking me with a few clear minds there's nothing else I can do to increase my +perception is there?

This is mainly do to with tactics as well. Say if I were to go stalker hunting, does slotting either with to-hit buffs increase the +perception, or are they fixed values and your to-hit buffs only affect your to-hit bonus?

It adds dam res against psychic damage, and that's it AFAIK. I'm sure max or someone wil confirm.

Plainly it was the over reliance on Regen, and the lack of a Invuln Scrapper that undid you.
Good work on trying though, and so much for the dev's saying any toon could be successful. Wonder what a team of 8 'trollers or 8 defenders would do?

ID works against ruin mages, i've used it several times. i've only used it to stop squishies from being bounced all over the place or as something to take mmez of squishies. As has been said, the duration is way too short to make it something you want to be dishing out on a regular basis. i wish they'd add sleep to the list of things it gets rid of though!

Oooh oooh, I wanna see! I know you want to release them all at once though.

Now, if I had the money, i'd have Gill bates doing one with Bou standing over a flattened CoT mage, foot on his chest, sword pointed directly at his throat with a smile on my face, and a look of sheer terror on his. Any chance you can do something like that beet?

Ok, uploading now, and photobucket was indeed easier than imageshack!

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Don't worry about the green circles around the feet, got that from the IP safeguard, and I happen to think they look kinda naff. I'd do the full aura thing but you'd hardly see the cossie. Anything else you need, just ask.

Thanks Beet!