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Well, I didn't die. It just took so long to get all the dayjob badges.

To emphasize what Silas already said: Skip it if you can. There's always another better power you could pick instead. Don't slot it unless you really want the setIO bonus.

O2 also removes and protects against sleep and gives protection against recovery debuffs (!) plus it gives a nice perception bonus – very useful against Smoke Grenades.

Steamy Mist also gives protection against confusion.

I wouldn't priorize slotting the Achilles Heel -res proc here. FR gives a 35% res debuff which is good enough to remove all resistance from more than 50% of all possible enemies and takes a huge bite from all those who have better than 35% resistance. In normal play you won't notice a difference (I tried it with and without the proc). Except, perhaps, if you fight single strong enemies and calculate the DPS afterwards.

Also debuffs range.
And yes, some recharge doesn't hurt. Hurricane is at a recharge of 5s in my build (down from 10s) which seems to be enough. Most of the recharge comes from global recharge bonuses, though.

Hurricane can generate a lof of aggro – and I'm not talking about NPCs. So get back to the top of this thread and reread the HTNBA section in Silas guide. Now!

Tornado does only minor damage and it's not really DoT plus it invokes fear. It does a maximum of 6.67*61 smashing damage (unslotted) over its lifetime (30s) IF the enemy stays in contact all the time. Unfortunately this is very unlikely. Anyone without KB protection gets thrown around and anyone with enough KB protection better has some protection against fear as well or is immobilized or you will see him running a lot – and this includes many AVs.
It should be noted, that Tornado takes Pet IOs. Soulbound Allegiance is quite cheap for a purple set and gives an impressive bonus to regen and HP for example.

Oh, ... I know this, ... I know this.
Lets see, Monorail Cat leaves at 9pm and is going 45 mph, which is very fast, so she might get tired soon probably taking a catnap ... and hungry of course ... I think some tuna would be nice now ... and considering the attention span of cats ... wait, ... ... look, a pretty butterfly ...

I disagree. Hurricane doesn't help against ranged attacks. Instead Hurricane slightly increases the likelihood of getting attacked with ranged attacks. Even if Steamy Mist gave +res to S/L/F/C/E/N instead of giving it only to F/C/E it would be better to slot it for defense in many cases.

There's always some risk, of course, but if you trade the IO for 2Bn in a first step you already have more than you could get from WW (because WW takes 10%). I haven't done it before, but I think I would give away the IO in the first exchange and simply trust that the other person pays the price that we agreed on.

I can't say that I read every Storm/Dark/Cold guide there is. However, I wrote a guide for Storm Summoning myself and I recommended slotting Steamy Mist for +def. Plus I disagree with some other aspects in Silas Storm guide. Still kudos to him for the effort of writing such a big guide. As far as I can see at a glance it's largely ok (for me).
(This reminds me that I need to update my guide in the near future. )

Suggestions and Ideas? There's a whole subsection of the forum just for that.


Way overpowered. An auto power available at L6 that gives considerably more defense than Weave which is a toggle and not available before L20? PLUS a buff to jump height, jump speed, running speed and flight speed? I'm sorry, but you can't be serious.


We have some of these already. It's nothing new. Seems you needed a filler.


When it's similar to Super Jump in speed and operation we hardly need it. Btw, how should this work in surroundings without tall buildings? Like Perez Park, Eden, the largest part of Independence Port and many other areas.


Another power no one would ever take. Why waste a power slot if you can get the same result by slotting a single IO? Leaping/Acrobatics has at least some mez protection.


All in all not a good suggestion, sorry.

Not necessarily so:

Err... I assume "just smash/lethal" is referring to Tough? Because Weave gives +def (all) and gives almost twice the value Maneuvers provides.

Some weeks ago I actually tested this. I started in Outbreak, because I wanted the two large inspirations you get there to get some starting capital. I sold these for like 100k or so and started buying recipes cheap and selling them to the vendor for some profit. To get more recipe and salvage room and more slots at WW, I joined a sewers team and made it to level 10 (because it was annoying and tedious with the limited storage you have at L2). Then I went back to WW and started buying, selling, sometimes crafting or converting stuff before selling the result. I was up to 56 million influence after three days (I logged only a few hours with the toon - including the sewers run, but the breaks helped to fill bids). It's really easy and the more influence you have the easier it gets.

It is all about survivability (of the character, not the Imps). Boxing or Kick is just a prerequisite on the way to Tough and Weave. Some people use Boxing/Kick as a mule for certain melee IOs, though.
Tough can be slotted to give roughly 23% resistance against smashing and lethal type damage. These are very common damage types and even if you don't combine it with resistance based shields like Fire Mastery/Fire Shield or Psionic Mastery/Mind over Body or Primal Forces Mastery/Temp Invulnerability you should note the increase in survivability.
Weave on the other hand gives roughly 7% defense against all damage types (typed defense, i.e. smashing, lethal, fire, cold, energy, etc.) and vectors (positional defense, i.e. melee, ranged, AoE) after slotting. This is a large step towards the soft cap of 45% defense and not only useful for defense based shields like Ice Mastery/Frozen Armor and Stone Mastery/Rock Armor but also for people who try to cap ranged and AoE defense or at least get close to the cap.

Wait, I read the perfect answer to this not so long ago...

*searching*

Ah, found it ... I knew it was recent:

I usually don't bother with IOs till L47+. With one exception. There are some IOs that give knockback protection and I slot them as early as possible if I play a character who is in melee often without having KB protection from his/her powersets (like Dark Armor and Fiery Aura Tankers and Scrappers or Blappers and Fire/Kins).

Have you tried it? Maybe it's true.

Nice find, btw.

So that's why my bids don't fill as fast anymore.

I farmed it, just like the rest of us. I used to set it up each morning, before I went to work. However, the ISP I had then, resetted the connection every 6 hours or so. And I coudn't run it over night because my computer was just too loud. I think I farmed damage for nearly two years ... that's what I meant when I said it was painful.

Too bad you already converted all the base salvage. Some of them are REALLY valuable nowadays. If you want to make influence I'd say convert them to rare salvage and sell that. Even rare tech salvage sells for millions these days so it should be ok to roll for random rare tech or arcane salvage at 20 Brainstorms per roll. However, at 75k per Brainstorm it would be ok to sell them as they are. But I doubt the price with stay there. I would expect to see prices around 33,000 inf per Brainstorm in the long run.

And if you decide to give them away for free, I'll be more than happy to take them.