Obscure Blade

All of my /Fire characters have only -4 kb; that's enough for the great majority of content, and I just use a breakfree for the occasional high-kb boss. That said, none of them are high enough for Incarnate content, I'll probably add more if they ever get that high.

As for your Bane, recall that VEATs have high Defense, which means that it's harder for KB to stack, or hit at all. They do better with less -kb than an all resistance set will.

It isn't the damage, it's the stacking -res secondary effect.

Power Boost shouldn't as I understand it affect either the FFG or Scorpion Shield, but should work on Maneuvers and Combat Jumping.

Power Boost won't affect most of your /Trap abilities because they are pets/pseudopets. It won't help Scorpion Shield either since it has a resistance component.

There was also "Gimme your Thorn Blade, you aren't worthy to have it!" in response to a dumb comment, and:

"You know, this water tastes really good. "

"They told us not to drink the water!"

Issue 20 has apparently been on the beta server since December 14th or earlier, and also had some sort of earlier beta before they did the Issue 19 beta (so it went Isue 20 beta, Issue 19 beta, and now even more Issue 20 beta - which does make me think it's big). Two months more seems an awful long time after that for them to wait to even drop hints.

Assault Bot: "THIS UNIT IS OFFENDED AT YOUR ORGANIC GENDER PREJUDICE."

My Necro/Storm undead pirate captain strongly disagrees! He's powerful and thematic.

Overguard.

"Real Daleks don't use stairs, they level the building."

If you are interested in taking personal attacks, the Demon Summoning whip attacks with their -res effect are better than any other MM primary personal attacks (as well as being seriously cool). They are the only ones I bother to take. They are also more customizable, coming in both Dark and Light versions. As for Life Drain; since you intend to go /Dark there's little point to it since Twilight Grasp is much better as a self heal and debuff.

Actually, I understand he posted elsewhere that he was fired and that it was a complete shock to him.

Seeker Drones are great at taking alphas too.

/Traps Controllers, /Rad Masterminds, /Ice Brutes or Scrappers, and Illusion/ Dominators are high on my proliferation wishlist.

This one?

A magical pony that explodes for Extreme damage with no endurance crash!

You probably want TK Thrust; after the Great Dominator Rebalancing it was changed from a minor damage knockback power to one of your better sources of single target damage. Mental Blast is good too. As for the immobilizes, Chain Fences is good for keeping everything in your drain patches and for a little extra endurance drain, while Electric Fence negates knockback and stops bosses/many AVs from running around (and both function with little or no extra slots, useful in the post Inherent Fitness world). The snipe is fairly skippable I suppose; it might be useful for plinking faraway targets and sucking the spawn into running onto your Static field patch.

Someone in chat today quoted something he overheard:


Skull Raver: "Is it true that Superadine makes you stronger, but kills your brain cells?"

Troll Raver: "Me fix you up."

"It's <villainname>! This is gonna hurt!"

The DoT from Acid Arrow doesn't interfere with the sleep from Static Field? That's my biggest worry with that combo.