OneFrigidWitch

Ok, so I am in my 40s now. I do pretty OK now, and finally have some reasonable ranged def slotted. I still dont have enough slots to fill in all my powers with the enhs to boost my melee, or the rest of my ranged def.

I now have OG however, and well, it doesnt seem to be very helpful. I jump in a fight, swing a bunch, and before I can get a second or third AOE off, the mobs start to wander and I loose functionality. Mobs that all dropped before OG no longer do because they are out of my cone.

Is OG a waste of my time? It seems kind of useful, but also kind of irritating...

I have been looking through a lot of dom builds posted here, and have not seen many builds with defense posted at all. I could not imagine playing without softcap def. Why is there such a dearth of builds focusing on rech/def? Everyone seems primarily focused on just rech.

I dunno. You don't have any defense to speak of. If you cant manage agro with creepers/plant/seeds, you would be in for a world of hurt.

If someone gave me 1-4 b, I would surely burn it in your efforts for you. For real. Really.

I 3 slot your built in shield with lotg that i boosted. It gets max def anyway that way. Id then use 2 of the slots in your follow through, which does not have 6 for makos bite 3.75% ranged defense. 6 slotting man and weave with red fortune is pretty nifty and I will pick this up myself. However, I slotted death shroud with just 4 erads, 3 of which I boosted. Consider picking up spring attack instead of hover (which is just slotted with a defense and no speed anyway), and moving 1 slot to spring attack and the extra slot from cloak into it, for a 3 slot erad ranged def bonus. It gives you a nice pbaoe starter, that you can follow up with whirl and then whatever you want.

Halve the amerit cost for purples and pvpios. Nobody buys purples with amerits, but at 10amerits each, I think it is reasonable. That is about 1bil in inf if you converted it all to lotg +rechs. Since you wouldn't have to pay market fees on each 100mil transaction, it seems OK for purchase of high value purples. 10-15 for pvpios also seems to make them much more accessible.

MOAR DAMAGE is the wrong response.

I know nothing about StJ outside of like, level 15. However, TW/EA is a great performer on SOs past the 30s. It functions well enough on SOs, that I would be really amazed to see what it could do on IOs. It is sturdy, has excellent benefit in the built-in-recharge, and has useful recovery bits. My original plan was to go TW/EA over TW/DA. For sure TW/EA was MUCH easier to play. While I do not regret my decision to go /DA, I definitely think that /EA would have been so much more fun in the early/mid game that it would have just made up for the lack of cool factor I feel with /DA.

edit: Hmmm, yeah. Defensive sweep doesn't play to EA's defense strength, and vice versa. You might be better off not taking it at all, or slotting it with procs or similar instead of trying to wrangle low melee defense numbers out of it.

I think part of the problem is that I imagine flooding you with low damage, vast mobs would be ineffective. Having that many mobs on the map that you could take notable damage would probably crash a lot of peoples computers/video cards. So how do you get these people into the fray? Drinking Enriche, as was brought up earlier, seems like a reasonable way of doing it. Mind and body control in a bottle.

hot is just dot of - amount. It isn't damage in reverse.

I just tab to a more healthful opponent and let my aura of death (slotted with a full oblit set) take care of the job. However, I do admit this sliver of health thing drives me crazy too.

I don't run hasten at all and have no problems at all with endurance. The most rech i have is from my LotGs, and built into my powers. Slow and steady wins the race!

I had just read a thread (I can not find it now) that indicated on Beta, enhancement converters will no longer be available for purchase on the market.

My issue with this is two fold. Announcing the converters shifted vast quantities of wealth around. It seriously impacted how people thought of, and bought, various recipes of high value. My question is this. At no point did the devs ever indicate it would be possible that they would strip these from the market. Doing so seems to be a kneejerk response to pvp farmers no longer being able to charge 2+bill for their enhancements, something that was already excessive to start with.

I think it is completely unacceptable that something listed as market worthy is being stripped from the market without warning or indication as to why. The value of marketable enh converters puts the market on a more level playing field, where you no longer have enh being sold in excess of the inf cap for a given player, and enables players to purchase such items without abusing the nature of the market to store multiple billions of inf.

Back to my twofold question. Why was a decision like this made by the extreme minority (it didn't even include the voice of VIPs), and why was a decision like this made without formally notifying the community that something would be retracted from the market that was explicitly stated would be part of the market?

Reply to this thread with an YES SIR! if you want Recluse to come out on top of the WWD arc!

Naysayers, go away.

Time travelling corpse-blasting. What's not to like?

I have absolutely no idea whats going on when I play my TW char. I swing, the screen shakes, I get a good rumble, people "get arrested". There is too much chaos going on for me to see any of this stuff.

The mix/match thing is stupidly useful. In oblit, you would want to buy the oblit quad at 32-50 (anywhere is good) and +5 boost it. However, the damage and the chance for damage are pretty meaningless. You wouldn't boost them, and they add so much anyway (one cant be boosted and doesn't matter what level, the other is already a huge +dam) as is, that buying them with points is really the only way to go. Chance for is 2 amerits. Damage is 1 amerit. Or, you can just buy a whole set and some extra chancefors and go from there. But unless its a useless power you are slotting, I would definitely not buy the quad. Mixing and matching is by far the best way to go.

Keep in mind however, that +5 boosting a level 50 IO makes for HUGE differences in total value.