Postagulous

Well, I was trying to be nice.

I know. That's why I have the thing.

I suggest you set up the scenario I mention. And try it from the SG and see if it works for you. MLC [marketing group on Freedom] members Flamin' Trolla [Hyperstrike] and Greased Lightning [Stutz] were with me.

Note: Spelling of names might be off.

Maybe I remember wrong. She's still only a 24 and does have the Oro portal. I don't think it was done off the SG base's as I wouldn't be clicking on the portal like mad before the caster finally went in.

Maybe I'm wrong.

Oh, you're welcome.

I tend to goof around with a toon for the first 20 levels, maybe picking the order of powers with mids, but not really using it for what it's meant for, optimization.

My 50, Ink Girl, I thought was good. Until I put her into Mids. Using IOs can change everything. She had 3% defense and next to no resistance. Now she's got 70% S/L resistance and 35% ENFC [energy, negative, fire, cold] defense. She's incredibly powerful.

Now, back when I had a broken toon named Betty Gunbot, I refused to do a respec because I felt it stole her soul. At that time I didn't know about the second build. When I did, I second builded her and she was much better, but in the long run, I hate both Assault Rifle and Devices. She was at 33ish when I deleted her. I've remade her as a DP/Electric, and due to the lack of guides [ooh, guides are more important than mids!] I'm flying blind except for the data in Mids.

If nothing else, download mids to see that, oh, Archery's tier 1 quick attack, Snap Shot does 52.6 damage unenhanced. AR's burst 67ish. DP's Pistole 62ish. Etc. And if you pay attention, which most don't, getting a property enhanced over 80% is pretty wasteful. But, why not be wasteful

You can play this game any way you like. But when my Lev 41 katana/wp is the last one standing, surrounded by 12 Council with flame throwers, chain guns, etc, and I take no damage and my endurance doesn't drop. And after I kill them all I wait for the rest of the team to get back from the Hospital. When that happens, I'm glad I spent around 200m on her to get in shape. Also, she's a freakin' katana/wp. They're born gods.

I have a female robot who wears garish and skimpy clothing. She is DP/NRG because NRG is the best GTFO power there is. Just protection.

Done it. It works.

They used a portal, went to Oro, and set the mish. If we were just in the SG, I would be with them, I assume even for the zap to the contact.

The only thing you can do with the portal while under 25 is to drop them for others who request them, or just for decoration on top of buildings, etc.

I think we have fewer all black costumes with the chain wrap all over than others. On Liberty it was like a convention of them.

Once you get Divine Avalanche and become indestructible, you'll use that sword constantly. Each hit, unenhanced, gets you 15% defense to melee and lethal damage. When you hit 45%, you're untouchable.

I have a level 41 katana/wp. Tied with my ill/storm controller for most fun ever.

There are guides here on how to find a team. I'd suggest them even if you're on Freedom or Virtue. Also, NEVER accept a blind invite. That just lets you know the leader doesn't know how to play the game.

If you decide to IO, build your fire, cold, energy, and negative defense. That's your only hole.

That said, there are tons more cool looking broadswords and it's the same powerset, just slower and more damaging per activation.

But DM/DA isn't bad, but you'll hurt for endurance, and with /wp, you get a second, better, Stamina in Quick Re...something. QR.

Mids is the program we use to plan out or builds so we don't mess up, or so that we can make sure our Tank, etc, has slotting to help his S/L defense.

It's also a topic the OP has commented on in nearly all of his posts. He thinks those who use it are dumb.

I didn't use it for the first 4 months I was here. Now I look at my old toons, including my only 50 and think, "Holy crap, how did I survive?"

I'd never learn IO stuff w/o mids.

Took until the 13th post for a Freedom hater to show.

All the servers are good. See the double paren Tokyo wrote in, on Virtue that means they are speaking out of character.

There is virtually no difference between Freedom and Virtue besides the RP. And while the (( people aren't bad at all, some will not come out of character and their character is a tough guy, so they treat you badly. [for an example, look in the blue side bar in Pocket-D at night, but that is not typical of the friendly people in CoX].

But Virtue's good. Freedom's good. Smaller servers are good. You are, however, on the smallest of the small.

Welcome, and katana/wp ftw!

I'm @postagulous. On Freedom and/or Virtue pretty much every night. Though tomorrow, first Tuesday of the month, is Tanker Tuesday on Justice [near IP gate in KR]. It's the only organized event I take part in. Nothing like doing mishs/TFs with 8 tanks in a team. Wooo.