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  1. Postagulous
    I've got a fire/ice setted out for recharge at 27. She can handle her own, but the OP's odd suggestion is right, staying away from AoE will keep the aggro off you.

    I am an aggro pig. I pull crap off the tank constantly with Fire ball, fire breath, and rain of fire. I don't have ice patch, and am waiting for Shiver which happens at 28.

    My damage mitigation is their death. And it works pretty well.

    If not, jump over the tank.

    Edited to add: Yeah, Fury, I've setted out a 35 AR and this as a 25. I used my 50 as a "personal shopper" to do it. She set up all the biids, some which took over a week to fill, crafted them, and sent them through the base's enh box.
  2. Postagulous

    Niches

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DumpleBerry View Post
    With a full inventory and stock, I could turn 75-100M nearly every day crapping the same recipe over and over.
    That's the name of the game, bro. Very similar to RL. But, good thing, you get to spend the money/inf.
  3. Postagulous
    Hutoto is an alien of limited intelligence who would be manipulated by the dark side into doing many bad things, though he wouldn't realize it until later.



    Oh, and he's kinda tall. He was a elec/stone, but I rerolled him and made him a shield/elec.

    ETA: Everything about the original Hutoto was randomly generated. His archetype, primary and secondary, body type, outfit, and name. Had to hit random on the costume a few times to get the right look. Name was generated by Keypass's password generator.

    ETA2: I killed the thread with my talk of mentally challenged aliens.
  4. Postagulous

    Niches

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DumpleBerry View Post
    I have one that I've used for...a very very long time. Buy recipe at 1K-500K, craft and sell at 5M. I've been able to flood the market with them, and it's never gone below 5M. I've seen them sell for as high as 12-15M, though.

    I'm probably going to be giving it up, for now...it's just...boring.
    I know a 600k crafted to 2-3m sold I could do all day. But yes, very boring. But since I've decided each toon will be self sufficient [we'll see how long that lasts] it will be good for my toons in their 20s.
  5. Postagulous
    I thought it was 2' radius and on my 37 I have only slept one.
  6. Postagulous
    The choice between blaster and tanks is more a choice of what role you want to play. Tanks are meat shields with a great responsibility to keep aggro off the squishies. You watch the squishies to make sure they dont' die.

    Blasters have less responsibility, and I would think would be a better fit for an anime type. They do try to keep melee toons alive by targeting through them at times, but otherwise their mission is to kill kill kill and not die.

    I have a fire/ice blaster with all powers tinted white. She's not anime, but heavily themed. Her name is Saltier.
  7. Postagulous
    There are some IOs. I'm not looking them up though. Too early, no coffee.
  8. Postagulous

    Niches

    POST-ACTION

    I follow the rule of thumb that was in some dude's guide.

    [buy+salvage+crafting costs}*1.5= posting price

    If the thing gets me a few million over that, I'm happy.

    BUT, I hate making 3 million, or losing 30, on some stupid purple get-rich-quick of mine.

    I flinch at the amount of time I crafted level 35 endmods. Hint: if you're gonna do it, buy the recipe at the bench.

    I've very happy that my two marketers, Dark Hareman and Candyjet, both look like they'll hit 1b by the 20th or so of February. If their respective niches don't collapse.

    Also, on % increase, I got really lulled by TempoTracers and Demonic BS, getting 10x or more...of 8k. Feh.
  9. Postagulous
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Philly_Guy View Post
    If you're dual boxing, couldn't you just transfer the inf from character to character?
    Across servers.
  10. Postagulous

    Niches

    POST-ACTION

    One of my original/favorite niches is almost back to profitable.

    Another is so upside down it's ridiculous. [Why can a crafted IO sell for 3m-5m less than the recipe when there's 2m of salvage involved?]

    I finally found two others I can get good % profit. One is a 1m->3m type, too much chugging the crafting. The other is genuinely good, not as high a % profit, but about 33% each time and can sell all slots overnight.

    How long does a good niche last?
  11. Postagulous
    I need to get a 33 and maybe a 25 plan for my WP/electric tanker. I'm at level 13 and have no plan at all besides knowing what powers to avoid. Her only theme is that I want her to have defense and not be a ghost.

    I'm not sure about the tanker forum, but posting for help with a level-freeze toon's IO build gets only the sound of crickets chirping. Too alien for them.
  12. Postagulous
    Never had the even trigger go off, and I'm an altaholic. Besides, if it did, I'm back on the train, usually with my under level 20 toon. It tends to be my second slot generator, as mentioned above.

    The costume pieces are running 50k-100k now. Around Sept this last year they were around 350k.
  13. Postagulous
    It's not a bad idea to be able to search only for what you want.

    But, like a SG with 5 gazillion items in it, it's loading off your machine, not over teh interwebs.

    Related: I had to quit playing in 2006 or so when everyone and their little green dog could get a cape. Even on Liberty server, I couldn't approach Atlas Park without my frames per second going down to -1. It was time to upgrade or leave.

    Two gigs of ram will cost you about $20. It'll actually help every program on your computer too.

    [note: didn't read all responses as they kept saying the same thing, and focusing on the OP's bad attitude. Cut him some slack, he might have mental problems or something.]
  14. Postagulous
    I haven't played my toon like that in a while, but I think I reinforced the lack of continuity by having Banded with Chitin and a Lightning pattern.

    I think. And everything goes with Tech Banded.
  15. Postagulous
    I don't have a fire tanker but I'll roll one up. I probably can't get past 12 or so by the ninth. We'll see what I can do. If I can hit 15 at least I could suggest a Positron TF.

    [Did my first TT on the tour that hit Virtue. Had to move a toon there, but it was fun.]
  16. Postagulous

    trenchcoats

    POST-ACTION

    Just adding...

    Six months reward is lame, Greek letters.
    Nine month are cool "belly shirts." 2 months away for me.
  17. Postagulous
    I'll write a song about my love for you for it. I can't sing like Karen Carpenter, and sure don't have the dietary discipline, but I can pretend.

    I'll have to make a toon on whichever server first though.

    BTW, isn't there a Kismet or Karma for that?
  18. Postagulous
    Real world...no worries. AR's main weakness, imo, is my getting sick of the sound of burst.
  19. Postagulous
    What?

    Sell it. Buy one on the other side.
  20. Postagulous
    What Werner said. Goals. And by goals, I mean recharge.
  21. Postagulous
    That's excellent. I resisted slotting brawl though. At first I didn't think it loaded since my slotting, even the location of where I put the slots, were the same on two of the attacks.

    Groovy. Now I just need to do a 20s optimization and 30s optimization, more than likely nothing like these unless the set tops out at 30 or something.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sarrate View Post
    ... As such, Resurgence would be a fairly wasted choice since you should never need it. I'm saying this as a self rez hater, I just can't justify taking a power I'd never use.
    I feel it's important the tank get up once he falls because the squishies don't know enough to run...RUUUUUNN!

    So it's a team wipe if the tank dies.

    [depending on the scrapper/controller makeup of the team]
  22. Postagulous
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Heraclea View Post
    That was kind of a crazy Lady Jane rescue. Got to dust off my WP/Stone tanker that I haven't played for a while, just to remember how much fun she is to play at low levels. And always happy to help create another batch of future Centurions.
    Off topic, but I locked a fire/ice blaster at level 25 for a few weeks since she's absolutely a blast at that level. I'll lock her down again at 33. I'd rather enjoy the journey than let it rush by.
  23. Postagulous
    Totally editing away my previous post here since rather than 36%, I'm managed to make a very clunky and awkward 40.3%

    My estimate, off the top of my head, is this would cost around 700m. Which I'd totally be fine with...but...in the middle ranges the recipes and enh are just not on the market.

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  24. Postagulous
    Search was not kind to me, or there are no discussions about how to softcap willpower, which I refuse to believe. So, if you can just point me at a thread, that's cool too.

    I have a wp/elec tanker that I think I'm going to really start playing. I tend to slot up in the early 20s and tweak it until the 30s, when it tends to get an overhaul around 33ish. I couldn't tell you past that because when I did my 50 I had no clue what I was doing and, oh, the slotting was horrible.

    So, below is what I've taken so far, and I've left the slots empty just because I'm showing you how many there are on what. I'll take taunt next then Stamina. I plan on taking all the primary powers.

    I'm wondering if I should take the fighting, and if so, how to slot. Obviously in my single target attacks I need to stuff them with four Kinetic Combats, though I cringe at the price of them.

    Any suggestions welcome, though I'm sure this thread has existed before.

    Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.601
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    Click this DataLink to open the build!

    Coconut 17_as_built: Level 17 Magic Tanker
    Primary Power Set: Willpower
    Secondary Power Set: Electrical Melee
    Power Pool: Fitness

    Hero Profile:
    Level 1: High Pain Tolerance -- Empty(A), Empty(3), Empty(3)
    Level 1: Charged Brawl -- Empty(A), Empty(5), Empty(5)
    Level 2: Fast Healing -- Empty(A), Empty(7), Empty(7)
    Level 4: Havoc Punch -- Empty(A), Empty(11), Empty(11)
    Level 6: Indomitable Will -- Empty(A)
    Level 8: Rise to the Challenge -- Empty(A), Empty(9), Empty(9)
    Level 10: Hurdle -- Empty(A)
    Level 12: Quick Recovery -- Empty(A), Empty(13), Empty(13)
    Level 14: Health -- Empty(A), Empty(15), Empty(15)
    Level 16: Thunder Strike -- Empty(A), Empty(17), Empty(17)
    Level 18: [Empty]
    Level 20: [Empty]
    Level 22: [Empty]
    Level 24: [Empty]
    Level 26: [Empty]
    Level 28: [Empty]
    Level 30: [Empty]
    Level 32: [Empty]
    Level 35: [Empty]
    Level 38: [Empty]
    Level 41: [Empty]
    Level 44: [Empty]
    Level 47: [Empty]
    Level 49: [Empty]
    ------------
    Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
    Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Gauntlet

    Oh, and I didn't place the slots in that order.


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  25. Postagulous
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MDanger View Post
    I had a great time.
    ...
    Thanks for running this on all servers and thanks to the kindly folks traveling from other servers! Now I'm considering building a Tanker to join in the monthly run on Champion.
    Exactly my thoughts, but I've made on on Champion, but I'm not happy with the concept of her.

    My group consisted of Heraclea, who had a toon with a name that began with a C, and three others. I didn't know it was her until the end when I was trying to figure out who was who when we were talking on the tankhq channel.

    We did the midnighters arc and it was probably the most fun I've had with it.

    I would move my favorite tank, Coconut Infinity, to Justice or Champion, but I'm rather attached to Freedom and will move her back there before the end of the month. Besdies, it's fun to make new toons. I do so almost daily.

    I just need to not make them always wp/. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but I keep doing the same thing.

    But yeah, tanker tuesdays rock.