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I made a FF/Cold Defender for the Iron Eagles, a hardcore supergroup. Hardcore (as interpreted by the Eagles) is a throwback to Diablo 2 Hardcore mode -- your character dies when defeated and can never be played again (at least as an IE; we typically resigned from the SG but kept the toon if we liked it). So an Iron Eagles team can afford NO defeats, period.

In that admittedly unique circumstance, the "one trick" of FF is well worth it. In more normal play, although I love force fields, I admit I think the general trend of this thread has a point. But I still do like FF.

You should change your forum handle to "Slotty."

It's worth noting that one of the reasons for having limitations on storage is to give an incentive to move items into circulation instead of just piling them up in storage. It is intended that players will feel the urge to trade things in order to open up available inventory slots for new drops.

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For reference, here are some traditional Turkish wedding dresses. Note how complex and layered they are; the costume creator isn't designed for this sort of exotic use.

I got your Great Knight Nerf right here, buddy.

It is possible to make too much of that rule, and it doesn't really apply to multiple-category set IOs, but generally, any time you see more than three damage, resistance, or defense enhancements slotted, it means you're doing it very wastefully.

There are a lot of discussions about whether Weave's bonus by itself is worth taking on a Fire Tanker. My stance is that it would be nice to have, but since it gives much less advantage to a Fire tanker than any defense-based Tankers, I usually find something I want more. But it is a valid option for those who want it.

But there's no reason to take it so early, at 20, before Stamina (!) and Combustion, and there's no reason to put off Fire Sword Circle any later than the earliest you can pick it up, which is 28 iirc.

Fiery Melee gives strong single-target attacks -- much better than Spines, for example -- and the current paradigm with custom AE bosses and so on makes ST attacks more important than they used to be. You're missing out on a lot of Fiery Melee's potential power by taking NO single-target attacking capability at all.

Don't slot Stalagmites for damage (it's not really a damage power), especially if you leave the excellent, efficient damage power Incinerate unslotted. Six-slot Incinerate before you put any damage enhancement into Stalagmites, at the very least.

Yeah, he popped into the second attempt at the TF about an hour or two later. He was very polite, but of course we no longer needed the help. I'm not too worked up about it, they have to have been crazy busy considering the reactivated players and the 2x exp madness.

Oh! My next 50 has to ding while on an Atlas sewer team, that's just too "circle of life."

Lots of ATs can't scratch, much less take down, Jurassik. And be careful about demanding an increase in damage for a Kinetics user -- Fulcrum Shift is hands-down the single most overpowered power in the game right now.

I can see why you feel the Corruptor competes too closely with Defenders, but I don't get the Blaster comparison. OF COURSE Blasters do tons of damage; it's all they've got, really (excepting minor controls here and there). Blasters want some more survivability and would love Defender buffs.

I also don't understand the "6-slotting every attack power" comment. Six-slotting your attacks is standard for damage-dealing ATs. It goes without saying that's the first thing you should do for damage, and it's superfluous to bring it up here....unless...are you saying you want to solo farm without slotting your attacks?

I haven't thought extensively about the ramifications, but I think I've seen posters say "resistance itself resists resistance debuffs." Is that not true?

They can still level-grind, you know. They're still doing it. They're not herding helpless custom-designed foes who can't fight back, but the level-grinders are definitely grinding somewhere, somehow. They keep telling us that the Devs stopped them, but the Devs just stopped them from getting it for free.

I've recently experienced repeated instances where my 45-second and one-minute recharge powers become available again while I'm still fighting the original spawn. Had it happen this weekend on a Task Force; I'd gather the bad guys with my Shield Tanker, pop off Build Up and Shield Charge (both 46 second recharge powers) and have them become available again while foes were still alive. And we had two Blasters (one of them Fire) and a Rad debuffer on the team. It certainly can happen.

It's true that one of the advantages of being a Tanker is that you can usually afford to completely ignore the other guys beating on you while you focus on one particularly critical target. So you could put your blinders on and just concentrate on the Sapper until he's on medical leave.

The Stone Tanker we're "hoping will come along" is already on the team; we're just waiting for him to catch up.

He's using a special Evil punctuation style, the Demonic Possessive.

Nitpick: Healing Flames heals off your BASE hit points, not your MAX.

See here for educated discussion.

Tankers will still heal more, of course, but you won't improve it by adding the hit point accolades, for example. Nor can you improve it by adding heal bonuses from IO sets, since those don't work in heals that provide resistance, and HF gives Toxic resists.

I was tempted to get smart-alecky and say "Well, how useful is Howling Twilight when your team is getting wiped?" to insinuate that you should at least have tried it as an opener rather than saving it.

But then I realized that Howling Twilight is really freaking useful when your team is being wiped,even if you use it afterward. So I can't fault you for holding it in reserve. Howling Twilight is the New Shimmer of superpowers!

Exactly. I worried about this too, but the truth is, I've never recognized someone as a previously-ignored troublemaker plaguing me after being freed from the ignore list by a spammer. I figure if they're not bothering me now and they're still here, maybe they've reformed.

Here's another thing you can do -- use the player notes function to flag people who are a problem. That way you can remind yourself why you're avoiding this person, and if he or she pops off the ignore list for some reason, you can re-add in the event that he or she makes trouble again.