Sailboat

How's the DDR on that?

Side note: there are a few American Civil War-themed stories in Architect Entertainment you might want to check out.

Aww. I was hoping for something more like "Why does God permit suffering?" when the thread title promised us an epic question.

I don't care what the further Incarnate abilities do, as long as they're passive.

Not only are the power trays grossly over-filled with way too many active, click-type powers, but managing all that while fighting is getting to be a challenge. Keeping track of recharges and when to use what, with long-, medium-, and short-recharge powers -- sometimes with Hasten on, sometimes with teammate buffs changing the recharge rates -- is getting complex.

If they're not going to automate more functions in the game, they ought to regard power tray space and (for want of a better word) the player's mindspace as critical territory and carefully consider each proposal to crowd another thing into. The players need to be able to assess the battlefield and opponents' abilities and actions, the mission objectives, teammates' actions and capabilities, and the storyline as well, and all of that has to be done very, very quickly.

Please make as many new powers as possible passive -- even if that means somewhat weaker. A power that crowds another, pre-existing power out of your tray or your regular rotation isn't as strong as it first looks, is it? And a power you don't remember to use is the weakest of all.

Haven't had a chance to look at your build in Mid's, and although I have a mid-30s Katana/Fire Scrapper, I haven't tried to make an IO build yet. But I did see a thread recently that could shed some light on this pairing, so here you go.

It might bear mentioning that Spin is a fantastic attack, particularly for Scrappers. It's the second-highest-damage Scrapper PBAoE after Fire Sword Circle, but it recharges more than twice as fast (9.2 seconds vs 20 seconds) and casts slightly faster as well. Over time, it does substantially better damage (probably even if you factor in lethal vs. fire resistances over all types of enemies), making it one of the premier attacks in the game, really.

Recharge makes it even more impressive -- my current Claws Scrapper gets Spin back in 3.79 seconds without using Hasten -- and without Quickness or Lightning Reflexes or Incarnate abilities. The second-hardest-hitting PBAoE from a damage-dealing AT every 4 seconds or so!

Can you remember which TFs and missions?

I have a Willpower Scrapper, who's been dormant since before IOs were added to the game, whom I'm starting to play again. I've put together what I consider to be a decent build for him -- the details of the build aren't what I wanted to discuss, though. It's the durability of the set, really.

Willpower has very good layered mitigation. But have you found the combination of low exotic (i.e., non-smashing/lethal) resistances and low defense debuff resistance to be a problem? Maybe it's because I just fought Neuron's radioactive clockwork, which are armed to the teeth with defense debuffs and energy damage, that I'm wondering. Actually I did great -- but I was only fighting +0/x1. I know Rise to the Challenge scales with more foes, but I wonder if that would have carried me through x8 enemies.

I'm okay with Willpower having a weakness like relatively inconsequential DDR; other sets have weaknesses. Maybe I'm just spoiled by playing so much SR, Shield, and even Invulnerability, which have great-to-merely-good DDR.

But I often see people assert that Invulnerability Tankers have "terrible" exotic resistances -- and yet, my Inv Tanker has 30-32% resistances and my WP Scrapper only 5.6% to those damage types.

So I have been trying to get the Dimensional Warder badge for the Portal Jockey Accolade, on a character who is already 50, by working my way through Maria Jenkins' and Tina Macintyre's arcs in Oroborous.

Maria now has 2 versions of her AV arc in Oroborous -- A Hero's Epic being the new one revised for Going Rogue, and A Hero's Hero, the original version.

I figured either one would be good for the badge -- otherwise people would have run into a problem trying to get the badge now -- so I ran the new one (Epic). Then I ran Tina's Praetorian War arc.

I'm ONE AV short of the badge.

The badge tracking system says "13 of 14" but it doesn't say which ones. I believe I have Black Swan, one of the frequently-overlooked AVs, because I have a screenshot of myself fighting her with the correct date on it.

Three possibilities occur to me:

1) I ran the wrong Maria arc -- should I have done the original Hero's Hero version?

2) I ran the wrong Tina arc -- maybe it's The Anti-Matter Collision / The Instant Army one needs for the badge, not the Praetorian War?

3) I missed one AV somewhere, who was not needed for mission completion. Any guesses which? And if so, any easy way to pick that AV up without re-running the whole arc?

Thanks!

Heh. My first 50 was also Ice/Storm -- is that some kind of a trend? -- but I haven't ever sat down and tried to rebuild her with IOs. I really ought to; I love the character.

Question: are we sure the Musculature bonus affects the pseudo-pet (Lightning Storm, Tornado, Ice Storm, Freezing Rain, etc.) damage? The rules for pseudo-pets have always been weird, and at one point I became sure (note: I could have been wrong, but I was sure) that the Leadership powers did NOT buff the pseudo-pets.