Scientist_16

I hadn't played in absolutely forever, so the tactical advice is appreciated. My problem was that I was opening with tar patch and tenebrenous Tentacles to keep the group clustered before opening up with a Fearsome Stare, which was why I was taking so much damage.

Alright, back from class. Some interesting feedback here.

1. I have roughly 100 million inf on hand, possibly more if I sell a pair of purple IOs I've been hoarding.
2. My experience with dark was very similar to Tenzhis, to where I was soloing elite bosses at level 30, after which things become a lot less solo-able.
3. My character is technology origin, which is why he has Black Scorpion as a Patron instead of Ghost Widow. I'm pretty set on taking either Mace Mastery or Dark Mastery as my epic pool because of that.

Urm, I can't remember where my slots are, but I can tell you what powers I currently have:

Whole Dark Blast set but Dark Pit, and Torrent
Whole Dark Miasma set but Black Hole

Combat jumping/Superjump
Swift/health/stamina
Scorpion Shield, Focused Accuracy, Web Cocoon, Summon Disruptor

I've got a reasonable amount of influence on hand, but nothing extravagant.

With the Incarnate system, I felt like finally settling down and playing my First 50 again. And it is PAINFUL. Sable Tentacle is a Dark/Dark corruptor, and I've been messing around with him again for the first time in a while, but not really making any progress. I tend to feel like dead weight on teams even with all the debuffs I can throw out, and soloing is out of the question.

With incarnates coming out, and inherent fitness, i think it's time to respec him up to snuff again, but I don't really know where to start! So, what do you guys think of dark/dark? Is there anything salvageable here?

My Huntswoman is human, albeit with a magical trinket that allows her to turn her shots into seeking bullets, and a curse that drives her to drink blood. She's a fairly loyal soldier of arachnos, as she doesn't really have high aspirations of power, just a desire to live in luxury with good food, wine, and the opportunity to put bullets through people's (and demon's) skulls.

As you might know if you check out the other threads, I'm considering starting up a Widow who defects from arachnos to start her own organization, with a bee-hive theme instead of a spider one. I'm not sure if I'm going to give her minor bee-themed mutations or if her powers are all body-mods and bio-grafts she's had installed.

Neat. So it's not really a matter of making it fit canon, it's what threads of canon to tie it too.

I'm thinking of finally dipping a toe into the EAT pool and making a Widow on Virtue, but I'm not really sure where to start. I wanted to know several things before I rolled her up, though:

1. The concept of the character is for the widow to be bee-themed, a widow with psionic powers that give her a strong mental presence in other's minds, making them want to obey her commands. Her power steadily overtook everyone in her base, giving them a sort of linked hive-mind with her at the center. Enamored with her own abilities, she decides to break free of just being a standard Arachnos soldier and become a Destined One. Does this beat-down canon in any exceptionally eye-rolling way, or would you RP with this character without your suspension of disbelief being strained?

2. I was thinking of trying to use Dual builds to give this character a 'Queen Bee' and a 'Soldier Bee' build, Fortunata and Night Widow respectively, with the Fortunata being all psychic power and the Night widow being all claws. Is it possible to do this, or is it difficult to slot/play?

Alright. I will run through this with my three level 50s, two villains and one hero.

Sable Tentacle, freakshow cyborg, dark/dark corruptor
Lil' Red Hood, Family leader, Mercs/Traps mastermind
Demon Slayer Yuki, Anime cliche, Katana/Will scrapper.

Hmm. Small reference pools, but the only thing the cutscene reminds me of is the satan-banishment from that Jack Black Tenacious-D movie and Ganon being banished at the end of LoZ.

Here's a boss fight for a character that doesn't deserve it (Not even level 20 yet) but I've been playing a lot lately: Kolkuthka, my volcano-goddess Earth/Fire Dom.

The battle against her is pretty much 'as normal', taking place in a donut shaped arena with a big lava pit in the center. During the course of the fight boss-class stone Tiki heads spawn at the corners of the arena. They announce themselves with
[NPC] Lava Totem: THE GODDESS DEMANDS A SACRIFICE!
and then start casting a single-target version of Wormhole, using it to stun a player and drop them into the lava pit. The cast time of the spell is very slightly longer than Recall Friend and has a distinct signature on the person about to be sacrificed, so quick action by someone with that power can save someone from taking more than a few ticks of damage. Alternatively, while a small orange won't save you, a medium or large orange will stop the teleport effect (But not the stun).

Kolkuthka attacks as a normal earth/fire enemy, until she reaches 50% health. At that point, she starts using a special 'Voice of the Goddess' power, which is an amped up Invoke Panic.

Other stuff that might be added to make the encounter harder (or easier)

• Giving Lava Totems healing or buffing powers to use on Kolkuthka if she's near them
• A big sacrificial altar up at the far side of the arena, which lets a player can activate to instantly defeat all the Lava Totems at the cost of being defeated yourself
• Kolkuthka can also cast Sacrifice
• Any hero that is defeated and in the lava pit grants a buff on all totems and Kolkuthka

Neat. I'll do one of mine then:

Sable Tentacle is a dark/dark corruptor, who uses arm-blasters to create his powers. His AV fight would involve him plugging his arms into a big machine and overcharging it with dark matter. The entirety of the fight he'd have protection from repel, knockback, and would be immobilized, essentially turning him into a big AV turret.

The big gimmick of the fight would be that occasionally he would charge up a giant cone of blasty doom, snipe-attack style. The heroes would have to take cover behind convenient pillars or walls to avoid eating a truly massive amount of negative energy.

Sequestration. Lord Recluse's towers. Director 11's bombs. Protean's energy drain. The war-walker orbital lasers, and Battle Maiden's nanoswords. For good or ill, the end-game encounters are getting more complicated, requiring more teamwork than before.

Here's a hypothetical situation: You've become so famous, so awesome, and your character backstories are so cool that the Devs have decided to put a character of your choice into the game as a boss encounter. What can they do that separates them from a normal elite boss or archvillain? What special mechanics are in play during their fight?

*puts on his Parodist hat*

The whole idea of the Judgement Slot excites me, but I do hope there is a decent range of abilities, at least as many as the general ancillaries. Cold, Electricity, Fire, Force, Munitions, Psionic, Stone, Dark, Energy, and 'weapon'.

Might be unreasonable or pie in the sky, but that's what I hope for.

Awful screenshot is awful. ... And outdated, he's wearing the wrong gloves in this shot. I changed them to the bulky tech ones..

Gravity? Huh. I wouldn't have called that.


... Then again, Propel does fit the manic spirit of dresdenverse combat.

I'd say this qualifies as a 'weird backdoor' in and of itself... I can see a few things wrong with this.

1. Toggles can cause a backpack item to appear, like the jetpacks, but can they add the extra 'limbs' that are animated through the Crab powers?

2. It would cause horrible clipping unless you also somehow disallowed it with a cape, wing, or any other back-mounted item.

One of my coveted level 50 characters started life as a simple 'I want to play a scrapper right now, I'll delete her later when I'm bored.'

Well, the 'slapdash construction' of the poor girl led to... some costume errors. The most notable one being that I played with her height and proportions a little, but forgot to mess with the chestslider. As a result, she's ridiculously well-proportioned for her age (I learned from the mistake with further characters, but by the time I was able to fix it on Yuki, she was well-established as being well-endowed as an RP trait, so I left it in).
On the other hand, I did deliberately max the breastslider on one of my ladies, since she's a cowgirl of the bovine variety, and dairy cow jokes did abound. Was one of my favorite jokey characters for a long time.

So I've played characters at every point on the boobscale and I haven't EVER had anyone call me out on it, or refuse to RP with me because of it (They've refused on grounds of more reasonable things, like good taste...). So, I think you're just plain unlucky to have to deal with someone who's sensibilities are so finely tuned to the booben of pixels.

I actually have an earth/storm, so I'm well-aware of the effects that the cages can have. I only picked the single target for that reason, it's to spam on single fast, melee-centric enemies like warwolves and force them to stay in the quicksand.

I've been seeing a tendancy to pick up the Leadership line of stuff in exchange for Fitness being an inherent. I wonder if we can find more people branching out and trying things like Stealth, Fighting, or Presence...