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Quote:Yes. You are uncreative. You also seem to have overlooked the name check feature- so you dont have to waste 45 mins on costume and design only to find the name is taken... its a red button to the right on the character creator screen.Would it be possible for NCSoft to release some no longer used character names? Say characters under level 25 on accounts that have been expired for a year or more? Or, better yet, find a way to tie character names to the global name, so everyone can be Captain Bob?
I became inspired to create a new Radiation Blast / Energy Manipulation Blaster tonight. It took me about 45 minutes or so to get the costume right, mostly black with a splash of bright red. When it came time to choose a name, I tried "Celestial Striker," figuring it would be taken. It was. Darn. Okay. How about.... "Atomic Striker?" Taken. Hrm. Okay, let's try... "Celestial Fusion." Taken. Grr. "Atomic Fusion." Taken. "Scarlet Fusion." Taken. Tried a few others. All taken.
So, that character I spent 45 minutes putting together a costume for was never created, as I spent a good hour trying to come up with a good available name, only to come up empty handed.
Really, it's gotten pretty difficult to come up with a character name that doesn't use leetspeak like C3lesti@l, or throw random letters and / or numbers in like Celestial A 3, or use a foreign language like Latin. Perhaps I'm uncreative.
The last thing we need in this game is a bunch of the same 5 names running around.
This is a slippery slope to go down. Tying names to globals means they would likely merge servers shortly after, which means to me the game is gasping its final breaths.
This would just be the beginning of the end IMO.
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Gawddammit Pum... it is killing me to see all those unused merits/tickets and your toon not having any set bonuses.
You should fill a swimming pool with your riches and swim in it like Scrooge McDuck...
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Quote:Incorrect.nope.
Set bonus's are limited per name.
I tried this on a stone tank. Once you hit 5 7.5 boosts, that's it. no more count.
You can still get other recharge boosts, like 5%, or 6.5%, or 10% (purple), but you can only have 5 of any single named IO bonus effect.
LOTG are a global bonus that is treated as a seperate bonus when regarding the rule of 5.
You can indeed have 5x 7.5% bonuses from sets such as basilisks gaze or kinetic crash, and also have 5x LOTG global 7.5% bonuses on the same character.
This is how I achieve 120% + global recharge bonuses on characters while using no purple sets. I have several on live with this configuration, so I promise it works the way im saying. -
Quote:Even though I'm sure they "tweaked" out the comments to ease their workload, I'm bummed that I won't get the anonymous kudos and karate chops any more. Oh well.
--NT
Im glad if it saves them some work/ server space, but without the comments...how will I know when little billy goats gruff pass over my bridge? -
My WP/Fire tank runs at 90 hp/sec regen and capped HPs, with capped F/C/E/N def, 70% S/L resists, and 25% S/L def.
For 99.9% of anything in the game you might want to do, it is unkillable.
Buffed recluse in STF might be able to outdamage the regen/resist, but I havent run it since my last respec, so not sure.
But basically I can go afk while standing in a pile of 5-6 monsters on monster Isle and come back 30 mins later and still be alive on this tank (actually done this). -
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As I recall, you cant put a + HO on the market... so once you combine them you cant sell them in the AH.
I have a full set of 52s slotted on my rad troller, and havent combined them to make them 52+ just in case I ever want to market them. -
I have one you can use.
Send me a PM if you want it. -
Quote:If you read nothing else in all the advice posts about blasters please read the above quote.Few points:
1) I believe any blaster that HAS both Build Up and Aim available, and doesn't take them both, is a broken build. (AR and Dev are an entirely different flamewar.) Earlier you get them, the happier you'll be. (+100% damage when you've got 95% slotted is a lot different from +100% damage when you have 16% slotted.)
This is blaster gospel.
I also am in the camp that says HASTEN is mandatory on blasters- especially Ice/ blasters who want Blizzard up as much as possible (best nuke in the game).
Ice blasters walk a fine line between control/utility and blasting damage, so tread carefully as to which utility powers you choose/have time to use, while you are doing your primary job- blasting the hell out of hard targets with your heavy single target damage.
And my other piece of wisdom regarding /ice manip. is that frozen aura sucks donkey balls. So unless you enjoy having and using powers that suck donkey balls, you should avoid frozen aura.
Ice/ice blasters are very fun both solo and on teams, but you might want to look into having two builds on this character- because a solo build and a team build tend to look quite different with this power combo. -
Damn jerkhackers. GONE TO TEH AMERICANS.
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Quote:Plus you say you only have 4 slots to give. Basilisks gaze can be slotted nicely in those 4 slots in shocking bolt for a big recharge boost bonus. You will only end up with 55% ish accuracy and recharge from slotting on the hold, but if you build well you should have plenty of accuracy and recharge bonuses to up those numbers from IO set bonuses.I'd go with Shocking Bolt.
Even if it's hard to stack on a boss, it's still one of the better holds available to blasters. There's almost no delay when you activate it to when it goes into effect. No long animation, no windup, you hit the button and your target is held NAO.
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You can never have too much end, recharge, or AoE.
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Quote:fixed.FF/Therm/Cold buff bots,its time for a simple change to our powersmake that 4m buff timer a hour long on all our bubblesthe devs can in 1 single act of kindness give us so much relief of frustrating work we do in large teamswhen we are on a full team, as we are made more for teaming then Solo powersetswe are buffing 7 diff people with 2 shields each, 14 buffs ever 4m,but MM have it the worst, i have a FF/bots,and this drives ME crazyi live for full teams , on my ff mm i have 7 team mates and 6 pets to buffbut their often a 2nd mm on my 8 man teams, so i have over 19 targets to buff ever 4m or 38 shields ever 4m, i am a official slave buff bot on teamsnot a fun job, but at lest your team HAS GOD MODE, worth itbut something happened, i snapedon a team of me, a other MM WHO happens to be a ninja, and my god do i feel for him, ninja pets die a lot,goes with having melee pets, so am putting over 38 shields on my team ever 4m, xtreme end of my buff boting charthen someone left,and guest who joined,a Necro MM, now having 25 targets to buff ever 4m with total Of 50 shields! ,ever 4m, i just said **** it, told them after the next mission i was done for the day, Frustrating is a understatement for being a mm buff bot who enjoys to omfg team with others. why must you make my life a pain devs as a therm or ffMMdevs,its time you make all this go away,give us 1 hour buff timers and get rid of these damn 4m recast buff bot powerset powersyou would make us all so much happy to play our chars again on large teamsif you think 4m fine as ishow about all the devs in charge of powers, make a 8 man team full of FF/therm MMs ,AND MAKE them buff each other and ever single pet on that team, and see how they feel thenthat would be 55 things to buff with 2 diff buffs, or 110 total buffs ever 4it cant be done, its the xtreme point i can think of,could a 1 hour long buff timer do it, Sure, hell 110 buffs ever hour, would be SO much better then the hell am already going thro Now, that's saying a lot!to all my buff bots brother and sistersplz lets send a msg to the devs nowmake this insane 4m buff timer game design go away,and let us force on our other powers more often then being a FULL time buff bot for our team mates
Its so much more appropriate without all those annoying line breaks. This really needed to be presented as a complete wall of text.
You can do better. -
I went /elec on my softcapped ranged def build for the resists to stack with tough, which in combo with softcapped defense to range attacks makes for one heck of a hard to kill blaster.
On my pure recharge build I run /cold epic for the sleep aoe and def based shield as set mules for LOTG +rech and the fortunata sleep purple sets. 5 fortunata sleep purps and a chance for heal works pretty nice in that flash freeze power.
Id say for survivability /elec mastery is your best choice for the nice 3 damage type shield, and the hold plus the tier 9 power surge for really tough moments. -
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This was actually my first CC I ever entered...
I couldnt believe it when you picked me as best female costume! (tie- Miss Treats)
All my dude heroes are pretty boring costume-wise, so dressing up the girls is a lot more fun. Thanks to everyone who voted for me, and all who showed up for the event. good times. -
mmmn brownies.
I hope they were "special" brownies. I needs them fer mah insomnia. -
My archer the Pink Shaft didnt last very long.
Trust me when I say his costume didnt help. -
I couldnt log on until 830 PST. Sorry that I missed out
Maybe next week? I dont get too much playtime in large enough blocks to do many TFs, and have been trying to get a Manticore for my final TF commander badge on my blaster for a bit... anyone else need Manti and willing to do that one?
If not I can arrange to do it another time, but thats the one I need most. I am interested in joining whichever TF is planned, however, exept the shard ones (2.5 hour limit for me on any TF), so count me in next time!
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Quote:Yeah, but most powersets dont wait until the tier 9 secondary to really stick it to you with a worthless power...Almost every powerset has a poo power or two to balance it out and allow some power pool choices.
I remember getting this power on my ice/ice back in the day and being all exited to use it- so I fire it off in atlas to check it out, and it misses 4 of the 6 lvl 3 mobs I attack. Really.
Its as worthless as man boobs. -
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Quote:This is pure awesome.IT IS OKAY. TAKE DEEP BREATHS. I will help you. Unlike your emotionally distant father who would just disdainfully gaze over a corner of his newspaper, slowly shake his head and sigh, Silas is here for you. Unless you read this entire guide, take it all in and then continue to suck and be awful at therming. In which case your father and I will both sigh, then go have a beer, watch the game and talk about how we wished things had turned out differently. SOMETIMES THAT IS JUST HOW IT GOES.
Good stuff Silas.