SpittingTrashcan

It's not exactly what I was dreaming of, but it's not an extraordinary reading to say that the items that David quoted me asking for are present as I described them.

I was going to buy it anyway, because I must have access to every bit of costumery - I always find a use for it sooner or later. But having seen the blades? And the tails? And the gloves? And the boots? Lordy yes.

I'd like to offer some solace to folks pining for animal bits, as well. Many animal bits are already confirmed by David as in production, IIRC. The fact that they're not in the booster does not mean you won't get them - it means you won't have to pay an extra $10 to get them.

Power Boost and Boost Range turn Sirens Song from "really good" into "completely bonkers". Nonetheless, I have a soft spot in my heart for my mulleted metalhead Son/Elec. I should play him more, but I have a low stress tolerance so I end up rolling moar Tanks.

Oh hey I should be on topic for a change.

Speed Boost is why I will never play a Kin. I can barely tolerate bubbling on a FF; a 90 second duration targeted ally buff is right out, and Kins that team and don't have SB are really only hurting themselves to a degree I wouldn't be able to ignore.

Or Gloom?

I've been rolling 30-34 in part to generate severely undersupplied recipes that cap at 30. However, I may need to check the tables more carefully - it's possible that splitting rolls between 35-39 and 10-14 will have a better chance of generating the worst-supplied recipes.

So the answer to the question asked upthread may be "because I'm poorly informed and lazy". So it goes.

A brief aside: the term is "Elite Boss."

A warning for Ouroboros arcs containing Elite Bosses would not go amiss, and would be consistent with warnings attached to other potentially unsoloable content.

So let me try to rephrase the situation for my comprehension.

There's basically two options when it comes to multi-mission teaming and rewards.

TF mode: everybody must be there at the start, and everybody gets the rewards at the end.
Arc mode: anyone can join at any time, but only the arc holder gets the rewards at the end.

TFs and Trials only offer TF mode; AE missions only offer arc mode (and don't have any special rewards at the end); most other content can be done once in arc mode and then any number of times through Ouroboros in TF mode. What you're asking for is the option to start Ouroboros missions in arc mode.

If that is an accurate assessment of the request, then I'd say this is potentially desirable, and probably not exploitable (due to the reward restriction on arc mode), and I'm not terribly concerned by increased complexity on the player side. But I don't know how technically feasible it is.

(One thing does stick out for me in the OP: the claim that there are "no rewards" for Flashbacks. In fact, there are merit rewards for the whole team for completing a Flashback arc, which can be substantial! That's why arc mode rewards would have to be implemented alongside arc mode teaming.)

Because of the AoE advantage, the attack sequence with best DPE is not the attack sequence with least EPS. You cannot optimize both at the same time.

Well, actually, I take that back. There's an attack in the game that has unusually high DPE, and also unusually low EPS and EPA. It's even a pool attack, so you can add it to the attack chain of any character, and it does a great job of filling any sized hole in an attack chain to keep you constantly active.

That attack... is Flurry.

You may accuse me of being facetious here, and I kind of am. But the point here is important: the best-performing, highest-efficiency attacks have a high up-front cost, and if you can't cover that cost you'll be locked into low performance and inefficiency. The reason why measures such as IOs and Stamina are so popular is because they mitigate up-front costs (EPS) to a level where you achieve not only higher performance (DPS) but also higher efficiency (DPE). A wealth of endurance (through recovery and lowered endurance costs) enables purchase of damage in bulk, which gives you more damage at a lower unit cost. To the best of my knowledge, there is no way around that.

But this conversation is about enabling your playstyle, not pushing mine. In which case, Flurry becomes a dead serious suggestion as one of the cheapest ways to generate both damage and activity. You should also be pursuing all powers and situations that give "free" damage: Fire attacks, Fury, Containment, Criticals, Scourge, and Defiance all spring to mind.

But I can't recommend many of the usual methods I'd use to increase efficiency, because most of them have unavoidable up-front costs. Hasten, for instance, increases the uptime of click damage buffs and of your most efficient powers - but it comes with an unmitigatable endurance cost, so it's out. Assault can be well worth its price in endurance, but because it consumes part of your desperately needed out of combat recovery, it's out too. The same applies to damage auras, which are AoEs with the endurance efficiency of ST attacks.

Actually, you know what'd really hook you up? Masterminds. They have an effective endurance pool of 700 end (!) to draw from, and get sevenfold (!!!) returns from Assault and other force multiplication tools. Try a Demons/Traps out for size - you have lots of things to do, the whip attacks are actually worth using because they debuff resistance, and Demons are aggressive and tough especially with the buffs and debuffs from Traps covering them.