Stone Daemon

That's a good idea, I do believe I will...though I imagine layla might get pissed with all that work dumped on her, haha.

Oh well, she'll forgive me, I'm sure.

If anyone wants to know more, please PM me (or see layla's shop here) and I'll pass it along.

By damage, you mean X% chance for the fire DoT, correct? Personally, I go for the DoT, because the -resistance is piddly at best, and not really useful except on hard targets. And on hard targets, you have a team (generally). And if you have a team, chances are there are other people with -resistance proc anyhow.

Somehow I doubt that your original build is worth 10 billion, as you are implying.

I feel the need to also point out that you're assuming everyone takes barrier. I might take it on a scrapper, but for my trollers/blasters, I plan on taking Clarion. Other characters will be taking Ageless (the ones that need moar recharge, anyhow). A sometimes up defense/resist buff would be nice on certain AV fights, but I see it as largely unnecessary in the grand scheme of things.

As to every person having a nuke...like others have said...it's not that great. Very nice burst damage, but it won't invalidate damage ATs.

Yeah. It's...uh, the incarnate trials. Might want to see if layla can do it, she has some kind of sick fascination with that tf.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Ah, embarrasing. I neglected to point out that I use Burn whenever it's up as part of my attack chain, regardless of how many enemies are left. So yes, my MG/SL/MG/etc chain was inaccurate, and will be corrected. Thanks!

I neglected to lean one way or another on this one, because it really depends on how closely you follow my build/ideas. If you rely mostly on Shadow Meld to carry you to the softcap, for sure you want a strong heal. If, however, you plan is to make it so that you have deeper resources pre-SM (for whatever reason), maybe the heal isn't as important to you. Nevertheless, I went for slotting it to heal.

I forget to...

But no, things die really fast, the only stuff that survives the initial Soul drain saturated burn are bosses, and those usually go down with a hit from SL/MG.



Good info! Definitely the route I would go if I ever decide to switch up the hecatomb off SL. As it is now, I'm building for the spiritual alpha (rech/heal), so SL will be getting a good dose of global enhancement to heal, and I'm not really missing the heal bonus as of now.

If only that were the case. No, most of the differences between the recipe and the crafted enhancement are quite large. For example, a recipe for lockdown going for 1,000 influence, when crafted, sells for 8-10 million. That's a net profit of at LEAST 5 million influence, as opposed to selling the individual pieces. I just did this to two lockdown pieces last night, as a matter of fact. Also, rare salvage prices are falling, so I'm looking at mainly 2 million a pop for those.

When I feel like being lazy and/or there is a piece of salvage selling well, however, I will take advantage of that.

Sorry for going OT, Daemodand!

What, no love for Sir Pounce-a-lot?

In my case, it is worth it.

Step 1: AE map run (Total time, 5 minutes. Net roughly 7-10million inf, and 1500 tickets.)
Step 2: Random Silver rolls. If what you get sucks, vendor/delete it.
Step 3: Acquire rare salvage via tickets.
Step 4: Craft, spending maybe 100-100,000 inf on common salvage only.
Step 5: Profit. At this point, you have netted anywhere from 3-6 million per cheap recipe, much more if the recipe is actually worth something.
Step 6: See Step 1.


I can run a couple AE runs, come out with 5,000 tickets in maybe 20 minutes of work, convert those tickets into 50 million inf with bad rolls. Quite often I get kinetic Combats and Numina rolls that sell for 60-80 million a pop.


But we're not talking about my methods, so YMMV.

Ah. I see. Well then, never mind me. I'll just go sit in that corner over there.

My lowball statement stands, though. It causes me pain to see a posi proc sell for that little, knowing I've paid millions for the recipe alone.

Your sell prices are seriously making me cry. If you had crafted these, you could have made several times what you made off of it.

The crafted makos/lockdown's alone can sell 5-8 million, Touch of Deaths and Posi blasts go for 8-15 million, and I'm pretty sure that GotA: Run speed goes for more than that (so I assume you're just lowballing everything for minimal marketeering time?).

If you don't AE for easy rare salvage accumulation, I would still say it's worth the investment to craft these suckers to get the full return on your A-Merit purchases.

Turn off the sound.

No, really. That's what I'd do--but then, I hate the repetitive sound effects of combat. I only turn it on for glowie hunts.

Outside of that, no, no ideas for ya.

I'd like to just add to this conversation by saying that on my server (Protector), there is a certain Fire Armor tank that regularly runs MoSTF's every Thursday (as the main tank, generally), and the runs are quite often successful.

I'm sure he gets outside buffs to help him accomplish this, but then, I don't see that as an issue.

And of course, a similarly invested elec armor build (with or without buffs) can do the same.

Heh, I can already see someone sigging this.