StratoNexus

After two years, I was disheartened.

But now that I can see the promised land... Squeeeeee!

Hopefully /MA is next and soon.

Do blasters get a HEAL? Granted its a terrible attack and poor heal, but I never would have thought they'd leave Life Drain.

I wonder if the chance for KB is 60% in Nightfall? Maybe they widened the cone some?

Gah! I love the heal in Energy Drain, but with higher resistances and the chance to push my defenses even further above the cap I could be OK. But what power do I respec out of to pick up Energize? Oh tough choices!

Hmmm. Maybe Energy Cloak; but... but, stealth Brute goes bye, bye to be more strong and pretty? Maybe Darkest Night, although the -damage was nice to help the team as well as myself. Hmmm, maybe I can lose Aid Self.

Thank you for leaving Tentacles in Dark Blast, I am thrilled. You left the heal too, didn't you. Hmmm, very interesting.

Edit: OMG Poison buffs too! My Mercs/Posion MM will be better, yay!

Of all days to miss the Ustream! Gah! Curse the grass and its tendency to grow.

I have never been a good chainer outside of a few characters.

My standard while leveling (once I got into the teens) would be Bullet Rain, FSC, then FS the worst enemy (usually its dead), then Ring something then Pistols something. Solo I use inspires frequently, often trying to keep a purple running. I move quick, trying to get as many spawns per inspire as I can, especially in the early levels when my inspire tray is smaller.

I often team while leveling, so I'll either let someone tougher take the initial aggro or I hope to keep the aggro off any corruptors, defenders, or controllers so they can focus on debilitating the enemy or buffing me.

Once you get into the late 20s, early 30s, you can have a decent single target chain with the primary. Your own tolerance for redraw will now come into play. I have a high tolerance, so I still do not chain well, mixing in my secondary attacks and Pistol's attacks freely. During AV and maybe EB fights I'll do better and chain several primary attacks, then switch to Ring and Sword, then primary again, trying to minimize redraw (unless we need the immob, in which case I throw in Ring frequently and redraw often, which is even painful to me). Now with Build Up, you can boost the AoEs, so that it doesn't take as many single target attacks, and of course Build Up is helpful for boss fights as well.

Of course, single target is not where this combo shines and after 33, you really become a spawnmower. Bullet Rain + FSC are still great, but adding HoB every third spawn is very nice. With good recharge, you are looking every other spawn, HoB + Bullet Rain, then FSC if needed, then mop up with single target attacks.

I like Executioner's Shot and would never skip it. PR is also good, but for its end cost and opportunity cost, you can take it or leave it. Since I leave incendiary ammo on almost always now, I don't get the -resist bonus from PR. However, I giggle delightedly everytime I hit 3 things with PR.

Thank you very much. That is very helpful.

I would love to see the binds for this. I now want to create a character and setup binds that make the behavior of my own toon less than predictable. I think I have some possible ideas for how to do this, but seeing your binds could be helpful.

/bind f12 "getglobalname $target"
That may help you in the meanwhile.

We have IOs for slow resistance and KB protection. I think this is a good idea. It has been quite sometime since Inventions have seen any dev love or resources. If the devs do decide to give us some more IO options, I hope they consider this concept.

Working on changing my camera angle now for the final fight. I have found that with my UI layout, I have better luck seeing the disintegrate messages if I keep my angle low, so that I am looking straight out, or maybe even slightly up (instead of the standard slightly looking down angle). I am almost always zoomed really far out and I keep it that way. Zooming in close made it even harder.

So for me, stay zoomed way out, but flatten my view. I helped save 4 people my last run for sure, I am getting better at this.

Perhaps the disintegrate float text could be made to linger an extra 0.5 to 1 second? That small change could be hugely helpful.

This is ******** and should be changed.

The new in-game tutorial should teach people how to add chat tabs and how to add chat channels to those tabs AND how to find player created global channels.