Yup, Flambeau Noir is continuing his steady climb. He dinged to 45 this weekend while hunting for Arcane Tier 3 salvage in the Cascade Archipelago. It's surprising how much XP he's been rolling up just soloing.
As a result, he's swapped his hunting grounds to the Chantry section of the shard, which appears to be populated exclusively with Arcane salvage dropping foes (no Nemesis). There are a couple large islands there where he can circle and continuously respawn Reflections and Circle of Thorns. Rularuu are also there, but are limited to groups of Brutes with Watchers backing them up.
For one of the first times ever I am happily playing with the aggro cap that only 17 foes can be focused on you at one time. It's interesting, as I can aggro two spawns and herd them together and as I start getting up to the cap there will be a bunch of nearby mobs just ignoring me. However, as the aggro'd opponents start dropping, all of a sudden they wake up and charge in. It's funny and slightly bizzarre, to say the least. I have to say though, herding 17 enemies to the corner of a rock and then popping out into the middle of them is great... Once my AoEs start cycling it's all but over. Big fat orange numbers floating everywhere.... Mmmmm. Tasty.
Y'all really need to shout out if you need any of that Tier 3 salvage. I've been dipping into some of it for set enhancements, but I really don't have many left to slot. It all should be viable for Level 41+ crafted enhancements, so feel free. I can always get more : )
Cheers!
Monday, August 6, 2007
Flambeau hits 45
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Well, tweaked the Enhancements last night for Flambeau.
Added two Miracle enhancements to Health (now 2-slotted with Numina's and 2-slotted with Miracle).
Added two Scirocco's Dervish (Acc/Rech and Dmg/Rech) to Consume and upgraded the two Recharge IOs to Level 45.
Resulting global set bonuses (consolidated):
27.00 % Accuracy to all attacks
6.26 % AoE Defense
10.00 % Damage to all attacks
-8.80 % Hold Duration
-11.00 % Immobilize Duration
2.25 % Max Endurance
9.38 % Max Health
6.26 % Melee Defense
9.39 % Negative Energy Resistance
8.14 % Psionic Defense
3.75 % Ranged Defense
17.50 % Recovery
84.00 % Regeneration
1.26 % Fire and Cold Resist
-4.40 % Sleep Duration
Slotting has almost come to a standstill, as many of the 4 or so set enhancements are just unavailable on the market right now. Most are Task Force or Trial drops and will be Uber expensive to get (even if I can spot one to bid on). We'll see.
You realize you started this guy in mid-late April? In 4 months you've levelled to 45 (probably beyond, by now) and racked up almost 1 million prestige.
You win Apotheosis, time to start over.
He's been obscenely easy to level, and as a Tank, almost never bites it and racks up debt. Yeah, he's been a fast character, that's for sure.
Part of it is that I don't have to worry about out-levelling anyone. So, when I pop online with him after the kids go to bed, etc, there's no guilt. Just raw Flambeau action... :)
Seriously though, you guys need to use that salvage I have built up. Flam's almost 100% outfitted with set IO's so he's got zero use for it now...
One other thing is he's an AoE machine, purpose-built for mowing down large spawns. Doing that generates a crapload of XP, particularly while soloing (no split in the XP). Running around in hazard zones mowing down foes was a constant pipeline of XP for him...
Despite his allure and buffness, I still prefer playing with you guys on "Tight Night". There's nothing like the experience rolling with you guys. Solo is fun, but not very social. PuGs are just awful (usually). Rollin with my Apotheosis buddies is where it's at.
Cheers!
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