As obnoxious as it may sound... Yup.
I logged Flambeau to surf around the Chantry a bit in the Shadow Shard. The herding to the aggro cap is great fun, especially when I pull the trigger on his AoE chain. Such pretty orange floating numbers. No spectacular drops though, a couple Red Fortune recipes and a Pangean Soil. Partway through I saw the big yellow LEVEL UP! flash on the screen. Now most things are conning white/blue to me. Damn.
So now I'm incrementally upgrading his IOs (both set and basic) where reasonable to L50ish ones. Powers like Hasten and Fiery Aura are getting straight L50 recharge IOs. I also upgraded the Titanium Coating (resist damage) IOs to level 50ish as well to hit the ED cap on those resistance powers. The more expensive rare IO sets (Scirocco's Dervish, Touch of Death, Mako's Bite, etc.) are staying as-is.
Oh, and I picked up Rise of the Pheonix as a self-Rez power at Level 47. My choices were Burn, Build-Up, Char (out of the Pyre Epic pool), or Rise of the Pheonix. Since it's reportedly one of the coolest animations in the game and since a self-Rez power would be VERY nice in sticky situations, I figured I would pick it up. Opens up more room in my Inspiration tray, too. I guess I'll have to bite it to see what it looks like... : )
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Flambeau Noir hits Level 47
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This is just ridiculous. How often are you playing now? :)
Couple nights a week, mebbe 2 hrs per session. Kids (sometimes) go to bed around 10:00pm or so. I'll log Flambeau and play to 11:30 or midnight. Maybe once on a weekend evening for about the same duration.
Flambeau levels quickly because his IO set enhancements make him really really tough and his endurance problems are virtually nil. A week ago I was showing an aquaintence around the Chantry in the Shadow Shard. He was playing a Spines/Regen and was struggling to keep up with me as I ran non-stop from spawn to spawn to spawn decimiating them as I went. When you have a Regen Scrapper sucking wind, you know you're doing OK :)
The lack of down time, large spawns I'm destroying with my AoEs and fact I'm fighting white/yellow/orange/red foes (mixed in) means a steady stream of XP that's more than I'm used to.
Flambeau's a freaking monster, I'm telling you. Mantlet's probably got an edge toughness wise, but Flambeau is far meaner and his damage output in crowds is just sick... Easily twice what Mantlet puts out.
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