Yogi_Bare

Originally Posted by Katura

Where exactly do you get the overwhelming force enhancements? still kinda new and i have seen it in mids just didnt know where they came from.

Originally Posted by Commander

I have Hurricane Gloria and Curtis E. Flush on Virtue :P

Originally Posted by GlassGoblin

This may be a way to (ahem) test the waters for the long-awaited Carp Melee set. A Fish-Slap temp power, perhaps?

Also: obligatory.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

spotted my favorite lowbrow entry so far hanging around Atlas last night:


R. Kelly.

Originally Posted by Arbiter Hawk

Fun factoid we didn't mention in the Coffee Talk - Boxing, Kick, and Cross Punch also grant bonuses to your Brawl as well. They're just thematic/easter-egg-y, but they are fun. If you have either Boxing or Kick, your Brawl has a 10% chance to proc a Recharge and ToHit debuff on its target. This debuff is double strength if you own both of those powers. If you own Cross Punch, your Brawl also has a 10% chance to proc a Regen and Recovery debuff on its target.

On the Presence note, you mention the single-target Taunt becoming a single-target ranged Placate, but Unrelenting is the new tier 5 power in the set, and it's also pretty cool. Using it gives you a moderate Heal over Time, a moderate Recharge bonus, a moderate Damage bonus, and a moderate Recovery bonus. Additionally, you can use it while defeated, restoring a moderate amount of health and endurance to you if used in this manner.

Originally Posted by Aura_Familia

*drools* you're going to make me respec my very first blaster again, aren't you?

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

So for those who missed the Coffee Talk it sounds like a decision has been made. Bonfire and Tornado will have their chance to deal knockback reduced if they are slotted with the knocback reduction IO. For Bonfire the change to deal knockback will be about 40%.

So it'll still deal only knockdown but it will only deal it 40% of the time instead of every tick (this is roughly comparable to powers like Earthquake and Ice Slick which have a lower proc chance but tick more frequently).

Originally Posted by Hopeling

Well, compared to a normal damage proc, the Achilles proc will go off exactly as often (20% chance, and in a Rain power it gets a chance to go off every 10 seconds). So really, we can just compare the effect of the Achilles proc to the ~72 damage you'd get from Positron's Blast (or whatever else).

So, what conditions have to be true for Achilles' Heel to be worth more than 72 damage? It increases the damage the target takes by 20%, or one-fifth, for 10 seconds. So you need to do >360 damage, before counting the debuff, during those ten seconds for the proc to add >72 damage. A level 50 minion only has 431 max health, so against minions you will roughly break even at best (360+72 is all the health a minion has), and if the minion survives past the end of the debuff, or if the minion is not at full health when the debuff is applied, you're already behind.

Higher-ranking foes have enough health for the Achilles proc to break even or do better than the damage proc, but not by much on Lieutenants (although this depends somewhat on circumstances; if you/your team deal high enough damage to consistently wipe out all the Lieutenants in <10s from full health, Achilles does start to look pretty good), it's really mostly on Bosses and above that Achilles shines. And you can get a lot more opportunities to proc against bosses by putting the proc in a fast single-target attack than an AoE power that generally has a much longer recharge.

Edit: I suppose "not worth using" is an exaggeration, but it's not nearly as amazing for most AoE uses as it is for single-target.

Originally Posted by Tater Todd

...Hrmm, now I wonder is it properly working in regular non KB powers...

Originally Posted by Doctor Roswell

And my point remains that I don't understand why so many people have spent so long insisting so vehemently that their gaming experience somehow wasn't complete without this very specific, conceptually-narrow, and fairly-uncommon-in-the-genre (even Mousedroid's list include Iceman as a "water control" character on page 1. Technically true, but still kinda reaching) powerset.

Italicized words are italicized for emphasis, by the way. And I only put one in this whole post. My question is not why we got the set. I understand there was a great deal of demand for it. My question is why it was in such high demand.

Originally Posted by Cien_Fuegos

yay water blast

Originally Posted by Pinkpup

Personally, unless we get some 26th lvl troller or dom to tell us if this combo turned day into night, made the earth quakes, had posion arrows falling from the sky, and the pillers of Heaven shake... I still having problems believing this whole broken theory.

So lets see some evidences.... and not from your 50th, because with all the Incarnate stuff going, not sure its going to be a fair test.