ArcticFahx

I'd just break down your astrals for extra threads and make your commons/uncommons from those.

Actually, I don't have an "amazingly epic build", I built him on drops and about 10-15 mil (with a few IOs, the pet set uniques, gifted from my far more marketeering friends). No huge defense bonuses, just moderate recharge, with Hasten nowhere near perma (just have it to counteract recharge debuffs, pretty much). For powers, I skipped all personal attacks from my primary, took leadership, CJ, Super Jump, and Hasten, and only took 3 SHARK powers. I simply use tactic, and a good set of binds to adjust my pets on the fly.

I wouldn't say that Bots/Traps is really OP, as there are times that it isn't quite as awesome, and I would much rather see Ninjas and Mercs brought up to the level of Demons and Thugs. I definitely am not calling for a nerf on MMs, just that MMs as a whole don't need a buff, simply the lower-performing sets.

Having never played Mercs myself, I can't add much advice here, but I can agree that MMs are quite easily the most difficult AT to play to maximum effect.

Here's a little secret. You know that Tactics power that practically every MM takes? It protects against confusion. So if you take that, the BAF escapees won't confuse your pets!



Also, Ninja aren't as worthless on BAF as people keep saying. My Ninja/TA had to replace a total of 2 genin on 3 straight BAF runs.

Since when was Scirocco also the janitor?

That would be because casuals don't care about tier 4 incarnate slots. Casual players are those who play a little bit to have some fun, likely don't use Mids', are often just fine with common IOs or even SOs, might occasionally use a Hami-O because they have a few from when they decided to "give a Hami a shot", and might not even go past T1 on their incarnate powers because that's all they really want. If they even touch it. Some casuals are such altoholics they don't even have a 50, and were quite grateful when the EAT unlock was dropped to 20, because it gave them more fun to play with.

Only if you don't have alts to work on.

A) Regional servers will be no more after summer, really. I'll be able to hop on Union as an NA subscriber whenever I want.

B) Anything involving a clientside patch (like this one did) must be done at the same time so that you don't have version mismatches on, say, Union because you patched up for Freedom.

Ah, the Vashta Nerada. Also, you need to add the Empty Child to that list. (2 word reminder: gas mask.)

I can read it on 1920 x 1080 (widescreen laptop), though I agree that it should be larger, perhaps a fixed font size.

If you are level 50, you have no excuse not to know how to use the Power menu. Especially if you have a respec build, or are IOed out.

Well, for doms, we'd have to have a new Dark Assault set, which would be an amalgam of Dark Melee and Dark Blast. And throwing in a Dark Control and Dark Manipulation set would be awesome too. Hopefully, Soul Drain ends up in the manip .

Ideas for Dark Assault:

T1) Dark Blast
T2) Smite
T3) Death Shroud (for a bit of a twist)
T4) Gloom
T5) <some utility other than Dark Consumption or Soul Drain, as they can get both in Soul Mastery. But not yet another Power Boost. Please.>
T6) Night Fall
T7) Siphon Life
T8) Moon Beam
T9) Toned down version of Blackstar (think Psi Assault's Psychic Shockwave)

Dark Manipulation:

T1) Redone version of Warshades' ST immob, Gravimetric Snare
T2) Shadow Punch
T3) Smite
T4) Petrifying Gaze
T5) Dark Consumption
T6) Soul Drain
T7) Siphon Life
T8) Midnight Grasp
T9) Soul Transfer

244 merits to be precise. I think anyone would run Doc Q for that much.

Just so you know, this right here is called an oxymoron, because it's made of two parts that are opposites. And we don't really have enough data to work with, while anecdotal figures from the forums will be skewed because those who are upset are those who are tracking and talking, while those who are doing fine aren't saying much.

She never turned in her halloween salvage, so she doesn't have 4 (plus the first for her non-heroing clothes). :P

No, I'm simply going on the information they gave out when they changed the maintenance last time. Which was that they took the least populated server time. Your dead time is, quite frankly, peak time for their largest playerbase (that being US players).

This is the least disruptive time. It will always be someone's 8:30 PM, and quite frankly, the largest playerbase is least active at 7:30 AM EDT/4:30 AM PDT (which is incredibly early already, since normal shifts in the states start at 9 AM)

It was mostly the mass murder that helped a lot.

I died a few times when I jumped the gun. In other words, player error (my own) killed me, not lack of defense. You can get yourself killed exactly the same with defense builds, so no, I did not prove your point. Nice try.

Dude, the build I have is from before GR. I know my build sucks, and I'm working on a rebuild for recharge/def instead. I just have like zero time to do so because I'm at school where it's a pain to actually get on CoH to make inf to buy the new sets I need.


And re: Deus_Otiosus, you only said "take on an ITF". You never said jack-**** about soloing it, so quit moving the goalposts.

It really wouldn't. 70%-ish of illusion's damage comes from pets, which don't have containment.

Considering that my girlfriend and I have duoed AVs on Emp/Psi and Emp/Dark, it's not a huge issue. Though if we did it over, I'd probably go with Emp/Sonic for mine, as it goes with any other Emp/*

Having seen the proc in action post-I20, it's not the proc. If your pets are getting confused on the BAF, then it's the mobs with a confuse aura.