Aett_Thorn

Pros:

Really easy to hit the soft cap for Defense to Smashing, Lethal, Energy, and Negative Energy

High Cold Resistance

Good resistance to speed debuffs

A good self heal/+HP power

Great at holding aggro, with two aggro auras, including on auto-hit one that does -Speed, -Recharge, and -DMG to the enemy

A great Tier 9 panic button

Good Mez Protection, with few PvE holes

An endurance recovery power


Cons:

Typed Defense versus positional

Relatively low protection to Fire, though it is respectable

As with most Defense sets, relatively weak in the lower levels, until you get to SOs

Relies a decent amount on Energy Absorption, which doesn't come until level 26

Chilling Embrace can sometimes interfere with herding

No Defense to Psychic or Toxic damage

Defense-based, with little resistance to common damage types (meaning that you'll get hit very little, but when you do, it hurts)



Those are my takes on the set.

Lemur, I think what the OP is trying to say is that the Zombies and other summons would stay the same, but the other powers would change to the other set.

So, you'd summon zombies, grave knights, and the lich, and I'd imagine that the upgrade powers would be the same, but instead of the Dark blasts, you'd get pistol attacks.

Are the Praetorian clockwork actually controlled by the Clockwork King? I didn't think that they were, just that they were supposed to 'look like' the clockwork on Prime Earth.

Even if they aren't, no reason that this couldn't be, but I'm just sayin'.

It's part of the new Blaster Inherent. You get access to your first two primary powers, and your first secondary power, even when mezzed.

Again, it was not the logging out and back in that did it. You had probably started hunting in a new area again, and because the new Fir Bolg were in the correct area, it counted them towards the mission.

You were in the right zone before, but not the right neighborhood.

Join another server. You've got plenty of available slots out there to use.

Add more Villain-side TFs, and cover the holes in the SF level ranges over there first, then maybe go through and add some more TFs to the current TF and SF contacts.

NetMinder: I really like your idea. I like weighing the benefits versus a potential cost. And it also allows you to stick to the safe road if you want to, so that if you don't want to be affected by the change, you won't be.

You know, I was trying to come up with an argument against this, mostly trying to figure out if it could be exploited, but I think that since any of the accolades you can get take a decent amount of time to get, that this wouldn't be a problem.

However, I would say that it shouldn't be tied to each Accolade that doesn't have a power associated with it. Ones I would leave out: V.I.P., Pocket D VIP Member. Mostly, because those can be gained just from logging in. Although, I guess those could count as accolades with powers, but I just wanted to highlight two that I thought would be problematic.


Also, with the recent changes to some of the villain accolade badge requirements, would this be fairly even from CoH to CoV in terms of ease of acquiring?

Under the poster's name, there a bit of information about them (including their rep). Below THAT, are three little buttons. One shows if they're online or not. The next one over is a little balance. Click on that, and it will drop down a little box. In there, you can either approve or disapprove of their post, and write a reason if you want to.

While it is considered socially polite here to sign the reason and rep, you are under no obligation to do so.

Better than Willpower's, about the same as Fire's, a little bit behind Invuln and Stone, and behind Ice Armor and Dark (since they have multiple).

It's about on par with all of the pure damage Taunt Auras, like Blazing Aura and Icicles.

Is it just me, or are all of these complaints recently about the servers being dead coming from people on Freedom? It seems to be a trend. People on other servers seem to be reporting that server pops are up, but Freedomites are saying that they're down.

Not saying that's good or bad, just a trend I'm seeing.

In regards to number 4, the Suggestions forum is down here for a reason. The Devs do still check it out every once in a while, but blame the players for getting it moved down here (well, a subset of the forum posters, at least).

Apparently, from what I can gather on the forums, Freedom did seem to lose some population come I16. However, the rest of the servers seem to be more active than they were before I16. Why this is, I'm really not sure, but I have my guesses.

Still, I would check out the Justice forum, towards the bottom of the list, and check for global channels that include a lot of people from Australia/New Zealand.

Yes. If you have the ingredients, you can craft any enhancement, of any level, even if it's +49 to you. Doesn't mean you'll be able to slot it, though.

Well, because of the long animations of Energy Melee now, you can get into trouble during the attacks, as pointed out above. During the animations, you can't activate things like Dark Regeneration. However, toggle powers, like Rise to the Challenge, will continue to work just fine during the animations, adding to your survivability. Since Willpower has no real click-based mitigation, it will allow you to live longer during the long-animating attacks, where if you go Dark Armor, you might find yourself dead because you couldn't activate Dark Regen in time.

I'm not saying that Dark/EM is bad, just that I think Willpower/EM would be better.