Adeon Hawkwood
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Short answer: It would be nice, but very unlikely to happen.
Long Answer: According to the developers the base code is an unholy monstrosity and any attempts to change it tend to end up breaking stuff (like base defenses being hostile to you a few issues back). Supergroups and bases are pretty heavily entwined so changes ot one impact the other. So while this would be a nice feature I would be very, very, very surprised to see it happen. The current setup where members can belong to the opposite faction but don't earn prestige, can't access the base and have to join as the correct faction and then switch probably represents the best the devs could do without a major development effort. -
For Primary you probably want Robots, Thugs or Demons. Personally I would say that Robots is the best of those but the Thugs and Demons are only slightly behind.
For secondary Traps, Time, Dark and Forcefield are the best for a Tankermind. I personally prefer Traps because it has mez protection (which Time and Dark lack) but also has better utility powers than Forcefield but all of them make a decent Tankermind. Storm is marginal, I've seen some very impressive Storm users but it's a very hard set to play well (I really suck with it).
Bots/Traps is probably the best easy-mode Tankermind. -
Quote:Well with Statesman dead maybe we can ask Tyrant to help out? We'll just have Blue Steel smack him if he tries any of that "drawing on the Well of the Furies" stuff again.Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
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Well it makes sense. She must be getting tired running between Atlas Park, Fort Trident and Independence Port all the time.
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Sure they still have a role.
On Controllers versus Dominators the team role is vastly different. Controllers are a support AT that deals damage while Dominators are a damage AT that supports. That may not sound like much but it has a strong impact on team dynamics, both ATs are very strong and depending on the exact team composition one may be better than the other. Both can effectively use their primary to mitigate damage but the Controller will make the rest of the team stronger while the Dominator deals more damage himself.
Defenders and Corruptors have less to differentiate them especially in a team setting and my experience is that they are pretty much interchangeable in terms of team support. The Defender is a little bit stronger but not enough to make a major difference. For solo play the Corruptor does deal more damage but the Defender is tougher so it averages out. -
Quote:Heh, that was me the first time as well. I recalled recommending them to someone but had forgotten that it was youOriginally Posted by little_sarbonn
Actually, I forgot about those. Bought those the first week back (after someone recommended them). Good advice, thanks.
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Quote:I've always felt that a Traps/Devices/Grenades style control set would be the best thematic option for a "natural" control set.Originally Posted by Xzero45
How is Martial control even possible? You control everyone by threatening to punch them? A set filled with nothing but magic shurikens? Or would it be nothing but ST melee controls?
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I can also see Gravity/Martial making a nice thematic pair.
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Quote:Yes and no. The first two times you use it it will do a PBAoE damage and instantly recharge itself. The third time it will not deal damage and also won't instantly recharge.Originally Posted by ChrisMoses
Burst of Speed (AoE self TP) - Is there anymore description for this one? Is it a teleport damage aoe like we've sen before?
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Well on the plus side: Martial Assault for Dominators in I24.
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Quote:Sorry about that, I'm just so used to Bill giving the "epic ATs are epic in story not power" speech I just defaulted to assuming it was him, I wasn't paying a huge amount of attentionOriginally Posted by Aggelakis
*checks pants*
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*frowny face*
...shouldn't this be different if I'm Bill now?.
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Quote:The Epic ATs are four special ATs with fixed powersets: Warshades, Peacebringers, Arachnos Soldiers and Arachnos Widows.Originally Posted by little_sarbonn
Okay, I'll bite. What exactly is an epic archetype?
As Bill mentioned they are "Epic" not in the sense of being more powerful than the other ATs but in the sense of having a unique story rooted in the game lore.
VIPs can play them for free while premium players have to purchase them. -
Quote:I think it's also a matter of customer demand. The devs do a lot more sets for melee ATs than others because melee ATs are very, very popular.Originally Posted by Snowzone
In one of the more recent coffee chats with Synapse, someone asked about new Control sets. He said that Control sets are difficult to make so there's nothing original coming up.
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Quote:Be fair, there was a legitimate reason to link to it in this case. The Wikia site has some information on the nature of Genesis (althoguh given the age and likely origin I'd take the information with a grain of salt).Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Eww. Don't link to the old Wikia site. That site is not just obsolete, but a favored target of malware loaders and other nasties.
To summarize for those who (not unreasonably) don't want to click through it claims that Genesis will buff previous Incarnate slots with one tree each for Judgement, Destiny, Interface and Lore. -
Quote:Given the rate of Synapse's involvement with the Beta testing of these sets I strongly suspect that Bio Armor will be released prior to Nature Affinity.Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
ETA Nature Affinity: 14/08/12
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Quote:Or go with AT pairings:Originally Posted by Mad Grim
Whats the third one gonna be, Loyalists and Resistance?
Defenders and Corruptors
Blasters and Stalkers
Scrappers and Brutes
Tankers and Masterminds
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Quote:Well the two big ones I recommend to new players are the Aura Unlock and Back Slot Unlock. These allow you to have an Aura and Cape on your costume at character creation instead of having to wait for level 20/30 (and do a mission). This has absolutely no effect on your ability to actually play the game but your character will look cooler.Originally Posted by zelly
edit: if there are any buys that would help me out greatly @ creation, i wouldnt mind shelling out some dollars
Of course given the rest of your post that's probably not of critical importance to you but you did ask and doing the cape/aura unlock missions is really annoying.
From a power-gaming point of view there are a number of ATs and Powersets that you can pay to unlock but none of them are hugely better than the free sets. Last I checked the most popular farmers were still things like Electric/Shield Scrappers, Super Strength/Fire Brutes and so forth all of which are free. -
Quote:The thing is that wouldn't really give the result Dug wants. Squishy characters would still be able to get to the defense softcap, it would just make melee characters get there even easier. So basically you give a large defensive buff to melee characters who don't really need a large defensive buff.Originally Posted by Agent White
Or you could do it the dirty hack way and have inherents give natural defense bonsues or penalties. The soft cap would still be in place but different ATs would require different amounts to reach it.
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Quote:Well the Standard Code Rant applies but given what we do know this is pretty much impossible. The soft cap exists because it's the point where a standard NPC's pre-accuracy chance to hit will be at the minimum allowed by the system (5%). So to do that the devs would have to re-write the entire combat engine so that base To Hit varied depending on the target.Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
make the soft cap lower by AT.
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Quote:This is pretty much my take on it. I have a solo supergroup primarily for the extra storage but due to the fact that I tend to make characters around certain themes it works out pretty well thematically as well. The way I view it is that my SG is effectively the equals of the Freedom Phalanx but in a different way. They're the specialists to the Freedom Phalanxes' generalists.Originally Posted by M_I_Abrahms
Or it could be that folks are asking for the point in the middle where the players are the equals of the NPCs. Why does either side of the story need to be a chump? Especially when they're ON THE SAME SIDE! The players have asked to be brought up to the same level as the NPCs were presented, not to have the NPCs brought down to the players.
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Quote:It would definitely be possible. Defense already has a minimum floor -100% for both players and critters so presumably the devs could make the floor for Players 0% and leave the critter floor at -100%.Originally Posted by Valorin
Forgive me if this has already been mentioned, but would it be possible to floor defense at 0%? This would allow adding defense debuffs into the game without excessively penalizing sets that have no (native) defense and put more relative value into having DDR for folks that are going to rely on defense.
I'm not sure if that would be a good thing or not in the long run but it should certainly be possible. -
As someday it may happen that a powerset must be nerfed,
I've got a little list I've got a little list
Of myriad abilities that might well be overpowered
And that never would be missed that never would be missed! -
Quote:Bah, I much prefer the strategic depth of Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock.Originally Posted by Agent White
True balance = rock paper scissors.
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Quote:Screwing up the technical sections has two effects. First you have to fight more minions before the AV shows up after that section. Secondly if your combined score drops below a certain threshold then the final AV won't show up.Originally Posted by Canine
I don't know what missing the various parts of the heist actually do, as barring unfortunately timed DC's, all of the runs I did were pretty smooth.
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Short answer: No.
Long answer: Noooooooooooooooo.
The Incarnate trees as they are now offer a pretty good balance (at least IMHO). The Tier 3 abilities are relatively easy to get offering about 75% of the effectiveness of a Tier 4 at about 25% of the cost. Adding a fifth tier to the powers would just make the entire system a LOT more grindy.