Adeon Hawkwood

Well admittedly I'm from the UK not Mexico but I'm a US immigrant and I celebrate it. My family does do anything really major to celebrate it (since our extended family are all in the UK and obviously don't care) but we do celebrate it (although we tend not to have turkey since none of us actually like turkey that much).

I came up with a solution to that that works for me. I have a macro that turns off my ammo toggles when I fire PR and then bound my movement keys to turn on my chosen ammo toggles (with a set of macros to change which ammo toggle they turn on). It's not a perfect solution since you still generally get 1 or 2 attacks with lethal rounds between using PR and re-toggling the ammo but it does reduce the need to manually manage the toggles.

They would have an easier time than a Blaster/Defender/Corruptor but I think it would still be hard. Ignite has a 4ft radius so you've got to get the group of enemies into melee range of each other immobilize them and then use ignite. It's possible but it means the dominator has to spend time herding the enemies before locking them down. At that point I'm inclined to say they deserve the damage.

Actually I suspect the devs would remove that feature if they ported it to Dominators. The reason for the bonus on the Blaster version is that the one specific combination AR/Dev has a weak alpha strike compared to other Blaster due to lacking both Aim and Build Up, the Targeting Drone bonus was added to mitigate that somewhat. Int he case of Dominators the devs increased the base damage on all snipe powers for a similar reason so Snipe Rifle for Doms would have a higher base damage but would probably not get the targeting drone bonus.

I'm pretty sure Auto Turret has exactly the same powers as Gun Drone, it just lasts longer. As I mentioned in your other thread the issue with Gun Drone is mostly that it only has a single rather basic power, the only equivalent pet in the current control sets are the fire imps and fire controllers get three of them. The same approach could be taken with Gun Drone but I think that would look silly.

Heh, I can see why it might appear that way, I'll clarify a bit. Ignite is classified as a Targeted AoE since that is how the game engine defines it. In practice however the tiny radius and the fact that it's a patch power means that it functions as a single target attack (maybe two targets if you can get them close and keep them immobilized). Conversely with Heavy Burst while it is defined as a "cone" given the power's description I assume your intention is actually a power along the lines of Piercing Rounds with a long range and very thin arc so that while it's technically a cone in practice it functions as a single target attack that you can hit a second target with if you take the time to line it up. So my suggestion is actually to replace an attack that is techinclaly an AoE but functionally 1 or 2 targets with a different power that is also techincally an AoE but functionally 1 or 2 targets but that, I feel, fits the genesis of the set better.

EDIT: Ah, actually I see Heavy Burst is copied from SoAs, I missed that. functionally Heavy Burst is pretty similar to Buckshot (slightly longer range, slightly better damage, higher recharge and animation time) so in that case my recommendation is actually to replace M30 Grenade with Ignite for the various reasons stated above and optionally replace Heavy Burst with Buckshot. I'd prefer Buckshot for the shorter animation but realistically the powers are similar enough not to make a huge difference.

It's not entirely a matter of strength, it's also a matter of range and AoE coverage. Dominator AoEs are almost all short ranged 40ft cones or PBAoEs (the exception being Psychic Scream) which the devs (I presume) did since Dominators are supposed to operate close to the enemies to utilize their melee attacks. As someone who's played several Assault Rifle Characters I can tell you that a cone with the characteristics of Full Auto won't fit well with an assault set. It has a 20 degree arc which means you need to pull back a noticeable distance to target saturate it in most situations. Using Flamethrower instead produces better synergy for the set, the Flamethrower + Buckshot combo is a staple of AR and since both cones are 40ft which fits a lot better with how assault sets are designed.

Indeed, you do. The moon is a no parking zone, didn't you notice the signs? Move them now or I'll have them all towed. You can park them in Low Earth Orbit but you'll need a permit if you plan to keep them there longer than 30 days.

Because it's not a very good power? I mean it's a blaster pet so it's going to be a lot weaker than a controller pet anyway but even amongst blasters it's considered rather "meh".

More practically if you look at the sets with single pets most of them have several attacks at least some of which have a control or debuff component in them. Gun Drone has a single power which is just damage so realistically it's only slightly stronger than a single Fire Imp.

Personally for a "Gadgets" control set I'd say give it a Robot for the pet, something along the lines of the Battle Drones in Robotics (not a direct copy in terms of powers obviously, but I'd say reuse the model).

I suspect no one criticized him for that because no one believed him . Of his claims the only one that sounded even moderately reasonable to me was the WoW one (and the Defender one obviously but that was basically him saying that water is wet).

It's possible some of the others were partly true but if so I suspect they were a combination of exaggeration and abusing exploits.

I don't think there would be any damage to the game economy if the rate were increased. However I suspect the reason the devs have for keeping it low is to encourage SGs to band together to work on earning the prestige they need for their base.

Also, for the curious I ran the numbers to see how much prestige "costs" you if earned through defeats. I used a level 50 character fighting level 50 Romans.

In SG Mode:
Minion: 2362 Inf, 13 Prestige
LT: 6114 Inf 44 Prestige

Not in SG Mode:
Minion: 4724 Inf
Lt: 12227 Prestige

So if you farm prestige with a level 50 character you are "paying" somewhere between 180 and 185 inf per point of prestige (the variation is due to rounding). I'm to lazy to figure out if the ratio holds true fighting enemies that aren't even-cons.

Single Targets are very different from groups. Taunt powers basically override other forms of aggro (they don't actually override it but it's very hard to pull aggro from someone with taunt using just damage). Against a single target simply spamming taunt is often enough to hold aggro on it's own. The OPs problem is that he can't hold the aggro of an entire group.

I heard they had to give up on Stone Empathy due to a bug involving Devouring Earth rock creatures trying to hug players.

It's been a while since I checked but even with a level 50 the inf to prestige rate is poor enough that I'm pretty sure you'll "lose" more inf buying prestige than you would from taking the 50% hit to earnings getting it "naturally".

I'll double check tonight but unless the inf to prestige ratio from drops is worse than 500:1 you're better off running in SG mode and spending the inf you do earn on prestige if you want to maximize total prestige gains through killing stuff.

Cool, Virtue is the best sever . If you're interested in teaming I recommend joining the global channels "Virtue LFG Alpha" and "Virtue TFs" both are a good source for teams (the former covers all team types but the latter is mostly for Task Forces).

Regarding SGs, you can check the Virtue Forums but a lot of the ones recruiting there are RP SGs which may or may not be to your liking.

EDIT: Probably should have mentioned HOW to join global channels. If you click on the word "Tab" at the top of your chat window that has a number of options for joining chat channels (you can either type in the name or search for it if you tend to spell it wrong like I do). Alternatively you can use the command /chan_join <channel name>.

Unlike other MMOs that shall not be named this game is not focused on endgame content. As such a lot of players spend their time leveling up alts rather than focusing on a single max level character. This tends to counteract the "elitism" common in other MMOs. It also helps that the game is pretty easy so min-maxing is not required unless you want to do stupidly insane things like solo group content. Or at least that's my theory .

Manipulating the price of common/uncommon salvage over a prolonged period of time is extremely difficult and rarely profitable (manipulating it for an hour or so and making a profit is more practical). When the prices of common/uncommon salvage goes up substantially over the norms for more than 24 hours it is almost always caused by a shift in player activities (generally a seasonal event, double XP weekend or a new AE exploit) rather than market manipulation.

I'm still considering it. I don't particularly care for auras and the only cloak that I might use with my current characters is the Impervium Mantle (I'm not sure if I'd prefer it to their current capes or not). It is cool but I'm not sure if it's worth ti to me.