Arbegla

Ya know, having played a /traps MM since issue 7, i feel you don't quite understand the value that /traps provides.

Nearly all the /traps powers have a very long duration, and with proper slotting, can actually double stack. Let me go over them really quickly.

Triage Beacon -> Easily perma'ed on SOs. Now, while this is a stationary power that only provides +regen, it has a very large radius (40 feet) which means you can kite around it, or just lay it down, and have the AVs (even marauder and antimatter) stay within that large radius. The extra +regen it provides can help save a squishy or counter act some of the AoE damage that is being thrown around

Acid Mortar -> Again, easily perma on SOs, can even be triple stacked with enough +rech. This power is very unique in its ability to debuff resistance and defense. Each mortar that is fired refreshes the duration of the debuff, and the base duration is 20 seconds. That is per mortar and per pet, so if you manage to get out 3 pets, you can effectively have 3 different 20 seconds timers going on, each providing the -res and -def. Now Marauder on a good team, jumps about every 10 - 20 seconds, so if you drop an acid mortar on him, chances are high that you can drop another pet before the first one expires, even if it only hit him once, due to the initial debuff lasting 20 seconds.

Seeker Drones -> This is a ranged debuff tool, and if your not using it as such, your using it wrong. Its meant to soak the alpha, then debuff the enemys around the explosion. While you can't always control who gets debuffed by it, it can soak some extra damage then explode thus reducing any other incoming damage that is dealt. It is also able to double stack thus doubling its effectiveness as a -dmg and -tohit tool. You also get 2 of them, which while they both spawn in the same place, may pick different targets and with the 5 foot blast radius could debuff an entire group without causing anyone to take any damage. This works wonders on BAFs when you have everything clustered together and on Lambdas to soak the alpha for the weapons cache and containment chamber phase.

Poison trap -> This power has the highest -regeneration power of any of the spammable -regen powers at -1000%. That is enough -regen to completely floor any AVs regen without 1 application. And it can't be interrupted so you can easily toe bomb it at the feet of your intended target. It also explodes into a very large radius (red tomax is saying the initial blast is 16 feet, with the gas spreading out to 25 feet) and stays for 30 seconds, refreshing every 10 seconds, so the debuff effectively lasts for a total of 40 seconds. With a 90 second base recharge, you can double or triple stack this debuff and cause some serious damage to an AVs regeneration powers without using a single other power.

Not including those 4 powers into a /traps build hurts a lot more then it helps, especially on a defender where the debuff values are even higher. While i understand that the league leader was a moron and just wanted 'flashy green numbers' there are plenty other things you could be doing to benefit the team without having to have flashy green numbers. and hey, rebirth is always available so you can provide both passive +regen and Instand Healing level +regen with a hit of your rebirth power.

While i do understand that the leagues have a lot of movement to them, and its hard to stay grouped up during them, completely taking your powers out of your character to run the leagues is doing much more harm then good.

While that, and the whole 'break into your house and watch you while you sleep' thing that edward does, in addition to jacob doing about the same thing. Its like Bella's dad (a sheriff no less) doesn't know how to properly secure his underage daughters room. Multiple things, besides just bella make that series pretty horrible. The fact its been blown up and has a very cult following just adds to it.

Post them if you find them. Chances are, they aren't nearly as stupid as the things the twihards pull out.

Case in point, the universal letter. Show me anything that the star wars, star trek, anime, or potter fans did on that level of stupid, and I'll bow out of this conversation without another word.

Thing is, its not just that. Its also this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zNnqH9km2F...light+Moms.jpg

and this:

http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2010/02/...erewolves-real

The ENTIRE twilight franchise not just turns vampires into sparkling emo freaks, but it also turns the entire fan base into irrational idiots.

Target audience or not, there just something seriously wrong with people with how blown up this franchise as become.

Red tomax is also displaying a -def value, of about -7.50%.. hmm.. Interesting

http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...pling_Axe_Kick

That could allow for some pretty nice DPS values by taking advantage of the -res proc..

You can also hit taunt (the power) and then hibernate, and for the duration of taunt you'll maintain aggro while being completely immune to all attacks (and healing up your green and blue bars in the process)

I've seen it done pretty well against multiple AVs, so i know it works. Its just tricky to pull off. You can maintain hibernate for a good 10 seconds before you'll start to lose aggro. Even more time if your Auras tick at about the same time as you taunt. Chilling Embrace and Icicles back some pretty hefty passive taunt numbers

Problem is, they still sparkled, and still were able to walk in the light.

While they may have the whole 'Some of us don't drink human blood anymore.' they certainly don't have the aspects of real and true vampires (and don't even get me started on werewolves)

Inspirations fill that gap pretty easily. Really regen benefits the most from any form of additional mitigation, and Inspirations can provide +def and +res, both of which pretty much multiply the mitigation /regen has by an exponential amount.

That combined with say a +def primary (or even -tohit) like katana, or dark melee, or even -dmg from kinetic and you'll have a pretty nasty monster. Even sets like SS and stone melee (as well as axe, and mace) provide some form of mitigation, with KBs and stuns, which can give you just enough seconds to pop recon again, or regenerate 200+ HP..

/Regen is a very active set, both in the application of its click powers, and the 'kill them before they kill you' aspect of the primary. The old saying is if you can't kill a /regen in the first 20 seconds, you'll never kill a /regen, and 10 of those seconds the /regen is immune to everything due to MoG. 2 purple inspirations and IH will allow you to pretty much shrug of any attack for about 1 minute, and a few oranges allows you to even look at mother mayhem and laugh. Even with just SOs.

Thats not on SOs then People really seem to forget that pure SOs mean PURE SOs.

Plus resistance only resistance the specific damage type (like lethal resistance would resist lethal damage, and resist lethal -dmg) but most -dmg debuffs cover all damage types (being lethal, smash, fire, cold, psi, energy, neg, toxic) and some AVs only have resistance to some damage types, but deal damage of a different kind (take for example, Marauder, who deals mostly smashing damage, but also has some energy damage attacks. He has resistance to lethal and smashing naturally, but very little energy resistance, so any -dmg would lower his energy damage by a lot more then it would lower his lethal, or smashing damage)

Ice Barrage is basically Barrage *from energy) just with ice, that 1-2 punch animation.


Ice currently has pretty high damage, due to frost and frozen aura, mainly due to the frozen aura buff awhile ago. Now its basically foot stomp with cold damage. Super strength deals pretty high damage, both single target, and AoE, and ice is on par with SS.

Thats just 2 heals? Really? Dull Pain can be made, even on SOs to recharge every 160 seconds (counting hasten) and Recon can be made to recharge every 25 seconds. Dull pain can heal up to 78% hit points, and adds an additional 60% hp to your base. Recon can heal up to 48.7% hit points.

So even on SOs, you have about an 80% heal every 160 seconds, and a 50% heal every 25 seconds.

According to red Tomax, Hamidon and the Green Mitos have -heal/-regen, green mitos only last 15 seconds, Hamidon's blast lasts 70 seconds. So due to the fact that dull pain and recon recharges so quickly and heals so much (even on SOs) a /regen could successfully tank hamidon for quite some time before having to either kite away the debuff, or get support from team mates (mainly in the form of +recharge buffs to cycle the heals faster)

Once you start adding in IOs and incarnate abilities it becomes much easier for a /regen to tank hami due to the very quick heals.

Also the Green Mitos actually do Toxic damage, which recon also provides, just allowing the /regen to tank even better due to resisting the damage that is done and being able to heal through the -heal/-regen debuffs.

I coulda swore all the elec/ attacks have a chance for -recovery, and the aura you get pulses -end and -recovery (also the gremlins damage aura, lightning field, has built in -recovery) Which allows elec/ to not just drain, but then keep people drained pretty easily.

Plus with the static field being the best sleep power in the game, and the confuse being AoE, you have enough hard (or rather medium?) control to keep things from smashing your face in when they actually do have endurance.

While true, that confuse doesn't come until level 26, and the pets don't come until level 32. You have plenty of control (i was herding and draining mobs at level 12, with Static field and the aura) but you have very limited damage. Thats why its painful to solo. Just sheer lack of damage, even with abusing containment. (unless you 3 slot damage SOs, but then your limited on slots, and are hurting your controlling aspect)