Adeon Hawkwood

Well one thing to keep in mind is the difference between theory and practice. In theory it's a poor build, if you want to avoid melee then /Fire is a poor secondary for a Blaster and I'd rather have a Blaster who uses their secondary.

In practice I am a lazy, lazy man when it comes to forming teams. I pretty much take whomever wants to join and don't bother to check powersets. Unless you specifically told me that you weren't using your secondary the odds of me noticing are pretty low. Even if I noticed I'd probably just sigh and ignore it. I don't like Blasters who ignore their secondary but they are probably the AT where doing so has the least impact on team play. In practice the only ATs were I'm likely to notice are Defenders who don't attack and petless masterminds (ok, I might notice a Tank who repeatedly faceplants).

So no, I wouldn't kick you but if I got a tell saying "Hi, I'm a Fire/Fire Blaster with only ring of fire and build up from my secondary" and one saying "Hi, I'm a Fire/fire blapper" I'll take the blapper thank you.

Even with other characters who ignore half their powers my problem isn't so much that they are ignoring their power it's that they are so damn smug about it. Admittedly it's a small sample size and they were all Empathy Defenders but they all insisted that their build was the one true way to build an Empathy Defender.

Yeah, I should have said two different weapon TYPEs. Crossbows and Bows would need different animations and would almost certainly be different stances (Bows are apparently Lefthanded stance, Crossbows would be either Weapon Stance or Gun Stance depending on if they re-used the warrior ones or made two-handed heavy crossbows).

The thing is this doesn't really combat inflation. It puts an effective cap on how much a recipe can sell for and does provide some deflation one the price reaches that point. But with the numbers you're talking about we'd need a LOT more inflation to get there with most recipes.

In order for this to actually combat inflation now the store prices would need to be lower than the market price. In that case it basically causes deflation by increasing supply. I don't have a problem with increasing supply but a store is probably not the best way to go about it.

Yes I do play on Virtue, but that one wasn't me. Personally my method is to try and educate people who play that way rather than just quitting the team. That being said, when I see someone advertising themselves as a "healer" in chat I tend to pass them over for my team.

Nope, and honestly I don't care what the devs think. I have my definition for how people should be using sets and that is what I care about. If you have an armor set then you should be able to take damage. If you have a buff/debuff set then you should be able to do some buffing or debuffing. If you have a control set then you should be able to do some controlling (obviously Illusion is an exception to this). If you have a blast set then I want to see you shooting things. I don't particularly care HOW you go about it but if you're missing the core function of one of your powersets I'm going to ask some pointed questions.

I disagree slightly with this. I tend to feel that AB is best used on the person who will get the most out of the Recharge bonus. AoE heavy Blasters (AR and Archery especially), Traps and Empathy Defenders, most Controllers. These guys all have very powerful abilities which are balanced by long recharges, extra recharge means they can have them up more often which makes everything easier.

That being said all I really ask for an Empath is that they use AB on SOMEONE (preferably me).

Yeah I have no problem with a human-only build. My problem was that when I tried making a tri-form with the ability to attack in all three forms I just didn't seem to encounter any situations where my thought was "ok, I should switch into Human form now". That being said, I've gotten more experienced at the game, maybe I'll give it another go.

Yeah, unfortunately there were a bunch of changes that caused a lot of inflation, especially for purples.

Yes, but that only immobilizes one enemy. I'm not saying it can't be done I just don't consider it to be a particularly useful tactic. Even if you use 3 damage procs and 3 damage IOs in the power the effective DPS is about 9.7. Plus you have to immobilize any targets to keep them there for more than a few seconds. I've got better uses for my slots thank you.

Yea, that's basically the problem I was talking about. It's useful to drop into Human form for the buffs/pets, the odd control here and there and even the nuke if you have it but there is no incentive to STAY in human form and actually use the attacks and shields. You could probably make a decent build that slots up all three forms reasonably well (a LOT of frankenslotting required) but even if you do there is no real advantage to staying in Human form.

Theoretically the Human form should be about mid-way between two other forms. Tougher than the nova but not as damaging. Better damage than the dwarf but weaker. In practice I just wasn't feeling it.

Traps is probably also a good contender. Most of the time you can cast your Traps powers at the start of combat and then focus on blasting.

I think he meant 180% total accuracy but in any case that isn't actually quite correct. Accuracy bonuses (both set bonuses and accuracy enhancements) are applied as a multiplier to the base accuracy of the power. So for a weapon power with a 1.05 base accuracy if you had +180% accuracy the final accuracy would be 1.05*(1 + 1.8) giving 2.94 as the final accuracy multiplier.

Allowing Kheldians in Dwarf form to fly (admittedly, Hamidon Raid is the only place I can see any use for a flying Dwarf though).

Technically attacks could have all of the tags. In practice the devs seem to have a policy of one positional tag and 1 or 2 damage tags depending on the power (non-damaging attacks will generally only have the positional).