ArcticFahx

I was working on a build for tanking STFs on my Dark/SS tanker, and specifically at that. Instead, I went with E/N defense bonuses, to reduce my chances of getting hit by any of GW's evil stuff, as well as shore up the Energy hole.

I agree, though, Resist bonuses are low, and a lot rarer than defense bonuses (unless you're looking at Psi/Toxic, which I wasn't due to working on a DA).

It's still not *free*. The suggestion is a free tailor in Outbreak to allow you to quickchange a costume if you realize how ugly something is in different lighting. Or, post I16, if your attack powers and armor powers combine to look vaguely like dog vomit.

Did you even look at the dropdown box on the top where you can select a language, or even particular community reps/devs?

This. If I think the tank is taking too long, I will start it (minor exceptions for certain *very* nasty rooms). My Grav/FF will wormhole the mobs onto the tank's taunt aura as a gentle reminder, or my Ice^3 blaster will show why he's kinda tankish with a good ol' Aim, BU, Ice Storm, Blizzard, pop blue, Frost Breath, Hibernate.

Please fix your quote, Arcana. I didn't say what you have in your first quote box.

Wait, what? You mean my elec brute doesn't have good Psi resist in Static Shield? You mean the real numbers are lying to me?

(In other words, Elec Armor has always had psi resist, try reading the power info better.)

Wrong.

The streakbreaker does not force misses. You can end up with the forced hit being on something like OG, where you don't do damage, but the streakbreak does not break hit streaks, and never has.

Except that Luck of the Gambler +7.5% recharge is a different bonus from a 7.5% set bonus.

I don't believe Benumb self-stacks, like most other debuffs. And the reason Rad is better for soloing is it also has AM (which can be permaed in a high-recharge build), and there's less "upkeep" for your debuffs.

Also, I don't think Sonic can keep up as well as people say, as its -res debuffs do not entirely make up for its massively lower damage. I would think, actually, that Energy/Rad or Arch/Rad corrs might do better for that reason, with a higher base damage to start from. Maybe Ice or Fire to leverage the blaster-level damage rains.

It's just a case of randomness being quite random, and not always in your favor. Alternately, enemies with defense.

Also, I was running my Fort earlier, taking on BABsy and Mynx, and had no accuracy issues there.

I'm sorry you decided to play right before the servers got taken down for a) regular maintenance, or b) emergency maintenance. I was playing all that week, and, newsflash, I had zero problems staying connected.

Newsflash 2: every MMO has regularly scheduled maintenance.

It's called a locked thread. Not a ******* new concept here.

Peachy. I won't be joining the spawn-camping, grind-festing game that might have actually been considered up to date a decade ago.

Can I have your stuff?



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The difference this time was that there were actual problems with the servers. People were being LCMSed from low-load servers. Don't know what they were, but I've been here for most of the DXPs, and the last one was the only one I remember being LCMSed as many times from Virtue, and it wasn't even going to red/lockout load. Not to mention the LCMSes destroying many TF runs by irrevocably splitting the TFs.

Maybe on your server. On Virtue, Hami raids are twice weekly, per side. That's 4 per week, total. And there's usually a raid in Eden/Abyss 2 nearly ready to start while the first one is on the last stage.

Huh? That's a new one by me.

I think you meant Karma, not Kismet.

Valid point, unless said squishy is using IO sets/self-buffs to have a (fairly reasonable) 22%-ish defense. If said squishy is a blapper, they can melee with 33.84% defense, rather than just their normal 22%.

Alternately, combine with Maneuvers (helpful for soft-capping) to give out nearly a 20% defense buff to those around you.

If you look at the power in a vacuum, maybe. If you look at it in the set as a whole, different story. People are soft-capping their Shields, and figuring out fairly cheap soft-cap builds that don't sacrifice much. So when the team needs the buff the most, you likely won't be down.

Duos, super-teams excluded, I presume?

And personally, my non-duo characters are built to be self-sufficient, but they never pass up a helpful buff. If someone's running Grant Cover on their shielder, you can bet your butt my resist-based meleer or /regen will get close to them when they can. Not because they can't survive without the buff, but because it would be stupid not to take advantage of it.

Team with my tank some time. I'll even let you try to take the alpha.... If you can match my bloodlust. (Perma-rage encourages some very scrapper-like behavior).

You have no clue what you're talking about. Ice Armor has been in and out of FotM status for just about forever. It has the most potent taunt auras available to tankers, and can readily maintain agro without ever touching taunt, as well as survive that agro. Dark Armor has always been known as one of the most survivable scrapper sets, and retains its high survivability as a tanker set. In fact I believe the quote on that is "Dark Armor sacrifices your endurance bar on the altar of survivability... but it gives you the survivability." And with IOs to fix the endurance drain issues and lack of KB protection, the only armor that does better at surviving is Granite. And even Granite has a Psy hole. Fiery Aura has issues with tanking, yes, but the devs themselves stated that Fiery Aura was made more as a "scranker" set. Fiery Aura gives up defensive prowess to be an offensive powerhouse among tanks.

Along with the Save the Lawyers mission on heroside.

This is a major problem for people whose favorite travel power is TP. I've been dropped into a spawn because the team invite window blocked my TP reticle.

You mean you don't have any friends you could go borrow a connection from to test?

I almost forgot that OG's even better with Spines/DA because they'll be slowed quite a bit while stumbling around stunned. Like CoF, it's only mag 2, but it really helps you chew up mobs while ignoring minions and considering them DR fodder.

I like this name for it.

OG will be twenty times better, and save you slots for other powers. It's much more accurate and can shut down toggles, and the like.

I just used merits to get myself some Steadfasts. Now I switched to tickets. You only need 24 tickets to roll 10-14 bronze, and you'll end up with either steadfasts or karmas often.

Yeah, I found that Hasten really isn't needed on Dark Armor. Your only DA click is already up every minute pre-slotting.