Adeon Hawkwood

According to the description it only affects mez powers whereas Power Boost affects mezzes and several types of buffs/debuffs (healing, defense, end drain etc.).

The problem is that this game doesn't rely on the Tank/Healer/DPS team balance metric that other MMOs do. Unfortunately some people don't realize this and insist on trying to build teams that way. This produces a backlash from people like the blaster you mentioned who go out of their way to bash on the very concept of ever doing a Tank/Healer/DPS team in CoX. Of course most sane people take the middle road and will utilize a Tank/Healer/DPS style team if they get one but are neither going to specifically seek it out nor actively avoid it.

As for why you're getting fewer invites than a year ago, I think it represents a shift in the attitudes of the player base. More and more people are realizing that a Tank is not necessary for most content so they aren't specifically seeking one out. You should still be able to get teams but you'll probably have to go to them rather than waiting for them to ask you. As others have said, join global channels, set your LFT flag and keep an eye on broadcast in level appropriate zones.

Yep, I completely forgot about that

Yes and no. You are correct that by letting fly with AoEs early the Blaster isn't benefiting from debuffs. However, the problem I find is that if I hold off on my AoEs the majority of the minions are dead (or almost dead) and so the AoEs are wasted. I play an AR Blaster and using my AoEs I can take out the majority of the minions pretty quickly even without debuffs (as well as severely wounding the LTs). So by firing off my AoEs immediately I deal with the chaff quickly and allow time for the tougher bosses to get debuffed before turning my attention to them.

Weird. Well, I checked and my SG still has them all.

Ooh, I like that. I always seem to have a hard time pushing accept on rez requests.

My understanding is that they increased the base XP an enemy awards at those levels. Since base XP is based on your actual level fighting low levels wouldn't increase your XP. That being said it's pretty easy to check this.

EDIT: Ok, I tested this. Using a level 30 scrapper an even con minion gives 315 XP (tested on a crey patrol guy and a council flamethrower guy). Setting up an AE mission against Skulls they award 210 XP (exemped to level 14). Running an Ouroborus mission against Trolls (also level 14) an even con minion gives 315XP (also in an amusing bug the mission door was assigned to one of the ouroborus crystals). Did the devs nerf AE XP even for standard groups?

You know, I sometimes wonder WTF the devs were thinking when they originally wrote the power system. The fact that so many types of buff and debuff are technically the same has caused an awful lot of problems over the years (notably the HO issues). I realize that it's a core part of the game's codebase and that they couldn't predict everything but doing it this way strikes me as just asking from trouble.

That's because I am arrogant and snobbish.

I assume this was partially directed at me and so I feel a need to explain my comment above a little better. If someone asks to join my team in response to me broadcasting a LFM call I'm not going to turn them away because of AT, similarly I tend to filter the search window for people with a LFT flag up and ask them if they want to join regardless of AT (unless their search comment describes them as a healer). The only time I care about AT is when I'm sending tells to people who don't have their LFT flag up. At that point the number of people available means I have to prioritize somehow so I'm going to start with the people who bring the most to the team and those people are the ATs that have the best force multipliers (i.e. Defenders and Controllers).

This is very true, making a team is a lot more reliable than trying to find one.

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I've got a binary translator I just refrained from doing an actual translation because I wanted to use the quote as it was in the show

Then they'll reroute the sewers.

There's an old android saying which I feel is particularly relevant to this situation. It goes: '0010101011010010110100111100101010100101101100010 1010'

Roughly translated, it means 'Don't stand around jabbering when Rikti are invading"



For those who will try and translate the binary, as far as I know it's gibberish, it's just a quote from Red Dwarf that I wanted an excuse to use.

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The critical difference is that gear discrimination is required in WoW (one of the reasons I quit playing once I got near to the level cap). The power difference between a character with basic leveling gear and full epic gear is enormous so the game requires you to be discriminatory about gear for a lot of challenges.

In this game it's pretty pointless. Sure there's a difference between a character with SOs and one with good IO slotting and it does make a largish difference solo but in a team setting you barely notice it. In any case, you can't really tell anything about the quality of an IO build by looking at the set bonuses. For the most part the actual slotting of the powers is more important than the set bonuses and a character with sensible SO usage will beat out a character that focuses on set bonuses and neglects actual power enhancement.

Well assuming that you're going to do AE with buffing bets I would say a Blaster. Without the pets a Scrapper or Brute would be better but Blasters benefit more from the buffs than the melee ATs and have better AoE at all levels (allowing you to plow through large quantities of enemies).

The problem is that for a lot of searches Google tends to send you to the Wikia version of the wiki. That version is no longer updated by the Paragon Wiki community so although it receives some updates (I suspect mostly from people who aren't aware of the move) it's not a good resource. I recommend bookmarking the current version of the wiki and using the search there rather than Google.

My bad, I misread you .

The 1000 prestige per point of control is ignoring something important though. The room itself costs inf and takes up room in your plot. A Supercomputer requires only the smallest 2x2 control room which costs 100,000. So you're paying 600,000 and 4 squares worth of room for your control. It uses up 500 power and gives you a decent amount of spare control.

To control all the teleporters with a mainframe and auxiliaries you have to put in a larger control room. The smallest room that can house 9 auxiliaries is the Secure Control Room which costs 159,000 and is 2x3. So the savings on 385 control is only 56,000. Additionally this uses more power (since you have to use Databases which are inefficient) and produces no excess control.

Finally using the 2x2 control room allows you to fit all 11 teleporters on the smallest plot size (with no medical or workshop facilities) or 8 teleporters with basic medical and workshop facilities.

The oversight center is similar problematic both in terms of plot size and cost. Sure the room itself is cheap, but it takes up a huge amount of room for the benefit that it gives and on a small plot it ends up costing you a lot in terms of using space efficiently since it's an inconvenient size. Even if you use it as your workshop it's still pretty big for what you get.

EDIT: Ok, taking the example above, smallest plot size, 8 teleporters, workshop and medical facilities. Using the Oversight center and a 1x4 control room would cost you 3.5 teleporters (you build 5 but one can only have a single location). You'd also lose a lot of workshop functionality (less storage and no empowerment station). It is cheaper, but that's largely because you don't have as much stuff to buy. You're paying more for your teleporters on a per location basis since you have to use the 3x4 room and the 1x2 room which are significantly more expensive per location than the 2x2 and 5x5 rooms.

True although you need to be careful about that, bumping up control generation using a Mainframe requires the use of Databases which convert power to control at 2:1 rather than the 1:1 (or better) most control items require.