Adeon Hawkwood

I believe you mean globals not procs. The IO level of a proc is irrelevant (except insofar as it determines when you can slot it) the level of global IOs is what matters .

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Resistance

The link will give you the mathematical details but basically mez resistance is subject to diminishing returns so for example having 100% mez resistance will reduce durations to half but having 200% resistance only reduces it to one third duration.

If you bring up the power selection box above the tool bars there's an option at the top (can't remember what it's called but there's only one) that brings up a new window that tells you all of your combat attributes. Right clicking on any of these gives you an option to track it.

That would actually be an interesting idea. Basically make them another type of common IOs with the power level of level of dual-aspect set IOs and essentially remove the limits currently on Frankenslotting. However to avoid the issues with HOs I think you'd want to make it so that a power has to be able to slot both aspects fo the IO to be able to use it.

That may not be entirely true. One of the things meantioned in the link in the first page of this thread is:

You are correct. IO sets are almost entirely balanced around "click" powers particularly ones that you will use during every fight (for example end reduction is generally of limited use on powers with a long recharge).

My assumption is that this is a deliberate design decision by the devs to ensure that sets do not have a duplicated IO in them. To use your example of armour resistance toggles you are generally only interested in slotting for two things resistance and endurance reduction (and a lot of the time people will skimp on the end reduction slotting since end reduction in toggles is less useful than end reduction in click powers).

However assume for a second that you wanted to 6-slot your resistance toggles with 3 resistance enhancements and 3 endurance reduction (that being the highest enhancement values you can get). If the devs were to make a set with that there would only be three different IOs that they could include (Res, End and Res/End) so a full 6-slot set would have to have two of each type which is a violation of the rules that the devs use when designing sets (I'm not saying that they would never do it, but it seems to be something that they want to avoid). The idea is that for powers that don't really need the full range of enhancement types you franken slot or use generics.

Essentially resistance toggles do have a several sets, they just don't have any 6-slot sets and must use a combination of 2 and 3 slot sets instead .

This is very true, I tend to make characters with a height of about 6' (I like the classic square jawed hero look ) and I've noticed that I seem to tower over a lot of other characters (tanks and brutes being the main exceptions).

Personally I wouldn't bother stocking up on candy canes. Unlike Halloween Salvage they can't be turned in except during the Christmas event, so the year round demand for them is very low. They do spike a bit for the first day or so of the event but it's probably not worth the effort to horde them for a year for that. You might try stocking up on the winter recipes (particularly the level 10 version of Winter's Gift: Slow Resistance (20%)) although my experience (as a buyer not a seller) was that they were overstocked and weren't popular enough to really drive up the price (I bought several for 5-10mil each).

It means you aren't colorblind. 5 is the one where if you do see a number you've got problems. No doubt an optometrist could tell you why there is a benefit to having one done that way .

I know which one I'd rather have on a team. Although I confess I just really, really love the set (even though I have no desire to play one myself).

I did once see someone on global channels trying to form a team for STF and insisting that all participants be IO'd, he got roundly mocked for it .

Ah that makes sense, very cool.

Break Frees and Defense. You can't really get comprehensive mez protection on a squishy anyway so I find that it's preferable to buff up defense so that you get hit by fewer mezs in the first place. Acrobatics is nice to have but on a stamina-less build you're going to be hurting for end so as SkeetSkeet said you're probably better off dropping it, especially if you can buff your defense instead.

I agree that there is no right or wrong way to play, I also agree that your Emp can Emp better than an Emp with more focus on their attacks. However the point being made by people in this thread is that your Emp is to much of an Emp.

On a decent team an Empath shouldn't be spending that much time healing, and even though you probably do a more through job of buffing than a blasting Empath the DPS loss from you not blasting is greater than the gain from more efficient buffing.

Fort is a nice damage buff, but honestly the DPS gain from a well slotted defender more than outweighs the extras you can get. With the exception of a few enemy groups I'd much rather see an Empath use Clear Mind reactively rather than wasting time that could be used for blasting than trying to use it proactively since a good tank will take most of the mezzes anyway and he doesn't need it. Heck, I don't even mind that much if they choose not to use it at all but I solo a lot so I tend to carry plenty of BFs.

I do agree with you on AB, it's a nice buff and I would like to see more Empaths use it proactively but I think that's more a problem with people not understanding it's use than it is with Empaths blasting.

Defenders have blast powers for a reason and I expect them to be slotted and used appropriately. I've run TFs with Defenders who don't blast but in all cases it was because I couldn't find any Defenders who were willing to blast.


On a slightly off topic I don't know why you think that controllers are the smartest players. Overall I don't think I've seen much correlation between AT and player intelligence at all, although there are other characteristics that seem to become more prevalent among particular ATs (for example Scrapperlock )

I disagree slightly with your power selection. The majority of people I've seen who espouse the pure healer concept don't actually mean a character who has nothing but healing powers but instead a character who doesn't have any attacks (besides the required tier 1 attack). As such they tend to take both Clear Mind and Fortitude (and often take great pride in keeping Clear Mind up on all of their team mates regardless of the usefulness of doing so).

What you're describing is the really incompetent empaths who believe that all they need to do is rock the auras and my experience is that even pure healers tend to look down on them.

Yep, the priorities for power and slotting an IO build do differ noticeably from those of an SO build. Also, I don't know if you're familiar with it or not, but Mid's is a great way to plan out your builds:
http://www.cohplanner.com/