Alpha_Zulu

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Perhaps Castle is waiting to see the ramifications of the Stalker buffs on PvP.

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Perhaps Castle can't code, and therefore can't fix the bug himself.

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DOES he code?

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Perhaps Castle is waiting to see the ramifications of the Stalker buffs on PvP. Remember, he already said he didn't like the idea of Stalkers being buffed in PvP. He's probably been sweating bullets, hoping he didn't break anything.

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I don't see how he can be "sweating bullets' (not saying he is) but I'm sure he's concerned when we have ice/ and fire/ blasters just doing incredible amount of damage with the new defiance. It just seems like Castle is biased against stalkers yet blasters got this defiance which helped them A LOT.

I'd also like to add Defiance is what brutes should've gotten for the fury fix instead of that so called "fix" they got.

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They "fixed" it, according to Castle, but I haven't heard anything about how it is actually performing in PvP, so it really could turn out to suck.

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This "fix" is complete garbage and not even that useful.
Fury doesn't build reliably and to really "fix" fury they'd have to make it degrade a lot slower. Travel supression works against you, so by time you get close again for the 2nd attack your fury is back to 0, doesn't really make a difference if it add an extra 2 points of fury.

Is a real fix coming down or was this some sort of sham to say "hey we tried so there you have it, we "fixed" fury" ?

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Yes, there is a 30% chance of -recovery for 4 sec.

It looks like the info in the power management screen is ok. For the info window, the window with the enh is also right. The info window without the enh is not right. But I wonder why the info window without enh(the 4th hyper link) is blue in color, which looks like a hero window to me.

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4 seconds of -recovery seems kind of "meh", in my opinion. I haven't even noticed the -recovery "icon"/little dark blue circles on an enemy.

You know when overload crashes, you have those same dark blue circles spiraling around your character, I haven't seen those on any NPCs or players in PvP. And like I said 4 seconds is kind of "meh". As far as I'm concerned the -recovery doesn't exist.

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I took some time to do a little diging and grabed some screen shots for this energy drain numbers descrepency.

what I found is, the numbers shown for the details in the manage screen and character creation show that it has -33 end drain to target. and the Number shown in the Info Window are -40 end drain to target.

anyway here are the screens I got.
Manage Screen Detail
Manage Screen Popup tip
Character Creation Screen
Info Window
Info Window - With Enhancements

and for reference

Power Sinks Info Window

If you look at the numbers from the manage screen details and the tool tip pop up they are the same as what is shown in the info window when the power is enhanced.

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Energy drain is supposed to do -recovery to foes? What the hell?

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I really think energy protection is a lot less useful than conserve power. At least dampening field you can stack the resistance with tough, so it's something, but 11%.......pfft.

Even weaker than energy protection? I really think that EP is completely useless. At least when Overload is about to drop you can pop CP, or if you get hit with some -recovery and you can't get near an NPC to drain some endurance, CP is very useful.

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The problem with Conserve Power is that it's completely outclassed by Energy Drain. Not only do you fill up your endurance bar with 2 mobs, you can use it once every fight, and you can also dramatically drain endurance of all enemies effected by it. Conserve Power just effects you, and it's not available every fight like Energy Drain is.

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I see no "problem" with conserve power VS energy drain. With energy drain I've gotta break my attack chain to drain endurance. The 11% from EP is not "great" by any stretch imo. You can't stack it with anything. Like I said, the only upside with DF is that you can stack it with tough so it's at least somewhat decent mitigation. With EP, 11% is just 11%. Not much at all.

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Sorry, I like the power too. it's a great concept. but in terms of helping the set, i think it does the least right now, even less than the passives. with stamina, IOs and ed, it's not needed.

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I really think energy protection is a lot less useful than conserve power. At least dampening field you can stack the resistance with tough, so it's something, but 11%.......pfft.

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I have to agree with this. Even though I like CP. It is pretty much the weakest power in the set.

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Really? Even weaker than energy protection? I really think that EP is completely useless. At least when Overload is about to drop you can pop CP, or if you get hit with some -recovery and you can't get near an NPC to drain some endurance, CP is very useful.

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Sorry, I like the power too. it's a great concept. but in terms of helping the set, i think it does the least right now, even less than the passives. with stamina, IOs and ed, it's not needed.

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I really think energy protection is a lot less useful than conserve power. At least dampening field you can stack the resistance with tough, so it's something, but 11%.......pfft.

Is there any word on this at all? If/maybe it'll get fixed?

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Conserve Power is the definitely at the top of my list for things to be replaced if the set were being changed. I'm still not sure they'll give EA a straight up click heal, but whatever they decide, I think losing CP is more than some of the other ideas to nix certain powers.

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Boo, I like conserve power.

Keep it please

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if you manage to kill him 1-1 just end each fight with gg/gf

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Or my personal favorite, 1v1 him in the arena, crush him either 4-0 or higher. Then at the end of the match say "GG, I was having an off day should've gotten more" That will piss the HELL out of them. It did to the jerk scrapper who was talking smack to me. So I asked for a 1v1 in the arena, and he agreed, after the match I dropped that line and he was swearing up a storm. He couldn't back up his trash because he got CRUSHED.

Ah...I love being a jerk to the jerks.

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THEY in turn end up having this mentality that everyone on the opposing side is like this one jerk, and so they immediately go on the offensive verbally when they zone.

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Classic example. Today someone I knew had logged into a friend's account because they had never played a stalker before. Complete noob at it, ok no big deal, they're learning and getting the hang of stalking.

Out of no where this random hero says "LOL, Stalker, you suck so much [censored]. I got pwn you in 2 seconds."

What's the need of that? This new person NEVER said anything demeaning to anyone in zone. It's not like they walked saying "ROFL YOU SUCK LRN2PLAY N00B!!!!"

No, they didn't say that at all. In fact when they had successfully defeated someone, they didn't say anything at all. While I was talking to them, they basically said that it's not as easy as it looks and stalking may not be their role in pvp.

I've never ever understood why someone would walk into a zone and start trash talking to some random person they've never met. I mean....WHY? What good does it do? You're just being a complete tool.

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We'll probably have to wait for EA to be ported before it gets looked at though...

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Are you saying ported to tanks or scrappers?

I don't think EA would be as broke on tankers because I would assume they'd up the defense values since EA would be a primary for a tank.

For a scrapper though, wouldn't they just leave the values as is?

The absorb damage into HP sounds cool but a self heal is just so much easier to use imo. Sounds like a bigger gamble to hope that some of the damage would get converted into HP instead of just having a click heal.

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isnt there a power that when toggled on, has damage defended unde rthe "absorbed" message?


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Uh...not really. I have never once had any damage absorbed from dampening field. The only time I've seen "absorbed" is when I use Demonic Aura.

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getting some +HP, some +REGEN or some other mechanism into /EA might be rather nice.

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He speaks the truth. I was just in an arena match and the whole time I'm thinking to myself, I need a self heal

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I just got the the point where i dont even talk over broadcast. I only ansewer to private messages.

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I even keep that off, just cause some folks feel the need to /t $target, pwned u nub.

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My personal favorite was this line from a blaster.
"THAT'S RIGHT RESPAWN AT YOUR BASE IN SHAME. YOU DROPPED SO FAST N00B!!! HAHAHAHA"

This was after he popped BU + AIM and one shotted me with inferno. Of course if I asked him if he wanted to go to the arena for a friendly match I got a "LOL ROFL I PWN YOU IN THE ARENA NUB!!! COME AND FIGHT ME HERE RIGHT NAO!!!!"

w00t for zone pvp eh?

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We all know that EA's defense has a weakness in psionic, toxic and negative energy.

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Just quoting for emphasis. /EA in fact has NO defense to toxic. None at all. Just wanted to emphasize that.

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The problem is that they have already made it pretty clear that lack of a self-heal or HP buff is supposed to be /ea and /ela's vulnerabilities.

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A self heal would be GREAT in my opinion. I had to slot my /EA for +regen because when I was getting hit, I'd have to run away and regen the HP back so I could jump back into the fight. I mean honestly, the description/theme for a reconstruction type power on /EA does not have to be the same as on Regen or WP(Stalker).

They could simply come up with a new description/theme for a /EA self heal. Something along the lines of being able to manipulate energy with your auras you can focus the kinetic energy in the air around you to heal yourself. Or something like that. But I cannot stress enough how much the set needs a self heal of some sort.

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But Castle doesn't like PB

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I don't like it either, and I don't think it would help the set much to have powerboost. I think a much more useful power can be put into the set other than PB. And that would throw the set out of wack if you could PB while in overload or just your shields, you'd have a brief moment of "Untouchable"-ness. But that's also true of PFF blasters.

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When Ice was considered underperforming, a redname came and said it was being looked at.
blasters were paid attention to. and were specifically marked as under performing.

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Not trying to be whiner here, but Ice armor and blasters go some sort of attention and were fixed. Why not /EA?

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even stalkers, who were NOT underperforming solo or PVP, were looked at... at least insofar as someone commented on it a while back. it took a long time before they started testing changes, but the complaint was definitely looked at.

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I'm gonna disagree with you on that one. Stalkers definitely needed some love for PvE. Just today I was teaming with several stalkers and the brute on the team kept saying "Man that Fear and that -to hit really helps a LOT! It also stacks great with my RttC!" Stalkers needed some love and they got some, and looks like Castle has some more changes to be made which is great.

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2) Not enough poor players play /EA for it's underperformance to even be a blip on the radar. This is quite likely, especially considering the fact that 'new' players are likely to quit early or never even try /ea due to all the 'lolea' garbage out there.

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I will definitely agree with you on that one. A lot of new players or hell even veteran players don't know what /EA is. I had someone send me a tell "Is that a new powerset they added in i12?" I'm not going to jump to some crazy point and say "SEE! The set sucks so much that people don't know about it!! FIX IT!!"
That's not true. The set needs some looking at, no doubt about that. I have found that the set is not like any other set, you need to learn how to play it to make it work......kind of. Even when you try to make it work as best as you can it still lags behind other sets.

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but please try to keep the ea abuse to a minimum, just in case #2 is true. I will be the first to admit that 'elite' players can enjoy even a poor sets (some people had amazing results with fire/fire blasters back during old defiance)

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I agree with you on that one. The set may not be the greatest, but I still enjoy playing it because for me it's about being unique and I rarely see any /EA players and when I do see them, I send them a tell. I'll probably say "hey nice build, enjoying it so far?"

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There are changes on the agenda, but it's still in the discussion phase, and no redname wants to touch it for fear of revealing too much or making it seem like they are making promises that they cannot keep. I personally feel this is the most likely scenario, and while it is discouraging (to say the least) to be left in the dark like this, I can totally understand the reasoning behind it.

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I REALLY hope this is true. All I can do is hope.


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And stop trying to take away our stealth!

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Yes, keep the cloak, it's great for ghosting, concealment, and the defense helps ....a little.

Edit: I also want to add. I do NOT Agree with some of the points the OP posted. KEEP Conserve Power and KEEP ENERGY CLOAK. It'd be much better to merge Dampening Field and Energy absorption rather than to remove a unique power like energy cloak in addition to a very useful power as conserve power.

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Oh but they imcreased the animation times on Stone Melee for no reason, what a great waste of time.


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Or so they can fit the Stone melee animations in with the upcoming Shield defensive set. But dont take BaBs word for it at all.

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So are you calling Back Alley Brawler a liar? He said in a post and he told me that SM was changed for shields in a PM. He said if they were going to change any Damage Per Animation powers they'd start with Energy Transfer first.

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User Interface:
<ul type="square">[*] Character slots in the character selection screen can now be reorganized by dragging and dropping. The sort order is stored in a file on the client, but only if "Remember Account Name” is checked on the Log-in Screen.[/list]
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This isn't entirely working for me. I can change the order of my characters and it takes... but if I change the order of characters on another server, then the ones I re-ordered on the first server changes.



Any way we can get multi-server support on this?

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I'm experiencing something similar to this as well. At my login screen I have it checked to remember my account name. Yet after I log into Champion, move the characters around, log into a toon. Log out and look at my characters again, it's as if I never moved them to begin with.

Can you PLEASE fix the toggle dropping bug? This is extremely annoying to toggle up 6-7 toggles everytime I zone or enter a new mish.

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I have never ever seen a response on the Devs part on the short comings on EA or ELA.

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There's short comings to Electric armor?

How's about giving the villains something equivalent to epics?

FA on tanks and scrappers yet stalker and brutes get attacks that are practically useless in pvp.

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I remember when I was young and I had a remote control car. When the batteries went low my car moved slow; however when you recharged the battery it moved faster and was stronger again. Why dont we do this to energy drain? I dont mean slow the attack chain of the enemy, but the movement only and speed up the EA's movement speed. Or turn it into a aura that sucks endurance like hotfeet does damage. Give people a reason to think twice about getting near a EA brute.

Elec - Lightning field/-End, Damage
Stone - Mud Pots/ -Speed, Damage
Invul - Invincibility/ +Acc, +Defense
Dark - Death Shroud/ Damage
Fire - Blazing Aura/ Damage
WP - RttC/ +regen, Tohit debuff
EA- None

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Very good point there Soto! I like it