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It was part of the halloween set the Devs put out. I don't think you can buy it right now, but it will likely come back up for sale.

How would this work in the game? Right now, with the engine that we have, we can't really jump off of flat walls. I think that the Ninja Run power is the closest thing we'll get to this.

You can pretty much do this with the current run/jump powers in the game, anyways. Just only jump off of stuff along the ground, like dumpsters and low walls.

We'll see if they have the cojones to delete our thread talking about the deletion of our deleted thread!

I would like something like this done. However, I think that it would involve more fundamental changes to some of the ATs in terms of their modifiers. For instance, Scrapper Range Attack Mods are very low, but most of their ranged attacks do good damage because they don't use those modifiers, they use the Scrapper Melee modifiers, which are higher. If they were to get access to some ranged attack from power pools, these Scrapper Ranged Attack Mods might need to be changed so that these powers actually did damage.

The other problem I've seen pointed out in the past about stuff like this is that you risk giving ATs more of what they already have and/or giving them access to powers they weren't supposed to be able to have.

What do I mean by that? I mean giving Blasters the ability to be able to take a lot of damage just from primary/secondary/pool powers. Or the ability to have significantly more ranged AoEs, for instance. It makes it tougher to balance the ATs because of all of the additional powers that they could take from these new pools.



So, would I like to see this. Yes. Definitely yes. I just wonder how much work it would actually create. But I think it would be worth it.


Edit -> But Iron Man can be replicated by Peacebringers and Warshades in human form. Some Hand to Hand, some ranged, and armors.

Gashes,

I added your two new ideas to the posts up front. Spirit, it looked like your suggestions seemed to already be in the front posts in some form or another, but please let me know if I misread, so that I can add them in.

I think that trying to get a call for updated guides is a good idea. I think that throwing out builds with not much behind them isn't all that useful to the people that really need them.

Basically, if you're looking for a guide to something to see what the synergies are, or what it's good/bad against, or what powers are useful, then a build doesn't do that on its own.

Meanwhile, comparing builds against one another is useful in certain regards, but not in others. If I just want to see if a certain type of Tanker is "good," but don't care if its the best, then a build competition will merely confuse me.


In short: I'm all for a call for updating guides. I don't think that a thread of builds is useful to the people that need help.

If we have confirmation from D&B about this date, I'll be there. Had a great time last time, and look forward to seeing people again.

I'd balance the Ancillary/Patron Pools. Most notably: Weapon Mastery for Scrappers/Stalkers (and actually, Stalker Ancillaries in general).

Exploding Shuriken costs the same amount as Ball Lightning, but does about 3/4 the damage over a smaller radius and less range, plus has no secondary effect. The hell?!

First off, I would highly recommend downloading Mid's Hero Builder. It can help you out here a lot.

Secondly, Shield, Ninjitsu, and Super Reflexes are Positional Defense sets. Ice, Stone, Invuln, Energy Aura, and Willpower are Typed Defense powersets.


What happens if you mix them? The game takes the highest Defense value to a certain attack, and applies that. So let's say that your powerset gives you 15% Def to S/L/E/NE damage types. You slot IOs giving you 10% Melee and Ranged Defense.

If an enemy attacks you with a Melee Smashing Attack, the game will look at all of the defense values that you have that apply (15% Smashing, 10% Melee) and apply the highest only (the 15% Smashing).

So, mixing and matching doesn't get you as much as you might think.


HOWEVER, if you got attacked by a Ranged Fire attack, your armors don't give you any Defense, but you have 10% Ranged defense, so it'll help there.

It is a temporary power, and should be in your power tray to use like any other power. Just target a valid RIP member, get in range, and then use it.

Beau,

Your argument lost a lot of viability when you suggest that melee characters need less help when fighting AVs/GMs than Corrs do.

One of the most important debuffs when fighting these two types of enemies is -Regen, something that no melee type gets without using temp powers. Melee types need to make this up in sheer DPS, whereas the support types don't. This is why for a long, long time, you could see Corrs and Controllers soloing GMs when melee types couldn't.

Secondly, if you're building for fighting GMs and AVs solo, you need to be able to survive the return fire that you get. Not every Corruptor secondary needs that much help in this regard, with the -ToHit that they get as well as the other debuffs they have. Even then, people who do solo GMs tend to build for ranged Defense, not recharge. As such, Sonic does do very well, since it's attack chain doesn't need much recharge to be optimized. You posit that Psy blast should do well at VERY HIGH levels of recharge, but to get to those levels of recharge, you need to sacrifice survivability, which is the opposite of what you want to do.

So please, show me your Psy Blast character soloing the GM, and then a Sonic character doing the same thing. I bet you that the Sonic Blast character will do it faster, if everything else is even.

I think that they need to re-sort the items in general, sort of like they did for the Chest Detail area. Putting them in alphabetical order would be okay, but grouping them and THEN putting them in alphabetical order would be fantastic, too. Then you'd have a much smaller list to scroll through, but making it searchable would also be good.

Right now, though, if you were to go into some of the categories, and type "O," those options that begin with "O" aren't even next to each other sometimes. Some are at the top of the list, some at the bottom, some in the middle. It's a bit infuriating sometimes.