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Does Power Build Up benefit +recovery or +regen?

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Alas, no.

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AB : I still don't see the point of slotting it beyond 3rch. Basic recovery is 800%, out of experience, a blaster will have to wait 0.something more if you use it on him without end rec.

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Because it's an incredibly powerful regenerative boost too. Like giving your target Instant Healing-type-regenerative-capabilities.

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Update - except most people [censored] about going to the tower and trying to pull him rather than killing everything. PUGs are making me angry.

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I'd be one of them, and would probably be [censored] about noobs on my global channel. Killing everything > silly wastes of time.

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 clicked on this expecting to disagree with most of the content but it's actually pretty good advice. I see way to many emps who just buff the scrappers or tank, spam heal aura, and think their job is done. Emping gtes a bad rap cause people don't play it with a lot of thought. A good emp adapts to the team and the mobs and is more than a heal bot. Thanks for writing this summary.

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I agree.

I disagree with a couple things in the OP, though. In my opinion, Fortitude should be placed in the following order:

Blasters

Squids (not Khelds, squids)

Scrappers

Defenders

Controllers

Tanks

On mixed teams, Crabs and Banes are right up there with Blasters; Night Widows and Fortunatas with Scrappers; Corruptors with squids; non /Psi Doms with controllers; post-38 Psi Doms with Blasters; Stalkers with squids; Brutes with Scrappers; MM's almost never, unless I'm just teamed with seven of them.

In other words, I use it to maximise the offensive output on those most able to use it, and maximise the defensive output on those most unable to handle the return fire. Fortitude is a powerful buff, and I agree that it needs to be used with a certain degree of adaptation, because no two situations will be the same.

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Just as a point of curiosity, how to you get a mob's combat attributes? I've clicked on a mob and brought up the Powers - Combat attributes tab and received my own...

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Be a Bane Spider and use Surveillance. It's a unique feature of that power.

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Using Surveillance here are the Note how my Surveillance only took out from Base Defense but none of the typed values like it normally does. Also Surveillance did not subtract any Resistance from it, proving they are completely immune to Resistance debuffs as well.

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Do the Nictus enjoy the Purple Triangles? Do they have any Status Effect Resistance ? If not, it seems a single target sleep could seriously trivialize the encounter.

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They actually enjoy twice the ordinary purple triangle value. Plus, I believe they're entirely immune to resistance debuffs.

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I am looking for a way to pull it off with any team, ignoring max/min and ignoring players experience.

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Shoot Romulus

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Yes, it's really that simple.

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Agreed. Any time I've tried the silly tricks mentioned in this guide, we've failed. Utterly failed. It's not the complexity of pulling the dreaded healing Nictus away or what-have-you.. it's just the fact that it's so much simpler to, as they say, Shoot Romulus.

It's an easy encounter with an interesting difficulty twist. It doesn't require any special tactics outside of your average "beat the crap out of the AV" fight. Just save AoE crowd control powers for when the Cyst Nictus spawns its horde, try to keep away from the Damage Nictus, and out-DPS the Healing Nictus. Not difficult.

A few notes:

First, they don't have a "Maneuvers" power. That's called Phalanx Fighting. Each and every Roman Soldier with a shield will contribute 3% defence to this effect, which grants an AoE defence bonus to all nearby Roman soldiers. I'm not positive, but I believe the thing actually stacks outside its "typical" radius of 8' - meaning the guy on the far left of the line is affecting the guy on the far right, but only if the five guys in the middle are also contributing. Again, I'm not certain.

Romans are not resistant to fear; however, Shout of Command does grant fear protection equal to a Tank's mez shield.

The Damage Nictus only has one attack, an autohit AoE damage.

Please note that their Shout of Command is only activated at 50% health.

Yes. I'll have to bug Ex for an "Official Doomcaller" title.

*shiver* Voice chat is a bad idea, but at least it's not integrated into the game.

My Night Widow is still seen by all critters at melee range, so if there's a bug, it's not a big one.

And, Silverspar, lovely FAQ, especially for Night Widows.

Did you look at my guide? It doesn't have a build, but it tells you how to build one yourself.

I loved the "On the Warpath" section, but this part made me thankful I wasn't eating or drinking anything:

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"Doctor's Note: Excuse Pvt. Michaels from exercises. Attempted to consume eggs cooked by Bane Spider Mace. Pvt. is in critical condition."

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I seriously hope that the "debate" over fixing the Posi TF or creating villain SFs was a tongue-in-cheek answer.

Cause the lvl 10 - 15 SF seriously needs some love and attention . . .

And thanks Jules and Slug for the awesome work.

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Well, gee, at least you have one to [censored] about. Get real.

Posi: Please, villain SF's.

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I can't say I like the Create Your Own Story Arc (it will really, really muddle with canon). But thanks for telling us.

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It wouldn't be CoX forum with out at least 1 nay sayer

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Well, I could've spit, screamed and cursed Positron to death and darkness, but I try not to act like an [censored] on the anniversary of a lead designer's pet project.

I can't say I like the Create Your Own Story Arc (it will really, really muddle with canon). But thanks for telling us.

The Placate proc is broken. I proved that long ago.

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Spazz, your guide to pwnz is the best guide to pwnz I have ever read. Perhaps you could write a guide on how to text wall, or maybe just how to [censored] off in general to educate those of us not in the know? That way i could avoid being criticized for [censored] around.

Note: not really interested in being told how to screw around on the internet.

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Awwww, is someone a little grumpy? Yes he is! Yes! C'mere, cutsie wootsie, someone needs a big hug!

Turn that frown upside down, mister!

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lol, that you could possibly think enough of yourself to presume i honestly care for your opinions.

I was just pointing out before that refering to some unwritten rule about farking off is rediculous in itself. but hey, it got a reaction, so I guess it succeeded.

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Then why, exactly, do you think they care?

Noone cares. It's a beautiful cycle of uncaring on both sides.

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Aid Other is on a 10 second recharge, Repair is on a 120 second recharge, so in the time you could heal one robot with Repair once, you could heal all six of your robots twicewith Aid Other.

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Luminara, that's incorrect. Recharge = Cast time + recharge.

Repair has its place. Assault Bot an inch from death? Boom, full health again.

Interesting news, everyone!

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Placate is bugged and won’t work if an effect from a previous attack (a stun, a dot, etc) is still effecting the person you’re attempting to placate.

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Code issue. Hopefully this will be fixed when we do some work on Stalkers between issues.

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This is Castle, here.

*feels silly for the post he made the other day* Thanks Posi. Free slots is awesome. Now just to choose between Pinn and Virtue..

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Hurrah, Castle sounds happy!

Let's try not to change that.

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Happy Castle?

I smell DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

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Happy Castle makes Elec/Elec Stalkers, just for the lulz involved.

Mean Castle goes psycho on Candlestick. That thread was epic.

I really don't know which is more amusing, honestly.

Neat. And first post after a mad scientist

Edit: Uh. Holy [censored]? PSYCHIC SHOCKWAVE? Are you kidding?

This is a horrible feature that unfairly penalises City of Vill--

Oh, wait, wrong thread. Looks neat