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Wonder if I could garner some opinions here about respecing my Plant/Fire dominator. She’s sitting at a healthy L42 and does pretty well in teams, but does need some fine tuning. I’ll list out what I’ve got, what I like and what I don’t like (no, I can’t remember all the names of the specific powers, yes I am a total ch00b).

Plant

Has: Single Target Immobilise, Single Target Hold, Seeds of Confusion, Vines, Carrion Creepers, Venus Fly Trap.

I like all of these and will be keeping them. I’ve no intention of taking the AOE Immobilize or Spirit Tree unless someone can give me a persuasive argument as why they’re not a useless aggro magnet for the former or just rubbish for the latter. I know Dom AOE holds aren’t outstanding, but it does give me a decent chance of holding a boss quickly into a fight.

Fire

Has: Flares, Fire Blast, Fire Breath, PBAoE, Blaze.

I’m going to get rid of the PBAoE, I hardly ever use it. I use Fire Breath on a regular basis, and the three single targets are useful for cleaning up. I might consider Fiery Embrace in there, and/or maybe Blazing Bolt so I’ve got some utility.

Pools

Has: Swift, Health, Stamina, Aid Other, Aid Self, Stealth, Invisibility, Hover, Fly

The fitness stuff is essential. The flight pool is my preferred travel power with this toon and gives me a good view for which mobs need holding/confusing etc. Aid self is handy and has saved my backside on more than one occasion. I’m not sold on the concealment pool, so many things seem able to see through stealth these days and I really don’t use invisibility enough to justify its inclusion.

Patron Pool

Has: Bile Spray.

I like this power – apart from the obvious classiness of chucking your guts up on your enemies, it’s a second cone attack comparable to Fire Breath. This is, for me, a better option than the PBAoE in the fire pool.

So there we go, all suggestions welcomed. Normally I’m gasping for slots to put powers in, here it’s more a case of finding something with decent synergy to go with what I have.

Thanks for organising this Kin, was a lot of fun and I've got all my badges.

Would have been nice for some people to listen to pretty rudimentary instructions and work together, but hey, it went ok.

Anyone know if instant raids are working atm? We tried to run a couple last night and couldn't get them to go.

I am more than willing to accept that I may have been being a ch00b rather than any great technical difficulty.

I think I'll pop along - teach me to read these forums more regularly!

Harvest Moon - L50 MA/SR

Due to work commitments, I'm not going to be able to make tonight (team 14)

Stoopid work, sorry all

Character Name: Harvest Moon
Global Handle: @Harvest Moon
Archetype: Scrapper
Powersets: Martial Arts / Super Reflexes

Happy Birthday Plight

You don't look a day over 48

Hey good people!

Did the respec mission last night, so it comes time to sort out a few bits and bobs on my plant/fire dominator, and thought I would garner opinion here!

So, the powers I’ll definitely be getting are:

Plant Control: my two holds, Strangler and Roots; two soft control, Seeds of Confusion and the awesome Carrion Creepers; my pet, the Venus Fly Trap; and my single target immobilise, Roots.

Fire Assualt: three single target attacks in Flares, Fire Blast and Blaze and two AOE attacks in Fire Breath and Combustion.

Power Pools: Swift, Health and Stamina from Fitness, Combat Jumping, Super Jump and Acrobatics from Leaping and Stealth from Concealment

So, that leaves me two powers to play about with. I’ve tried the snipe, Blazing Bolt, and found it didn’t really fit with the two primaries. I’ve tried Consume and that’s still a possibility, but wasn’t up enough to be useful. I don’t like the AOE immob as it draws aggro like no other power I’ve used, and the Sleep Spores and Tree of Life don’t appeal to me.

I have been considering picking up invisibility, to improve my ability to stealth missions – particularly newspaper ones. I’ve also looked at Hasten, simply to improve the recharge rate of key powers like the Creepers when I’m on a team. Medicine pool is another possibility, especially considering the squishy nature of the Dominator.

Any thoughts?

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I would like some feedback on the raid apart from GJ and stuff like that. Reason is that I would like to improve my guide to make things run more smoothly. Was there part of the guide that was obscure, would you like a full explanation of hamidon?, was it too boring being a scrapper / tank and being forced to stand at the side waiting for a HO during the holding fase.

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I didn’t get to do any of the successful pre-ED raids, so to be honest it was a relief just to beat the blob. Under the current plan everyone has a well-defined role, and if we’ve got a hold strategy that works I’m happy. Gave me a chance to sit back, have a beer and listen to Coin’s set on Evo whilst talking rubbish on global chat, and that can’t be all bad

My first successful raid

Cheers to all the organisors for lining him up, cheers to everyone who was there for knocking him down.

Defiant ftw!

Big thanks to Xironia, Tainted Greek, Mr ? and all others involved in last night’s raid; it was marshalled superbly, as always.

Hopefully we’ll get him next time!

Like others, I’ve had to think carefully about what to post up here.

I think a lot of long-term players are happily in their ‘comfort zones’. We’ve been playing a long time so we know who like to team with, we use global chat channels for banter rather than any of the in-game channels and have our own in-jokes and terminology. This leads to what seems a more ‘cliquey’ environment as before people were nattering on open channels, a lot are now talking on invite only chat.

To be honest, I’ve had Arena turned off for nearly six months now; and I’m tempted to turn off broadcast as well. I’d like to think this Penny Arcade cartoon - http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 - is applicable for the game we play as well (possible NSFW, swearing).

This isn’t a Defiant only problem either – as a little SG event, we made a themed SG on Union called the Reservoir Dolls (I expect you can imagine the theme). There was about eighteen of us the first night we ran it, and quite frankly the abuse we got was shocking (most people were complimentary though).

I’m not sure the core community of the server has gone downhill, but retreated to their own houses, so to speak. I still love the big community events (Hami, the Valentine’s event, etc) and think they’re a fun time.

I find rent the most annoying thing about the whole base concept. The only reason there needs to be a sink for prestige if there’s missions or suchlike that can be exploited for prestige. It’s been said that bases will allow us to access extra content (Silver Mantis, Cathedral of Pain) but you need have enough prestige to build the minimum requirements for this content and if you’re a small-ish SG then this is going to take ages, with regular set-backs in your progress via rent.

Additionally, if you start out with an active, large SG but people then leave the game, you’re going to be screwed as you’ll no longer be able to afford the rent.

IMHO they need to drop the rent concept, and make prices of items about 50-75% of what they are now. SGs would still need to save up for the bigger plots and items but it would be an achievable goal. At the moment I look at the secure plot prices and think to myself, not a chance.

That being said, I really enjoyed the Silver Mantis SF (the last level is awesome), I’ve really enjoyed doing the base design for our SGs and am excited about the I7 additions. I agree though, there has been consistent cries from the player base for the cost/rent to be looked at, and if this is going to be a selling point for the game it needs some attention.

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No, Pyra's just WAI.

Maybe I should start running now.

Just a couple of quick questions for people who’ve done base raids: -

For ATs that have pets and are raiding (specifically Masterminds, but also Controllers, Dominators, etc), can they be summoned and buffed pre-raid and taken with you, or do you have to summon them when you’re in the target base?

When an attacking team begins a raid, do they all appear where the raid teleporter is in the target base or do they appear at random spawn points?

Congrats to Bella, as she became the first of the Fallen Femmes to hit the big 4-0, despite most of us playing mostly CoH!

Great work!

This sounds like my sort of stupid.

Let us know what time, and I'll make up something random and gimpy, unless you know what you need.

INV/EM build – needs some advice

Got my INV/EM tank up to level 24, and now need a little advice on how to proceed. Here’s the powers taken to date – I’m not going to bother you with the slotting.

1 – Barrage
1 – Resist Physical Damage
2 – Temporary Invulnerability
4 – Dull Pain
6 – Energy Punch
8 – Unyielding Stance
10 – Boxing
12 – Haste
14 – Super Speed
16 – Hurdle
18 – Health
20 – Stamina
22 – Invincibility
24 – Whirling Hands

I’m pretty happy with this –the toon chugs away at a happy little pace now. I’m now curious as to where to go next for powers; I’m leaning towards tough skin at 30 to negate the Unyielding -DEF, and whether or not I’d be better off considering taking weave – which would be another toggle and another drain on my end. I will take Unstoppable at 32, just to see what it’s like – if I don’t like it I’ll do a respec. I’ll probably take Tough at either 26 or 28, and either another attack or Provoke.

Basically, I’m at the point now where I decide whether I want to go for the ‘classic’ tank route or more of a scranker, undecided at the moment. I’d love to hear comments from other players of either of these sets.

Avernal,

We're the opposite of you - Defiant based hero group looking to trade tech for arcane. Drop me a tell in game, we can do business

Cheers for organising this - good laugh!

Would be up for all of 'em expect Hess or Synapse, drop me a tell if you've got a space free

MA/SR! Again, because its my main characters’ but it looks so elegant.

Am tempted to roll up a spines/regen at the moment.

Hello!

Anyone know if there’s any hard numbers posted for Weave, what it adds defence against and how it stacks with /SR defences?

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hos in base??

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Little insight into just how sordid my mind is: I read that, not as hospital, but as...'easy' women.

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I thought of gardening

/showing age

Hoping someone can help out stoopid old me; I’m attempting to get two telepads into a 2x2 chamber and can’t bloody do it – anyone got any tips? It seems that once you put the beacons on the first the second can’t be placed. I’ve tried with both the tech and arcane pads and it’s driving me round the bend!