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I've participated and won a few honourable mentions in these contests, but I watched this one from the background as I personally couldn't come up with a good absence of colour themed character (although someone mentioned a creepy black and white clown that they thought they should have made and I kicked myself for not thinking of something so very simple). I've always admired the professionalism of the Legion in how they handle the large contests and their willingness to dole out hundreds of millions twice a week, and I was extremely impressed when a few of them actually got right into the contest themselves and shifted into gray scale costumes. I liked how, despite being a black, white, and shades of gray contest, the Legion characters themselves each had a different take on which shades should go where, resulting in their usual matching uniforms all looking very, very unique. It was kinda cool

The zombie invasion sucked, and a couple of characters actually predicted it before the contest even started. It's nothing really new, as it's happened before with Rikti invasions, but it still sucked. The mapserve really sucked

I do have to disagree with you, Camille, as it was so blatantly obvious why people became upset. The Legion let someone continue for a good 20 to 30 minutes with his rant against another character for what was a common occurrence (he was nudged off the ledge, then he threatened to report people, loudly and repeatedly, for throwing snowballs), and only once did a member of the host group ask, "What's going on here?" As Matt's pointed out, that person was then rewarded handsomely with the top prize after he had told people to shut up and that they had no hope of winning.

Frankly, the excuse that "it fit the requirements of the contest" doesn't really cut it here. The requirement of being in black, white, and shades of gray was adhered to by almost everyone in attendance (although I'm pretty sure I saw one person in bright red and another with green armor...the instructions were so clear!) met those requirements. I was surprised at how many actually made a gray scale costume that worked conceptually. Personally, I wasn't impressed with the choice but I respect the right of the contest holders to make it. It did look, however, like the overall perception held by many in multiple channels that the Legion's judgment was questionable. The admission that channels weren't being watched and the player's conduct didn't factor in at all doesn't make matters much better.

I'm sorry to say that I found the entire night's events very unfortunate.

How are you slotting your PGT? Up until now, I've been under the assumption that slotting for recharge was the way to go.

But...but...what will I do with all these "Defenders and Corruptors united forever, LOLing at Controllers" pins I bought us?!

It is my heartfelt wish that we will one day get it, if only for thematic purposes. Alas...

Overstatement.

Empty clips is great for what it does, which isn't crank out damage. It's a good cone that has decent debuff values, and if you've got incendiary ammo on it, it's not half bad. Not great, but still...

Dear god, no. Just...no. This is so wrong. Keeping things away from you is one of the few things that keeps a trick archer alive. Both of these powers are excellent, and the -recharge is shiny and neat.

The second half of the second sentence is just blatantly wrong. Swap ammo + supressive fire + ice arrow = win. Look ma, I hold bosses with no hands!

By all means, take munitions mastery....when the devs decide that defenders and corruptors can have access to it. I wouldn't hold my breath for that, though. As it stands, your choices are dark mastery, psychic mastery, power mastery, and electricity mastery, and I go with dark for its ability to synchronize well with your hail of bullets.

Months too late, unfortunately. *points to the back of the line*

Eeeeee! Now there are, like...four of us!

Animation times won't actually bother you too much. I initially expected it to be so annoying that I'd want to tear out my eyes, but really, all it makes me want to do is cut myself every now and again. Hardly the same.

I'll get to this in a few. Skip down for the answer.

Not terrible effective, but easy to keep up. Radiation emission, storm summoning, and dark miasma will laugh at you, but I'll always be your friend. The trapper will appreciate you, but secretly just think you're a pale imitation of himself (and he's almost right), but he will envy your ability to maneuver much more easily (maybe...). See the following link on AV resistance to crush your debuffy soul:

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Archvillain


Heck yes it is. I've played both (your masochism is inferior to my masochism!) and the powerset combo is much more enjoyable as a corruptor. You're basically going to want damn near every power from both sets to make the most out of your character, with the exception of one:

Pistols.

I hate pistols. My hatred for this ability burns in my loins. I find it so incredibly useless in this pairing that it's not even funny. As a corruptor, I have the option of skipping it in place of dual wield which can only be described as a glorious gift from on high. You simply do not need an extra single target attack with this character, because you won't ever be using it. For that reason alone, corruptor over defender. You've already pointed out the other reasons why the corruptor is superior to the defender, so we don't have to go over those too much.

Take full advantage of the AoEs and cones in this build, because it's how you're going to contribute most. Up until about level 35, you're going to be teaming. A lot. Almost exclusively. Because you're going to be terrible. Oh...so bad. It's not funny how much you'll want to cry. Your debuffs will seem oh so wonderful but in reality, they're not. They're ok. I used to ardently defend trick arrow as a good set, but it's really just mediocre compared to what a lot of other sets can do. It's the druid of support sets...y'know, before druids were any good. Mine eyes have opened to this, and I do have such pretty eyes.

After 35, you're going to strike out on your own with your shiny new oil slick arrow, which, when used in combination with any of your incendiary round dual pistol attacks (I recommend bullet rain, hail of bullets, or empty clips -- you're eventually going to be using all three of them, anyways), ignites your slick. This is preceded by flash arrow, glue, poison gas, and followed by acid arrow and disruption arrow. Immediately change to your chem rounds and go through your multi-target attack chain -- things should actually be dead by now. If there's stragglers or (*gasp!*) bosses, you switch to your single target attacks and finish them up. Ice arrow and suppressive fire (when you've got your ammo switched) act as an awesome boss holding combination, so you shouldn't have too much to worry about, and piercing round, despite its heavy end cost, can fill any void in your single target attack chain. I prefer not to use it because I can always throw out ice arrow or entangling arrow instead, but hey, sometimes I just like to see the animation.

I may be exaggerating when I say "strike out on your own." What I really mean to say is, "keep teaming, but you won't eat too much linoleum when you solo anymore." Really, they're just keystrokes apart. Personally, I liked it because it was completely novel, and others thought it was, too. Conceptually, the combination makes for a great weapon master/assassin-type character.

Easy. Post count.

It's does happen, to be honest. I was kicked and reinvited to a team, initially because I was recruited under the impression that I was an empathy defender (which I wasn't). When the star was passed back to the original leader, he revealed that "they already had one of those and that they'd be better of with someone else" and kicked me. A private tell to said person with me informing him that I was, in fact, a trick arrow/archery defender (back when there were 6 of us over level 30), got me my spot back and an apology. I thought the entire scenario was bizarre, but it does happen. I can only imagined that it tends to happen more to players that play buffing support sets (FF, specifically).

Which is glorious.

It's definitely not the same as rad emission, as Chowder mentioned, but it's nothing to balk at if you use it well. I'm fairly indifferent to defender secondaries, really. I think they're all fun.

*shrug* It happens. You'll have fun with dark, though. You get to be much more aggressive once you get into the epic pool.

I wouldn't worry to much about it, then. You'll be either redside or blueside soon (I prefer blueside because of the larger population), and you'll find more folks to team with.

This coming Tuesday's theme is ugliest costume.

There's no fire or ice option for corruptors -- sorry. Corruptors only get access to the same pools that defenders get, not the ones available to blasters (Bleargh. A dp/ta corruptor with access to LRM? Yes please!). Your choices are dark, power, psychic, and electricity mastery.

Personally, I'd go with dark mastery. Thematic fit, fun powers, titillating gameplay.

I personally consider them to be one of the "must have" powers, simply because they're useful in both solo and group situations. You're correct about time bomb -- it's horridly useless -- but seeker drones should only ever be described as hellishly useful. When solo, you've suddenly got a tool that can not only eat the alpha, but act as a stun while simultaneously debuffing the enemies' to hit and damage. When you're in a group, it's supplemental and can help a tank that is, perhaps, struggling a bit.