Talen Lee
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Quote:We don't talk about how awesome breathing and food are, either.Originally Posted by Granite Agent
I don't see a lot written about it here, but my Mind/Fire permadom has to be one of the most solo-able toons I've played, with great team contributions as well.
We, the people, take these facts to be self-evident; Mind/Fire kicks ***. -
Quote:Your experience meshes with my own; I find Ice Control's soft control to only be satisfactory when I'm dealing with a group, or someone else's augmenting survival. Two ice doms together are probably great, but a single one is a weak soloist, in my experience. I would file Ice Control under 'Team Player.'Originally Posted by UnicyclePeon
Soft control isn't as spiffy for a Dominator, in my opinion. Its fine on a controller, where the survival-boosting secondaries combine well with soft control, magnifying it, sometimes even miraculously. On a Dominator, though, not so much. I've played a couple of Ice Dominators and they just don't feel as safe as others. It could be me though.
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Quote:If I might ask, are your dominators fire controllers?Originally Posted by Golden_Avariel
I don't know, I kind of agree with the OP. If someone looks cross-eyed at my doms they die whereas my defenders, blasters, and controllers often survive surprise situations... or at least it feels that way.
When I play fire control (something I do not do any more, thanks to the free transfers), I find the set lacking for the kind of emergency powers I'd want, whereas the alternatives don't. Gravity might have a similar problem (not certain, myself). Plant has a pile of oh-**** powers, though all are positionally inconsistant (targeted AOE, click-targeted AOE, cone) meaning you need to be aware before you use 'em...
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Quote:This here is your problem. Tankers aren't just survivable, they don't have to try to be survivable. Dominators need to be active.Originally Posted by Astral_Storm
Maybe I'm just being a little spoiled. My main toon is a maxxed out tank that rarely sees his life bar even move.
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Quote:If it agrees with you, it's confirming and valid, if it doesn't, it's lies. Just pointing this out. Personally, both sound like small sample sizes I wouldn't trust.Originally Posted by black_barrier
ding ding ding!
good to know someone here's confirming my experience. -
Quote:You know this is the market forum, right?Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint
how about stop thread jacking?
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Quote:Note that travel time can bite into this one making it a bit tricky to run too much. Of course, if you have the 60 month vet reward, or the martial arts pack that can be a small or non-existant concern.Originally Posted by Santorican
I have a Fire/Energy blaster that works perfectly for the negotiator badge, takes 5 minutes to run if you're quick and you get two merits for each run. You can get about 10 runs an hour if you're efficient and you'll be right at the 20 merits/hr ratio which is pretty good imo.
Here is the link to the mission
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Quote:It's probably best to not try and convince Heraclea of things that are actually true, Goat.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
It isn't.
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EBs. It's not that it can't be solo'd with AVs, it's just the point is doing it quickly.
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Quote:You call the people who disagree with you immoral, liars, and children. You are simply unable to recognise the distinction between your behaviour and the behaviour of those around you; if you do it, it's good and right and with pure intent, and if someone else does it, it's bad. The amount of respect with which we treat you is directly proportionate to the amount of respect you deserve.Originally Posted by eryq2
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Thus, we regard you as a cleverly painted chicken, left in the town square on a podium. -
Quote:It is a random suggestion not related to Dual Pistols. The only thing this powerset has in common with Dual Pistols is that it they can both be taken by blasters.Originally Posted by Flameshot
Now, had this been a random suggestion not related to Dual Pistols, you would have a point.
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Quote:daaaaaaaaaamn youuuuuu peeeeeeteeeeeeerrrrrr!Originally Posted by peterpeter
[posts **** for 111,999 inf]
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I'm hated. My rep is red nao! D: MY WHOLE LIFE IS A LIIIIIIIE.
Also, if people stop overpaying for the **** I post, I'll stop accepting their money. It's up for 112k, people, stop giving me 300k! -
Quote:It's not trolling to point out that a post that's a suggestion that you explicitly made for fun belongs in the suggestion board, which is a subforum of the for fun board. It's not like you're saying anything that hasn't been said before to devs who need your help coming up with this kind of idea.Originally Posted by ransim
I'm somewhat sad Talen. Thats all you could offer me for trolling? I feel unloved.
Post it in the Suggestions forum. That way, even more people can partake in the discussion and have fun with it. Posting it in the closed beta forum is selfish and not appropriate as per the rules of the forum.
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Quote:Virtue is something of a special case. I've dealt with a few Virtueite PVPers who are, as a trend, completely ignorant of things that aren't PVPing, and am told that they routinely buy inf. I myself view it as a hallmark of idiocy, but hey, whatcha gunna do?Originally Posted by Lohenien
I'm sorry Uruare but you are wrong. Gold sellers do not supply gobs of endless influence to 90% of the population as you seem to think. They are not the cause of inflation.
That said, not that I know many other servers, but I like to imagine that Virtue's idiots are remarkably idiotic, and that most other servers are full of people who are more pragmatic about their ignorance. -
Set at +0/*1, the Mender Silos Task Force (5th Column Overthrow, known vernacularly for some reason as Fall Of The Fifth) is worth roughly a quarter of a level per run. It starts at level 30.
The arc is four missions long, all at the same door. Mission one, your goal is to click three glowies, then defeat a boss (if you've set to fight them solo, a lieutenant otherwise) and his immediate minions that attempt to ambush you. The second mission, you need to find a glowie and click it, then kill Nosferatu and his ambush minions as they come to you. In the third mission, you need to find Burkholder, and kill him and his guarding minions. In the fourth mission, you need defeat Requiem, Siege, and Maestro, while finding time to kill a hundred freaking nazis. This arc is probably one of my favourite things to do in the game, and if you're a melee oriented character with mez protection and an ability to output damage at speed - ie, any scrapper, tanker, brute, stalker, widow, or bane spider - you can belt through it quickly and reliably.
For making money, the arc's spawns start at 30 and cap at 39. Therefore, bosses in the 35-39 range run the chance of dropping Miracles and Lotgs, while everyone can drop Crushing Impacts, Thunderstrikes, Titanium Coatings and so on. Also, 5th Column use the council drop table, so they all can drop tech and arcane salvage. Keep an eye on the market, know what's going to sell well and make sure you don't delete something useful to make room mid-mission. The last room does include literally a hundred nazis so you are going to get a lot of salvage and recipe drops per run.
I can go into further detail if people are interested, but the most significant advice I'd offer:- Do not set the missions to -1 difficulty. This means that in the last room, all the fodder in the opening area will be grey, and won't drop inspirations as reliably. Since Nosferatu will be chewing through them at speed, you want them to provide you with inspirations.
- When you prepare to fight Nosferatu, you will want to have enough reds to damage cap yourself (remember your +100%ish percent in your actual ATTACKS), purple shields to protect yourself from his attacks, but most importantly, at least three accuracy buffs. His attacks all do a very strong -tohit debuff, and he spawns with Vampyri that add to it.
- Nosferatu will run if you're doing electrical damage, since that floors his recovery. This is a bad thing and if you're an elec/elec scrapper, for example, you might just find it unreasonably difficult to kill him. Sorry.
- Stealth buffs from a supergroup workstation can make the first mission a lot faster.
With that info in mind I've gotten runs of this arc as low as 12 minutes, though 16 minutes with good, fast loading is not uncommon. A typical time when you stop to kill everything is 25 minutes and if you duo it at say, +1 or +2 to get a good solid amount of XP, you can expect to take 35 minutes to an hour. Mission 2 is always going to be your bottleneck - sometimes, you're just going to have to run around to a lot of empty rooms with the sound on looking for that damn glowie.
Prisons almost never have glowies in them, and the council tank room - with the three layers of pools - is almost always a place where EBs and glowies spawn.
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Quote:Wouldn't it be awesome if there was a forum for people to suggest things like this? Even if they weren't necessarily to be done for the sake of developer attention, but even just so the people suggeting them could have fun making suggestions like this, just suggesting for suggestion's sake?Originally Posted by ransim
So lame name aside, sorry I couldn't come up with anything cooler, my thinking is that we're really lacking for Natural based secondaries for blasters.
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Quote:Yes, really. Really. Every last time you post on this topic, you do so in a self-aggrandizing fashion that bespeaks you as a lily-white paladin, a rent in this universe into a beautiful financial utopia where everyone can buy everything they want for only 1 inf, torn in the side of this universe in the shape of a man, a samite-clad saint of perfection and wonder who, possessed of nothing but the purest of intentions to improve things for the Casual Player Unicorn Grifferbeast, stand up high on your moral high ground and throw very big clods of dirt upon the malificent hordes of conspiring, huddling, prating mass of marketeers, sustaining their conspiracy in the perfect silence that perpetuates an eternal rise in prices, explaining why every thing on the market is now worth 2 billion inf. Somehow, this conspiracy maintains its stranglehold despite the safeguards the market has in place to do so, your factually incorrect statements are merely proof of how right you are, and our pointing it out is evidence of how we fear and tremble at the sight of your towering, gorgeous crusader, the knight templar that stands before the innocent Pheldagryffs who just want to purple their warshades out.Originally Posted by eryq2
Wow, really?
The fact is, if anyone was running a conspiracy, certainly a successful one, anyone at all, do you think that it'd be something that could be actually noticed by someone as ignorant as you? On second thoughts, don't answer that, as you're well aware, no marketeer can read your words directly without passing them through an interpreter, who, as we know, dies of exposure to the Perfect Truth of Saint Eryq.
For those who wish to consider this argumentum ad hominem, remember that such an argument is an accordance of cart-horse ordering: "You're an idiot, therefore you're wrong," is a different creature to "You're wrong, therefore you're an idiot." -
Quote:People who don't understand how to shop cleverly make stupid mistakes. Like people who don't know how to use plural state-of-being-verbs.
how is the prices steadily going up and not down?
Until you can provide proof that the numbers are universally migrating upwards and that it's legitimately driving people away, eryq, all you're doing is what you've ever done, which is complaining about a problem you imagine because it makes you feel good. -
The only thought that sprang to mind looking at the thread title is that Fiery Assault is the Little Black Dress of Dominator secondaries. It goes well with anything.
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Quote:To be fair, when it's not paired with something that also drains endurance, Electric Blast's draining ability seems to draw attention. Elec/Fire, for example, or Elec/Devices.Originally Posted by StarKitten
My Kin/Elec is awesome, and she has no trouble draining EB's of their endurance.The same can be said for my triple electric blaster.
Sounds like you aren't slotting correctly.
I'm myself reluctant to comment too sternly; my elec/elec blaster is that way for thematic reasons, and he's never felt particularly weak, but most of his damage is done in melee. On the face of it, Elec/ is a quirky set, designed to be quirky, designed to feel quirky.
As for the vox populi, I'm afraid that it's hard to make a hard judgment on things like 'seem.' It's exacerbated when you (not you, Starkitten, the original poster) say something along the lines of 'Dark Melee's animations are too long and put you in dangerous positions, soul drain provides an inconsistant benefit for soloists, and it also misses more than any other set.' The easily-debunked third statement colours the first two. -
Quote:Designing features to make the implementation of Miracle globals easier is definitely not going to be a feature for the casual gamer.Originally Posted by Scientist
I was thinking of something less extreme then whats being suggested; a recipe you could craft into an enhancement you could drop on another and pop that ONE enhancement out to your tray. Something which would drop more often then a respec recipe, and would be handy for fixing minor mistakes or making small tweaks to a character, like seeing if a Miracle +Rec fixes your End problems when tanking for a team, which isn't easy to figure out on Test.
Mind you, I have no idea if the game code has a way to support this, I just thought it would be a nice QoL addition. . . -
Quote:His point is, since he can't fight the reasons fundamental to your disagreement, and feels he has the weight of righteousness on his side, his only recourse is to demonise all contrary opinion as being part of an immoral department of self-interested and self-invested conspirators who follow the conspiratory trend of being somehow both sophisticated supergeniuses capable of keeping a thousand plates spinning and at the same time, complete retards unable to adjust to minor shifts in the marketplace. In essence, he is engaging in argumentum ad hominem.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
and....we'd find new ones, just like we've done every time a rule change shook up the status quo.
what's your point?
Those who can't do, complain. -
Me, I found that people would give vituperous negative comments when they did -rep, but never say much of anything when they did +rep. It always made me feel like it was more rewarding to be an ***.
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Quote:Ah, yes, you're quite right, I'd forgotten about making the pet phased.Originally Posted by Trickshooter
Omega Maneuvers holds aggro pretty well and can't be killed (mag100 Untouchable at all times). Disruption Arrow could hold aggro with a taunting aura if it was at least made targettable.