Talen Lee
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Wait, sorry, many broken bones and potential death isn't an ***-kicking where you come from?
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Quote:Why, so you can watch a trained combat expert kick the **** out of a skinny nerd? What I can do is immaterial. You merely have to point out the widespread use of the whip by police forces to reinforce your point, or the way most countries have stringent whip control laws, or to quote the statistic on yearly deaths in whip fights.Originally Posted by Ahmon
Ur hur. I'd like to see you versus a martial whip. -
In the real world, whips are not in fact, 'very potent weapons,' unless you're using them as the baseline, in which case things like knives and guns become 'COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS' weapons.
Whips don't really do a hell of a lot to people, they need a lot of area to be useful, and the primary force of the thing is dispersed.
Just use a gun already.
Far as a whip set goes... Yes. The presence of a whip set in the game might make a whip set more likely. -
Also note that the Luck Of The Gambler bonus of 7.5% is differently-named and therefore stacks with the 7.5 bonus you find in Gaze of the Basilisk, Sting of the Manticore and Kinetic Crash.
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Quote:Because blasting is more fun, because waiting 41 levels to do direct damage is a chore, because you're less likely to get nerfed, because you have more and more interesting IO options, because you can better leverage several defender powers or powersets.Originally Posted by CoyoteShaman
I'm hoping folks here can supply me with some answers to a basic question. Why would someone play a Defender instead of a Controller? You all know the argument people have for the other way around.
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Quote:But that's only from people who don't understand Gravity, the people who don't love it like you do, the people who aren't allowed to have opinions on Gravity because their opinion doesn't mesh with yours.Originally Posted by DarkCurrent
Would they please raise their hand, then.
Everything I've seen about Dim Shift has ranged from switch it with wormhole to delete it completely and go with 8 powers in the set.
That said, last time this ridiculousness cropped up, there was one vociferous proponent of Gravity who was aggressive and adamant about Dim Shift because it let him dismantle AV spawns. -
Quote:*nods* I was making an assumption based on the way procs in AoE click powers work, conventionally speaking. Thanks for the elucidation.Originally Posted by JuliusSeizure
That's not how the proc worked when it was introduced in issue 10/11 and I tested it. Nor how it worked when my SG mate tried this despite my warnings in issue 14.
I doubt that the proc has changed since then.
EDIT- To be specific, it procs per Click of a skill. This is how a skill like BU can fire it. By making the proc work with BU, it basically breaks and advantage that SD might have. -
Quote:Devil's advocates?Originally Posted by DarkCurrent
What's with all you devil's advocates?
I was just pointing out that you're wrong. -
Quote:Still does what it did before, just less of it.Originally Posted by DarkCurrent
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Quote:It sounds really, really annoying.Originally Posted by Mecha_Titan
I want to take another crack at this
Tankers are given a fury bar similar to Brutes. As the tanker is attacked his fury would
increase. But since a tanker is obviously not a Brute this would not be constantly buffing
the tankers damage. Instead the tanker would have an inherent click power that could be
activated to give the tanker the damage buff for only one ST attack and reset the fury
bar back to zero. In addition maybe something like a PBAOE taunt and a to-hit debuff. Or
maybe take the taunt out and give some kind of leadership style buff to your teammates.
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I'm still not understanding you.
Are you saying that plant/thorn does need fitness early in its life? -
It's less 'those don't count,' and more 'You're wrong.'
Bonus, you left. Twice. You're really bad at that. -
Quote:I'm not sure I understand you.Originally Posted by Shannon_EU
I am seeing builds with fitness pool, now MMV but in the last few levels once you've fully slotted it may not be something that is a requirement. It maybe something that looks like it is in the first few levels due to enhancements and lack of slots but later in levels one can't always be sure even when exemping down.
Are you saying that plant/thorn doesn't need fitness until later in its life? -
Quote:I'm more amused that the 5th column have returned 3 times now and still aren't actually back.Originally Posted by SpittingTrashcan
I'm not terribly keen on more Fifth Column stuff. When the 5th returned in Ouroboros, long time vets squealed. When they showed up in the ITF, they squealed harder. When AE included the 5th as a custom group, many an arc brought us back to the glory days of Nazi-punching. When the 5th were the focus of I15, I wondered why - they were already pretty much back. I think they can be given a rest for a while.
I'm unlikely to get excited about anything involving PvP; it's just not my bag. -
It's okay.
Armed of the People
Little Safety
Equal Station
Impelled Separation
Established Justice
Domestic Tranquility
Common Defence
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Quote:Plus, swinging is a limited option in that it requires the environment to behave in a particular fashion. Specifically, you need things to swing off. Getting across parts of Indy port wouldn't really be very usable with swinging. Same with any part of Grandville outside the city walls.Originally Posted by Dispari
The only type of travel power I can think of we don't have would be swinging of some sort. But that would probably be too similar to Spiderman.
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There's something really cool about the fact that they consider that worthwhile.
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Which country?
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Remember when I did this for thorns? As part of the I15 revamp to Dominators, I did a pass through all my dominators and made some new ones, with the idea I'd see the low-level experience and determine what I thought. One of those builds - because the complaining was so great - was a Fire/Psi. I hadn't levelled one up through the 'hard yards' in the old game (though I did have a grav/psi that I got to 22 out of a sense of bloodymindedness, then deleted because I never wanted to see him again), and this was seen as somehow delegitimizing my opinion.
Now, a bigger man would have ignored such claims as a rule. But a bigger man wouldn't have levelled a mind/energy dominator to 50 purely to prove that you can permadom for a small amount of inf. So, indulging my sense of pettiness, I made a fire/psi, and took him out in a variety of test environments while levelling him up. I feel that some of this information might interesting to share.
The Good
Char, Flashfire and Fire Cages are all the same as they've ever been. Good powers that I'm used to using. The biggest gap in power came at level 12 to 15 when DOs were just not cutting it for my AoE stun, which wouldn't be up every spawn. On small teams, char would do the job because it wasn't up to me to control everything, just whatever was in my grill. On larger teams, the stun became more desireable, and less available. Oh well.
Endurance wasn't the problem I'd heard it would be. I was far more frustrated in the low level region of the game by accuracy woes rather than endurance problems. Looking at the set in mids (which obviously is old info, but it was the resource I had at hand) indicated that it was mostly in my head - there weren't any clear crap powers for accuracy. Still odd.
The Bad
Drain Psyche looked like the bees knees, and one of the things that most excited me about playing the set. I now don't believe I was right in this perspective. Drain Psyche is a great power, but it's not as useful to my playstyle as Stamina - certainly not out of the box. DP needs something in the district of 4 slots, probably 6 to really shine with just SOs, which is a very distinct change in how I expect to play once I get SOs. Rather than go up-and-down I'm planning on respeccing and using 20 to pick up Stamina, and put Drain Psyche as my level 22 or 24, with intent to slot it out.
Psionic Dart has no sockets, Psionic Dart gets no sockets. It still seems like its only purpose is to love-tap opponents (unlike the Elec Assault T1, which seems a lot more of a solid hit). I couldn't pick Mental Blast from Psi Dart, either - they just seem to be there, with a quiet expectation that come 38 I'll probably forget I've got 'em.
The Ugly
Now with the build I have, and the play experience I've had so far, level 38 with PSW actually looks not like an evolutionary change, but a revolutionary change. I fear that come 38, the entire character's playstyle will transform to accommodate thise elephant-in-the-room power.
Fire control's still a little thin for my tastes, and with Psi as its backup instead of Fire, I have more powers I think I should pick up for their niche utility (to combine with my own fear of being caught with my pants down).
Also, the set feels very bleh as far as IO options go. I'm sure I could bust my butt to get high recharge - again - but I don't feel this combo has had anything opened up thanks to the domination changes. I can't see an easy or clear build idea beyond making Drain Psyche permanent and getting Psw to Psw more often. -
It's easier to avoid Longbow than you think. And commanders, while annoying, are not so common that I even knew they did that conf resistance. Besides, that's a useful application of Domination, no?
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I think part of it is the perspective on what you're trying to mitigate. In my view, you're mitigating death, not mitigating HP loss. You suffer no loss in performance or ability as your HP go down. The only HP that matters is the last one.
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Super simple and frankenslotted and missing stuff:
Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.401
http://www.cohplanner.com/
Click this DataLink to open the build!
Level 37 Mutation Dominator
Primary Power Set: Plant Control
Secondary Power Set: Thorny Assault
Power Pool: Fitness
Villain Profile:
Level 1: Strangler -- Lock-Acc/Hold(A), Lock-Acc/Rchg(3), RechRdx-I(3)
Level 1: Thorny Darts -- Acc-I(A)
Level 2: Roots -- AirB'st-Acc/Dmg(A), Det'tn-Acc/Dmg(13), Dmg-I(13)
Level 4: Skewer -- B'Snap-Acc/Dmg(A), B'Snap-Dmg/EndRdx(5), B'ngBlow-Acc/Dmg(5), B'ngBlow-Dmg/EndRdx(19), P'ngS'Fest-Dmg/EndRdx(19)
Level 6: Fling Thorns -- AirB'st-Acc/Dmg(A), AirB'st-Dmg/EndRdx(7), Det'tn-Acc/Dmg(7), Det'tn-Dmg/EndRdx(15), Det'tn-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(15)
Level 8: Seeds of Confusion -- C'phny-Acc/Rchg(A), Pplx-Acc/Rchg(9), C'phny-Acc/Conf/Rchg(9), Pplx-Acc/Conf/Rchg(11), Pplx-Rchg/Conf(11)
Level 10: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 12: TRAVEL POWER PREREQUISITE
Level 14: Health -- Heal-I(A)
Level 16: Aim -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(17), RechRdx-I(17)
Level 18: TRAVEL POWER OF CHOICE
Level 20: Stamina -- EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(21), EndMod-I(21)
Level 22: [Empty]
Level 24: [Empty]
Level 26: Carrion Creepers -- Enf'dOp-Acc/Rchg(A), DblAc-Acc/Rchg(27), Det'tn-Dmg/Rchg(27), AirB'st-Dmg/Rchg(29), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(29), Dmg-I(31)
Level 28: [Empty]
Level 30: [Empty]
Level 32: Fly Trap -- SvgnRt-Acc/Dmg(A), BldM'dt-Acc/Dmg(33), BldM'dt-Dmg(33), Dmg-I(33)
Level 35: Ripper -- C'ngBlow-Acc/Dmg(A), M'Strk-Acc/Dmg(36), M'Strk-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(36), Dmg-I(36), KinCrsh-Rechg/EndRdx(37), FrcFbk-Rchg/EndRdx(37)
Level 38: [Empty]
Level 41: [Empty]
Level 44: [Empty]
Level 47: [Empty]
Level 49: [Empty]
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Domination
That look like a good place for you to start? Myself, I'm very fond of the minimalistic frankenslotting, especially now permadom is NBNN. -
I'm more wondering where this dovetails into the idea that this power, out of the box, should be so endurance and effort intensive. Or how its two gateway powers are on par with hasten/combat jumping/hover/air superiority.
Someone has to have the worst gateway, I suppose. -
Quote:Stone might have to find a way to deal with its drawbacks? Horrors.Originally Posted by Ahmon
Well, if it were designed to not work if you were slowed or immobilized, the Stone set would be a lot less attractive.
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It's spelled 'brooch' people! Broach is a verb, not a noun!
(I think)