Talen Lee

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Most likely the fire/psi permadom farmers are still crying. Oh well.

[/ QUOTE ]It's funnier if you read their posts in the tone of a shocked septegenarian who's annoyed that they let coloureds into the country club.

Also, note that all the sets with click mez protection happen to be stonkingly good.

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And while we're at it, make the task forces about them not awful.

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If you're referring to the new ones, I like them just fine, maybe a little tweaking but other than that, I like them.

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I don't.

In fact, I think they're awful.

Shucks.

You too.

It sounds like you play with bad players.

It's not 'worst sets.' It's most underperforming. Of course, that's ill defined, but wtfever, eh.

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3. Dark Miasma for Defenders.
Just kinda weak... even if it is kind of nice looking cosmetically.

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Excuse me?

[/ QUOTE ]Isn't it wonderful, the way this thread has put everyone's opinions on equal footing?

And while we're at it, make the task forces about them not awful.

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My Plant/Thorns is only 32, so I'm not entirely qualified to talk here, but I get a lot of mileage out of Fling Thorns. Absolutely terrific attack.

[/ QUOTE ]Yep, but it unlocks at 4. It beggars my imagination. At one point, before I had any 50s, I genuinely asked what was the point of levelling a dominator past 35 - at the time, with the patron pools the way they were, there was no reason to drive on to Thorn Barrage and beyond.

Dark Melee and Energy Melee if you don't mind being single-target focused.

If you value AE more highly, Battle Axe and Fire.

It's worth noting that the purple patch gets kinda weird when softcaps get involved. At least if I understand my tohit mechanisms correctly, the lowest tier of pets fighting an opponent who's +4 to you - like, say, a +1 boss - will be dealing with that opponent having a signficant +tohit bonus.

Could be wrong, I might be mistaking Tohit and Accuracy.

Dark melee, fire armour.

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so far we have... indifference, sarcasm, and "stupid" ... i was hopeing for something a bit more constructive from the Def forum

[/ QUOTE ]There is an archetype called the Dominator. The archetype has an inherent power named Domination. It has two powersets that relate to cold and ice. Neither are 'cold domination.'

This name has been stupid for years. It is not going to get fixed just now because of perceived 'heroicness,' especially because you have a narrow definition of what flavour is and isn't okay.

I use OpenOffice, because I can't afford Office. But let me tell you, there's a [censored] reason that they can charge hundreds of dollars for Office and OpenOffice is free.

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all things considered why is thorn barrage so wimpy

[/ QUOTE ]It's got a long animation time, it does mostly lethal damage, it's single target, and it's got guaranteed knockback. I am honestly flummoxed as to what this power is doing in the tree at the rank it is - there's no surprise and delight, no oomph to thorns at that point. It's very similar to Power Burst, too.

I don't get it. I really don't. If it had perhaps some kind of long-lasting toxic DoT, or the like, it might make more sense, but as it is, level 38 powers continue to be a spectrum of great-or-totally-irrelevant.

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See topic. I have a 46 Fire/Regen Scrapper that I may reroll into MA/WP, given I16's announcement of animation customization for MA.

[/ QUOTE ]Make both.

And as for comparing /regen to /wp...

If you are a bad player who does not like thinking, /wp is way more powerful than /regen.
If you are a good player who likes thinking, /regen is way more powerful than /wp.

The name's been stupid since CoV launch, what makes you think they're going to un-stupid it now?

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It's silly to wear gas masks all the time if there's no reason to.

[/ QUOTE ]Nonsense. The psychological effect of facing down opponents wearing gas masks is pretty significant. You can see propoganda footage from WW2 of troops and even children wearing gas masks in situations where there was no concern about gas, purely because it generated a powerful psychological effect in opponents.

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Oh and for the rest of you out there, this also means you wont have to pirate Office ever again, you can now use it free online, well not now, once it comes out.

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Never had to pirate Office. OpenOffice is free.

[/ QUOTE ]It also feels like steering an [censored] on stilts.

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Okay guys, this isnt a thread calling out to the developers or anything, but its a thread looking to gain enough support in this matter so that the developers may consider our desperate need for energy melee

[/ QUOTE ]You have very odd 'needs.'

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I have not seen a toon with Super Reflexes for a very long time.

[/ QUOTE ]Look harder.

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You write as if Tankers are somehow in need of buffing for buffing's sake. I stopped reading at that point.

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compared to brutes,

[/ QUOTE ]They're not brutes. They're tankers.

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You miss the point.

[/ QUOTE ]No, I don't. I just know you're the kind of player who thinks of your way of playing as better than other people's method of playing, and that in time, as they get better, eventually, everyone will come to agree with you.

If the devs genuinely feel that tankers need a global buff, that tankers were somehow underperforming, they'd have done something in the, oh, say, past two years. But like every other DPS-measuring, resist-tracking, XP/min goggle-eyed forumite mantra-ing to yourself the short, pithy phrases that make perfectly good sense in a vacuum but fail to take into account other people's play styles being completely different.

I love my tankers the way they are. If they get more damage, if they get buffed, some way or other, I'll quietly shrug to myself and roll my eyes and wonder what the [censored] that was about, but accept that more than just myself was taken into account with that change. On the other hand, when they don't get a damage buff, when they don't receive sweeping changes to somehow 'make parity' with Brutes that they don't seem to actually need based on some arbitary thought process that one inherent is 'better' than the other and that fails to take into account that the individual elements that make up an archetype are not balanced against one another, I will sit back and continue playing with gauntlet, enjoying it, noticing it, and glad I have it, wondering what the hell people who don't seem to think such a creature is visible are talking about.

I don't want my tankers to be brutes. And I don't think there's a point ever trying to explain to the players like yourself as to why. I just had fun writing a big bombastic post that I'll read again and giggle to myself, then wonder why the [censored] I bothered. I blame Tim Minchin.

Funny story, friend of mine tried it twice tonight, failed both times. And this other guy I know, listened to anecdotal evidence? Got hit by a truck.

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Also...you don't want any "Patron Pool Powers" or what? I'd highly advise taking them, as they're very helpful/good.

[/ QUOTE ]When I started playing, I could not imagine anyone saying this.

Fixed further.