Aett_Thorn

First off, welcome to the forums!

Secondly, a search would probably have benefited you, since a number of these have been suggested before. However, since you're new, I'll go through them individually:

1) Sports pack: Skateboards are unlikely to happen, but possible, since it could basically be a skin change for the Prestige Power Slide. Not sure how much work this would be, but would be tough to work in with power animations, unless it was just a power effect, and not an actual item.

2) Creature Pack: Could be potentially a LOT of work, depending on how you imagine this to work with power animations. Would you be able to attack while walking on all fours, or would you have to stand first? Wall crawling is VERY unlikely to happen, since it requires the collision engine to work in a way that it can't currently support.

3) Droid Pack: Unlikely, since it basically necessitates a new skeleton be created, and every animation in the game to be created anew for the new skeleton.

In short, no. Using only the color combination is not going to get you in trouble.

Now, if you combine that with a similar name or backstory, THAT could get you in trouble. But a color combo won't be enough.

I think that you are severely understating the complications that this would cause. I am going to point out a few specific items where this comes up.

When I open your build, I see 90% S/L, 31.1% E/NE, 32.3% C/F Resistance. Toxic: 31.1%, and Psi is 0%. So, it might be that you're using an older version of Mid's?


Edit -> Yup, you're using version 1.6 something. The current version is 1.8. Remove the current version, and download the latest.

If you can keep the enemies in the AoE, then it's a great power. However, enemies will try to run out of the area. As a /Fire Tanker, you have few mitigation tools to help you keep the enemies in the AoE. However, Ice Storm does have a slight -runspeed effect, and combined with the -speed of Chilling Embrace, it should slow the enemies down enough to do a lot of damage to them.

Still, if you're looking for a thematic APP to take on your Tank, and to help deal more AoE damage, then the Fire APP is likely better. Fireball does less potential damage, but is up much faster, doing more damage over time, usually.

I do like how you bring up certain points that would need to be addressed, and then you don't address them.

Yes, this could be cool.


However, how do you handle all of the pool powers, not just the travel pools? How would you handle these characters only able to get the base costume slot, when all other characters get 5-6 costume slots available to them? How would you handle even using a temp power, which all current ATs can use?

This would really be a lot of work for the Devs, since, besides the current powers that the Tarantulas already have, the Devs would need to make new animations for every other power they would get, plus the pool powers, plus and Ancillary/Patron pools they would have access to, PLUS any temp power they could possibly find.

That is a decent problem, and is not just a knee-jerk reaction.

Yes they do, and will get to you as soon as they can. It depends on how many other petitions are in front of you, and how you worded it, really.

Sigh...


It's not extraordinary synergy, but it is synergy nonetheless. On a set like fire, where the mitigation is fairly low, having some direct mitigation is pretty nice. And since Fire relies on it's resistance plus a fast recharging heal, having less damage incoming is nice.

Mine is only level 10, so take this with a grain of salt:

But it should be a pretty decent combo. The -resist of the attacks stacks nicely with the resistance of Fire Armor. It's not a straight stacking like -ToHit and Defense is, but they work nicely together. Basically, if an attack would land that would do 100 points of damage, you have 40% resistance to the attack, then normally you would take 60 damage. If you have stacked -21% damage on the foe, then he will normally deal 79 damage, but with your resistance, that gets dropped to 47.4, saving you 31.6 damage taken.

Also, one of the weaknesses of Kinetic Melee is in AoE damage, which is more than made up for in the Burn + Blazing Aura combo. In this way, Fire Armor actually helps plug a hole in the secondary, when normally it's the other way around.

The knockdowns and stuns in Kinetic Melee can help with mitigation until Healing Flames is back up, and against hard single targets, Fiery Embrace + Power Siphon will let you add a lot of damage to your attacks for a little while.


I'm really looking forward to leveling mine up.

It depends more on the powersets in question than anything else. For instance, a Super Reflexes Scrapper is going to want to try to get Melee/Ranged/AoE Defense, since he already has those. Same for both a Shield/ Tanker and a /Shield Scrapper.

Now, an Invulnerability or Ice tanker, since they have typed defenses within their armors, want to get more S/L Defense.

Basically, you want to try to get more of what you already have.

No, those are not typos. They are the actual names of the neighborhoods. Baumton only got turning into "Boomtown" after the explosion, for example.

Not all animations are the same if you use a shield. The Stone Melee mallets are two-handed usually, but are one-handed when using a shield. They change the animations if they would look too stupid, or they couldn't make them work with the shield.

Well, with the Bruising ability, you should be using Frozen Fists a decent amount of the time, so you might as well slot it!

Ace, that is awesome. Might have to keep that one somewhere.

Eden, I think that your lack of replies mainly stems from the fact that your question is just so broad that many might see it as tough to answer.

Will a Shield/Ice Tanker be good? Yes

What kind of advice do I have for you as a newbie to tanking:

1) Take Taunt at level 10. Since this is your first time Tanking, you should get the best tool for the job. If, later on down the road, you find that you aren't using it that much, then you can drop it if you want to (although with the -range debuff on it, I'd take it on almost every Tank I make). As a Tanker, teams will be relying on you to take the hits for them, and Taunt lets you do that reliably from a low level.

2) You're going to be squishy on a full team unless you have support. Until level 22 when you get SOs and have a decent amount of slots in your core defensive powers, you might feel like you're a little weak. Do not be afraid of saying that you need some support in a team in the lower levels (or ever, really). You're making sure that they're not being hit, they should be able to help you out, too. Once you get into the mid-20s, though, you'll feel a lot tougher.


How is the Shield/Ice combo?

It should be pretty good. You're getting into Ice Melee now that it is no longer Le Suck (that's right, it sucked so bad it was in French). It has some nice synergies, with Ice Melee's controls allowing you to fuel Against All Odds and give yourself a nice damage buff without taking a lot of damage in return. Also, the combination of Shield Charge plus Frozen Aura should be a really nice combo. This is especially true because Shields doesn't have a damage aura, so you can actually make use of the sleep effect in Frozen Aura.





Damnit, now I want to make one. Altitus strikes again.

I believe that it will force a redraw of an Arachnos Mace, and then a redraw of the regular mace you use when you go back to using those powers.

Is this going to be for a completed build, or a leveling-up build?

If you're planning on leveling this up, I'd HIGHLY recommend putting off Death Shroud for a while. That power, while nice, is an end hog before you get Stamina and SOs to help mitigate it. You'll want to make sure that you have enough endurance to hit Dark Regen whenever you need it.

You'll probably only need either Cloak of Fear or Oppressive Gloom. If you go Cloak of Fear, again, you'll want to put it off until after Stamina. I'd actually probably say take Oppressive Gloom instead of Cloak of Fear, though, so that way you're not as endurance starved all the time. Oppressive Gloom runs on HP, instead of Endurance, but this is largely irrelevant between your Tanker HP and Dark Regen anyways.

Weave is going to largely be useless to you, unless you'll have other sources of Defense to stack it with.