Wytch_EU

@ Wytc is a series of random consonants.

Not wanting an EU suffix, I'm going to have to change mine completely.

Any ideas for a change that won't be taken?

I think we can assume anything witch related will be already

I for one will almost certainly be having to change my global once the merge occurs. I have an EU after my board name already.

I don't mind so much but... losing a handle that has been my identity with the eu community for 6 years for something that won't even bear a resemblence -because all the 'good' names have been taken - will be very hard.

Appending EU and/or NA to names imho is not the best idea. Amongst other things its devisive. Probably not a huge amount given the friendliness of the CoX community, but it is. All labels are.

This linky should show my complete roster dressed in their classic cossies.
Possibly ...
If it works...

-> Roster <-

I think it just got a bit older and can't get up and about as easily as it used to be able to - let it have an afternoon snooze and I'm sure it'll be back to it's old shenanigans soon enough. ^^

Happy Birthday MC (even though i totally forgot )!

/loc is the command you're looking for; will print your location in the chat window.

Many Happy Returns Cry!

Here is my list of the powers I enjoy using the most.

Near misses were Salt Crystals and Stalagmites; I couldn't seperate them for the last slot. Fortunately I remembered I liked Rise of the Pheonix more and both lost out.

Honorable mentions go to Short Circuit, Animate Stone, Sonic Dispersion and Lightning Cloud... and to be honest an awful lot of other powers.
Why did I even make this list?

Flurry
Waft rules! I love this animation, even if it does feel like you're hitting thin air. This is the only power in the game that feels more appropriate, and I find more enjoyable, when it misses!

Power Thrust
This, on the other hand is a power that always makes me feel like my character has really connected. The animation is simple but ideal and the effect very satisfying. The enjoyabilty of this power is inversely exponential to the level of mob you are using it on!

Levitate/Lift
More fun with flinging mobs! This time the enjoyment is derived from the multitudenous, and bizarre, ways and places in which rag-doll mobs can land.

Telekinesis
Close call between this and Wormhole. The amusement I inexplicably derive from the gentle bobbing motion of the mobs, on their slow inexhorable float away, just edged it for TK in the end.

Team Teleport
Muaahahaha! Baffle your friends and amuse your enemies!
In a fit of subtle irony this power is one of the least team friendly and most requested to be not used by teammates.
To be used sparingly and not without caution, but a lot of fun for me, if not for everyone else!

Rise of the Phoenix (self resurection)
This is the power that makes playing Mephyt* suicidally a valid tactic! I can't think of a better endorsement!

Acid Mortar
This is my favourite power of all. I always bring a spare to an AV battle.

* Mephyt is a leccy/energy/fire blaster. Do not be concerned for her wellbeing, death is simply part of her attack chain. If she dies enough maybe the Crey Industries™ lawsuit** will go away.
** No comment.

Are coloured macros possible?
And/or allowing us to right click on one once made and select an icon for it?

Allow us to use crafting stations to break unslotted IO's back into their component parts, for the same cost as crafting them?

I have no idea why I suggested that it just seemed cool

/em pitchforks n' torches

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A Defender who can heal can be a MUST for a teams survival, ofcouse a bubbler or TA can too, but it's mainly healing that will be required...



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Or people could change tactics and not just charge everything head on and hope they don't die. Playing to your teammates strengths can be a MUST.

Yes getting mezzed is annoying.
But the whole point was to create weaknesses for certain AT's that were balanced by the powers and strengths in other players sets. Doing so thereby creates additional player benefit from teaming with other AT's. Imo this is something not given enough consideration in most other MMOs where benefit is largely only derived from teaming with a tank or healing class.

Lack of mez resistance is one of the defender's chosen weaknesses.

The reason blasters got their very wierd 'shoot while mezzed' part of their inherent was to help address a serious weakness in their survivability, something not mirrored as an issue with defenders.

The only thing I find odd about the current defender inherent is that it doesn't also key off of their own health.


Enough seriousnessness...

Heal arrows ftw! They're my fave kind

Oooo! Can anyone have a go a this?

Here's the sort of thing I'd expect to see( plus a couple of things I'd like to see )

Thorn Blast

1) Thorny Darts
2) Thorny Spears* (single target ranged, moderate lethal/dot toxic, -def)
3) Fling Thorns
4) Sweeping Spears* (cone knockback, minor lethal/ dot toxic)
5) Thorn Barrage
6) Aim
7) Impale
8) Hail of Thorns* (aoe ranged, moderate dot lethal/toxic, chance of knockdown, -def)
9) Needle Storm* (pbaoe, extreme lethal/dot toxic, immobilise)

Thorns is most likely not to have a sniper power, but instead have more utility effects not unlike sonic and ice.
Hence Hail of Thorns; which should work similarly to the Freezing Rain power, but with a shorter duration, less debuffing and slightly improved damage.

Creatively, I see nothing wrong with the concept of firing a whole bunch of thorns in the air at once and watching them fall to the ground. I just didn't see them doing as much damage as a nova.


Thorn Manipulation

1) Entangle
2) Skewer
3) Thorn Burst
4) Puncture* (single target melee, high lethal/dot toxic, -def)
5) Build Up
6) Quills
7) Thorntrops
8) Sap* (single target melee, foe -end - recovery -regen (-recharge?), self +end +recovery +regen)
9) Ripper (improved - extreme lethal/dot toxic)

Thorn Burst is here as it matched similar decisions in fire and the recently proliferatied mental powers.

Sap seems more the sort of thing they might add. The animation would be relativly easy to tweak from existing ones and it fills the same role in similar slots to other drain powers. It can be slightly more powerful than those others, because of its single target nature and likely lengthy recharge.

From a creative standpoint, sticking a thorn in someone and sucking out their energy seemed reasonably thematic.
A tad unheroic perhaps; but then fussing much about that seems silly in the face of attacks routinely using fire, electricity, darkness, and bullets.

That was fun, lets do some more!

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NCSoft has bought a brewery and starts rewarding every 50-ding with a keg of beer.

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/signed while continuously drooling

wait a sec...what about the under 18s? what do they get...Ribena?

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They get a keg of beer too, but it has to be held in trust until they ding 18 years

Edit: Heya Carni! Hope the USing goes well

It occurs to me that any possible version of the nemesis system might not work if you didn't have access to both games.

Also depending on how the player-created content is planned to work, an inability to design either villain or hero ATs might be a drawback.

Having said that, the thing that might be most hampered by players not owning both games is the updated base raid system; bases were originally CoV only.

Whatever the reason: Yey for the promise of new content!

I've never ever built a character (deleted or otherwise) with matching primary and secondary powers. (No fire/fire or archery/ta etc)

Unless I have and have forgotten about it

Cowbells for Kittens.

Better yet; Cowbells for New Issues.
So that the Kittens can hear them coming and run.

Run Kittens Run!

I think i13 might contain some version of the nemesis/av system.

Dark Astoria will partially fall into the sea, creating a haunted underwater zone, with mer-zombies, or possibly just normal ones since zombies can't drown.

Boomtown will be hijacked by the Mad Scientists Union™, who have come to believe that building a Gigantic Potato Cannon there is a necessity; the only way to certainly defeat the Coming Storm™

Various villain groups will try to cease the G.P.C. and turn it upon both Paragon City and the Rogue Isles.
The zone will be divided into two parts: one co-op where the players strive to destroy the G.P.C. and end the city wide potato shortage it has caused, and one free for all pvp where they will fight each other, to the last man, for the roast potatoes it produces as a side effect!

There will finally be a co-op tf versus the combined forces of the Mad Scientists Union™

It's quite possible I am in a 'very silly mood*™' today.

I'm not going to suggest a build. I believe everyone plays differently, and trial and error with a little advice, is usually the best way for a player to find the best build combination for their playstyle

This is why we were given respecs

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In the PvE game I always prefer TP on stormies rather than Fly as its great with Hurricane, you can insta-move and repel enemies in a certain direction rather than trying to run about with it on.

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Heya Carni.

While teleport is way cool with storm for the most part, and something everyone should try, I'm going to disagree in this case.

There's some neat tricks with hover and hurricane that allow you to do KD on enemies rather than KB. At the very least, it gives you a more controllable kb effect.

Given that storm/sonic has two kb cones that double as soft control, you likely won't want the mobs flying in fifty different directions by tping into the middle of them with hurricane.

Fly is likely not the wrong choice here as it gives you more control over where mobs get kb'd to.

Personally I'd have loved to have been able to take hover and Superjump with this combo, but there are zero ways of doing it without effectively wasting a power slot.

Yes, this is yet another slightly obscure combo I've tried.

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In the end, this set is not incredibly overpowered, or good enough to deserve a nerf. Even if this nerf is a by-product of another nerf, which by itself would be tolerable.


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In my opinion its a very well balanced set as is.

I have to say, I fail to see why, if the power is now spamming 4 times less often, the chance for hold etc shouldn't be 4 times greater; which would directly preserve functionality.

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Strange, the hordes of happy traps Corruptors with their incredible arsenal of undeniable might is absent on the server I play on. And players never ask for them either.

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Which largely demonstrates the "Incredible Stupidity of the Masses"™ rather than any weakness in /traps.

While i do think its odd that Corruptor traps has the same numbers as the MM version, it is by no means weak. Its strengths are somewhat concealed by its static nature and longish recharges. But don't tell anyone because then we'll start to see the real nerfs

Time bomb still needs sorting though

Having finally had a chance to test this; the changes do seem to have minimal effect.

I am however noticing a few odd things - none of the mobs I tested on seemed to be throwing up anymore and a fair few seemed unnaffected by the -res, did not choke, but stood dead still not animating for 4 or 5 seconds before finally running away.
Has anyone else noticed this as it may be a animation bug?

I don't really know what the OP was expecting.

There are only a few types of power in the game, being as there are only so many stats that can be affected by those powers.
Four years in, to any game, seeing something that does anything genuinely new would suprise the socks off of me.

Myself, I would have prefered more debuffs instead of the usual attack/buff combinations (I also think stalkers could have benefited from mixing a bunch of single target debuffs in with their shields; this only goes to show im a big fan of debuffs ) but then they'd probably just be a varition on corruptors/defenders and really not anything new.

As for the video. Before seeing it, I was considering not playing until i13 as i12 has been that uninteresting to me.
After seeing it, I'm ready to, at least, give the VEAT's a tryout before consigning them forever to the twilight zone of 'dull things that don't enthuse me about i12'.

So I guess the video did its job.
My congrat's to the devs

[u]The Love Bug – Epilogue[u]


Extract from transcripted recording of Incident X159z7362a. M.A.G.I. report archive.

Pg3

Crabtree, Eutheginia exits room. Door slams.

B.Love: Pfft. Laughs.

E.Love: I don’t know what you’re laughing at young lady; you are in so much trouble.

Laughter subsides.

E.Love: (Addressing construct) Pick up the box.

Noise of metal case being lifted.

E.Love: Ok. Now that we don’t have an audience. (beat) I’ve just about had it with you. Get the hell out of there right now.

Several seconds of silence.

E.Love: Fine. We’ll do it my way. (Addressing construct) Shake the box. Hard.

Noises of small object rattling around inside metal case. Small nearly inaudible Oofs and Ows. The ratting ceases. A sound like a wet slap and other Oof.

E.Love: Stop. (beat) Now what exactly do we have here. You’re way too small to be a gremlin. What are you, a glitch?

Hiccup: im a hiccup.

E.Love: Laughs. Good Lord!

Hiccup: if im lucky, i’ll be promoted to hitch after this.

E.Love: Ha.

Hiccup: perhaps you could put in a good word for me with my supervisor?

E.Love: Perhaps. It was good work, but you’re a little outside your field aren’t you?

Hiccup: tell me about it, humans are one thing, but machines. oy!

B.Love: I think I might go see if Miss Crabtree’s…


Pg 4

E.Love: Shush Bunny. (beat) This brings us to an important question doesn’t it? Just how did you get inside that computer?

Hiccup: that’s an interesting story that is. i was minding me own business catching up on the paperwork, there’s a lot of paperwork in my business, lot of forms what with the summonings, and the contracts, and the reports. a friend of mine got her i132’s and her i145’s mixed up just last week and…(beat) sorry. Well anyway I was minding me own when out of nowhere there was this whooshing and i’m thinking hold up i don’t have another summoning schecuduled til next friday week, and just as i was thinking maybe i’d signed up for overtime and was expecting a nice warm throat,(beat) suddenly y’see i was in this tiny pink box with all these fancy shiny bits inside…

Several seconds of silence.

B.Love: What?

E.Love: Bunny?

B.Love: It wasn’t me I was just…

E.Love: Bunny!

B.Love: It was just that, well I just wanted to beat Ginny at …

E.Love: Bunny how many time’s have I told you. Minor fiend’s are not toys!

B.Love: But Mom, Ginny’s such a cheat she’s got these…

E.love: I’m very disappointed, young lady.

B.Love: I was gonna put him back right after, honest.

Several seconds of silence.

Hiccup: Can I go now. I’ve got a mountain of paperwork to catch up on.

Recording ends.

[u]The Love Bug – Part 2[u]

“Well,” said the Wytch, Mistress of the Arcane, “it’s certainly not cursed.

Eutheginia felt somewhat disappointed, this woman was not at all what she’d expected. While the green hair and black clothing were possibly moody, even mysterious as a stretch, the Wytch herself behaved nothing like a costumed hero. She was entirely lacking the gravitas.

“And if it were haunted there’d be significantly more wailing and dripping of ectoplasm.” said the Wytch, Master of the Way of the Spectral Hand.

“Also it would likely be floating at least three more feet above the ground and trying to kill you.”

The teacher looked on as the Wytch prodded the computer case experimentally with a booted foot. Following the reopening of the green line extension, Eutheginia had received an invitation to visit a cousin in Salamanca. First hand experience had taught her that the witches of Croatoa were the real stuff of pointy hats and black cats. Admittedly this woman did have a cat, but it was pink and white, made of threadbare cloth and apparently attached to the shoulder of her t-shirt with several large safety pins.

“Also there’d be a lot more pumpkins. Probably. Ish.”

“There weren’t any pumpkins inside when you opened it?”

‘David from Technical Support mumbled a no. He’d been somewhat subdued since the woman had arrived. Maybe he’d met her before in his alternative capacity. Miss Crabtree was beginning to wish that she’d leave, some more alone time with the good ‘Captain’ might yet salvage her evening. Instead, the Wytch continued her interminable perusal of the dysfunctional machine, now pressing a few keys.

“Hic!” “Hic!” “Hic!”

“Hic!”

The last one was from a grinning Bunny Love, perched atop a nearby table. It caught her a stare that would have turned a Basilisk to stone. The child went quiet and began intently studying her own swinging feet. Perhaps the woman had some power after all, Eutheginia mused, anyone who could keep Bunny under control…

“It’s possessed.” announced the Wytch, increasingly impatient Mother of Bunny Love.

“Probably a minor imp of some sort… or a Gremlin.”

“Ah, Gremlins!” said ‘David from Technical Support’, “Well there’s not much I can do about that, and you seem to have a firm grasp of the situation…”

‘David from Technical Support’’s finely sculpted bottom disappeared out of the door with unnatural haste. Eutheginia found herself wishing she’d been smart enough to engineer such an opening.

“Is there anything you could do to get it out of there, Miss Love?”

“Mrs Love.”

There was a Mr Love? The teacher was taken slightly aback by the idea, but she supposed in retrospect that, obviously, there must have been.

“Is there anything you could do to get it out of there please, Mrs Love?”

“Hum, I guess I could perform an exorcism or something”

Eutheginia suddenly found she had very little desire to be in the room. Or the building. Wasn’t ‘Technical Support’ based in ‘C’ block? That would be at nearly the very opposite end of the campus from here.

“Might I have a glass of water please, Miss Crabtree”

This seemed more normal and Eutheginia was more than happy to comply.

“Bunny, one of your text books honey! Math if you have one.”

“Y’s Mom.”

Eutheginia filled a plastic cup with water from the small metal sink in the supply closet. What did Math have to do with magic? Still, she was hardly the expert.

“No Math on Monday. Will Biology do?”

“Sure, Honey!”

The teacher returned with the water, watching as the Wytch tore a page from the text and began folding it into a something that looked like a cube with three sides. Well, if you didn’t look at it for too long it did, anyway. This was fine with Eutheginia who found that looking at it for more than a few seconds made the inside of her head feel like it was on the outside of her head. Finished, the Wytch placed the paper ‘cube’ on the desktop and began fishing in her purse, retrieving first a stainless-steel lighter, then a black plastic ballpoint with a chewed cap. She placed the lighter on the desk in-between the text book and the ‘cube’.

“Thankyou, Miss Crabtree”

The Wytch drank the water in one long gulp, then placed the pen upright in the empty cup, to the left of the text book. Finally she dragged the computer into a clear space on the floor. Eutheginia began to remember what was about to happen.

“Should I leave the room?”

“Nah, I doubt there’ll be much in the way of spinning heads or vomit.”

The Wytch winked. She retrieved the cup from the desk and stood before the demon infested electronica, cup in one hand and pen in the other.

“Plastic’s far from ideal for this bit, but it’s the thought that counts.”

She waggled the pen back and forth inside the cup, it made a plasticy ‘Tok’’Tok’ Tok’ noise.

“With this Bell I summon thee!”

My God! Thought Eutheginia Crabtree, she really believes this. The Wytch took up the text book.

“With these Words of Law I bind thee!”

There really should be a gale from blowing up from hell, thought the teacher. The room remained defiantly breeze-free, except for a few mild gasps from the ancient air conditioning.
The Wytch took up the lighter. It steadfastly refused to light. The Wytch shrugged and held it aloft anyway.

“With this flame I command thee! Appear!”

…

…


“no!”

The voice was greasy and jagged and… small.

“With this flame I command thee!”

“bugger off!”

The voice was reedy and tinny, amplified by the metal case of the desktop computer.

“Appear!”

“ you must be daft if you think I’m coming out there, all unprotected like!”

The Wytch gave a deep sigh. She picked up the small ‘cube’ holding very carefully with just the fingertips of both hands. To Eutheginia’s mind the woman looked as if she believed it might bite one of her fingers off. Then the Wytch flung her arms wide away from the ‘cube’ at some speed. Purple space folded and unfolded about the object for what seemed an eternity. A few seconds later a man shaped piece of space hovered in the air before her. Eutheginia found she couldn’t recall how it had got there. Mist or possibly steam began to form in the air about the Wytch and when she next spoke the teacher knew not to refuse her.

“I suggest you might like to leave now.”

Eutheginia left the room, closing the door firmly behind her.

Five minutes later it was, somehow, all over. Mrs Love exited the classroom looking quite calm and, Eutheginia noted approvingly, now holding Bunny’s confiscated pink game device. Mrs Love apologised for any inconvenience and left the same way as she arrived by foot through the front door. The classroom, Miss Crabtree discovered to her delight, was now slightly cleaner and tidier that when the woman had arrived. The computer was now fully functional and at it sat an unhappy looking Bunny Love, slowly and deliberately typing over and over the same, cryptic single line of text.

“Minor fiends are no compensation for a lack of hand eye co-ordination”

That evening ‘Miss Mentalism’ and ‘Captain Capacitance’ would enjoy a crisp, cheap, glass of Chablis together.

[u]The Love Bug.[u]


“Don’t think I won’t see you lurking there Bunny Love!”

Eutheginia Crabtree was a twelve year veteran in the war against unruly seventh graders. In a city where super-powers were as ubiquitous as polished smiles were in a boy band, the precognition displayed by teachers around their students was often a more genuine talent. In this case Eutheginia had required none of her natural abilities to foresee that the hall beyond the empty doorway would contain a pink clad pre-teen, likely come in search of her, equally pink, and freshly confiscated, electronic handheld device.

“I was just getting something from my locker, Miss Crabtree.”

The vacant doorframe spoke in a sweet, singsong accent that was slightly undermined by just a hint of Northern English around the edges.

“Bunny, your locker isn’t even in this building!”

Eutheginia felt the girl edge into view, her attention, however, was focused elsewhere; occupied, as it was, on thoughts of her afternoon lesson plan, her aching calves and of the sculpted, overall clad, rear-end that jutted from below the desk in front of her.

“Er… I was getting something from Ginny Wellmont’s locker?”

“You have something stored in Virginia’s locker? Bunny?”

“Er… Yes?” said the child, hopefully.

Miss Crabtree wondered if ‘David from Technical Support’ worked out; his physique certainly seemed somewhat abnormal for his line of work. Of course, this was Paragon City and it was possible, even probable, that his mild mannered and very well toned exterior was merely an alter-ego.

“What, might I ask, could you possibly have stored in Virginia’s locker, Bunny?”

“Er…”

Eutheginia had briefly worn the spandex herself, but had soon discovered her interest lay largely with the viewing of men in tight fitting outfits, and that the reality of wrestling them to the ground was significantly more fun in the comfort of her own home, when their intentions were something other than her immediate demise. Given her outfit at the time their intentions had often clearly been something and her immediate demise but that had been a cold comfort.

“A book perhaps?”

“Er… Yes, she lent a…”

“Borrowed, Bunny”

“…borrowed a text book from me.” a broad smile of palpable relief beamed from the girl.

She had kept the costume of course, and attended a regular dancercise class.

“You’d best hurry along and retrieve it then?”

The girl started from the doorway.

“Bunny, Dear?”

“How do you plan to open Virginia’s locker without her locker key?”

Eutheginia could feel the girl’s grimace. Retrieving the offending plastic object of contention from where it lay, amid a myriad of discarded computer innards atop the desk, she proffered it to the child.

“Than’you Miss Crabtree”

Returning her attention to more immediate concerns, the teacher used her ‘gift’ to confirm that loosening the top button of her blouse, had lead to an evening with a bottle of fine wine and ‘David from Technical Support’’s lycra clad buns. The lycra, apparently would be blue and white, and she was fairly sure that if she leaned forward just so, and feigned a touch more interest in his work, that ‘Captain Capacitance’ would spend the evening revealing a little more than his secret identity to her.

Perfectly on cue, the repairman finished his work and drew himself up to an eyeful of Miss Crabtree’s carefully arranged vista. She found the way he feigned clumsy embarrassment by bumping his head on the desk quite adorable, and the way he adjusted his unnecessarily thick-rimmed glasses was just sweet.

“Did you find the problem then David?”

The computer had been playing up nearly all the way through her seventh grade English class. So had Bunny Love, until the confiscation of her infernal device.

“I believe so Eutheginia” The computer genius rapidly forgetting his Clark Kent routine in the face of triumph.

The computer had displayed a variety of odd symptoms starting with a simple refusal to show the page of work she had selected. The system would suddenly, and without any prompt, skip forward several pages. The first few times this happened she had put down to more of Bunny’s mischief; but the girl had protested innocence and after a while this had stopped of its own accord. Then, first the lettering, followed slowly by the rest of the display, had turned a shade of sickly green.
As the computer screen flickered back into life ‘David from Technical Support’ was treated to the kind of look that would ensure neither party would be ‘in costume’ for a great deal of their evening together. Of course none of this would have happened had the computer responded to being rebooted or hadn’t insisted on producing a small ‘Hic’ noise whenever a key was pressed. Miss Crabtree was now quite glad she had finally been forced to call the IT guy.

“There we are! Nothing in days work for Technical Support Man!”

‘David from Technical Support’ turned to smile at her, in victorious conquest of his foe. He moused over and clicked on ‘Start’.

“Hic!”

Eutheginia’s perfect evening suddenly drowned in a tide of sickly green.

“No! No! No! Work damn you! I’ve replaced every damn component! The damn thing’s Cursed”

“My Mom say’s you shouldn’t swear at inanimate objects”

A nearly sweet, singsong voice.

“Bunny!?”

“I was just leaving Miss Crabtree, only…”

“Yes Bunny?”

“Maybe it is cursed?” said the girl in the doorway, looking ever so serious.

“And if it is… maybe my Mom could help?”

Ty all

Imo redraws not much of an issue as the nature of /ta tends to mean you will lay a lot of debuffs and then attack rather than mixing them, well at least thats what i find myself doing