Berzerker_NA

This has got to have been suggested about a million times, but I don't mind suggesting it again. It doesn't change the game at all in terms of mechanics, but it would be nice for players that want a martial-arts-ish themed character that does other things too.

Reasons:

1) - The animations already exist. Why not use them?

2) - The change would be almost universally loved.

3) - Maelstrom gets a martial-arts looking kick, but we players don't = no fairs!

This combination seems like it would be really powerful, if only because of the recharge intensive pet you get from Storm, but if I do this will anyone want to team with me still? The KB involved would just plain be sick!

Also, would taking group fly help anything? I've heard people say the KB becomes KD, but I've never actually tried it.

Now.... if you use this power on most normal teams, under normal circumstances, I am quite sure you will be kicked, and every teammate will remove you from their friends list if you were previously on it but...

What about if you're on a team of doofuses and one of them decides to aggro three mobs at once? Would this power be an effective way of saving your team from the hospital?

I think people get mad at Merks because they really want to play the soldiers theme out, but the set doesn't deliver on their power and effectiveness expectations. However, the set has some advantages that the others really don't offer.

1) - The def debuffs on your soldiers's attacks cause enemies to aggro to them overwhelmingly. It's very rare for a mob to spend anytime at all attacking my character, even if she joins in and attacks. (My ninja MM on the other hand, almost always has a stray minion or two attacking her.)

2) - Your opponent is massively def debuffed, so you hardly ever miss.

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Personally I really hate hosping, so #1 is a huge plus, because if the battle starts to go badly I can just retreat and leave my poor minions to die while I casually walk back to the elevators.

3) - About half the time, the def debuffs trigger an AV's retreat instinct, obviating the need to pop purples or even heal my soldiers during the battle because the AV won't fight back anyway.

In addition to what Aet Thorn was saying, Chilling Embrace will accept enhancements from the Slow set IO's, and those sets have accuracy enhancements in them, so you could add accuracy that way. Absorption similarly accepts enhancements from the Endurance Modification IO's, which have accuracy enhancements.

I'm thinking that if I just want to deal double damage, I'll hit my opponent twice. Why placate them, then attack them once for the same damage as two attacks?

But I don't know how it plays out against AV's and such. Can you just keep placating an AV, then assassin strike them?

I'm kind of new to this AT. Just got my stalker to level 10. Is one of these better than the other as a supplement to your natural stealth? I always hear people complain about teaming with Stalkers who don't take an additional power.

I notice that super speed drops your threat level instead of only adding to your stealth radius, but concealment uses less end so you could have it going all the time.

I just want to know how Detonation is for them. Do they put the bomb on the ground, or just blow up?

I guess it depends on whether you're a gambling man/woman. Myself, I kind of like seeing the dice roll every round. I'm thinking I'll put 2 accuracy/end redux enhances on it (whichever ones build toward the best set bonuses), and then 4 damage procs, if all 4 of them are really going to be able to work.

Since we're talking about a Granite Tank here, every 10 seconds is probably better than I'd get slotting it to an actual attack.

I would think the best combination would be elec/kinetic melee, since you can fire your attacks off faster if you take the speed power from elec, enabling you to stack up kinetic -damage debuffs/+damage buffs. Elec is all resistance, no defense, so I don't think pairing it with /dark would ever be any fun.

If you go electric/sonic, can you put disruption field on your Voltaic Sentinel?

Is there a limit on how many damage procs you can add to an aura and have them all still work? I see the aura for the stone set has quite a few possibilities, since it accepts set IO's for immobilize, slow, and of course... pbaoe.

I'm building up a stone/axe tank, and I want a stealth power to go with my teleport power (teleport is pretty much mandatory, lol. ) I think I'll go with 3 powers from the set whichever I choose, just to have a safety button.

So, if I go SS, I'll take Hasten, then SS, then Whirlwind.

Pros: Hasten is really nice. I've tested whirlwind on rooted, but I don't know if it will work with Granite.

Cons: SS won't work with Granite, so I can only stealth while not using it.

If I go concealment, I'll take Stealth, then Invisibility, then Ethereal Shift

Pros: Stealth adds 2.5% def and works with Granite. Invisibility adds 10% (together with Granite Armor, that should be enhanceable to soft cap), but makes you -100 threat level, so it might not be good to activate in a fight.

Cons: The slow from Stealth, together with Rooted/Granite means I barely walk at maybe 3 mph, if I use it.

I've been playing a stone/axe so far up to level 20, and I'm starting to run into a serious problem that I hadn't considered when coming up with the build: knock back + Rooted = big hassle trying to kill enemies. I can only imagine this problem will get worse when I finally get up to granite.

So, looking into the other possibilities, the only other one that looks interesting to me is /electricity, since it has no knock back, and the last power is a teleport power, to save me having to slowly lumber up to my enemies sometimes.

So, I found the Wiki on Marvel's Doctor Doom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Doom

He's a scientist who scars his face in a lab experiment. He's got powered armor, and knows some magic he learned from Tibetan Monks. Plus, he's also used science to give himself some innate abilities. I'm inclined to go with Max's definition and call him "science origin".

I like to go off of what their DO's and SO's say, because that's the in game stuff that is going to make my origin choice feel more alive. If it's likely that my character would get more powerful by experiencing a "Genetic Alteration" for example then well.... that is a DO for Science or Mutation, so probably should choose one of those. If "Genetic Alteration"s are unlikely for my character, then probably science and mutant are origins I'd steer clear of. On the other hand Natural/Tech use "Gadgets", and clearly not all natural characters are dependent upon such things.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Enhancement_Names

The trick if you want to not annoy your team is to go with single target powers instead of AOE, because it's the aggro that makes the healers get tired of dealing with you. If you just single target, then you'll kill most of the mobs you draw before they can hurt you much.

If you really want to do AOE's, then just make sure you've got an escape plan. Sometimes I'll even go so far as to take the Stealth Pool up to Ethereal shift so I can nuke and run better.