Berzerker_NA

Here's the problem we MM's face. For all our pets, most of us do not deal enough damage to defeat an AV by waiting for him to come back. He'll be there all of 5 seconds taking pitiful little slivers of damage from my pets, then run away, and if I don't chase him, he'll come back fully healed. I could be there all day - literally 24 straight hours, and the battle won't have changed at all.

Someone needs to tell the devs that tedium != Challenge. All tedium equals is tedium. All it can possibly accomplish is to make a person bored.

Yeah. Not during playtime, please. Some people have just enough free time to sit down and play for an hour or two. (And these will tend to be solo players.) Patience is not something you should have to bring to the table when you know you're going to have to sleep and go back to work in a few hours.

If Superman showed up and punched the purse snatcher in the face before he could grab the purse, and the snatcher ran away then the battle would be over and Superman ought to get full exp for defeating his enemy, not have to chase him at all.

Really, if you want enemies to run for the sake of realism, then they should run and not come back. Not only would that be more realistic, but it would solve the whole tediousness problem.

Most of the time in world history, real world military battles have not been full on attempts to kill or capture every member of the opposed force, just attempts to make them retreat. Consider the bloodiest battle of WW2: Stalingrad. What was the Russians' objective? Take Stalingrad back from the Germans. Does it really matter whether the Germans leave Stalingrad by way of being dead, or by way of retreat? No. Either way, the Russians have still accomplished their objective.

How often in a comic does the hero actually capture their nemesis, rather than just get them to run away?

edit: I think you can tell I was a bit frustrated when I posted this. I'm playing this thugz/ff mm, and not just every AV is running away from me. Pretty much every enemy, period. It's like I'm a child on recess and some mean kids are playing "keep away" with me, or something. I'm thinking I might have to shelf the toon, cause it's just not worth the frustration dealing the drama every single battle. At least it doesn't happen as much when I'm on teams.

I think there's a good chance I was wrong about this. It seems on powers that affect both you and your teammates, the proc will only affect you. I keep seeing situations like this. Last night I added the Kismet +6% To Hit proc to my Thugz/FF MM's Dispersion Field, then opened my pets' combat statistics to see if it was being applied to them and .... alas.... it was not!!! In my own combat statistics it was applied to me, though. Seems I'm going to need a respec, and then maybe I'll try applying it to one of my teammate force fields.

So, I'm betting that if you put a stealth proc on Group Fly, probably you'll be the only one who gets any stealth out of it. Might as well put the proc on hover instead.

Good point. There are two levels of justification aren't there? Even if you're magic, but not in a Ghost Widow/Mu sense, there is some thought involved. It would be overly limiting to have to build all of my toons around one of the 4 themes, so maybe it's just expected that we'll broaden our justifications?

I'm a little confused about Ghost Widow too. Widows are considered natural origin, are they not? Come to think of it: All VEATS are natural origin, yet they are allowed to choose any of the 4 patrons. Arachnos Soldiers use a lot of tech, so why not mace? Maybe Ghost Widow's Darkness Stuff could be seen as an extension of Widow mind power training? Clearly the devs must have something in mind that allows the 4 origins to make sense on them.

Another really sweet thing about group fly is if you get the stealth proc for flight, then you can toggle in on and off real quick and your teammates will love you for making them all invisible. (At least I'm pretty sure this will happen. Haven't tried it myself)

Just be careful not to have it turned on when it will get in their way.



You are a brave man.

I never pass up personal force field on a MM build. It's nice to just waive to my henchmen real quick and say "Sorry boys. You're on your own from here on out." Then after they all die, maybe I'll come back with another summon. It's nice knowing I can take however many tries I need to finish a group off.

I think you'll be happy either way. ;-)

The reason why poison would rock with a melee T3 pet is because the Noxious Gas power has a stronger effect when used on your T3 pet rather than another pet, but it's effects only reach enemies that are within melee range of the pet you use it on. So, if the T3 pet is melee based, then you'll get a lot of mileage out of that power.

What if you took the concealment pool power: Grant Invisibility? It seems logical to want to put invisibility on your Force Field generator at least. But, you know you could keep yourself pretty busy trying to keep invisibility on all of your pets too. It's kind of a joke, considering they get all of 2.25% additional defense out of it, but at least it's a task.

Maybe you could put your protector bots in a non-aggressive mode where they still heal and put bubbles on people too?

Good thing i-17 is around the corner then. There's almost always a free spec when they do issues, and i-18 won't be too much longer after it since it's supposed to coincide with the formal release of GR, so might as well put the one from i-17 to good use while it's there.

Cause, you know I've just got to try it, even if it sucks. I have to see it for myself.

That, and on the GR site, the icon for Hell on Earth has 4 little pet figures, just like Gang War does. In fact, it's the exact same icon.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/File:Thu...dSummonMob.png

vs.

http://goingrogue.na.cityofheroes.co...summoning.html


That is certainly true, but there's a strong tendency among the player base to go Natural, Tech, or Magic rather than Mutation or Science on their origins.

I've been trying this with mixed success. He sometimes starts with his sword, but he doesn't do double damage for some reason. I don't get why. Sometimes he opens up with a placate, which just makes me laugh (then he does double damage).

If you judge a set by how powerful it is, then unfortunately for you the devs will make it their mission to disappoint you. The whole philosophy of the game is that no set is meant to be any more powerful than the others, even new sets. They actually do a lot of data-mining just to make sure this is so.

There are certain situations where pistols really really shine, and others where they're just ordinary, or even seem underpowered. It's a very situational set.

From: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/List_of_Slash_Commands

I went ahead and looked up the second one. It actually says "petname" is the variable you enter on the page I'm citing, but if you read the command's actual description, it tells you to supply the name of the inspiration, not the pet.

That is weird. You say you're resummoning the enforcers after each change in their IO's? That was what solved my problems with it. I forgot that my current pets's stats were still based on the IO's they had when I first summoned them.

edit: Also I just confirmed this: Def debuff enhances show up in your enhancement screen as increasing the Enforcers' defense, but they don't. Only def buff enhances actually increase it. I just tried the two different kinds of enhancement on my level 13 thugs mm.

With nothing slotted, I re-summon the enforcer and get 7.21% defense bonus
With 2 generic def debuffs slotted, I re-summon and get 7.21% defense bonus
With 2 generic def bonus slotted, I re-summon and get 8.00% defense bonus.