BlackBellatrix

I've decided that I'm going to make another /Dark Armour toon, a Brute this time and was considering what to pair it with. I've already got a lowbie Dark/Stone Tank and I know how great Fault and OG are together but I figure it is better suited for a Tanktroller than a Brute anyway.

So I decided War Mace would be a good fit. It has a chance to stun, right? I also hear it does pretty decent damage. I don't know much about the War Mace side of things so I come to this board in hopes that some War Mace users will enlighten me.

Thank you.

Ok, I understand how defense debuffs would automatically lopside the challenge towards Shield and SR (though, my level 41 SS/Shield was getting owned pretty hard, even on +0/x8, but he isn't slotted for DDR yet and he doesn't have Weave/Grant Cover yet...). So, if someone was going to make a challenge that would be challenging yet not impossible, what types of debuffs would I look for? Are there any auto-hit debuffs that would be a good place to start for an /SR that wouldn't cripple builds without DDR?

I want to make a mission using mostly in-game enemies from different groups to help stress-test builds. Something that can be scaled to +0/x8 or +2/x8 and be runnable by well-built Scrappers so we could go by judging time as well as completion. I also want to create something where the different builds would have priority targets within the spawn. Invul, SR, Shield and... well most everything but /Elec would want to take out a Sapper first, etc.

I'm willing to make the mission, I just need suggestions.

So, I have some issues with the RWZ Challenge as a stress test, just because it stresses certain builds more than others and doesn't give an acurate portrait of your character's capabilities, at least in my opinion.

I propose using a Arachnos Radio, set for +2/x8 as a new Stress test, using no temps/inspirations. I find that Arachnos at the high levels is a group that is punishing to all secondaries and is less weighted versus a certain secondary.

I was thinking while running back and forth to craft items, that they should have invention tables in Wentworths that double the crafting price for the added convenience of crafting there.

If I was the owner of the Consignment shop, I'd see the market for this immediately and would have implemented it.

What do you think?

I'd actually consider a Stalker or another Dom. With Mind/ being able to leverage Sleep, if you plan to just sticking to the two of you, having a single target damage monster wouldn't be bad or just more control/damage.

I know for a fact that the procs work in auto powers like stamina and physical perfection. Just monitor your combat log if you have these slotted and you'll see. They are also the best place for them based on the way the proc works. Slotting it in another end mod power like lightning bolt gives ygr target of the power endurance, instead of the caster.

I can finally see my costume! Yay!

... That is all.

I think the most game breaking would be something like:

2x Emp/Sonic
1x Kin/Sonic
1x Fire/Fire Blaster

I'm only 25 but my mom and dad played, back before City of Villains came out and they are 43.

My grandma plays WoW. She's one of the few Great-Grandmothers I know that plays MMOs. My daughter just turned 1 today, but by the way she keeps trying to grab my mouse, I'm sure it won't be too long until she joins in on the fun!

The only way I think they could make Defense less effective without hampering gameplay to a huge degree is to cap defense to 40% (though, let the extra beyond that eat up debuffs) on Scrappers and Brutes and 35% on everything else while simultaneous introducing a lot more and bigger resistance bonuses into sets. This would allow current build tweakers to get the same levels of mitigation by layering defense and offer different paths for other toons. I don't think increasing Scrappers' resistance cap would hurt either. In fact, I wouldn't be opposed to Tanks getting theirs bumped up to 95% to match the mitigation of 45% defense.

Focus is definitely a must have power and as soon as you can get it too.

It provides incredible mitigation and can be used to keep one target out of a fight. In fact, I'd almost go as far as saying it's one of the top 5 attacks available in the Scrapper Primaries.

I paired Claws with /DA myself, but the best thing about Claws is that it's versatile enough to go really well with any of the secondaries (though, I really wish it worked with Shields).

Pretty much that. Which would be the better pairing for a Corruptor and or a team of Traps Corruptors?

I don't see why this post has warranted so many replies.

The Devs will not do this and that is pretty obvious. I figure we can just say, "Sure, give my non-melees mez protection" as much as we want and it wouldn't matter.

Put me in the camp of I don't think it's needed, I know it won't happen, but if it does, hey, I'll just make a tank mage.

In Light of GR and the addition to two ATs capable of taking a large amount of abuse, one of which has the same mitigation caps as a Tank, should Tanks be tweaked slightly?

My thought was that since Tanks are the penultimate "Tanking" AT, that maybe they should have their aggro cap tweaked up slightly higher than the other ATs in the game? Say go from 16 to 20 or 25?

I think there is an inherent problem with how these powers work compared both with eachother and analyzed in conjuction with the rest of the Primary they belong to as well as specific synergies with the Defensive powersets which they're usually paired with.

Fault: I think this power is excellent for what it is supposed to do and I don't think it requires a change. I think it should be used as the benchmark to which the other two mitigation powers should be judged. Just for the record, Fault is a power that does Knockdown and Stuns with an AoE focus in exchange for doing no damage.

Hand Clap/Lightning Clap: Both of these powers are identical to eachother, however, unfortunately, they are not identical to Fault. The things they share with Fault are the same Radius, the same Stun magnitude and duration. They way they differ are that they both have a higher endurance cost, are PBAoE as opposed to TAoE, are KnockBACK instead of Knockdown and (in my opinion, the only benefit) they both have a shorter animation time than Fault.

As we can see, these things make it so that the mitigation powers from Super Strength and Electrical Melee are inferior when compared to a similar type of power from Stone Melee. Now, while that's one comparison, it's not the whole story. Let's take a quick look how the powers fit within the theme and the feel of the sets they are part of.

Fault: A lot of Stone Melee attacks do KD which makes Fault thematically fit in. Since it keeps everything near you, the fact that Stone Melee is, well... Melee focused, it doesn't detract from your damage potential.

Hand Clap: Seeing as the set has some KD mitigation in its powers and a large radius AoE in Foot Stomp as well as one ranged attack and a long range melee attack in KO Blow, the KB does not affect SS as much as it would other sets. However, with that said, the mitigation that the low magnitude Stun gives does not, in context of the set it's part of, make up for the potential mitigation you'd lose from your Foot Stomp, combined with the very significant loss in damage. It is at odds with the rest of the set and therefore is almost universally shunned.

Lightning Clap: This mitigation ability suffers more from the Knockback than Hand Clap does when contrasted with the rest of the set. There are no ranged abilities in the set and the only ability that can be used to stack stuns to actually make the low magnitude stun useful is a melee AoE with a really short radius.

Finally, when you add defensive Secondaries (or primaries) into the picture, you come out with something that looks a lot less impressive.

For Fault: It adds mitigation and doesn't detract from the mitigation abilities of the Defensive Secondaries (or Primaries in the case of Tanks.)

Lightning Clap and Hand Clap: In all Secondaries and Primaries available to Tanks/Brutes/Scrappers, the only ones that are not affected negatively by the PBAoE Knockback of the ability would be Super Reflexes and Regeneration. Super Reflexes for Brutes would even be partially untrue because you'd be knocking enemies out of your taunt aura. What I mean by negatively impacting your secondary (or primary in the case of tanks) is that knocking enemies away from you will either hurt your direct mitigation (in the case of Shields [Against All Odds], Invulnerability [Invincibility] or Willpower [Rise to the Challenge], for example) or your indirect mitigation (Examples include Endurance Recovery and heal powers that need nearby targets and Damage Auras that allow targets to be defeated faster [or even drained of endurance, in the case of Electric Armour]). This is DIRECTLY contrary to the nature of the powers.

So, I propose we change the powers slightly in order to make them more useful as well as more thematic within the sets they reside.

Hand Clap: My suggestion for this one would be added a small damage component to it, as well as maybe a small -5% Resistance Debuff. This would be more in fitting with the theme of Super Strength, with the damage and the resistance would help counter the DPS loss of the scatter. I chose not to suggest changing it to Knockdown as I think that it would just make it a clone of Fault but that is an alternative suggestion.

Lightning Clap: I think this power should be changed in one of two ways. The first way I could see changing it is keeping its effects as is but add a -End/-Recovery component to the targets and a +End component to the power to keep it in the theme of Electrical powers. The second suggestion would be to just take away the KB and instead change it to a Sleep, much like the Sleep in the single target attacks, where the targets spasm until hit, in which case their stun takes over.

Thanks for everyone who actually read through this post of mine.