Blind_Minotaur

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Time to change your sig then!

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Well spotted. Haven't played blue side for a few months now. It was a bit disorientating in the Safeguards, I kept trying to whack bus stops.

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So did I miss the speech??

Great night last night! Fantastic turnout too (and some really cool cossies and concepts). Cant wait till next time.

Today's the day!! And nobody has posted. All ready for some Icy chaos?

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Np i was about to post i would like to change to a grav/storm troller

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Nice choice!

Can you add mine to the roster please? Decided to stick with the Cold/Dark defender. Her name is Hypothermiatrix and she is parked in Atlas ready to go.

So as we have so many people interested I propose a sewer run for the first session or two. Will allow all the teams to play together and with our global channel it could be great fun. I've never done a sewer run before so new and exciting stuff. We could then move onto the redesigned Hollows!

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You forgot all the */Ice for Tanks. :P

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I snuck them in with a ninja edit

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Missed Ill/Storm Troller

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I probably missed a few more as well but i'm surprised I forgot one that's been talked about loads in this thread.

I only did the list so that people could see the potential for creativity. Not only do we have a stack of powerset combos but we have freedom to design our toons the way we want. All the important ingredients to a successful themem team

I tried to do a quick list of all the powerset combos you can choose from. I did this off the top of my head so may have missed a couple, hope this helps:

Tank

Ice/Stone
Ice/SS
Ice/Fire
Ice/Em
Ice/Mace
Ice/Axe
Ice/Dark
EDIT:
Stone/Ice
Inv/Ice
Dark/Ice
Fire/Ice
WP/ICe

Trollers

Ice/Storm
Ice/Empathy
Ice/Sonic
Ice/Kin
Ice/Thermal
Ice/Rad
Fire/Storm
Earth/Storm
Plant/Storm
Grav/Storm
Mind/Storm

Defenders

Storm/Psi
Storm/Ice
Storm/Dark
Storm/Energy
Storm/Sonic
Storm/Archery
Storm/Rad
Cold/Psi
Cold/Ice
Cold/Dark
Cold/Energy
Cold/Sonic
Cold/Rad
Kin/Ice
Sonic/Ice
Dark/Ice
TA/Ice
FF/Ice
Rad/Ice

Blasters

Ice/Ice
Ice/Mental
Ice/Devices
Ice/Energy
Ice/Elec
Ice/Fire
Fire/Ice
Psi/Ice
Elec/Ice
Energy/Ice
AR/Ice
Archery/Ice

Scrappers

None!!

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yea i 've defently decided on a Storm summoner not not to sure on the primary, does it have to be Ice or is there flexibility?

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As long a one of your primary or secondary is ice or storm related you can pick whatever you like for the other. So you could make a fire/storm controller or a psi/ice blaster etc.

I'm really looking forward to this now!! Cant believe the interest already. Echo you are the master at organising theme teams

I'm torn between a Cold/Dark Defender or an Ice/Thermal Controller. Oh and Ill/Storm is lots of fun, although mine has sat at 34 for about a year. Chaos control at its best!

Know your enemies. You should know when you are going to face a mez heavy enemy and just fill your tray with break frees. Take them before you get mezzed to keep your toggle up and running. Sorry if this sounds obvious.

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Ouie respec trial this week was rather dandy. Highest difficulty and we breezed through it! Though I suspect the two Kins and the Brute may have helped a bit there.

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You wouldn't believe how much i was itching to unexemp. +4 enemies, no set bonuses, no end drain and no taunt. Took every ounce of my self control

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As far as I can see you have already a full 8 member team, so probably you will be better without me, so: Good luck "cool" team!

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I wouldn't worry too much if we have more than 8. For the first couple of weeks of the all Dom team we were running 2 teams. It doesn't take long before people start dropping out and only the stalwarts remain

You already know i'm up for this!!

Bagsy Cold Defender

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PS Isnt the Auto Turret getting a fairly major buff anyway? That should compensate for Poison Gas Trap (which will remain a very robust power)

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Traps doesn't have Auto Turret it has Acid Mortar. I doubt Acid Mortar is being buffed to follow you around.

Poison Trap was one of my favuorite powers in the whole game and i'm really disapointed to see it being nerfed. I agree with Gravitos in that they should boost the chance it has to hold if it's not going to be firing off as often. Surely that cant be too hard to do?

I have to ask why? So they take the best power in an otherwise average villain set and nerf it. Meanwhile the 2,103,456th fire/kin enters PI for the first time. Odd.

Probably the best LRSF ive done so thanks to everyone.

I'd rather play recycled Arachnos than recycled Khelds

Im bringing my Grav/Psi dom - Pside Winder. I got shivs but didnt get any nukes. See you in a bit.

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/psi is probably the best secondary for range.

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You cant be serious? Playing a psi without mind probe, drain psyche and psi shockwave would be madness imo. Psi's strength lies in being in mellee so that you can get a great buff from drain psyche then spam PSW like a madman.

Most primaries allow you to play at range so pick one you think sounds fun. The only primary that I would avoid would be Fire as its area hold requires you to be in melee plus it has hotfeet which is another power which does the same. All the other primaries have targetted aoe holds although i would say that Grav is arguably the best primary for a ranged dominator - mainly due to wormhole being such a great ranged power, you dont even need line of sight for it to work.

All the secondaries have melee powers. I would definately avoid Psi as its best powers force you into melee, drain psyche and psi shockwave. I would never consider playing a Psi and dropping those powers. You could have a decent ranged toon if you picked any of Fire, Energy or Ice.

Fire has three ranged blasts, a build up power in fiery embrace. You would miss out on combustion and the end drain power (i forget the name) by staying at range.

Energy again has three ranged blasts with the advantage of being one of only 2 secondaries to get power boost. Domination + pb + your aoe hold is sheer brilliance. You would miss out on bonesmasher and total focus by playing at range. Although tf is your most damaging attack it really isnt great for a dom to be hanging in the air for that long (especially if the mobs arent mezzed )

Ice has three blasts again, a cone and access to power boost. You could build a solid ranged dom from ice imo. You would miss out on ice sword, ice sword circle and greater ice sword by staying at range.

I cant really comment on thorns as its the only secondary i havent played to a decent level.

Doms have seen a lot of improvements since you last played them, most notably domination builds faster the larger the team and domination grants mez protection (the only AT to get mez protection at lvl 1 ).

Hope this helps you pick your dom.

I'd like to join if there is still space? As you already have a SS/EA brute i'll bring one of my doms (both have vengence which comes in handy on the SF).

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I take it you have never played a stalker.

Stalkobot is absolutly correct. You will live longer by resting in the middle of the battle than by using /electics entirely resistance based shields.

Stalker =/= brute

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well then you take it positivly wrong i have a level 50 stalker sir! 100% PvE and i dont rest in battle and rarely die /nin

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So you counter an argument about resting being more effective than resistance shields by telling us you have a level 50 defense based stalker that rarely dies. Nice.

KO Blow and Footstomp would benefit too (the bruiser does have KO blow right?). I don't even use the first upgrade on my bruiser, the handclap drives me insane. Second upgrade definately gives him Footstomp and that would get a nice benefit from the proc.