Blood Red Arachnid

Sorry, but helping someone else doesn't suddenly negate unbound prejudice. It doesn't work like that, and it never will.


Anyway, I never used dimension shift because Gravity Control has a tool that is exponentially more powerful: Wormhole. The greatest strength of Wormhole isn't just that it is an AoE mezz that you can fire on every other group. The power comes in it's ability to relocate enemies to wherever you need them. Protect the team? Around a corner. Want to nuke the team? Force them into a corner. Defense in an open area? Port them away as far as possible. Steamrolling so fast you can barely keep up? Port one group into another and blow them to bits. Want to avoid aggroing two groups at once? Port one towards you from behind a wall. About the only case where you wouldn't want to use wormhole is if it is an AV that is beating the tar out of your team, since they resist teleports.

Dimension shift is less of a skip power, but I still find myself unable to take it over something else.

They do not provide a level shift.

/sign. Anything with more hair.

Goodness gracious great wall of text! I honestly can't bring myself to read all of that...

Um... why don't you do it? I don't think I have any more clout to be heard by a dev than anyone else here...

A bit n00bish with macros, but I believe to set it up you would do the following:


/bind *key* target_custom_next teammate defeated


or something like that. It should have you target the nearest defeated teammate on your screen.

Well, the scaling is a power applied according to teamsize. The formulas can be found here:

http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...llains.Scaling


And in theory this can be applied to an EB.

Why did I not notice this forum existed until now??? I've gone a bit above and beyond tips, and I've made three videos for the TPN, MoM, and DD trial. They're in my sig, but for redundancy I'll post them here:

TPN

MoM

DD

...Arcanaville is a she?

My kin stalker is already decked out with musculature and build-up that I swear is almost constantly active now, so the Melee set is definitely where I'll be going. Being /elec, I haven't decided exactly what to go with yet. With my current set, I'm in the odd position where both my defense and my resistances are good, but could be better. Right now I'm leaning toward defense, since I already have Power Surge in case I really need to lay on the resistance.

There isn't any power pool that I have on all of my toons. However... there are power pools that I *never* take:

Concealment: With power stealth and enhancement stealth I can never find a good reason to take something from this pool. You move slower, it drains plenty of endurance, and there's better options if you are going for defense (Weave, Maneuvers, Combat Jumping). The high end power, Phase Shift, is useful but it is also available as a temp power. Because of this, I don't think I'll be taking concealment on anything anytime soon.

Presence: I recently broke this trend with my Kheldian (took Provoke). The fear powers in presence are horrible and require heavy slotting to be mediocre. The taunt powers are the only reason why you'd take from this pool, and in general nearly anything that would take a taunt power from presence already learns a taunt power. A scrapper can benefit from provoke more than confront, maybe, but unless you are IOed out and have a toon you feel is good enough to warrant taking provoke, you'll skip this pool again and again. The actual effectiveness of the taunt powers is only so-so, since just about everything can still steal aggro.


I take the following powers from the following sets for various reasons:

Fighting: I grab tough and weave for all of my melee toons. They're good buffs.

Leadership: I grab at least maneuvers on any support toon. Might as well make them more supportive. I'll also grab the other three powers, since all of them are useful in pretty much any teaming situation.

Leaping: Combat Jumping for defense, immobilization protection, and general maneuverability on the battlefield. Well aimed jumps can help you traverse an active field with ease, letting you get to enemies to fight them without having to deal with other players.

Medicine: Aid self and Resuscitate are great powers that can find room for themselves on many sets. Aid self six-slotted can be a beast sometimes, and everyone will thank you for the rez powers.

Speed: Hasten is one of the most powerful powers in the game. If you have anything that is strong but has a slow recharge, you take hasten to fire it off as frequently as possible. There are very few toons that can't benefit from hasten, but it does stop you from getting other power pools so I tend to only prioritize this on toons with those slow-recharge powers.

Teleport: Recall friend and a little initiative is the fastest way to travel. Also good to port a dead body to safety to rez/veng it, good to port someone past a dangerous area. If someone needs to go somewhere and you're already there, recall friend is YOUR friend .

Itrial: Minds of Mayhem.

The reason why I like this trial is because the entire trial feels like one gigantic boss fight. Most AVs I encounter on teams are cases of done-and-over-with; the AV is dead in 20 seconds and it doesn't feel like we've truly accomplished anything. But in this trial, the whole battle feels like an active engagement with different parts that you have to pay attention to. I truly feel like I have accomplished something when Mayhem finally drops. The difficulty is high enough that the chance for failure is a reality, and thus pressure adds to the situation.


TF/SF: Barracuda/Dr. Kahn.

As mentioned above, I like the long and hard AV fights. I like Barracuda much better than Dr. Kahn, since it is more well put together and the final fight is more interesting. During that battle with The Reichsman, I love how hordes of nearly endless 5th column pours in while you beat the snot out of an enemy that feels invincible. The whole time, you yourself are super-charged, so you end up plowing through those endless hordes. The whole thing is dynamic.

I've only tested the newer update of the program, but so far I have yet to crash once.

I'm not convinced that the hair capes would be a problem for low-end machines anymore than regular capes are now.


I would personally love to see the hair cape implemented for flowing hair. Half of all my women characters have long hair, and I would love to see hairstyles that are long and flowing. Or at least hairstyles that don't clip into their breasts.

Maybe spoilers ahead.

So, after participating in a lengthy discussion on the forums about how Dark Astoria should have AVs, I came under the assumption that there were no AVs in Dark Astoria.


OH BOY WAS I WRONG!!!

Much to my surprise on the rescue Slinger mission I was greeted by a level 54 AV Black Scorpion. I am, of course, running these DA arcs the first time around on my no-protection-except-through-mezz dominator solo. Now, I rose to the challenge. I managed to beat Scorpion solo, however it did drain away my entire inspiration tray full of super-inspirations, cost me several temp power recipes, and took four tries to do it. I'm still on the adrenaline rush of having accomplished such a feat on a toon that is distinctly set out not to solo AVs.


This makes me wonder, though. Were things changed, or have people been skipping AVs this whole time?

^Chicks dig the giant robots.

I get the feeling this proc will benefit WS more than PBs... again. My PB has no issues healing itself, and much like the other proc there's no real place for it.

I've made a bane/huntsman, a NW/Fortunata, and a PB (human form and dual form).

As far as SoA go, one of the funnest parts is their utility. My bane plays like a scrapper/stalker, except with a lot of pets and ranged AoE attacks. The power Surveillance is a great debuff, but it has the hidden aspect of revealing the enemies stats. This is invaluable during AE arcs, where the final AV may have Rise to the Challenge or something that you need to play around. Though he didn't get all of the leadership powers, since I needed to make room for all the other stuff he does. The huntsman build for him does, however, have double leadership and vengeance. The damage output isn't as high, but increasing the whole team's defense by 20% by himself more than makes up for it. Although the huntsman can't solo an AV like the bane can.

The NW also plays like a scrapper/stalker, except they have great mezz protection/resistance, and a really high psionic resistance. I have a lot of fun with the smoke grenade power, and it has uses since it greatly decreases the aggro range of whomever it hits. Mind Link and Maneuvers gives the whole team a lot of defense, as well as psionic resistance. My fortunata build is slightly strange in the sense that it is built solely around the nukes. The AoE mezz and AoE damage powers are set up to recharge as fast as possible, and with all of them it essentially lets me have the enemy group constantly be either nuked or disabled. Though the NW can't do that, the NW has enough damage output to solo an AV.

The PB is a jack of all trades. PBs learn pretty much every kind of attack, and this is a great thing if you have the recharge to back it up. The KB is fun, and comes in handy strangely. You'll need to build it for recharge, but if you can do so you can accomplish things like permanent lightform (85% resists to everything), permanent inner light (30% damage boost with 100% surges in damage) permanent essence boost (+400 Max HP with bursts of 800 heal). You can heal others and yourself rather easily, and all of your powers have -defense so you can help against tougher targets. I haven't tested my PBs offensive power, but their defensive power is high enough that I was able to tank the UG trial. If you want to actually see my PB in action, the three trial guide videos I have at the bottom all feature my PB doing her thing. /shamelessplug

I'm not so sure if he was off base. The Star Trek Experience over at the Hilton closed down.

I would've loved to have gone there. My mother got a kick out of the workers when she went with my father. My father... was only so amused.

Ah, the ole' conflict of how zoomed I should be. Originally when recorded I would perform the action zoomed up, then later in the trial I would zoom back to show the going ons. Those zoomed out parts usually end up getting cut for time/size, though, since they don't actually show anything really new to the procedure. The zoom-in part is a throwback to a problem in the old times where I didn't learn to tie my shoes until the late into the 4th grade, because whenever someone would show me they would do it so quickly that I never got past the "fiddle their hands randomly" part of tying shoes.

Got most of the way through the comics. Some really funny stuff, but the whole girl-girl relationship thing never sat right with me.