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Originally Posted by Kioshi

Cast times for TW with and without momentum:

Defensive Sweep: 2.20/1.30
Crushing Blow: 2.00/1.30
Titan Sweep: 2.43/1.30
Follow Through: 1.00 (not usable without Momentum)
Rend Armor: 2.30/1.30
Whirling Smash: 1.00 (not usable without Momentum)
Arc of Destruction: 2.70/1.50

The SLOWEST power (AoD), which is a massive damaging cone btw, is still faster than Concentrated Strike, and much faster than Total Focus and Thunder Strike for example. And you don't get fast versions of these attacks in their sets like in TW.

Originally Posted by EvilRyu

Even fully IOd out with set bonuses for +end and recovery it still has end problems. Maybe you and I have 2 different views on what is alot of endurance and whats not. There is no way you can tell me that this set is more end friendly than say SR or Shields. Its got issues people need to stop down playing this.

Originally Posted by Flower

Hmmm... seems like a race between agility and spiritual to me. The dif between the two being End Mod/Defense or Healing. Willpower is not regen but still relies alot on its healing powers so spiritual would benefit that. Not getting hit is better so agility's defense bump is tempting. If you go that route make sure you have lots of defensive powers to take advantage of it, if you defense is from set bonuses agility won't help you.

If you have mids you can switch between the existing alpha powers to see how agility works (Nerve for defense, Musculature for End Mod)

Originally Posted by Animorph

Yeah that's pretty much what I've done all night is keep going back and forth in the game and then reading different things about the sets here on the forums. Sadly I've come up with a few characters that I like for both, but I think I'm going to stick with my SJ Stalker for now and then do the TW and SJ Brute later.

I really like the Titan Weapon but for some reason I keep getting the feeling that it would get old to me soon.

Originally Posted by Jibikao

They were SURPRISED??? LOL I am sorry that there are people like me who mostly only play Stalker for melee gameplay.

So does it mean if we don't make a noise about it, they can just forget about Stalkers... as usual?

Stalker is such a step-child.

Originally Posted by Moonlighter

As if Brutes didn't have enough advantages over Scrappers, chasing enemies all over the maps basically takes all scrappers except for Shield, Invuln, and WP out of play for me. Remember when people were concerned that Brutes would marginalize Scrappers when the sides were consolidated? That's basically what happened for me. Other than Shield, which is better on scrappers, I just make all my scrappers Brutes now. The small advantage scrappers have in damage just doesn't compare to large boost to survival Brutes have.

But hey, I could overlook the small statistical advantages I see with non-Shield Brutes. They are fairly small and you have to be able to work with the Brute Fury mechanic. It's the utter frustration of enemies running everywhere that kills scrappers for me.



If I could obtain something like this without sacrificing damage that would be awesome and basically fix the problem assuming the taunt was long enough to last until my AoE(s) recharge.

Originally Posted by EvilRyu

It should not take IOs or incarnate abilities to mitigate the endurance issue. Secondly try playing the set without those mez toggles and see how fast you die or run out of end from spamming DR. In either case the end drain needs to be brought down to sane levels.

Originally Posted by Casual_Player

If you had told me a year ago that we would be getting a new powerset every month, I would have laughed at you. Given our past history of new sets, that would have simply seemed absurd.

But here we are, and the Freedom feels fine!

Sept: Time Manipulation
Oct: Beam Rifle
Nov: Street Justice
Dec: Titan Weapons
Jan: Staff Fighting
Feb: Darkness Control
Mar+: ???

Thank you devs, you're doing a great job!

Originally Posted by Sapphic_Neko

I would pay extra for a weapons pack sure. That would be a weapons pack with waaaay more options than 4 models for titan weapons which actually were there, most people assumed they would unlockable in game (like every other set...), not that they would be unlockable with money. Sure they free now, but after these two weeks, it won't be free anymore. And just because i can get it for free now, doesn't make it any less of a bad idea.
Theres still no model for Vanguard or Rularuu titan weapons, like there are for most other weapon sets.


Look at the newer weapon sets, Dual Blades and Dual Pistols. They came with waaay more then 6 options and no pack to buy with more models.

Ever since the market came it just seems more and more than they just add stuff and wanna charge for everything and everyone at paragon are walking around with dollar signs in their eyes. Some of the pricing in the market is just mindboggling, its as if they're trying to rip off the customers, just look at the Magic Bolero for the females, 440 points. But buy the whole magic pack its only 400, its like they're baiting people, and the pricing when report was apparently intentional.

I still havn't spent a single euro in the shop aside the free 550 points each month.

Originally Posted by Xanatos

It is money grabbing. The fact it's free for 2 weeks is just a marketing ploy to legitimise a precedent of them doing this in the future.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

Very simple answer:

Dark Armor is the ONLY set in the game that can cap Psi resistance. Dark Armor tanks can have 90% resistance to Psionic damage, and they can get it relatively easily. Scrappers can hit 75% just as easily. The only AT that CAN'T hit their resistance cap to Psionic with DA is brutes, and that's because their cap is 90% but they have the same base as scrappers.

Which would you rather have? Negative Energy resistance capped, or Psi resistance capped? It's a safe bet they would not have given us both. And NE is still in the 60%+ range on most characters, making it the second highest resistance in the set (not counting adding Tough to S/L resistances)

Originally Posted by Hopeling

Willpower, despite the name, doesn't have capped psi resist, even when using Strength of Will. Energy Aura doesn't get capped energy resist. Regen doesn't have capped toxic resist, even though regeneration traditionally renders characters immune to toxins in comics. So, Dark Armor is not alone in this regard. Why should it need capped NE resistance? Dark Armor is by no means weak.

Originally Posted by Tenjoy

I am sorry if I created the impression that I don't care for the other archetypes. That's not true. Of course the developers should also add new powersets for the other archetypes.

However, while there seems to be a big difference between the available combinations for certain powersets, these numbers really don't tell the full story. A large amount of combinations means it's less likely that you run into another player who uses the same powerset combination. But this isn't about overall diversity. It's a player's personal charas' diversity that I'm concerned with. You are not actually playing all these 49 combinations yourself, are you?

In your example, with 7x7 powersets, you can build seven charas and have all the sets. (You choose your seven combinations from a larger pool of 49, but you actually roll only seven of them.) For the melee archetypes, you can build just twelve unique charas. Granted, you have a much larger pool to choose from, but whatever you choose, you only get five more. After that, you need to repeat defensive powersets. (Several times, by now.)

Take the extreme case: Imagine having 500 primary powersets, but only one single secondary. Wow, 500 combinations! That number doesn't really mean anything, though. Very few players would get to play all the powersets, because at some point they'd be sick and tired of the one secondary powerset they are required to use each time. (Which would be a shame, because some of the primaries were really great...)

It's okay to repeat a powerset once or twice. It's just that we are getting so many new melee powersets by now that the gap between primaries and secondaries widens more and more.

Sure, it would be nice to get an eighth chara for your archetype. (I probably would play that one, too.) However, if the developers continue adding more and more melee powersets, I really hope that they'll also create a few defensive powersets on the way. Otherwise some players might stop buying the new melee powersets - just because they don't want to use the same old armors again.

10joy

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

OK, what was that about a "weapons pack" for Titan Weapons? I thought this was supposed to come with the set if we purchased right away? Did I hear something wrong?

Originally Posted by DreadShinobi

I chose Brute for TW mainly because the only scrapper secondary I can stand playing is /shield because everything else lacks a taunt aura or lacks offense... and of course TW like many other sets can't be paired with /shield (sigh). Brutes also have better resist cap (which does matter for me since I'm going /elec), higher HP (and with higher HP better HPS from Energize), damage auras that include taunt, and a better taunt compared to scrapper's confront. Brutes also have (in general) better patron options, gloom or superior conditioning are really nice which scrappers don't get access to. I do however hate how brutes are so much less responsive to damage buffs compared to scrappers, if Scrapper damage auras had a taunt aura I would have made a scrapper instead of a brute for this reason alone.

Originally Posted by Dark_Respite

During the last Ustream, when Synapse (Phil Zeleski) was on, I asked him if we could get escrima in the game at some point. From what he said, I gather he's already made inroads into seeing if/how they could do it. Now that we have dual blades (and once we get staves), it'll hopefully bring it more into the realm of possibility.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite