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    Proccy question

    Thanks for that and the other posts too peeps. I recently put a Lockdown chance for hold in Distortion Field from Time Manipulation and I'm amazed at how well it works. I've just suddenly got all proccy and am looking at exploring powers in a new way, I know not all of them will work. It would be good to compile a list of good ones, and I'm not talking globals, I think we all know which of those are almost necessary. I know Achille's Heel -Res is good but there's so many I haven't explored.

    Anyway I thank you for your thoughts
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    Proccy question

    Hello, has anyone had any experience putting the Unspeakable Terror chance for disorient proc in Umbral Beast or Fearsome Stare from Dark Control? Which in your collective opinion would be better.. if at all?

    thanks
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    Stalker Epic's

    Hello,
    was looking for a bit of advice really. I have a Street Justice/ Energy Aura Stalker who I love playing. He is my first Stalker that I've got past 35 and I've unlocked his Patron powers and gone with Mace as I thought another AoE might be nice but in the time it takes him to draw his mace and then fire it with Disruptor Blast, I could make a cup of tea and the damage seems to be very underwhelming. I have high recharge, so thought the Spiderlings might come in handy as there is 3 of them as opposed to all the other pets just being one and they could take some of the aggro but are pets just really silly on a Stalker?

    I know Epic's and PPP's are there to fill gaps in your build, I'm softcapped to S/L damage but post 40, Psi is becoming a pain in the butt. I've thought about going with Soul but I have no experience with Shadow Meld and wondered whether the 15 seconds of defence to all might come in handy against mobs with Psi? There doesn't seem to be a lot else in there that is that appealing though. The other option is to go Fire for Fireball as I'm guessing it's a faster AoE without having to draw a weapon but is there much else in Fire that's good? I don't know much about Rend Armour but it's seems like a long cooldown for a pretty weak debuff.

    So many options and so many questions but unlike some other AT's Epic's, nothing seems to jump out at me. Any advice on what other's have found useful would be really appreciated.
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    Powers and such

    Me, i reckon the devs are being super sneaky and Dom's are going to get fishy troll powers. Leviathan has great powers that are already animated, School of sharks for immobilize, water spout for knockback, spirit shark for damage, summon corolax for the pet, bile spray and arctic breath for the debuffs. Get a hold and a group hold and you're not far off. At a meet devs thing that happened in the past, Posi asked 'what would you like?' and i answered Leviathan, so many people agreed and he said, 'hmmmm, interesting' Of course i'm speculating but somewhere in the future....
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    'Spring' attack

    I guess you could also use the same leafy path aura in Super Speed and maybe the NPC's would shout out 'Run forest, run!'
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    'Spring' attack

    Has anyone tried spring attack with the leaves path aura for a true 'spring' attack?
  7. Hey guys, 6 and a half year vet here, i recently rolled a new toon and picked Sands and Blackwand but there was no choice to pick my third vet power. I'm now at 30 so don't really need it but was just curious if anyone else had experienced this?

    Merry Christmas to all
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    Older Powers

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ad Astra View Post

    And BTW, it did receive some updating recently, when some of its shields were among those powers that can now be cast as an AoE instead of clicking through the entire team to apply them separately.
    Oooop, did i miss something here? Please tell me Thermal was one of these sets that can apply it's shields with an AoE. I'd given up on my Thugs/ Thermal MM because i got so bored of casting all the time, if it's doable with an aura i might take him up again.
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    Glove Slap

    Does anyone apart from Statesman ever take Hand Clap?
  10. Sorry to add another quick question but does Death Shroud crit?
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    Originally Posted by SevereCalamity View Post
    I'd slot an achille's in Gambler's Cut for sure, since you use it the most out of all of your attacks in just about any Katana attack chain. You can slot it in more than one attack to try and get it to proc more often, but like others have said it does not stack with itself.

    I think people with cash put the Fury of the Gladiator proc in their Golden Dragonfly to increase their single target DPS since it stacks with the achille's proc for a total of -40% resistance to your target.

    I personally don't put -resistance procs in the AoEs since cannon fodder usually dies anyway even without the -20% resistance. There is also the problem of whether or not you will even take advantage of the debuff in an AoE. If the proc gets one out of the five guys you hit with Flashing Steel, there is no guarantee that you will even be attacking that same guy again in order to make use of the -resistance. That is a personal opinion though; I'd rather increase the efficiency of the power through recharge, endurance, accuracy, and damage or save the slot for another power. My Katana build is also more single target oriented, with the AoE is just slotted normally. Others may build their Katana guys differently.
    I understand your theory but at the moment i have the proc in Flashing Steel and can see it in Lotus Drop, simply because i also run Death Shroud which in my mind, means less end, which for a /DA can only be a good thing. I might have this all wrong but i'd rather hit bigger groups with more damage and less end.

    Opinons always appreciated
  12. Hey Scraps,

    got a question about the Achilles Heel -Res proc. I've just rolled a Katana/ Dark and realised that Kat takes the proc in most powers, my question is this... Can you put the proc in more that one power? (i'm guessing yes) but does it stack from the same caster?

    Thanks in advance for your knowledge.

    Also any general must take, must avoid build advice would be appreciated.

    Cheers
    Breth
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    Eu/ NA merge

    I've just joined Freedom and Virtue and I'm having a grand old time, thanks for accepting us in... but one weird thing. I'm so used to typing gratz when someone levels and either me or just one other person does it, is it not deregeur anymore? Am i a dinosaur?

    I fully expected Americans to be full on "Gratz dude, yee haw, y'all is the rockin'" type stuff, i'm not disappointed, just a little surprised.

    Anyway this is not a critisism, just an observation.

    Still very happy to be here (er, there)
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    Redraw?

    Greetings o learned brethren,

    a quickie if you will... If i take laser beam eyes on my claws Brute, will it cause redraw of my claws?

    thanks in advance
  15. I know one good one on Blue side which is Freakshow Wars... from some guy in Bricks. My search Fu is absolutely crap so i probably shouldn't have posted but it's late 20's/ early 30s and offers, hmm, 30 or so merits and takes one to a coupla hours. OK, i've gone so vague now i'm going to delete this post... ooops... pressed post!

    sorry
  16. ... as a very quick side note, ALL patrons unlock now. You don't have to stick with just MU.

    hope i haven't stated the obvious but i only recently found this out
  17. My two faves at the moment are.. (i know you said to pick one but i couldn't)

    A Warmace/ Elec Brute... smacking down mobs with a bone and hearing that wonderful crunching sound, lots of AoE, fast recharge so they just keep falling and enough end to cope with it all.

    ... and diametrically opposed

    A Crab... with Leviathan powers. She's got 6 perma pets, ranged def and she hover blasts, so not much touches her. Great def and res debuffs and the pets do the rest.

    They couldn't be more different and maybe that's why i keep alternating when i play them. They are both team and solo friendly so it's a win win situation.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by McCharraigin View Post
    Oh, blush, so sorry. I have never had a toon vanish before and was a trifle flustered...Mark is my better half

    When he heard me yelp about my Brute he immedietely logged into the toon he has been incarnating, and found he had a loss too

    Sorry....

    Lisa
    Lisa, i don't mean to be rude, I'm sure you're lovely and all, It's just that I've never heard of you and I'm certainly not your better half. My hubby would have something to say about that!

    Please don't take this the wrong way

    all the best
    Mark
  19. Thanks so much TK, i do have the Science pack and that must've been when i did it last time, i simply didn't remember going to the cosmetic surgeon to do it.

    I appreciate the informed and quick response.
  20. Hi all,

    a simple question really. I've tried to alter the size of one of my toons at the tailor but i can't find the height scaler. I know I've done it before because one of my older toons has two different costume slots, one where she is 4 foot and one where she is 7 foot. Also you used to be able to alter your gender on different costume slots... has this changed and if so, any reason why?

    cheers
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    Originally Posted by Shadow Ravenwolf View Post
    {Insert Standard Wishlist and Rant Here}
    {Insert SCR Here}
    {Insert MB CopyPasta Here}
    {Insert Golden Gate Here}
    {Insert ModSmack Here}
    Insert someone who would speak in words instead of aaaaaaaaargh, i don't even know what you call those bloody things!

    I don't know what SCR means or MB or Golden Gate, someone recently invited me for a Mo Khan and i blinked twice and thought OK, sounds South East Asian but i'll give it a whirl. Where do you people pick up these abbreviations and where do the uncool kids learn to be cool?
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    Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight View Post
    First off, this is player questions


    IIRC, it was the start of last year where we had about ~4 months of free server transfers (though there was a weekly limit), allowing people to frequently move around, resulting in a setup similar to what you're asking for...
    I'm not asking to be tied to a server, I'm asking to be set free amongst my global brethren with my big frilly frock and my moving hair, is that too much for a girl to ask? Or bloke if that'll get the job done!

    ...but since you've brought up an important point... If server transfers were free for 4 months, why not indefinitely? Who am I paying for my transfer? A technician? NCsoft? Anybody?

    Cripes, I'm not trying to be political but now I'm actually interested.
  23. At the threat of sounding like Veruca Salt, gimme, gimme, gimme and gimme now!

    I'm thrilled with the combining of our two glorious servers, NA and EU but ya know what? I don't wanna log into my server and then log into my toon, I want it done the other way around, let me log into my global toon and then choose the server of my choice.

    "Hmmmm, it's Monday and I'm playing in England today and it's 11.45am who the hell is on? Someone in the States sure is, oh geez, I've only got a level 3 Corruptor on that server, whereas my level 50 Brute who is craving shards and big teams is stuck on the server where the only thing that happens is the occasional tumble weed blowing across the screen!" Sure I hear ya cry, pay for a transfer! I'm not tight, I don't mind paying but while one server closes it's eyes and bids the community goodnight, another is waking up and raring to beat the crap outta the Warriors (hey at level 1, they're hard!)

    Imagine, just imagine a world where you could log onto the busiest server with your favourite toon... or suddenly come across an RP server, where you found one of your toons fitted perfectly and you said "brb, just bringing something more appropriate"

    I'm not really ********, I'm really happy at the prospect of sharing servers, I'm just dreaming of an ideal gaming world.

    but ... whilst I'm at it, I want those bloody big dresses the Carnies wear, I don't care, I wont take any type of kick move, I promise! And I also want Ghost Widows moving hair, if she can have it, so can bloody I.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Turgenev View Post
    Then explain "yarbles" to me.
    That's easy, it's slang for coloured marbles. Yarble being yellow, rarble being red, blarble being blue... you get the idea?

    Next question please?
  25. Oh Hooray!

    Such good news for those of us who don't work 9 to 5 and therefore play at irregular hours. I might actually get asked to join a team now

    As for EU having four servers, hmmm not really, 2 English servers, a French and a German, that kinda cuts it back to two or one, depending on your viewpoint.

    I relish the thought of playing with Yankees and Aussies and whoever else plays on the NA servers. Just a reminder to you all though to watch your slang and colloquialisms in chat, we speak English in England!

    Exciting news