Captain_Cathode

OK so your saying that people with specific PvP builds (IE the people in PvP areas) are making chracters that are good at resisting effects that would hurt them in PvP (holds) therefor making Dominators (who have low mag effeects) sort of useless?

So you want Dominators holds to be a higher mag in PvP specifically?

Whatever effect a power has it can be overcome by another power.
Hate Stalkers? Get Tactics.
Don't like Holds? Acrobatics.
Surprisingly enough the people who play PvP zones a lot tend to make their toons so that they are as imune to bad effects as possible.

From my experience with Cathode.

1. Radiant Aura is NOT essential.
Cathode never took it and I never really missed it. If people think the only reason to defend is to heal they have some serious problems

2. Thunderous Blast is not great
I am of the "defenders shouldn't take nova" school. Use this and you will knockout all of your toggles using this (RI, EF and Choking Cloud) so I wouldn't recomend this.

3. Total Sapping = Electric Mastery
If you want to be a total sapper then get Power Sink from the electric blast. EMP, Shortcircuit, Powersink...goodbye all endurance

4. Thunderstrike has a bad rep.
Thunderstike effects are TOTALLY inapropriate for the set (I think that the NRG mellee one and the elec mele one got muddled up)but theres one key advantage to Thunderstrike - It's unbelievably fun. Whilst I like the electrical blast set it feels utilitarian rather than powerful. Thunderstrike is the power that makes me actually feel powerful. The other option (electric fence) is a power elctrical blasters get at level 1 - thats how boring it is.

You want us to make it and post the pic here or...what?

That looks like a pretty good build.

I've got a Dark/Dark to personally I've never bothered to get Moonbeam. So I'd say skip Moonbeam and get Tar Patch earlier as I found it to be very useful at lower levels where slowing enemies often really messes them up.

Darkest Night might benefit from having an endurance cost enhancement in it.

I love Tenebrous Tentacles - I'd put an extra imob, a range and a rate in there..

For Twilight Grasp - 2 acc 2 heal and 2 recharge is prefered by some so you can really spam heal when you need to.

You might want to get Howling Twilight earlier too as team wipes seem to happen more often at lower levels and people will be grateful for the multi rez. In order to facilitate this take recall friend earlier (I would skip Teleport Foe unless you want to annoy people in PvP)

E5

Cool stuff - I would have prefered the orignal vertion of "self preservation society" but still good.

Cosmos can be found here

I'd also like to sub mit Cosmos because Jakey has more talent in his little finger than i have in my entire body.

Nice timing between the first katana atack and the first vocal. Suggest you upgrade to the full version of Fraps for longer demo recording.

You might want to record footage using /demorecord and then record from the demofile using Fraps. This tends to give a higher frame rate.

Your worried about hellions asking for influence?

can I have a fudge on why lots of peds in Atlas Park manage to stand in the fountains for days on end withoout getting verucas!

Captain Cathode Inc is now open for business...all your AV troubles taken care of for a reasonable price...say YOUR ETERNAL SOUL!

Yay the majority of people were pretty good

But I minority are still tryiny to solo Hamidon/Wearing Capes and using the wrong pets (phantom especially).

Cheers to Xanthus for organising us all!

Whatever you anchor your debuffs on will be effected by those debuffs.

However if you lead off with RI on a Lietenant or Boss you're pretty likely to agro the entire mob anyway. In my opinion your better off covering a greater area with debuffs by splitting between 2 seperate monsters - Both RI and EF regenerate pretty quickly so you should be ably to keep both of them running throughout the fight.

Having a "$target is my anchor" bind is a good idea but don't expect ANYONE to pay attention it. Better to say at the start of any team "I will put my Debuff on LTs/Bosses when posible so please clear the minions first" but as I pointed out the attack Rate on RI/EF is not terrible so if somone kills your anchor just target a reasonably healthy critter and put it on him.

The full description for Mutate is as follows:
[ QUOTE ]
"Using a concentrated burst of radiation, you can revive a fallen hero and Mutate him into a killing machine. The Mutated hero has increased damage, Accuracy, Endurance recovery, and attack speed and is protected from XP Debt fort 20 seconds. The entire experience is very taxing on the Mutated hero, and he will soon be severely weakened. All effects of the Mutation will eventually wear off. Recharge: Very Long"

[/ QUOTE ]

To Clarify: Mutate = Resurection plus temporary Buff! not temporary debuff. There is a "mutate crash" after Mutate wears off but it's not terrible and hopefully the buffed hero will have stomped everything flat whilst they were mutated. If the hero you mutate is running Heros stats they should see how long the Mutate Buff will last and plan around that.

I think you will find that

"Arrr what infernal sorcery has entrapped I within this accurs-ed prison? This be a greater torment than takin 230 lashes from the cat-o-nine-tails an'then bein' kheel hauled says I. A thousand gold doubloons to the landlubber that can free me from this infernal nutshell prison!"

is A Pirate Ghost in a nutshell.

The undead inhabitants of Fort Hades are they:

Pirate Ghosts

or

Ghost Pirates?

I'm just tired of finding ###/Kinetic who take Transfusion and Repel ONLY!

SGs Recruiting on Defiant are in this thread

I think thers a similar list in the Union boards but I can't find it.

ALSO ALL CAPS IN A THREAD TITLE IS BAD!

Apart from that both Defiant and Union have players who are helpful and considerate. Seeing as you will have 8 character slots in both Union and Defiant why not "suck it and see" - If you want to go hard on the roleplay front then Union is the server for you - specifically 9pm "under Galaxy Girls skirt" is the place to hang out (Galaxy City big statue of Galaxy Girl).

If you want to focus on PvP then Defiants Paragon Defenders are he people to hook up with. If your borderline insane try Sanity Inc on Defiant. There's a bunch of right weirdos on Defiant called Honourable United... not sure if there any good though

But Thunderstrike is so much FUN!

The knockback may not actually be useful (as you pointed out it's actually bad), the activation time is a joke, the damage is pretty average but I still love Thunderstike because it makes me feel powerful seeing a gang of critters fly in all directions actually made up for having no attacks that did knockback until lvl 40.

Seeing as the choice is Thunderstike or Electric Fence. I'd pick Thunderstrike every time.

I'm another Rad/Elec/Elec

Personally I've never taken Fallout - its generally reguarded as a bit of a waste - I hear it does good damage but with more than one rez-er on the team you may not get it off unless you tell people. I'd take Mutate sooner but skip Fallout. If you can get the Leadership pool I guess you could do a Fallout/Vengance/Mutate Combo.

I would not recomend taking Thunderous Blast. Why take a power that automatically turns off all your toggles? You lose RI, EF and Chocking Cloud if you use it. So unless you kill everything your defenceless. I'm a part of the "Defenders shouldn't NOVA" group here.

Thunderstrike is GREAT I absolutely love it. Thunderstrike is much MUCH better than electric fence. Take Thunderstrike.
THUNDERSTRIKE!

Theres no point slotting Electric Blast power with Endurance Modification except Short Circuit - I tried it and it's totally ineffective. Put them into Short Circuit and reap the rewards. Short Circuit plus Power Sink with 2 endMods in SC and 3 in PS normally = zero end for most enemies.

I ran one of these a few weeks ago. This time I'm organising a Badge Getting/Plaque Finding expedition in The Hollows, Skyway City, Faultline, Kings Row, Independance Port and finishing off in Terra Volta

Date: 26th May
Location: Atlas Park - Prometheus Park
Time: 8pm

People with Recal Friend/Fly are very welcome.

Yay! I'm in the pics - Easiest to spot in the Mito Clearing 4 picture - blue body suit with vertical purple strip facing away from the screen in the middle left of the pic - I'm standing there like a lemon.

You can also see Dax there as well (healing to my left)

Congrats to everyone who took part see you at the next one.

Stupid question but....

Whats the URL for the Femmes site?

Why not put it in your sigs?

Thanks Black Dragon - I do like that Penny Arcade strip I lost where it was .. you've probably added a word to the forum auto consor now as well - lucky you!

Ignore me I realised Thursdays are bad for me (I can do Thursday at 8pm probably)

You know there are times when I'm really proud to be part of the Defiant Community. We pull together, we beat Hamidon, we run events server wide or within our super groups and we do ourselves a great service.

Then theres times when we conform to every single bad stereotype of the socially inept uber geek.

Friday 12th - Atlas Park - 8.30pm an example of the second sort. It started after the end of what I think was a costume competition (I wasn't in the zone for the start of it). Some bright spark decided to complain about the result over the request channel and they did not bother to censor themselves in the slightest. Within minutes the request and broadcast channels had degenerated into a mindless slanging match worthy of Jerry Springer. I sincerely hope that the participants of this exersice in idiocy got petitioned and banned for their excelance in the field of stupidity. I wont miss any of you.