Carnifax_NA

Dear Giant Blue Embodiment of Ancient Greek God,
Please get a longer toga.


Signed,
All 4 foot characters (who now need therapy)

Listed in the Known Issues


So yes, it is stickied and known about. Hopefully a patch can be brought out next week (I assume they wouldn't bring one out just before the weekend).

On teams my Plant/Emp, oddly enough. I levelled her a lot during City of Dual Pistols and had a lot of fun jumping from PuG to PuG. She also managed to solo Trapdoor, The Honoree and chum and Mr Minotaur in the Incarnate arc without dying once (which surprised me given how I'd read about peoples issues with Trapdoor).

Solo my Necro/Dark mastermind. Most EBs are a speed bump to him. In fact some died so quickly I hadn't even noticed them until after they were defeated (hi Mirror Spirit!).

Happened to me too via the Turnstile. I only got as far as watch Mother Mayhems cleavag... I mean speech and once she'd stopped talking about whatever she was talking about I got booted.


Didn't bother retrying since.

What has me kinda puzzled is that for a bunch of devs who apparently didn't like Farming in their game these new trials reek of MA horticultural activities in many ways.


Repeat this content over and over again to earn thingies you can use to buy shinies with.


Tis puzzling.

This is one of these "How long is a piece of string" questions, in that you're going to get a bazillion different answers and combos because so many of them are fun.

What sort of playstyle do you want is probably the first question. If you like being in melee and don't mind being squished occasionally Fire, Ice and Elec are probably the three most melee friendly control sets, because all 3 have an Aura type power. Any secondary will tend to go with them, with individual wrinkles to each (NRG does knockback, which some people don't like but I've found Elec/NRG to be an effective combo anyway because the knockback is single target. Psi doesn't do massive melee damage but it has Drain Psyche which can give you more Regen than anyone else in the game if you hit enough enemies with it).

If you like being Ranged Earth, Mind, Plant and Grav focus more on ranged control powers. Fire Assault is the clear leader here because of Embrace of Fire. You can do huge amounts of single target and good AOE damage (domis are never really the kings of AOE damage anyway) with it.

If you like to solo Mind is probably the solo king, grav is its somewhat distant cousin. If you like to team Earth has ridiculous amounts of AOE control patches where Plant brings more AOE damage via Roots and Carrion Creepers.

Elec brings quick recharging, not-quite-as-hard AOE/pseudo-AOE controls which suit steamrolling teams pretty well.

The unfortunate runt of the litter is Gravity Control, the pros of Grav on a Controller are rendered obsolete on a Domi and it takes a long time to get some AOE control on it.

The Domi Combos I have at the mo are :
Ice/Psi : Decent combo although personally I dislike the fact you've to wait until 38 to get your AOE. Psi Scream is kinda annoying too. Drain Psyche is godly though. Tonnes of stacked -recharge.

Earth/Fire : Excellent combo, especially in those situations where you pull 2 or 3 spawns in a Room of Death or some Ambushes decide to come in. Earth has the best Area Control of all the sets. Fire does silly ranged damage. Not the greatest meleer because your PBAOE and your hard hitting melee attack are both Damage over Time

Elec/NRG : Great single target damage and quite a lot of fun. Very good at soloing because Elecs controls are solo friendly and quick to recharge. Knockback takes some getting used to but when you're able to keep a +2 Night Widow on her back (oo-er) with Power Push you come to love it. On teams very good at doing Bad Things to bosses either close up or from range (or one and then the other thanks to Power Push. You can hit Push and queue up Total Focus and clobber them with TF as they are still flying backwards).

Ice/Thorns : Very good meleer, thorns has the best Cone attack of all the secondaries, it's very melee friendly, but takes a while to mature because the two hardest hitting attacks you get at 35 and 38.

Given that Snow Global mentioned transfer points I'm not sure the suggestion is for a cross server lft system per say, but the ability to jump your character from one server to another without worrying about the name, via in game portals or something.

That'd be the stage one of how I'd go about it anyway, first get in game temporary server jumps going, then once that's bedded down implement a global lft system running, based around the i20 turnstile system.

The server to server transfer is usually pretty quick, I wonder how much load it can take though.

The issue with names on a team is minimal, the problem arises more with Tells. If someone is sending a tell to the "native" Carnifax they don't want it go go to one that's visiting the server. You could solve that by assuming that the @server is generally hidden unless you specify it, and if you omit it the system automatically appends that of the server you're on

Insps are one of the main reasons its generally easier to run solo against lots of weaker enemies compared to a few tougher ones.

I learnt this via my Fire/Rad controller when he was doing his levelling in the Hollows, Perez and Boomtown.

It's also the reason it tends to be a good idea to have Insp combining binds for turning those yellow Insps into tasty purple, blue or red ones.

I'd have gone with the Captain Obvious remark too (generally combined with the "lets not bother buffing or healing them in the next spawn as I have Power Boost and Vengeance ready to go anyway).

I strongly dislike team leaders who seem to think they're running some sort of tactical masterpiece here. The game isn't hard, we don't need your guidance to play it thanks, lets just cream them as quickly as we can.

If we die a few times at a room I'm willing for someone to pull, but being a team leader doesn't mean the entire team is at your beck and call and we should do it exactly as you say.

I've had a few of them in the last few weeks. And oddly they almost always seem to be Tankers. Maybe next time I'll suggest they try a mastermind instead.

The best tanks are the bouncy hyperactive ones you've to try and keep up with who just do their thing and trust you to do yours and just say things like "Wheee"