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Time says hi (at least with regards to Slow and Recharge). Trick Arrow does more -Slow in a huge area as well, and adds in some -damage and -resist.

End debuffage isn't all that impressive, and Kins isn't that great as it's single target. In fact that's Kins biggest problem, a lot of its debuffs (other than Fulcrum Shift) are single target.

Kinetics is one of the best buffing sets but with regards to total debuffage it's behind quite a few sets.

It will, assuming the Haunts and Umbral are nice and close to gain from it. Doggie has a habit of standing back for a few seconds to do his howl.

Another option is an Elec/Kin controller, Gremlins like to be in melee and Transference gels with your -End aura as a sapping tool. However your damage output will probably be less than Dark and certainly less than Fire and Plant. APPs will help with that but you'll still linger behind them.

2.07 seconds.

So it's a major change for people who like to play as Form Dancers (or just need to snap into Dwarf to escape a mez or to turtle up for a bit or off-tank to grab some aggro off other teammates)

It looks like Arbiter Hawk agrees with you. Hence the pop-up bar when you form shift.

To be honest my Warshade managed 1 mission of the kheld map.

"Eeew. Council Cave map. It's like Citadel all over again"

My Widow/Fort stayed at Rogue for ages though. I quite liked the extra AOE mez and the ability to go anywhere. Plus I wanted the PPPs opened.

Tip rewards proved too strong a lure in the end though.

Storyline??

Oh, the thing you do at 10 in order to get your cossie slot and then completely ignore! I remember that.

I really enjoyed my Fort/Widow and my Shade, both were great fun, with the Shade being a bit better just because it was more versatile. Plus I really disliked the first 26 levels of Widowhood, couldn't get through it quick enough.

This is pretty much the only feature I'm looking forward to in i23. Although I have a TW/Elec Brute who is used for soloing the Ward content, so I'll have a night or two of that too.

Now if some other QoL / revamp stuff comes down the pipeline as well that'd be excellent (TA or Ice Control. I'll accept either)

And Fears. And have that horrible Vengie Buff when their Lieuts die.

My Dark/Sonic defender and Illusion controllers hate Nemmies. My Dark/Time isn't looking forward to them either (she had a torrid time with some Devouring Earth yesterday as well, although I also had a grumpy baby on my lap at the time)

I'm pretty sure that Entropic Chaos Chance for Self-heal only works like a single target blast in Jolting. This mis due to the fact that it has a chance to heal the Caster, and you only count as the caster for the initial shot, subsequent chained shots are cast by invisible pseudopets summoned on top of the last target hit.

Unless it's been changed recently offensive & debuffing procs are the way to go on chains. The same applies for the Chance to Heal from the Sleep set in Static Field, it won't work. Since you're Dark anyway you don't really need a chance for self heal anyway, especially when you get your Dark/Dark-Defender-in-a-bottle (Fluffy)

Bad news here, DS does pretty meh damage in general. He's a debuffing and healing machine. He will gel excellently with the Gremlins though and go a long way to keeping them alive. Even on my Dark/Sonic defender with -res piling on Fluffy has poor damage.

I remember when Cossie changing had no cool-down and people would strobe in front of your eyes using a set of linked keybinds.

The pop-up tray is nice for people getting into Khelds alright. I've the keybind system set up so makes little difference to me but as a general QoL thing for new Khelds this is great.

Now, who do we bribe in order to get some APPs/PPPs going (can we have Dominator ones please? I swear it wouldn't be broken)

This makes me very happy

My main beef with Jolting is that the animation is a teeny, tiny bit too long for my liking, but I played Elec as a Domi so there's lots of things fighting for that animation time. I love the rippling "popcorn" effect it does and its Proccability.

I don't skip it, but it goes a bit unloved on my Elec/NRG for that reason. Plus the Gremlins get it too so it becomes overkill slightly (its the one power I always feel people don't give credit to the Gremlins for having, it's nice soft control for a pet to have, unless you're fighting -2s)

And yet you missed Trick Arrow???

I'd prefer Melee/Support or Assault/Support myself.

Control/Pets would be hilarious. Can you imagine what it would be like a week or so after it was released? People running around with 7/8/9+ pets apiece!

Ah, didnae know that.


It opens at 12, so you could pick it up at 14 if you wanted.

If you're planning to solo a lot it's worth it IMO, on teams it's very, very situational.

Well kinda. Controller AOE Immobs are mag 3 + 50% of an additional mag 1. Single Target are Mag 4 + 20% chance of +1.

So an AOE immob should stop half of them, the single target should immob stop them in one, if you're a Controller. The Single Target Domi one should stop them too, but obviously only one at a time (and a lot of Domis skip the single target immob)

Actually if you're solo and Gravity then Dimension Shifting half the spawn is worth a punt. Or using it as a bottle-neck.

I'm agreeing with you (kinda). It probably wasn't 1 reason, there were probably a few of things contributing to it.

The only one that really remains is "Ice melee isn't very good" but that can be fixed further (fix GiS)

I think it was probably the fact that Ice has -recharge powers (although the armour only has 1 is I remember rightly), Ice Melees mass of -recharge and control and the fact that Energy Melee was lacking a defensive partner.

The -recharge really shouldn't matter now anyway, it's easy to build Fury just by attacking as people have noted.

Plus if it is proliferated chances are Ice Melee would get a pass and Greater Ice Sword would be fixed / buffed.

Controllers do not get Fiery Rain.

They can get Ice Storm alright but it's Dominators who get Fiery Rain (or Rain of Fire to give it its proper name)

Defenders used to have higher HP, but it got reduced at some point (i4? i5?)

As for giving Defenders higher Control values I'm not sure I see the point. There's few Defender sets with oodles of control (Trick Arrow has 4 powers, after than a few have 2) and quite a few with none at all and I'd rank 3 of those with none as needing something in the way of buffs : Sonic, Force Field and maybe Empathy.

One thing I thought of when this last came up was the concept of Vigilance acting as a token for the triggering of a Feedback effect when some powers from their primary were used.

For example if a Defender casts a single target heal on someone then Feedback would cause a small Regen buff on the Defender. If they cast an ally shield they'd get 25% of the buff to themselves. If they cast some control they'd get a Break Free effect on themselves for a few seconds.

It'd be a bit of work though, ideally you'd want 4-5 powers per set with Feedback added to it, but it would mean you could tweak each set & power specifically for what it does in terms of how it self-buffs the Defender.

Because Feedback is based on the inherent you could make the changes to powers knowing that although Corruptors, Masterminds and Controllers also have it in their secondaries it would never trigger / proc.

But it would be a sizable bit of work to implement and balance.

and appears to be an albino Predator???

With sensible shoes

Indeed, you've gone back to white now.

Maybe Zwill heard your plea for access to the Market forum and is just playing mind games now.