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Ah right, I don't have ninja run, didn't buy it because it looks daft to me. That makes more sense. It'd be a disaster if people couldn't use the powers they paid real money for, especially the travel ones.

In fairness Bugs Bunny in drag was pretty scary (and yet oddly alluring).

I've said too much...

I'm actually pretty meh about the beast pack, mainly because the scope of the new pieces doesn't seem that broad. I mean with the Science, Magic and Mutant pack I tend to use an item or two from them in a lot of cossies regardless of Origin. But the Animal pack seems more limited in terms of options. The only thing I could see myself using would be the auras, maybe.

Temp powers are disabled in the upcoming events, I assume to prevent the sort of 48-Nukes-and-blobs-o-jello tactics.

So I *think* Beast Run would be disabled too, so no 48 wolfies beast running towards the enemy.

That's a dreadful excuse for a new feature. The colour system in the sea box is dreadful. You can't see an in-game explanation of them, and worse you can't even search/filter by them.

Quite simply a half-arsed non-feature which should never have gotten past Alpha testing without someone going "Hey, this is pretty damn user unfriendly, can't we make it actually useful?"

I'd also add the continuing bug where Enhancements don't show the info box when you mouse-over them, you have to right-click and info. But I think there was a funky bug introduced with the mouse-over which explains why that feature went away. I'd love to have it back though.

Isn't Beast Run a temp power?

Ooh, I have that. My Broadsword/Fire scrapper needs a make-over (not an animal based one, although I may nick the cigar smoke trick for him).

Which broadsword is that then?

You use Rain of Arrows? You'll be peppering people to death with Lurve Arrows. They'll probably end up a bigamist.

1) No, it doesn't work there.

2) Given the fact Quake is up so often, is an very slot-cheap AOE mez, can be cast from cover and comes with a tasty -ToHit debuff I think you'd be mad to skip it personally.

I looked at this, Thunderstrikes AOE is only 3 feet smaller (at 12) than Soul Drains, which kinda surprised me. Seems the Defender APP version has a larger area than the Brute or Domi one from their sets, which is what swayed me toward recommending it. Mind you Red Tomax could easily be wrong here. If it is 7 like the other versions I'd be more hesitant.

Top in single or AOE damage? If you're citing Billz damage tables thingy that's focused on single target damage, not AOE.

The AOE Damage potential would be the issue here.

Being a Kin you're better off at short (not quite melee but not far off) range anyway so ducking in to splatter something you've softened up shouldn't be too much disruption.

The big orange numbers will make it worthwhile

Maybe it was the Earth I was teamed with a couple of weeks ago. I'd just dinged level 12 on my Ice/Thorns so was delighted to have just gotten Ice Patch. I was able to open combat by casting it from cover, the Brute could run in and the rest of us could follow. Until he started caging everything in sight

I wouldn't mind but he actually got himself killed a few times too thanks to the aggro he drew doing it. And yet he still continued on doing it.

I've had a few Fire Control types addicted to it as well (Domis too) but he seemed to cotton on and started using it only as the Flashfire -> Cage 1-2 (which personally I think is pretty much unnecessary on a Domi, but at least it shows a cognitive process is working behind the character rather than a deranged monkey).

I think Scrappers sometimes get annoyed with my Elec/NRG Domi using Power Push on things, I can see them on frsh PuGs running after them like a dog after a stick. But they quickly learn that there's a chained Total Focus following it up and a salvo of other blasts and they can reliably mark that enemy off as dead, even if the enemy in question doesn't quite know it yet (I do tend to pick the "nasty loner guy who is hanging around the edge of melee" too, so as to avoid stealing the Tank or Scrappers targets).

Yep, I'd agree with this. If you can't cap yourself with Fulc Shift and Siphon Power there's no hope for you

I'd probably go Elec or Power mastery for the big hitting melee attack. PBU won't do a lot for you at all but Force of Nature might be interesting for a Kin too.

*Edit : Just saw your reason. Wouldn't going the Elec Route and getting Thunder Strike be a better option?

Yep.

Lots.

Although I am a filthy infiltrator as I play a Plant/Emp Controller rather than a Defender but she's rendered plenty of "Pure Healer" types obsolete on PuGs and TFs since she can do everything they can well enough, as well as make the entire spawn beat themselves up and summon Evans Spiked Tentacles of Forced Intrusion.

Erm, can't everyone speak to the Clockwork in the tutorial? I'm pretty sure they can.

That's probably one of the closest 1 to 1 matches you could make actually. The only downside is you lose your Blizzard (and Ice Storm, at least until you get to 47 and have taken the Ice APP). You sort of swap them for a more effective Ice Patch (you can cast it from range and from behind cover) and Arctic Air which are the twin jewels of Ice Control.

Ice Assault is one of the lower damage Domi sets though, just a word of warning. Nearly everything should go well with Ice Control though.

-10 for "Gather for auras" when outside of combat (not counting Mish start).
-30 for "Gather for auras" when in combat.
-50 if the word "hugs" or "cuddles" is involved.
+10 for the Empath not calling anything and just knowing where to cast the aura to get the most people.

I dunno about this now at all. To be honest this is what I term "Hero thinking", where everyone has to have a set specific role they excel at. It's the same school of thought as "Khelds aren't great because other ATs can do specific things better than them". I've found that in practice this rule doesn't actually hold much water in this game. (City of Villains is the proof of this, as are most randomly thrown together PuGs).

In fact in City of Heroes dedicated roles tend to find themselves rendered unnecessary in a lot of cases. I've seen plenty of examples of "dedicated healers" doing very little for a team, and I've been the Controller who finds himself along for the ride on high-end steamrolling teams (even fighting +4s) because the team doesn't really need all that control and we're moving too fast for many of my debuffs to get going.

I'm somewhere in the middle when it comes to the "Bestest at everything" vs "Jack of all trades, master of none" argument. Which is an indication of how well a lot of the ATs in the game are balanced in PvE IMO, the devs have done a good job of making a wide variety of different ATs (with lots of variation in them) who can all feel useful in most situations in the game.

Corruptors and Dominators sort of split the role. Corruptors have the ranged and AOE attacks from the Blaster Primaries, but swap the blapping and self-buffing powers of the secondary for Defender Support sets.

Dominators actually split their focus pretty evenly between the Control Primary and a collection of ranged single and cone attacks and melee single and PBAOE attacks from a Blasters primary and secondary.

Fire/Dark corruptors are beastly. For something more equivalent to a Blapper something like a Fire or Ice or Elec Domi (all three control sets have a melee-friendly aura) with nearly any of the secondaries suits. But in all cases there are outliers and exceptions (Sonic corruptors don't have much AOE, a Plant/Fire Domi is a bit of a ranged AOE beast).

You can see my jib?

*covers self up*