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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Shadow Wail View Post
    Try Volcanic Gasses, Quicksand, EarthQuake, Stalagmites while under the influence of PB/Domination/Megolomaniac/Frenzy and Hasten at the same time. When I first saw thing I just giggled.

    I might be wrong but it is just heavenly!
    Gases, Quicksand and Quake don't get anything from Domination. They will get something from Power Boost, but not for very long (because they reapply short duration mezzes/debuffs).

    Basically if you PB and then cast Volc Gasses then the holds it casts for the first 13 seconds or so (while PB is still up) will have extended durations.

    For Quake for roughly 12 seconds the Quakes -ToHit will be boosted.

    For Quicksand the Slow and Def debuff will be boosted for the first 12 seconds or so (until PB wears off again).
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Residentx_EU View Post
    Do you speak for the community? I know you'd like to but let's hear from the "Community" :-) This would be a one time deal. Not for bragging rights but to explore the "capabilities." You know doms specialize in "Assault" right?
    You'd be better off running some sort of timed PvE competition to be honest. Powers work so differently in PvP all any sort of result would tell you is that X is better in PvP.

    Timed Solo mission run and some sort of all AT Task Force run would be better indicators. Even then they'd only be indicators (could be a lot of fun to run though)

    Controllers and Domis are both beasts, trying to decide which is "better" is pretty futile IMO, it'll come down to so many variables (sets chosen, preferences of the player involved etc) that you'll never get an answer.
  3. Elec Control. On a Domi it's a great powerset very well suited to quick moving steamrollering teams with it's array of light, quick recharging AOE mezzes and drain.

    Although Umbral Blast and Umbral Aura are also great in terms of having lots of really fun powers and tricks in there.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Quasadu View Post
    Isn't the proc what we're talking about here? You can't put Miracles and Numinas in Stamina...
    It's a bit confusing, some people are talking about the proc, I was talking with Cainus about his ability to slot the Recovery uniques into health and not bother slotting Stamina at all (which is why I hate him )
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Quasadu View Post
    Side note: They aren't uniques. You can have more than one slotted. My regen and willpower toons are ridiculously overcompensated for endurance recovery.
    I was sure they are, and so is the Wiki.
    http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Miracle:_Recovery

    I know Performance Shifter PROC isn't but the Heal +recoveries are.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    There may be stuff happening in your future.
    There may not...

    (dun-dun-DUUUUN)
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silas View Post
    What is making stuff run out of Rain powers and terrorize are two different effects.

    Powers like Terrify from Mind Control or Fearsome Stare inflict the Terrorize effect on mobs, which makes them do the cowering thing and only attack when attacked. ome Stare inflict the Terrorize effect on mobs, which makes them do the cowering thing and only attack when attacked.


    Powers like Rain of Fire have an Avoid component, which means mobs in that area will try to leave it. They'll still attack occasionally but their priority will be to get out of the area.

    Its confusing because a lot of people call the second effect Fear which is really a misnomer.

    Using Cloak of Fear with Caltrops would cause mobs to slowly run out of the Caltrops patch while occasionally taking potshots at you. The Terrorize caused by CoF would be overridden by the constant DoT damage from the 'trops.

    Hope that helps
    Weirdly though Caltrops actually does the "Afraid" type rather than Avoid. Afraid is basically old school Fear (one of Spectral Terrors Fear attacks does it still, as does Howling Twilight) where they turn and run for the duration. Arctic Air and Hotfeet also use Afraid. Rains use Avoid.

    I think the difference is that Afraid has a duration, like any mez. So it can stick after the enemy has left the area affected (you can see this with Spectral Terror, things can keep running away even if they've gotten out of the area of effect).

    Avoid is only in the Area of Effect, once they get out of it they aren't forced to keep on running.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cainus View Post
    The cost of it is irrelevant, as I dont buy them from WW. I have stacks of them that have dropped while playing over the years, and slowly levellling up my guys. One of the benefits of just enjoying the game, rather than the mad dash power levelling to 50 (which, thankfully, doesnt seem that common on my primary server).
    And I dont need cash any longer thanks to multiple purple drops that I seem to have lucked into recently, so there's no reason to sell them off to fund my guys.
    I think I hate you

    I'm an incredibly slow leveller, why isn't it raining Recovery Uniques on me?
    (I know the answer here, because I have the attention span of a kitten in a string factory and keep forgetting characters somewhere in the 30s to go play a new shiney )
  9. Carnifax_NA

    New Dom Help

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by alyssa_jones View Post
    I did, yes, and my chance ToHit was always 90% or higher with their chance to dodge/evade never more than 75%.

    I noticed the rolling seems to act similar to how a table-top rpg would work...role to hit, role to dodge, if dodge is less than to hit, role for damage...but last night just seemed out of the norm.
    Erm, what chance to evade? The game doesn't work that way as far as I know. Their "chance to evade" (Defense) is subtracted from your Chance to Hit (75% + ToHit Bonuses), clamped to the 5% to 95% range and then multiplied by your Accuracy modifier and clamped again. That's the final % chance your attack has has to hit with and what is rolled against.
  10. Carnifax_NA

    New Dom Help

    Did you create a new Chat Tab to monitor ToHit rolls? That'll give you the chances you have to hit things and what your actual rolls were which should help determine what is going on.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mothers_Love View Post
    The BBC iplayer is going global early this year on the free with ads route, so you'll be able to catch it there as well.
    Really?? Excellent!! Hurrah for the BBC!

    (I had been using Foxy Proxy and one of their UK proxies to view iPlayer)
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Toony View Post
    They're not fun to fight against at that level.

    I have far more trouble with Praet PD and Resistance and Ghouls than I do with Clockwork or Hellions or Skulls. They are noticably more buffed up as pointed out with PPD having numerous attacks and hellions having about one.
    Regardless of how difficult they are I still find them fun to fight for the most part.

    One of the issues seems to me to be that they're all scaled down level 20 enemies rather than being like Hellions or Skulls who are designed for beginners.

    You run into the same issues with Rikti and Zombie events. If there aren't a good few higher levels fighting the invasion too they're horrific and best avoided by lowbies
  13. Fire/Rad actually starts to bloom reasonably early. By level 12 I had Flashfire, Hotfeet, Cages, Radiation Infection, Air Sup, the Hold and AM and that was enough to be able to run around hazard zones soloing the spawns (popping Insps like a lunatic as I went), aiming mainly at quantity over quality, so lots of even level, -1 or even -2 spawns (they all drop candy and give XP).

    Flashfire and cage em, RI and then run in and Hold & Air Sup lieuts to death while Hotfeet and Cages took care of the minions.

    End was a concern but frantic Insp popping ensures you've got a constant stream of them dropping from defeats solo and you can run around picking on lots of slightly weaker enemies.

    End game the biggest killer is mezzes, a mez will generally cause 4 of your toggles to drop which can be a real pain. You can go with the Psi APP to get some Mez protection (not that I did, I went stone and relied mostly on mezzing them before they mezzed me).
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Talen Lee View Post
    Sure, you can put go-faster stripe on your Veyron if you must.
    In the case of Elec Domination won't affect a lot of the powers at all (or very little). Being able to drain the enemies of End 50% faster is a good thing.

    And once you hit the purple patch (like say in the new end game content that's being rolled out) durations need all the help they can get. The devs seem to be overall making changes there which means the I-Win buttons in the normal PvE game (perma-dom, soft-cap defenses) aren't as an effective I-Win solution in the End Game.
  15. Elec/NRG is great fun if you can stretch your concept. Fairly thematic in a tech sort of way and entertaining.

    Gravs whole problem is the fact that on Controllers it does alright single target damage, on domis that single target damage is overshadowed by your secondary. There's no point having Lift or Propel, they're laughable compared to any secondary blast.

    Elec on the other hand was designed with Dominators in mind, it's a busy, layered set.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    All mods need time to settle in and get a feel for the community they're going to terrorize - Mod05 will become less of a machine with time



    I think he was sent overseas to help combat the Devouring Earth threat.



    I think we should start calling Mod05 "Modex" until he accepts that as his forum name
    No, I'm going with Johnny 5.

    He can be a robot MM (a good one, before you start)
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Starflier View Post
    And yet you Americans took Celine Dion off our hands.

    At least they're getting quicker at this sort of thing. Last week it was a centuries old book. This week a decades old song. Soon they'll be censoring stuff that's only a few years out of the spotlight.
    Hey, I'm not American, I'm Irish!

    PS : Sorry for Bono
    PPS: And Boyzone
    ...

    And Westlife

    Oh the shame *runs off crying*
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by nottheboss View Post
    I'd assume its for the same reason that the US constitution has the second amendment, "to preserve a well armed militia."
    And lets face it its a lot less dangerous arming trained and professional robots rather than citizens which might be idiots. :P
    And then along comes Metronome...
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Airhammer View Post
    ime really really thinking about an Ice/Thorns..
    Do it, it's great fun.

    Although last time I played my early teen one I was reminded how annoying other Control types who are spam-happy with their AOE immob can be. I wouldn't mind but it was an Earth controller (albeit one who hadn't got Earthquake yet)

    I do wish Ice Patch had the same sort of ToHit debuff Quake does too (and that Arctic Air gained something from Domination)

    All that being said opening with Slick, Shiver and then jumping in to wreck havoc with things like Fling Thorns (best cone for a Domi that I've come across) and Skewer while Arctic Air does its thing is great
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by je_saist View Post
    Catgirls with Ribbon Melee!!!



    ... oh come on... I can dream a little can't I???
    *Shudder*
  21. Carnifax_NA

    Plant/Thorn

    Scatter liberally with Achilles Heel procs. Fly Trap and Fling Thorns are good places for them, with Thorn Burst also being good.

    Personally I love Skewer, it's quick and does lots of damage (the same as Thorn Barrage). I'm less fond of Impale because of the animation.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Doctor Vivian View Post
    *gasp* Oh, Carnifax! How could you?

    Such blatant disregard for the rules smacks of sheer Villainy!

    (Or perhaps at least Rougishness!)
    It's not a blatant disregard, it's a combination of going by the Spirit of the Law combined with the letter of the law being too bewildering for someone like me to sort out, so I leave that in the hands of our lovable 80s robot moderator.

    What ever happened to Mod12 by the way?.

    Mods / Cruel NCSoft Overlords, I really hate having faceless, nameless mods by the way (in case ye are reading this), The Ocho learnt his lesson and presented us with a proper board persona. ModX just sounds like ye're being batch-grown in cloning labs for purpose.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    What could you possibly have put there that would complete this phrase, get censored and yet comprise of four letters? Sorry, sorry, I just have to know!
    I'm Irish, so there's a hint right there.

    A second hint would be the third word in a phrase used by a degenerate priest in a Channel 4 sitcom based on an small, craggy island off the west coast of Clare, Ireland.
  24. I find it better to post whatever and let Johnny 5 come along and sort it out afterwards.