Carnifax_NA

Yes, I'm getting Vengence as part of the same respec so that makes Power Boost even more tempting. Power Boosted Heals I'm not so worried about, but Power Boosted Seeds and AOE hold also sounds good.

I'll basically be trying to bribe people into dying (or letting them die) for Vengie Bait with the promise of Rezzing them and buffing them into god mode with Power Boosted Fort and AB (I know Power Boost does nothing for AB but it's still AB) as compensation.

I think I'll probably go Primal, sacrificing some damage isn't a big concern because that character never finds it hard to get a team.

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I'm just at the point of respeccing my level 44 Plant/Emp to allow for inherent Fitness (only realised on a team over the weekend that I hadn't done it yet) and am still trying to decide between these two APPs. I have Fire and it's lovely for the raw damage, but I'm considering Primal purely for Power Boost.

I'm really stuck betwixt the two, Power Blast and Conserve Power are two totally meh openers on Primal and Energy Torrent is alright but not stellar, whereas in Fire I can see lots of use for Fireball, Fire Blast and Rise of the Phoenix.

Couldn't you just play VGA Planets for a bit to decide? You can even play it in your browser nowadays (technology, eh?)

I approve of this statement on multiple levels.

Which Claws/SR scrapper can buff their teammates?

Melee fort can offer a nice change from either Ranged Fort or Widow (or scrapper) in terms of gameplay. A Stalker/Scrapper type who can also buff their teammates and use a wider variety of interesting PBAOEs (or AOEs used at 0 range in the case of Psi Tornado) : a crashless, stunning nuke, Spin, Psi Tornado, Patron AOE and Aura of Confusion. It's more like playing a blap-happy Domi with shields than a scrapper.

There's no reason for a Fort not to dip into the melee attacks if they fancy it.

The beauty of Forts is that they're a very flexible build with many interesting possibilities, moreso than Night Widows IMO.

This be true.

In general with Rares they can be 10k. It's snagging the Salvage that might cost you a mill or two (case in point, the Ghost Widows Acc/Hold/Recharge typically costs 10k but the Salvage is about 1.5 mill for the Rare bit).

You're right, it just nerfs the blue bar & recovery, doesn't affect your health at all.

I was assuming this was why it was banned, I thought Canadians must just have good taste.

Then I remembered Bryan Adams.

I think you should leave Azurias junk alone. Or at least bring hir out for a drink first.

I'm the one who brought up Shiver, but I'd never, never drop Glacier for it. 4 frankenslotted slots is all it needs in it with as many Acc/Hold/Recharge IOs as you can get (2 of which cap at 30, are yellow and ridiculously cheap).

I remember doing that Clone mission on a level 27 PuG with my Ice/Psi. The leader was a Fort and he asked how many clones he should set for. We said 8.

Thanks to those failures that pop up before the big fight fuelling my Domination bar I was able to insta-hold his clones the second they popped up and we cleaned the floor with them.

Or, to use an example GG might actually know (although I wouldn't bet money on it), Crippling Axe Kick.

Whereas powers with names like Incinerate, Eviscerate and Ripper are all lollypops and rainbows.

^This. There's never any point arguing any morality issue with GG, other than for the comedy value.

I'm not sure where the 1 powerset to their name comes from, EATs have more than one powerset to their name, they've 2 at least (Primary and Secondary), and each EAT tends to have 2 types (PB / WS, Soldier/Widow)

In fact given the multiple choices etc they're probably closer to 2 one-and-a-half powersets apiece.

So technically any implemented EAT so far is hovering around having 6 powersets worth of powers in there altogether.

I'd quite welcome more EATs, I like the fact they tend to be hybrids in terms of what they're "supposed" to do.

Just use "it" for everyone.

"It picks the bag up again or else it gets the hose again"

... What?

(I actually use "they and their". I've never had a situation where someone has gone "Hey, I thought you were talking about loads of people").

I kinda cheat in this case. Carnifax (Illusion/Storm) is a demon (well an imp), she's a creature of magic but where she comes from that's probably more of a Natural origin.

So I fudged it slightly and said because she got here due to a magical CoT portal (they're like the ferry for getting us Demon types into Paragon City, aren't they) coupled with the fact her weather control powers are a result of non-innate learnt magical rituals and spells I went with with Magic origin. Which is really nothing more than a self-justification excuse for the fact Magical felt more correct for her when I was rolling her.

But I think it acknowledges the real fact with Origins, it's the players choice. If they've an origin which suits how they see their character they should go with it, there's no real ingame impact and no real point in someone coming along and saying "Hey, that's wrong. Technically you're of Natural origin"

Well Domis don't get the Earth APP, because too many powers were already in Earth Assault, so thats two options gone

Overall I'd go with Earth/Fire/Ice or Fire/Earth/Ice.

The difference is Earth/Fire is more ranged based and a total beast (Quicksand + Sleet + Ice Storm). Earth has tonnes of AOE control, Fire is brilliant at burning things to the ground. For this build I'd be inclined towards Ice Storm, Sleet and probably Hibernate (because you have so many Pseudopets and an incredibly tough pet you can do what I used to do with my Illusion/Stormie, dump a load of patches of doom / pseudopets down and if things get hairy camp out in Hibernate to heal and regain End while your patches & pets do their thing). Fire Assault does have 2 melee moves (well 3 if you also count Consume), one single target and one PBAOE but both are Damage Over Time which is a slight annoyance (you can still take them, I have, but they aren't as good as Earth Assaults Big Lumps of Damage).

Fire/Earth is far more melee based with less control from the primary but more damage. If you want to play a sort of Domi-blapper go with that. You'll die a lot more probably but you'll live in Interesting Times. For this I'd be inclined more towards Sleet, Ice Armour, Ice Storm and maybe Hoarfrost over Hibernate since you don't have Stoney, who can tank for you, and a 30% heal and +hp might be more useful to a meleer. Earth Assault has the best melee attacks available to Domis but the first PBAOE, Tremor is underwhelming (the animation is slooooow and the damage is crap, but the knockdown might be useful to a Fire Domi).

My main issue with Earth/ice/fire and Ice/Earth/Fire is primarily that the Power Boost from the secondary doesn't play particularly well with Earth Control or Ice Control. Ice/Earth would also be a pain in terms of End costs (as is Fire/Earth in fairness but it does lots and lots of damage). Ice/Earth is also very dependent on knockdown, which can be a pain on teams with other controllers on it (Planties will drive you insane as they cannot help a lot of the -knockdown immobs they produce).

I've never been able to get into Ice Assault, attacks do mediocre damage (but quickly, the animations are nice and fast on it) but the AOE is actually pretty good on it and comes very early. My main problem with it is that it doesn't really know what to do with itself, it lacks focus and doesn't excel in any one area, unlike say Fire, Earth, Thorns or Energy Assault (I've the same issue with Psi Assault, there's a lot of to-ing and fro-ing in and out of melee, especially before level 38 when you finally get your PBAOE, which is admittedly excellent).

My Fort would never stab someone through the heart.

Why get your claws dirty when you can rip their minds apart instead (and know exactly how much it hurt in the process thanks to your amazing powers of Empathy)

If you mean "allow Loyalists and Resistance to go to Paragon City / Rogue Island before 20" I'm not sure they ever can do that, given the story in Praetoria and the effort involved in getting there at 20.

If you mean add two TFs for the teens then yes, absolutely.

I'm in the same boat with Praetoria I think, I made a few melee types recently and all have stalled. Think I'll remake the Scrapper Blueside instead and use the sewers to speed-run to 10 before doing the Kings Row & Faultline stuff.

Oddly enough taking the proper meaning of the word "Empath" the powers that are probably the most empathic in the game are Mind Link, Foresight and the various Tactical Training / Leadership toggles & clickies.

So Widows are the proper Empaths in City of X