ClawsandEffect

A lot of enemies who have the power Dominate have a non-positional version of it.

I think Rikti Chief Mesmerists have a non-positional version, but it's been a while since I fought them with a positional defense based character, so I don't recall for sure.

It's not double the damage. Shockwave does the same amount of damage as Strike. Exactly the same amount. Eviscerate hits a LOT harder than that. Like 3 times harder.

If everything is clustered around you, you should be hitting 5 every time you use Eviscerate, almost by accident.

I'm fine with it, as long as they don't start making everything untyped damage. An untyped attack here and there is okay.

They should maybe add an enhancement like Essence of the Earth that lets you resist the untyped damage.

Did not know that.

I was referring to the distance traveled, I know nothing can increase the radius of a PBAoE.

Good to know.

Ah, right.

I keep forgetting about the "This point completely invalidates my argument, so I'm going to pretend it doesn't exist and keep arguing anyway!" mentality of some people.

Kind of funny actually, the argument was lost as soon as that point was brought up, but it kept raging on just as strong anyway.

Me either.

I thought for sure that it was going to be a call to add dwarves and elves to the game.

I've participated in a number of races in the game already. Most of them have been player run, with prizes donated by other players.

I don't really think the game needs a bunch of mini-games added to it to increase it's replayability. Since you never actually WIN the game, the replayability of it is kind of a given.

When you talk about a game's replay value, what you are really talking about is "What incentive is there to play the game again after you get to the end?"

Since the game doesn't ever actually end, replay value doesn't really apply to it.

I took that into account Bill. My percentages are pure wild guesses, I make no bones about it and I make no claims that they are accurate. They probably aren't too far off, but I have no way of knowing for sure.

I mentioned the 5% that I considered "hardcore" PvPers, which are those that PvP is the reason they play the game.

I also mentioned an additional 5% that dabbled in it occasionally. That number may be a little higher than I estimated, but that number is a lot harder to quantify. Do you count if you participated in zone PvP a couple times, or if you fought another player once? Casual PvPers are a lot harder to identify than the hardcore.

I don't think the hardcore PvP population ever got higher than 6-7% at it's peak. Like I said, 5% of 120,000 is 6,000, and even at PvP's peak I didn't see enough people participating in it to accumulate that kind of number. I you average that out it's a little better than 500 PvPers per server, maybe a little skewed toward Freedom and Virtue. I don't know about you, but I never saw enough people PvPing to add up to that number, taking into account non-peak hours as well. I mean, if you see 25 in a zone on Friday at 9 PM, it's a bit of a stretch to assume that there were 475 at different times throughout the rest of the day. And casual PvPers making up the difference seems unlikely.

I went Body Mastery for 2 reasons.

1) End Management: it's kind of a no-brainer choice for that.

2) Staying with concept and avoiding redraw: My concept and backstory states that all the character's powers come from the demonic sword he acquired. Without the sword he's just a normal dude. So, the Darkness powers are appropriate, but I despise putting my sword away, firing a power, and then redrawing the sword.

There's also the fact that my build is really tight on slots, and Body Mastery has powers that don't need much slotting to be useful.

If you didn't rant so much, maybe they would listen more

It was a joke.

I have 2 stalkers myself, and I enjoy playing them.

I was making a joke at the fact that they've been languishing for quite a while now and the attempts at giving them some love have so far been ineffective.

The only effect PvPers having multiple accounts has is it artificially inflates the numbers and makes it appear that there are more people doing it than there really are.

Oh, and if you look at what I said 5% of 120,000 is 6,000 people. If you add the other 5% that occasionally engaged in PvP you have about 12,000.

Personally, I think assuming there were ever 12,000 PvPers at any point in this game's history is an incredibly generous number. It was probably much less than that in actuality.

I meant it was about 5% who PvPed every day, with another 5% or so that did it once in a while.

Put them out of their misery?

This.

I am 90% sure that Incarnate powers are unaffected by AT mods.

That's why so many people have been crying "AT X is useless now because of Incarnate power Y!"

I've heard it about Blasters because of Judgement, and I've heard it about Defenders because of Destiny.

If Judgement were affected by AT mods, Defenders would deal much less damage than Blasters, and Blaster fans wouldn't have gotten so bent out of shape.

It won't get a LOT higher, but it will get it enough higher that it will help.

Alpha Very Rares ignore ED on 2/3rds of the enhancement value, so you'll get nearly 22% enhancement that ED doesn't touch.

Ninja Run. It's a power that comes in the Martial Arts Super Booster (sets of costumes and emotes bundled with a unique power you could buy for $10)

You'll probably be able to get just Ninja Run for around 100 Paragon Points after Freedom is live. I bought the full pack when it first came out, some of the costume pieces are really cool.

I LOVE Soul Transfer.

I usually leave it on auto-fire, just because I don't have any other powers that warrant it. That and I kind of like the "Oh you killed me? Boy, was THAT dumb!" aspect of the power

It makes a good mule for a partial set of Eradication for more End/defense/HP (My BS/DA build really started to get awesome once I cranked up the HP some, I'm just over 1900 on my live build)

I took it at level 49 and stuck a couple slots in it, I believe I have 3 Eradication in there, which is helping me hit the soft-cap for ranged and is contributing to my 119 max endurance (more endurance helps DA builds quite a bit)

Tentacles/Dark Pit will put a de-facto hold on any minions in the spawn, and it will immoblize LTs. If you have Oppressive Gloom from Soul Mastery the LTs (and bosses) will be stunned as soon as you jump into the mob.

The two sets together give you plenty of tools to make effective use of Soul Drain, you just have to take advantage of them.