ClawsandEffect

The problem with that is that none of those things are specifically trademarked to that character and that character alone.

If flying were trademarked as being Superman-exclusive, well, DC would be suing both themselves and any other comic company for hundreds of trademark violations every couple weeks. Because there are literally hundreds, possibly thousands of different characters in existence that fly.

If "claws" were trademarked as being Wolverine specific, the same thing would happen any time someone created a character using any kind of claws at all. Werewolves, vampires and any kind of bestial character created by any other comic company would be subject to litigation if there were a trademark stating that ONLY Wolverine was allowed to use claws.

Glowy eyes and a cape? Dracula did it first, so Spawn doesn't have a leg to stand on there.

None of those things can be trademarked as being specific to one character, because they are too generic to possibly be the domain of one character and one character alone.

A lot of the things mentioned in this thread ARE trademarked to one specific person or entity. No one else did it or wore it, and they trademarked it so it was THEIRS.

I concur. The bit about SR getting it's defense stripped away by a single LT confirmed it for me.

I kind of figured as much when he said Regen was "godmode". If he had said "Regen was godmode 6 years ago" I would have agreed. Now? Not even close. It's still a good set, but every other set has more going for it.

I'm not talking crap about Regen, it's my main's secondary, and I love the set. I just want to see it get some much needed buffs. As of right now, it is the scrapper/stalker secondary most in need of them.

It doesn't need to be exactly the same as Resurgence. But it SHOULD be more than a glorified wakie.



I don't know about reducing the recharge to 60 seconds. I don't want the devs buffing a set by lowering the recharge on it's rez. I'd rather they buff the set by actually buffing the set. Lowering the recharge on Revive basically says: "Yeah, we know Regen is squishy in more situations than other sets. Tell ya what, now you can rez more often! Does that solve your problem?"

To me, a rez is nice to have if you need it, but giving you the ability to rez every 30 seconds is NOT a substitute for not NEEDING to rez every 30 seconds.

I like the regen and +HP idea though. That would be a very acceptable alternative to making it a clone of Resurgence.

Really? I would LOVE to see a defense debuffing attack that can overcome 95% defense debuff resistance. 17 Cimeroran Traitors attacking you at once can't even do that.

SR got it's DDR at such a high level precisely because it relies pretty much 100% on it's defense. If that defense is debuffed away, it's entire secondary disappears with it.

Psionics are a legitimate hole in Invuln. They hurt /Regen even worse though. Regen is no more resistant to it than Invuln is, and the secondary effect of recharge slows means you can't heal the damage back either, because your click heals won't be available.

Show me ONE other set that has ZERO resistance to it's primary form of mitigation being debuffed to nothing. Just one other set that has that glaring hole in it.

I already addressed SR. It's primary form of mitigation is defense, and it gets so much resistance to defense debuffs that it's virtually impossible to make a dent in it. It also gets 20% slow resistance in Quickness.

Willpower has layered mitigation: Defense, Resistance, and Regeneration. Guess what? It resists debuffs to ALL of those things.

Invuln gets DDR, end drain, and slow resistance.

Stone Armor gets DDR, and the most mez protection available to any mitigation set. It also gets a tier 9 power that makes it virtually immune to any damage type other than Psi.

Electric Armor is virtually immune to end drain, and it gets some of the best overall resistances in the game due to it's higher base values.

Shield Defense gets DDR, which can reach SR levels with proper slotting. It also gets resistance and a +HP power.

Ice gets DDR as well, and it's pretty much completely unaffected by slows.

Energy Aura gets DDR, and I'm sure it has other stuff going for it as well. I know it doesn't have end problems.

Dark Armor has more Psionic Resistance than anything else in the game. It also has fear protection, and is almost as immune to end drain as Electric.

Fiery Aura is pretty much immune to Fire damage, and it has slow resistance in Temperature Protection. It doesn't get as much debuff resistance as other sets, but it adds to your damage output to make up for it.

And any resistance power will resist debuffs to resistance. If you have 70% S/L resistance, you also have 70% resistance debuff resistance.

The things that hurt Regen the most are regeneration debuffs and recharge debuffs. You know how much it resists those? ZERO PERCENT.

Regeneration is the ONLY set in the game that has zero resistance whatsoever to debuffs of it's primary form of mitigation: regeneration and healing.

So why is it fair that every other set resists debuffs to the primary abilities of the set, but Regeneration doesn't get any resistance at all?

Giving Regen debuff resistance isn't going to make it invincible. Not by a long shot.

And I don't WANT to be invincible to everything. I just don't want Regen to continue to be the one and only set in the game that can have the entire POINT of the set debuffed into uselessness.

As it stands now, if a Regen gets hit with a regen debuff and a recharge debuff at the same time, you might as well hit Self Destruction and take some of them with you, because you're going to die anyway.

No regen + click heals not recharging + attacks not recharging = DEAD REGEN. No other set in the game is THAT susceptible to being completely neutered by debuffs.

Have you PLAYED a regen lately? Regen is BY FAR the squishiest powerset available to a stalker or scrapper (especially stalkers, since they don't get high enough HP to really benefit from Dull Pain)

Regen is good in PvP, that's about it. In PvE, every single mitigation set will outperform it when similar effort is put into it's build.

If you put 5 billion influence into both a Regen and a Willpower, the Willpower will blow the /Regens performance out of the water.

/Regen is the ONLY set that both A) has to seek defense and resistance from outside sources, via power pools and set bonuses and B) can have their primary means of mitigation completely stripped away by a LT class enemy. A SINGLE LT class enemy.

I like to actually have the ability to attack alongside my pets. Especially if I'm playing a fire and forget secondary like Force Field. I'd rather not have to go into melee to do that, since melee range is about the LAST place I want a mastermind to be.

Well, if your secondary were different, I would suggest taking Dark Consumption to use as a mule for 4 Eradication for the E/N defense and +HP. Since your secondary is Electric you have nothing to fear from Energy damage, so I'd go with Power Sink. It will give you more end back per use, and it's available roughly 4x more often.

Also, between Power Sink and slotting a couple End Mods into Lightning Field, you can drain an enemy and keep them drained, which will hep your mitigation. It won't stop enemies from attacking completely, but it will slow them down some.

Except it's NOT a prerequisite. Melt Armor is Blaze Mastery's second level 44 power.

Nope. Dual Pistols is a Going Rogue exclusive set. Kinetic Melee, Electric Control, and Demon Summoning are as well. You have to buy the expansion before you can play those sets on a full account.

You don't have to wait if you have the money for it now. The 30 days will be applied to your account whether you still have free time left or not.

Villain side is less populated than hero side. There are a few reasons for it. While a lot of the content is better written, villain side feels more linear than hero side. A lot of people don't like how the villain side storyline basically forces them to be an Arachnos flunky.

City of Heroes also came out before City of Villains by a significant amount, so a lot of the veteran players stuck with their group of friends and didn't venture villain side much at all.

There is also a lot more content in general on hero side. Once you get into your 40s on villain side, there is a good chance you won't have much left to do other than paper missions (or tips if you have Going Rogue)

Also, I'm sure you've noticed the game is very instance based, which means most of the stories take place on mission maps and not out in the world. What that means is there could be hundreds of people in the zone you are in, but if they are running missions you won't be able to see them. The same is true when you are in a mission as well, when you are no one can see you either.

Try joining one or more of the global channels for your server (you can find them in the Servers section of the forums). Global channels are generally used for finding teams, among other things. They are cross zone and cross server, so you could be standing in Mercy Island on Freedom and be talking to someone who is in Independence Port on Infinity. Since the game's population is so spread out, that is really the best way to find other people to run with.

Hope that helps.

This won't be happening.

I brought up a similar idea a while back and PMed Castle with it. He said it wasn't going to happen because it takes up too many CPU cycles to function properly. He did say it was possible though.

It depends, do you think you can convince the devs that making anyone around your character lag is a good idea? The sheer amount of calculations the game needs to make every time you are attacked will slow down how fast the CPU can proces everything else that's going on. If you are in a large group being attacked, well, it will probably become a slideshow rather quickly.

Not to mention the fact that each attack costing you additional endurance will drain your end bar in seconds flat if you have this on at AT such as a tank, whose JOB is to be attacked as much as possible.

17 opponents attacking you every couple seconds? If the cost is 2 end per attack reflected, you will run out of end in 6 seconds. 8 if you have every +Max End accolade and set bonus in the game. If it is 1 end per attack you will be out in 12-16 seconds. And that doesn't even take into account your end drain from running toggles, or end drained from attacking. This power ALONE will run you out of end in less than 20 seconds, pretty much no matter what you do about it.

Kinetic Melee's secondary effect of -damage in practice works very similarly to +resistance.

Both result in taking less damage when a hit sneaks through, so for all practical purposes they might as well be the same thing. They're not though.

I doubt we'll see a high damage/good armor AT that has assault and armor sets.

You'll either have lower damage or less effective mitigation. Perhaps both.

I would expect somewhat less than scrapper level mitigation, with Stalker/Blaster HP, and maybe somewhere between Defender and Corruptor damage if we were to get an AT like that.

HEATs and VEATs aren't tank mages because they are very limited in what specific powers they are allowed to take.

You start giving an AT access to Dominator Assault sets paired with Scrapper armor sets and you'd quickly get into the overpowered realm, unless you gutted both sides of it.

This.

Your mez protection on melee ATs doesn't work the same in PvP as it does in PvE.

Do you really want your tank getting chain-held and killed by a couple CoT mages that are conning gray to you? Because that's what will end up happening. You'd end up having a bunch of timid melee characters trying to avoid any and all mezzing foes in the open zones because melee characters lack the ability to mez them first at range. A group of mezzing PvE enemies is instant death to a melee character who is playing with PvP rules.

Nope. Defense Debuffs are Dark Armor's achille's heel.

Think about it. If Dark Armor resisted defense debuffs, after softcapping it, it would have just about everything going for it, with no real downside. Every set has a weakness, Dark Armor's is lack of defense debuff resistance.

Yes to Fireball. Avoid Melt Armor like the PLAGUE.

It has an insanely long recharge, and you will barely even notice any effect from it. It is the most commonly skipped power in Blaze Mastery. More people take Ring of Fire than Melt Armor.

And just out of curiosity, why do you "NEED" a farming toon?

This.

If they made old content harder in general, it would be really unfair to those people who don't have Incarnate stuff yet.

If they did that, if would be the same as saying "Yeah, you know how we were saying Incarnate abilities aren't mandatory? Well, we lied."

That's the LAST thing the devs want to have happen. People are mad enough about it. If they make old content harder to make up for Incarnate abilities, people will go from being a little disgruntled to screaming for their heads on a stick.

No worries man. When I first started posting on the forums, I had all kinds of silly notions about building scrappers. Thanks to some of the denizens of the scrapper forums I'm much better with them, so I try to pay it forward.

I didn't even notice your location. I grew up about an hour south of you in Toledo.

Well, Darkness has 2 AoE powers, BUT, they are both cones, which would require you to jump out of the mob you're in and line the cones up.

Blaze gets Fireball, which can be fired from 70 feet away, or right in their face, and have the same affect either way.

I think he was slotting them for the defense bonus.

In answer to your question, Level:

You can get more recharge out of set bonuses. Like the ones you were using to get more defense? There are a bunch of sets with recharge in them, in fact you used a couple. Obliteration has a 5% recharge set bonus in it.

Now, the way recharge set bonuses work is: If you have a 5% recharge bonus, that makes ALL your powers recharge 5% faster, not just the power the set is in.

You only need 55% global recharge, ED capped recharge in Dull Pain, and 3 slotted Hasten in order to achieve perma-Dull Pain. If you use 5 Doctored Wounds in your click heals (Reconstruction, Dull Pain, and Instant Healing) you are 15% closer. Obliteration will get you to 20%. Now, there is an IO called Luck of the Gambler: 7.5% Recharge, those will go in any defense power you may have (Like Combat Jumping, Weave, Moment of Glory, Maneuvers, and Shadow Meld if you take it) 5 of those will get you 37.5% recharge, which adds to the 20% you already got from other bonuses. Voila, you have achieved Perma-Dull Pain.

(Note: The Luck of the Gambler IOs are some of the most expensive non-purple, non-PvP IOs in the game. You will probably be better off getting them with merits unless you have a lot of high dollar Hami-Os to sell. If you have any, level 51, 52, or 53 Hami-Os, they will rake in a nice chunk of money, as they are impossible to get now)

Now, once you get to Perma-Dull Pain, you don't really NEED more recharge, per se. More is always nice to have, but yuo don't have to keep adding more recharge bonuses once you get to that point.

I would focus on defense after you hit 55% or more global recharge. Kinetic Combat will give you 3.75% S/L defense for slotting 4 of them. But....the actual enhancement of the power isn't that great. If you have any Nucleolus Hami-Os, you might want to hang on to a few of them to round out the enhancement of your attacks.

Also worth picking up is the Steadfast Protectiom Resistance/Defense IO. It adds 3% to all your defenses, and goes in any resistance power (Regen players frequently put it in Resilience)

Hope that helps clear up some confusion, and hopefully didn't cause too much more.

I think someone mentioned they were under Belts.