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I would suggest one of you takes a set which provides more mitigation than /poison. There's dark miasma, radiation, traps, pain, or maybe even time. Duo'ing all the missions with no additional help might require a set which provides more mitigation.

This is not personal, Vauluur. There is no "I need this or I need that" philosophy in this request to the Devs or this suggestion for the Devs. What I need is irrelevant in this whole discussion. It should be left out.

This is for Ice tankers, for the armor set. I also want to insert a small but true point, Ice Armor for tankers and the powers in it, especially the cool Tier 9 power of it, needs to be separated and treated differently than the pool power.

Hibernate has been given out to almost every single AT. It should be different when coming from a pool power and it should be different when it is an inherent Tier 9.

Another point, there are many players who do not have IOs or have a decked out Ice Armor tank. Those with no IOs or not decked out might have different "needs" (you used that word) or wants than those who do. I prefer to use the word function or application of a Tier 9 within their game play, and even use the word option. Let the function, application, or option of a Tier 9 power be different than that of a pool power which almost every single AT has.

Do away with the no phase/no hib timer for Ice tankers is what I suggest the Devs do. Some others want the whole no phase/no hib timer gone completely.

You should really think that no one has said they need this 45 second issue. My Ice tankers are all very well built and play them well. That is still irrelevant to the issue at hand. What I am and many others are saying is that the timer no hib/no phase for Ice tankers need to go away or modified to something else.

I am the OP and I have not mentioned nothing about PvE and PvP stats.

"These are not the droids you are looking for"

That cough medicine is going to get me kicked out of the military....

I thought there was another pic on the previous hyperlink.... looked very much like the frontload map.

Anyway, imid, you still up for me timing you on that cyborg map?

Originally Posted by iMidget Perfection
This my first time using hero stat, but I think 2.71million per minute is pretty good. Comes out to be around 162million influ per hour. This is on fire cybor map 1 person set for 4x8 no bosses, mission was completed in 3:42.

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The mish in that pic is NOT cyborg. So the time there is not for cyborg. I will be glad to time you on cyborg, set at 54x8, and with people in the mish, me, for timing you.

Since the new incarnates are out, the quote above, if it was arguable that it is not true about the farmers having problems with rage, IT IS obsolete now.

I am the owner of a really great farmer in Freedom, an SS/Fire/Mu, Abysmal-Terror. I would pair him up vs any Elec/Fire brute any day.

The new incarnates makes him even more beastly. Ageless, even at T3, makes him even more powerful and never has any end issues at all. Judgement, ION FTW, gives him something to do during the short Rage crash. I use Judgement during the Rage crash, and temp dmg powers. With people in my team, the troublesome Cyborg farm, which has the mobs too spread out for the likes of many, is cleared in 5 minutes, at 54x8, again, with people on the team. I let customers time me if they want on Cyborg. I have timed and issue challenges to other brutes, even elec/fire to do Cyborg and not one has met the challenge in Freedom server. Fastest time I have recorded on elec/fire brute on Cyborg is 6 mins 53 secs.

FIRE ! is a joke now. I just show up now and it's over.

When I logged out today there were 8 for sale.

**I have two which I have not placed for sale, in my base. It's a gamble for me to wait for those to clear and then post mine...

So how did this idea work out for you? I am not totally sure but I think I saw more than 8k of these still for sale 2-3 days ago.

Ah, no. No way.

Fixed.

Earth/Earth is a very cool combination, the sound effects from both sets are awesome, the FX on earth assault is cooler than the other sets, for my and the taste of many others. How you customize the powers of earth assault can be very fun and a true delight to visuals. The very first power in earth assault is a very cool range attack with a kick *** animation. Fiz, which is your last power is perhaps even cooler but less range and a stun to boot with Targeter AOE dmg. Hurl boulder is icing on the cake... Like I said above... Earth/Earth is true DOMINATOR WITH SMASH !

You have two full range, one semi range, and one very cool looking animation PBAoE...

Earth assault also has powerboost to make all your mezzes last even longer, and your debuffs too.

**Edit, not saying it is the best. That's not true for any set. But that is my first recommendation for a pairing with Earth/ . I made a second Earth/ Dom because Earth/ rocks soo soo much. I made an Earth/Thorn Dom which is also cool.... but whenever I want to hear SMASH! and feel like busting a Seismic Smash on everything.. I pull out the earth/earth.

I will give an idea for a very fun secondary and at the same give a lot of props, much deserved, to the dev who designed Earth assault. I have to say Earth asault is the best set or among the best sets ever designed by the Devs. It is more impressive if it was designed by a brand new member of the CoH team, which is what I heard. The first power in the set has one of the funnest and coolest animations in the game. Someone said in another thread that Doms are blasters with controls... not true at all when talking about earth/earth... You are a Dominator with SMASH !! I feel like a MAGE BRUTE, really.

The damage is solid with earth assault, the sound effects and the visuals are my favorite by far. Fiz is also very cool.

Props to whoever designed Earth assault... one of the best jobs I have seen in the whole game.

Watching and participating in pvp, in freedom server, inluences me pretty strongly to disagree with the statement on 1 vs 1, arena fights. Right now, the undisputed king of 1 vs 1 duels is a cold/dark defender. A good cold/dark/soul Defender will wipe the floor over and over and over with any Dominator, or blaster, or corr. You want to talk about a broken toon for duels, stop looking at km/regen and start looking at a cold/dark/soul defender. The dubuffs are just too much in pretty much everything you can use, and the super broken soul storm which, in effect, is as broken or more broken then TK (a long hold that does dmg in the mean time, plus you do dmg to them while the long animation plays on), then power boosted everything... you got a recipe for the meanest duelist in arena. The only build that can match toe to toe, if they ever agree to duel, but unlikely, is a Necro or thugs or w/e /poison MM (in skilled hands). The /poison just debuffs so many things from you, and then add Bodyguard mode...

And I want to make note cold/dark/soul over the corrupter version-- stronger debuffs, stronger powerboost debuffs/buffs/heal, and the new vigilance granting a dmg boost to the defender... That's enough to pick the Def over the Corrupter version now.

I have also seen good Ice/Rad/Power controllers beat very good Mind/fire Doms and many other builds except Cold/dark. The slows, the almost perma confuse from AA, and the rad debuffs (POWERBOOSTED) are a bit of a problem for the Dominator and many other builds.

I have seen dark/thermal corrupters beat Dominators and psi blasters too.

In fightclub, with nerf your build option on... err... I mean DR on option, claws/regen is very good and I have seen them beat even KM/regen because claws DPS is so fast and many players get beat just by underestimating claws/ alone. KM/Regen is also very strong, with the burst dmg from KM. WP/SS tanks, good builds in hands of good players, are also very good and almost impossible to kill. I know a few who have had the upper hand even vs KM/Regen scrappers, but most of what I have seen ended in draws. Shield/SS tanks are also very good but it depends on how expensi... err... how good your build is.

With no option to nerf your builds and IOs... or, in other words, with no DR... KM/Regen scrappers are fighting a very one sided fight vs elec/ss or ss/elec brutes/tankers, and I imagine EM/elec brutes or tanks will do the same. I have seen most km/regen who fight elec tanks or brutes get beat in what appeared to be one-sided fights. Elec brutes and tanks have capped resists vs energy and very high resists vs s/l dmg.

SS/fire brutes and tanks are also pretty nasty in 1 vs 1 duels, and with no nerf your build option on, can beat km/regens too.

My two cents from what I have seen in Freedom.

In zones, anything goes. The greatest factor in determining how good you do in zones, is not your build, it's how many players are on your side and the opponent's. For example, you may have a very good blaster build or scrapper... that will mean nothing when its 4-7 vs 20-30, and you are ont he 4-7 side. Your time will be spent mostly in base or rez'ing in base after you get beat down silly by the gank squad.

What is the arc number for that mission? Also, would it be ok if I timed you on one of your runs?

Wit the the Defender's new vigilance (damage boost) and stronger debuffs. Defender is the way to go. The reason you see way more cold/dark defenders than dark/cold corruptors is because of these two factors. The Defender is a very mean opponent to face in 1 vs 1s. If you add Powerboost to the Defender the sauce is mucho caliente !

If Defenders had thermal, I would roll a thermal Def over a thermal Corruptor. For Cold, I prefer a Defender over a Corruptor any day, any time. So I would roll Storm defender over corruptor if I was not teaming.

If you want a sapper, you want to sapp fast or sapp and at the same time be able to deal significant dmg from range, preferably. To that end Elec/Thermal corrupter is good and Sonic/Thermal, and Dark/Thermal (dark dmg is solid, dark debuffs are solid, and thermal debuffs not only endurance but resists and defense). If and when you go up vs a Cold debuffer, you can forget about draining him reliably or consistently. A cold will debuff your ability to debuff (seriously) and Heat loss will provide him with endurance. In team arena, you can forget about elec/elec being useful for drain. It's not going to happen. Your contribution as a Dom will be more as a disruptor, but mind/ is better for LOL TK.

Elec/Elec Dom will not have enough fast DPS from range to compete in duels reliably, and in duels, debuffs and fast range damage trump the endurance debuff from an elec/elec Dom.

Now, I will suggest you look at elec/ Dom for the Confuse more than for the range. Confusing and damaging at same time will get you more kills than the endurance strategy. If you build on that strength and build your tactics around that, I think you will pose more of a threat. That, of course, will help if you can get your confuse to last enough to be a significant problem for opponent.
That's my two cents.

I don't think this is going to happen. I had seen in i13 some people come out to arena with Rad/ blasters. They are gone. Rad/ blast on a blaster is just too far behind in damage as other sets. I have seen corruptors blend Rad blast with Thermal or with Dark Miasma still participate in arena.

For blasters, Psy is still much ahead of the other sets.