Cynic

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  1. Legacy Chain, they rock but not enough of them in the game

    Knives of Artimis only have 3 different mob names too excluding their named bosses
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    A poorly played tank, even with taunt, is what I look out for, such as on that took stealth so that the mobs didnt notice him....

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    first thing: Stealth has absolutely no effect on aggro. The second the stealthed tanker attacks, the -taunt effect is suppressed and the only thing stealth does from that moment is add to the defence of the tanker.. which increases his survivability.
    Secondly: there can be a slight advantage from not being spotted until youre right on top of the enemies. Especially if your a fire or dark who dont have any knockback protection. Imagine getting stopped dead in your tracks half way to the mob before theyre in your aura by a ranged KB attack.
    Thirdly: it couldve been a PvP tank. Any advantage letting you get the drop on a opponent is a good advantage.
    Fourthly: maybe hed like to be able to ghost missions..

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    Can I add a 5thly? Fithly it would allow inv/wp tanks to get closer for their buffs from the foes around them before the first attack. Its amazing how much that can change an inv defence before the first attack is launched.

    Still I wouldn't take it cause I find it hard enough to cram the powers I want in on a tank anyway
  3. Same as the above. My WP/Fire tank spam's taunt, only way with WP's weak agro aura. On the other hand my Ice/DB finds taunt to be purely situational, as I run both CE and Iceycools
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    Banished Pantheon as part of a Dark Astoria makeover?

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    Yes please!

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    Seconded (or thirded, I'm never sure how that works)

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    You second it, someone else votes for it, and then the motion is carried (where to, no one knows... ask the barbarian).

    I'd vote for this.

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    Wait can I just vote for it or do I have to carry it now?
  5. If you do 5 radio missions and then a Safeguard mission you will be able to pick up a new contact from the detective in your level range. That should give you new missions

    Alternatively speak to your old contacts and see if any offer to introduce you to a new one but I'm guessing you've already tried that
  6. Its not a scrapper??! A big step forward. Grats on another 50. Is that number 8 or 9?
  7. Cynic

    SMASH!

    Lightning Rod lets you reach groups fast
  8. I like the drawing style, also being a fan of black and white over coloured I'm pleased you didn't
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    The 51 month reward is something that some in the community have actively asked for. The 54 month gives an opportunity to choose again from some popular powers granted in earlier rewards.

    Neither of them are for a particularly big milestone ... I think you'll all be quite happy when the 60 month (5 years) reward is announced .

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    Robes then? CoT robes for players right? I hope so, I want to be happy
  10. Cynic

    SMASH!

    Being the only brute with a pile of corruptors feels nice. Actually I remember when I was playing my dominator we had an all dom/brute team for a few hours, that was great fun too
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    So, I thought I'd let you all know that next week we'll (Palladium, Kerensky, Avatea and myself) all be heading over to visit NCNC for a wonderful week of meetings and discussions and suchlike.


    [/ QUOTE ]If I was a cynical person I'd comment on how this makes it seem like you're never communicating with them normally.

    But fortunately I'm not

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    So........... the first part of what he said!
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    Hey all. I've just finished an epic uploading task of about 150 sketches from recent shows to our Draw the World Together gallery, bring the total number of sketches on there to a whopping 350!!

    Feel free to head over and check out their loveliness!!!
    (I particularly recommend this one!!)

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    Nice sketch, but the pose seems all wrong, isn't face down the normal stance?
  13. Cynic

    Def vs Res

    The theory can to a degree be ported over to a tank that has dual blades though. A bit of defence + weaken is nice mitigation, but if there's nothing else to stack with defence or -tohit wise then below 20% def on a tank wont be worth the cost in slots/end/inf
  14. Well I like the 51st one, that's good, can delete my Widow then which I really look forward too (only made it for the costume)

    54th one is a bit pants, cant I have a respec and a free tailor instead? I will have already taken the temps I like by then. But fair enough means my Scrapper can take the Blackwand as the thing didn't mention doing additional damage for natural at the time and I took that dumb lollypop instead (guess which one I'll mostly be leaving)
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    Def vs Res

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    The WHirlwind was taken as a breather, coz if they are flying round the room, they are not hitting me

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    I'm wondering however how after that, especially seeing youre teamed with a squishy support char, how easy it is to get all the aggro back when theyre scattered over the place.

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    I'm wondering how when teamed with a Mind controller you need a weak soft control power.

    Also MC/Emp isn't that amazing damage, and Fortitude will give you plenty enough def.
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    hmm, you missed out any decent fiery melee attacks

    maneuvers is a pretty pointless power for a tank to take, Fire Sword Circle would increase your survivability far more as mobs would be dead. Greater Fire Sword does amazing damage for a tank.


    You really really really don't need temperature portection

    Whirlwind is awful, pretty much the only way you have of damaging stuff is if its next to you, whirlwind throws it away

    Hasten is far better than Flurry

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    But I didnt ask about attacks.... I asked about Def & Res... ;p

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    What he's saying is you've sacrificed a lot to get a tiny amount of def where you're losing mitigation. What you have to think is with your resistance can mobs do more than healing flames can heal before its recharged. Then think that with you throwing out Fire Sword Circle that you could cut that finer, knowing you dont have to be back to full hit points each time cause your additional damage is reducing incoming attacks. Its also providing you with Gauntlet (though to be honest combustion is fairly good for that alone with its larger AoE) and thus keeping agro on you.

    Oh and whirlwind means keeping foes grouped will be much harder and any AoEs will catch fewer foes. Poor power for most melee toons, not a great one for anybody
  17. Up your recharge in Followup, you want it stacked as much as possible.

    You have focussed acc, and 2 acc in each attack..... I'd drop an acc and take another recharge in well all of them but specifically focus, you want to spam this on STs. Spin you also want to use often to get some more recharge in there
  18. You missed Chico and Gummo