Da_Captain

Fair enough.

It already is different, last time I checked Tactical Training: Maneuvers is not in the leadership pool.

Every Soldier that I teamed with that didn't have TT:M is the first to fall, I have yet to team with a Soldier that doesn't have it and survives.




It does? Last time I checked from the leadership pool it is just called Maneuvers. From my first time playing it was worth checking out due to the fact that it was named differently.

Yes, but for me that is just a smart decision, why would I pick something and not know what it does.

Okay, I retract my previous statement, on travel powers I don't check, however, lately a lot of my toons don't even take them. But I check the T1 powers to see how much defense they give me, if they have one for defense.

Again, it does not come with the same exact name. Tactical Training makes it worth the check out. Honestly regular Maneuvers isn't that bad of a power pick also.

I didn't know about softcapped defenses til I got on the forums, however, I still knew what defense was by asking this question, my first year of playing...

"Why do some attacks miss me and how can I get them to miss me more"

The answer...

"Defense, you can get it from Stealth, Maneuvers and Weave (at the time I was a blaster so these were like my only options) also you can use purple inspirations."

So your friend may not have known what soft cap was, but I bet he knew what defense was.


Would you skip mez protection on a tank or scrap? Would you skip your ST hold on a Dom or Troller? There are awesome powers that can be skipped and you can still function and do your job but other cannot. I don't kick people from teams often, but if a Tank did not chose his mez protection and we are level 30+ I would probably kick him/her, because they wouldn't be able to do their job effectivly.

Apparently a VEATs job is to protect the team with Teamwork or Superior Training.

That is like choosing death over life by skipping in on a Soldier (Bane speacially), I would honestly say that it is not a smart choice to skip it, I would gladly give up travelling for this power, and considering how many options there are for that it isn't much of a sacrifice.


It takes a level 50 villain to get a VEAT, if you get a villain to 50 and don't know what defense does, or how to look at stats on a power, I have no sympathy for you. This goes for first time players that get PLed to 50 without playing the game, no sympathy none. So this is an invalid excuse considering they have a big blue button that says "Click here to see power info" really it is idiot proof but not lazy proof.

There isn't a good reason, honestly at level 10 that is probably the best choice. And Widows get it at level 4 power pools ain't even opened yet. What is the excuse?

I would like to ask them, however, I want an intelligent answer.

Overall, it vexes me when I see a soldier and to a certain a extent even a Widow without this power.

Yeah it is like seeing a Soldier not take TT:M I know the feeling. Plant/Psi was a bit of a late bloomer for me but it was pre IOs so that was even before the dom buff, haven't played it in a while but it is nothing I would recommend for beginners, it will take you a little will to kill machines early in the game.

Isn't that what a Dominator is?

I think this person means Ripper, but yeah, I just got it today and it does have a big difference I got it slotted too and it is real nice, does some KD too so it adds to mitigation, it has really been a big help.

This is nice to know, working on a Fire/Spines right now.

Soloing AVs is overrated, yeah it is nice to do and a great accomplishment but, really soloing an 8 person map yields better rewards.

Gotta wait til 28 for heightend senses, that power really makes a difference for the set.

I know at the before I pay how long I want to play so I usually end up going with the year for the same reasons plus I got like 2 free months twice = 4 months so not only getting the yearly savings but a free 60 bucks of time can't beat that, this is my first MMO and I haven't been tempted to try anything else, love it thanks for showing your care to your customers.

Oh yeah the badge caught me by surprise, I seen it and thought I was going into beta lol.

Nail on head

And if you are soloing maps set to 2 people or higher you can really pop them as much as you want because they drop like flies.

Yep glad I ain't the only one who thought this, those puches just look horrid, SS got some good alts though

1.) Blasters, Trollers, Doms, Scrappers, VEATs (Bane and Widows), recently Brutes and Tanks.

2.) Nope, My first toon was my first 50 Fire/Fire/Fire blaster, it was a long road, think it took like a year to get there with a lot of on and off playtime, gathered a big dislike for blasters after that. Then I got into trollers and then villains came out and Doms were like the perfect AT for me control with damage My Mind/Energy generally gets the most PT out of all my toons.

Oh and got my love for blasters back after I leveled my Fire/Dev and learned how to play the game.

3.) Don't have a favorite build as of yet but I think it would be between my Dom's if I could find out which one I like the best, but I do have an MA/WP/Weap that I like a lot and a Inv/SS that I am starting to love

Great Choice, I have MA/WP/Weap Scrap for farming he does the wall in Cim and -1/8 level mishes, to test his full ability he does +2/8, but weapons is a good combo as stated caltrops does a great job at mitigate and Exploding Shuriken is a great AoE to have.

Sorry to go off topic.

As much as I like the sound of that, at base for Tanks Inv/ already gets 70% res to s/l and 31.2% res to all but psi, also with just one enemy in your range you get 17% def to all but psi, so with that being said it is like you really have 65% res to all and like over 100% to s/l and that is base with just SOs no tough or weave included, plus a self heal that increases hp, not to mention you aren't really running that many toggles.

I wouldn't be mad if Inv got that though, however 5% would be a little more even out.

Scrappers are attack types with defense they tend to kill quickly therefore taking less damage, I don't think it is the defense as much as it is the AT

VERY

Again you are looking at the AT and not the type. Also another misconception you have is that Inv/ is a resistance set and it is really a mix of heal, def, and res. And after looking at your build you should consider taking tough/weave they will give you Tank a lot of extra miles (speaking from experience)

Good thing about Inv/ is that not many debuffs have full effect on you, You have slow resistance so you can take ice hits, you have -recovery resistance so you can take electric hits, as for tohit, with Inv/ and /SS you should have rage and invicibility both give great tohit buffs along with decent acc slotting in powers you should stay at a good 90 -95% tohit. Although, there is no -regen protection and a couple of other effects also blind comes to mind, but can't think of much else


I am willing to put money on it that he was IO'ed out. The thing about comparing nowadays is that IOs increase so much stuff that it is really hard to compare your toon to another. One person may build for defense so they don't take many hits, another may build for recharge so their attacks come up more often so they kill quicker and take less hits and maybe to recharge a self heal. There is no wrong way to build with IOs so you can't really compare, but most times IO build >>>> non IO build

Sorry if I sould like a jerk, but this to me sounds like you are just lazy and don't want to play the market or take time to make a better toon.

If you are level 44 then you are getting level 50 recipe drops, even if you don't play the market you can sell those to the store for like 100k and you should get like 2 - 3 per mish so doing like 3 mishes gets you 1 mil not counting mish bonus and what you get for enemies. IOs on the market aren't that over priced and even so it is so easy to get merits and get your own IOs, and these are just the things you do without using the market. So yeah, you are just being lazy and you don't feel like taking your time to make your toon better.

I like the sound of this.