Daemodand

I don't know how the devs came to the conclusion that Grav's problem was lack of damage, but I'll say this for the change: Singy is officially the single best pet available to Doms.

Grav remains one of my favorite sets once it gets Singy because Singy throws so many controls, you spend much more time assaulting than controlling. Heck, throw on a few +Def bonuses, and you can (almost) forget your primary and just assault as Singy holds aggro and controls for you. As of I22, Singy will be killing stuff too. Bonus.

The downside of the set, of course, is getting to 32, as the set has a very poor low level experience.

My question is, most powers that need a buff, they don't get it because "the equations" say the power is working as intended. But then Clobber comes along and gets a huge buff. Surely "the equations" didn't say it was okay to buff Clobber like that? Surely they went over "the equations'" heads and just made it uber?

When I input an attack chain of 1 with 7 powers entered into the program, the program went into an infinite (or at least extremely long with no apparent end) calculating mode.

Also, the program will tell you not to use AOE but only single target powers. It's difficult to determine how to value AOE compared to single target for the purposes of optimizing attack chains. I've heard AOEs are usually valued at 2.5 times their stated damage assuming more than one target is being fought, but I'm not sure if that's a good approach or not.

Anyone have a list of what Issues came with freespecs and which didn't?

It's all because of people who use line breaks in their posts...

Two things I never see mentioned as being lost on going Premium are X amount of in game storage (recipes, salvage, market, vault) and customer service.

Recovering names from inactive accounts doesn't solve the problem, especially not in the long run. The only real solution is a non-unique naming system.

I had no idea about that web site. And is Sin_Stalker still publishing? Haven't seen anything from him in a long time.

IOs are fine. I wish Incarnate never happened.

P.S. They put way too much Defense into the system. I suspect this was more oversight than design, or at least I'd like to think so.

I don't find it expensive at all. Only 8 Tickets...

Gunslinger costumes?

I'm glad the site is alive and kicking! It's an invaluable resource I and many others have used for years. Nice to hear some of it may become less cryptic.

Even a SR Stalker that takes every Defense granting power is "only" getting around 87% DDR (compared to 95% for every other SR Archetype). Skip any of them, and that number drops off significantly. High DDR is one of the main reasons you even roll SR to begin with. Never skip any of the passives or toggles, unless you want to gimp yourself.

Also, the only way a SR Stalker gets to 95% DDR is with Elude, so think twice about leaving that out of your build, too. It is skippable on Tankers, Brutes and Scrappers, but less so on Stalkers.

Defense bonuses are not a substitute for DDR (even if they can help compensate for a lack of it up to a certain point; for example, getting your Defense up to 48% from 45% can help keep you from going below 45% Defense in most situations. At 45%, lots of enemy groups can take you down to 43% or even less even with 95% DDR. That's a huge increase in incoming damage! An extra 3-5% Defense insures you never go below 45% Defense, except under extreme debuffing.)

Do it on an outdoor map with the camera pulled back. Your character does leap.

That's clearly referencing DCUO, not CoHF.

A certain recently F2P superhero game is ballyhooing a huge gain in players, so far since Freedom's launch I've heard nothing like that from this game. Maybe Freedom's model needs to be made a bit more generous for non-VIPs? The denial of IOs to returning players for example was a HUGE misstep.

Meh, all claims of +4x8 are just epeen and should be ignored.