Dark_Blasphemy_EU

Awww i will be lots of generichero's then, cuz, devs hewe im sure would ban those copyrighted names

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Health regen works by ticks (every 5 secs iirc), so you will simply gain a bit more with each tick if you have Health, thus it won't save you if you're getting hammered and deep in the red.

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It will, the, unless u r hammered in less that 5 secs then. And i repeat it, health is not as useful on trollers as on other ATs, but, none of the other poweres i didnt take instead, either. Just tell me which would u change it for and i'll tell u why i preferred health

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I would say if you can't pick it before the mid-20s, just skip it. This is really not a very useful power to use in the 40s.

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And then again, i think smoke really shines against nemesis (snipers) and malta (sappers) and u'll find them lv35+, which is where i took smoke. If u dont like it thats ok, but saying it's not useful lv35+ is, at least, arguable


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Again, I do like the Psi epic on my ill/troller and it probably makes sense to have psi resistance for this build (although I assume some of the bubbles help, right?) but I wouldn't take it just for the few AVs with psi dmg you will encounter. As we all know, there are ways of dealing with them and a decent team with the right ATs and power-sets will have no problem against any of these. Again, I think Psi Tornado is great, it's just a shame you have to wait 6 more levels to get it compared to Fireball.

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I think i said several reasons why i took psi epics, not just the AVs, but oh well . In terms of survavility no other epics beats psi imho. I got fire epics on fire kin just for the fun of seein that already insane dmg output became so high that's almost stupid lots of fun there hehe. But without fulcrum and syphon power, i'd always stick for kin on a fire/ff. On /kin u better boost the attack, on /ff the defense, if u ask me. (although fire will always do really nice damage no matter what secondary u got).

It's in the hollows, to be done in the tunnels.

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My question is, is it wrong that I found this sooo funny?
I mean a bad Tank, say not taunting, or a bad empath who won't heal, is costing the team dearly.
But a blaster who just gets themselves killed is no skin off my nose.

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Or a troller that doesnt prevent aggro excess... well , being or not blaster's fault, its a fact that they usually pay the prize for the team's lacks, as they will always aggro loads. Referring to ur team, if the defender could AoE rez, then it was not an empath, but a dark defender, so it's main purpose would be debuff rather than heal. If the tank and the controller dont keep the aggro away from the blaster, that blaster will be usually the first to faceplant, no matter how good it is or if he dies due to his own mistakes or not either...
Yet, it's true that blasters are nuts. I still remember teaming with one who thought that blasters uber power was whirlwind... and before the rest of the team had attacked the mobs yet

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Why no Hotfeet + PFF combo? Isn't that the really nasty trick Fire/FF has up its sleeve? Hotfeet on, Fire Cages, PFF, stand and laugh manically / make snappy remarks.

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It used to be that fun ooooh yeaaah... sadly it was scr... ermmm.. nerfed when i6 was realeaed iirc (or was it i5?).. Well anyway, now they cant be used at the same time . U will still see the pff and hot feet animations, but u wont hurt nor aggro until u turn pff off

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Well let's face it, /FF is by definition a bit "defenderish", right? and the least "active" secondary besides sonic.

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I agree with u, FF is by definition a defenderish set. In fact that's why its a defender primary. But what i meant by saying it was nefenderish at is that u active ur toggles on and u forget about the secondary (unless u want to buff a teammate). Thus u can concentrate in the troller primary while in battles. The statement was due to a comment saying something like 'playing like a defender', and the build can't be further from that due to what i said b4.

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Some brief comments:

- I wouldn't bother slotting Fire Cages for immob since I use it mainly to set up containment. 1/2 acc and 1 endred might be better.

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True, that's the main purpose, and u dont really need immob dur slots there, but didn't find a place where those slots were more useful that time. Endred is not really necessary, the build is quite 'light' and dont thing u run out of end just with ur primary

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- I am always dubious about trollers 3-slotting Health. We take damage in bursts, so increasing a very slow regen rate makes little difference (different story for tanks and scrappers) especially if you have a heal.

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True, health doesnt help trollers as much as other builds, yet it's always a nice add-on, and pve intended no other power was more useful imo. Health will also save ur life many times, those times u u just survive by the peak of the red part of ur bar
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- I wonder whether Smoke is useful that late.

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Smoke is always useful, but wouldnt change it for any of the other powers previously selected. Which would u drop instead of it then?

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- Not sure why you went for Psi epics except for the psi resistance in the shield (or to have some psi dmg?). The single-target attack is not great, you already have Acrobatics for some mez protection and the AoE attack comes rather late (47). Anyway, more a question than anything else (I do have it on my ill/rad though)

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Of course, psi resistance makes a difference at latter levels. After lv40 prolly the most feared dmg is psi. Babbage, the clockwork king, mother mayhem, that double AV mission in an asylum... they are probably the missions that tankers avoid the most (not fun for a granite being 1-shot me thinks ), and yet, u can stand ur ground, often as the only survivor, having time enough to run for cover. Or if there are more survivors, to aid them.
Acrobatics, thus, is Mag1 mez protection... which is actually almost as having nothing. It's used as an anti-knockback toggle, but we all know any lt or boss will cut thru it like a knife thru butter. The added mez protection is, imho, very useful and handy. Shame it's not perma anymore, tho

Errrm are we really comparing a computer game to sex? . Man we really need some treatment lol

Maybe u havent proved the right people? O could be u did well when there were just a few PvPers and they didnt really know what do? And what else do i have to say to make u come out from whatever that has kept u away from pvp for quite a bit now?

And then i'll get ya all, all at once, with my empath (yay PvP bigtalking FTW!!)

That's because rads defdebuffs, resist debuffs and regen debuffs havent been nerfed. If u got someone taking the aggro -or if u r illu primary, the decoys-, u wont really notice much difference with new nerf. But u sure will if u dont. Rad ToH debuffs, at least in trollers, are useless atm.

errm only travel i got is fly and non slotted... that is saying it all

Date and time? I dont have a pvp build yet.. (free respec now dammit!!!) but id like to see when allowed to

Oh, forgot! 6slottiing hasten, ull get only 6 seconds quicker recharge than 3 slotting it (6.4 secs to be specific). If u find that worth, u can always do it. I personally dont

Defender?? I tank AVs with that build lol lol.
Anyway, I find funny seeing that build as 'defenderish' when i got just 5 powers from secondary, 3 toggles and 2 ally buffers. Arguable, anyway :P. I never use defender powers in battles, only pff when in danger and heal while in it. It's a really active build, bearing in mind it took me 12 days lv1-lv50, soloing all the way from lv32 ( i was sick and didnt have to work , had nothing better to do hehe).
No need of interrution time reducers on medicine pool. PFF gives u the time u need even surrounded by mobs. Heal other is mainly for pets, and after battle (u'll find it useful mainly against exploding enemies like nemesis).
Leadership is useless in pve. Its base buff is 3.5 (or 2.5, cant remember), and really dont make a difference. They are useful in pvp to see invis guys, and thats it.

Gratz all . I recognize some names from shadow shard... and if fraz can ding 50, then everyone can

And in any case, if u dont like spines, EM will always do more dmg than MA

Well here is the build i promised:

01 : Personal Force Field defbuf(01) defbuf(3) defbuf(3) recred(27) recred(23) recred(36)
01 : Char acc(01) acc(5) recred(5) recred(7) hlddur(7) hlddur(11)
02 : Fire Cages acc(02) acc(11) immdur(40) immdur(43)
04 : Deflection Shield defbuf(04) defbuf(15) defbuf(15)
06 : Swift runspd(06)
08 : Hasten recred(08) recred(9) recred(9)
10 : Combat Jumping jmp(10)
12 : Aid Other hel(12) hel(13) recred(13) recred(36) hel(39) recred(39)
14 : Super Jump jmp(14)
16 : Health hel(16) hel(17) hel(17)
18 : Flashfire acc(18) acc(19) recred(19) recred(27) disdur(23) disdur(37)
20 : Stamina endrec(20) endrec(21) endrec(21)
22 : Dispersion Bubble defbuf(22) defbuf(39) defbuf(40) endred(46) endred(46)
24 : Aid Self hel(24) hel(25) recred(25) recred(36) hel(37) recred(37)
26 : Acrobatics endred(26) endred(46)
28 : Insulation Shield defbuf(28) defbuf(29) defbuf(29)
30 : Cinders acc(30) acc(31) recred(31) recred(31) hlddur(34) hlddur(34)
32 : Fire Imps dam(32) acc(33) dam(33) dam(33) acc(34) dam(40)
35 : Smoke thtdbf(35)
38 : Force Bubble endred(38)
41 : Mental Blast acc(41) acc(42) dam(42) dam(42) dam(43) dam(43)
44 : Mind over Body damres(44) damres(45) damres(45) endred(45)
47 : Psionic Tornado acc(47) acc(48) dam(48) dam(48) dam(50)
49 : Indomitable Will recred(49) recred(50) recred(50)

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01 : Brawl enhancement(01)
01 : Sprint enhancement(01)
02 : Rest enhancement(02)

Brief explanation of the /ff powers selected:

lv 1: PFF - The jewel of the crown. You are almost untouchable in it. Arguably, a pseudo Phase Shift, but toggled. Will save ur squishy [censored] in hairy situationsIf u ever get into trouble, aggro too much or simply are ambushed, just click on it and ull be safe and ready to hit the road. Unslotted it provides defense cap against all attacks, including psionics, 50% dmg resist to smash dmg and 60% to lethal dmg. 3 slotted, any defense debuff will just make u laugh (152% deffense if it wasnt capped to 95%).if surrounded, just turn it off, AoE hold and turn it on again for possible heals. Imps will do the rest.

Lv 4: Deflection Shield - Grants an ally with an extra 30% defense to lethal/smash dmg when 3slotted. Great for any AT, uber for defense-based sets.

Lv 22: Dispersion Bubble - An AoE deffense buff and mez protection toggle. Having a vast radius (easy to notice its boundaries as it appears as a huge bubble), 3 slotted provides a 30% deff buff against everything but psionics, and resistance to hold, immobilize and disorient.

Lv 28: Insulation Shield - Grants an ally with an extra 32% defense to fire, cold, energy and negative energy attacks when 3 slotted. Once again, great for every AT, uber for defense based sets.

Lv 38: Force bubble - u cast a huge force field that pulls back and knockbacks any foe trying to get close to u, in a way as storm's tornado does, but 10 times its radius (sadly without the ToH debuffs tornado has tho)


And that's it... now going to Uni, any comments/criticisms welcome

Hmm dont really agree with that. Its true that its powers maybe r not as shiny as others, but just in the surface... sadly i dont have time atm, will write again later on at night with a poss build, though

PvP or PvE?

Thx for all the comments guys but.. actually (blushes) that was an old discarded build lol. The one i tried to post was this one:

Archetype: Controller
Primary Powers - Ranged : Illusion Control
Secondary Powers - Support : Radiation Emission

01 : Radiant Aura hel(01) hel(3) hel(3) recred(37) recred(39) recred(39)
01 : Spectral Wounds acc(01) acc(5) dam(5) dam(7) dam(7)
02 : Blind acc(02) acc(9) recred(9) recred(15) acc/mez hami-O(23) hlddur(25)
04 : Accelerate Metabolism recred(04) recred(25) recred(27) endrec(27) endrec(29) endrec(29)
06 : Swift runspd(06)
08 : Radiation Infection defdbf(08) defdbf(31) thtdbf, defbff, endred hami-O(34) thtdbf(34) thtdbf(36) thtdbf, defbff, endred hami-O(36)
10 : Hasten recred(10) recred(11) recred(11)
12 : Group Invisibility recred(12) recred(13) recred(13)
14 : Super Speed runspd(14) endred(15)
16 : Hurdle jmp(16) jmp(17) jmp(17)
18 : Phantom Army recred(18) recred(19) recred(19) dam(43) dam(45) dam(46)
20 : Stamina endrec(20) endrec(21) endrec(21)
22 : Combat Jumping jmp(22) jmp(23)
24 : Lingering Radiation acc(24) acc(39) recred(40) recred(40) recred(40) slw(43)
26 : Super Jump jmp(26)
28 : Acrobatics endred(28)
30 : Enervating Field endred(30) endred(31) endred(31)
32 : Phantasm acc(32) acc(33) dam(33) dam(33) dam(34)
35 : Spectral Terror acc(35) acc(36) ferdur(37) rng(37) rng(46)
38 : Superior Invisibility endred(38) endred(48) endred(50)
41 : Power Blast acc(41) acc(42) dam(42) dam(42) dam(43)
44 : Temp Invulnerability damres(44) damres(45) damres(45) endred(46)
47 : Power Boost recred(47) recred(48) recred(48)
49 : Conserve Power recred(49) recred(50) recred(50)

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01 : Brawl enhancement(01)
01 : Sprint enhancement(01)
02 : Rest enhancement(02)

Took both sup invis and group invis in case it stacks, gotta try it out on TS first tho. In case they don't, i'd swap it for tp foe (acc, rng, rng).
Yup, arch, i 4-slotteed epic blast cuz honestly, i dont seem to need a redred on it. Can barely keep the blind/sw/blind/mb/blind... (even nicer with AM on ), so, even tho its just a 10% increase, i think it's more worth than a recred
Same again, thx in advance for commenting

Easy enough, and more important, great fun! Shame on that proximity bomb that prevented us from a flawless victory (oh that and the suicide nova only a crazy blazta can do hehe)

Logical request yet.. kinda unlikely to happen.
We all would like to have the preps ready the sooner, but coordinate 150 heroes is not an easy task. Find groups that make 8 peeps previously is difficult too. You know many peeps there and it can be a mess. Plus there's the social factor of the raids, and honestly think grouping up doesnt take that long (people tend to invite loners the sooner to have team full). Just a quick request for Illu trollers will do

Well, just for the record, im up

I'm interested on any respec, still have done none on my fire/kin controller. It's lv41, but will exemp if needed

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2 questions :

Should I be using my own power boost to affect my holds?

Does Hamidon con a la GM, scaling to each players level?

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1) Oh hell yes use Powerboost, as often as it's up. Just don't use Vanguard until the call goes out.

2) I don't know about hamidon damage-scaling but it's a good idea to SK to a level 50 anyway, so that you pick up a level 50 hami-O rather than a fairly useless level 45-49 one.

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I'm prettty sure u get a lv50 hami-O even being lv45. What I don't know, is if u do being sked (u dont against regular AVs, if u r lv45 against a lv50 av, and u r sked by a 50 to lv49, then u will get a lv49 SO)