Dechs Kaison

Not exactly. Due to the way magnitude will stack, there's a 6% chance that it does knockBACK, and only a 38% chance to do knock down. Minor technicality, but some people would see the minor chance at knock back as more of a detriment than bringing in an extra 14% chance for knock down.

You couldn't be more wrong.

With one endurance reduction SO, you can travel from the bottom of IP to the top without running out of endurance.

Teleport is the fastest way to travel in the game. Without range slotting it can go faster than Super Speed at the speed cap.

It takes no busy work, especially thanks to binds.

/bind shift+lbutton "powexecname teleport"

Now all you do is shift click and you show up where your cursor is.

They're in a tip mission. Shattered Jar of Flesh or something like that.

Bah. My bots/FF solo'd Foreshadow while I watched the Pens win the Stanley cup in the other room.

You know what happens when you cut Alaska in half?

Texas becomes the third largest state.

You're missing out.

I joke at pet control, because I know it's easy to manage the henchmen, but there are a number of scenarios where I've found Team Teleport to be a boon.

Most of them involve getting me and six bots through a tiny door at the same time.

The other useful part is due to my bots/traps being in bodyguard mode 90% of the time, and Team Teleport reduces the "wait and let my bots get back into range" time.

There's been more than a few times where I ran to a stranded teammate and teamported him away from whatever it was that was killing him. Cuts out the interrupt time of recall friend and the reaction time of "click the button to escape." Particularly useful on Master of runs.

It also happens to be absolutely hilarious when you have a timid tank on the team and port him to every spawn.

Hey now, I find Team Teleport to be invaluable. You should too, knowing your bots/traps.

Tell me a better way to keep dumb bots and dumber blasters in range of your force field generator.

Yeah, wow. Bad idea. When I run with my DA tank, I actually have my teams drop the blue tower first. If he can't hit me, the red tower isn't doing anything.

Just read it. You'll reroll.

Kinetic Melee. Power armor enhancing human motion. You may have to ignore the hand waving, but the ranged attack is a nice energy blast to keep him in that "Super robot I blast you dead" kind of way.

I think my bots/traps outlasts many tanks in terms of survivability. You just have to learn how to leverage bodyguard mode and taunt a little bit. Where I think this will feel lacking is that you, personally, won't do much of the damage.

EDIT: Oh, and this is without any kind of set bonuses. A bots/traps mastermind, with mace mastery, can softcap his S/L and almost energy on SOs. Bodyguard mode on top of that is like having 75% resist. Then you get Triage Beacon.

I'm not sure what the key to success is, but I'm pretty sure the key to failure is setting out to make everyone happy.

We're glad you guys do the best you can.

"Radiation made my voice really strong."

Makes me think Music of the Night.

That's the most important goal, of course.

But I can't have fun being a tank that dies or can't hold aggro or both. Usually, neither can the team.

I apologize for misinterpreting.

It just seemed to me like you were dismissing the balance argument as one of preference. I wanted to make sure my purpose was clear, since my message seems to have been convoluted in these arguments (through nobody's fault but my own). We all play what we enjoy, but I feel more people would enjoy and play peacebringers (and stalkers, but that's another thread) if they were brought up to par. Whether you enjoy playing a Peacebringer, it is clear that they are behind the balance curve and that's something that needs fixed. Their versatility is no longer unique; they do far too little damage with not enough survivability to compensate.

The first step towards change is awareness.

I can't argue with any of this. The stalker excels at something completely irrelevant in City of Heroes/Villains.

Maybe you just picked bad examples here, but I've seen some pretty good concepts that aren't convoluted at all.

Bots/Dark: Particularly a character named Technogeist, who is a ghost that animates robots. The other thing I've seen is, thanks to power customization, the darkness powers colored more gray/blue and portrayed as nanite swarms.

Plants/Fire: Very good heavenly concept. Burning bush, anyone? Or more simply "I control plants, set them on fire, then throw them at people."

I'd argue that unless that hard target is an EB or an AV, you're lying. A stalker can take out any boss faster than anything. They have the single most damaging attack out there, and can placate for a guaranteed crit with their next huge attack. This burst becomes much less useful against EB/AVs. Then again, if you count the interrupt time before the strike, maybe you've got a close competition. From engagement to defeat, you'd be hard pressed to find something faster than a stalker.

As to being safer, no, I can't argue that. I've often said that my stalker feels a lot like a blaster, except without all the defenses.

Ok, I see it now. You're not using the possessive form of my name, but rather making a contraction of "Dechs has."

Missed that, sorry.

Again, I wasn't really trying to call you out or anything. I see that a lot, and twice in one thread just made me snap, I suppose.

What is it with you people? Where is this coming from? THERE IS NO APOSTROPHE IN MY NAME!

I'm not seriously upset or anything, I'm just wondering where the apostrophe keeps coming from. This isn't the first time I've seen it, but just to set things straight:

It's Dechs. Pronounced "Dex." Notably not short for "Dexter." If you're talking about my build, it would be "Dechs' build." This is the correct usage of a possessive form for a noun ending in s, and is the only time an apostrophe should be anywhere near my name.