Dechs Kaison

It was doable before... now it's just not insanely hard.

I did find a trick to help out. If you take out the yellows, then the blues, and then the weakened Hamidon, it's easier to take out just the greens because you don't have the goo or the heavy damage to deal with anymore.

I only mentioned the Standard Code Rant as a way to say "I have no idea how difficult it would be to implement this, but here's a possible solution."

Just a guess, but I'm pretty sure Soul Storm is all DoT, and only the first tick will crit?

Sharks damage mostly up front with a very small DoT, so the crit will be fore almost full damage.

Very good point. All of the blaster novas act like this. They have a standard endurance cost, but a -100% endurance effect on you if a target is hit.

Perhaps they could do that with all attacks. Cut the endurance cost in half, but add a -endurance effect for each target hit.

Pretty sure I said I wouldn't ever turn someone away for the powers they've chosen. In contrast is your statement from that thread, that you would *kick* a /kin from the team if he didn't have or even use SB as often as you'd like.

My rule of "Any build, any budget, no exclusions" remains, but for one TF, I had to reserve four spots on the team for controllers/dominators. I didn't specify which kind, and I didn't even bother to specify that they had holds.

Yeah? Well, I want broadsword defense! You can use a broadsword to parry attacks and such, so it only makes sense to make it a defensive set! I mean, almost all the broadsword models even come with a handguard. It's a guard! Guards block stuff! Defense! It makes sense!

Oh, and I'm not going to hit stuff with my sword. I want to hit them with my hands that are on fire! I don't want to be locked into sword melee just because I have the sword to defend myself. That wouldn't make any sense.

Waitasecond.... Broadsword melee actually has parry in it, a power that adds to your defense... imagine that.

And if I'm not mistaken, shield defense actually has an attack in it...

So much this. I got it on "hard mode" but it required 4 controllers on the team. I had to turn people down from my MoLGTF because of what AT they played, and that goes against everything I stand for.

I don't know. You pretty much either hit the guy or you don't.

Occasionally, if you're a scrapper or a stalker and know weak points, presumably, you land a really good hit.

If you're on Virtue, you can join me. I'll be running them straight through next week too, and probably most of this weekend as well. Friday evenings if I can.

1. I doubt the AV can catch up to you in the time it takes Taunt or some other attack to animate if you fire from max range.

2. Try jumping and running while having an attack queued. You have inertia.

Project Masters will now be commencing the MoLGTFs, each day this week (beginning Wednesday), starting at approx 4:15 PM EST.

I got one the hard way, now it's time to get you people some badges!

I couldn't agree more, but it would be difficult to accomplish.

Stuff like this is problematic, as it tends to dictate a particular team makeup, not a particular strategy. Right now, any team can accomplish any task in the game. Even a team of all fire damage could beat Infernal with his high fire resist.

I do not like this at all. Plenty of people hate the GW "cheap hold of death" because that's all it is: a cheap shot. Also, since AVs have such high HP and regen, one player is not likely able to finish off the AV, no matter how weak he was.

I think we already have something like this in Striga. Doesn't everybody just Ouroboros portal out anyway? It's a cool trick, but it needs to not be bypassable.





Ok, more ideas.

We already have things like "Power of the Thorn" and the "Dimensional Grounding Ray." I'd like to see more of this kind of thing, where temporary powers are used tactically. Unfortunately, right now they're only done as "use this to make him vulnerable, you only need to hit him once, then the power is pretty much useless."

How about giving an AV an interruptable attack? Perhaps that can only be interrupted by some temp power?

"When he starts moving like X, use this power! It will stop him from unleashing [Destroy random team member]."

And how about this for a stretch: An AV that is vulnerable to certain types of attacks based on where he is standing on the map. Give him a slow-ish recharging teleport ability and it can't be exploited.

"Get him on the red squares! We've got lots of cold damage. Immobilize him!"
"Crap, he teleported. Stop the immobilize attacks, let's try to drag him back here."

Seconding this suggestion.

One step further: Can we have these emotes?

Ooh boy, indeed.

Correction: You'll be at 60% resist fully slotted.

The plus side is that you get bonus resistance for every person of certain ATs on your team. Cosmic Balance and Dark Sustenance now work in forms. White dwarfs with blasters and scrappers on the team will be harder to kill. Black dwarfs with other tankers and defenders on the team will be harder to kill.

Of course, Dark Armor Sucks. Please refer to my sig.

Correction: The best willpower tanks will have capped HP, which is 800 points higher than a PB can ever get, a ton of regen which your Dwarf will not, and heavy defenses on top of high S/L resist.

He's right here.

I believe he's talking about a taunt aura, in which case he would be correct. As worded, he is incorrect. White dwarfs get a footstomp AoE attack that carries a taunt component, as well as its single target attacks which carry taunt components.

As I stated, the three attacks have taunt components and can recharge fast enough to be a full chain. The number of attacks is not important to holding aggro.

Correction: The black dwarf cannot hold aggro as well as a white dwarf because its AoE attack lacks a taunt component. Damage is only one part of the threat formula, and is almost always superseded by taunt.



To your other questions: A very expensive kheldian built specifically for tanking will be able to surpass an SO'd tank, but that's just the IOs at that point. A PB/WS will never measure up to a real tanker in terms of durability or aggro holding, but this is by design.

This is not to say that a kheldian cannot tank. Quite the opposite. Especially on teams, kheldians become quite formidable and durable. My warshade has tanked AVs for teams without giving up aggro to the shield scrapper, which I find to be quite the accomplishment.

Void damage is resistable these days, and nothing worth worrying about. The other nictus do not do extra damage to you.