Dechs Kaison

I'd just like to point out that that 26.5% recharge is meaningful. 1) It's more than you had before and 2) you haven't lost anything to gain it and 3) you're still up in your other attributes.

Personally, I look at recharge enhancements as a different kind of damage enhancement. It's the same damage in less time, so over all you do more damage.

Fixed.

You know, as long as you can handle energy, fire, lethal, psionic and toxic damage, critical hits, -tohit, -regen, -defense, -recovery, end drain, -perception, -recharge, -jump, -fly, the occasional placcate, and enemies with +tohit, then arachnos really isn't a problem.

Try dark armor. Still virtually immune to end drain, comparable resists, innate defense, control auras, and a better heal.

Drain their essence, eh?

I still think it's better than the righteous indignation that heralds the approach of an army of light bearing peacebringers who "purge," "cleanse" and "smite" everything they deem "evil."

This is not only immature, but ignorant. The lack of SB does not mean the player doesn't have a team mentality, especially when it's a controller.

Likewise, the inclusion of SB does not mean that a player does have a team mentallity.

Seriously? Grow up.

If I'm forming a TF, I ask for people who have a pulse. I don't even ask what AT they're bringing, let alone what powersets and whether they have key powers that I deem important.

My TFs follow rules which are designed to keep me in check, not my team. A rule without exception lasts eternally.

Any build, any budget, no exclusions.

If I were to ever violate that rule, even something like kicking a petless mastermind, it opens the floodgates to more.

Containment is the controller inherent, much like gauntlet is for tanks. Contained mobs (those immobilized, held, slept, and I believe stunned) will suffer double damage from controller attacks. Some people just want to see their big orange numbers no matter the risk.

Hold on a second, IOs don't start at level 50. Just as an example, my DA tank doesn't lose his S/L/E/N defensive softcap until level 37, and maintains a great deal of bonuses all the way to level 32 and lower. My Peacebringer doesn't have a single IO over level 33.

Oooooh, hadn't thought of that.

Controllers do double damage on anything "contained," which includes immobilized.

IOs have vastly increased blaster survivability. This has lead to many blasters believing they are survivable, even if they don't have IOs because they've seen it done.

99% of the world's problem is lack of accountability. There's not much you can do to make up for stupid people on a team, but they'll blame you for it anyway.

That said, running around, making sure to tag as much as you can with a punch or two and taunting the far away mobs tends to be enough to keep most of the damage on you.

The old days are gone. Nowadays there are blasters that can solo eight man spawns. Nowadays there are controllers that solo AVs. Nowadays efficient teams don't need a tank. The only thing constant from the old days is that an all defender team is still the most powerful thing going.

That said, tanks aren't obsolete. A terrible team with a good tank will still be able to get through just about anything. A great team with a great tank gets better when the tank is always a mob ahead, packing the mobs tight for the next chain of AoEs.

The Paragon Universe is going strong. Drop me a line in game, we'll see if you like the place.

That's INCONCEIVABLE!

Scrappers don't get stone...

That said, honestly shield defense will probably be your best bet. It has hands down the strongest taunt aura of any set available to scrappers.

You should have no problems hitting these.

Force Field Generators are a *****.

Oh $deity the -tohit debuffs.

Shush you. I like being able to lightning rod then AS the boss as he gets up.

But really? Yeah, it seems like a bug. But that's also why LR doesn't (can't) crit, so I guess it's a tradeoff. If they make it break hide, they'd better make it crit.

I have the steadfast protection and the steadfast +3% defense in Dark Embrace.

I have BotZ KB protection in both CJ and recall friend.

I found that 12 points is enough kb protect for just about anything. Unfortunately, knockback seems to be either <4 or >10, so if 4 points doesn't do it, 8 doesn't help.

This is why stalkers can use lightning rod without breaking hide. The pet attacks, not the stalker, so the follow up attack can autocrit.

Yeah, it's not like I really did and recorded anything.

Edit below:

Need I point out the totally contradictive nature of this quoted post? First, he reply to a post to complain about people replying to it.

Then, he tries to say that recorded video gameplay is not based on any reality. I mean, technically, this is a game, and nothing here is based on reality, but the reality of the situation is that the events in the video, while existing in a virtual reality atmosphere, did in fact really happen.

Fire_Minded, the only thing retarded here is you.

It's certainly good reasoning. You may not use the toggles as much, but vengeance will be used for sure. It's not like you'll miss the 7.5% recharge by not fitting one more LotG. Once eclipse is permanent, you really should start to focus on other good bonuses anyway.

What I meant was that getting any use out of your LotG mules is probably better than what I do. I don't even have the concealment powers in my tray.

Think unstoppable force meets immovable object, then combines forces and continue on together.

Seriously though, Bots/ff is stupid powerful.

Fine, allow me to revise the statement.

I cannot think of a more accurate measurement of required effort expended to complete a task than to look at the median time to completion.