Dechs Kaison

/poison makes for serious single target damage and general "boss nuking" ability.

Necro/ is also very good at single target damage, although the vomiting zombies is an AoE (albeit very small). The lich is supposedly very control oriented, I don't know because I haven't gotten him yet.

I'm playing a necro/pain, and I have trouble keeping my pets alive at times. That means your alkaloid probably won't cut it all the time. Don't get discouraged, because after the last upgrade, all your pets can heal themselves, so in all reality, your combination is probably much better than mine.

The MM game gets really difficult in the 18-23 range. You have three zombies at -2 and only one grave knight. To top it all off, you get AoE happy scrapyarders. It'll be a pain, you'll have to team a lot, but you can get through it. You've played a blaster, so you're used to debt. Heh.

Biggest tips I can offer: skip your primary attacks and use your secondary debuffs. I do have a thugs/poison, and I love the debuffs.

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Oh quit your [censored].

It could be I15.

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He asked a legitimate question and there was no reason for this answer at all. I totally agree with the OP here. NCSofts customer relations is terrible at times and I do not see why a quick post here 5 minutes before the down time couldn't have been done.

I am quite sure they knew about this 30 minutes before hand and could have quite easily posted something regarding the early shutdown.

So you see sire, quite your bitchin at other on this forum, I take nothing to be nice.

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I believe we found someone trying to get around the text filter? Oops.

Either way, there's no reason to come to THIS FORUM and complain about the devs, unless you're just crying for attention. This is the player questions section, where the devs rarely, if ever, show up. Please, take your self righteousness elsewhere.

From what I remember (haven't played in a year) they never used to let us know when an issue was going live. Not even day of. Adds suspense. And excitement.

You just need to keep refreshing the patch notes page to see.

Don't worry, the servers will be back up ... soon.

Oh quit your [censored].

It could be I15.

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A Bad Hand from a Worse Dechs 195202
Eco.

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Fix'd.

And thanks again for putting me in the queue.

I just recently started a necro/pain. She's up to 18 already, and it's not easy, but certainly doable. /pain lends it self to being in a team, so you won't be as good solo until the later levels when you get some good buffs/debuffs.

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Wow sounds good. Might try and go with the SS/Shield and Fire/Kin.
Also, what would be a good Tankermind/Corr or Dom combo?
We may do both. lol

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Tankermind could go for survivability (Bot/FF or Bot/Traps) and Corruptor for way high DPS (not sure, I don't play much of the blasty types).

OR... my personal take would be melee pet set (ninjas or undead) with a /kin corruptor. That would be amazing. It's like a fire/kin controller on steroids. Add /storm or /ta to the MM for control. You can tackle just about anything.

Tankermind/Corruptor should do nicely.

Tankermind/Dominator might also do well.

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I've been thinking about doing other sets as well.

Necro - Wat, Roland, Chaucer; Sir Ulrich and Sir William; Colville; and the ghost would be Sir Ector.

/powexecname soul extraction
"What do you mean he's dead?" - Wat
"I mean the spark of his life is covered in shyte. His spirit is gone but his stench remains, does that answer your question?" - Roland

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One of my favorite movies. I wholeheartedly support this idea.

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Your forum name reminded me of another possibility for mercs:

Soldiers: Book, Wash
Medic: Simon
Spec-Ops: Mal, Zoe
Commando/Public Relations: Jayne

I've been thinking about doing other sets as well.

Necro - Wat, Roland, Chaucer; Sir Ulrich and Sir William; Colville; and the ghost would be Sir Ector.

/powexecname soul extraction
"What do you mean he's dead?" - Wat
"I mean the spark of his life is covered in shyte. His spirit is gone but his stench remains, does that answer your question?" - Roland

Repair is a must have. It's a full heal for your robot. Don't skip repair.

Why would you be taking the attacks? The bots are your attacks. The only thing I can see taking is the photon grenade to stack stuns with your protector bots.

If you HAD to skip one more power from traps... skip the trip mine I guess...

So I know that making a blue and red SS/INV tanker and calling him "Supamon" or something like that is completely wrong and generic-able. Don't worry, I'm not doing something like that.

If I wanted to name the henchmen of my character after characters from a movie, kind of like a tribute, is that acceptable?

Example: Mercs/Traps MM, ex-military character, camo outfit and everything. The character has absolutely nothing to do with the movie that I would be naming the henchmen after. Soldier names: Blue Lou Marini, Matt Guitar Murphy, Mr. Fabulous. Spec Ops: Joliet Jake, Elwood. Still undecided on the commando.

Is this something you would petition? Would the GM's care about this?

I'll suggest my arc for your higher level characters. It's got Crey for one very short ghostable mission, but everything else is custom.

In my opinion, traps is a set built for ranged pets (mercs, bots, thugs). A lot of it seems to be set up a fortified position and lay waste from afar.

The FFG follows you, though, so the melee pets would be ok as long as you stayed in melee range. If you use it, you'd also have to drop the triage beacon in melee range.

Although, there is quite a bit of synergy with Detonator -> Soul Extraction.

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It's stupid powerful within reason that it takes forever to do anything.

With great power comes great boredom, and that is its biggest draw back aside from nothing to help damage wise.

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I would agree with this, except since I've picked up an AoE immobilize, damage has skyrocketed. (pardon the pun)

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It's not a wall of text if you use paragraphs.

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My humblest apologies, sir. I only mentioned wall of text to denote a long explanation and warn people who didn't feel like reading much.

So what do you think he was? I was able to immob him in one shot, but he seemed to take longer to kill than an LT (especially considering he was stuck in the burn patch the whole time). He didn't take nearly as long as the other elite bosses in the arc (although, I couldn't immobilize them in the burn patch). And the exp was WAY high for an LT.

It's really the immobilize that's giving me the headache. Am I missing something about magnitude? I thought you needed a mag 4 to mez a boss, and the mace is only mag 3.

I ask this because I'm playing through the "Hammer of the World" arc with my bot/ff on difficulty level 4. According to the difficulty, I shouldn't see AV's, but I came across Malaise who was classed as a "Hero." I'm sure it said hero, because I read it a second time, and almost quit the mission right there. I was on my way to bed, though, so I just said "to hell with it, if I faceplant I'll try with a team."

This wouldn't even be a question except that I was able to take him down in seconds. No inspirations, no special temporary powers, just the standard bubble bots and blast. I even had him immobilized with the mace mastery power IN ONE SHOT. That shouldn't be possible if he was a hero/AV, and I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be able to nail even a boss with a mag 3 immobilize. Are heroes not as tough as AVs? Should a downgraded hero show up as an elite boss? Could it have been a glitch? He gave me something on the order of 15k exp, but I did have patrol xp at the time.

This may be overkill, but what about a battle of secondaries? i.e. A team of */darks, a team of */pain... etc.

Or how about this... I'm trying to think of a clever name for it... something involving "avatar." Basically, the ONLY pet you bring to battle is your tier 3. You can use secondaries with no restriction, but only the Oni, Assault Bot, whatever, fully upgraded. Anyone think this would be cool? Or does it give too much of an advantage to one type?

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Can you put my heroic arc in the queue?

Arc ID# 195202
A Bad Hand from a Worse Dechs
4 missions, no defeat all, one EB (on diff 1 will be a boss, I think)

Yeah, I know it's in my sig, but I might change that...

EDIT: Sorry, I just noticed the post of yours saying that your queue was full and to hold requests until after you finished. Feel free to /ignore me.

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No problem Dechs, i'll make a [one-off!] exception for you since your title is such a glorious groaner of a pun

Eco.

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If you like puns, you'll love the contact.

What can I say, I'm a pretty punny guy!

At least I haven't told my eskimo joke yet.

Hey, I'm game, but I don't have a 50 (I'm assuming that's what everyone else would bring).

I've got a high end computer, so I'd love to put it to the test.

Bots all star team FTW! I'd imagine three /traps, two /poison, two /dark and a /ff would do the trick.

Ok then, last question.

Is something like whirling hands or footstomp a melee or an AoE attack?

Can you put my heroic arc in the queue?

Arc ID# 195202
A Bad Hand from a Worse Dechs
4 missions, no defeat all, one EB (on diff 1 will be a boss, I think)

Yeah, I know it's in my sig, but I might change that...

EDIT: Sorry, I just noticed the post of yours saying that your queue was full and to hold requests until after you finished. Feel free to /ignore me.

Thanks.

I was making sure because I'm trying to get my /FF to a point where the positional defenses are at their cap, in which case I shouldn't have to worry about "element" defenses.

I guess I should ask this too: Does every attack have a positional type? Are there any that have two positional types (whirling hands = melee+AoE)?

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TO. IT'S TO. NOT TOO.

I'm sorry, it bothered me that much to read it.

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Alright settle down Oo, there ive edited it just for you..wasn't aware i was going to be marked on spelling and grammar, i had assumed that this was a forum and not some sort of test.. and yes i know ive always made the too to mistake and at 27 ive no intention of attempting to solve it.

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Yeah, I know I shouldn't be a grammar nazi. I normally don't care about punctuation/spelling/grammar in general, but the wrong word thing bugs the hell out of me.

I had a boss that would say things like "For the pass couple weeks..." and it pained my ears. It wasn't an accent either, because I've seen emails where he's typed it!

EDIT: I apologize if I sounded rude. I really didn't mean anything personal, although I can definitely see if you took it that way. So again, I am sorry, and did not mean to offend.