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Originally Posted by MLEdelen

First it was the Fire/Kin Controller, but they nerfed that.

Originally Posted by macskull

Mids will show stealth only, not perception. Also it's impossible to self-cap stealth on a VEAT - the cap is 857.25 feet, and you'll get 500 from Mask Presence/Cloaking Device and 300 from a stealth IO, leaving you 57.25 feet short (you cannot run Stealth and Mask Presence/Cloaking Device at the same time). Nevertheless, it's very rare to see a Fortunata with Mask Presence since the only attacks Forts can crit from hide with are melee and that's not what a Fort is for, especially in PvP. Most are running pool Stealth instead (for phase shift, but it's also 389 feet of PvP stealth on its own, leaving you at 689 feet stealth). The one possible way to do it is to add the base empowerment buff on top of Stealth/stealth IO, which should get you to the cap, but only lasts an hour. However, the base buff does not suppress, like Invisibility, so it's useful in that regard. Nevertheless, it's really not worth going out of your way to build around the stealth cap because percep-capped players will be able to see you from around 300 feet away anyways.

Regarding figuring out perception radius in feet when given a percentage: the amount of perception provided by pool Tactics varies by AT (same as the tohit value). There's a simple way to calculate this, though: a 10% perception radius increase amounts to 50 feet of extra perception at level 50. We know this because the Rectified Reticle +perception IO grants a 20% perception bonus, which works out to 100 feet at level 50. Basically go off your base perception radius (500 feet) and figure percentages from there. Let's say Tactics gives you 63% perception bonus:


So we see that a 63% perception bonus amounts to a 315-foot increase in perception radius. To percep-cap a non-VEAT we'd need to add (1053 - 500 = 553) feet, which comes out to (x * 500 = 1053; x = 2.106) percent total perception radius, or about 110% extra perception on top of base. To percep-cap a VEAT we'd need to add (1260.6 - 500 = 760.6) feet, which comes out to (x * 500 = 1260.6; x = 2.5212) percent total perception radius, or about 152% extra perception on top of base.

Originally Posted by CrazyJerseyan

At the top of your build, hit the 'VIEW TOTALS' button; goto the Misc Buffs page to see stealth values (middle) and the Status page to see perception values (bottom).

Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA

For your example (Deflection Shield) it sticks around for the duration of the Shield (4 mins). Ditto with something like Fortitude.

Your big bubble would only get it for 15 seconds though (ditto with the PPP Defense Shield Black Scorp has) because they are toggles, and Cold Defenders are out of luck altogether because it won't affect that at all due to the minor Resistance each shield also gives AFAIK.

Originally Posted by TQQ_TIRED

Ok, hear me out, lets just give up on PvP as a whole. If the entire PvP community just rolled the best PvE toons they had we could just have PvE competitions. We could do team Speed-TFs competitions, which team can run said TF/SF faster. We could do 8v8 Speed Master TF/SF matches, which team can go through the fastest without deaths.

I believe this would be a great idea, as well as increase the PvE community(which lets face it, player-vs-enviroment is lacking players).

Originally Posted by Redlynne

Okay, I *know* this can't be done currently ... so this is only a proposal, not a "I can do this!!" post.

What if ... you could use Wormhole on Foes that have been Dimension Shifted?

Specifically ... what if you could not only use Wormhole on Foes that have been Dimension Shifted, but use of Wormhole on Dimension Shifted targets would "end" the Dimension Shift duration? Meaning ... you use the Wormhole to pull Foes OUT of Dimension Shift?

Net effect ... Dimension Shift + Wormhole becomes a combo attack, denying hostiles the opportunity to alpha strike.

Tricky part ... deciding if Wormhole should be able to pull out and "un-intangible" Foes under the effects of all phase shift-y powers ... or just Dimension Shift.

Measure ... counter-measure.

If nothing else, being able to "cancel early" the effects of a Dimension Shift via Wormhole would dramatically improve the usefulness and utility of Dimensions Shift. No?



Castle?

War Witch?

Originally Posted by Fiery-Enforcer

I would've chosen my Fire/Psi over anything else before the Dom changes, but not anymore. As far as not having immobilizes, it's not messy if you have a taunt aura which Brutes, Tanks, and some Scrappers get.

My SS/Fire rakes in about 650k inf/minute (almost 40 mil inf/hour) in normal content and eclipses almost 2 mil inf/minute in certain non-exploitive AE farms. I'd like to see a Fire/Kin or Dom do that.

Originally Posted by JD_Gumby

Eh. The end/s of Sprint isn't so bad. Then again, my builds aren't so tight that I can't afford to put a second slot in it to have both stealth and endurance reduction (in fact, my AR/Dev would be getting said extra slot for reduction sometime today when he hits 45 - IF I thought he neededit. He's only got a 0.74/s (0.69%/s) drain with Sprint, Combat Jumping, Cloaking Device, and Targetting Drone (both at 0.19/s) as his only toggles, so it's not really a problem. Don't even need much in the way of blues and the cost is worth it to be able to toe-bomb)

Originally Posted by macskull

PvP used to follow PvE travel suppression rules but that was changed with I13. Now all movement is slowed by a granted autopower that lasts a certain variable duration. However, standard arena settings have that turned off so you get no suppression at all (i.e. always moving at full SS/SJ speed). That's generally the reason I run SS.