DreadShinobi

I doubt it will stay at 100 mil for long. These will be in high demand.

You just need 12, as Celestial Lord already said.

Although at this point if coh did it, it could be considered a rip off of Diablo 3.






And I still want to dual wield titan weapons so I can make an Altina character. And no, dual blades won't suffice.

Not the same, the only thing I like about double xp is double inf, and you can't get that from patrol xp or xp boosters.

Maybe when the last of them are released that would be cool. But not now.

Obviously you didn't bother to read the second part of that section either.

Empathy and Pain Domination aren't comparable to traps. They do completely different things.


The biggest thing Traps has going for it is it's -1000% regeneration. Cold, Kinetics, Rad, Dark, Time, Storm, and Thermal are better than traps in varying degrees. I'm sorry if you disagree, and if you like the set that's cool, but I only take numbers into account.

When the AE badges first came out and there was a ton of them with high requirements AE was clogged by farm missions for getting such badges.

By that logic there is no justification to choosing any blast set other than fire. Or any brute secondary other than fire. Or any scrapper secondary other than shield. Or any Dom primary other than Mind of Fire or secondary other than Fire. Etc. Ironically this is logic I go by, I only play powersets that are the absolute best possible choice. However this is not a playstyle I reccomend or spout to the general coh population (cause they get mad at me when I do).

Poison does need fixing. However all of it's debuffs are perma and have good range (if you mean radius, that's different). Non damaging holds aren't valuable, Petrifying gaze and to a lesser extent Time Stop aren't very good either. The only reason Time Stop is somewhat good is it can be upgraded to a mag 4 hold and has a bit of -healing and even then it's use is pretty low. I'm not sure what makes Poison's rez worse than other rezzes (other than howling twilight), the point is to rez the target, and it does that just fine.

You do realize Empathy and Pain Domination are buff sets right not just raw healing? If the only thing a pain or emp is doing is healing they are doing it wrong.

Sonic Resonance may be strictly worse than thermal, but that doesn't mean it's a bad set. Being only 1 of 2 sets that offers +resist shields puts it in a valuable spot. Offensively Sonic can pull ahead of Thermal offering much stronger debuffs in Sonic Siphon, Sonic Disruption, and Liquefy provided the team has some -regen already. Once you have a certain amount of -regen you don't need more of it and -res debuffs are quite valuable. TBH of the 4 sets you originally called out (Emp, Pain, Poison, and Sonic) Sonic is actually in a very good position.

The thing about support sets is that they're all very useful. Each has their own strengths and weaknesses, but overall if they're played well all of them can be huge assets to teams. The one exception you could make is poison, as it really needs alot of work, but poison is still going to be able to hold it's own in terms of usefulness on a team because it's a support set. Many blast sets, melee sets, armors, and control sets can be deficiently worse than other sets in the same category, but support sets honestly don't share that issue because of how ridiculously good support is in this game. When comparing support set to support set some will obviously rank higher or lower than others, but when you compare support sets to the entirety of the game, there is no issue.

Cold and Kinetics are by far the strongest sets in the game and even with that said I'd probably take a Fire/Poison corr over a AR/Cold corr, Poison is significantly worse than cold but Fire is significantly better than AR. Poison can still support it's team with potent debuffs but AR would not only be struggling but outright failing to keep up to the dps fire can bring and I would definitely take the poison corr over a a dps without buffs/debuffs. The gaps in effectiveness of support sets are much smaller than that of other categories of sets.

Please don't get me wrong though, I think Sonic, TA, Traps, and Poison could all go for a round of buffing to bring them up to the levels of Dark, Rad, Storm, Time, and Thermal. Emp and Pain are odd cases in that they don't offer alot in the way of offense, which this game thrives on, the biggest issue with Emp and Pain is the current metagame of coh, not issues with the sets themselves.


Being worse than blaze is irrelevant because you would need both in your attack chain and being only marginally better than fire blast is only relevant if you're using a mezzing attack chain. Your attack chain for a fire dom (using mind control as a model) would be Blaze>Incin>FB or Confuse>Blaze>Incin or Dominate>Blaze>Incin, depending on the situation. Fire Blast can be used instead of Incinerate in the mezzing attack chains however it's still less dps and you're missing out on an extra purple proc and you need incinerate for the nonmezzing attack chain. Range only fire doms can work, but they're not better than fire doms that include their melee attack. Getting into melee on a dom is extremely safe due to all the mezzing, there is little reason to say doms have no business being in melee.

Already pointed out, but yeah, see first post.

I'm sure the burst of scourge-TF is great, but it's still obnoxiously long. =/

Pretty much. Sonic, Rad, and Ice are all much better and Fire eats it for lunch.

BAF is completely doable without pets, the pets just mean I can sit my kin on a door with lore pets out and fulcrum shift on auto and check facebook and forums while my cimerorans 1 shot everything.

I have a feeling it's just MM pets cause I've never run into what you're describing.

lolwhat? Empathy, Pain Domination, Poison and Sonic Resonance aren't "particularily good sets"? I really hope you're not serious. Now if you meant Empathy and Pain Domination are low offense sets and Poison is low survivability and sonic is basically a worse thermal then yeah they're not particularily good, but you're ignoring their strengths. Also Empathy and Pain Domination work just fine at range. Now I wouldn't say they would be the best choice for the OP cause he stated he wants a high damage ranged character, but the sets themselves aren't that bad.

Fire Doms like to be in melee for Incinerate.

When they still worked you could also access it through recluses victory if you were redside.

Just echoing this. The tank is not necessarily the group leader. Infact more times than not, the leader is not the tank and being a tank doesn't make you a better leader.

Fire/Rad should be played in melee because of hot feet. The only time a fire/rad would be better at range is for AV soloing with a softcapped range def build. OP specifically wanted something that would be a top damage dealer at 60'+

Fortunatas are great for a pure ranged character. Psychic Scream is 60 ft and they can only crit with melee attacks, and furthermore their crits are only +50% damage, not double damage like stalkers. Even for nightwidows placate is actually a dps loss, the Crit is alright for the first hit, but after that the crits aren't worth it.

It should also be noted that their damage mods aren't very high and they will typically have alot of damage buffs from their self (30% double assault, 0-30% from set bonuses, 0-90% from followup or Aim) which coupled with their low damage cap makes their high end cap out alot sooner than most other ATs. Whether you take that as a good thing or a bad thing mostly depends on the environment that you play in since they're very powerful unbuffed on their "low end"

At least you're not a stalker. Many AS animations use the constipated animation and AS is a core power unlike snipes which are skippable.

The 10:5 shard:thread doesn't cost anything because you're only getting half the value, the 10:10 costs 1mil and has a cooldown because you're getting more out of it.

With /stuck? I'm pretty sure those things are very different.

Fortitude can be kept on 5-6 people with a good +rchg build.

They did it for all the blast sets.