DreadShinobi

If you're standing at 80 ft and you've got a league of people standing _behind_ you on follow trying to fire off 80 ft attacks, they can't, they're out of range. While I stayed on follow the whole time I noticed this a couple of times in the hallway. If you're right on the edge of the max range, it will take longer for people to start firing off attacks. I can't speak for the people that moved up ahead a bit, but it was probably just them trying to get into range, (I didn't see people move up that far ahead of you, which is why this is my guess). I'd just suggest standing at ~70(or closer) ft to make sure everyone is in range and/or just really make sure people are on follow, targetting you, with a ranged attack on auto.

having a slightly tighter build merits having 75% more dps?

I assume you are reffering to my runs. Just as an fyi I got 228 dps later on my staff/da brute, 198 wasn't my highest. This was using PS>SR>PS>SS on a brute without utilizing the 6th slots in my attacks for extra dmg procs. I never said it was the highest dmg possible, infact I quite explicitly said both stalkers and scrappers as well as people who fine tuned it with extra damage procs would see higher dps.


As for your attack chain, I'm not sure, try it and report what ya get. I tried a chain with Mercurial but it didn't really give me better dps, the base damage is quite low on mercurial, the -res proc would not only have alot to make up for, but actually coming out positive over PS takes even more. The -res in DB works because the -res procs can already go in attacks that do good DPA whereas the -res procs in staff fit into powers with low DPA.

Blaze is still better than BiB, which means Fire is better than Ice for ST. Ice is more ST focused than Fire, but that doesn't mean it's better. For /elec, /em, and /dm you're only going to use your t3 blast in a top ST chain.

for fire/elec and fire/EM as an example, that is:
Blaze>CB/EP>Havoc/BS>Blaze>CB/EP>SG(fireball for /em)>[Aim/Bu]>repeat.

If you took the same attack chain and replaced Blaze for BiB, it would not only be doing less damage, but it would also require more recharge.

Lusca isn't really harder, it's just longer.

No, the funny part is she didn't mean it like sounds. The actual meaning of that sentence was that she was going to powerlevel her husband's TW brute, I have no idea how it turned out like that though.

I didn't say that either 0.o I said he could have had those defense/resistance totals replicated with hasten added.

I'm not sure how much global recharge he has outside of hasten, so I'm not sure how close he would be to perma DP with hasten added to his build.

ATOs, if they follow trend, are going to continually make that easier though. Because ATOs combine ultimate recharge bonuses with ultimate defense bonuses.

Has nothing to do with agreeing or not, he doesn't like the power. He didn't "sacrifice" hasten to get those numbers though, he could have just as easily gotten those numbers and had hasten in his build as well.

No, he doesn't run Hasten due to personal preference, so it's not perma drain psyche. But if someone was trying to mirror his build in some way it could certainly be added to their build.

If you looked at the power tray you would clearly see Fire Shield toggled on.

Also, it's not perma drain psyche, obviously though, he doesn't have issues with survivability.
And his build can solo GMs, which as I quote from you saying before, is all the dps you need

And as I've said before, even if Drain psyche is down, your health isn't going to instantly vaporize, especially if you have other layered mitigation like he has.

I never said anything about being invulvernable. I said that rchg debuffs and ST mezzes aren't going to magically survive a situation when you're defense fails. Although with that said Time has fabulous effective def debuff protection thanks to Time's Juncture.

Ice/Time can hold AVs when their PtoD is down. Fire/Time can also hold AVs when their PtoD is down. There is no advantage here going ice, and adding holds to your attack chain lowers your dps.

Then ask yourself a second question: Is that hold actually helping me survive that AV? If you're able to survive the AV when their PToD is up why wouldn't you be able to survive the AV when their PToD is up?

Both Blizzard and Inferno will wipe a spawn, the end result is the same. Just because Blizzard shows more damage in mids doesn't mean it's better than inferno at wiping a spawn.

Time's Juncture, Maneuvers, Tough/Weave, Combat Jumping, Super Speed, Patron Shield will all drop when you nuke. But more importantly time is a very end heavy set and does not have a way to get on it's feet after nuking. Time is really just not a good set to be nuking on.


You can get just as much rchg on a fire/time as you can on an ice/time. Even with the smashing dmg procs in ice blast attacks, ice is still under fire in dmg.

Time's Juncture is one of the best powers in Time Manip and the mere fact that you're dismissing it is terrible.

Time's Juncture:

Keeps enemies in your rains

Protects you from defense debuffs. (in normal content, this means you're effectly immune to nearly all defense debuffs unless the enemy can stack another defense debuff in there before the first one wears off. Getting hit twice within 10 seconds (the standard duration for most def debuffs) is extraordinarily rare. Further between the time that you actually have 2 defense debuffs on you it is even rarer that your defense will actually cascade before 1 of them wears off. This effective defense debuff protection is one of the biggest reasons Time is as survivable as it is. Without that tohit debuff the set would merely be easier to softcap than other sets rather than actually being sturdier.

Let's you hit an effective incarnate softcap for trials and DA.

Allows for highly efficient herding. Due to the fast tick rate and large radius of Times Juncture it is quite easy to quickly herd up multiple groups of enemies.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...38#post4139538

I never said it wasn't overall optimal or that there weren't sacrifices made, just that it was possible, and that a blaster _can_ have as much survivability as a melee at. Obviously you could also make a more balanced build with higher +rchg and just S/L softcap or just ranged, or S/L/R.

Thank you for posting this. Was really needed to really show what I've been trying to say for a while now.

Mezzes and rchg debuffs are largely superfluous when you're softcapped to everything.


Explain to me how Frost Breath and Ice Storm are more "devastating" than Fireball, Firebreath, and Rain of Fire.

A Time Manip really shouldn't be nuking unless you we're running an extremely specific build with ageless, but even if you were blizzard and inferno are even enough.


This honestly makes no sense. Both powersets need their lvl 1 power, t3 blast, aim, rain power, and then optionally take breath/nuke powers. All of those powers are more or less going to be slotted the same way. Fire then has fireball and Ice has Freeze Ray, Fireball being non-optional and Freeze Ray being optional. Are you really saying /having/ to take fireball is a disadvantage? And if you're rolling Ice Blast and not taking Freeze Ray, why did you roll Ice blast in the begining? The statement just doesn't make sense.

Depends what level you are relative to them. If you are +3 it's not gonna get resisted. If you're +0 it will probably be cut a bit (too lazy to look up by how much), but you won't be +0 for long.

Indeed. Fire/Time > Ice/Time

Oh I didn't read incarnate softcap. 45% softcap is ridiculously easy to get. Additionally, any enemy affected by Time's Juncture will put you at an effective incarnate softcap. Getting to the Incarnate softcap isn't really a big deal because of TJ.

Actually, speaking of the incarnate softcap, it's not really necessary for anything. Incarnate softcap just doesn't make a big difference, and pretty much the only content I do is incarnate content, and none of my toons have incarnate softcap nor do they have survivability issues.

Fire/Time Corr is basically the same thing except the corr does more damage and get scourge rain of fire.

Durr. I forgot I never closed my existing mids. Thanks.