Ethric

Fire Melee is too heroic so it can't be proliferated.

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Placate is recharged.

That's right, this'll be City of Wolf Spiders (or COWS for short)

Sweet Forumites, hello again, it's me. I'd like to have a chat. When I was a child, growing up in industrialized Sharkhead Isle, I had the best friend a boy could hope for. My dear old power, Assault. Oh ho ho, the adventures we had!

From Port Recluse to the Crush we roamed, carefree and courageous. Irresponsible, and completely inseparable. It was, for a little Corruptor, the perfect existence.

So, let me ask you Forumites. How many of your characters can say the same? How many of this game's characters are truly happy, truly carefree? Well, we both know the answer, dont we? None. Forumites' characters live in a terrifying, meaningless existence. There is no hope, no happiness.

That changes, right here, right now! From this moment onward, the characters of this great game are its highest priority. Assault will restore every Task Force, reinstate every Trial, and offer counseling and financial assistance to any Super Group in need. We will match up the destitute orphan characters of the Paragon City and Rogue Isles with qualified, eligible adults. We will rebuild the City of- family. As it was, as it was meant to be. The values of our past shall be the foundation of our future.

We've got to part now, you and I, but dont be sad Forumites. Assault is working tirelessly, to rebuild this great game, so you dont have to.

Except Empathy and Forcefield Defenders! With Energy Blast or Archery as secondaries. (That's supposed to be a wink)

Assault Rifle.

An angel with an Assault Rifle would be badass.

Or hell, Dual Pistols.

I assume that Energize will have the same animation time as CP, that is, 1.17 seconds.

So, to get Energize perma, you'll need to get it down to 28.83 seconds, that is, 0.24025 of the original.

So you will need around 316% +recharge to get it truly perma without gaps. You can get 70% from Hasten, 20% from Lightning Reflexes and 95% from usual slotting.

That leaves around 131% to get from set bonuses. Good luck getting that while investing in defense.

3 kins + 1 dark... against even cons.

-60% damage from 3 Fulcrum Shifts alone in a 30ft radius. (If all kins were trollers, otherwise even more damage debuff)

-37.5% damage debuff from the Dark Defender'd Darkest Night in a 25ft radius.

All magnified by the -res from Tar Patch.

That would easily floor the enemies damage.



Don't tell me that's not great survivability right there.

Excellent points guys. Thank you.

Also, I'd like to apologize since I made the thread venting and that might show a bit.

I can reliably hit 3-5 enemies with Shadow Maul and Jacob's Ladder, even more so when they buffed melee range attacks from 5ft to 7ft.

Still, people advise other people to skip these because they're supposedly "bad moves." Yet, these account for a lot of damage when I check my HeroStats, thanks to their relatively fast recharge and high damage with the ability to hit multiple targets.

So, do people suck at lining cones or why are these powers given such a bad rep?

Blasters will not be getting a themed secondary. Energy Manipulation is pretty close, though.

There shouldn't be too much changes in the set, as I remember a redname saying they're profilerating the sets that would not need much changes.

Altering Neutrino Bolt and X-ray Beam is possible, so that they will recharge slower than the Defender version but also deal more damage and use more endurance (Dam/End ratio staying the same)

Hopefully they will not pull another Psychic Blast disaster and make Cosmic Burst do, say, 70ish damage on a Blaster like they did with Will Domination.

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Modifications:

• Added a slot to Nullify Pain, and replaced Doctored Wounds set with a whole set of Numinas (DOOOOOOM!) But hey, it's got a nice ranged defense bonus!

• Removed the Gaussian set from Aim, removed slots from it, added Adj. Targetings. It'll recharge a bit faster and give you a tiny damage boost.

• Removed Share Pain and added Assault. This will make you more CREDIT TO TEAM by almost doubling the amount of +dmg you can grant to your teammates. Added a slot on it to easen the endurance cost.

• Removed slots from WoP and adjusted slotting a little. You really don't need to enhance the +ToHit, 10% is enough to be CREDIT TO TEAM.

• Removed a slot from AC, you can already pretty much hit +3s without a problem and with WoP on (even with reduced +ToHit on it) you can hit +4s without sweat. Also, The thing does a lot -Def anyway so you don't need to EDCap it.

• Added a slot to Painbringer. An endurance mod, which will make you more CREDIT TO TEAM. Nukers will love you for this.

• Added slots to Power Sink, now with more endurance action! (Both costing less and draining more) Personal preference, could do with less.

• Slightly modified Charged Armor. Personal preference. Could do with less.

I've always done this with CoT Guides, since they only have 1 attack that recharges just right as you have regened to full.

My Brute (Elec/Elec/Mu) is geared for offense with very high recharge, regen and procs and specializing in enddrain and a great boost to psi res (65%). Making it very fun solo and small teams, or teams with "overkill" on support. With the new Conserve Power change it'll be even more awesome.


However, I had planned a high melee defense build for times when extra survivability is needed. Sacrifices offense for a LOT of melee defense (43.3%) so you can play makeshift Tanker.

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Note:

• Conserve Power would be slotted with Numina Heal + Heal/Rech + Heal/Rech/End and a single lvl 50 rchg IO.

• Expensive with 4 full sets of Obliteration (and utilizing Ribosomes) along with other IOs

• It was made to be a secondary build, with the idea of offense sacrifice for defense, so it might not be that fun to play

• No, really.

• Ranged attacks with defense debuffs will probably destroy your melee defense anyway.

• Not much +recovery (no stamina!) but with Energize and Power Sink, you'll have no end problems when facing 2 enemies or more. Against a single enemy, though, you might get into trouble. Fortunately, the build can be easily tweaked so you'll have less endurance problems if you don't mind sacrificing some regeneration. You can take out Taunt, add Stamina or Build-up, or whatever you want.

Have fun!

Defenders damage mod can't be boosted because it would go into Blaster territory along with abilities to make the team stronger. Corruptors would be mad as well.


So:

If Controllers do more damage than Defenders, aren't Controllers already violating the two above? Although I don't see many Controllers outdamaging Blasters (except those Elec/Devs), I regularly see Controllers outdamaging both Defenders and Corruptors while providing excellent support in the form of controls and (de)buffs.

Containment is just that good, and so are Controller EPPs. Scourge and Vigilance suck in comparison.

I love the smell of Power Boosted bubbles in the morning.

Also, a crucial part looking at the both sets' godmodes:

Surge of Power:

As far as I know, yes, it still does that.

Give Übercharge to the Medic.

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