EvilGeko
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I can't even log into the game. I don't think I could take it right now.
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Quote:You're more than welcome.Originally Posted by Tic-Toc
BABs here. Thanks EG.
And I knew all you devs played with us powergamers on Justice!! -
Quote:I AM NOT CHOOSY!!!!Originally Posted by mental_giant
not soe or ea, but it would be great if someone picked up cox.
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Quote:13. That's why I put them first. Say what you will, SOE doesn't kill off their own properties easily. SWG was LucasArts decision. The only MMO they've killed off recently is EQOA and that's because the game was on an absolute platform and couldn't be converted to F2P.Originally Posted by Starsman
Wish this was SOE... how many years has EverQuest been running now?
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You guys are without a doubt the best in the business! I can't tell you how sad I am for you. You don't deserve this. I want you to know that your efforts are more than appreciated, they are cherished.
City of Heroes has been a lifeline for me during some really rough times over the last 8 years. It's a place to play, unwind, argue with Math Smarties, and have fun. This game is the best of its kind. Good luck, and please post on your blogs, linkedIn pages and elsewhere where you wind up. If you're on the game, I'll know it's quality!
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I don't care who at this point. I'm deep in denial. If any other companies out there that want to save this game, please come rescue us.
SOE - I will sub and buy station cash and even wash Smedley's car!
EA - I will keep my SWTOR sub open as an incentive. Hell, I'll even sub to The Secret World!!
Turbine - Don't know much about you guys, but I haz money!
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Quote:^^^^Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
i already bought gw2, it is the last penny they will see from me.
This. All of this.
I might be done with this genre of games for awhile.
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My heart just broke.
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OP, it is usually futile to suggest something this far-reaching with such specificity. The devs may add a new AT some day, but it is highly unlikely it would be anything near what you've posted. A defense/ranged damage AT is unlikely outside of the epics.
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Just wanted to add my disagreement with the OP's suggestions. Most have almost no chance of coming to pass so it's not like it is something to get upset about though.
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Quote:Nice! Thanks for listening. Off to purchase some to support!Originally Posted by Alpha Wolf
The following individual IOs are 25% off:
- Dark Watcher's Despair
- Discouraging Words
- Encouraged Accuracy
- Energy Manipulator
- Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control
- Miracle
- Numina's Convalescence
- Performance Shifter
- Regenerative Tissue
- Theft of Essence
- Touch of the Nictus
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Quote:Agreed. I would probably buy up a few Miracle procs, but I don't want the whole set.Originally Posted by Lobster
This.
Especially considering that you can't store them in your base... so, in addition to all the other junk that I don't want (I wish I could set all the insps to auto-delete, but I do realize that some people like those) in my mailbox, I also have several pieces of SBO sets just hanging out hoping I'll have some use for them today because I can't bring myself to destroy something I paid for just to get a different piece or two of that set. -
Quote:I know right?!Originally Posted by Arcanaville
That's odd, because bosses are not intrinsically resistant to KB. Blizzard should affect all critters that lack KB protection equally well regardless of rank, and fail to affect things with any KB protection regardless of rank, comparable to how Nova does.
But Chief Mesmerists (for example) still tend to get enough high damage potshots off to not make Blizzard as safe as I'd like. Normal spawns it is a very nice control. -
Quote:I agree about Nova. I'm going to annoy plenty a team come I24!Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Wail is going to be good in I24, but its going to be a different animal in i24 than say Blizzard or even Nova. I'm finding Nova to be an excellent alpha bomb because its KB is guaranteed and affects (most) bosses. That buys me several seconds to either take out a boss or clean up lesser ranked critters. Wail is going to need to stack stuns to affect bosses and its unfortunate that Scramble Thoughts has such a long cast time. Ironic, because Wail has such good cast time (for a PBAoE).
I've not found Blizzard to be particularly helpful against bosses. Maybe I should stop doing the RWZ challenge and do some normal spawns, but it's main effect has been against lower ranks. Playing on even cons is better, but still not as reliable as I would like.Quote:If you solo with bosses off, Wail is going to be really good. With bosses on or in teams, its mag 3 mez may significantly reduce its mitigation (and recharge is a good backloaded mitigator but not a good start of combat mitigator for obvious reasons). I was afraid Nova's KB would not be as good as some of the slottable mez out there, but I'm finding that at least at higher difficulty levels, being able to affect bosses directly relates to the utility of the nuke as an alpha strike, particularly because the nukes are going to kill or reduce to near death most other things it hits. I believe mitigating bosses should be weighted higher than average on nukes for that reason. -
Quote:And the 60% KB, and the 50% AoE KU, and the 100% MAG3 Stun. Yeah, doesn't seem that superior from where I'm sitting. Ice's holds are wonderful. It's ability to scare enemies away is wonderful. But Psi also is wonderful. In Issue 24, it's going to have even more reliable controls when Wail becomes usable without a crash.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Even if we agree to disagree on movement debuff, its hard to make the argument that the two guaranteed mag 3 holds in Ice are not generally superior to the guaranteed stun and the 80% sleep.
Like I said, we're going to have to agree to disagree because I don't see Ice as having more mitigation than what Psi has. And certainly not Dark.
Here's where I actually find the rains to be more helpful. Scaring enemies away handles that much better I've found. As Ice's primary AoE most times it's protected more from the afraid than the slow, IMO. I've played a blapper for years and the best protection for a blapper is bone smashing the enemy to high heaven before they stomp you, but that's not really what we're discussing.Quote:On the subject of melee attacks: most melee secondary attacks are single target. As someone who played a blapper for years, movement debuffs are very valuable to someone using melee secondary attacks, because while you're attacking one thing with melee attacks, its normally extremely valuable to be able to keep other things from crowding around. Only sets like /Fire might not care, but being a PBAoE blapper is sufficiently difficult to make it very rare.
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Quote:It's probably underrated because of secondaries that require you to be in melee range to do your best damage. Which is why movement slow and afraid don't seem that much better to me.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
On a visceral level, I tend to feel more mitigation from Ice than Psi, at least in I23, probably because on paper strong movement slow tends to be underrated, but I find it to be more valuable than that in practice playing ranged characters.
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Quote:How? (serious question, I don't see it)Originally Posted by StratoNexus
Sigh. Sure I guess we can go there. But I think some of it will be hand-waved away because you won't think it is valuable and the value is not easily quantifiable.
Psi Dart: 30% -recharge for 6 seconds
Mental Blast: 30% -recharge for 6 seconds
TKBlast: 60% chance for good KB
Will Dom: 80% chance for mag 3, 19 second sleep, 20 second recharge
Psi Lance: 15% -recharge for 10 seconds
Psi Nado: AoE 30% -recharge for 10 seconds, 50% chance for modest knockup
Scramble Thoughts: mag 3, 11.92 sec stun (I must note the very bad 3 second cast time, which I think should be improved, significantly)
Psychic Wail: huge AoE mag 3, 11.92 sec stun; 70% -recharge for 20 seconds (and it makes dead things), longish recharge (145 seconds?)
Ice Bolt: 20% -recharge and speed for 6 seconds
Ice Blast: 20% -recharge and speed for 10 seconds
Frost Breath: AoE 20% -recharge and speed for 10 seconds
Freeze Ray: mag 3, 9.536 second hold, 10 second recharge
Ice Storm: -10% recharge, -40% speed, Avoid, duration up to 15 seconds, but enemies can escape early
Bitter Ice Blast: -7% to-hit for 6 seconds, 20% -recharge and speed for 12 seconds
Bitter Freeze Ray: 20% -recharge and speed for 18 seconds; mag 3, 9.536 second hold, recharge 20 seconds
Blizzard: huge AoE -20% to hit for up to 20 seconds, -30% recharge for up to 20 seconds, -50% speed for up to 20 seconds (Fly is -60%), good KD patch, Avoid (and it makes dead things), longish recharge (170 seconds?)
There it is. I think the combination of hard and soft controls Ice has is better mitigation than the combination of hard and soft controls Psi has. Due to the longer durations, can Ice stack more or equivialent -recharge?
Let's just use a basic chain of the T1-T3 Blasts:
Ice Bolt, Ice Blast, BiB = 60% -recharge
Psi Dart, Mental Blast, TK Blast 60% -recharge
This is simplified, but as I stretch out the chain we come to the same issue. Psi Dart and Mental Blast does in two powers what Ice does in three. Which makes it easier to stack an EQUIVALENT amount of -recharge.
I play both sets as blasters. I don't see the major difference. BFR and FR make a nice combo on a boss. The debuffs are noticeable on both. The Knock effects on Psi are very helpful. I don't see more than sliver of difference between the two. And nothing justifying Psi having 33% more ST damage.Quote:The movement slow is likely a big part of my experience, although the potential to have two mag 3 holds, the early AoE debuff in Frost Breath, the Avoid and debuff in Ice Storm, and the excellence of Blizzard contribute, but I don't know how to quantify the fact that I can easily keep Hewers out of melee on my Ice blast characters, but they still more easily run up to my Psi blast characters (well, one of my psi blast characters is Storm, so that isn't true for him) and Avoid is also hard to quantify. The extra range Psi has had in the past is a help, but the slows of Ice worked better IME, and now Ice will have 80 feet to work with as well (although blaster Psi could have 120' after a snipe and defender/corruptor Psi get 100 feet).
Again, all I'm saying is that Psi is EQUIVALENT. We can go back and forth, but I don't see why you quarrel with that statement because its obvious. Sure one might be slightly better than the other in one situation or the other. But for the most part the sets are equivalent. They both give you plenty of ways to keep NPCs off you and not hitting you. -
Quote:I just note you haven't bothered to try to quantify that statement.Originally Posted by StratoNexus
You may not believe it, but I feel Ice has noticeably superior mitigation to Dark and Psi. I have several dark and psi blast characters, although none are blasters.
In Issue 24, Psi has more control and stronger debuffs. I'm not making that up, you can see it in real numbers. Psychic Wail is going to be extreme mitigation all by itself, not to mention the other options.
In Issue 24, Dark has more control, a different debuff that has a more immediate effect on retaliatory damage, and a heal.
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Quote:A well built regen will have perma Dull Pain at the endgame. So I don't think more health is what's needed. IF and that's a big if (really look at itOriginally Posted by TheBruteSquad
Personally, I'd like to see extra max health added to regen's fast healing to bring it in line with willpower's health.
) Regen were to have something added to it, I would add a big +ABSORB shield to the initial click of Instant Healing. But I would remove it's enhanceable regen portion as compensation.
So Instant Healing would go from:
600% Regen (non-enhanceable); 200% Regen (enhanceable); Recharge 650 sec
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600% Regen (enhanceable); 50% Absorb (enhanceable); Recharge 600 sec
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Quote:I think the first part is true, but not the second. What Regen gives you is a way to turn around bad situations. I'm leveling a SR/Staff Tanker right now, and it's silly strong with just SOs (40% def to all positions at level 22!). But when things go south, I have to pray I have an inspiration at the ready.Originally Posted by TheBruteSquad
The set demands more skill to play than other secondaries but doesn't reward you better than they for needing to have that skill.
With Regen, I am never without one of my four cooldowns (Recon, Dull Pain, IH, MoG). Of the four only Instant Healing doesn't IMMEDIATELY change the circumstances. Regen is reactive unlike many of the sets, but that's a boon at times. It means that you're almost never at the mercy of the RNG. No defense set can say that (Energy Aura gets the closest). -
Quote:Note the premise I was refuting. That Psi and Dark don't have equivalent mitigation to Ice. I don't quarrel with the idea that Ice has significant mitigation. But it is not superior to Dark and Psi.Originally Posted by Leo_G
I think you're forgetting some things:
Ice Storm can add more (-10%) recharge debuff in the same AoE, same vector and distance to the same amount of foes as Blizzard (that is, around a corner, out of LoS at range).
Blizzard can also debuff ToHit by 20% so you can slot it for something like -30% ToHit if you like.
And again, the nuke is ranged. You can technically nuke 2 things at once by Blizzard a spawn + Burn out and Blizzard another. For a PBAoE nuke, you have to move near another spawn to do that. Oh, and it's cold damage. What resists cold? -
Quote:Dark: -to-hit; cone KB; ST hold; heal; cone immobilizeOriginally Posted by StratoNexus
Possibly. I think Ice has more mitigation than either of those as well as a better nuke.
Psi: -recharge (-30%); ST KB (high chance); ST Sleep (high chance); AoE KU; And the Nuke is a 25 Radius Stun
Ice: -recharge (-20%)/speed; 2 ST Holds; Nuke has a high chance of doing Knockdown
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Quote:Most armor sets feel anemic in only SOs.Originally Posted by Golden_Avariel
The red-headed stepchild phrase is a lot older than B&B.
I love my regen scrapper but I agree that IO's especially +Health and +Recharge are what really make it shine. Just slotted with SO's it is pretty anemic. In fact I think recharge is so important for them that they should have something to provide decent recharge-debuff resistance so that would be my main request. -
Quote:Since the IH nerf they've buffed: Dull Pain, Resilience, MoG, and Revive. Regeneration is significantly sturdier than people give it credit for.Originally Posted by SiGGy
It's been some time since the epic nerf of Instant Healing and there's not been much love for the poor old Regeneration power set.
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Quote:Very possible, the DPS is there. However, the big problem that the Widows have is that their health is very low compared to a melee AT. So you'll want to shore that up.Originally Posted by SuperT
Hi guys,
Although I have yet to dabble in the world of SoA, going through the forums has definitely sparked my interest! I'm leaning towards making a Fortunata and had a couple of quick questions:
How does a Fortunata do when it comes to AV soloing? I've typically played melee characters and AV soloing has always been a joy of mine. I would like to do the same with a fort if possible.
Yes very well in fact.Quote:Does mind link work if you are not on a team?
People hate redraw, but it's not that bad with claws.Quote:Going through the forums, I've noticed any/all fortunata builds I've come across no one takes any of the melee attacks. Is that something you just don't do on a fort? I could see wanting to take spin and dart burst for more aoe.
The scaling resists aren't enhanceable, only the psi resist.Quote:Foresight - how well does this do in providing resistance when your health drops? And do you slot it for some resist to help? Mids doesn't show how it would scale.
Any feedback and/or suggestions are welcome and appreciated.
Thanks!!!
EDIT: Doh!! Expediter handled most of those questions.