Evil_Legacy

Originally Posted by Ultimus

This is one feat I am trying to achieve on a single character, specifically my main. Its not something I grind on a daily basis but it is a goal I work toward. I am sure there are people that have managed to do this. I estimate it would take about 60 Very rares (I haven't sat down and counted) or maybe even 100 or in terms of Emp merits that would be nearly 3,000 at 30 merits per Very Rare.

Would be cool there was a badge associated with this but since more and more abilities are added would be hard to keep track. Maybe if they added a badge for having both very rares in a single tree's power. (IE one for musculature, one for cardiac, etc)

I am sure some people would view this as insanity the same way I view doing a man build or a brawl build to level 50 solo insanity.

So is anyone else going for this? How far along are you? I would say for myself I am maybe 15-20% of the way.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

2. The developer that created the base code failed to document what he was doing, and he no longer works for NCSoft.

This has left the devs unwilling to do anything at all to bases except the least amount possible to maintain the feature as it is.

Originally Posted by Agent White

Nother random thought brought up in one of the other threads.

Hybrid is probably the most maligned incarnate power to date. Some people don't like the effects, they don't like the click/toggle mix, or they don't like the 2 minute up 2 minute down time. Or whatever.

And it has some decent numbers behind it but nothing even close to the scope of the other slots.

So, why not let it function below the Incarnate Cut off? (Level 45 for those that don't know) The devs have talked before about incarnate powers that functioned while exemplared in some way. It seems like this would be a decent way of boosting Hybrid's reputation and use. In Incarnate content it's pretty lackluster, but outside of it I could see TF teams using it a fair bit. Maybe I'm just dreaming.

Still, just a suggestion.

Originally Posted by Nericus

http://spinoff.comicbookresources.co...hostbusters-3/

Looks like it's a done deal, GB3 still will happen but no Bill Murray.

Originally Posted by Quinch

That usually happens when there's more than one glowy left - usually because the extra ones aren't required but still there.

Originally Posted by F T W

So lately I've been using my lvl 35 war mace/will power character and I am very impressed with the damage he deals. I can easily solo +0/8 with just SOs. Crowd control, whirling mace, and shatter just tear up mobs.
So my question is.. why don't i see more people using it? It seems like one of the most powerful melee primaries I've seen so far.

Originally Posted by Mental_Giant

Anyone else see it yet?

The story felt like The Bourne Identity or The Long Kiss Goodnight, but in a sci-fi setting. There were essentially no twists to the story, and worst of all: NO KUATO!

I did learn that in the future we will drink Heineken from futuristic bottles and all music will be dubstep.

Originally Posted by Adelante

Will there be another wipe so people can have names to use? It's so crazy that the dead realms have all the good names reserved still and yet theyre never active.

Anyone know if they're working on a way to improve this? It's getting very limited for creations and imagination. Alot of us are already using capital I as lowercase L to bypass this.

Originally Posted by Siolfir

The Stalker version of Willpower has Reconstruction, not Rise to the Challenge. Fast Healing and indirectly High Pain Tolerance are your sources of +regen. I very seriously doubt that you had higher regeneration on an equal level Willpower Stalker compared to a Regen Brute.

Originally Posted by Quinch

...as the window shows how many people are currently queued while it waits for the confirmation to enter - the same thing you'd need to do if you were assembling a team manually.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU

I like the low level game. I like soloing. I like small teams. I don't like raiding. I like Tankers, but I'm indifferent to tanking.

Originally Posted by Quinch

Now that I have your attention...

This is not about DFB in general. It's a great way to knock out the first few levels.

It's not about people grinding it up to some arbitrary level. What you do with your characters is none of anybody's business.

It is, in fact, about how to make sewer trials easier.

What most people know, but not quite register, is that Death From Below trial is that DFB is a turnstile trial. That means that, while most who start DFB runs do so by pre-assembling a team and then queueing, whereas those looking for a trial ask or wait for announcements to be made, at which point they contact the leader.

Now consider the role of the leader once the trial is underway. It becomes, to all intents and purposes, superfluous. Certainly, there is always room for leadership, but it ceases to be enforceable and so far I haven't seen a situation where enforcement is needed. As with all trials, the team composition is locked, and mission is fixed - all the team leader can do is kick a teammate should the need arise, and that too can be done via kick voting.

Consider the team composition. Whereas most task forces do require a certain versatility {leading to turnstile's rather... anemic reception following incarnate trials}, low levels are an almost universal equalizer - with nearly no powers at their disposal, there is very little difference between most archetypes at the outset.

Now, in turn, consider the turnstile mechanics. All it requires of its participants is to queue themselves for the trial. All it requires of the trial is a critical mass of queued participants. Once these two requirements are fulfilled, all the participants are whisked away into the trial and can merrily go on their way.

It bypasses the need to organize a team - the game does that for you. It bypasses the need to assemble everyone into the same zone, or for that matter, the same instance - it works anywhere, even inside a mission. In short, it provides a degree of convenience with no cost involved.

So the next time you're forming a DFB - or looking for one - don't tell people to send you a tell {if they can}. Instead, tell them to queue up. I have little doubt this will not be an overnight change to the DFB teaming mechanics, but as more and more people begin using the queue to join the trial, the quicker and more convenient it will become to the point where forming DFB teams will become as quaint and outdated as the old sewers themselves.

Originally Posted by Ring Mistress Carnie

Continuing from my thread about a Ring Toss power set, I've taken that idea to a Thrown Weapons idea.

Toss Ranged, Minor DMG(Lethal)
Tosses weapon at an opponent that causes Lethal damage.

Dual Toss Ranged, Moderate DMG(Lethal)
Tosses two weapons an opponent that causes Lethal damage.

Follow Through Ranged, Moderate DMG(Lethal), Self +DMG, +To-Hit
You perform a feint attack that deals moderate damage. After this attack hits, it gives you a large bonus to Accuracy and Damage for a brief time.

Multiple Toss Ranged (Cone), Moderate DMG(Lethal)
Tosses several weapons in a cone in front of you. Good at close range.

Calculated Toss Sniper, Extreme DMG(Lethal)
A long range shot. Like most sniper attacks, this power has a bonus to Accuracy, but is best fired from a distance, as it can be interrupted.

Special Coating Change Secondary Damage/Effects
By purchasing this power, you will be granted toggles that change your secondary damage type on most weapon attacks from lethal to cold, fire, toxic, or energy. These toggles are mutually exclusive and only one can be active at a time. If no Special Coating toggles are active, the player will revert to lethal weapons.

Trip Toss Ranged, Minor DMG(Lethal), Foe Knockdown
You aim for the targets feet to trip knock them off balance.

Head Shot Ranged, Moderate DMG(Lethal), Foe Disorient
You aim for the opponent’s head, causing moderate Lethal damage and disorienting them for a few seconds.

Swirling Fury Ranged AoE, Moderate DMG (Lethal)
You spin around in a circle, tossing your weapons in all directions.

Ideas for weapon customization: Knife, Ring, Metal Fan, Shuriken, Boomerang, Buzz Saw, Hubcap, Needles, Hatchets

*Thanks to Leo_G for the suggestions of Needles and Tomahawks (which I called Hatchets to cover all various looks like a Tomahawk or Woodcutter's hand axe).

*Special Coating was previously named Weapon Swap
*Follow Through was previously done as Concentration, a buff without an attack

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

yeah...if you want to know what's really genuinely commercialized, it's having to pay $14.99 a month or THEY DON'T LET YOU LOG IN.


=P

Originally Posted by SinisterDirge

Meh, I am a personal chef for an insanely rich guy. I get to feel rich and use his stuff without actually having to pay for it. I'm staying.

Originally Posted by Leo_G

Sure, whatever works for you. But the way I see it, your WP characters are practically marching into elemental and energy attacks unprotected. You see, practically all armor sets have a measure of protection against most types of attacks to varying degrees with a few niche exceptions:

Dark Armor:
(Smashing) & (Lethal) = Gets moderate protection to both from [Dark Embrace]
(Fire) & (Cold) = Moderate protection to both from [Murky Cloud]
(Energy) = Only minor protection, a reduced amount from [Murky Cloud]
(Neg. Energy) = Higher than normal protection thanks to [Dark Embrace] and [Murky Cloud] stacking resists
(Psi) = Unnaturally high protection because [Obsidian Shield] offers a lot of res to only psi
(Toxic) = Only minor protection, a reduced amount from [Dark Embrace]

Ice Armor:
(Smashing) & (Lethal) = Moderate to high protection from [Frozen Armor], [Wet Ice] and [Energy Absorption] stacking def and [Icy Bastion] granting resistance temporarily
(Cold) = High protection because practically every power grants cold resist and stacking defense from [Wet Ice] and [Energy Absorption]
(Fire) = Minor to moderate protection from [Frozen Armor] and [Permafrost] stacking reduced resistance plus stacking defense from [Wet Ice] and [Energy Absorption]. [Icy Bastion] temporarily boosts protection by a large amount
(Energy) & (Neg. Energy) = Moderate to high protection in a similar fashion as Smash/lethal but using [Glacial Armor] instead.
(Psi) = No direct protection
(Toxic) = Minor to moderate protection from [Hoar Frost] and [Icy Bastion]

Those two sets are balanced in a way that, with the powers taken, you'll have some answer to most types of damage. It may be to varying degrees (like Ice's weak protection to fire in most cases or Dark's lack of comprehensive protection against energy) but there's something.

Willpower is no different except while Ice is generally defense and Dark is generally resist, WP uses both for different damage types to varying degrees.

Willpower:
(Smashing) & (Lethal) = Moderate to high protection from minor def from [Heightened Senses] and higher stacked resist from [Mind Over Body] and [High Pain Tolerance]. [Strength of Will] temporarily boosts protection with more moderate resists
(Fire), (Cold), (Energy) & (Neg. Energy) = Low to moderate protection from minor resists in [High Pain Tolerance] and higher defense from [Heightened Senses]. [Strength of Will] temporarily boosts protection with minor resists
(Psi) = Moderate to high protection from def in [Indomitable Will] and resists from [Mind Over Body] & [High Pain Tolerance]. [Strength of Will] temporarily boosts protection with more minor resists
(Toxic) = Minor to moderate protection from resists in [High Pain Tolerance] and [Reconstruction]. [Strength of Will] temporarily boosts protection with more minor resists.

If you eliminate Heightene senses, you're basically leaning on minor protection for 4 common damage types with the only supplemental protection coming from healing/regen. Because the resists in HPT and SoW are of the small variety only amounting to around 24% resists at most. For perspective, Ice's minor protection from fire can amount to around 28% resists (not counting the minor defense) and Dark's minor protection from energy is 23% resist and both have means of stopping enemy action as well as healing and damage auras (in the case of non-stalkers) on top of that.

So yeah, walking around on your WP characters is like walking around without Murky Cloud on a Dark Armor or Glacial Armor on an Ice, all of which are sitting ducks to any type of Fire, Cold, Energy or Neg. Energy attacks.

Not that it's impossible to play such a character...most of my Blasters only walk around with protection to either ranged and smashing/lethal or or fire/cold/energy/range...but that's a *BLASTER*. They aren't trying to take a whole bunch of hits. Not that a Stalker is either, but if you're a Tanker or Brute walking around with Blaster level protection, something is horribly wrong...

Originally Posted by Jumpman

Mr. _EU, you might be a nice, reasonable person if one were to meet you face-to-face. I'm going to assume so for now. But on this thread you are being a jerk. Please stop?

Originally Posted by Commando

Be more specific. What is going on? You should use the game launcher, the NCSoft launcher to download beta. You must be ViP to log to beta.

Originally Posted by BrandX

I never said don't do it.

But while skipping it may work for you, you can take that same playstyle and apply it to ELA.

Though I am interrested in seeing you in action on them, as I've built WP Tanks, Scrappers, Stalkers, and running such things as ITF without the defense leads to a lot of faceplanting. So I'm curious how you got around it

Originally Posted by BrandX

If you're looking to skip Hieghtened Senses, I'd skip WP all together.

WP is a mixed set, yes, but it's a mixed set that relies on defenses, and only becomes better when you stack up that defense for great S/L/E/N Defense and as much F/C Defense as you can get without hurting the damage.

Originally Posted by Tsuji

Brutes can reach the S/L defense cap much more easily than tankers. For what it's worth.

For the OP: Speaking honestly, as someone whose mains are tanks and regularly plays them, you're better off picking a brute if you want to contribute the most you can to a team. An incarnate raid can use one tanker for the resist debuff, and that's it. You're better off picking any other AT than a tanker (Well, maybe not a peacebringer) if you already have one, and in a large raid you're going to have at least one. The tanker can survive better, but it's not really enough to survive the things that will flatline a brute with the same powersets, so ultimately the increased survivability is a bit pointless. This is speaking from the perspective of someone with some PL'd (but not IO'd) brutes with some of the same powersets as my tanks. Maybe it's worth it to be an elec tank...but you run into the same issues - not much will kill an IO'd brute, and the vast majority of things that do will kill an IO'd tank too.

Originally Posted by PsychicKitty

For me personaly...i found it amusing that the first atatcks in the spines set take over 3 seconds to animate and complete their attack animations...making focus appear as you start an attack and it vanishes before the attack completes...very funny.

But aside from the that the set seams to work fairly well still.....On a stalker though its slow component still isnt as great as on a scrapper but then i think that might be due to some of the other things scrappers can get that basicaly stacks the slow more.

And when combined with the new Bio-Armor it works fairly well too....the graphics for it match the graphics for bio-armor in my opinion very well indeed...though you might want to tweak stuff a bit inthe costume creator to get the look you want...i mean you have like 4 differing spines looks and a few variations onthe bio-armor too...combined with costume stuff.

There are a few oddities still though old stuff that I think everyone knows this if they played spines much....some of the animations wont always play....so sometimes your character just stands there...while the sound effect goes off and the enemy gets hit...but thats something that has been there since time immoral with spines...and you can still force a bypass on some animations by jumping still...and you can still one shot certain other archtypes with certain attacks in the pvp areas(ie you hit the other player till they have barely any health and the damage over time kills them anywise)

So it works about the same as it always has....just has the amusing focus loss with some of the attacks currently.....though thats getting fixed soonish...

Oh and dont forget to slot your knock down invention origins into the powers as those still work extremely well with spines.
I dont know why but i feel like most of the time almost every hit I do with spines knocks the enemy down.