Gaelen

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  1. Global Name: @Ivutar

    COH:
    Gaelen - 50 Illusion/Storm Controller
    Frosty Sparks - 50 Ice/Electrical Blaster
    Moradin's Fist - Stone/Ice Tanker
    Golden Migraine - Empathy/Psychic Defender

    COV: (Rarely played outside SG)
    Golden Dragonfly - Ninja/SR Stalker
    Thunder Mountain - Energy/Stone Brute
    Rad Hard- Rad/Thermal Corruptor
    Sebastian- Mind/Psionic Dominator
  2. Thank you. That explaination helps a lot. There is still one thing confusing me though. In the few raids I have been on, we have been dropping the PAs from so high that I don't think they are attacking at all. They are falling out of "activation range" and just standing there drawing aggro only from their presence. Have we been doing it wrong? Do we need to hover lower (and risk becoming targetted ourselves) in order to keep the phantoms actively attacking?

    I suppose the optimum position would be to hover just out of Hami range so that the phantoms would attack as they initially fell while they are still in active range and then could just stand there once they hit the ground. It would be hard to tell when you are at that range without risking getting too low.

    I guess the ideal PA dropper would have phase shift. He could phase out and come low to keep the PA active and then rise up out of range and phase in when PA recharged. I doubt there are many illusionists that could do this. I would have trouble justifying taking the invisibility pool when I have invisibility in my primary power set.

    Anyway, back to my question. Have we been doing it wrong on the last few raids? Do we need to hover lower so that the phantoms actively attack Hami, at least as they drop, or is it good enough to just keep the phantoms positioned near Hami?
  3. I'm still unclear about the positioning of the PA drops. I've been told you want to position them near Hami on the opposite side of the raid party. Is that it? Is there an optimum distance from Hami? Marut suggests that there are times you need to "fly aroung like a bat out of hell" to get aggro back. What exactly do you do? Also, if the PAs are supposed to be holding Hami and mito aggro, I would think that the PAs would be more effective spread out rather than in a tight group. Yes you would want to stay away from the rest of the raid so that the raid doesn't get caught in the AOE mito attacks, but I would think a large spread out group of PAs would hold aggro better than a tightly packed group. I would think that you would want to drag the PAs around bringing them close to unmolested mitos to keep their attention but I've been told that it is better to keep the PAs still. What am I missing?