Gemini_2099

Originally Posted by Jedrious

Am I the only one that's more interested in what the Rikti Costume giveaway is than the Lambda Sector sneak peak?

Originally Posted by Stratoman

Earth/Sonic for sure. I would nearly bottom out casting just the two shields on everyone (Tough/Weave, Rock Armor, and the Bubble running). And this was without Disruption Field, which comes with it's own problems.

Originally Posted by DanZero

Okay.

1. By the time I'm finished, my recharge intensive build will have about 15 to 20% defense and around 110% global recharge before hasten.

2. My defense build will have soft capped range def, and about 70% global recharge before hasten.

Now, with Alpha slots, I could bump that recharge up on the defense build and have a nice, steady, survivable high def high recharge build.

Or, I could have less def, higher recharge and alpha slot damage on the recharge build.

Both would have my optimal attack chain up, with a little hiccup in the def build.

But, my recharge build will also have...

1. AoEs up faster with much higer damage for the Alpha.
2. AIM and BU up much faster.
3. Nuke up much faster.
4. Access to purple insp.

Seeing as how there is no recharge insp, and I have cowloads of med and large purple insps, and I consider defense highly situational, I will elect for more damage, faster AoEs, nuke up more often...

15% positional def versus 30% = 1.5 in ten average hits avoided v 3 in ten avoided, with no guarantees.

So, I'll rely on things like bonfire, 3 holds, self rez, hover, stealth and speed, positioning etc.

I make about 10 mil an hour fighting 50 plus, not even considering IOset drops, and rare salvage. That's just selling the trash. I only die when I get silly. I can handle x 8 spawns with bosses.

When I feel like soloing an EB I'll use my defense build but for every day stuff, give me my recharge build. It's entirely an endgame build based on teaming, but I solo it about 2 hours a night, usually making about 20 mil in that time and with a few rares here and there if I'm lucky, I can pull 100 mil a night just from solo.

Teaming? Well, with the excessive amount of melee types in any group, I don't get aggro. When things go wrong, I pull back or pop a few purples. That is rare.

You play different. Great. Applause. But I do very well with how I play. I'm on Pinnacle with the same name as here. Look me up.

Originally Posted by Quixotik

LoL, you can't avoid Malta except by auto-completing missions. I think the main gripe with Archery is it has no secondary effect to mitigate damage and does not do extra damage like Fire does as compensation. Then the next drawback is, only Lethal damage.

The good part about Archery is it is fun and roleplays very well.

Originally Posted by Frozen_Burn

Time Bomb seems to be one of the most skipped powers in the /Devices set. And understandably so with 9s of casting (8s interruptable) and 12s of a delay in its detonation (21s from button click to explosion). It is very hard (and sometimes impossible) to time it for an effective detonation in a team setting and when solo, it just adds more to the already slow moving set.

In a team setting, I typically have to stealth ahead of the team 2-3 mobs in front of them in order to have enough time to drop the Time Bomb before the team shows up. Otherwise, the team will either: 1) scatter the mob making the explosion useless; 2) causes AoEs that interrupt me; or 3) completely eliminate the mob before the Time Bomb explodes.

Solo, sure you can stealth in, drop it, and wait the 21s for the "nuke" level damage to devastate the mob... but other blasters can stealth in and "nuke" a mob with Inferno, Nova, Blizzard, Thunderous Blast, and etc in only 3s-4s. But that's a PRIMARY "nuke" vs. a SECONDARY "nuke"... so I'm ok with a longer cast time to keep the damage high on Time Bomb however, 9s is still FAR too long.

A suggestion for a fix to this power and to make it more useable in a team setting (and solo) is to make the Time Bomb a "Detonation Bomb." Instead of dropping it and waiting for it to go off, you can drop it and then click a button to set it off when you want to. The mechanics are already in the game to accomplish this: Drop a pet, and then "dismiss" it, at which time it blows up doing damage. You could click the button once for casting, and then click it a 2nd time for detonating when you're ready for it to go off--instead of when IT wants to go off.

But it should also have a 7s cast (6s interrupt) instead of the 9s it currently is (this would be fair on the whole and in-line with other changes I've sugegsted with other powers in the /Devices set in other threads). 9s is just too long to viably use in a team setting... 7s is still long enough towarrant the damage of a secondary powerset "nuke", but also short enough to make it more useable.

This would also be more in-line with the "ambush"-iness of Trip Mines and Caltrops by setting up everything ahead of time and pulling your enemies to trap. When the minions and lieutenants clear your Trip Mine field, you have your "Detonation Bomb" ready for the bosses (or EBs).

In a team setting, this would also eliminate having to guess and "time" the explosion with your team's actions (which is near impossible) and you can "detonate" it when it's best for you and your team.

I also think this would be more appealing to other players and people might actually start taking the power.

Originally Posted by Furio

Good thing that there's a separate "end-game" dev team then, eh?

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

This really smacks of a Neuron approach to design and implementation. Add something that's only half done, then abandon it and go on to add something else that's only half done, then abandon that and move on to the next new shiny.

I say this not to troll, but rather to say that it seems to me that the developers are all too focused on adding new stuff over fixing or finishing told things.

Originally Posted by JD_Gumby

Probably because it's the least used, especially solo.

Location AoEs are awkward to use and position properly in the middle of combat, especially in team combat where you have little to no visibility, and especially when the AoE is so tiny (4ft radius). Does a bind like LSHIFT+LBUTTON "powexec_name Ignite" work like it does for teleports? That'd actually help a bit... (EDIT: And it does; tested it on my unused 3rd build and also found out that it *doesn't* work with MBUTTON or RBUTTON, just using the power instead of using-and-placing in those cases)

Lasts only 10 seconds with a 4s cast time (plus a couple of seconds to place it), so odds are most immobilizations/holds are going to be ending quite quickly by the time it's placed (especially if you're relying on one of your own). And when it does end, that mag 50.0 fear means the target is out of there after having taken very little damage.

Overall, not that great a power, even if the damage numbers under optimal circumstances are very good (27.8 damage per second according to City of Data?).

Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim

On my Blasters that only have a single slot on it, I usually use it between fights to recover faster, or retreat if a fight is really going south. Works pretty well, and I save green inspirations that drop for when I need them in a fight.