Generalissimo

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Trick Arrow is actually good? Thought it was outclassed in its intended functions (general debuff) by many other sets..e.g Rad

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It being outclassed by the other sets seems to be the dominant opinion in what I've read on the US forums anyway.
My vote would go to illusion/kinetics (there may be more optimal combinations out there but ill/kin sure is a hell of a lot of fun to play)

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Grav/Kin!

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I second kinetics as the secondary

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it does in a way make them more effective against +lvl foes since the higher the foe the shorter the taunt..

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Ahh, fond memories of attempting to tank lvl 54 Rikti on the third respec on a 5 man team composed of me, 3 blasters and a defender... ever since then I've erred on the side of over-slotting taunts in Taunt and in my attacks.

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Last night we failed purely due to our own overconfidence that Hami would have stayed held till we blew his health after the second vanguard call.

If at 15k hp we had called for a full stop on attacks till vanguards had been fully recharged then we would have held him once more for the same 3 min amount allowing us to pummel him to ground.

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I had a feeling that that was why we failed. Oh well, it's hard to think of everything in all the excitement

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...providing that they reverse ED and/or I5 before 'next time'.

Seriously, even those crazy americans haven't managed to dunk the big blob since ED...

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Is this true? In which case, are our friends over on the Vigilance server the only server to beat Hami post-ED?

I'm just a bit surprised the Americans haven't done it yet.

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THIS post suggests that Justice server defeated Hami every day last week except Friday. I'm pretty sure other servers are still beating him too... People should really do a little research before claiming that things are impossible

Personally I'm quite fond of the Focus Chi/Eagle's Claw/Crane Kick/Dragon's Tail combo when taking on a boss and his friends. That's pretty much half the powerset in use right there

I love using Focus Chi on Rikti Drones I don't have any tohits slotted in it and I think I was one-shotting drones 9 times out of 10 while using it and Eagle's Claw. Very therapeutic following a string of misses...

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Oh, and just to reiterate for anybody :

I WILL NO LONGER BE UPDATING THIS LIST.
PLEASE DO NOT POST INFORMATION TO THIS THREAD.

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There's a newer level 50 post somewhere that you'll need to post the details on

EDIT: And HERE it be

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So taunt in melee attacks is a bit of a why bother thing.

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Because I didn't factor in any room for taunt durations in my aura when I did my last respec

In my case I only have the default slot in Bash so putting a taunt in there is no great loss or cost to my attack chain

2 recharge and 2 taunts slotted on my lvl 50 hastenless build. On my currently lowbie stone/stone tank I'll be eventually going for 3 recharge and 3 taunt (he's going for an aggro gathering build)

On Gen 2 I have a taunt slotted in Bash (my fastest recharging attack) and also in whirling mace (which I also have a few recharges in). I generally use whirling mace and invincibility's aura to keep the close guys on me and I use taunt to keep the ranged guys interested. If someone starts beating up on a squishy and taunt isn't recharged I hit them with Bash to get their attention. Granted it probably doesn't add much to the length of the "taunt" but every little bit extra can help at times.

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Like I said earlier, I'm an introverted kind of guy, possibly with a split personality and extremely bad fashion sense .

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Dude Im looking at your avatar and thinking of other outfits I seen Gen in. Somehow I dont think "introvert" is quite the descriptio that fits.

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Seriously though, I do like making outrageous looking outfits for one of my heroes but that doesn't make me an outrageous person In game, as in reality, I tend to stay in the background at big events and tend to let things happen around me. I'm a very quiet member of teams consisting of people I don't know. I'm a very chatty person when it comes to using the sg channel. Maybe that split personality comment isn't too far off the mark afterall...

Like I said earlier, I'm an introverted kind of guy. Blind invites by total strangers make me anxious and take away ever so slightly from my enjoyment of the game. I am most comfortable either when soloing (and chatting with my sg in the sg channel) or when playing with people from my sg. Next in descending order of comfort is getting invited into a team by someone from my friends list, followed by getting invited to a team by someone who I've played with before or who I know by reputation from the forum or within the game. Bottom of my comfort scale is getting invited by someone I don't know at all - quite often I'll team up with them and give them a hand but there's also a fair chance that I'll choose to continue to solo. I'm not refusing to team with them because I don't like them or because I refuse to team outside a set group of people; I'm refusing because the situation they're inviting me to get involved in is closer to the edge of my comfort zone and some days my real life circumstances have caused that zone to shrink, thus putting the "teaming with people I don't know" situation outside my comfort zone. I play this game to relax and to enjoy myself and day to day I'll play in a manner that allows me to enjoy myself and to relax. My sg (and my friends) allow me to relax and enjoy myself more so I am more likely to team with them.

<end public therapy session>

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As with Generalissimo_2 I spend most of my time now solo or more often than not teaming only with my SG friends.

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That could be one of the cliques Lode mentioned !

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I very much doubt that PHEP figures very large on anyone's list of cliques (or even anyone's list of supergroups) on Defiant

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Just chill, play and enjoy ur game experience .

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Good advice


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If people goes rude, just "arena" them, or get ur 50, sk them to fakes hunting and unsk them when there... or if u r with healer just tp them into a good mob.... or.. well i guess u got the picture

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Not so good advice

I can't say I've noticed any major shift in the in-game community in the past few weeks, but then again, I rarely interact with the community at large outside of major events like Hami raids and tend to mostly stick with my supergroup friends and a few others (because I'm an introverted kind of guy). If the game community is affecting your enjoyment of the game so much perhaps it would be a good idea to take a break for a while?

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I'm in Nettle's one, on the left side

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With that outfit you hardly needed to be pointed out

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Regen can be great, if you pay attention to which powers you use in which circumstances. If you try to take the alpha from a medium to large sized group without dull pain up or instant healing turned on then you can get squashed very quickly.

I'm in Nettle's one, on the left side

Congrats! (I assume you got 50 as you were 49 this morning when my controller teamed with you )

Congratulations Mary!

Ding!

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run thru the first mob group so you are at the back of the group, using the taunt aura this will pull this first group onto you.

taunt 2nd more distant group

the running to the far side of the group turns all the mobs round so any aoe or cone attacks coming out the mobs will be in your direction only, thus the rest of the party dont get all that hard to avoid damage.

I so rarely see any tank do this.

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I don't play my tank as much as I used to (gross understatement to be honest ) but when I do I almost always jump over the group before or while hitting taunt, unless the mission map doesn't easily allow it. I'd never involve a second group though, unless there was a good chance of them being aggroed anyway.

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I'm there.

And can i suggest that we all wear our first costumes? the number one slot. provided we haven't changed them all, i reckon it'd be cool to get us all looking more or less the same as we did when we first rolled our toons.

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Ha, I changed my first costume slot over nine months ago out of embarrassment over how I looked. Currently it's occupied by a Best Man suit.

Personally I wouldn't bother with enhancing the knockback distance of Crane Kick and would stick in another recharge instead. Also, endurance reduction in Super Jump? Surely there must be another power this slot could be put in to do more good?