Genesis Man

Yeah, I'll probably upgrade the video card within a year or so, but don't feel it's as pressing an issue as of yet. Thanks!

Other than what I quickly gleaned from a Google search, I've never heard and don't quite understand this CUDA of which you speak.

There are zero ways to buff a self-rez now. As a couple of posters have mentioned above, you could easily have a Rage/Fury saturated character use RotP (for example) for MASSIVE damage... Soul Transfer would be an instant stun for everything in the area... a stronger mag and duration than any controller/dominator could bring to the table... ever.

This just wouldn't work as is.

Think about each individual pattern and piece, then multiplied across three skeletons. You'd have pretty dang close to 60 at that point, I'd assume.

My bet on the number "60" has to do with the same costume pieces being applied to all three skeleton types. With five different heads, several tails, patterns and a few monstrous feet (even a costume change emote)... that sounds about right, actually...

I just wish the numbers somehow incontrovertibly proved that Solar Flare being changed to knockdown would be a massive benefit. I know there are plenty of other issues with PBs, some far more important... but man do I hate it's PBAOE KB nature...

That and having Solar Flare and the Dwarf's version of the power requiring you to be on the ground, when the inherent travel of one is flight, the other teleportation (which forces several seconds of hovering) is just... horrible.

I just checked on this last night. Hover, Combat Flight and Nova forms all have the same -fly resistance. The in-game details show this as mag 4 fly (unresistable). Fly has mag 1. I didn't think to check what the magnitude of typical -fly powers was, but yeah... any hover/Nova variant has the most -fly resist you can get in the game.

Combat Flight does in fact have -fly resistance. The change was introduced when it was added to Hover a while back. I don't know what the numbers are, so Nova's still might be better.

Not sure I could disagree more. Ice Armor is far from the worst. Ice is an aggro king, and works wonders with a tightly-packed mob or two. You're almost completely immune to slows (I don't even noticed Knives of Artemis and their caltrop patches). Energy Absorption is an amazing endurance recovery tool AND a way to get yourself high over the softcap, which typically negates whatever the DDR can't handle.

It is true that whatever makes it through will hit pretty hard, but picking up Tough will help with that somewhat. You also have the best combat rest in the game (gets you back to full health/end before your aggro wears off) and a nice HP+ power for the tough situations.

Some active damage mitigation (KDs, Stuns, Etc...) will add to your survivability. As has been mentioned, that added -Dam in KM will be nice (there's an -11% Dam in Chilling Embrace). Throw on Darkest Night in the PPP, and you'd be pretty golden.

Sounds like a daunting task, but... it might be a really interesting data point that would speak to KB as a mitigation tool in general. With Peacebringers relying pretty heavily on KB (at least as the AT is designed) as they do/are supposed to, it'd be interesting to see if design intent is actually translating into an actual, in-game benefit.