Grey Pilgrim

I went Premium for a couple of days and resubscribed last Wednesday, October 5th. By everything I am seeing in this thread, I should have received my points for the October 5-November 5 period yesterday. Looking this morning, I have nothing. I'm assuming I should put in a ticket about this, but I did want to post here to show not all is well with the system still.

And I do want to chime in about the vet tokens as well. These should be awarded at the start of a month (along with points), rather than after. This is confusing to know when you are receiving all your awards properly, and also, I know for a fact that NCSoft is not in the habit of giving refunds for a month paid for... given all that, it makes a lot more sense to provide it ahead of time.

Also, I have to assume there are some times where you award refunds, but you should be able to remove tokens when this happens, anyway... I'm assuming you can for Paragon Points awarded as well.

I'm confused as to which patch is what went in today.

No, not confused. Confused as to why they put up a new post with the correct notes, but they still have another set where they mention these costume parts.

That's twice they've done this now, and they're also fubared with awarding points, etc. Kind of annoying. The patch note thing really doesn't make sense, they really should not be making mistakes there, let alone the same one twice (and then keeping up the second mistake).

Oh well.

I don't take much damage with Light Form and my shields going on my Tri-Form build, and it doesn't really have any defense boosts. On a trial next to AVs and soloing at x2-x3, I haven't really taking any big dings. If anything, I notice when I forgot to turn it back on, as I notice I'm actually taking damage (separate from the crash, like if it crashed, and I ran to the next mob without turning it back on).

But yes, any tough AT can hit its limit if you dial up the difficulty enough. Peacebringers and Warshades with their Tier 9s going are in the upper tier for resilience of all ATs, though.

Whether it's worth it or a good design we can quibble elsewhere, but we are pretty tough.

Eh, Psi is an issue for most melee ATs. It can be more of an issue for them, as they'll notice the gap more. On most of my Blasters, for instance, damage is damage. Non-ranged damage is more noticeable, yes, but I take the same hits no matter what, for the most part.

I would agree with what Smoking Joe has said elsewhere, that Dwarf should have psi resists. Any of my tanks without Psi resists have many more tools to make up for that lack (and Dull Pain is only one such tool).

Doesn't really matter all that much about seems, to be honest. The numbers were looked at and discussed to death when the set first came out, and they said middle of the road (with Incendiary Ammo, I believe). That means Lethal was a little lower, but even then, it's still in line with other sets. Even if a set is weaker than some others, it doesn't matter, as long as it is in line with all other sets. There's no way to make every set equally uber (and such an approach would probably be rather boring).

And just as a reminder about "seems" there are times where Dual Pistols feels better or slight worse than Archery and Assault Rifle, other non-crashing nuke sets. I rather like Hail of Bullets more than the others, but they all have their own strengths and weaknesses. In other words, Dual Pistols is balanced with other sets.

For Spring Attack (you mentioned it in a later post), the animation is indeed awesome. You leap off the screen and reappear where you targeted, making a large crater in the ground. You have a 2/3 chance of knocking mobs down as well, which is quite satisfying. The power is fun for that, let alone the extra AOE damage. Just think its recharge is a bit too long for what it does.

I don't think so. I had a StJ/EA Brute on Test that ran through First Ward and then a bunch of the EBs solo in the 40s, and he did great. And keep in mind this isn't without a whole lot of set bonuses, as it wasn't worth bothering with them. StJ is a solid set.

The cone size of Sweeping is in line with many other melee cones. It's the same size as Jacob's Ladder, bigger than Shadow Maul, etc. Nothing that you won't see in many other sets, and it's perfectly easy to hit more than one target with it.

Spinning Strike is supposed to be a targeted AOE. That is WAI. It is located on the mob you target, so it hits anything around it, rather than you. It makes sense when you see the animation and the effects it is supposed to cause... also a nice difference from a more traditional PbAOE, at least in my mind.

Wow... how did you come to that conclusion? It has good range, does good damage (competitive with Blazing Arrow if you use Incendiary Ammo, which you should often as a Blaster), AND it can hit more than one target. It's easy to position yourself to hit more than one mob before a start fights, and that's while solo. I don't even have to bother on a team, since mobs will usually cluster themselves so nicely running around a Tank, Scrapper, etc. Just have a target and you'll hit a few in the group, all for much more damage than most AOE attacks have.

I'd urge you to reconsider, as Piercing Rounds is a great power. Same can be said for the similar attack for Beam Weapons.

The question isn't really whether the changes improved Peacebringers, but whether it improved them (and also Warshades) in the direction they needed to go, and enough. Peacebringers were far enough off the performance scale that they really did need a significant boost (and I would argue that what we got wasn't all what was needed). There are numerous posts on this subject, so I'll let those speak for themselves.

Well, he's clearly taking the two ATs separately. I just know he said he was iffy on allowing Incandescent Strike and G-Well to stack their mezzes with other powers in both sets. But your point is something that we have countered more than once... Pulsar needs to at least be a guaranteed Mag 3 to be even somewhat competitive with Warshades, and even then, Warhsades can stack their mezzes easily.

Pulsar needs improving, and I certainly think you can make argument about how the other mezzes stack.

This here is a loaded proposition. Not that I am necessarily averse to it, just that there are some rabid KB people out there, and Arbiter Hawk (and prior devs) have been against adjusting this much.

I honestly do NOT get why. Human form is more melee oriented than range oriented, so having so many KB powers is just counter-productive. What you are saying is the exact same thing I have said for Solar Flare, and could even be argued some for Radiant Strike (though I'd take it for Solar Flare over RS). Such KB issues for melee classes were removed ages ago, and VEATs followed through on those changes. You don't hear Bane players complaining about all the KB in their mace powers. The KB you find in VEATs is for ranged attacks, which arguably does not reduce DPS and really is useful mitigation for a ranged AT (or the VEAT put themselves in that position via power picks that they don't necessarily need... I don't think anyone would keep the gun grenade power on a Bane build).

Well... we're still glad to have you back. Does that count? I'd rather that than posts about how people went to some other server.

Ambush!

You obviously want to make a decent build so you can be happy with the character, but you hardly have to be bleeding edge to do well in this game, and especially with Isos. The group is pretty solid, and with this run, we have so much Time and Beam going that it's hard not to be safe, unless you run off and take on something solo that you can't handle.

And even then, we'll probably rez you and not say anything. Unless you make it a trope, a la Satanic Hamster.

I sure as heck don't care how uber your build, just that you are playing and using your powers to help get things done. You do that, so you have no worries. Play and have fun!

Indeed. Heh, not sure I'd want to put up with that just for the money.

I honestly don't know what the Devs want. Arbiter Hawk was leery of adjusting Solar Flare to KD and Pulsar to a guaranteed Mag 3, which is arguably a debuff capability more than a damage one. He also was iffy on letting Pulsar and Incandescent Strike stack (same for the equivalents with Warshades).

I like the idea of mezzing or buffing/debuffing more too, I guess, though I do wonder how our DPS numbers still compare to VEATs. I think they're generally higher than us there as well.

I guess I'm not willing to ask for less than what other ATs seems to be getting, and I still think the evidence is strong that we are weaker in mezzing, buff/debuff, and damage departments than other people. We don't excel in any category enough to make up for our weaker areas as well.

Yup, breaks can certainly help you appreciate the game a lot more. I know I enjoyed the game a lot more, and its many improvements during the time I was gone, after I came back.

And my motto for games is that they're games. They shouldn't be work. When I was in a BF1942 and then BF2 clan, I didn't mind "practices" for a game, because it was fun. The second it became work or not fun, I gave it up. Its' another reason I don't play WoW.

True that. Time seems to go slow and fast. Feels like I've been married to my wife for my whole life (which is a good thing), but then it's really only been five years. Crazy!

I'm not the one that started the thread, but that is good info.

I would have rolled Beam/Energy, but I already have two /Energy Blasters, and many other /Energy Blasters I have given up on. Done making Blasters with that Secondary at the moment. Still, it pairs well with most Blaster Primaries.

I will certainly recommend a Musculature Alpha to most Blasters. My En/En Blaster finally earned his Very Rare Musculature (45% boost to damage, 2/3 ignoring ED), and it's a huge boost. I think Total Focus and Nova are each dealing an extra 100 HP with it, and they were at +60 or so with the Rare level. And that's before factoring in other boosts. I'm sure he hits the damage cap at some points on teams, but his base level of damage is quite high at all times. I love it.