Grey Pilgrim

Heh, we could run one on Victory if you want. We've done all tanker LGTFs, so I'm sure there'd be people up for an ITF.

It would be nice if it could deal with the slight issue of stacking Tankers on a team (doesn't really matter in this game technically, more of a player issue), it's a great addition. You can stack other -res powers with it in interesting ways, and Bruising helps when you're solo and on teams (depending on what targets you are hitting with it).

Regardless of what is being written about, this is a remarkably convenient position for anyone to take (note that "convenient" is stated with sarcasm). "Look, I have an opinion, but you can't dispute it, as it's an opinion!"

The second you put your opinion out there, you're wanting people to interact with it. You don't get to determine how they interact with it. You want to have that opinion kept intact without interaction: be that argument or agreement? Keep it to yourself.

I don't even care about the particular discussion going on here, I just had to point this out. If you don't want to argue about anything (especially on internet forums), don't put your opinion out there.

My knowledge on the subject comes from Umbral and some other players that like playing the math game. I believe the numbers cited would have been DPS, which includes animation times: so it is middle of the road in performance by that analysis.

Me, I just go by comparison with other sets in the damage it does, and in comparison to other sets I've played. I find it doing as well, if not better than my EM/EM for AOE (and that guy is no slouch for it). And I don't even have Piercing Rounds slotted up yet.

I was expecting the animation style to be more straight up like those for the Thugs MM set, actually. I'm sure if they had went that route, we'd have a lot of people talkign about how they need an Equilibrium style animation.

I would agree that some alternate animations for some of the flashier animations would help these people out, but alas, they're probably on the same backburner as the alternate animations for Haymaker/Air Superiority and Footstomp for non-SS user animations.

I don't mind the flashyness, but I like options.

Well, Standard Ammo's knockback is quite noticeable mitigation when you're solo as a Blaster: I'll often toggle it when fighting a boss or harder mobs. The mobs take a little longer to drop than when using Fire ammo, but I'm noticeably safer even in that longer interlude. And I like that there is defense debuff somewhere: I'm enjoying the Achilles -res slotted into Pistols and Empty Clips. Works even when using Fiery Ammo!

But for the other two ammo types, I have to agree the debuffs stink. For a Blaster, you really should only use Fiery or Standard ammo (unless there are debuffs for your stuff to stack onto), from everything I've read and experienced on it.

Still, I think it's a good set for Blasters. The debuff issues do merit looking at, though, as each ammo type should offer viable benefits to choose from. I also wonder if Piercing Rounds should offer -res no matter what ammo is used, as toggle hopping to get benefits from that power is wonky (Standard Ammo might need an added benefit to offset this, like even higher -res, but it seems like a needed change). I personally don't bother, but that's a design issue as well.

Well, play what you want, but it's a great set for Blasters, too.

See that last part? I can almost see Castle *headdesk* to that. The set is middle of the road, but it needs more? Not every set can be top of the line, nor should they be.

And I know you weren't trying to be extreme with your post, I'm just pointing that out as one of the weird ways people think about Dual Pistols. People point out it's middle of the road, but people keep thinking it needs more. Odd, when you realize that.

Is that what he's doing? I thought he was flashing us or something... and that one has made me question why that was your avatar. This makes much more sense.

I don't have an Elec Tank, but I have an Elec/Elec Brute, and that's fairly nice. It's more offensive than defensive, sure, but it does okay. Adding Tough and layering defense ups your survivability quite a bit (like it does for Fiery Aura). I like sets with a self heal, and the +recharge and Psi resists make the set pretty good all around.

See, you need to be careful there. Some of the animation times are longer than other sets, but as far as damage goes, Dual Pistols is middle of the road. It's still not going to be for everyone, but that's how all the powersets work.

See... I can three shot things just using the first two tier attacks, so that's where I get confused on this. If they have lethal resistance that makes it harder, of course, but all Blaster sets run into resistance somewhere. Most powersets combine a more exotic damage with S/L of some gradation. Fire is the winner there, of course, but it's got nothing else going for it.

I would say the secondary effects being upped, and maybe the tier 3's damage/end cost/recharge might be the way to go to really stop people talking. I don't know how well we can make that argument to Castle, though, as I don't notice my Dual Pistols Blaster having any issues that my Energy/Energy isn't facing: and that Energy/Energy is one of the best Blasters I have ever played... and I have a lot of them.

Go go Dual Pistols/Dual Archery defense!

Well, to be fair, Executioner's Shot is all of .5-.6 seconds longer than most Tier 3 blasts of the same caliber, and on par with Sonic. so it's not out of the park and painfully slow. YMMV, of course, but it's not way off. I've argued to lower the animation time, but it wouldn't look right. Upping the endurance use and recharge to have it do a bit more damage and be on par with those other Tier 3s would maybe do the trick. But that's all the set really needs (other than maybe upping its secondary effects, or upping the % of damage done from the different ammo types).

Anyway, for the rest of the set, it's middle of the road. Does pretty well for AOE, too, actually. Not sure why people have issues with the set, as it's pretty darn good to me. I'm enjoying my Dual Pistols Blaster quite a bit.