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I don't get why people talk about TW "with Momentum" and "without Momentum" as if that were somehow meaningful to what the set actually does. There's no way to actually play Titan Weapons other than sometimes having Momentum, and sometimes not having it. And yes, despite this somewhere-in-between gameplay, it is still an incredibly powerful set. It also has massive endurance issues, suffers abnormally more than most sets against tohit debuffs, and Momentum itself is sometimes a weakness (when you need to move a lot, when you need to interrupt something like a Sky Raider Engineer, etc), so no, it still isn't the best melee set in every way.

Are you asking about War Mace? There's no primary set that abbreviates to WD.

Anyway, people take travel powers so they can travel faster. If you don't want a travel power, don't take one, ninja run/jetpacks/rocket boards/just plain running can get you between missions just fine, although not as quickly.

DPA is far less meaningful when talking about AoE attacks, though. Very few builds have a full AoE attack chain, and even the ones that do often have much smaller AoEs as parts of the chain. Comparing by that alone WILL be misleading, as you can see by Foot Stomp being not so far above EotS. I'm not talking about recharge/end cost/secondary effects. I mean that Whirling Smash casting in less than half the time does not mean Whirling Smash is more than twice as good, because in the extra 1.5 seconds you have left over after Whirling Smash, you don't have unlimited other huge radial attacks to use.

My objection is that "middle of the pack by a metric skewed against it, within the category of melee PBAoEs" is not even close to the same thing as "one of the worst in the game". Also, endurance/recharge/etc being solvable with extreme builds does not mean they are solved automatically; a Titan Weapons character can overcome their endurance problems, for example, which solves the set's biggest drawback, but it has to devote not-insignificant build resources to it. Other sets can use those resources towards improving other things. Or how Super Reflexes builds can pursue more damage/health/regen/recharge/whatever than many other sets, because they need to devote far less of the build to reaching the softcap.

You could purchase the sets on the beta or test servers (everything there costs 0 points) and look. Mids has both sets now, which can show you the powers but not the animations. There's no way to do it from within character creation though, sadly.

I have not yet played Staff, but I have played Titan Weapons, and it's awesome, but some people find the Momentum mechanic annoying, so YMMV.

As someone who was slightly disappointed and worried at the lack of a freespec with i22, I want to say that my confidence has been restored.

Or you could type [Bruised] in the chat window.

Or you could find a target with 100% resistance, such as a RWZ practice dummy, Power Analyzer it, hit it with Bruising, and note that its resist stays at 100%, while an unresistable debuff would reduce it to 80%.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Recipes and invention salvage are just split evenly among the group, so running at x8 solo means more drops than running at x8 with a full team. Shards and threads get a separate chance to drop for each person on the team, so running at x8 gets you the same chance no matter how many people are on the team, and a team can defeat more dudes in less time.

Zwillinger puts the matter to rest, I guess!

Although I wonder if Catalysts drop the way shards/threads do, rather than the way recipes do. I run a lot of DA, and not very many trials, but I've still gotten more catalysts from trials, which doesn't make sense if the drops are being split 16+ ways on a trial.

...of course, as the ridiculous streak of 5 purples in one morning reminded me last weekend, my own drops are a woefully insufficient sample size to estimate drop rates, so...

As I understand it, it doesn't unlock your characters automatically when you go VIP, it gives you a bunch of server slots and you choose which ones to unlock.

Combat Attributes will display the value of your debuff, accounting for the purple patch, but not accounting for debuff resistance. As others have mentioned, Bruising is not subject to the purple patch.

However, the final total resistance value WILL account for debuff resistance. So for example, her lethal resistance is 50% IIRC, so Combat Attributes will display a +50% buff from her Resistance power, -20% from Bruising, and her total lethal resist will display as 40%. This part of the behavior is not specific to Bruising.

Charler is correct about catalysts.

The Scrapper crit bonus ATO is a global bonus, it benefits all your powers no matter where it's slotted, no matter how often or how rarely you use the power. The Tanker resist bonus ATO is a proc, so it only gets a chance to activate from the power it's slotted in. So yes, you basically have it right on those.

Batman's usual advantage of exceptional planning is nearly useless against a large group of people from another dimension that he literally cannot possibly have had time to...

Oh, the movies. >.>

I hope Avengers does really well, and I hope Batman does really well, and I hope they're both good movies in addition to selling really well. I don't particularly have an opinion on which I think will do better.

Could be enhancements, could be the enemies you're fighting (do they have tohit debuffs?) or just the level of the enemies. It could also just be perception bias (as StJ you will tend to notice misses more, because every miss either means you take longer to reach combo level 3, or you fail to execute your finisher).

Ninja Run costs a lot of endurance and doesn't even actually provide a benefit during combat (unless you really like the crouch I guess). I toggle back and forth between NR and CJ as necessary, just as I toggle between Hover and Fly or CJ and Super Jump on other characters.