Icelock

Ice Slick has a 8% chance of KD, same for Ice Patch (blaster/tanker secondary)

But there's no direct way to connect that thumbtack to a /loc

According to the ingame power info (on an AR/Ice blaster atm, but shouldn't be different to a /Dev blaster) Trip Mine gives a bonus for 11.5 seconds while the Gun Drone bonus lasts for 13.5 seconds

As for AR powers in general, I really like the Build Up+Flamethrower+Full Auto combo. Leaves most things dead and just a few stragglers for the scrappers to clean up So seriously consider getting a secondary with Build Up

Also, Snipe is a wonderful power mid-combat as well as an opener. Slot it with some interrupt reduction, know when to use it and you'll find that it's rarely interrupted. (BTW, I found out yesterday that Snipe with 28% interrupt reduction fits nicely in between two heals from the healing Nictus in ITF. Yes, I know I shouldn't be in range of the heal more than necessary but we had time to experiment a little)

Probably story reasons, she is/was a hero after all

All the purple IOs are stronger than corresponding regular set IOs (unsure about the damage procs)

Well, where's the super in any of the weapon sets? Or for that matter, Batman, Green Arrow etc...

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I don't mind - and I still think they might be part of the free Issue patch that comes out along with the GR launch, like everyone got access to the PvP zones in I6, even if they didn't buy CoV.

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Don't count on it. Where's the incentive to get people to buy GR if they put the new powersets in a free issue?

I'm fairly sure that the only stuff we'll get free when GR launches is some story stuff to persuade us to buy GR.

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And the graphics/animations needed to show all the shiny stuff in GR outside of Praetoria

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I sure hope there actual content as well, not just the new PL tool ("enhanced diff settings")

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I find that preferable to fill requests (not that I see that much anymore though) and it will be all around useful when soloing as well

Yep, that's the main drawback with Gale for me, the accuracy leaves much to be desired

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I have a Bots/Traps MM with a near useless Webnade, so I know the feeling...

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Say what? Webnade is probably the most used power on my Bots/Traps. Immob, -speed, -recharge, -fly, -KB, it's an excellent power on a short recharge. Works wonders on EBs/AVs and other mobs you want to stay in your Caltrops/bot fire patch

They (the devs) did not want people to be able to achieve large amounts of Defense and Resistance without any downsides, so they basically had to choose one or the other and they went with Defense (Probably because it is less reliable than Resistance). That's why there is less resistance bonuses available and at lower values.

Are you sure that some power sets have much of an advantage over others based on the positional/typed defense available? All sets that add typed defense also add half the bonus as positional defense, and vice versa. I could maybe see Ice and Energy being slightly worse off since they are typed defense (iirc), but I doubt they would be far off soft capping defense to most types with a reasonable build. Typed defense powersets might be able to do it cheaper, but that hardly matters in the end.

This got me even more interested in picking up my old Ice/Ice tanker again

Seeing as how the devs don't have an easy tool to create and edit cutsecenes, the answer is probably no.

Oh, and this forum is for asking other players questions, so don't expect devs to answer it

There's really no other way to interpret it, or it wouldn't be "lasting through" sunday

You might want tot re-read the original post. The idea was to have a permanent, customizable temp power for travelling, so that you could pick another power or two instead of picking up one of the normal travel power pools.

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They should stop giving you contacts out of your level range period.

It's really irritating when you are done with one characters story line go to a contact he/she gave you and when there he/she said you need to be level X. Where X stands for the level which is just one or two levels above you.

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That might actually be the technical explanation in this case. Her missions start at lvl 14, so she is technically a contact for the level range 10-15

How would you suggest that they do hand out new contacts from old contacts then? Should the lower contacts wait until you are the proper level before introducing new contacts? They can't pop up as some contacts do today as you usually get more than one to choose from.

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I think they're already on the game, inf badges, mez badges, veteran badges and the acollades, show you somehow all that

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In a way, but not reliably so. For example, Tanks likely need thousands of hours just to get the first mez badge (through normal play), while ATs with no mez protection are more likely to get it sooner.

Also, not all in-game activities are directly related to badge progress. You can rack upp hundreds of hours of playtime at the market, tweaking your base/costumes, RPing etc

So all in all, I'd say that playtime badges would probably be nice to have

That would most likely involve most of the changes needed for a serverless environment so I can't see this happening unless they go all the way. The idea is not bad, but it would most likely be a major undertaking for the devs. For now, there's the test server for cross-server interaction

(yes, I know That Other Game does something similar to this with battlegrounds and arena)

Sure, why not? Since we can have respec recipes, then tailor recipes makes sense. I would never use it myself, but I can see others wanting it

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Bad example, TBH. /Poison is full of very powerful debuffs and I don't see any sense in not using them. It's like wilfully gimping your character.

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my character is based on shooting, not trowing poison around.....

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Basing a MM around shooting? That's not what they do best, so we're in concept character territory. Gimpiness is an inherent power for the Concept AT

But seriously, what did you expect from Poison? It is pretty obvious that it is a very active powerset, mostly ST powers on fairly short recharge.

Oh, and Noxious Gas+Bruiser = win, so Thugs is (arguably) the best combination for /Poison

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If it costs 100 million inf and can only done prior to level 2.

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Changed it to match my opinion

yep, I've been up against him. But that's the normal, boring Romulus, not Nasty Nictus Rom

Ok, he's not that nasty in Nictus form either...

Yes, because PvE and PvP are the only possible use for dual builds...

Team vs Solo, Roleplaying, Concept, Exemplaring, Raids, there are plenty of reasons to have a secondary build

A suggested fix on US forums was to make the seeker drones intangible, so everyone could pass right through them, Castle seemed to like the idea