Ironblade

umm.... when does it do that? My broadsword scrapper punches with his free hand for Brawl. My katana scrapper and stalker strike the enemy in the face with the sword pommel for Brawl.

Now, my dark/archery defender DOES kick for Brawl.

You were. The Cimerorans have a significant defense debuff with their sword attacks. Assuming you have 45% defense, you start out with their odds to hit floored at 5%. As soon as you get hit once, their odds of hitting you get better. This leads to you getting hit more and having your defense further reduced before the earlier debuffs wear off. We call this a cascade failure, although I'm not sure the definition really fits.

Anyway, you'd be absolutely appalled if you were monitoring your defense numbers. When I did this on my invuln, in a 'mob scene' fight, they could get my base defense to -100% in 20-30 seconds.

HAHAHAHAHA Priceless!
*YOU* don't use any more gas than you used to, therefore there has obviously been no increase in worldwide demand. Is your understanding of the CoH market this keen also?

I don't think so. That's why I plan to put Moonfire and Hess in there also.

Oops. I don't think I had my Tactics running. My stone tank has Tactics and I often forget to turn it on.

Not yet.

Bingo! As far as I'm concerned, it's one more emote to use while standing around at a TF contact or waiting for everyone to get inside the mission.

Having too much defense is like being too rich. My SD tank has Weave. I needed it to get him above 50%. Too much? Sure, until you go up against Cimerorans.

um... what? I recall his announcement as going something like this:

I think you need to turn it up to 11.


Nothing. He's on a crusade.

I take exception to this. I was special and elite before I started playing this game.

I'm on that one. Please note, the channel name is N P C with a space between each letter. If you joined an NPC channel, you may be the only person on it. To join the N P C (Mentor Project) channel, you would type /chanjoin "N P C"
You need the quotes since the name has spaces.

I doubt it. Most internet %%%hats don't have that degree of self-awareness.

muahahahahaaha I got a reply to this post.
"Actually, it's because, after my experience here, I have zero interest in socializing with butthurt *&*&*&. I've deleted all my messages and I'm moving on. You needn't bother replying. "

I censored the same derogatory term he used in this thread. I was going to tell him that I wasn't broken up over his departure after the attitude he demonstrated. But, since he said I needn't bother replying, I didn't.

Shield is fine at high level. My shield tank tanked an ITF for the Master badge. My ice tank was also great (haven't played him lately - he was my 2nd tank).

I'm wondering if you need to assess playing a tank at all. You've played a few but never taken them past the 30's. If you're really not enjoying them, then maybe tanks aren't your cup of tea.

As for me, I love tanks. I've taken every armor set to level 50 and just started a PB who will be human/lobster and will be my next 'tank'.

Interestingly, those powersets are where I don't even bother with regen bonuses. If I already have 600%, another 10 won't be noticeable.

I only build for regen on a tank (to capitalize on the high hit points) who's already pretty tough due to other reasons (resistance or defense).


Seriously. A difference of 10 or 15% recovery can make or break a build.

No. That has no effect at all on the difficulty.


Mandatory? No. Do they make just about everything in the game easier? Yes.

If you have enough def debuff, you could skip accuracy enhancements. You just better be sure that you'll have that debuff available every time you play that toon. Also, what if you have multiple enemies and some are OUTSIDE the debuff area?

BTW, resistance debuff works fine also on enemies with 0 resistance. It gives them NEGATIVE resistance which means they take extra damage. This is how you can effectively get more damage out of vet powers. You're not buffing your attack; you're debuffing enemy resistance. You can have your vet powers do double damage or more by debuffing the enemy resistance.

The second part is good advice and the correct procedure.
As for using email with attachments, I'll keep doing that like I have been doing.

My guess is that it will be permanent, since he specifically mentioned that there will be badges related to them.


Yeah, we don't know. I seem to recall a rumor that, not only would some of it be a team activity, some would be a multi-team activity like the Cathedral of Pain.

Aside from not really understanding what your post has to do with the topic, it is flat-out WRONG. The CoP Trial most certainly DOES have rewards. While there are no rewards from the critters, it gives a huge end of mission bonus to compensate. Additionally, it now also gives an Incarnate Component.