Jiaozy

Did Hami just dropped Dmg/Range HOs?!

Anyone willing to sell them and with the time to wait I'll pay those HOs 20 mills each, or 1 more than you'll be offered.
PM me if you're willing to sell them, I'm looking for:
Cytoskeleton Exposure - Increase ToHit and Defense BUFFS and Endurance Reduction
Endoplasm Exposure - Accuracy and Mez
Nucleolus Exposure - Damage and Accuracy
Centriole Exposure - Damage and Range

I couldn't join you due to GF's BDay under the threat of being skinned, so if someone needs influence and is willing to get rid of an HO

Why are people attending this with the Wii being launched the same day?!
I can't attend because it's my GF BDay and I'll get skinned once more if I miss the dinner for playing but I wish you all good luck even if you have Stage and Okton to mess things up

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5 hours later and Sister Psyche is happy...

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She can be really demanding, can't she?

Well done mate took me 2 times to read it but well written nonetheless!
Just one thing: please, edit the first post cos it messes up the forum

Ok, I'm back at trying to set this up because yesterday I had some problems and couldn't come back home at all..

If anyone is still willing to hunt for these Tarantulas please post here and I'll PM you for a time and date and see if we all can manage to meet, me included

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Reconsider both Resist Elements and Resist energies. That late in the game they'll do virtually nothing for you, and by then you're tanking on your def rather than your Res anyway. Personally, I wouldn't touch them with a ten-foot bargepole. They help a bit against AV's, but will rarely make a difference between debt and not-debt.

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The difference is between taking 1800 damage and 1650.
If you're not at full HP you'll die anyway, I'd much rather have Weave and Tough in my build since AVs are only 2% of the game and for everything else, Weave is FAR superior to the passives (that I have skipped altogether) and it helps more than anything else against Psi foes (it's DEF vs anything) that are, even if a minor part of the game, the most annoying thing you can find.
I'd never ever slot the first attack with more than the default slot, I had it fully slotted and noticed a wooping 40 dmg more (at lvl 50) wich isn't worth 5 slots.
All of the other attacks are very well worth 6 slots:
Footstomp is the best AoE for a tanker.
KO Blow is the daddy, hold + awesome damage + knockup, what else could you want?
Air Superiority is awesome too, you can knockup anything bar some AVs with it, helping with tanking and survivability.
Haymaker makes nice damage and fits nicely in the attack chain, I'd pick AS over this, tho.

Looks like we'll have a couple of teams
I'll grab the first that signed up:

Me
Salacious
Electro-Cute
Neutron Zio
Coldest War
Tenebra
Quilla
FireBlazer

I'll PM you all with date and time and see what we can arrange.

For the other people if someone else wants to take the reins of the 2nd team and assemble another time/date, please do so

I need this freaking badge, so I'm looking for some people to help me out (being my badger a controller, I can hardly kill anything in Siren's).

Sign up here AND PM me when you're available so we'll arrange a date and time when everyone can join!!

Gogogo!!

[Btw till we're there, if someone has a villain that can confuse I need like 50 Longbows for Reformed ]

Wow, about time!
Grats mate!!
You've been lvl 49 for like forever and a day

Gonna miss your n00biness dude, cya soon

I'll finally have a chance to play Driven by Demons with his real costume!
Great thing, I'll join in aswell with any hero I'll get the chance to log on

Sorry to hear you're leaving the RL but I'm also a bit glad, because me and Phil felt the need of your mocking because it isn't the same without some n00bfright speech around

Even if I never understood a word of what's been said in this forum, I wish to congratulate with you all and especially with Nightclaw that managed to pull together enough people and keep the interest up till the end!! (I know by experience how hard it is )

Keep up the good work people!

EDIT: I apologise with those of you that don't understand what I'm saying

I can Confuse but i'm not sure if I have it while exemped in Siren's....

The resistance from Unstoppable is capped with a single dmg res as you get 85% res to all but Psi, with Unyelding you're well above the cap.

Tough and Weave are huge improvement in your survivability, it may look like a little number, but with that 7.8% of defense you get FAR more survivability than with that 10% resistance from the passives.

I'd drop Energy Punch and RPD to pick Boxing and Tough and something else to put Weave in.

A sample build put together in 5 mins:


01) --> Temp Invulnerability==> DmgRes(1) DmgRes(3) DmgRes(3) EndRdx(23)
01) --> Barrage==> Acc(1)
02) --> Dull Pain==> Heal(2) Heal(5) Heal(5) Rechg(7) Rechg(7) Rechg(9)
04) --> Bone Smasher==> Acc(4) Dmg(13) Dmg(15) Dmg(46) EndRdx(50)
06) --> Swift==> Run(6)
08) --> Unyielding==> DmgRes(8) DmgRes(9) DmgRes(11) EndRdx(11)
10) --> Hover==> Fly(10)
12) --> Taunt==> Taunt(12) Rechg(13) Rechg(50)
14) --> Fly==> Fly(14) EndRdx(15)
16) --> Health==> Heal(16) Heal(17) Heal(17)
18) --> Invincibility==> DefBuf(18) DefBuf(19) DefBuf(19) Taunt(40) EndRdx(43)
20) --> Stamina==> EndMod(20) EndMod(21) EndMod(21)
22) --> Whirling Hands==> Acc(22) Dmg(23) Dmg(25) Dmg(25) EndRdx(37)
24) --> Boxing==> Acc(24)
26) --> Tough Hide==> DefBuf(26) DefBuf(27) DefBuf(27)
28) --> Tough==> DmgRes(28) DmgRes(29) DmgRes(29) EndRdx(33) EndRdx(33)
30) --> Weave==> DefBuf(30) DefBuf(31) DefBuf(31) EndRdx(31) EndRdx(33)
32) --> Unstoppable==> DmgRes(32) Rechg(34) Rechg(34) Rechg(34)
35) --> Energy Transfer==> Acc(35) Dmg(36) Dmg(36) Dmg(36) EndRdx(37) Rechg(37)
38) --> Total Focus==> Acc(38) Dmg(39) Dmg(39) Dmg(39) EndRdx(40) Rechg(40)
41) --> Focused Accuracy==> TH_Buf(41) TH_Buf(42) TH_Buf(42) EndRdx(42) EndRdx(43) EndRdx(43)
44) --> Laser Beam Eyes==> Acc(44) Dmg(45) Dmg(45) Dmg(45) EndRdx(46) Rechg(46)
47) --> Energy Torrent==> Acc(47) Dmg(48) Dmg(48) Dmg(48) EndRdx(50)
49) --> Build Up==> Rechg(49)

The most important thing to never run out of endurance is to put an end redux in each and every attack, you'll save FAR more end this way than slotting 2-3 end redux in attacks.

I'll join on this one with my controller if possible, I need the badge too and if there's someone willing to help me and White I'll do an happy dance

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The only information I can give is that my CE was slotted with one taunt (oh and I had icicles too, but that wasn't slotted for anything) and we were both lvl 26.

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That explains everything then
To out-taunt someone you have to apply a Taunt duration that's twice as long as the one he applies/applied, so with both CE and Icicles you can easily Taunt them longer than an unlotted Taunt.
Especially if you were fighting higher lvl foes because the Taunt duration decreases dramatically with the relative level difference and foes ranking (i.e., a +2 boss will stay taunted for like no time with taunt, while with the pulses of CE and Icicles you can easily keep him taunted)

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I didn't think that would be possible or does mt taunt aura work better than taunt?

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Since he gave us no info on slotting of his aura and the other tanker's Taunt and level difference between him and the foes you can say 'In this case yes' but you'll never manage to out-taunt an Ice tanker with CE and Taunt properly slotted. Fact.
Invincibility has a really poor taunt duration so you can easily grab aggro off it, but in no way you should be able to out-taunt someone with taunt, unless he's got poorly slotted taunt (i.e. only the default slot) and you have 3 taunts in CE.

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so, youre telling me that ET, that costs no endurance.. isnt affected by gauntlet?

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If ET = Enrgy Transfer, I must say that it deffo costs some endurance, it looks like 10-12, a lot less than Total Focus, but still it has an endurance cost.

Sadly that's the most updated one.
For power reference however I use Dr. Rock AT Comparison to see the most real number possible on defensive powersets.

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Weave = 7.8% to melee and ranged only.

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Weave gives defense to every element but Toxic, you must have an old hero planner, Weave's defense is also to melee/ranged/AoE and it deffo stacks with every other defense you get from pool or primary/secondary powersets since 4-5 months ago when they changed it.

Don't even compare it to Maneuvers because maneuvers on tankers gives like 2,5% defense and uses double the end of Weave.

Even if we teamed only a few times, it was good fun and lemme know if I can be of help anything ingame.

Hope everything goes well with both of you but most importantly the child.

GL with everything.

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Well I hold it quite well and it works for me maybe we should team up so I can show u how well it works!!!

DD

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Another one breaking game mechanics:P the problems with blazing aura are solveable in so many ways but i still dont like it, if its meant to be offensive let it be the only one that autohits for damage and taunt i say.

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I'm not saying you can't hold aggro with it, I've seen many Fire Tankers in action that did it too

I SO, TOTALLY agree with Shannon here, that'll make a huge difference in the way of playin and slotting a Fire tanker.

If the problem would be PvP and defense based sets, they can always code it like Taunt that in PvE is auto hit while it requires a tohit check in PvP.

Actually, Blazing Aura is the worst taunt aura since his taunt component comes from damage and against foes with good defense or that can debuff your tohit making it miss it doesn't taunt a thing because it never hits, unlike every other aura that has an autohit effect that taunts the foes (Slow for Mud Pots, Slow + Dmg Debuff for Chilling Embrace and the Tohit and DEF buff for Invincibility)...