Justaris

This should answer your questions.

Here's the quick summary for you:

• Mental Blast, Psionic Lance, Psychic Scream, Psionic Tornado and Psychic Wail all have Recharge debuffs (100%, degree of debuff varies by power)
• Subdue has an 80% chance to Immobilize
• TK Blast has a 60% chance to KB
• Will Domination has an 80% chance to Sleep
• Psionic Tornado has a 10% chance to KnockUp
• Scramble Thoughts has a 100% chance to Stun (will always Stun if it hits, Mag 3)
• Psychic Wail has 50% and 75% chances of extra damage and a 100% Mag 3 Stun

In my subjective anecdotal experience, the control from Psy Blast is effective, particularly the sleep in Will Dom and of course the stun in Scramble. TK Blast will occasionally not KB when you want it to, but is a good attack in any event. You have enough in your toolbox that you can easily switch to something else if one of your controls happens to fail. If you combine that with the controls already in Dark Miasma, you have a very safe Defender.

I've had someone drop out, so there are now two spots open. Based on this, I'm planning on Anduil taking one of those barring a sudden surge of interest.

Updated roster. If we don't get an 8th person interested, I'd still love to have you on the run, Anduil.
If we do manage to snag a Blaster or a Corruptor, then thanks for volunteering your help.
I'll drop you a tell in-game and let you know if we need you.

Updated roster. We still have one spot open, which I'd ideally like to see filled with a Blaster or Corruptor, but anything will do. (Please don't die)

This is more or less accurate. While I'd like to see base raids brought back in some form, I was and remain oppose to the idea of destructible bases. I'm glad the old system didn't fly because frankly I would never have done the cathedral in my group - it wouldn't have been worth opening ourselves to mandatory PvP to keep the IoP, to say nothng of inviting destruction of our base incurring more Prestige cost to rebuilt and replace things we'd already worked to create. So I'm glad that mechanic is gone.

Not really correct. Ouroboros doesn't go close to everywhere. While the various fast travel methods do reduce the utility of teleporters in the base, they don't make them obsolete. There are several areas, especially heroside, which can only be 'fast-travelled' to via base teleports.

Additionally, while on the subject of Ouroboros, the "No Travel" and "AT Only" challenge settings on Ouroboros arcs disallow most of the fast-travel options but do not lock the player out of his/her SG base. Those badgehunters with a full base have a huge advantage there.

Of course, you might not always be in cap. Having personal vault storage, salvage storage, enhancement storage and crafting tables (and empowerment stations!) all in one place is still significantly more convenient.

Agreed, and with the return of the cathedral there's hope for base-launched content.


It's important to keep in mind the difference between "Online Game" and "comic book simulator". Some things translate well from the source material, other things don't. That's true of shifts between any media, and just because something does or doesn't appear in comics may not by itself be good justification for inclusion.

In this case, not all players are in SGs. Of those, not all SGs will pursue all SG content offered. Making content for SGs is therefore not the best return on investment for the Devs as some players are going to feel locked out of it from the word go, while other players will dismiss it and won't use it (this will happen regardless of what the Devs do - PvP SGs will "lolcarebear" when roleplaying elements are added; PvE-based SGs ignore or actively avoid the PvP-based new raid content they make, etc, etc).


I like this idea, it creates a new use for this item and makes sense.

I'm not sure how this would work. Do the invading mobs do lasting damage to the base? What would the goal be? I think this has promise but seems easily exploitable with mob AI of the type we have now. It'd likely be a trivial matter to set up a base that kills the mobs essentially for you by exploiting their poor AI. Perhaps the mobs could give little or no XP to make this a nonissue, but then it's likely no one would do the content.

And interesting idea. If they ever get the Archenemy system working, this would be a natural outgrowth of that.

Good questions all, though decorative additions would be welcome also.

I disagree with the implication that bases and SGs don't matter now. They do, and to a large extent the degree to which they matter is a reflection on the degree of dedication, effort and personal investment one puts into them. This to my mind is how it should be, rather than a game setup that demands you be a member of a large group just to do content that you are otherwise barred from ever seeing/doing (as in certain other MMOs). While I would welcome more base stuff, I do not want to see a paradigm shift in that direction for this game.