Justice_Bringer

Whoa, Accuracy is capped at 95? Honestly, I was never aware of this. The accuracy/defense formulas always bored me. I just knew the 45% defense soft cap. So, does having accuracy above 100 play no role with high defense enemies?

Err... Not quite. *Points to the 50 Fire/Kin in my signature.*

Other controller powersets have interested me as well, but I typically create my characters for concept reasons. In this case, I just have an issue with what is offered from Mind/. To not have anything offered damage after Level 6 until Level 26 is just insane to me. So, I plan to use the controls offered from the secondary.

As far as the bubbles go: "My mindset is that if he can't be worth a damn, damage wise then everything he does (Epic excluded) will be control."

I stated enjoying Mind/FF only pre-teens and completely hating it at the 20's. Total Domination and Mass Confusion have terrible accuracy, hence the added Acc IO. The Psionic Epic isn't really going anywhere because the character was designed to be a telepath. I don't expect controllers to have blaster style AoE damage, but as far I've noticed, only Mind is so horrid at any sort of AoE damage. I don't see myself spending on HOs or sets until I'm convinced it's worth getting to 50.

The OP is rather quite funny when you read it with knowledge of both power sets. Fire excels at AoE damage. Storm might be pretty as hell, but it throws your opponents everywhere. This is fine when using a ST control set like Mind, but with Fire? Knockback isn't really your friend. Mutation and Fallout are the only two powers of Radiation that require another person. If you join PUGs regularly, people will die. There's always a bad player or someone who acts a little reckless every now and then. Sometimes the team make up isn't necessarily best equipped to deal with the task.

But you want to solo, so that isn't a problem for you. Having two powers in your secondary that you don't want isn't a curse. Consider it a blessing. Would you really want to have to select all 9 powers in your Secondary? You could easily get away with just taking Aura, Infection, Accelerate, Field, and Lingering. The sets acts almost as the opposite of Kinetics. Instead of buffing your teammates into killing machines, you debuff your enemies into total push overs. And EM Pulse should have a long recharge. It's a Tier 9 "Oh crap" button. Enjoy it.

30 Views, 0 Replies?! Surely someone must have some thoughts on this. LOL.

When I began playing this game in mid-late 2007, there were two characters I wanted to create. One was solar-energy projector with super-strength/invulnerability that would teleport as he fought. To this end, I wound up creating a Fire/Fire/Flame Blaster which I found way too squishy and mainly replaced him with a Willpower/Fire Tanker. However, I still got the blaster to 50.

The second character was a telepath comparable to Jean Grey or Nate Grey. Mind Control with telepathic blasts. Finding out this was only possible villain side left me pretty pissed and I created a Mind/FF. In the pre-teens, I really loved this character, but by the time he hit his 20s, these power-sets really began to piss me off. I'm not a solo player. I'm always on a team. Most teams I join prefer to tear through enemies at a rapid pace, demolishing everything that moves. Considering this, Mass Hypnosis is typically extremely useless. It does zero damage. 1 second effect under these circumstances. Telekinesis? Zero damage. Total Domination? Zero damage. Long recharge. Again large mobs, I bring nothing to the table offensively.

Ultimately, I wound up creating a Psi/MM Blaster out of curiosity and find it to be much more fun and useful on teams. I've gotten several others characters to 50, the Psi blaster included, but I've haven't been able to enjoy using this character long enough to bring him to that plateau. To that, I created a new build for him. My mindset is that if he can't be worth a damn, damage wise then everything he does (Epic excluded) will be control.

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Level 50 Mutation Controller
Primary Power Set: Mind Control
Secondary Power Set: Force Field
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Medicine
Ancillary Pool: Psionic Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Mesmerize -- Dmg-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(3), Dmg-I:50(5), Dmg-I:50(13), Acc-I:50(17), RechRdx-I:50(37)
Level 1: Personal Force Field -- DefBuff-I:50(A)
Level 2: Levitate -- Dmg-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(3), Dmg-I:50(9), Dmg-I:50(13), Acc-I:50(23), RechRdx-I:50(37)
Level 4: Dominate -- Hold-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(5), Hold-I:50(7), Dmg-I:50(15), Dmg-I:50(25), RechRdx-I:50(39)
Level 6: Confuse -- Conf-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(7), Conf-I:50(11), Acc-I:50(15), Conf-I:50(25)
Level 8: Mass Hypnosis -- Acc-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(9), Range-I:50(11), RechRdx-I:50(17), RechRdx-I:50(29)
Level 10: Combat Jumping -- DefBuff-I:50(A)
Level 12: Hurdle -- Jump-I:50(A)
Level 14: Super Jump -- Zephyr-Travel/EndRdx:50(A), Zephyr-ResKB:50(46), Zephyr-Travel:50(46)
Level 16: Health -- Heal-I:50(A), Heal-I:50(19), Mrcl-Rcvry+:40(50)
Level 18: Total Domination -- Acc-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(19), Acc-I:50(21), Hold-I:50(27), RechRdx-I:50(33)
Level 20: Stamina -- EndMod-I:50(A), EndMod-I:50(21), EndMod-I:50(23)
Level 22: Dispersion Bubble -- DefBuff-I:50(A), EndRdx-I:50(43)
Level 24: Hasten -- RechRdx-I:50(A), RechRdx-I:50(36), RechRdx-I:50(37)
Level 26: Terrify -- Dmg-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(27), Dmg-I:50(29), Dmg-I:50(31), Acc-I:50(33), RechRdx-I:50(40)
Level 28: Stimulant -- RechRdx-I:50(A)
Level 30: Aid Self -- Heal-I:50(A), Heal-I:50(31), RechRdx-I:50(31), Heal-I:50(33), RechRdx-I:50(34), RechRdx-I:50(40)
Level 32: Mass Confusion -- Acc-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(34), Acc-I:50(34), RechRdx-I:50(36), RechRdx-I:50(39)
Level 35: Telekinesis -- EndRdx-I:50(A), EndRdx-I:50(36), EndRdx-I:50(39)
Level 38: Force Bubble -- EndRdx-I:50(A), EndRdx-I:50(40), EndRdx-I:50(46)
Level 41: Mental Blast -- Dmg-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(42), Dmg-I:50(42), Dmg-I:50(42), Acc-I:50(43), RechRdx-I:50(43)
Level 44: Mind Over Body -- ResDam-I:50(A), ResDam-I:50(45), ResDam-I:50(45), EndRdx-I:50(45)
Level 47: Psionic Tornado -- Dmg-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(48), Dmg-I:50(48), Dmg-I:50(48), Acc-I:50(50), RechRdx-I:50(50)
Level 49: Detention Field -- Acc-I:50(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Clrty-Stlth:50(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Containment



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Nevermind.

Yeah, I've been wanting my AV to be surrounded by 3 EBs ala Romulus but it's turning out to be impossible.

I've seen a lot of ridiculous arguments in my time, but this is pretty up there.

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Except, you know, Weapon Mastery. Which has a placeable ranged -slow -fly damage dealing debuff that can double stack.

You know what else would be great? A PBAoE stun effect that combos with Blazing Aura. It's like a slow, except all they can do is stagger around, not attacking!

Oh, wait. That's what /Dark Armor gets out of the box.

[/ QUOTE ]Weapon Mastery starts with the following:

A low damage Targeted AoE slow.
A zero damage Immobilize.
A ranged attack.

You're suggesting:

A ranged attack.
A solid damaging PBAoE slow.
A medium damage Targeted AoE slow.

Dark Armor doesn't have a combination like this APP would allow.

No power combinations should have access to Burn, Blazing Aura, Hot Feet, and Rain of Fire except for Fire/Fire blasters due to the risk involved. End of story.

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Yep. Just like Broadsword, Katana, Claws, Spines, Dark Melee, Dual Blades, Dark Armor, Shield Defense, Willpower, Dark Mastery, Body Mastery, and Weapon Mastery... all of which have debuff effects.

[/ QUOTE ]Not like Heat Exhaustion.

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For the Third attempt, I tried something more clever. I took the Pet Dr. Aeons and put some of them into Custom Groups. I then had them spawn as custom group ambushes to reinforce the Elite Boss Dr. Aeon at 3/4ths and 1/4th health (a group of minor custom group allies spawns at 1/2 heath just to add to the fray). This was more balanced than the first two attempts. This was not without ramifications though. The ambushes did spawn the Pet Dr. Aeons as EBs but it would spawn a minimum of 3 EB Dr. Aeons (all in different costumes, which was cool, even though it was all the same Pet Dr. Aeon powerset).

[/ QUOTE ]Care to share the settings you used and what was the maximum spawn?

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Electrical powers are not thematic, just annoying.

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah, I'm finding my Elec Armor/Elec Assault AV Brute almost ridiculous.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/w/images//0...rsonalhell.jpg

Yeah, that one.

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<ul type="square">[*]Fire Blast : As Blaster power (damage reduced). Basic requisite single target ranged attack.[*]Hot Feet : As Controller/Blaster power (radius reduced). Even with the endurance drain, this is something that would be extremely useful. My only concern is that Caltrops vastly overpowers it (much cheaper for endurance, placeable, stackable, similar damage level). Still, I'd cheerfully take this power for some characters.[*]Rain of Fire : As Blaster power (damage reduced?). It may sound odd, exchanging what is certainly a better attack in the Tanker APP (Fire Ball) for this power... but I just can't see how any Scrapper could pass up the opportunity to make it rain fire.[*]Heat Exhaustion : As Corrupter power (recharge increased?). A lot of people were probably expecting to see Melt Armor here, but the tanker version of the power is so pathetically weak and slow-charging it's hardly worth bothering with (especially now that we have that delicious new -res PBAoE proc, which can slide right on in to Blazing Aura). I doubt the Scrapper version would be much better. So, instead, a single-target debuff, hearkening back to the olden days in which Scrappers' class role was bosskilling. Yeah, it won't be as good as Corruptor or Controller HE, but... I'd hit that.[/list]
[/ QUOTE ]That is pure HAX.

A single target ranged attack right out the box.
A PBAoE toggle that has solid damage and -Speed.
Directly followed by a damaging Location AoE that also gives -Speed
(No other APPs in the game start out like this and if the player has Burn and Blazing Aura from /Fire? LOL)
Yes, my AT has some of the best damage in the game and criticals to double that awesome damage, but now I can Debuff you on top of it all!

Yeah, the Devs should get right on this.

Whatever is it you're smoking, put that stuff down. Scrappers should get the exact same version Tanks do minus Melt Armor.

Does anyone have ideas on keep the spawn number low on the group? With 2 other people, I wound up facing 5 EBs on top of the AV. I don't want a team of 8 being massively overwhelmed.

I'm not talking about an army here, but rather 4 total which is no different what we encounter on the STF and ITF.

The arc in question isn't meant for solo play. It's supposed to be a TF and will come with bold color warnings.

I want to have a mission where at the end you're confronted with an AV and several EBs or other AVs akin to Romulus/Nictus and the Inner Circle on the STF. Does anyone know how to do this as opposed to having them within several mobs?

Electric Assault/Electric Armor can be a real pain with the end drain.

Where's the Portal Corp map?

Last night, I found myself unable to access my Super Group base. Upon installing Combat Logs and Robo Surgery, I received the message "Map failed to start" when attempting to enter my base. However, I was able to access those of my coalitions and we weren't even close to the 10-12K item mark. Following the patch, my entire base got deleted and none of the prestige restored to me. Several people have noted encountering the same problem in other threads throughout the forums with no response as to what's being done.

I'm the Super Leader of the SG and didn't delete anything. If that were the case, I'd have my prestige back. It isn't. My base wasn't gone until this patch went out so it pertains to the subject at hand.

I did that already, no response and I want my base back sometime today.

My group had 6 storage racks (each with a different Tier and type [Arcane/Tech]), 3 inspirations racks that had 11-13 at every level which were Tier 2, Tier 2, and Tier 3 and 4th rack that had a combination of Tier 2, Tier 3, and Special. There were 5 enhancements racks. They're all gone. We received none of our lost prestige.

WTF?!

Thank you for wrecking our bases.

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You really think they're intentionally infuriating customers? They're trying to get the servers up and working. The vast, vast majority of the players know this...and would rather the devs do this, rather than waste time just saying "Shut the **** up and stop whining! We're working on it!" I was not saying that the fan-base deserves nothing...but rather that Punky and his over-inflated sense of self-worth don't deserve everything he demands just because he happens to pay $15 a month.

Read the EULA. There's no guarantee that the servers will be up 24/7.

Besides...what do you want, 10 cents for the few hours its been down?

[/ QUOTE ]Tricky question. Are they making decisions with the intent to infuriate customers? Of course not. Are they going through with decisions which they are fully aware will do that? Of course they are. ED, the PvP changes, and various nerfs amongst other things that have driven players away have made that clear.

Don't presume yourself to speak for the majority. That's an over-inflated sense of self-worth in of itself. Fox News actually bothers to take information from polls and they still don't know what they're talking about half the time. The issue here isn't servers. It's one server and because of it, they're (well, were) intentionally withholding our access to the game from other servers.