Krogoth

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

Yes.

I'm not 100% positive, but I believe it adds enhancement value to each power. It does do it globally though, it's lowering the end cost of Tough as well as the in-set powers.

However, due to the nature of the bonus coming as a secondary effect of a power set, it will NOT be subject to ED (because it is not actually enhancement value)

Originally Posted by Dispari

Pyronic is the best for damage if that's all you care about.

Originally Posted by Garent

There's a better reason for not taking amplify. Because the combo already has so much +damage (the more damage buffing you get the less effective more damage buffing is) and because using amplify wastes the -res of previous attacks you've used AND makes your future attacks miss out of the -res you would've had if you hadn't used amplify, you actually end up doing about the same amount of damage if you use amplify than you would have if you hadn't. I've run the numbers on it before in a previous thread. On a rad/sonic, amplify just takes up a power slot.

Originally Posted by Desmodos

DM is weaker than other attack sets for building Fury

Originally Posted by Mega_Jamie

Also entroptic chaos chance to self heal, while not so full of awesome has its own hidden levels of awesome that AoEs would make super awesome (even if it possible for a similar effect with Call of the sandman and AoE sleeps)

Originally Posted by Slazenger

Please could we get a -Damage recipe set, there are plenty of powers out there that would benefit from this set. Fulcrum Shift, Rad powers, a few in the willpower etc. In my opinion there are more powers for -dam then there are for fear or def debuff, so why can't we have some more -Dam pls.

Originally Posted by brickbat

Well for one, if you plan on using that combo, I'd recommend Omega Maneuver FIRST when it's up. Due to its Taunt, they would cluster nicely for your web grenade.

As for the build, it looks solid, but if you plan on using that combo I'd suggest the venom/frag grenade to be taken from the Archanos Soldier power set rather than Crab spider due to weapon draw animation time.

Originally Posted by Roderick

Most Toxic attacks are Ranged/Energy or Melee/Lethal. Of course, there are exceptions (Bane Maces are Melee/Smashing), but if you're softcapped to all three positions or to S/L/F/C/E/N, you'll have roughly the same defense to Toxic attacks either way.

Originally Posted by Local_Man

while it is very hard to find a lot of Toxic typed defense

Originally Posted by MindGame1

I have been playing around with Mids to try to soft cap def on my FF/NGR defender but I am having trouble getting either all positional or all typed defense filled out. I would appreciate any help offered from those of you with a prediliction for build formulation. Would it require going rogue and taking Mace Mastery?

Originally Posted by ultrawatt

O.o

With lots of temps? What kind of brute, fire/something?

Originally Posted by Sarrate

Krogoth is correct. A single pulse from a tower lasts 15s. Cages, on the other hand, last 30s. That means the best you could do is to keep Recluse unbuffed half the time.

Originally Posted by slainsteel

Seems to work fine though :-\

We rarely drop red tower, and our teams are quite a bit of s/l damage based. Maybe we're missing something here?

We gave up on caging a while ago - it's just faster to quickly get down yellow and green then just kill him. Usually with a good team we can get both down in about 1-2 minutes, so caging doesn't help much even if it worked.

Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA

Wow, what an interest concept...


It never occurred to me, one could affect a tower in such a manner. I must admit my awe at your concept.

Now taking the idea forth a bit, if we have 4 players that can do "affect self only" powers on the towers, technically that would bring Lord Recluse to normal, correct? And is so, then he could be defeated with out having to defeat the towers first, and that would be an awesome test!

I am so excited...

Sue

Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA

So the challenge, can you please post builds that can survive Lord Recluse in an STF, and not require the use of PvP/Purple IOs; do not require buffage or healing; no use of inspirations. and no earth tanks!

Originally Posted by Maroon Warlock

A peacebringer gains +DMG from each def/corr right? What if there was a team of 7 defenders/corruptors and one peacebringer? PB's get 10% DMG for each def/corr right? Adding to the fact that there would be absurd buffage and debuffing going on, would that one peacebringer always have an added bonus of 70% DMG? Is there a cap on how much a Kheldian's inherent can stack the same buff?

I'm thinking of throwing together a team like this on Freedom for an ITF next week while on my corruptor >

I would imagine a team of 7 scrappers/brutes/blasters/stalkers would make on Warshade feel like a god too... but yeah, is there a cap on such a buff?

Originally Posted by ByteBait

I guess I was a little vague. I would like to stay away from melee and pets. Defenders, corruptors (and most will disagree) blasters are a support class.

So crabs or Dom? Is their a powerset combo that shines over the others that I should be looking at?

Originally Posted by Kelenar

1. Find a friendly Forcefield/ Defender to softcap me and my pets while we fight the pylon... and I don't know any Forcefield Defenders, and it might be a little difficult to get a stranger to help me with this and not interfere by attacking it.

Originally Posted by Syntax42

Unless Lightning Storm works differently from other pseudo pet summon powers, the answer is no. It will get a chance to proc when you first summon it, then every 10 seconds. If it didn't work like that, then my Sleet would be checking for an Achilles' Heel proc 5 times per second. I could be wrong and I will test it to see if it procs in the middle of the 10 seconds. I'm pretty sure I already did test it.

Originally Posted by Scientist

Lets look at -resist debuffing, arguably the most important debuff for "hard" targets like AVs, since they resist other debuffs such as slow, -tohit and -regen to the tune of 87% at level 50.

A rad defender, which is generally considered the "goto" choice for debuffing, debuffs resistance by 30% with Enervating Field. Ditto Dark defender with Tar Patch.

A Crab who takes Mako for a patron gets -20% resist debuff from Venom Grenade plus -15% from Arctic Breath. It takes some good recharge to make Arctic Breath perma, since its only a 10s duration, but a Crab tends to build for recharge anyway. Total -35% resist debuff, better then the defender. A Crab can also slot an Achilles proc in their fast recharge, Tier 1 attack, and average another 10% or so, which only the rad secondary can do on a defender.

So unless the defender takes Sonic as a secondary, the Crab can out debuff a rad defender for the main debuff needed for AVs, which is quite respectable performance-wise. The Crab is also inflicting damage during this, no animation time used to cast it.

I actually looked at the numbers to compare my Crab AoE attack chain to a Fire blaster's primary, since Fire is considered top tier. A Crab takes about twice as long, ~11 seconds, to do the same damage a Fire blaster does in about 6 sec, assuming Fire Breath + Fireball + Rain of Fire. The compensation is from about 5 seconds in, all the rest of the team damage starts going up from -resist debuffing from the Crab, so the total damage from a team may well be higher over a fight that takes 10+ seconds then from a Fire Blaster + team. I ignored Defiance for the blaster and Assault + pets from the Crab, since I was looking for an order of magnitude type comparison.

Originally Posted by warden_de_dios

If one of those numinas is the regen/recovery unigue you'll want to put it into health so you get the bonus all the time. If you put it into Aid Self you'd only get the bonus for 10 secs after you used the power.

Originally Posted by _Malk_

Yes.

Originally Posted by StormyDarkness

Maybe Mids is giving me incorrect numbers then. I'm getting trip mine's duration at 260 seconds with a recharge at 5.5 seconds and a cast of 5 seconds so the minimum is 5 seconds for recharge anyhow. Unless I'm missing something. It's been a long while since I've actually had a traps character.