Kyriani

Sigh you're right... I didn't even think about the fact that it's a praetorian zone...

Did they add a First Ward teleport beacon or was even that small addition to bases too much to hope for? >_>

After running the arc numerous times to test the rewards

I was able to get:

Alignment Merit x1 (reward table says I cant get this again for 7 days from this arc)

20 bonus merits x1 (this is the normal 5 merit reward x4 and reward table says I cant get this again for 7 days from this arc)

Astral Merit x2 (reward table let me choose this twice for some reason and then told me I couldn't get it again for 7 days)

10 Incarnate Threads x1 (reward table says I cant get this again for 7 days from this arc)

5 Bonus Merits (this is what you can get an unlimited number of times it seems)

i'd like to second using the tech wings and/or rocket boots costume pieces (from costume recipe drops)

I have a tech character who flies and I went with the rocket boots costume pieces to show where her flight comes from.

The uses I found for it are:

i'd love if they changed it so the secondary progression went like this:

1
1
2
4
10
16
20
28
35

It's basically what we have now but everything gets bumped up a notch earlier since you can pick between 2 powers at level 1 in your secondary.

Keep in mind there is no option to do a one time payment for a single month of subscription time. Most MMO's follow that same set up. Basically if you want to pay month to month you subscribe... wait to see the charge happen and confirm you have game time for the next 30 days and then cancel the subscription. You'll have to do this every month if you want to pay month to month. Incidentally it seems less annoying to simply buy game time cards and apply them when you see fit.

The funny thing for me is on my emp/arch defender I rarely have time to deal damage. I have her built in such a way that I have alot to do. Sure I have 3 st blasts and 2 aoes and I use them when I have time but when I am doing TFs/Trials I am more often than not making sure as many people as possible have fort and/or adrenalin boost, tossing out sleeps and holds (psi APP), looking for opportune times to use the auras, making sure i clear mind anyone who gets cc'd, and of course healing. I blast when I can don't get me wrong... but I have alot to keep me busy in between.

While this is the only one I've found so far I imagine others may pop up and this seems like a good time to consolidate them.

Currently in my base the SG symbol on all decorative items that use the SG symbol have changed to the biohazard symbol. No amount of changing SG symbols seems to change the items placed or in the builder. Color changes still work but changing the symbol does not.

I'd probably pick my ill/rad... perma PA is hard to beat for just about anything that isn't hami and even on a hami she has lots to contribute.

Lost of soloability plus group friendly abilities.

One day people will learn to not argue with Arcanaville :P

No matter how right you think you might be if you're actually wrong she will break it down as to exactly why.

And if you're right? Well she'll be supporting your position and telling everyone else why you're right.

Until that day however I have an endless stream of forum entertainment!

My own mind/psi/psi is built entirely to be ranged. I built for a ton of global recharge so I have perma Domination without hasten since I didn't want to rely on hasten to keep it perma. That said I am actually considering adding hasten back to my build just so I have a bigger buffer of time on Domination (to counter -recharge effects that could stop my Dom being perma). And while he isn't soft capped he does have over 32% ranged defense.

My single target attack chain is Dominate, Subdue, Levitate. I chose to go this route for a number of reasons. First, Dominate is always my lead off and i have it slotted with a mix of io's and hamis to get as much as I can out of all aspects of the power as a hold and as a damage attack. Second, I wanted to have a source of non-psi damage and Levitate fit the bill nicely. Subdue works as a my hardest, non snipe, hitter.

My aoe options are Terrify, Psychic Scream and Psionic Tornado. While psi-tornado isn't my favorite choice it does decent damage and at range. During the time I used to have Psychic Shockwave it always annoyed me having to jump into and out of melee range to use it and my ranged cone attacks. Psi tornado allows me to stay at a fixed ranged spot and aoe effectively.

You can build to be entirely ranged and entirely effective. You can also build to hybridize melee attacks into your playstyle for more dps. The choice is entirely up to you. Whatever you decide, with the right build virtually anything is possible.

I've been reading up on the "purple triangles of doom" and I was curious... could a lone Dominator with permadom hold an AV through it's purple triangles? According to the Wiki purple triangles only adds in 50 extra mag of protection and (again according to the wiki) Domination doubles the mag of your controls. So my single target hold should be mag 6 if I understand that correctly.

Then wouldn't it stand to reason that stacking my ST Hold 10 times should hold an AV regardless of its protection? With dom active my single target holds last around 50 seconds and it takes me roughly 23 seconds to stack it 10 times (60 mag). Or am I completely misunderstanding how the AV protection works >.>

If anyone with insight would please feel free to educate me so I can understand how it actually works in game I'd be grateful.

I just wish they'd do away with the current naming conventions and go with an open naming policy. Let our global handle be our unique identifier... let us use the name we want for our character. So what if someone else has the same name?

You can only have 5 of the same bonus no matter what.

If you have 5% run speed from 5 different sets and try to get another 5% from a 6th set it won't add any additional run speed.

Now if you had 5% runspeed from 5 different sets and try to get a 3% runspeed set bonus THAT would work.

It sounds like you may have more than 5 of those 5% run speed set bonuses.

One thing that really bugs me about the naysayers who are all like "I'm VIP i should get everything for free! wha! no more free powersets for me!" is they conveniently ignore the fact that Time Manipulation and the First Ward content ARE included in the VIP sub... and we have no idea what new stuff coming down the pipe will also be included in the VIP sub as well. Just assuming that you'll never see another powerset/zone added that is included in the VIP sub is stupid.

The whole point of Freedom is to overwhelm with options. Some new stuff will be included in the subscription... but more new stuff will be in the store. The content/powersets added as part of the subscription could very well keep pace with what we've seen the past 7 years (i.e. slow as hell) but people still cry about the deluge of "buyable" content that will be added to the store and I just dont understand that. And just to comment... we did NOT get everything for free in the past. We got "what they wanted to give us" for free. And we'll still be getting "what they want to give us" for free (time manip) but we always had to pay for other things like Demon Summoning and Dual Pistols. Freedom simply puts many things in front of you and lets you decide how to use your points to get what you want and when.

Bottom Line: If you maintain your sub you wont be losing anything you have now. Let me be clear... ANYTHING YOU HAVE NOW... that means what you have at this point in time and not stuff that may or may not come in the future. What you get in the future will be along the lines of a powerset or two included in your sub once inna long while. (just like now) and a bunch of other power sets you can buy... with the points you get as part of your sub I might add. The addition of the store does not mean the end of content being added just for being a VIP. It just means you're going to be tempted with more shinies than you've seen in a long time, to shell out extra cash to have it "NAO!". But you have the CHOICE of saving your points and acquiring them at a slower pace... and there is NOTHING wrong with that.

While this is a concept that was what originally started out as the Time Manipulation set we'll be seeing in I21, there's no reason a future Time Control set couldn't be introduced. This would give both Dominators and Controllers a new primary to play with and would thematically work well with Time Manipulation on controllers. I know people in the past have suggested such a set but here are my ideas for it!

1. Time Snare - Ranged, Moderate DoT (Energy), Foe Immobilize, -Recharge
Immobilizes a single target by manipulating its timeline and deals some energy damage over time. Some more resilient foes may require multiple attacks to Immobilize. Time Snare can also reduce a target's attack rate.

2. Time Wrench - Ranged, Moderate DMG (Energy), Foe Hold, -Recharge, -Regen
Painfully wrenches a single foe through the time-space continuum. Time Wrench deals energy damage and renders a foe helpless, as they literally try to pull themselves back together in their own time, and unable to defend himself. More powerful foes may not be held, but all affected targets will have their attack speed and regeneration reduced, as well as taking some energy damage.

3. Temporal Field - Ranged (Targeted AoE), Minor DMG(Energy), Foe Immobilize, -Recharge
You can immobilize multiple foes by manipulating timelines in a large area, dealing some energy damage over time and reducing attack rates.

4. Temporal Disruption - Ranged, High DMG (Energy), -Regen, -Recovery
Blasts the target with a concentrated beam of temporal energy that disrupts the space in time that the target occupies causing high energy damage and slowing the rate at which they regenerate health and recover endurance.

5. Alter Timeline - Ranged, Foe Confuse
You can temporarily alter an enemy's timeline, changing their history so they hold a different allegiance. If successful, the enemy will ignore you and attack his own allies. If you alter someone's timeline before he has noticed you, your presence will continue to be masked. You will not receive any experience points for foes defeated by an enemy whose timeline has been altered.

6. Time Shatter - Ranged (Targeted AoE), Minor DMG(Energy), Foe Disorient, -To-Hit
You shatter time for a brief instant in a small area around an enemy, damaging all nearby foes. The Time Shatter deals minimal Energy damage, and can Disorient all affected targets for a good while, as well as reduce their chance to hit.

7. Time Freeze - Ranged (Targeted AoE), Foe Hold
Freezes time around a targeted foe and those near him. Time Freeze renders all affected foes helpless, frozen in time and unable to defend themselves.

8. Time Storm - Ranged (Targeted AoE), Moderate DMG(Energy), -Recharge -SPD, -DEF(All)
Unleashes a storm of temporal energy on a target, disrupting time around them and nearby foes. The Time Storm damages foes and greatly Slows their attack speed and movement speed as well as reducing their defense.

9. Temporal Ally - Summon Doppelganger: Ranged, Moderate DMG(Energy)
You can call upon an alternate timeline version of yourself to assist you in battle. Your temporal ally is not as powerful as you but has similar powers to yourself such as Time Wrench, Temporal Disruption, and Time Storm

Your Temporal Ally is slightly resistant to Smashing, Lethal and Energy damage, but vulnerable to Psionic and Negative Energy damage.

Overall I tried to keep to a similar layout to other control sets while at the same time taking some cues from the Time Manipulation, Gravity and Illusion sets. First off, I wanted to have a variety of secondary effects much like Time Manipulation has as well as have a varied selection of tools.

The first and third powers are your typical dot/immobilizes with a fairly standard secondary effect. The ST Hold takes some ideas from the Time Stop power in Time Manipulation with its secondary effects. Several of the control sets have direct damage abilities, two of which do pretty respectable damage (Spectral Wounds and Propel). I figured Time Manipulation could have a power like that in Temporal Disruption and added some interesting secondary effects as well. While not everyone can appreciate confuse powers, I thought a power like Alter Timeline was a perfect way to bring that mechanic to the set in a thematically interesting way. You aren't simply confusing this foe but rather rewriting his history so he's your friend... at least for a little while. Time Shatter and Time Freeze are your standard aoe stun and hold, with Time Shatter having a -to-hit debuff for something interesting added after the fact. Then we come to Time Storm, now I know some folk might be thinking "wtf an aoe damage power in a control set???", well the precedent was already set with powers like Terrify and to some extent Hot Feet and Bonfire. Time Storm gives the set the rare ability to dish out direct aoe damage while at the same time applying a strong soft control (slow, -attack rate) and a defense debuff. Now Time Storm and Temporal Disruption also serve a secondary purpose... to provide attacks for the Temporal Ally pet to use along with the ST Hold. Temporal ally is the tier 9 pet most control sets have and I felt this would be the perfect opportunity to use the doppelganger tech in a players hands. The pet takes inspiration from Illusion's Phantasm but has abilities that all reside in the Time Control set so that the pet has abilities similar to its summoner.

So there's my ideas! I know some of them may not seem great but I felt it wouldn't hurt just to get them out there. If nothing else perhaps they can serve to inspire an actual Time Control set for us in the future!

According to the wiki, for all ancillary/patron power pools you must have one of the first two powers in the set before taking the third or fourth power. To take the fifth power I believe you must have at least two of the earlier powers in the set. If mid's is allowing you to do otherwise it's probably a bug. That said this will change in Freedom.

Currently on live the wiki indicates the first two powers in the set are available at 41, the second two are available at 44 with the final power being available at 47.

EDIT: FOR CORRECTIONS