Lord_Thanatos
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Quote:Considering that Spectral Terror is perma out of the box and comes with to-hit debuffs, you would need something major to avoid taking it even if you just use the one slot.Originally Posted by slainsteel
Good point.
Honestly, I am a bit biased here - I've found that fear is mostly unnecessary past the slow/kd that sleet gives; I tried spectral terror a few times, but it seemed really, um, overkill.
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Quote:Spectral terror mostly causes enemies to 'cower' which is what we consider traditional fear, the 'fear' that makes people run always is called Afraid. Spectral Terror mostly keeps mobs Cowering and only has a very short duration Afraid in its Terrify power (which also still has a normal cower terror effect)which means the debuff goes away long before the cower effect ends. Also 'Fears' tend to keep mobs in place by locking them between attack and cower animations.Originally Posted by slainsteel
- You have spectral terror and sleet? So you want to keep people in their place and make them run away? I don't get that.
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Quote:Um, good AoE damage with a useful secondary effect + mitigration from ice patch and mez, along with a rarely resisted damage type? (the best powers in the set are pure ice damage)Originally Posted by BeastMan
My rebuttle to the greatness of FT; if on a team then and a "fire armor" as your primary I won't have time to unleash FT because the mobs "including" bosses are dead. I've ambush farmed with my fire/ice tank and never really have a need for it. The attack chain I use is rdy to rinse and repeat to bother with other attacks. I in no way am saying FT can't be placed in a build its just not of use for my farming tanks needs. Blessed be the person to build their ice melee any way they want but the question I ask is why bother pairing it up with any other armor? I'm curious, unless for concept reasons what good is the set without fire armor?
I dont know about you, unless im making a farming build (and I dont see the OP or anyone else talking about farming with this build, and there are better farming builds for tankers), I build for difficult content, so that means bosses and such that don't die if you sneeze at them.
Also at SOME point in the game you are going to be fighting EBs and such and it would be nice to have a non-aoe attack chain to deal with these so you don't take a year and a half while tanking your endurance. -
Quote:Fixed, Emphasis mine, you are underestimating the amount of damage that FT does, and on teams the things that live the longest and tend to the most damage are Boss rank and higher mobs. It helps to have a non-AoE attack chain when dealing with them, more damage and more endurance efficient.Originally Posted by BeastMan
Well for a tank with fire armor FT is optional. I agree its definitely worth it for killing bosses but for my ice/fire tank it didn't receive more than 3 slots because my attack chain is buildup+firey embrace+burn,ice patch, fireball,fire blast, rinse and repeat but not all in that order. On my other ice/fire I throw in frozen aura next to fireball.
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Quote:The only Incarnate powers that currently can be buffed in anyway are Judgment and Lore with regards to all non-recharge bonuses. Musc will increase the damage both powers do, Nerva increases accuracy and etc. And of course currently only the Alpha Slot can buff the two powers, all other buffs are ignored.Originally Posted by Metatron_NA
I heard that Alpha Slot enhancements DID affect the other slots. Is this demonstrably false? Musc doesn't boost damage, nor Nerve accuracy of the other Incarnate abilities?
The others, either the tech is too hard to work with (Interface) or are too powerful up front to allowed to be buffed (Destiny).
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Quote:All incarnate abilities are not affected by recharge bonuses, including Spiritual.Originally Posted by Metatron_NA
Lalow, what about Spiritual for the Alpha? Not only do you get everything up sooner (including an even *faster* LR), it gives you a boost to your Heal as well as being one of the few ways to reduce the recharge on the following Incarnate abilities?
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Fight a Positrion AV and get hit by his Lingering Radiation
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Quote:1 Base accuracy is 75% base accuracy.Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
I'm not sure what gave you this impression but it's completely wrong. All damage auras have 1 base accuracy. Cloak of fear has reduced base accuracy but it isn't a damage aura sooooo...
It's also worth mentioning that damage auras get the full effect of any global accuracy bonuses you have. My KM/FA scrapper, for example, has the full five 9% bonuses just from slotting for other desirable bonuses. I would feel little guilt about completely forgoing accuracy slotting in his blazing aura as between the kismet, power siphon, and tactics/targeting drone as needed, +4s will get the same 5% chance to dodge that everything else has.
CoF has 0.67 base accuracy, or 50.25% base accuracy. -
Quote:I guess you have a very large amount of non-personal non-anecdotal evidence that a large group of the population are being excluded from a majority of the content because or by IO-using players?Originally Posted by Indomitable
"Let them eat cake" was beautifully said too, if not actually by a certain Austrian.
What made this game special was that, with careful character design, the game mechanics flattened out differences between characters played by casual and obsessive players. For the most part, everyone could team together and all be useful. Whether the devs intended this outcome or not, many fans of the game have stayed with it precisely because it exemplified the inclusive atmosphere of the supers genre.
IOs were widely viewed as a marketing move to draw in players from the other MMOs who felt lost without a gear grind. I submit that introducing them was a mistake. A gear-centric "End Game" that further separates the haves and have-nots may not kill the game, but it will subvert what was special and unique about it.
A pity, if not exactly Doom. Good luck with the caste system that arises...
Also +1 to lumping everyone that uses IO as gear-grind obsessed people that are killing the game and alienating the have-nots, (have not what? fun?)
A Caste system? Oh you mean character progession, just like at the start of the game where people started with few powers and only TOs, and progressed onto DOs, then SOs and then finally trial orgins, and now further expanded. Well I guess you have a point, people that only use TOs would be at the bottom of your system.
Edit: Brb, making a toon that only uses TOs and starts teaming and wonders when I will be excluded from all that content and how long it will take for people to notice. -
Also another little (major) fact is that TG is getting buffed (finally normalized?) to a full 20' radius for MMs. (finally!)
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Initially Banes had redraw between the normal mace and the patron mace, but later the devs fixed it and Banes do not have any redraw between normal mace attacks and patron mace attacks.
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Quote:Yes, I was about to mention something like that, I'm pretty sure that mentioning a characters S/L mitigation against S/L mobs while mentioning that they 'hold' aggro constitutes 'tanking' in this game.Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex
As to your point, you are basically still saying you are tanking without saying it. Statements like "the swords simply chase you around the map" dismiss the fact that its the swords chasing you around the map that makes being a squishy dangerous during this fight. The swords and minions are deadly to my squishy characters. You make it sound like no one should ever die to them, yet I do. And I cannot hover blast them because hover causes the halberds to spawn in mid air and take out teammates who are unable to see them.
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Its amusing to see that people think that Stalkers dont do the pylon test because their dps is low and that its because Stalkers suck and not be becuase most stalkers don't build enough survivabilty to survive a pylon test solo OR the fact that Stalkers dont have Shields, which is the primary culprit in the insane DPS numbers of many testers.
And that fact that almost all 'record-breaking' tankers are shield tankers.
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Quote:I remember the massive initial outcry from MMs that Apex was completely anti-MM and even went further to state that if this was the type of design, then MM's would be marginalized for a majority of Incarnate content.Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex
Changed your statement slightly so everyone else can use it as a template. Don't mean to be rude, but can't help but notice that someone has now claimed every single type of character is marginalized by this encounter, from Controllers and Dominators ("I can't mezz the swords?") to Blasters ("I'm being chased by enemies with mezzes?") to melees, to, probably Gravity/Empathy/Ice Controllers with two travel powers, no Hasten, and their aura colored blue. It is quite the interesting encounter that manages to make everyone "marginalized."
I'm sure some of them are still saying that, regardless of how others have adapted. -
Quote:Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal evidence until it supports my argument! Then it is real evidence. Internet Law :POriginally Posted by Schismatrix
Years ago i had a Force Field Defender kicked from the team for having no heals. i've also had a Dark Miasma Defender kicked from a team for being Dark Miasma. This was of course after being randomly invited.
My 43 Earth/Storm joined a Numina team where half were there for the WTF NotW. Number of people kicked: 0.
Last night i joined a LRSF team that was at least half 50(+1) and several 50s no Alpha slotted. Number of people kicked: 0.
We were making a MoLRSF attempt. One player died near the end of the first mission so we restarted. Then they died in the mission to take down Ms. Liberty on the second try. Number of people kicked: still 0.
After that i joined a SMSF on a whim where at least four out of seven were under 50. Number of people kicked: 0.
Are my anecdotes about teams interesting, or is it irrelevant to what you want to assert?
i really haven't had much difficulty finding teams recently even for lower level content, and the two servers i play on the most are Virtue and Champion. i've had little to no difficulty finding teams on either server, but i do use global channels for that. Although i have found that i get a lot more tells asking if i'm looking for team when playing redside. -
Quote:http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...9&postcount=49Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
if you have a spiritual alpha though it might help drop the rech by several minutes
As per Black Scorpion, nothing reduces a Incarnate Power's recharge timer, so Lore pets always have a downtime of at least 10 mins. -
Quote:Especially considering that as well as the target being the caster, the proc itself is set to only stack to a limit of one. So its hardcoded to not stack along with game mechanics.Originally Posted by Silas
I'd be interested in some more explanation/proof of this. My understanding of the Achilles proc is that it grants the target a power which gives it the -res, which is why it won't stack from multiple casters. Which is also the reason its always the full -20% resist.
Edit: just did a little testing myself, while I couldn't definitively find out if the proc can stack, the -res definitely is resisted. Hrm. -
Quote:That was a full breakdown between a Blaster's Blizzard Vs a Blaster's Inferno, the math for Corruptor's Blizzard vs Blaster's Blizzard has not been done yet. All the math in that thread were done without Scourge or any Corruptor Secondaries.Originally Posted by MajorDecoy
Read the thread Stratonexus linked, there's a full break-down of Blizzard vs. Inferno. This conversation has already been had.
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Quote:Not really, considering that the Corruptor can stack -res on top of the Blizzard (You are using other powers instead of just Blizzard right?) and due to how Blizzard works, Build Up would end before the end of Blizzard due to duration + animation time.Originally Posted by Supermax
Blasters get buildup, so they do a lot more damage in the first 10 seconds. Corrs may do more damage in the final few seconds....but only if the target is at low HP. The blaster thing is consistent; the corr one is not. Blasters win, at least in this scenario.
BU animation + Blizzard Animation + 15 sec duration > 10 second BU duration.
You lose even more time if you add Aim into the mix, AND the fact that -res works on total damage and not base damage. And then there is Scourge.
EDIT: And Corruptors can get PowerBuildup from Power Mastery, which would greatly shrink the gap between damage bonuses and any -res + scourge would win it for Corruptors. -
Quote:I would LOVE to have you go into the those forums and tell those groups that the reason why those types of groups work is because of their heals, just go and try you troll.Originally Posted by magicj
It's been settled long ago. Healers won. It's not even close. That's why you have groups like Green Machine and too many all-rad super groups to even count.
Anyone who claims FFers can match what healers do to bring a team to it's highest level of abilities has no clue whatsoever what they're talking about. There is simply no comparison.
It's also why you have never heard of, and never will hear of, an "All-FFer" team tearing through the Statesman TF. -
Quote:Sums up my thoughts about this argument perfectly.Originally Posted by PumBumbler
Yes. They are all in PFF standing around looking at each other blankly because they didn't take any shields.
Also, notice how he wouldn't dare bring this type of argument into the other defender/controller/corrupter forums.
I wonder how the Healer > FFer argument would fare, especially in the Fender forums. -
You know whats amusing?
At first, when the incarnate system was annouced and implemented people were worried about the devs disregarding the sub-50 levels and just focusing on incarnate content, and they raised a fuss.
Now that the devs have a way to include people that aren't working on incarnate content, the pro-endgamers now want all development focused on them and want the devs to ignore everything below level 50 and non incarnate related.
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All I have left to say on this topic is this, take a gander at the 'other' games forums and search for a 'certain' person and brush up on their posting history, and everything should be clear.
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Quote:Yes, I'm sure since you aren't that skilled at using Earth trollers that you can say that. And considering you haven't been here for so long, thats quite a statement to state. Would you like to try it again on the actual Troller forums again? I bet not.Originally Posted by magicj
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P.S. there's no reason to feel bad just because you couldn't complete the challenge. No Earth troller has to date. Mind, Plant, Fire, and Illusion, yes. But no Earth troller yet. -
Quote:Because other players have better things to do then make up for the fact that your pets have less mitigation then they would have if you actually took your own buffs. If they get healed from random AoE heals fine, but you have failed as a MM if you expect people to actively try to keep your pets alive for you.Originally Posted by magicj
So now you think getting your pets healed for free is a bad idea? Why?
PS: Using biased tests and stating that it is the end all be all test is extremely presumptuous statement and really shows your personality, and not to mention that audacity of so badmouthing this game elsewhere and then coming back to give terrible advice in its own forums, like nothing happened. Bravo.