LostHalo

Ambush farms have been around for ages. They aren't Comm Officers. They aren't Monkeys. They aren't Mitos. They aren't STF Recluses. They're meaningless in comparison to all of those. If someone seriously treated them as a priority issue, Paragon Studios has a much more serious management issue than I realized.

Programmers are paid hourly sometimes? Jesus, that seems like a horrible mistake for a business owner.

Wrong.

The hp/end bars in the targeting window are largely misleading and more often than not, will suggest empty/nearly empty values that aren't accurate. If you want to truly shut down a mob's endurance, you need to debuff their recovery on top of bottoming out their endurance.

The debuff is -10% regen for 8.3 seconds. It caps out at -40%.

Against a level 50 AV, that -40% is resisted 85% down to -6%.

-6% regen is equivalent to 5 DPS again the AV. It's crap.

Cap is 500%. Base of 100%+400% enhancement/buffing.

It's not a PBAoE. It's a targeted AoE. As in, the powers function exactly the same, barring that they now explode around your target.

Until I figured out your misunderstanding, I had absolutely no fathomable idea how it was going to slow the process down for you.

Edit: Sniped. :/

Yep. A couple of my SGmates have outright abandoned any notion of buffing during the trials because of it. It's kind of painful to go through 23 people on a BAF for the Siege and Siege+NS phase, and then immediately realize, "Huh...the person I started on has already lost 70-80 seconds of their 4 minutes".

Just gloss over the official discussion thread. It's truly glorious.

Because City of Data went totally useless a few years ago, the wikis have always been useless regarding specific data, and because I'm not interested in loading up the game anytime soon to look up one thing, I can't verify it. However, I do believe you are correct.

You considered Radiation Blast a "debuff" set and got angry when called on it? Even though FF Defenders are a rare and awesome breed, there is absolutely no way you chose to offer a FF/Rad Defender to a "LF Debuff" call without expecting this sort of negative reaction from the team host.

So when was that image made? There was a point when the Red Tower did not give him invulnerability to Smash/Lethal/Energy. Nothing wrong with it, just mentioning that there's a world of difference between what you could do before that patch, and what you now have to do to leave the Red Tower up. That said, I can see more than half your team is using non-Smash/Lethal/Energy sets (other than the lolScrapper and possibly Tanker), so it's one of the few times it can be utilized effectively.

Before said patch, my group typically ignored everything but the Green because you could more or less brute-force past the other three Towers with an overload of buffs. The Green though? We found that leaving it up hurt our time more than helped.

There are 4 Towers and you apparently only destroyed 3 of them.

If you did not destroy the Red Tower, you cannot debuff his extremely high damage.
If you did not destroy the Blue Tower, he has extremely high ToHit, much more than your purple patch-shrunken ToHit debuffs will be able to handle.
If you did not destroy the Green Tower, he has extremely high health and regeneration, which doesn't really factor into his damage output but it makes him more or less unable to be taken down in a reasonable scenario.
If you did not destroy the Orange Tower, he has extremely high defense and you run into the same issue as the Green above.

Leaving any one of the Towers can lead to issues.

LR is a level 54 AV in the STF, so he has purple patch modifications working in his favor. Beyond that, he's naturally got some potent stats.

You would be wrong.

• +Defense buffs
• +Recharge buffs
• Recharge debuff resistance
  • (conveniently, both the above two are available in Speed Boost)
• Mez the bosses
• KB the bosses
• Repel the bosses
• Kill faster

I miss these old cartoons. It's particularly sad that Cartoon Network stopped its "June Bugs" marathon a few years back because of the Boomerang network being launched.

And then subsequently, Boomerang now only plays ******* Scooby Doo crap.

HEATHEN.

The correct order is clearly Healing -> Offensive -> Defensive -> Blues -> Awakens/Breakfrees. Largest on the bottom with the Awakens and Breakfrees arranged one after the other to expedite rezzing and prevent accidental BF usage.

And of course:

Or more specifically, the idiots that insist on using voice-activated rather than push-to-talk despite them apparently all suffering some degree of nasal inflammation 100% of the time, thus needing to <SNRRRRRRKKKKKK> every 3 seconds while breathing loudly through their mouths.

Or they decide to get into conversations with people in their house without shutting off the microphone... Relevant WKUK video.

Regeneration does not prevent damage. The amount it takes to equal any amount of defense or resistance is anywhere from minimum to maximum, entirely dependent on the amount of incoming damage.

I have considerations for people that choose to play their bright, flash-filled game in dark rooms. Snark aside, yes, I do have dull color schemes as well for that purpose.

I rarely take such complaints seriously, though. As such, I'm not going to deny that I'm heartless for it but when there's any and every condition out there that someone could claim they suffer? My response is to ignore the hypothetical complaints. The game provides solutions and if those aren't good enough...eh.

"Yes."*

*That "yes" is conditional on the use or non-use of shenaniganizing Synthetic/Normal Hamidon Enhancements, specifically Membranes, in PBU/PB. Either way, the ST buffs will still be granting ~38-39% defense without shenaniganization and Maneuvers at 5-6% gets people close enough for it to not matter. If they're able to be inside Dispersion at the same time? Well, then all of the above is moot.

Nope. And don't worry, it never was nor will it ever be a good idea.

Assault is the one you should be skipping. Another 18.75% damage doesn't really mean much in comparison to the +ToHit from Tactics, particularly if you take IO sets in consideration (namely, Gaussian). To put it in perspective, if the team isn't already packing a Kinetics, the best scenario for Assault means you're granting a little more than an extra DO's enhancement to damage. Not nothing, but not much of anything. Tactics also permits you to slot your powers with slightly more leeway on accuracy.

Vengeance is a great power for your own survival in bad situations and it's a good place to stick random bonus-granting IOs since you don't need to slot it at all.

For APPs, I prefer Power Mastery for Power Build Up to increase the effectiveness of your 4 minute ST buffs. Soft-capping the team by yourself is always delicious.

For PPPs, my obvious choice would be Soul Mastery for Power Boost, which provides the +special of PBU at half the recharge (though at the cost of the +damage, which I find more or less meaningless anyway).

　
Why did you have to provide proof that these people exist? You made my brain literally ache from reading that guy's lamentation.
　
$279/month on rent in California? And he pays for cleaning?! Unless you're living in some horrible backwater, that can't be anything more than a studio apartment. I can't imagine that it's more than a shed with a mailbox in San Diego.

His mentioned gambling is probably some online thing. Additionally, while not making the obvious comment about paying for porn, he probably gets it from...less than reputable sources. I imagine he's probably had a few stolen numbers over the years. Not justifying it, just trying to understand it.

Then the "new $1200 computer" and other factors... Gah. GRAGH. [Insert Godzilla-style roar.] It wouldn't be so bad if he weren't so self-righteous while providing self-implicating proof that he is clearly not making an effort to better his situation.

Or you could be smarter about it and not demand "Golden Ghost" when "Auric Spectre" means the same thing and even comes off as more exotic (and FireFox can bite it, both spellings are correct). And no, it's already mine.

I make a point of having all of my buffs use vision-offending colors and combinations.

First, it makes it easier to keep track of the buffs. And when you're on the teams I tend to play on, it's much less annoying to watch for when people are less "colorful" than keep track of one to three tiny icons in a sea of 30 stretching across my screen from the Team list.

Secondly, it lets me quickly identify the indignant churls that are not worth consorting with on Virtue.