Madadh

Anyone know what the math is going to be for proc in AOEs? And can you explain it? Last I checked that was somewhat cloudy.

Yup, gotta agree. I love my SR/MA tank. Stupid tough. But, fairly weak on the damage.

Of course, my other SR is a Claws/SR scrap, so I guess by comparison, most any SR tank is gonna feel a bit damage lite....

Looking forward to the changes and seeing about trying another SR. Maybe an SR brute this time...

If you have plenty of def, I'd think sonic is the really obvious choice. Between the AOE +Resist and mez protection, and the shields, and the debuff/mez breaker as needed, it would seem a pretty great buffbot if def isn't an issue.

Bonus is it'll play about the same as what you're already used to.

So, the post taking you to ask for being needlessly mean seems quite in target. You took time out of your day, and effort to be snarky, sarcastic and condescending, because you didn't like how someone found their answers.

They choose to utilize a resource that is know to be a reliable one to get the info they wanted. And you're taking them to task for not using some other resource that you think they should have used instead?

Do you also go to wikipedia and edit the page on 'quantum tunneling' to deride people from using wikipedia when they could instead comb through the online physics journals?

And yes, I am also taking time out to critique. But that's because I actually like the forums as a resource. I like that folks come here, because the forums as a resource have greater value if more people use it. So I think that chasing folks off the forums because they don't happen to meet your obscure criteria to be 'allowed' to ask a question here seems counter-productive to me.

Going to add my voice to many of the others here.

95% DDR.. Can't over state this. It's a blast to wade in vs debuffers and laugh...

It caps to all positions easily. Very easily. Even the incarnate cap. After that, build for insane recharge and as much +regen or +HP or +Damage as you can. Good times.

The huge +recharge bonus is nice, and slow protection isn't that common, so it's nothing to overlook either.

And, speaking of overlooked, without a lot of effort, you can get a fairly large amount of unsupressable combat speed, which if you know how to use it isn't anything to sneeze at.. Most PVPers know this, but it's got utility in PVE in too.

Some other sets can do some of these, but none can do them all. Shield comes closest, but it's doubtful you can get as much recharge on a shielder as you can on SR. Then you can go crazy with claws, which LOVES high amounts of recharge, and that Shield just can't do. Or TW, or DB or, etc...

For my money, SR is a great set. It's not for everyone, but, if the above stuff isn't for you, well, that's why they have the other sets.

Pretty much, no such thing. A theoretical limit exists, but I don't think it's 'in-game' real, ever...

Is so, it would take a really specialized team to even hit it vs anything where you cared...

Holy smoke. He (or she) obviously mis-spoke (mistyped? miskeyed? Whatever.) The intent wasn't unclear, and if you found it so, well, you prolly won't be able to read twixt the lines here either, so..

Yes, some sets seem to get leaned upon to do it the *right* way. It's usually support sets. Trollers and defs seem to get that treatment far more often, in my experience, than Corrs or MMs.. Kinetics and Emp are often the victim of this thought process..


The right way is always the way the player hoping/wanting support wants you to play. I suspect the thought process is that you can't possibly solo so he/she is doing you the favour by teaming with you, so you better repay perfectly...

My suggestion, just ignore the morons that aren't skilled enough to play support sets well. If they don't like how you play an emp (or whatever) tell them to make their own..


And, as a total side note, and admittedly slightly contradictorily to my above comments... I've always though Absorb Pain total awesome sauce of healing powers. I'd not skip it, even, on a support oriented emp (except on a all emp style team)... I'd skip the other heal powers first. Nothing rescues as hard as a maxed out Absorb Pain.. Well, other than a Def buff, or... OK... Nothing healish does..

Gonna disagree here with the standard reply. Kinetics is a bit OP. Yes, you can hit caps all other sorts of ways, but none as easily, and none can you try quite so often.. And that's just a discussion of FS, not to mention the insane utility of SB, especially now that it's AOE. and still recharges almost instantly. If it's recharge was more like AM, well, then the set might be a bit more balanced, but, it's not...

That said. It's not perfectly balanced. It's obvious that a well built Kin that's well played is awesome like little else... If anything else...

But, it's high end is gated beyond investment cost, annoyance, skill, and general fragility, especially during leveling...

Even though the high end is stupid high, I'd vote to leave it alone.

Of course, as a Kinetics Def player, I'm obviously biased.

As someone who is near the same, if not worse boat altitis wise as you sound Rangle, I'd use the feature you recommended, as recommended, but it wouldn't me for me a MUST have addition. It would definitely help me out, though.

I like the OPs suggestion a lot, as an improvement, but I like Netphenix's idea, too. I do think the crashing t9s bear some looking at, but I really don't want a whole passel of SoWs either...

But, I think there are a lot of workable solutions to make them a bit more appealing.

Note, that many of those zones are accessible way earlier, but some aren't. For example, the RWZ is lvl 35-50, but you can enter it at level 1.

The Hive, last I checked, was 45-50, and you must be lvl 45 to enter.

Pretty sure all the PVP zones still have minimum levels, but most places don't any longer.

But, even if you can swing by The Storm Palace at lvl 17, in theory, don't expect it to be a lot of fun..