Moonbeem

Ok,
here is my humble request devs. Please make prestige power slide available in the market for purchase just like all the other travel powers.

I have an Ice/Ice/Ice dom that would love to have it.

Thank you !

I have a fortunata and love her.
I noticed though a couple things that dont seem right.

How come there is a purple set called fortunatas hypnosis but
a fortunata has no powers to put it in?

Also I love the animation of Ghost widows "soul storm" hold power but as a fortunata I dont have access to it. I just get domination.

Seems to me if a fortunata is theoretically under ghost widows training then they should get first access to soul storm.
Instead other archtypes get it through the mastery powers but if a fortunata takes her for the mastery powers she still cant get it!

I would really like if the devs could fix this somhow.
In regards to the hold power thats easy.

Wow, reading about the nerf/fix the devs are doing to hamis really hurts innocent users of hamis.
When I use mids to make a toon up it shows what hamis do in a power and thats how i decide to use it.
Unless I were to spend countless hours digging for info this specific I dont know about it being an exploit or not.
I have spent a lot of money and time getting enzymes and membranes thinking they were pretty nice. Now from what Im reading its a waste to do any trial or hami raid where hami's are a big part of the reward.
Next they will nerf all purple sets by half claiming they are to overpowering and an exploit. Bam! more money gone. This fix/change only hurts all players using hamis and disrupts the market again! I feel like the devs are some bunch of psychos who like to hit us with pleasure then hit us with pain leaving us confused as to if we want to keep playing at all.
Im not feeling very vip lately.. Thanks devs

Ice Control: And this is the rarest pet. Ice Control's lower damage output has put it on the level of "stay away from this" for trollers, and doms usually take something else. Which is unfortunate since I get a kick out of Ice Slick.

Ice Armor: With all the cold domination out there, I'm not sure if I've ever seen one of these, either.


Really, a lot of the powers in the game fall into the rare category IMO.[/QUOTE]


Just for the record I currently play my Ice/Ice/ice/ (tier 4 cryonic radial jugment ) dominator. (also i use tier 4 polar lights incarnate pets)

I do use ice armor from the ice mastery pool and love using sleet and ice storm for extra area debuffing and dmg.
I agree i dont see many playing ice much but its lots of fun!
give it a try! You will be surprised at how much dmg you bring to the fight!

I have a lvl 50 fortunata with 2 builds.
1 widow
2 fortunata

First off this is my favorite toon so far.
I love the versatility and effectiveness.
I have some thoughts for you based on my play experience.

I dont have lots of money but my toon is almost at a perm for mindlink.
I dont seem to have any problems with it not being perm.
my base recharge is +98% with haste its +168%.

I have 2 main ranged attacks and they are mental blast and subdue
both slotted with a full set of thunderstrike.
I love using pychic wail and have it slotted with a full set of obliteration.
This nuke like power has a fast recharge and no negatives.
I usually back it up with either my void incarnate power or ion blast depending on my mood.
(void is easier to use like this)

I use pychic scream and dark obliteration(mastery) for extra aoe ranged dmg.
I tried the poisondart but hated the time delay to rectract the dart.
so it got axed on my last respec.

my recharge lets me use my 2 single target ranged attacks without stopping. Very nice. (mental blast & subdue)
I would slot foresight with as much def bonus as you can seeing how it boosts your toon in melee, ranged, and aoe.
Im running with all def powers activated at:
ranged def- 76
melee-67
aoe-52

this helps a lot on the incarnate missions seeing how I dont have any dmg resist to speak of.
Also on cimm missions the swords do debuff defense so having more the the softcap does seem to help.

I use dominate a lot against healers and mez opponents.
I use total domination very little but i do have it.
I use confuse often and have a full set of mailase's illusions.
My favorite power though is Aura of Confusion and I have a full set of
Coersive Persuasion.
This power rocks when your in over your head and when a boss isnt affected I use confuse a couple times to stack the confusion and get him killin his own troops.
My second favorite power is scramble thoughts.
When a boss cant be dominated he can be stunned.
I have a full set of stupefy in it and love it.
In my dominate and total domination i put a set of 4 basiliks gaze in each.
Seems to work nicely.
I did take soul tentacles and have just 1 basic lvl 50 immobilize in it.
My accuracy is so high and my global recharge good enough that it still very usable.
I use it a lot on the baf runs stopping the escaping prisoners.
i also took darkest night and just run 2 lvl 50 endurance in it.
I love the -16% strength on the target and all around him and the base -8% is like boosting your def even when your capped.

hehe not the first time I pulled that trick on my toons.

I also found I needed to put a stealth proc in sprint for mask presence to be effective. without it I was being seen all the time.
With it Im just as good as invisible but can attack without turning anything off. (you do become visible though while attacking)
I hope this helps you on your build.
you seem to have more money to spend so I would encourge you to do so.
Oh yea one more thing. I never used 5 lotg 7.5 before on a toon until I made this one.
I discovered that you can have 5 of those and still slot more 7.5 recharge bonuses from other sets. Like I did with basilisk gaze.
I have 5- 7.5 recharge bonuses on my fort and they all work.

Just thought I would mention it in case you didnt know.

Hope this helps you out.
I love playing my fortunata and very rarely die.

have fun!
Moonbeem

Defenders are not useless!
In fact its my favorite toon type.

I currently use my rad/rad defender more than my dark/emp now due to the issues i have mentioned in my earlier posting. It is much more effective with its debuffing, ab buff is awesome , and the one healing power it has is usually more than enough for most teams I am on.

I do admit that this entire issue does revolve around the endgame.
Under level 50 the emp finds its services much more needed and is a blast to play.

I didnt get to level 50 though only to lower myself all the time just to be useful on a team.

But if you have several toons to choose for a mission and you know that your emp is not really needed then you may be like me and just not play it for one that has more to offer a team and still be fun to play.

For me fun is the key word. I dont get on teams to sit idle i want to participate and feel like I am contributing. The lvl 50 empathy toon has just hit a brick wall and lost its luster for fun.

Its the same feeling ive seen when a lonely scrapper gets on a team of ranged squishies and they kill all the baddies before the scrapper can run up to them and slice em. After doing that through the whole mission the scrapper gets a bit demoralized as he realizes he wasnt needed at all.

And yes ive seen it happen a few times even b4 the incarnate stuff and yes the scrapper is quite verbal about it.

I dont blame him. They just made him obsolete for that mission. Fortunatly that doesnt happen often on the teams I tend to get on.

If you want to play a toon with empathy be my guest. I would rather switch to a more usefull toon like my rad/rad def.
More fun and still needed!

Just to clarify,

My post was to point out the lack of need of all the empathy powers in the teams and tf,s that I have currently been on.
Other may have been on teams which do need it and that is ok but I have not.

Endo needs. dont see em much anymore
defense needs. dont see em much anymore
healing or regeneration needs. dont see em much anymore
status protection needs ( aka-clear mind). dont see em much anymore.

The problem is the lack of need because most other toons have other ways of getting it on their own. which makes empathy dead weight and a defenders dmg (especaily dark like mine) is underwhelming in teams compared to most other archtypes. So I end up playing a different toon that has more effect on the team which brings me to my posting point.
unemployment for the empathy toon.

About 1 1/2 years ago I made my favorite toon. It was moonbeem my dark/empath defender.

I loved playing the team support in a group and found the need to be great.
The number of empaths online were few and when on team missions I always had lots to do.
It was the hardest toon I had to level as half of my powers don't really help me but support the team.
I still managed to slowly get to level 50 and enjoy all the wonderful team support powers.
I found no trouble getting into a team as they really needed a good healer.

Then a few months ago I noticed many team members were becoming so self sufficient with inspirations to heal,buff and rez.
They were also very skilled at slotting recipies and it made me seem less needed but I still found many opportunities to apply my empath powers.

Then the incarnate powers came and it took the coh/cov world little time to embrace all the power it offered.
It was then that I started to notice a terrible trend.
The empath wasnt really needed much anymore.
The new trial tf's tin man, apex, lambda, and baf all had hospitals with insperations to fill up on.
If the tf was hard and people did die (as in the battle maiden fight) it happened so fast the empath had a hard time keeping up the healing and the dead would just hosp it.
Or they wouldnt get hurt much at all so the empath would fall asleep from boredom.
Then the league was created but the empath could only focus his powers mostly on his team and not the other league teams.
Unfortunatly it seemed extremely difficult to keep track of where your team mates were when trying to heal or buff and be within range during big fights.
So if you did get lucky and find someone that needed your help (rez or healing) you had to get to them in under 1-2 seconds or they hosp it.

Then just the other day I heard the call to do a statemans tf.
I was so excited.
Finally I can play my empath and heal and buff a lot ; especially at the end with me and the tank against lord recluse.
Well the first 30 sec were a blast! The tank took lots of dmg and I would heal and buff.
Then it happend,the tank stopped getting hurt and what little he did get hit with he could deal with on his own.

I was so depresseed.
I actually had to ask the tank to get hurt so I had somthing to do.
So sad!!!
At that moment I recevied my pink slip.

I have no idea what the devs can do to fix this horrible trend as I fear
pandoras box has been opened and will be impossible to close again.

So there you have it the pratorian war has already had its first casualties!
The end of the empath!