Necrotech_Master

i recently completed my ill/colds build with 213% global rech, with the tier 4 spiritual alpha i have perma PA by about 2 sec, perma heat loss by about 2 sec, perma benumb by about 5 sec and can easily stack sleet on baddies

i went with the ice APP so i could sit at range and ice storm while i have a decent defensive barrier for larger groups

the only thing that could make him better would be for the devs to fix the phantasm AI so he doesnt run into melee range constantly

i think the core of this problem is the fact that the rating system is flawed, the hall of fame requirements are flawed, and the search/filtering interface is flawed

if poeple could filter out farms that would help authors find stuff they actually want to play

if the rating system was fixed, they would make non farms be able to get somewhere

if the hall of fame requirements were changed, we would see more of them pop up, and if they were smart about it would just disallow farms from getting hall of fame status

i also agree with supafreak, i am a mediocre story teller at best and thats why i only have 1 story arc, im much better at numbers and such and yes i do have several different AE farms so i can run them with multiple types of toons. one of the biggest reasons i dont play more AE arcs is the lack of rewards, i hate how AE basically disallows purples and shards unless its a dev choice with normal rewards.

im glad i took care of most of the badges when you could get them fairly easily, whatever they did to pentad is gonna make it pretty annoying lol

i think last man standing they didnt really change as that one i needed 3 poeple total for too

it sounds like the swiss draw is fixed now and reliably pushing people ahead when they should

the reason baddies may be able to fire off attacks before the confuse takes effect is due to the animation time of the power

on my semi lowbie plant dom i usually take some aggro running straight up and hitting seeds even when i am a bit stealthed but a majority of the time i dont really have any problems

the only thing i might also see is that you are fighting mobs which see through stealth such as rikti drones are alerting the mob before your ready, or there might be bosses in the mob which wont be confused right away or there might be confuse resistant enemies such as nemesis

when i used to have my plant/ice dom, the ice assault felt kind of on the weak side to me so i rerolled to a plant/energy which im liking a lot more

edit: another thing i thought of was if you were running chilling embrace and running past baddies, that might cause them to aggro early too

my badger is a near 5 year old ninja/dark mm, the only really tough badges he had to get were the dmg badges since mm cant take a lot of dmg

the only request i have about base tp is that they should be able to attach more than 2 beacons per tp pad, it would make it a helluva lot easier to just attach like 6 beacons per pad and would give base builders more space to do what they want instead of plan for having 6-12 telepads

i think theres prolly some sort of oversight with the participation score because lately ive heard that small teams always get shot down with the rewards prolly because the participation thing is set too high or meant more for full trials

from personal experience i also got 10 threads on a MoLambda run (before the badge fix)

ive also seen a screenshot of a duo lambda and the poeple in that trial still got components, so this just goes to show how ****ed up this participation requirement is

from what ive seen and heard, almost anything will go great with /cold lol

the only one i dont think will benefit as much from it will be mind since it has no pets to buff

the ill/cold i have is godly at taking down tough targets, perma PA perma heat loss perma benumb and perma sleet just floor baddies lol

the other combo i have seen someone do good with is elec/cold, which they had screenshots of them soloing a pylon in RWZ (i cant find the thread with it atm)

plant/cold will also be very nice too especially once the change is made to buffs cause then you can cast carrion creepers and then your ice shields and will buff all of them just because you can lol


so yeah, basically anything with pets and /cold will be a killer lol

edit: i read what you said about buff botting, and cold is definitely not a buff bot, you dont even have to use the buffs really unless your team or pets need the extra safety net

usually if only one person is in melee range its not much of an issue, especially if they have high def and your dishing out -tohit and mez protection on the one person in melee

ive been on a few where our team randomly got 0 ambushs, but im fairly certain that there are still mass ambushs when fighting him

it does occasionally bug to where there are few to no ambushs baddies for some random reason, not that im complaining though lol

well looks like a fix is on the way

me and my sister both think if that was our dad that would be so freaking hilarious and awesome lol

i dont believe ive ever had any inventory is full popups, i know i get mislabeled things in the chat window saying inventory is full when your exempt or LK claiming AE tickets

(the above ive noticed is a really odd bug if you try to roll AE tickets when you are exemping or lking then the claim will fail saying your inventory is full even if you have 0 recipes)

other than that i havent really noticed anything unusual

i only have 1 badge hunter, but lately with all these retarded badges its almost started to feel like a chore and not as much fun

hell it was more fun grinding out defeat badges than these trial badges

i can confirm that they do and what EricHough describes as just giving you an aura which affects pets around you