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Defense means that attacks miss you for their complete level of damage and to top it off the secondary effects that would come with those attacks miss too. At the moment you don't have a lot of any type of defense. You have IO setted for a little bit of this anda little bit of that but gained nothing as a result. I can't even say that with just the support of one defender of any type, that build would go and do the content nicely. Most people look at the most common damage type they come across and slot to softcap defense to it, mostly S/L.
Thr thing with Elec/Elec is, essentially you end drain and then prevent end recovery. This then leads to npcs running so low on end they use the least end costly attacks and that means they use the attacks that deal the least amount of damage. Most likely everything will be dead by the time their end runs out but it's better that mobs have no end before your health runs out.
So I would concentrate on def to S/L and Enddrain/Time. -
I used to have an SG which was basically about no quitting, if you started a TF you finished it. There was always a way to finish it. I don't bother now but I do always find a way to get things done. Unfortunately sometimes an expectant power that you know is taken as a must have on any self respecting <insert here> might be missing leading to less and less options. Powers aren't always about PvP or farming PvE they can be about flexibility.
Sometimes the leadership isn't good and time gets late, sometimes people fail to show so plans go to the wall, sometimes the leader may say one thing and someone in the team promptly interprets it in a way the leader never thought possible and they do something else. Worst thing ever, typical when the cavern trial was new was that you had 7 people with different ideas and time running out. How people never got the obvious first time round I don't know. I just play for fun now.
Just another heads up about Defiant too, often, they do know how to get through the game like butter. -
Tarmac if you've been around long enough then you could find 3 powers to swap out for fight pool by first say skipping air sup as you dont need a pre-req, then by giving up on an unnecessary attack cos your chains good enough with one missing and then swap maneuvers for weave. I don't rate manuevers with Ice as you can easily keep 17 mobs attacking you; directing cones away from the team and people if squishy don't have to stand within the vicinity of aoes that are targeted on you making manuevers a bit overkill.
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Imagine if ya will the Blood of the Black Stream being about assassins, they don't have a uniform, instead they mingle within the crowd. They could strike at anytime without letting others know their identity. Out of nowhere we could have an Arch Nem type of Assassin on any given mission who would look like nothing but turn out to be a real adversary. Would bring some unpredictability to the game I thought.
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Quote:A Cryptic version of NWN? Interesting..I did play the game, this could be a surefire win.Originally Posted by Kheldarn
Word is, Mr. Bruce has been picked up by Cryptic to work on the NeverWinter Nights MMO, but I have no proof of this. -
Quote:qftOriginally Posted by suichiro
i know a lot of people who didn't like castle or what he did, but i've always been on his side. Silly players that don't understand things like *balance* or *math.* castle, you were the only person who saw order in the entropy. I salute you with a tear in my eye for the days that we will be without your sage wisdom. :<
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People may go lol pvp but overall Castle has kept thousands of people interested in this game, he is has done more than carry his own weight as a Dev imo.
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Quote:Usually upto 3 ppl have the aggro, so just them.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
Yeah the main disadvantage is the 60 second duration. It's generally impractical for the Stormy to keep it on everyone 100% of the time.
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Quote:I agree that if its the only option to get a team make up thru its a good option to be able to achieve. All my tanks fly, all my tanks 6 slot taunt, so I myself always have that option. This is why if I were to redesign the game I would wipe the whiteboard clean. I'd want different team make ups to only need to use different tactics, timing, positioning and lose the need for an extreme kiting does all as an option. That option works well for Trick Archery which is effective if it is seen just as much as a controller as a debuffer. We should be playing differently on account of what defender we've got anyway and this would especially show around AVs.Originally Posted by BrandX
I'm sure it's not a tactic a lot of hardcore tankers like to use.
Personally, I prefere that tactic over "I need this and this and this to tank a STF"
When a tank says "I need an Empath to tank Recluse" I just stick out my tongue and giggle. -
Alcohol Fueled Brewtality? I didn't know you could make names that long. Well done but for me, if it takes 45 mins, I couldn't entertain doing them. I'd just be happy tanking them.
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Naturally Stone does more damage type def, so gaining positional type def thru bonuses don't achieve much. Also there was slotting that was just a case of overspending rather than gaining so for a quick change I did this, 5 mins is all I spent on it.
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Quote:Well i pretty sure your wording was slightly different. I am thinking that it was in a thread that had a completely different topic from the OP and it got locked because the OP asked for it to be as people (like us) were off topic. I tried looking for it, but it made me believe that the sneaky way was dodgy to use from then on, not that I needed it.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I don't recall saying that specifically about Recluse. AI has been tweaked in a couple of ways within the last year or so, but I don't have information on the specific AI Recluse uses which might be different from the standard AI. In either case, I don't think anything that's changed recently would affect taunting directly, at least not that I'm aware of.
Since the beginning of CoV, all Tankers, all Scrappers with Taunt or Confront, could of tanked the STF/RV like cake. Back with SOs it took one more than 3 range slots, 114ft of range would do, meaning the rest could be taunt duration and allow them to comfortably tank LR, not one of the Arachnos AVs unlike the Praetorian AVs would exceed 110ft in range and all could be -flied (selftaught this way back then).
In them days when COV just came out there were tankers without taunt, who'd scoff at taunt, laugh at people who had it, let alone as much as 6 slotted it, the same tankers were struggling to tank an STF and were whining. I thought it was funny at the time, the very thing that would solve their problem, the thing that would give them the easiest solution to an obvious problem no matter what the team make up, they was saying was useless. Just because they couldn't find a good use of a power they thought nobody else could.
That sneaky way (extreme kiting I called it) is not for everyone idea as people like their heroes to look heroic when playing and do damage. Sometimes though one person has to sacrifice their damage in order for the majority to do more. -
Quote:That tactic has been in play in RV since RV has existed, just pull to an apex, except not on Scirroco as he flies without -fly and used by me once on a scrapper back in well before these US, EU forums merged, two years later someone blabbed in the tanky section about it but it's actually "not how most tankers like to tank" so easily got forgotten by people.Originally Posted by BrandX
Well, what I'd do is Hover above Recluse, then move straight down untill Confront activates, then hold the position.
As long as he doesn't resist the taunt 3 times in a row, he doesn't leave me, and basically runs around in a small circle trying to get at me.
Another is to stay high, but he runs up the pole then jumps as you, lands and repeats.
All tactics I've used so far to keep Recluse busy while others take down the towers.
From what I thought Arcanaville said, I thought they would just run around like headless chickens now or go off. Long time since I'd needed to bother with it as I personally resort to trying to make what is there in the team useful I haven't used that method for a flipping long time. -
Arcanaville iirc mentioned to me that the AI was fixed so that you couldn't just do that not without chasing any running, you could have immobs. If you were to try an all scrapper one anyway, different scrappers will have various threat levels that might overcome yours with the taunt as the range, the further away you are means less threat. So you might need the other scrappers not running their auras at all, perhaps not even using +dam powers.
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Looks good. I don't like the most famous one that's for sure. That image above looks about right for the character.
Is that Cobie Smulders in the picture? If so she is easily and I mean easily a win for the role. -
Sorry for being late to this, i rarely frequent scrapper section but it was done before these forums were merged on eu servers in order to get the first all scrapper tf done. There were about 5 defeats across the whole stf. Method used would still work now and thats why i damn well think an all Scrapper team can Mo the STF yet. The sneaky way mentioned would be really quite unreliable now for an Mo.
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I was riding on my bike in the dark, then my headlights saw this big steel gate that I forgot sometimes gets closed.. I tried to brake, but I just didn't slow down in time and went right into it, flinging me XD. I love snow.
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I think I have quite few toons that share a powerset with 3 or 4 toons. I am not interested in being known for anything I just like concepts. If she is happy with empathy then that's good but just like Golden Girl basically has a lvl 50 Golden Girl on every server with the same sets I think that "If it was me doing that?", I would be missing out.
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Quote:One you're held, toggles surpress, everything can hit and that's it, very quickly lights out. Defense is a very good way but so is proactive defense. I have macros that allow me to auto target certain enemies as I run in, then I slap a hold on them or something before they do unto me instead.Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Remember: Most mez protection powers have a max of 12.975 magnitude protection. 4 mag-3 mezzes (boss level) will put you under. So yeah, always carry some breakfrees.
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I swear Je Saist does it deliberately. There is no need to pick up and call Je Saist out. If a number of posts oppose Je Saists reply when simply replying to the OP then that should be enough I'd of thought. With temps I think it deffo, or with good IO sets I think deffo. On SOs alone nah and with that I would agree that if a tanker on SOs soloed an AV there would be a nerf.
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I'd pretty much dislike anything I don't find challenging in some way. So with that I won't roll a /FF MM. I generally will have anything that I won't find myself falling to sleep playing or overpowering, and if I get to overpowered as in could play better I just become more insane.
I've disliked my Sonic/Sonic because I couldn't quite get the concept I wanted out of her but now fitness pool is inherent that can change. Fortunately I didn't delete. -
Quote:I am not sure what your directing too exactly but looking at the number of deaths had, then dividing it by an imaginary figure I just plucked out of the air I reckon that each scrapper TF could of been done with like 5 defeats or less.Originally Posted by mauk2
So what are BMs new abilities on this TF? New powers, new travel powers? What type/size AoE, how much damage, how often, how much range? These are the type of questions I'd get down to finding out when I get my projects out the way. Usually there is a a simple solution for an obvious problem. Think like a pvper in pve. -
This is what some people seem to need for everything:
Granite to taunt AVs.
Kin to buff said Granite.
Cold to buff entire team and debuff enemies.
FF/Cold to buff Cold and entire team.
Heal set to heal people.
Rad to -regen the AVs.
Sonic for resistance shields.
Overhyped as in overkill. -
On the european servers I struggle to remember the tankies name but he basically did not have granite. Content got done without it and it was before IOs. On a STF I told another mate to come out of granite and tank the AVs and he did and was surprised. Given what a team can contribute to the survivability of a tanker and what the tanker can dictate of a battlefield peoples cups should be half full.
