Ninelives

it won't be, but there will be another form of it.

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_Castle_ seemed to confirm CoD with his last post

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Seemed is the operative word there. I confirm nothing.

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I just wanted to remind everyone the _Castle_ created and submited the design brief for Stalker dark/dark (i remember it mentioned in Beta)
(he did this *after* the 'stalker techno defence set' was supposedly going to be released next issue)

As such it is my beleif that it has probably been changed to really gel with the stalker playstyle.

Who is to say that Dark Stalkers doesnt have CoD as their number 1 power ?

or that Oppresive gloom is now placating minions ?

I think that dark is going to have some very interesting 'utility' powers, and maybe something we havnt seen before, possibly building off the new stuff we saw in ninjitsu

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didn't i post that?!!?! are you all ignoring my posts this is bad. very bad.

my build that i made on the beta board (that was erased), had taken CoF and made it a 9th teir power.... and basicly, it was closer to ninja than the EA-ish builds mentioned.

the red name that posted the problems for the scrapper to stalker conversion. So i kinda just went with his format (heh heh heh, i had red help ;p), toggles pbaoes were the probs he pointed out. So i turned them to clicks and utilities.

then his post and mine were gone within 5 minutes.

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States,

Could you confirm if there are *any* new power sets in I7?

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i guess that is better than nothing.

pistol domies..... yummy!

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Quick question:

Is Caltrops + (Trip Mine * 3) a "One Shot" or is it 4 attacks?

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don't forget TP foe!

my wife and i play together alot.

my sorta plays.... hey is one of those Atlas people. oh well.

I like the /elec, /dark, /sonic idea. you able to cast the sonic/ debuffs on the /elec's since they will be in the middle of the mob. and it leaves the other cones attacks to work on the outside.

rolling kin/dark now.

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I agree that Psi isn't a good choice. But I can't understand why you think /Sonic lacks AoEs.

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Minor damage isn't good enough for a damage AoE IMO. Sonic Blast only has 1 AoE (beyond Wail) that deals more than Minor damage. Also only Howl is listed as having -Res as a secondary effect out of the 3 non-nuke AoEs.

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Good points. I'm glad someone is keeping me honest here.

But consider the Resistance debuff. I think it more than makes up for having more minor damage attacks.

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I'd still prefer having a ranged AoE and a PBAoE simply due to the added amount of targets you can hit with the target limit rules (16 for Ranged AoE vs 10 for PBAoE/Cone). Thus my preference for Electrical Blast on at least half the team. Ball Lightning has a 60% advantage over Howl before Howl starts debuffing.



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i could have sworn that Novas were 16 and everything else was 10 except for taunts which are 5.

and if you are right and ranged aoe's are 16, then what is the amount of nova?

Don't get me wrong, i like /elec because you get a second to do what ever when they are shaking after getting hit, but the themes seem to be -res. And with /sonic getting that, /sonic will do more damage over time.

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I think a better team would be:

sonic/sonic defender

ff/dark defender

ill/sonic controller

earth/ff controller

dark/dark defender

fire/fire tank

warshade

peacebringer

What do you think?

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sure, maybe. but you would have to have all the players on the same page, you leave no room for error, and you have a lot of heroes weak in the beginning which would hold back the team.

Balanced, yes, good job even. better? no.

the tank mage theory from the start is taking the weakest solo AT and making it the strongest team AT.

i would have to say tank mage(all armor defenders) is the best idea so far, next would be the rad team, then the horde team(pet controllers).

res debuffs work off total.

i wanna do this too. Virtue is my home, but pro(server) is fine with me. I love these theme'd teams.

So in a perfect 8 would consist of 4 kins, 2 sonics and 2 ff's?

i suggest 3 leadership powers to cover the open spots.

at least 3 /sonics. i like /dark's aoe's. /elec's is ok, but i like short circuit, so i will not be taking /elec.


Theme. hmmm, i suggest, wizards met power rangers as far as we are all dressed the same but rock out to different colors.