Oathbound_Too

The solo/small team bonus basically brings Defender damage up to par with Corruptors minus Scourge (assuming SO build).

Figure 1ds is base 55.61damage(or is it 55.62? I can never remember).

Corruptor: 0.75*55.61=41.71damage
Enhanced: 41.71*1.95=81.33damage

Defender: 0.65*55.61=36.15damage
Enhanced: 36.15*1.95=70.49damage
30% Vigilance: 36.15*2.25=81.34damage

You'd really think I'd have tested this first hand, given that my namesake character is a bubbler, but I havent. I believe though, that they're Ally Targeted AoEs now, not PBAoEs. Important to note, they still don't buff you.

Oh don't get me wrong, it's not a great power and has the worst DPA of any of the Radiation AoEs, but that has more to do with it's poor damage than it's activation.

I don't blame people for skipping it (though I really don't like cones or Knockback very much, so I always pick NBomb over Electron Haze as my 2nd AoE).

I guess it's just a pet peeve of mine.

I do recall there being discussion of making clicky mez protections usable when mezzed, but so far we've yet to see anything come of that.

Aside from Clarion, Kheldian Dwarf form is usable while mezzed too.

Ya know, people keep saying that, but it's not really true.

Every single source I can find says that Neutron Bomb's animation is a positively speedy 1.67s seconds long. While it may look just like that 3+second long animation from Repulsion Bomb/Bonfire it's not. It may still be kind of slow in actually dealing damage because the "bomb" has a travel time to your target, but it's not because of animation time.

I have honestly no idea. I... don't think so. It's not like it could be exploited to farm the badges, given the extreme recharge on all the HP crashing powers.

Does anyone know if the self damage from Absorb Pain, or Energy Transfer counts for either badge? If those do, then I don't see why these wouldn't.

Honestly on my warshade there were literally NO powers I wanted to get at level 41and up. So yes, I'd have had plenty of room in my build for them (granted this was pre-Inventions, so I wasn't picking powers to use a set mules).

Really the idea is to let people specialize as one of their forms, not to let them enhance the forms in addition to their current builds. So you would build specifically to include those powers and the slots they need, not try to just shoehorn them into an existing build.

I've always thought that Kheldian Human powers should have filled completely different roles than their forms. Support for Human PBs and Control for Human Shades. So that each of the 3 forms were really unique from each other. (Obviously it's years too late for that to happen.)

Couldn't be as bad as some of the Ice creams I've seen on Iron Chef/Iron Chef America... Crab Sorbet, and Trout (or was it Tuna) come to mind.

::BLECH::

I think Captain America is part of the reason they wouldn't want a real Athlete looking guy for Hawkeye, cause Cap is supposed to be a super soldier, so you can't have some random Joe with a bow be as buff as him.

What that does is reset you to full HP, then drop you to 50%. It's a way to make it have a 50% hitpoint crash without killing you (if you have less than 50% hitpoints when it crashes). (Yes this means that if for example you only have 30% hitpoints left when it crashes, the crash will actually "heal" you by 20%.)

All HP crash powers (Unstoppable, etc) function like this... they just normally drop you to much lower HP.

Post i21 Lightform CAN be made perma.


Something I'd kind of like to see for Khelds is for them to get 2 Archetype specific APPs, one with powers only usable in Nova form, and one with powers only usable in Dwarf form. So that those players who want to flesh out one form or the other can do so. This also could help solve the problem of Perma-Lightform Human PBs making White Dwarf kind of obsolete.

Nova form could get a tier3 blast, a couple soft/single target controls and a utility power or two.

Dwarf form could get say, a high damage melee attack, a bit more survivability, a taunt aura type power and a bit of utility.

BAH! That's what I was going to ask.

First thing that strikes me is that Sonic and Immobilizes just doesn't fit in my brain. I'd think a Sonic control set would more closely resemble Mind Control, substituting Sleeps for the Single and AoE "Snares."

Nothing really to say here, seems fine.

See Sonic Snare.

This power comes MUCH earlier than the equivalent AoE disorients in other sets, and given the abysmal accuracy, short duration, and long recharge of AoE controls, it doesn't really improve gameplay by coming so early in the set (and may in fact cause annoyance because without being well slotted they're really terrible). This should be pushed back to level 12 (the 6th power slot in the set) so that at least the player can immediately slot it with Dual Origins, instead of crappy Training Origins.

This is a fairly interesting power, and given that the set's AoE controls are all/mostly PBAoEs is a nice way of increasing survivability when you close to use said powers.

I'm not a fan of the name being Sooo close to Disruption Field though, even if it's obviously the inspiration for it. I'd probably change the name to something like Reverberating Aura.

There's already a power in Sonic Blast named Shriek, and also already a Sonic themed single target Disorient, named Screech, so this power should just be Screech. (The damage of Screech can easily be increased to the appropriate value.)

Other than not caring for the name, I see nothing wrong here. (I'd suggest Cacophony.)

The word Dispersion in CoH is only really used for the FF and Sonic PBAoE buffs, so it feels really wonky for it to be assigned to this power. Besides names, if feels like a knock-off of Liquify to me, and the team mez protection just seems tacked on for no reason.

A pet seems really out of place for a Sonic themed set. I'm not sure really what would make a good replacement though.




Other:

It seems like a Confuse power would be fitting a sonic set. Kind of a classic hearing-voices-making-the-guy-paranoid type effect.

Carnival Master Illusionists can be problematic too (more so if you get a spawn with 2 in it) once they summon their pets you've got 6 NPCs all with Holds stacking against you (The Master, her 4 Illusionists and her Dark Servant).

The only two times I've ever been mezzed on a character while running a mez shield are once with my WP Tanker against 2 Master Illusionists, and once on my Warshade (Dwarf form, which actually has better mez protection than Melee ATs (outside tier9s)) against Inkmen.

It can be an unpleasant surprise.

A fire blaster also isn't toggle dependant, like numerous support sets are, and have pseudo-mez protection built into their lower tier attacks.

To solve the mez bit I'd suggest having mag4 Hold/Sleep/Disorient protection built into the Inherent, in a similar vein as the SoA passives provide just enough protection so that you're not being constantly detoggled, but not enough for it to help against high end mobs, or larger spawns of mezzing minions (which you should probably be facing with a team anyhow).

Also, defender level damage is way too low if they've only got Corruptor level support. Think about it, WHY would you play this instead of just playing a Corruptor? They have the same buffs/debuffs, but worse damage. The marginal resistance/defense of the inherent just wouldn't be enough of an incentive, particularly with IOs, where just about everyone has the capability of hitting the defense Softcap already.

If they're to remain limited to Corruptor/Controller level support, and not have the safety of staying at range like either of those ATs can, then I'd suggest damage closer to that of Dominators (0.95Ranged, 1.05Melee IIRC).

If you were to increase their support (say to a 0.9modifier, Controllers/Corruptors are 0.75) then their damage could remain lower, but it'd still need to be higher than defender damage mods, say 0.75ranged and 0.85melee.

I'd also suggest the secondary be a full on Melee set, not an Assault set. My reason being twofold, 1) I don't think Assault sets are really different enough from standard ranged sets for the AT to be distinct from Defenders/Corruptors, and 2) There are more options for Melee sets, where there's a fairly limited number of Assault sets available. You could replace the Taunt power in the melee sets with the thematically appropriate Armor toggle (Dark Embrace for Dark Melee, Temporary Invulnerability for Super Strength, Frozen Armor for Ice Melee, etc.).

Much better, yes.

Wholeheartedly yes. Jeremy Renner is a hottie. Plus he's a local boy ta boot. (at least for me)

I'm scared too...