Oathbound_Too

Oh I know, but the fact remains that we don't have any idea of how long it will be before the next proliferations happen, nor do we the players know what changes are going to be made to the set, if any.

If they half way gut Dark Miasma (say to use those powers for Dark Control) then I probably won't give a crap about it, unless it gets some good powers for replacements.

The whole reason I want Dark Miasma for Controllers is so that I can use it (particularly Fearsome Stare) to fill in for Gravity's lackluster control. If they were to remove FS from Dark Miasma (without replacing it with some sort of controllery effect) then that completely destroys it for me.

Thus I'm not going to let myself get too excited until we know the details.

Honestly there's no reason why a Control set couldn't have a single target disorient. Just none of them currently do. (also Stun Grenade is already an aoe disorient)

While I prefer new shinies, I'm perfectly fine with new sets recycling some powers. I don't think I'd care much for new sets made entirely of recycled powers though.

I really don't want to get TOO excited over this, it could still be a long way off and we don't know what, if any, changes will be made... but still, Grav/Dark here I come!

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CURSES! We've been discovered!

*smoke bomb*

*makes his escape*

That's a lot of grenades.... with none of them actually dealing (more than utterly trivial) damage.

That just ain't right.

If you hit the Upgrade Plot button instead of the Edit Base option when in your entrance room, it'll list your total items by category, decorative/energy/etc.

It's under the Blaster heading in the I21 patch notes.

I'm kind of in the same boat. I mean, powers are fun and exciting. Slots are meh and boring.

Getting new powers is more engaging, because it requires adaptation of your attack chains, alteration of your power trays (if you're anal like me and have to have powers is specific orders), etc etc.

New slots, while yes they improve my powers which is always a good thing, don't require any thought or adjustment beyond a one time "Should I slot for recharge, or end redux?" and then you're right back to playing the exact same way you did for the last 2-3 levels.

Shockwave is a power in the Sonic Blast set. (as well as the Claws set)

Ranged boosted Tenebrous Tentacles comes out to ~64feet(assuming no range slotting in the power itself), which definitely makes it easier to utilize the two cones together... at least for 1 of the 7 possible Dark/* combinations.

I think the most reasonable Dark/ builds are going to be Dark/Energy and Dark/Psi. Energy gives you the added range to make ATorrent's Knockback not conflict so much with Tentacles. Psi gives you an extra cone so you can just skip ATorrent.

I'm firmly of the opinion that Abyssal Torrent was poorly thought out. ("Let's take one of the set's primary AoEs and staple on a power most people skip, with an effect many people can't freaking stand!" "That's a GREAT idea!")

It's the 80ft range that's the problem IMO. You've got an extremely long and fairly narrow cone that knocks mobs away from you, that's supposed to be part of your AoE attack chain... when your only OTHER AoE is another cone with HALF the range.

It doesn't. Make. Sense.

With the all caps, I would always read it as people yelling. (Yes, I actually read it as being louder in my brain.)

I very much agree with this. The character just ended up being pulled in so many directions, with so many conflicting motivations that she seemed completely off her rocker.

Really I think it would depend on the specifics of the encounter.

Most likely though a few demonstrations of the marines' "Magic" and the Romans would surrender without much need for real fighting.

Eh. For me the term "Support" as it pertains to archetypes(classes) had it's genesis in CoH, as every other game I'd ever played (or heard of at the time) didn't have Support classes, they had Healers.

Thus when I say Support, I always mean it in a sense as it applies to all Buff/Debuff/Heal powersets, Storm and TA(OSA) included.

Would I play a Storm/Storm or Storm/* dual support? Highly unlikely. I don't even like Storm as a Defender set. IMO it's far more useful on Controllers, particularly where the set's two damage dealing pets are concerned, as most(many) control sets have ways of preventing the inevitable scatter those very pets cause.

Sadly yes.


Yeah, really I can only see myself pairing it with /Mental to fill in for the AoEs, which works fine with me as I have a Dark/Psi defender that could use a reroll.

I class that under Magic.

Take this (Post-war exposition) put it on a small ship, say a Nova Class so that you can have the main bridge crew and a set number of recurring crewmembers instead of a constant parade of random extras.

That way they can develop stories beyond just "What's the Captain et al. up to today?" You can have various episodes that focus on say, the Science team or the night shift, without having to waste time each episode setting up who the heck these people are, and it makes sense that you would see the same group of junior officer types again, cause of the small crew size.

It being on a ship gives you the freedom to move about encountering various happenings and keeps the setting fresh and interesting, but the Nova class, like Voyager's Intrepid Class, is capable of planetary landing so you can have the ship also serve as a base of operations for planetbound episodes.

Given the era it would be set in you could also include representatives from non-Federation powers if you wanted. Perhaps what with it being a period of relative cooperation between the powers, you could have a Romulan exchange officer. Maybe your mission is part of the Cardassian Relief effort, so you need a special liaison to the Detapa Council on board. This gives the option of developing storylines detailing cultural/moral/ethical transition and conflict between peoples.

Tons of options you could work with.