PapaSlade

Did I miss where someone explains exactly what this event is??


Aha...further down the page by LSK.

Bit of a late post but Tanker Tuesday is scheduled for a return to Triumph in about a half hour.

As always bring your tank and meet at the IP gate in Kings Row...8p.m. Central start time!

Bah....work kills another TT for me. Twice in one month. Hopefully next time. I would have do that Synapse too, for some odd reason I actually don't mind that TF.

The next time somebody at work, who was suspended during the day, walks into my office to report an "injury", that he says happened two days before, I am just going to fire on the spot. No good lying jerk cost me a TT running him to the late hours clininc to prove there was nothing wrong with him.

Cya all next time...even if I have to add to the unemployment numbers to do it.

I need another round of free transfers so I can spread some of my tanks around. Tuesdays suck when I don't have a tank on the server of the week.

Not too bad GG. Only did a quick look at the other responses so this might have been asked already but...where the heck does GG keep those fancy proto steel hand cuffs while wearing that outfit??

Well, that's what testing is for I would just need to try it out and see with the hold in place. The hold being there would certainly not keep me from trying the set but until I get the chance to power it up I still lean towards the -dam with -res. Stays true to the theme of the set, lets you lower your end cost on the power, and gives you a little boost against your Boss, EB and higher targets.

I understand the theory of the hold in rad cloud and can understand the appeal.

Aside from my issue with it on brutes, I think it will lend itself to a slower playstyle. What I mean by this is certain sets like fire, electric maybe even dark lend themseves to a certain run around the room and gather as many spawns as the aggro cap will allow. Let them chase you to a spot, mass execution, repeat.

The hold mechanic means tick of damage, aggro, hold, no chase the tank (or brute) or at best a delayed chase.

You risk making a tank that plods from spawn to spawn or must taunt everything to them. I am not saying its a bad playstyle but it may not be the most popular. I personally like a slower pace that kills more and does not skip through maps, but I feel much in the minority on that scale.

The hold will effect more than your mitigation. It could really influence the pace at which that set plays, which I think would influence its popularity.

Well there can be another way to think about damage mitigation. Enervating field and Fallout use -dam and -res. Attach those to the aura and have the -regen in the tier 8 and you are in effect mitigating damage by reducing the damage foes in range can dish out and increasing the rate at which you can eliminate them through the -res and -regen.

I am not sure how the mechanics work for layering debuffs. Is it possible to say if a foe is being defuffed by the aura from player 'X" it cannot be debuffed by the same aura from another player? That way you can make the debuff significant enough to help a soloer yet not crazy when 4 Rad armor tanks are standing next to each other and the debuff would be the same because -dam and -res are not enhancable. Does a 10% damage debuff equal a +10% resist to all damage for foes within the aura?

Not saying I would go with 10% because I don't know if that is overpowered. It's just a thought, although -10% damage and -10% resist might be a starting point for discussion.

Ok, sorry for taking so long to get back to this Rangle.

First, I want to address the toxic vs. energy issue. In my opinion, toxic works for this set. I relate it to Rad Corr debuffs which weaken foes. Radiation basically weakens and poisons a persons body. So while our tank/brute may be emmitting radioactive energy the effect it has is essentially toxic to our foes. I would almost prefer to see a -regen element in ranged rad attacks instead of the -def but that is a far different arguement. Again, just my opinion. I do not see an issue with the toxic focus of the set and infact prefer it.

As far as the set itself. Rangle has teamed with me on numerous occasions and I am sure I have mentioned my "wing it" approach to building toons, so for those who do not know me, I have spent all of about five minutes playing around on mids. I am not a min/maxer. So everything I am going to relate about this set comes from the point of veiw of somebody who is deciding what to roll and is flipping back and forth in the creator comparing sets to get a feel. Granted, I have about 6 years of playing and looking to go on but you get the drift.

With all that said. I like what I see. I do think the set is on an even keel, no big holes, but not uber to anything, except maybe toxic. Has some psi resist but not a ton. I think it would be functional and add a demension to the melee set armors. Might be as close as you can get to a debuff armor set.

Since I play brutes, a lot, I have a concern with the hold mechanic in Radiation Cloud but I can see it working for tanks. Not sure what to do with that. Perhaps the power changes to do some combination of -dam, -regen, -def, or -tohit and is called particle decay because your aura causes the particles that make up your foes to decay, weakening them a little across the board. I have no idea what values would be used.

As far as end use goes, this is what I think:

Tier 1- .21
Tier 2- .52
Tier 3- .21
Tier 4- .26
Tier 6- .26
Tier 8- .32 (perhaps .52 but not likely)

Base end use of 1.78. I can see raising the tier 8 but find it hard to punish your end use for a power that is supposed to aid your recovery. This is where a smart dev would balance end use vs. recovery and I suck at math.

By comparison, Dark would use 1.41 for the four base armors and the damage aura, 1.93 if you add the fear aura in. Fire sits at 1.04 to run 2 shields and its aura. Electric is at 1.28 for its 3 shields and aura. So this version of Rad Armor comes in at the high end of the scale, but you get what you pay for.

So aside from the hold mechanic there is not much I would mess with. Looks like it took some work Rangle. I hope somebody with some pull actually takes a look at it.

Oh no, I didn't see a horse head! Please let there be a horse head. My Apocalypse Pony will be very disappointed to not have a horse head

At first glance I like this very much. I am a big fan of resistance armors. I would definately play it. I will need to take a longer look when I am not so sleepy to give you some constructive feedback Rangle.

Hopefully servers will be back up in time.

Hmmmmm...Tough choice for me.

I play alot redside and prefer the feel of the zones. I seem to always want to get to Shark for the arcs. From Doc Buzzsaw and Maros to the newest one from the contact whose name escapes me but for some reason he likes to stand knee deep in water on a broken down dock. Lots of good stories and well done missions on Shark. Really for most of the redside zones.

Blueside I am not sure I really have a favorite. I find steel, skyway, and founders to be rather bland. The Shard is unique but I dread the distances on many of my toons. I would probably have to go with Faultline. I like the nooks and crannies, the tunnels and abandoned base dig sites, and it has a good flow to the stories.

In Preatoria, I like Neutropolis. Looks most like redside which suits me. It looks like there should be gangs of destroyers and resistance roaming the streets. Unlike Imperial, or especially Nova, which are so bright and shiny and full of cops that it seems astounding there are any evildoers out and about.

Bah...Blizzard played havok with connection last night not to mention trying to finish Algebra homework...that class is the bane of my existence. Thankfully only 4 more weeks.

Was actually kinda a cool to have a good old fashioned blizzard around here. Its been 10-12 years since we had a proper one. Although I imagine I will regret the 3 hours shoveling the drive when I try to get out of bed tomorrow morning.

Cya all next week on Justice!

Real life may give me a short reprieve and allow me to make this weeks TF. I just have to decide which of the half dozen toons, that are short Numina for the accolade, to bring. 1930 = 730 pm right??

I really wanted to smash some stuff on BM tonight...what is the world coming to when a 40 year old man has to do Algebra home work instead of play video games. Sad state of affairs I must say.