Psymate_Dayton

This thread is a great read for a boy like me, as I’ve been recently tinkering with my Rad/Rad Corrupter’s build. I was getting a little obsessive about cramming a AH in every attack; to the detriment of some really great set bonuses.

Time to pump the breaks…and go back to Mid’s drawing board.

These suggestions are sincerely superb.

It just feels ~right~ for poison to have a DoT componet built into the debuffing portion of the set. Odd that the devs didn't roll that into the original concept.

As much as I’m a theme ***** with my toons, I’ve also deleted a few through the years due to underperformance. I've had friends and SG mates inform me that it'd make me cry, and I've read bad press on the powerset, so I asked the question kind of expecting this affirmation.
I can repurpose my concept to something else. Thanks for the cold, hard truth, gang.

/Poison is one of the few powersets I’ve never dabbled with. For the first time, I have a concept that I feel meshes with it thematically (except for that funky ‘toss a ball of ectoplasm to heal someone’ of course). But alas, I am steeped in trepidation - I’ve read the criticisms towards /Poison.

I’d love to hear the opinions of those who’ve played the set.

My Time/NRG Defender has had his eye on the KB-to-KD set since it was first whispered. So we know that can acquire one random IO every 20 hours. Here’s to hoping that they’re tradable.

And I just respec'd the snipe out of my Time/NRG build. O.O I gave it the ol’ college try, but it was too laborious to use. His build already has Tactics, perma-Farsight, and Kismet…now to cram snipe back into the fold. I suppose it won’t be as crucial to utilize Manticores/Extreme Measures to lessen the interrupt time anymore.

What the heck am I going to do if they give us crashless nukes? Skipping the nuke and snipe to pursue tough and weave was always an easy decision for me.

So many great suggestions by so many great people.

The only thing I can think to add? Crashless nukes for all! The crash is an archaic mechanic initially thought up when the level cap was 40, correct? This is a different game now. Why not let Blasters/Defenders/Corrupters go in and clear a room every couple minutes without and endurance crash?

2nd vote for Dark Armor.
My DA/TW Tank, Alistair Ywain, has usurped my other characters as my new main. When build right, it is fantastically fun to play. After getting my build polished and tight, I had Dechs look under the hood for some fine tuning. This combo has massacred my years of altitis.

Profit-
You just echoed what I’ve said to my CoH friends and family for years: Give Tanks a higher aggro headcount than all other ATs.

Hellava good time, too. Mucho gratitude for all the energy & time you put into your WAVEs.

I like the idea. Will these be live by this Saturday evening?

Great idea, Neph. I'll check with the wife to ensure we don't have any obligations that night. If we don't, and you have room, I'd love to join this with my Fortunata: Major Turmoil.

I hope you're able to get your R/L affairs in order quickly and to your satisfaction.

Peace, love, and chicken grease.

Perhaps: Post updates/reminders to the events Armeros has posted on the Guardian Facebook page. The activity on the Guardian FB compared to the activity here is like night and day.

It was a nice surprise to be given a LotG +Def/+Recharge. I just came along for the fun!

I certainly hope you feel better soon, Kragothe. You're easily one of the most polite and patient people I've ever had the honor of grouping with.

Heya Kragothe.

The wife & I still haven't done the new Trial. How does its intensity rank compared to the BAF & LAM? I believe I read that it gave addtional Astral/Emperial Merits, so I've assumed it's, ahem, hectic.

WTG MorrGan!

Count me in with my Fire/Dark corrupter, the dastardly Handsome Devil.

Also: Please add my wife playing her Fire/Fire dominator, Sultana Wildfire.

Heya Wei-

1) /agree on Radiation Armor. It wasn’t that long ago that I read similar ideas like yours on the Tanker forums and loved the ideas being hacky-sacked around. I always hope that the devs see posts like these; where our player community outlines and articulates an idea so meticulously.

2) /agree with this, too. I have a dual blades Brute that’s a hoot to play…that Vital Strike cone always brings a maniacal smile to my face. I understand the arguments regarding keeping DBs as the only combo set for uniqueness, but I’m a greedy boy and want more. I erroneously expected the Kinetic Melee to be another combo based set…how wrong I was.

3) and 4) Crap, imma ‘Yes man’ this morning. I was drinking a beer, smoking a cigar and talking to @Supafreak on my front porch about similar ideas over the weekend. Give us an elite/hell level/incarnate zone where all level shifts are applied (thus our advancement matters) and let us compete against the tough stuff. This could be used as an avenue of acquiring threads without having to initiate a Trial. Don’t get me wrong, I dig those Trials, but they get repetitive and I’d like a chance to acquire threads with Action Agent running in small groups & solo.


As for my immediate ideas?

Tinker with Blaster’s Devices so some powers are on par with the other sets in terms of usefulness and desire. Trip Mine should have the same setup time and be uninterruptable like the Trip Mine in Traps. Gun Drone shouldn’t have the outlandish endurance cost or should it be interrupted - like the Malta gun drone.

Grant shield defenders/corrupters (I’m looking at you Ice Domination & Thermal) the ability to shield themselves. It honestly won’t upset the balance at all; it’d grant those ATs more survivability in solo/small group format.

Allow Pain Dom & Empathy the ability to Fortitude/Clear Mind or Painbringer/Enforced Morale themselves. These ATs would be so much more fun to play if they could increase their dps/survivability themselves and *gasp* grant themselves status resistance. Would it break the balance? Hell no. Make a pain dom, traps and dark corrupter. Play all three. You’ll see for yourself. If they could only cast some of those tasty buffs on themselves, it’d make the powerset so much more attractive.

Happy, happy Birthday to you, to you,
Happy, happy Birthday to YOU!

I'd like to thank BackFire & my pal, Supa for running this yesterday on Guardian. The wife & I really enjoyed running these story rich missions and intend on running them again.

Which leads me to a question...

Would it be too presumptuous of me to create a toon on Triumph so I could run with your story group occasionally?

Ahoy!

I’m Chimp and can be reached/virtually hugged/spanked/taunted/berated at @Chimp. I’m a comic book enthusiast, so jumped on board CoH as soon as Beta and was in game at launch. I took a hellava long break from 2007-2010 to complete some important items on my checklist like working the house and getting married…the wife is now playing BTW. ;o)

My favorite & main toon is the death defying Action Agent, a fully level adjusted Martial Arts/Shield scrapper who some may remember from BAF/Lambda trials. Despite their grinding repetition and laggy reputation, I still like doing the Trials and appreciate what they’ve done to expand my global friends list. I’ve meat some truly awesome people.

I’m typically grouping with the wife and/or with @SupaFreak, but really try to make myself available to requests for assistance...so if you ever get that mission that tells you that you’ll need two or more people to click on a glowie at the same time, perhaps help with an odious AV or GM or just need another for a SF/TF, send me a tell @Chimp.

I've heard about the AE story group and would love to join you all, provided I get home in time after church.

Hilarious. The song got stuck in my head.