Psyonico

Alright all, I've taken it upon myself thus far to maintain the defender guide section, and I promise to keep it up for a while.

What that means is that I have been tasked with finding all of the guides again to update the links due to the new forum software. For the most part, this has been pretty easy, however, I have come across several guides that I cannot find though a couple of searches. If anyone can happen to find and post the correct links to any of the following guides (or, if you are the original post and still have a file with the info, re-post the guide and provide that link here) I would greatly appreciate it. I will submit the updated list some time on Monday, and I'd hate to have as many holes as I currently do.

Guides Missing:

General

Before you Make a Defender - By Cuddles
An Offender's Guide to Defender Primaries - By CosmicAvatar
The Defensive Defender's Guide to Secondaries - By Ladioss_Sopp

Dark Miasma
Dark Miasma - A Defender's Guide V1.0 - By Ladioss_Sopp
D3 Guide V1.0 - By Ogunsan
Dark Miasma/Dark Blast Defender (not So) Mini-guide - by Dreamwraith
The Dark Miasma/Energy Blast Guide or How to be a DeD 1.0 - By Wytch

Empathy
Advanced Guide to Empathy Defenders Tactics and Strategy - By Airesdark

Force Field
A Comprehensive Guide to Force Fields V3.0 - By Bionexus

Kinetics
A Defender's Guide to Offensive Sapping - By Hockey Parent
Kinetics/Psychic Blast Offender guide - By SyphonStrike

Radiation Emission
Comprehensive Guide to Radiation Emission - by SoulHealer
The Afflicted's Radiation Emission/Radiation Blast Starter Guide - by TheStz

Trick Arrow
Broken Arrow's Guide to Trick Arrows/Archery - by Skidrow

I know it's a long list, but I hope some of you can help me recover at least part of it.

Objective: I am having trouble logging in and staying logged in.

Subjective:
1. I find having to go through sets of sub-forums cumbersome.
2. I also happen to dislike having to click on a "Quick reply" button to be able to use the quick reply, it seems to lead to about the same amount of work as just clicking "reply".

I like short replies :P

yes, get it to 38. unfortunately, TA/A is a bit low on damage until you have OSA fully slotted (which you should by 33) and have Rain of Arrows, preferably fully slotted.

are you using Disruption and Acid arrow every fight?

Woot!

except I have to go and re-link everything in the guide section...

more to come!

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Yep would of loved therm and fire but instead we get Traps and AR??? whats up with that.

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to me it's a toss up...

Emp/Fire is a combo i've wanted ever since I became the self-proclaimed Emeril Lagasse of Empathy...

TA/AR is a combo I've wanted since I realized how brokenly powerful the combination will be.

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Empathy/Fire? What would your character name be? "Feel the Burn"?

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Wow, got a dev to reply to me without directly calling them out...

and while I like the name (maybe "I Feel The Burn" and use Absorb Pain way too much?) It will be a cooking-related character :P

believe it or not, very little has changed...

hmm...

actually... I don't think control sets have had any changes since the great AoE control fiasco that happened while you were still playing.

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Yep would of loved therm and fire but instead we get Traps and AR??? whats up with that.

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to me it's a toss up...

Emp/Fire is a combo i've wanted ever since I became the self-proclaimed Emeril Lagasse of Empathy...

TA/AR is a combo I've wanted since I realized how brokenly powerful the combination will be.

without gimping myself, my WP/Mace tank sits at capped HP and 796% regen from a single foe in RttC

it was very expensive.

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Fixt.
Empaths suck.

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That's just, like, your opinion man. I can ruin your day a minute and a half at a time (Stupid Auras should be perm-able!) </3

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Nah, Empaths suck.

also, badstorm, how do you not have a page on Paragonwiki? this comes up enough.

ice cream, sure.

the devs don't want to have more than 1 auto-power because it would make botting easier.

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There is no "trinity" in this game.

There are -however- people who have never been out of Atlas Park versus people who have.

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I dunno... I rather like the trinity of Defender-Defender-Defender

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I predict purple prices will go WAY down come I16, so I don't see that being such a problem anymore.

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care to explain this prediction?

The devs said when merits were released that in order to keep purples as rare as they want, the merit cost for a purple would be so high that it wouldn't be worth them putting the effort into it.

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what is the new deal these days? i dunno if i should roll a Rad/Rad Def, A Controller of some type or a DDD...any suggestions?

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Yeah, roll what you ENJOY playing.

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this, or just play a rad/sonic.

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and by level 8 you'll enjoy it.

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never play healer

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I couldn't agree more.

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Regen gets Quick Recovery at level 4 >.>

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but... that's twice as high!

Rad/Son is always a good choice.

Cold, I feel, needs some love, because it provides some very nice buffs to your teams, as well as some very nasty debuffs for enemies, perhaps Cold/Son?

I've become very fond of Thermal, as of late, so perhaps a thermal controller would be a good route to take, I know that whenever my Ice/Therm corr gets brought out the team has a very easy time doing anything, pair it up with Fire/illusion/Mind and you've got good damage potential, with Earth/Mind/Plant and you'll have good control potential.

it actually more than partially makes up for it.

without regard to damage resistance, Fissure has better DPS than Fireball.

No, don't get your hopes up, this is a question, not a download.

I decided to add Cold Domination over to Controllers so that I can start working on a build for my dreamed Ice/Cold Controller when I16 hits, when I came across 2 problems, hopefully someone can help me out here.

1. I could have sworn there was a way to copy an entire powerset, at least, in an older version, however, I don't seem to see that option anymore, does anyone know if it was just hidden somewhere?

2. When I attempt to just make a new powerset, no matter what I put for the "powerset name" I get a "this name is invalid" message, preventing me from creating the set. Any thoughts?

Thanks guys!

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It's an AoE centered around the target, and it has a pretty short range, so you have to get pretty close to the target to activate it. Hence Close (Targeted AoE).

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this

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*sigh*

I'm still hoping for some kind of Archery Blaster secondary that doesn't send the powers team into fits of uncontrollable pointing and laughing at my expense.



There's got to be SOME kind of thematic match to Archery for Blasters. I hate having to break theme. Every other power makes no sense---to me, at least. Maybe something in the new list of PPs.

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if people laugh at Devices, they don't know what they're missing.

honestly, you don't need AP. I'd say get HO at 2 and Lightning Bolt at 16, then if you really want, get AP at 47, since it's really only useful in end game content with high spike damage (like the STF) but even then, it's overkill 90% of the time, grab Temp Invul instead.

Rather than Acro, you should probably just slot a -kb IO in SJ.

I'd get assault a lot earlier

Rather than the LotG def/rech in Veng, I'd go for a Membrane Exposure HO, it'll give you better enhancement values.

other than that, you look pretty solid.

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How exactly is Mind Control not synergestic with Empathy?

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How does being able to affect the thoughts and actions of others translate to the ability to close and heal wounds and restore the recently dead to life?

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Mind Control is a Psychic-based control set. Empathy is a Psychic-based buff/healing set. Thematically, they work for all intents and purposes. I don't see why you feel the need to include something that will, functionally, end up replicating similar, if not the exact same effects, to Empathy when it already exists. Infact, they've done that already - it's called 'Pain Domination'.

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There's nothing "psychic" about Empathy or Pain Domination, you're actually physically healing your targets, not just making them think they're better.

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Pain Domination is entirely based on mental control. You don't actually 'heal' anyone, you just make them ignore any pain they might be feeling.

Kind of like how someone hopped up on PcP can demonstrate feats of 'invulnerability'.

Which is why it's a villainous powerset.

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so, are you saying Pain Domination is a drug dealer set?

TK and Force Bubble.

Force Bubble is invaluable on STFs for dealing with repairmen, it's also pretty nifty on ITFs when you're trying to keep all those meleers away from you.

TK gets less use, honestly, but it's nice for stacking extra mag onto a tough target.

nope, never has.

There was talk about a Stealth Strike like ability, which is where the text came from, but it was never implemented.