Psyonico

nice guide, it's good to see this sort of thing for sets that haven't changed much.

here's where you argument falls completely apart.

I happen to like shadowfall *just* as it is.

So therefore, we have a group of players who do not like the graphics, and a group of players that do.

Now, since these graphics aren't causing any physical harm (see: Sonic Resonance) which do you think the devs would rather do

A: Leave the graphics the way they are, meaning no need to put extra work into it and annoying the group that doesn't like the graphics

B: Change the graphics, meaning time spent not developing new content and annoying the group of people that like the graphics the way they are

Now obviously neither of these is ideal, but those are the only 2 options, so it's a matter of a lesser of 2 evils.

I16: Yeah, we're still better than that other hero MMO

yeah, if it wasnt for the insane end cost, I'd say that TK is overpowered.

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the set really doesnt take off until u get acid mortar and FFG imo.

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FFG, the later of the two powers, becoming available at 8...

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Silly me, I always attributed the domination to the cold not to the foe.

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Mind doesn't need a secondary... it's that good.

I solo'd my Mind/FF a fair amount of his career, and FF is probably one of the worst secondaries for soloing.

Storm brings a few interesting things to the solo controller, and since it's mostly about debuffs/controls, you can use almost everything in the set (just not O2 boost) Mine's currently 23 and rather a beast (though a bit tight on power selections)

Mind/Kin, very strong combo. Mass Hypnosis -> Fulcrum Shift -> Terrify is just sick. That being said, I deleted mine at about 22 because it's a *very* clicky combo.

Therm is not really a solo set, however, it's better than FF because you get a couple debuffs at 35 and 38. Not sure how it works with trollers, my only experience is on a Corr, but it's a very solid solo set starting at 38.

TA is a good set, Mind/TA brings a stupid amount of control, but I think it's probably a bit more team oriented, it can work as solo...


So... there you have it, I know I didn't say which one to roll... but... they're all so good!

not gonna happen,

a cross bow uses a different animation than a bow, meaning they'd have to re-do the entire set for the option...

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Telekinesis is a low-magnitude, autohit, toggle hold.

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of course, by low magnitude, you mean Mag 3, the same as controller ST and AoE holds.

I'd like this even more than just having my 9 different colored attacks for my energy blast defender!

hmm, maybe something else

sacrifice one to make the rest stronger, increased defense/resistance, to-hit, damage, the higher tier you sacrifice, the more powerful the buff is?

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Stalker - Shields or fire melee

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Shields doesn't mesh with most stalkers sets or the stalker theme. Fire melee functionally double but breaks theme since how stealthy is a man on fire?

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Where there's fire, there's smoke...and smoke hides just as well as being invisible. I could easily see a Fiery Melee or Fiery Aura Stalker work. Especially if Placate and Hide involved vanishing into a swirling mass of smoke and embers, and then reappearing in a sudden blazing flash when you strike, like a backdraft.

That could be pretty darn cool.

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I think we know what BaB will be proposing for the next round of proliferation

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Well, that's useless.

If you've been playing for that long, you already know each and every map in the game *anyway*.

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unless it includes zones... which would be spiffy. no more having to run around trying to reveal Perez Park so you can use vidiots to find the entrance to a mission.

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PC_Guy

Storm and Sonic, both of which debuff, and fighting at high level. I've already said that debuff sets seem to do fairly well, and that the problem exists more significantly at lower level.


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Orly? for the most part i would consider the lower levels to be much easier to solo since for the most part all the baddies are pretty strait forward i.e. skulls, hellions, trolls. Also im pretty sure psyonico has a video of his emp/nrg(?) soloing a few EBs and missions if you would like for me to find and post that as well.

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you are correct

Fruit-Salad vs. Heracles, on invincible
Fruit-Salad vs Chimera, I want to say this was on unyielding
Fruit-Salad vs. a Carnie paper mission set to invincible.

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REALLY hope that it is an oversight, I really dislike the animation/colors of hasten and super speed... so much.

[/ QUOTE ]The list on the overview page is the stuff they've got ready. There's still time between now and i16 to get more sets in, and I think BAB said they're working on Traps already.

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hmm... what exactly will there be to customize in traps?

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Khan?

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Nahk! (only, this time, Pinky says it instead of Kirk)

/been wanting to customize flight for a long, long, long, erm, long time.

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It would be cool, now that the interface supports it, to be able to pick your default flight pose from the 5 they made a while back.

Yeah I have a macro for it now, but it would be better for the game to support it automatically.


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you can bind your forward key to do it for you, you know.

Each blast of my Emp/Energy will be a different color... not sure what I'll change from emp yet... there is already quite a selection of color there.

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What kind of Gift basket do you want?

I swear to all that is awesome this is the best thing ever. Its like tied with S*X

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Gift Baskets are nice, but I'm fat enough already, thank you. No need to send anything, really!

EDIT: BTW, this was Posi's idea, not mine -- I was just in the meeting it came up in. So, HE'S the bestest dev evah!

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I gotta say, Castle. I went from relatively excited about I16 to jumping up and down...

Quick Question, because I'm assuming I'll be able to, but just to keep my excitement high... will we be able to combine Trick Arrow and Assault Rifle or will it be like Shields and DB/BS/Claws/Spines?

please say they will be able to be combined!

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op, if you happen to have a 35+ scrapper on freedom I invite you to one of my buffer overrun itfs and we will how strong you think your scrapper is after that. Send me a pm to @enots

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Better yet, I invite you to join in one of Smurphy's Fallout-friendly ITFs, the best part about that is that we're available on Freedom, Virtue, or Justice

regen bonus will be the same, since that's not affected by AT modifiers

however, forget traps (I know I'll play one at some point)

TA/AR here I come! about time!

expand a bounty like system to all PvP zones (you get some sort of bounty-like reward for defeating PCs) and put the price relatively high, only allow for random rolls, and you've got a deal.

looks like I haven't replied to this particular iteration of this question.

yes, my Emp/Energy has solo'd the TF on invincible (at no point do you need to solo an AV, so it's pretty easy)

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I am likely in full agreement with you that defenders should be able to self-target with buffs, I never understood that design decision - but the defender AT doesn't suffer much for it outside of solo, and bring incredible value to a team.


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30% def all (perma) hits the Soft cap with PowerbuildUp
900% regen (perma with hasten) Plus anoth 900% almost perma
1000% recovery boost
13 Mag mez resist (perma)

Plus a damage boost that brings damage scale up to 1.

Thats a self-targeting empath right there, which explains why you can't self target those buffs.

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you forgot to add in Recovery Aura into that, also the 50% heal that's up every 2 seconds

since you seemed to ignore my post, I'll re-state what I said earlier.

your assumption that all powerset combinations and all builds should function equally in all situations is horribly flawed at best.

Buffers will always function better in certain content than Debuffers (AV encounters, certain enemies with various resistances, etc) because buffs can not be resisted. However, Debuffers will always be better at smaller content than buffers because their powers essentially affect themselves as well as the team.

I'm not going to type out everything else I wrote last night, go look at that post.

... I have a tank named WH0...

also WoW did it