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You're such a defeatist, AF.

Lol.

Oh geez! Bad memories of that. That was back in the days that i was playing my elec/elec brute. He was pretty sturdy despite being purely SO build...but they were one of the few mob types that could melt him fairly quick. Longbow and Arachnoids...but the latter is due to the abundance of toxic damage which /elec lacks resistance to.

Still...just......

...Really kinda have nothing else to add at this point since honestly...thread has derailed a bit from martial combat to blaster sustain powers and incarmate preferences...

Oh no doubt. That's the very reason I never did the same, myself. But we're also talking about assault sets that have DoT in nearly every power. MA only has it in like...2 powers. One of which i would personally skip (caltrops). But...that could very well just be me.


Ah...gotcha.

I hate man-eating cottages....don't you?

Yanno...I gotta admit i'd rather see BoS in the MA set rather than caltrops myself (I skipped Thorntrops on my plant/thorn dom too)...I seriously would never concider dropping the t9 power for it. Especially for the reasoning of sleep conflict. You're basically talking about...what...2 power sets? Electric and MC. This will be slightly less of an issue with Electric as the sleep re-applies AND drains stuff of blue. MC...well...yeah...that kinda gets hosed. But honestly...in a team setting...anything that ain't you is gonna conflict with those powers.

Plus...as I understand it...the range on the "splash" is probably gonna be pretty small. Think /Poison/.

Must be Evil Ryu (or Akuma)...

Otherwise...shouldn't that be KAMEHAMEHA?

OK...first of all, stand up straight and turn around...cuz you're talking out of your butt at this point.

I mean, seriously...could you GET any more extreme on the one way or another angle? We're talking about a T9 crashing god-mode-y power...NOT armor toggles! Where in the unholy nine levels of Hades did THAT come from? Really?

If it makes you feel any better (and at this point...I highly doubt it) you can think of it in the same sense as the change the devz made to Dimension Shift (why, oh why, they didn't apply this to other powers such as Black Hole, Sonic Cage, and Detention Field is beyond me). You toggle it on...you turn it off when you want...or it ends on its own. So the tech is not entirely unprecidented beyond Hybrid. The only issue here with this is the recharge as it wouldn't start recharging untill after it goes down...as per standard toggles...but if you honestly HAVE to use that power EVERY SINGLE TIME ITS UP...then...wow. Just...wow.

EDIT: CURSE YOU ARCANA! YOU BEAT ME TO IT! (albeit you were nicer than i was)

Um...you pretty much just described most every dom assault set (sorry..the burst of speed reference was for the blaster secondary). Dom secondaries are a mix of melee and ranged attacks...with a light smattering of utility.

Completely this. I don't recall reading a single post that boiled down to "No Fade option = bad". Quite the opposite, in fact.

The problem with the OP is that they were arguing the fact that the I-24 blaster sustain effects were being placed into CD (soon to be FO), forcing her to take and actually USE a power (which she currently has the power but simply uses it for a LotG +rech mule) that they concider to be a completely worthless power that provides absolutely no benefit to her what-so-ever in combat. She did at least admit that it does have some built-in defense, but then goes on to state that said defense suppresses to basically ZERO while in combat. In short...it is a NON-COMBAT POWER.

To quote: Sure...she did also touch on the transparency issue of CD...but she did so in an extremely condescinding way. Actually...she was flat out rude, insulting, and touched on man-hating. Personally...I didn't find issue with her issue that she didn't like the transparancy...but I DID find issue in the manner in which she voiced it.

Again, to quote: Of course...this is slightly overlooking the fact that the OP doesn't just have an issue with CD and being see-through but apparently has such a blind hatred of it that it clouds her judgement and reasoning and causes her to make...well...seriously stupid assumptions.

From the FIRST POST: " Ugh...frankly I could quote this girl all day but...I'll leave it at this to prevent a tl;dr post. Honestly...if there's any confusion here as to why a lot of us are a bit up in arms...go back and read candy's posts again. Pay particular attention to how many times the words "NON COMBAT POWER" pop up.

OMG! LMAO!!! *Gives a HUGE thumbs up to Arcana*

That is classic!

We've already had a ton of both of these already....but I'd say that for the latter would be better represented by Energy/MC...or perhaps to a lesser degree Rad/MC

Pretty much this. I had actually forgotten the buff they gave to GD...it's been a while since i've been on my /dev'er too...but i remember messing aroun with it. And taser was one of my skips as at the time it was a melee range and i was aiming for full RANGED range combat.

I do believe you have made that abundantly clear.


Try telling the same thing to an /Energy Aura toon.

Again...try telling that to an /EA toon. Now I WILL grant you that for a power that is built into a set...it should have at least some bit of signifigant advantage over a pool power. As it stands now...the only major advantage CD has over the stealth PP is that it has no movement penalty (pool stealth applies a -runspeed...CD does not). Honestly...I would like to see CD get a slight boost to the defense buff...even if it is only 1% or 2% higher than it is now.


Hmm...funny you should say that. I used to run on a 3-man team with one of the people being an ill/ troller that ran superior invisibility full time and i had no troubles at all seeing where he was. Maybe that was because i could always see his name wherever he went. /em shrugs.

While we're on the subject...i seem to remember quite a few of those afore mentioned /EA players riling themselves into an uproar when the devs made a slight change to Energy Cloak where the transparency visual suppressed while in combat. Apparently...a lot of people actually DO like being see-through.

Ok...yes...guilty. I do INDEED...have twig and berries. I would say that I'm sorry for being a representive of the male gender but honestly...I'm not.

Secondly...for me it was never so much of the "coolness" of being transparent (and let's face it...i'm a guy...i'm already pretty transparent) as much as it was FITTING. You don't see the Invisible Woman walking around in broad daylight saying "I'm invisible...you can't see me.", do you? Nnnnooope! She's actually (gasp) INVISIBLE! That is how almost ALL stealth powers in this game (and frankly...many, MANY others) are portrayed. You're transluscent/transparent. One exception to this would be Super Speed...but that makes sense thematically as well. You zip by so fast that stuff is kinda like "wtf was THAT?"

Oh...and we don't particularly dislike you because you bring it up...we just think your a dunce because even when given statements and evidence that states the contrary to your claims...you STILL hold firm to your own self-proclaimed conclusions and that everyone else is out to get you...or...something.

This just has so many diverse levels of "wrong" that I don't even know WHERE to begin...save for the fact that my very first level 50 in this game was an Elec/Dev blaster. Ssssoooo....BZZZZZT!!!

But I suppose that I will also echo that CD does have DEFENSE while IN COMBAT. Minimal as it may well be...IT IS THERE. And as anyone that is scratching for +defense numbers via IO's will tell you...EVERY PERCENTAGE POINT COUNTS! This one detail in and of itself negates your claim that this is a NON COMBAT POWER!

Mmmmmmmmoving on!


Can I has your stuff?

Um...ED curb-stomped everyone. Yanno...in case you missed it.

And now that I have finally made it to the end of your seemingly endless rantings of WRONG...let me just say one last thing. If you wanted a blaster secondary power set of IN COMBAT ATTACKS...you SERIOUSLY picked the wrong secondary. /Devices has never had, nor most likely never WILL have these things UNLESS they devz were to DRAMATICALLY OVERHAUL a fairly SIGNIFIGANT portion of the ENTIRE set (you know...typing all the capital letters is kinda fun. I should really do this more often. Is that why you do it?)

Of course...my saying all of this is ultimately pointless as you're not going to bother reading this anymore. But honestly...why did you bother to even MAKE (yay! I did it again!) this thread if you were just gonna throw a hissy-fit temper tantrum simply because everyone here did not bend to your will and jump aboard your delusional band-wagon and storm the dev's office with pitchforks, torches, and picket signs that read "This chick is crazy...but yeah...what she said!" and begin DEMANDING that they do...whatever the heck it was you were trying to lobby for.

....Eh...whatevz. I'm done.

If I'm reading this right...I fail to see where there's a disadvantage of "having to [not] be in the middle of a mob to avoid scattering them all over whenever you want the buff".

However...if you happen to have made a grammer goof (which I sometimes do as i get multiple versions of a statement stuck in my head and sometimes end up melding them when typing) and are talking about the new LC having to hit something for buff...it doesn't, last I checked.

Either that or.......yeah, I'm lost. heh.

And such is Murphey's Law of Respecs. Just when you think you've got everything juuussssst where you want it...the devs go and up and change everything that makes you have to repeat the process aaaaalllllllll over again. LOL!

c'est la vie du MMO. (probably got that wrong as i never actually took french...kinda regret it in a way)

And oddly...i never took caltrops. Go figure.

Well...actually...I did at one time...the later specced out of it. Course, this was in the old days before IO's and procs that could make 'trops pretty beastly.

Uuummm....you do understand that wormhole doesn't just toss stuff around but also stuns them too, right. I'd call that a control.

The irony here is...I've never thought of Cloaking Device as being an unpopular power. Most every /Dev blaster I've ever seen (including mine) HAS cloaking device. Hell...if you were to ask me...CD is one of the major reasons TO take up /dev...to say nothing of Targeting Drone.

I'd say that if there is any general "unpopularity" with it...it would be in the area of slot devotion. Most folks (short of min/maxers, perhaps) may just leave it at the default slot and call it done...which in and of itself isn't really bad. CD can be a good default slot power choice...for what it does. But it's flexible enough to help someone squeeze a little more out of it via IO slotting and set bonuses. I-24 is just gonna expand that even more-so....and even then could still do quite a bit with minimal slotting. Like say...the LotG +rech and the Numi's +regen/recovery? Maybe?

It dawned on me later that this was slightly incorrect when I posted this. I'd forgotten that /Elec and /Fire already had end management powers in the form of Power Sink and Consume respectively. Still...most of what I said holds true...with pretty much these 2 exceptions.

To my knowledge...the regen/recovery boosts being added to the blaster secondaries are all single power for each one and not multiple powers. Field Operative, Frigid Embrace, Touch of the Beyond, Energize, and....the other revised power names that i can't think of off top of my head that are replacing/revising Blazing Aura and Thunderclap.

These powers are (again...IIRC) going to keep their original effects AS WELL as boost regen and recovery (or grant +absorb in frigid's case). The regen/recovery portion of these DO NOT REQUIRE YOU TO BE NEAR ENEMIES. These fire off regardless, so they can be used outside of combat to grant you the buffs. Post I-24...the only power of this type that will require you to be near bads will be Drain Psyche.

In the case of the toggles, its my understanding that the regen/absorb/recovery portion will not be suppressed by mez.