Rainbow Avenger
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Quote:The old Hami raid depended heavily on "Group Fly teams" to get the non-flying Tanks and Scrappers up to the mitos. The addition of temp powers ended that practice.Originally Posted by Rabid_M
Some MMs (I'm not sure about the occasional Controller/Dom) like these powers because they allow them to move their pets with them.
Also, wasn't Group Fly used a lot in the old style Hami-raids?
My Huntsman has Group Fly for the first reason cited: to move his tarantulas around vertical parts of Grandville and some steeper maps (like the temple in the ITF) without them taking the long way and trailing aggro. There are times in the Lambda that I'd love to hover them above the IDF adds in the Marauder fight but I don't because I know that probably half the people on my team have not talked to Null, and I don't want to get yelled at. -
Quote:Same. Doomsquid, without hesitation.Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
My Warshade, hands down.
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Quote:All of the above. Yeah this build is looking sweet. Anything I could add here is nitpicking and ultimately will boil down to playstyle variations. I do think you ought to give Stygian Return a chance. Not just a great power, but a self-rez is so thematically satisfying for a Warshade.Originally Posted by Stone Daemon
New build looks great
Couple things, though--
You've overslotted Stygian circle, IMO. Throw a recharge in there, and use it whenever you need it. As long as you're killing fast enough, you should be able to use it whenever you need it. Inky aspect also doesn't need that second slot with the stun duration--it only extends the duration from 8 to 11 seconds. Also, I can see this thing getting more and more expensive, so if price is no object, I would recommend throwing a FotG: Chance for -Resist into orbiting death, in place of that end reduction. You're missing the second rectified recticle in tactics (I really wouldn't recommend using it as anything more than a set mule, slotted like that). Also....I notice you're missing Stygian Return. You're going to want that--it's the best rez in the game, and everyone dies at some point
To fit that in, I would suggest losing the Aegis for a steadfast kb protection, putting those BotZ kb IOs back in, and getting rid of acro for the rez.
You'll have some free spots to play around with if you make those changes, so you can use those as free slots--maybe one into hasten, which would make it perma. You can also throw BotZ into SJ, so keep that in mind if you decide to lose acrobatics.
While expensive as posted, there's no reason you can't proceed immediately with the current slots layout. If you don't have the funds/merits to buy all the purples up front, you can always slot lesser sets and upgrade. I played around with Mids alternate slotting feature, and with the purples removed, the build you've posted will still kick perma-butt with Posi's, Crushing Impacts and Decimations, just not quite as hard.
Psst... Inky Aspect: Two endoplasms. *nods* -
Hoorb... Aside from the fiddling details of -KB and Essence Drain, I'm preferring your first build.
My overall impression/opinion is that you are sacrificing too much core performance to pursue set bonuses. Specifically:
Gravimetric Snare - Not a very good power, really. Worth taking to mule Gravitational Anchors in, and then only if you're shopping for the cheap purples.
Boxing *and* Kick - Presumably for the Kinetic Combat bonuses? As TwoHeadedBoy pointed out, you're already over the cap. You realise of course that if you ever RSK down to Posi TF level that your attack chain will be Boxing, Kick and Ebon Eye?
Provoke - Also muled I assume. If you just take Black Dwarf instead you get a better taunt that you can slot the same set in, plus several other "free" attacks that you can mule other goodies in, (like those Kin Combats in Brawl that make me a sad panda) with an "oh ****" button at no extra charge.
Orbiting Death - This is more subjective, but IMO either go all out with this power or drop it altogether. As it's slotted now, it's chewing through your endurance and delivering nothing useful in return. OD is a lovely spot for Armageddons or another set of Obliterations.
--> Your permaclipse hole has opened up from four seconds to fourteen. Incarnate buffs can't close that. With Hasten and T4 Spiritual Core Paragon you're still at ninety-one seconds recharge. Minus Hasten (which is also not perma) that gapes open to twenty-six seconds. <-- -
I agree about Essence Drain. You want this puppy. Aside from the heal, it's a decent filler attack. Since it doesn't have a KB component you can use it to finish off a mob to set up Unchain Essence without knocking it out of the scrum. Also, ED takes melee sets so you don't have to mule those Kin Combats in Brawl.
You have no knockback protection. *Looks again* No. Knockback. Protection.
There's some debate over how much -kb is necessary. Some will argue that mag 8 is useless and to go for 12 or stay at 4.
Ok, three options:
1. Swap out a couple of your LotG recharges for Karma -kbs. Not what I would recommend really.
2. Swipe a couple of slots and add them to Shadow Cloak and/or Maneuvers and/or Combat Jumping.
3. (The easiest) swap the IO in Nebulous Form for a BotZ.
Once you run some trials and unlock Spiritual alpha you should have no trouble closing up that permaclipse hole. -
Quote:It's a primer. Calm the frack down.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Whoever designed that website was not a graphic designer with any education in color theory since 1970 or past third grade art class.
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/signed.
I am frequently stymied in my design attempts by the infuriating lack of tertiaries in the swatch palette. Plenty of pure hues (too many perhaps), a bunch of shades and tints but almost no tones! Whoever designed the palette was not a graphic designer.
If you're curious, here's the difference. -
Waiting for Godot: an existential MMO. - Would have the most robust chat engine in the industry but no movement powers of any kind.
Equus: the Game. - Would appeal to some of the odder Pocket D denizens. -
Quote:I'll exhume my PB and check it out!Originally Posted by Socorro
Indeed, that was the one thing I hated about the old Light Form (not being able to see your costume). If you remember what the old Light Form looked like (little floating puffs of energy), well these are still there - they just sort of Hover around your character now, like an Aura.
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Quote:Win!Originally Posted by Socorro
Huh...? Old Lightform sure, but New Lightform, I have it Perma and have it on constantly and I see my costume just fine.
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Can't impress with your fantastic costume :P
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Nice use of the Winter's Gift. Lots of people don't think of that one.
- IMO Sunless Mire is underslotted.
- You don't really need Penumbral Shield unless you're planning to dress up as a void and want the aura for RP reasons.
- Three Performance Shifter procs is overkill.
- That Shield Wall unique? Meh. IMO unless you're planning to solo GMs it's a parakeet gland. It offers what - 3% additional resist in an AT already perfectly capable of hard-capping with IOs.
- Ditto the Gladiator's Armor unique. Is 3% defense in a build that caps at 16% versus ranged really worth ~2.5 billion to you? If you took the seven billion or so you're planning to spend on the Shield Wall, the Glads Armor and the Performance Shifters and spend it on a set of Hecatombs, Ragnaroks or Armageddons you'll get much better bang for your buck. -
Quote:I'd dismiss this as sound effect recycling as well, except that when Warwalkers explode they also emit bursts of distinctively Peacebringer-coloured energy as well. Remember what Twilight's Son said about the captivity of his/her people?Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim
I am somewhat curious about where War Walkers derive their powers. When they drop, they clearly make a Peacebringer power sound. But that's as likely to come from the devs cross-purposing sound use as it is from a real story reason.
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I took it on my baby Exalted squid but I respeced out of it. The marginal QoL convenience was not worth the power slot. Between trams, SG porters, Ouro portal and mission teleporter it just didn't offer enough return on investment.
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I've played a Ice/Fire/Pyre for five years. Taunt is not skippable. What are you going to do when a patrol wanders up behind your Blaster, or the pets aggro the next group? Drag the spawn through your team like a soccer riot through a schoolyard and hope your auras aren't target capped?
Greater Fire Sword is a piece of junk: slow, ugly and redundant. Drop it and take Taunt instead. -
Quote:Correction: This used to be a pretty good time of year for the masks badge because the bit of Talos by the DA gate was almost the only place outside a mission to find them. Fun trivia for the new kids - While Dark Astoria is and always has been full of Banished, for many years mask bosses did not spawn in the wild - only the tiki bosses, who don't count toward the badge.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Banished Pantheon masks only come out during the day in Talos Island. There's a badge for defeating them.
However, as of several issues ago Banished masks do spawn in DA, and anyone can get the badge easily in under an hour sweeping Moth Cemetery. So, the excuse of perpetual darkness being an advantage to badge hunting is no longer valid.
So yeah, I also think it's annoying. I think of Halloween as that special time of year when I don't bother designing or editing costumes because there's no decent light anywhere to judge them by. For the light deprived, I recommend hanging out in Ouroboros. Also, door missions on outdoor maps will be sunny, so work on your arc contacts.
The sun might be back on November 2nd but honestly I wouldn't count on it. The devs have a history of extending holiday events, often way beyond the point of common sense. -
The "cool" languages tend to get taken first. Especially German, Russian and Latin. Don't even bother with Japanese. Try French, Sanskrit or Turkish (although I was gobsmacked once to not get a name in Lithuanian). Try book titles: People don't read anymore. Try album titles: If it's over a decade old and not metal it's probably free. Research names of famous battles. Bookmark thesaurus.com. Invent puns.
I'm on Virtue and I seldom have to try more than twice to get the names I want, correctly spelled with no stupid punctuation tricks. -
Quote:I've got the same issue with an alt. I chose a name that was a rank title of a elite military unit that was in regular service for about six-hundred years. I logged in and my comics nerd friend immediately said "Oh, that's a DC character."Originally Posted by CassandraCorte
So whats to prevent DC from locking up every other cultural icon ever in the same manner? They just get to keep a 200 year old public domain character that way, just because they got their first?
*boggles. Googles*
I actually found three listings for the name, none higher up than the end of page 2 of the Google search. The name was used once by Marvel as a one-off villain in 1963, once by DC as a one-off villain in 1991, and a couple of times as a hyper-obscure DC z-list hero with a half-dozen guest appearances over a decade ago. None of them even has a Wiki entry. They're that obscure. Yes, my friend is a serious comics nerd indeed. Needless to say, my character has no resemblance whatsoever to any of them.
So do these trivial uses as throwaway background characters really trump the future use by anyone of a proper noun of 16th century derivation that has been in common usage for almost five hundred years?
So no I'm not renaming the character, but every time I log him in I feel twitchy, and that annoys me. -
This is actually a pretty good starter build. There's no reason you can't get this character slotted up for a few hundred mill and kicking butt right away. You'll want to push the envelope and get some purples but you can work on those at your leisure.
Good spotting with the recharge buff taunt set. A lot of people don't know that trick. I would slot Gravity Well for damage rather than hold. Later on you can max out both if you use HOs.
The Regenerative Tissue +regen is a good choice. Make it a much higher priority than the Miracle +recovery, which is a bit of a parakeet gland for a Warshade. -
I tend to differentiate between abbreviations on one hand and leetspeak or IM jargon on the other. I have no major issue with "ppl" or "brb" but "cuz" or "wat" are enough to make me quit a team or refuse the invite. The letter U and the number 2 are not words.
Why it gets under my skin is this: It's not just what such usage says about the speaker, but what it implies about their attitude towards me. The person who sends the tell "u lf team lol" is probably perfectly capable of using standard English if he chooses to do so. Presumably he's used it on school essays or a resume at some point. When he addresses me in IM jargon the message it sends (to my mind anyway) is:
1. I am a lazy semi-literate, and
2. I could address you properly but I can't be bothered because you're not worth the effort.
The former is merely regrettable. The latter is personally offensive. If I'm not worth the two extra keystrokes to spell out the word "you", then find another mark. -
How would you eat? Also, any attempt to touch yourself would lead to tragedy.
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I don't usually fuss over maintenance. I can even live with the inevitability of downtime ALWAYS being on my day off because I have long since convinced myself that my supervisor faxes a copy of my schedule to Paragon Studios once a week. But I do get testy when maintenance starts to run two or three hours over. If this continues I will have no choice but to go and wash those dishes in the sink. DON'T MAKE ME.
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I've sent you a PM. Be kind.
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Proletarian has been handed off to its proper owner. This one will be WP/SS apparently.
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Shadowfall.
Any area stealth is annoying - I don't want to be transparent and have everyone see my socks - but Shadowfall adds ugly and intrusive to the mix. On a small map it obscures mobs and geometry. In the auction house I'll leave to avoid the idiot still running it and stand next to the guy with Quills on instead.