Razia

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison

I just wish it weren't immune to teleport.

Originally Posted by Test_Rat

You are leaving out something important.

How much -recharge does each do.

The Bane/Soldier/huntsman version is much more powerful in that respect.
Also costs, animation times should be taken into consideration.

Next time include all the information, and you will see that WAWG is superior.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

Anyone else find it amusing that the people who were saying they don't want this game to turn into an endless grinding raidfest, where no one ever wants to do anything below the level cap........are some of the same people who are now opposing lower level TFs being added into the WST cycle?

There are quite a few people in the game who don't even have ONE level 50 character. They should just be ignored here so you can keep grinding shards on your 36 level 50s?

1) If they only made level 50 TFs eligible for the WST, those 4 TFs would get old quick. Or, rather even older, since they've all been around a while.

2) If only level 50 TFs were ever WSTs it would be next to impossible for someone running a level 30 character to generate any interest in a low level TF, because end game is what you do.

3) I suspect that the WST was going to happen anyway, and the Notice being available was an afterthought, because the Rare and Very Rare were ready, but the Trials meant to award it weren't yet.

I also don't really think the Incarnate system was really designed with the casual player in mind. Sure, they can do it if they want, but it really seems more like the devs' response to the people who have been complaining that there was nothing to do once you got to 50 for several years now. Most casual players don't actually play enough to get bored with it that quickly.

Originally Posted by EvilRyu

Empathy. Works 95% of the time the only time it does not the other sets would not be that much better anyways.

Originally Posted by firespray

I like most of them, but which is my favorite depends on what character I'm on, and what the team needs most. There's a few that I'm not too fond of though. Trick arrow, because it is just meh. Cold domination, because while it's awesome, I don't like the ice-cube shields covering up my costume. Any of my softcapped characters find bubblers useless.

Originally Posted by Exxar

Cold, Dark, Rad or Traps. All are primarily debuffers and still have some kind of buffs, but what's more important, all of them have what I consider the most important debuff of all - shutting down the regen of AVs.

Originally Posted by plainguy

I say earth rad for the only reason you have no attacks until your pet rock. Its a great team set, but solo your living off temp powers. This was before the market and you were able to make temps. Iron blade temp was golden to me.

Originally Posted by Schismatrix

MA/SR is a classic that's still fun to play despite not having any particular synergy.

Truth be told, while i play almost none of my original characters anymore i still like some of the classic combos like Claws/Dark Scrappers or Dark/Ice Defenders.

Originally Posted by Mr. DJ

is it when you enter a mission? I've noticed on a couple Masterminds, that when I enter a mission that uses a portal, the pets don't seem to follow and won't dismiss properly w/out you dieing...or possibly being exemplar'd/malefactor'd

Originally Posted by Biospark

I kinda feel that way about Willpower as a set for melee type characters.

Every Melee character that I have played always seems (to me) that pairing it with Willpower would make it better to play. I LOVE the way Willpower is so "hands off" and you can focus on just beating stuff up. My two highest melee toons are both Willpower, and I could easily see myself making a WP/** or **/WP of every melee set at some point.

As a side note, when I first started playing this game back in 2004, I could have adopted this same feeling about regen, but quickly lost "faith" in regen due to all the changes forced onto it. Willpower IS what Regeneration SHOULD have been (and vice versa).

Originally Posted by DreamsRazor

This morning I was talking with my wife, who told me her latest empathy character (Disco Diva) is 6 bubbles away from 50. Out of curiosity I asked her how many 50 empathy type characters did she have...well she started counting and between defenders and controllers nine, with lots of others in their 20s and 30s etc. Now I have read a lot of negetivity about "healors", and how boring they are to play. So I asked Jen why Empathy? She said, I can always be of help no matter what the situation. Damage heal, standing around in a PvP zone clear mind the blasters, in Atlas Park chatting forting and ABing the lowbies, plus she is always on a team.
So I am curious does anyone else have this obsession not with an archtype, but with a power set, and why? I think the results might be intresting to read.

Originally Posted by Local_Man

Think of "stealth" as "half invisibility." You need two halves to be fully invisible. Many powers give half invis, like Steamy Mist, Arctic Fog, Shadowfall, Shadow Cloak and Stealth. You need to add another half to get full invisibility. You can get that from a Stealth IO or from Super Speed.

You may want to consider using Super Speed instead of Stealth. Stealth does just stealth, but Super Speed provides Stealth AND fast travel AND an additional place to put some nice IOs. If I'm looking for full invisibility on a character, I will often use Super Speed with a Celerity Stealth slotted into it.