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Good! Honestly Blaze is one of the best attacks in the game. Fast animating and hits like a truck once it's slotted up. Consider frankenslotting for some +Range on it if you can squeeze it in. And Fearsome Stare is a fantastic control power. I'm a big fan of Fire Breath, although it's slower animating and it's a cone so some people skip it; it's not the must-have that Blaze and Fearsome Stare are. Fire Breath also benefits from a bit of +Range, since as the cone gets longer, the big end gets wider.

Yup!


Fire/Dark is awesome even on generic IOs, so it's quite playable with no additional defense. But defense helps you against mobs that aren't locked down, and it stacks beautifully with your tohit debuffs. So even a modest amount of ranged and AoE defense will make your character sturdier.

I don't have access to my build at the moment, but on my Fire/Dark I built primarily for +recharge (although not nearly to perma-hasten) and a modest amount of +defense. Super fun character.

If you stay in the air all the way through the fight this would work, but I think caltrops have -fly and -jump effects, so you can't fly or jump out of them once they've hit.

This is the main reason I switched from controller to dominator. I built for perma-domination and ta da, no more mezzing.

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU.

That's the main reason I run ITFs as opposed to other TFs; they're simply easier to squeeze in because the time demands are so reasonable.

So looking to i19!

Edit:
Many have commented already on this quote, and not only is it smart from the angle of listening to player feedback, but it's a great preemptive strike against DCUO. After all, there's no way a player is going to be able to end up superior to the signature DC characters, so that's an aspect of CoH that DCUO won't be able to match.

There was a sort of generic announcement that some staff were let go. At the time some folks on the forums got bent out of shape because it seemed quite impersonal. Others with more experience in corporate HR pointed out that this is quite typical and in fact a company can quickly get into legal hot water by publicly making any comment on a departing employee, even if it's praise.

BAB's Linkedin page did confirm that he's no longer with Paragon Studios, but that's about the only hard data we have. For a brief time his status appeared to show that he was back with Cryptic, but that was a Linkedin bug. As far as we all know, he's not back with Cryptic.

Agreed. I had a Widow that I didn't care much for pre-24. On respec, went for a heavy emphasis on range/AoE with a Fortunata build. Later, got blinded by rage soloing a mission filled with robots (which are heavily resistant to Psi damage), respec'd into a Widow build that was amazingly good. Basically a Claws/SR scrapper with friggin' awesome team buffs and the ability to crit from hide.

While I don't have personal experience, I've teamed with several Crabs that were AoE monsters. It's a really excellent choice for a combo of ruggedness and range/AoE. And as has been mentioned before, the team buffs mean you're welcome on any team.

Another_Fan was talking about inf/mob defeated not inf/player hence the discrepancy.

I don't begrudge people doing their thing inside of AE. What I don't like is the constant chatter on broadcast. It's intrusive. Basically the same problem that PI used to have way back when.

There was no easy solution to the problem when it was in PI, but there is an easy solution for AE: they could make the AE instanced a la Pocket D or Midnighter Club, so that broadcasts inside AE wouldn't be heard outside. All the folks looking to join farms would go inside and do their thing since it'd be pointless to broadcast outside. I suggested this on the forums at the peak of the AE farming craze, and IIRC, I was greeted with a huge chorus of "Hell no, horrible idea!" /e shrug. I still think it'd be nice.

For me, it's Malta Sappers. I love having those guys on my side!

... of you other devices powers, like drip mine, dime bomb, or gun trone.

FTFY.

Well, bonus points for lvl 30 but frankly sustaining an average of > 100 merits per night is pretty impressive regardless of level.

I hate when she posts exactly what I was about to write!

Thank you for that explanation! That makes sense and is completely consistent with what I've seen.

In a duo with a Tank, I'd bring a Fire/Kin Corruptor. I can keep the Tank going with the strong Kin heal, and the Tank can keep aggro off me as I roast massive numbers of baddies.

Actually I have to agree with Raster. I've been in quite a few missions in which the "display last objective" logic wasn't triggered. The tech seems to work fine if the mission is "find 5 of X", then when I'm down to the last one it shows up on the map. If the objectives are "Free so-and-so, then find such-and-such" the glowie will often not show up even though it's the lone remaining objective. Hmm come to think of it usually the failure to show on the map was when the last objective was a targetable object I needed to destroy, as opposed to an actual glowie. I wonder if that's the diff? Or is it just that the logic isn't triggered until you've cleared a certain percentage of the total map population?

Arcanaville? Werner? Noobs, I tells ya.

More seriously: even incredibly knowledgeable folks can be wrong or just not have every permutation of a concept occur to them. I'm finding this thread is quite educational. I have to admit I do get a bit of a chuckle from kamikrazy's attitude, but that's pretty mild compared to Fire Kin Master, who just pegged the fun-o-meter for me. His combination of a penchant for typing in 72 point boldface, aggressive ignorance and boundless narcissism was awesome to behold.

Sorry to threadjack but now I'm curious: what are those 2 characters? I don't follow the rikti pylon stuff, apart from a very dim recollection that either Smurphy or TopDoc built a purpled-out Widow that was awefully impressive.