Schismatrix

You have a rather curious definition of "broken".

Predicate.

Hmmm, offhand i'd say skip Bitter Freeze Ray.
The rain and nuke power do Blaster level damage.

i have a fully-slotted 50, but i actually made that one without using Mids', and i keep forgetting to recreate her build in Mids'. When i do i will post it.

Sunday again. Same options as the previous two runs: Tanker or Defender.

Find the Jeff, find the Feen.
Save the world.

Zones undergoing zombie attacks are like New England weather: if you don't enjoy what it's currently like just wait a little while and it'll change.

Ah, so your standard is that for two slots a squishy should have greater greater mez protection than a meleer gets from their powersets.
Gotcha.

You do realize that the magnitudes and effects of KB powers, and the powers that grant protection from them are mechanically set up very differently from other mezzes, yes?
If an IO that granted non-KB mez protection was added it would almost certainly grant magnitude 1 (or 2 at most) protection and most likely be unique. If it was added at all.


From Red Tomax: KB resistance reduces the magnitude, not the duration of KB, so melee sets with KB protection actually negate far higher amounts of KB than any other status effect, and 12 points of KB protection on a squishy has less much effect than the 10 points plus resistance that melee powersets grant.

Thinking that a mez protection IO for anything other than KB would grant comparable magnitude implies a lack of understanding of game mechanics and balance.

i remember getting randomly selected powers made it so different players could be much more powerful or weaker than others, but i don't recall ever calculating carrying capacity. It's been so long that i barely remember playing at all. Of course many rpg's around that time period had rules that contradicted each other in different parts of the books, so i'm sure we just did the usual thing of picking whichever rule seemed most reasonable and running with that.

i used to enjoy reading that comic. All the issues of it i had were lost in one move or another years ago.

Hell, my Defender with one 50 IO in Fly and Swift is nearly capped, and with the 2-3 minor set bonuses is past the cap.
In fact i'm considering dropping Swift from my build and taking Recall Friend or Teleport instead. i'll still be very near the cap anyway.

Why do you keep referring to FFG as a little bit of mez protection?
6.92 protection against holds and stuns is pretty significant in my opinion. Sure, it's not much compared to my Crab's ability to laugh at Rommy's autohit stun, but it's far from what i'd consider little. That's enough to shrug off two stacked holds easily, which means it takes 3 stacked holds to get you, instead of the 4 it takes to hold a Scrapper. Not a huge difference. And it grants that protection to every ally inside the radius.

It may be a matter of playstyle, but i'm seeing some odd disconnects between my experiences with teaming and soloing on squishies both with and without mez protection and some of the accounts in this thread. The only significant factors in my soloing of squishies at all level ranges are buff/debuff, control and damage output. Damage output is the only one that really affects my enjoyment of soloing, since i find soloing slowly rather tedious. Mez protection is generally irrelevant except when selecting tactics.

i'm not an uber i-laugh-at-the-RWZ-challenge player either.

While i wouldn't object if an equivalent to Indomitable Will was added to all the squishy AT PPP/APP sets, i also don't think it's necessary. However, in my opinion adding higher magnitude mez protection as an inherent to squishies would result in more mezzes being added to enemy factions by the Devs as a balancing move. The net effect would basically be a nerf to all non-squishy AT's.

Apparently incompetent idiots have embraced the reputation system as a way of flaming others without publicly displaying their lack of ability.

But then i'm just stating the obvious.

@Nyx Nought Nothing in game on Dr. Malthusian.

This is pretty much my take on the new animations for MA. i like the new CAK punch over the old kick animation, but otherwise i generally prefer the original kicks for aesthetic reasons. The new animations just don't look like martial arts strikes to me for some reason.

Yeah, i wouldn't bet on that. i'm fine with unlockables. On another note, a bunch of those weapons are available as temp powers and/or wouldn't make sense as an option for an existing powerset, like the Void Hunter Rifle. The Coralax big hammer one of my alts received as a temp power for running the (Silver Mantis?) SF.

i agree with the proposal to make a bunch of the others available as player weapons.

Edit: i can see the Arachnos Pistol being made an option when we get Dual Pistols and adding it to the Thugs options as well.

i used unsympathetic magic to transfer all the resentment that should be mine to you. Nothing personal, i just had to test it on a random subject. If it's any consolation i will now be visited by the Ghosts of Flame Wars Past over the next three nights as payment. We will be sitting around and drinking. (Wait, i don't think i was supposed to mention that last bit. )

i thought there was a top that was closer to what you described, will have to check.

If you have damage resistance then any damage of that type that hits you is reduced by the % of the damage resistance.

Your character has 30% fire resistance and 10% smashing resistance. You get hit by an attack that does 100 points of fire damage and 50 points of smashing damage. You actually take 70 points of fire damage and 45 points of smashing damage.

If you get hit by an attack you have no resistance to you take the full damage.

It's actually pretty simple. Whenever you take damage of a type that you have resistance to that damage is reduced by the resistance.

Well, i extend the same offer as last weekend's Shardtober run as long as you've got room.
SD/SS Tanker or Dark/Ice Defender.

If anything it affirms my faith in humanity. Which actually gets shaken fairly often. i've become acquainted with too many people who are helpful and supportive of others and do stuff like volunteer at animal rescue and soup kitchens. Fortunately there are enough jerks out there that i don't lose all of my faith.

Anyway, i do hope Going Rogue includes an extensive revamp of the older game content in addition to the newer content. Not simply mixing in a few new tilesets and mechanics into the old missions, but an actual rewrite that updates and improves the old story arcs. Taking lessons learned and feedback given from both the old content and the newest shinies and using it to revamp the old stuff. If the old missions and story arcs could get the same sort of revamp that Faultline and the Hollows received i would be nearly ecstatic. (Well, at the least i would be very happy.)

So you breeze through Arachnos, Carnie and Malta maps set to +4, x8, bosses and AV's while soloing?
Not bad.

No "class" is useless when played by a skilled player. Actually, all archetypes can be quite useful if built and played well. The same also applies to all powerset combinations for every archetype.

The closest thing to useless that comes to mind is that some powersets add relatively little when there's already someone with that powerset on the team. For example, sets like Force Fields and Kinetics do what they do so well that teammates are usually at or near the defense or damage caps with just one on the team. Even then they can contribute by using their primary or secondary more, depending on the archetype.

My Dark/Ice Defender is a supporting hero. Of course, using a strong debuffing set, my 'Support Hero' could solo fairly easily from level 1 to 50.

Solo i normally don't play much above base difficulty, though i generally enable bosses and may set team size to 3-4. That's because when i'm soloing i'm generally playing through arcs and want to advance the story fairly quickly, and while Dark/Ice has decent damage output for a Defender it's still nothing impressive compared to most other AT's. Still, i've never had much difficulty dealing with mezzers. Preemptive debuffing, using tactical awareness and keeping a few inspirations handy are all i've ever needed from level 20 to level 50. (In my experience most mezzers start showing up in the late teens to early twenties.)

YM(of course)MV

They're back again? i guess the latest patch undid the previous fix.
Personally i'm fine with something putting some challenge back into the TF. i found them an entertaining challenge, but i do understand that this could be a serious problem for a team of casual players.

Damn, i can't recall which Dev would be the one to PM about this bug.
Anyone?