Shred_Monkey

Targeting Drone increases the damage of a sniper rifle. I remember reading that a while ago is some patch notes. I don't remember the increase %.

I've played many soft-capped toons... sappers have never been an issue on any of those toons. I'd say ranged-defense plus using "/targetcustomnext enemy alive sapper" as a bind or macro as the ultimate stopper to sappers.

sidenote: I like using a macro for my targeting instead of a bind so I can edit it quickly for different situations.

This whole idea of guest writers is fantastic. It's good for the game and good for the writers, too. I wouldn't now any of these guys' work prior to them writing their arcs. Now I've heard of them and have done some internet seach work to learn who they are. Judging from this thread and some ingame chatting I saw last night, there are a lot of players who like me, are learning about these people for the first time. I'd like to see more of this. A lot more.

I think on the regen side, there's not a big differerence in gameplay between enhanceing your procs and not... but on the endurance side, this could be significant. I like it.

Shouldn't the title of this post be "I would suckerpunch your grandma for a dirty fighting powerset?"

Oh.. and while we're at it... put the 'real' level of each player in the display next to the AT icon.

if you're blapping.. you might be annoyed by hover. It isn't convenient for moving from melee to melee. It's doable, but if you're used to playing a melee class that switches targets quickly.. you're probably not going to like it. It's good enough to get around maps and hover blast... but when moving around within a spawn to melee it lags behind hopping/sprinting around.

this is a beat to death topic so my input is pretty meaningless... but I can honestly say if my blaster had status protection, the only reason left for me to ever join a team is just to show off.

The above build uses GSFC's in concentration, then maxes out smash/lethal defenses. GSFC isn't doing much for you there. It's not +2.5 to all.. it's +2.5 to all positional defenses. I'd put those slots somewhere else.

People are going to disagree with me, but personally I think World of Confusion is one of the best mitigation powers blasters get. Adding it to my fire/mm build this weekend made a very noticible jump in my survivabilty.

Isn't ghost widow's hold a short range PBAoE? And can 1 guy with stimulant stack enough to beat it?

I tend to agree with the idea of resistance based scrappers running stacked maneuvers.... I'd look at a bunch of dark/fires running maneauvers with IOs and accolades to boost hps as much as possible. Damage is not an issue, so the goal is to make sure nobody dies.

If you're having trouble surviving long enough, you can increase your survivability by standing outside his melee range. NPC's have the old 5ft melee range while players have 7ft. It's quite possible to stand at that range and have an AV never bother to close the gap those last few feet to hit you with melee. Infernal's melee damage is much much higher then his range damage. (It's not as drastic as, for example, bobcat, who only has 1 ranged atttack, but it's still quite significant). It's easier to pull this stunt with dark since you can also be immobalizing them, but I did it vs infernal with a dual blades toon.

I'd asked before for a costume ignore tag. I can see it extending to powers now also. What I'd want would make someone's costume choice and power choices go generic. I'd specifically use it for people who decide it's great to run around pretending to be naked, or some form of sex slave, and now for people who think that the "dark" option looks so awsome and they have to use it whenever they can. (it doesn't look awsome.. it looks like someone wrote on my monitor with a black crayon).

However, I should add, that most of the problems I had with the dark auras were in the first week after i16 launch. I think a lot of people decided they couldn't stand the ugly-stick powers themselves and changed back to something less disrupting.

There's plenty of methods to move and pull and use tricks to divide spawns. Normally we don't talk about them on this forum because we're all gung-ho stand and fight type players... but that other stuff is certainly not illegal. Prior to IOs, I used to play a dark/regen scrapper with teleport foe, air superiority, touch of fear, and a bag full of hit-and-run tricks to basically attempt to never get hit. There's no reason we can't employ those same guerilla tactics now with more sturdy toons. It's actually a lot of fun. A good understanding of mission geometry and NPC pathing and agro is a very powerful tool.

I frequently see new players commenting on how they can't find teams or any other players on this game. Since most of this game is instanced, and there's rarely a reason to go back to newbie zones as a high level toon, it makes sense that the population is invisible to the typical new player. Usually the best suggestion to give them is to join a global channel where they can find players talking, forming teams, asking questions, etc.

My suggestion is to have a serverwide global channel that all new toons are automatically on when they start. I'd almost suggest that "broadcast" be serverwide, because using broadcast is much more intuitive then talking on a global channel. However, I think there are obvious abuses with making broadcast serverwide, and having a zone channel is handy for other purposes.

Perhaps another option would be to make Atlas Park broadcast and Galaxy City Broadcasts a global channel that can be monitored and talked on to by anyone in the channel to facilitate players helping players.

Really, there's dozens of ways to do this.. mainly I just think something needs to be done.

I highly recommend getting air superiority and using it as much as possible. At about 45-55% recharge it can keep 1 target permanently knocked down. That helps tremendously with getting from the early game to the late game when your mitigation gets shored up.