Shred_Monkey

My mid's shows the damage for scrapper AP Ring of Fire as 204.3. I'm pretty sure that's not right. Is there anyone who can check ingame numbers or has this data handy? (I can't log in myself until later tonight)... Thanks.

Someone witty with a bit of time needs to post a "Threads claiming an AT is obsolete are now obsolete" thread.

This isn't fool proof, but if you run in and open with your AoE (Typhoon is the best option for this as it is 360 deg attack)... your teamate will get less agro then if you start with ST attacks. If they attack something with 0 damage done to them, they're going to draw agro. But if instead their targets have been damaged, it usually takes more then just 1 hit from range to draw it off any melee toon (distance from the target does matter when determining agro)... I actually thing that using this method carefully along with a taunt aura should be enough unless the other toon is using PBAoEs instead of ranged ones.

I've not played an elec/ dom to 50 yet, but I don't think there's any doubt that while leveling up domination is a great thing for 1 shot holding bosses early on and later 1 shot confusing entire spawns with synaptic overload.

Elec/ is one of the few control sets I truely trust to cover survivability without padding lots of defenses from IOs and epic sets. Domination with Synaptic Overload is one major reason.

I think there's something a lot of people miss when they talk about what it is Free-to-Play people get. Free to Play people have a lot of limitations of what they get for free... but they also can spend money to get other things... I don't think it's been published what they can buy or how that price structure would be broke out, but I assume they can pay for things that VIP people get.

I mean, they're not just letting people play for free out of the kindness of their heart... The buisness model still makes money by selling something.

Ok.. it's not a perfect analogy, but play style wise I think of a dominator as kind of like a Jedi.... i throw control powers at things that are out of reach while I work around the room with my melee attacks.

I like ET>BS>TF>BS just because it looks so awsome doing 2-hand smashes non-stop

ET>EP>BS>EP>TF>EP>BS>EP is very close to the same damage for much much less recharge requirement.

The proliferation looks great... But I'm more excited about titan weapons.

I like the EA change... sounds like just enough bump to bring it up to par.

I spec'd my energy/elec to sap... it works very well. I slotted jolting chain and conductive aura for capped endmod. That was plenty enough to sap spawns fairly quickly. Jolting chain and static field + solid sapping gives very reliable AoE active mitigation that's available 100% of the time.

I chose energy because that's the set I wanted to play (elec was what I paired with it, instead of vice versa). I guess my answer to your question is that it doesn't matter... elec does good sapping on it's own. power boost does help, but you're ok without it.

Traps also gives you status protection... For self survivability, traps is the easy winner. It takes some learning, but it's a very solid set, able to absorb alphas for the team even.

The only thing I didn't like about traps is that you're relying on slow recharging powers, so there's a period of time where teams may run faster then you're go to powers are recharging... once you get fully IO'd and you start facing harder spawns, this problem goes away.

For concept toons, I think Storm is really fun... I also like Dual Pistols conceptually.... never considered them together before... I may look at that myself.

-def is rarely helpful. -res is always helpful. It's that simple.

Dual pistols... that Teir 9 power is sweet to watch, and a great power to boot.

I'd go stone/elec because stone melee uses a lot of endurance, and electric and help with that.

I generally slot my proc's first.. then finish out the sets.

Given that what people dub as ebil is actually just doing something incredibally easy for big rewards... I'd say the opposite of ebil is stoobid.

That said, what the OP did isn't the opposite of ebil. He was trying to win an argument, not save a starving child. Though I do appreciate his actions as well played.

You know... the OP is right to some extent. The more powerful individuals become, the less they need support. I'd say level 20-30 is really where this game shines as far as team play with a mix of power sets all contributing. Somewhere in the 30s people start to become more and more independent of each other, and eventually a well built anything can take on most of the game's challenging content without help. Instead of working hard to make it possible to succeed, it becomes a matter of how much you contibute to your team's speed of success. Because of this, in the end game, offensive buffs, debuffs, and damage seem to rule. If anyone becomes obsolete in the end game, I think it's the control focused builds and defensive buff sets.

To the OP... emp gives great offensive buffs. You're not obsolete.. you just can't see the results as clearly as you can with some other sets. And yet, to some extent you're also probably right. You may have more run playing another toon in the end game, or more fun playing your toon exemplared down.

I think the biggest thing that makes this concept difficult is midnight grasp. There's not a lot of expinations for giant gooey looking tenticles coming out of the ground and surrounding your enemy.

That said, i'd go with the deathless/zombie/ghoul concept... one can color the dark graphics these days, so you could go witha a "slimey" or "ectoplasmic" name or perhaps some kind of sticky insect name.