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Short answer: not terribly
While they can add a great deal of DPS in conjunction with all the -res a Bane can pump out, more important for a Bane is doing the mace-smashy stuff, team buffing with the leadership toggles and the aforementioned -res.
A Bane can still do plenty of damage and more than pull their weight without the pets. The thing about the pets is they're also slot hungry, so unless you've got the 4-5 slots to make the most of them getting them would be wasteful anyway. -
Quote:Hrm, alright. Cheers for the info. Won't really change anything for my characters but interesting nonetheless.Originally Posted by Megami-Neko
From Zombie Man's post on Issue 18 and Going Rogue missing patch notes: Previously, when the 'Proc120' Special IOs were slotted into toggles, they would continue to 'work' for 120 seconds after the toggle was turned off. Now, they shut off immediately when the toggle is turned off. This is considered a fix to the way they were intended to work. They still work for 120 seconds in a click power and they still remain always on in a working passive power. The Proc120 IOs are the Stealth IOs, Kismet's +6% ToHit, and the three Healing Set +Recovery and +Regeneration IOs.
On topic: hitting 47 with a character so I can slot all their sets bar purples. Hooray. -
Fantastic power remains fantastic, more at 11.
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Quote:While I agree that FF is simple as hell to play, I disagree about Emp. Compared to other support sets its fairly straightforward to play well.Originally Posted by BurningChick
I've thought about it.
And I've realized something: Empathy's a hard set to play well.
It involves knowing who benefits from which buffs, and that entails 1.) knowing what the buffs do; 2.) knowing something about the powers people on the team have which requires 2.a) reading character descriptions; 3.) knowing when you're done with the primary so you can lay down the secondary. You will, however, rarely get thanked for anything 'cause there won't be a flood of green numbers.
Or you follow the Granite tanker, load him up with stacked CMs and Fort, put HA on auto and get congratulated for your 133+ h33lz.
Edit: and FF is, IME, dead easy to play in contrast. Keep Dispersion Bubble on at all times. Every 3.5 minutes, rebubble teammates. For the other 3 minutes, punch mobs in face.
Which makes it all the more depressing that so many Emps are terribad
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Okay.
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Roll countless lowbie alts on trash servers, email them the cash. Tedious because it'll take 2 emails (I think?) per bank alt but yeah.
Or give it to me, I promise to spend at least 80% of it on hookers and blow. -
What's the change for stealth IOs?
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I think he means he'd rather nuke the character from orbit than rename it, not that he didn't know how to freename his characters
Edit: although probably good to have the info on how to do it in the thread anyway so people know what on earth we're talking about, heh. -
Welcome to the server, Nippy
As others have said, with GR going live in less than a week you've come at a good time.
Oh and something something, the pingus or whatever. -
Quote:Right? I'm gonna be taking hell of advantage of this.Originally Posted by Myrmydon
And here I was, going to pay for several.
Gotta think of better names for some of my chars
The announcement says its unlimited for the duration, I wonder if that means unlimited but restricted to 5/week or whatever the old deal was or properly unlimited. -
Thread is making me want a Warshade. Damnit.
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You'd have more luck if you put something together yourself and asked for feedback. Either here or in the PvP forums.
Get +hp, +rech, plan to take sharks and hibernoob. -
It doesn't really solve the server merge issue since even if we take it as read that people will move off a low-pop server to a high one, you just end up skewing the population balance more
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Rec buff on Consume is cool but a little odd, since for the first 15s after using Consume is arguably when you'd need it least.
Still a major fan of the FA changes
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Quote:This. One of the main advantages a Bane has over a Stalker (the other being AoE) is the significant amount of -res they can pump out. Helps both them and the team do much more damage.Originally Posted by Fury Flechette
Not taking Venom Grenade and/or Surveillance is a mistake IMO. I don't know if I'd ever turn down -20% res debuffs, and a Bane has access to two them. Surveillance can even take the Achille proc for even more debuff.
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Since I've not marketeered with any regularity for months, I'll be using this as an excuse to check the market with all my characters and see what kind of stuff I've got gathering dust (or what piles of cash I've got to collect
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I may throw up a bunch of stacks of salvage or generic IOs just to see whether something explodes, heh. -
Man, I've got to log in all my dudes and check what kind of crap I've got on the market.
On the plus side, I've probably got all kinds of nifty stuff I forgot I had. Or like, lowball bids on purples from months ago. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Neuronia
Scrappers can Hiber.
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The FA changes.
Brutes getting Fireball.
Doms getting Sleet, Fireball and RoF.
Being able to sideswap my Fire/MM Blaster so he will finally get some play. -
Quote:feels good manOriginally Posted by Demobot
NDAs being lifted.
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This thread makes my head hurt.
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Quote:Because it's not just SC, AAO is also stupidly powerful.Originally Posted by jonnycash
Stop with the /SD bashing, the only thing that needs to be changed on /sd is shield charge, and that's only because it's not working as intended. /sr is great without ios and is really good with them. I hate it when you guys go off the subject at hand.
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I suppose it is less useful for an Earth/ Dom since you've got QS and EQ, but for a Fire/ Dom its invaluable.
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Well, two things.
Firstly while I've yet to take Taunt on any of my Brutes, it does have its uses for getting more aggro for more Fury.
Secondly, the AoE immobs can be really good on Doms. AoE stun + AoE immob = AoE lockdown. That does, of course, require opening with the AoE stun, not the AoE immob