SinergyX_EU

Consider the medicine pool, very affective selfhealing and occasional friendly healing. Powerboost boosts the ammount of healing too

Pre-granite i do agree. That period i was one of the few running every possible armor that i could get (tough/weave, leadership also), succesfully finishing the respec-mission with me as only tanker

I never had rockarmor, never will get either. The defence in it is not worth a powerslot imho, using a purple and you got more So at the end, i just took the whole earth epic set (41 onwards).

You cannot transfer from server to server. So i gues you gotta find someone that desperate need influence on Union who has a buckload of influence on his Defiant char.

I been trying abit yesterday putting my pets in def-follow mode. But even when 1 mob start shooting me, they instantly start hitting the mob 'as protecting their master'.

So a bind (def+follow) and keep spamming?

Actualy, the 'ultimate' stone tanker should be able to face Carneys without problems too. There aid self comes in handy, not to mention Psi babbage or those 2 Psi-based AV's.

Then again, thats a very small % of the total game content

But for my info, how many interupt-enhs you need to block out the interupt mostly?

Leadership would realy nulify my endurance for sure I had aid self/other first, its usefull once in a while but most of the time EE/rooted heals you a bit faster. Only once i ever seen a group of mobs (CoT iirc) hit so many mez-effects on me that i dropped out of Granite (PvP happens alot). Doesnt Rooted/granite give you a Mag3/4 resist to most stuff? (knockback only from rooted).

I took groupfly now, helping hapless heroes in The Hollows to move around safely from mission to mission. So ended up having 2 travel powers and full sloted swift

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Sorry Pyra as attractive as an all female sg sounds , im a stinky male

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So roll a female toon and join us....join us....join us....one of us. One of us. One of us!

Seriously, I gotta stop watching horror movies late at night....it's affecting my brain!

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I always knew u were a bit crazy.. now i know for sure

Isnt consume with no end-mods already enough to fully regen your endurance with just 2 or 3 mobs? In that case you slot the endmod for single target?

*gave up his dark/fire due lack of resist*

My main rule of my Granite, protect the squishy!

Few additionaly rules apply to those unprepared aoe fire blasters.. they can be a pain in the *oops*

I go for the basics of my Mastermind (robots/poison). Replacing my bot-powers with the thugs version and i have hasten/fitness/fly/leadership as extra's

minor one on the mercs.

When they finish off 1 mob and there is a 2nd one still to shoot, they redo that stupid weapon draw animation. Unlike the hero-version, where a certain period you will keep holding the weapon after wich it dissapears, they put away the weapon the moment a mob is defeated.

Few times if i press repeately the attack button, they will redo the draw animation over and over, instead of just holding that stupid gun, causing annoying delay of firing.

Wanna go more blapper (sigh they are populair), go energy punch, bone smasher, total focus. Wanna stay blaster you have the basic powerpunch(push?) and only take totalfocus (boss wacker).

Boostrange is perma with 2 SO recharge, powerboost cant be perma'd (even with 6SO recharge and hasten), same for conserve wich is far from perma. I slotted powerpush (.. your first power) with acc/knockback, the further the mobs are mostly the safest (and you can show off slamming a lvl1 minion about 50-60 yards).

Blapper or blaster, your choice

Once you get into the Epic sets, i took earth, aggro management is fairly easy. I still help out teams with my 50 perma-granite, as long they let me do my job i can keep agro fairly good. Taunt i only use versus bosses and some lts, minions will be 'defeated' in seconds or they follow my aggro anyway.
I have a huge range of attacks, melee single target up to aoe powers all helping aggro. With a basic chain of attacks i can get all initial aggro, from there the team can run in and do their stuff.

Though i dissagree with the fact the rest of the team shouldnt get hit at all (only your hp bar should move). Though a tanker is a meatshield, doesnt mean he has to keep aggro of all mobs. A scrapper can easily do a 1vs2 fight, they have their resist also, the rest can get a few beatings once they get the shield of the Epics.

Although i try to keep aggro of all mobs, a defender still need to do his job and overal a granite tanker doesnt realy need any healing at all.
Easy said in those cases, that tanker sux.. just because he play 'different then the rest'?

In a few goldbricker missions i had:

Robots / Dark
Passive -> grand invis -> goto -> aggressive

Will result they just standing there doing nothing untill you either order 1 to attack a mob or you attack a mob (last case you get the agro).

A) Beethoven dies

Its only your dmg ->> pets

A snipe vs you, will hit 2 parts you and rest on your pets.

So, asume all 6 are out and sniper hits you 800 dmg, will make 200 damage for u and 100 damage for each of the pets.

%wise incomming damage only on the MM itself:
6 pets out = 25% damage (2/8 damage)
4 pets out = 33,33% damage (2/6 damage)
2 pets out = 50% damage (2/4 damage)
Unfortunatly, stalkers AS has unrestable damage..

So outside the armor, you can have 75% 'resist' all elements. Even clockwork king would hit you pants.

Powers are out, time to make up the balance and see how drunk i get tomorow I think its a 50/50, i'm happy

I gues only the armor would be good in combo with that new damage-sharing. With a 10% per mob, you can hit nearly cap resist. PvP people have to focus your pets first again, but like assasins have unresistable damage in their strike.

But i dont know, i never did recent pvp with my MM

so end of the line in normal english, what are the requirements for the VG?

(i always pick Science, so that wouldnt be a problem, but the rest i dont realy understand)

Once I7 becomes closer, around end of april i gues, we lift the bet even higher. I will state all powers on each lvl for the complete elec/elec set.
Each one right = drink for me, each one wrong = drink for him.

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Defiance rox!!!please omg dont remove it!!!And defiance doesnt require you to get attacked.Use fly and pump defiance then use ranged attacks to blast everything to hell and back with 500% cap....

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Pretty hard to do if 90% of the missions are indoor/caved.

So that little 10% of missions (lets say 5% fails) is worth whole defiance?

*back to droooling*

I think the quality of teams in CoV is mostly based on the AT's itself. Where in CoH the 'roles' of the AT's were pretty clear, CoV has a complete other set to work with. Corrupters can be healer/buffers or 100% blasters. Brutes can tank or scrap, each has a different approach.

In my cases, even once kicked, i been pointed to the fact 'i am doing my job as MM wrongly'. The TPI system most probably will be based what _you_ except certain AT's to do, yet as said earlier, you first should check his powers to actualy see what he can do and how he can fit into the team tactics.

SG-players go with SG-players, the rest is kinda doomed to party together. Yes those are starters, yes those are the solists, yes those are the less-experienced.

I like to team with new players, they listen alot, they try to do their best job for the team. Or at least, those who i met so far. Most important is to tell them 'correctly' for any improvement needed, instead of scolding him 5 minutes cause he ran the wrong way.

Oh well, i gues my next toon will be called 'Lone Crusader'

He wanted a challenge, he can have one

From the /nrg attacks i only have powertrust and TF. I gues i'm on a dying race.. the real blasters. Blappers took over.

With boostrange you can stay out of any attacks in PvP alot, even if someone runs off there is a big chance you still can fire some shells at him.

I dont like the -spd of stealth, specialy if you dont have swift. But based on your SS pick, i gues you keep that running nonstop. I stick with fly for now, powerboost pushes it to the cap speed so you can move all directions very fast.

Depends imho. Going /FF or /Poison to got a great set of team-buffs. Primairy maybe ninja or robots (each 3 attacks?) and the leadership set.. it should be possible.

Adding some attacks from the pool set, the epics powers (most are attacks+shield), you're a below-avarage defender/blaster.