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They do show up in PvP zones, but you can't get them back by killing the person who grabbed it.

That would be too much like going to the mall this month.

And in addition to having a much shorter activation, the blast set snipes also are higher damage (scale 2.76 vs 2.3). The devs were ridiculously punitive when addressing Stalker snipes, especially when you look at how some other powers fared.

Uhm, to reiterate:

I'm not saying the range isn't the entire reason to take the power. I'm saying that on the Stalker AT, selecting them because they're ranged is a tiny concern that has an extremely small fringe use and it is, in my mind, not worth the power selection nor any slots that would have to go into it to become worthwhile. There are other, better set mules and in 99.99% of the situations you're likely to run into that's all they are - there is almost always a better option.

If I want a box to blow up safely, I can destroy it much faster and with fewer inspirations used by popping a couple of purples and running an attack chain on it from within the spawn. It's only of marginal use when there are mobs that ignore stealth - once again, you can use a lower number of purples to accomplish the same result faster. Or just use reds and purples to ensure that you only have to worry about it for a few seconds.

Which would work, if it did as much as Assassin's Strike - which already doesn't kill many things. Plus, the snipes eat up almost the entire Build Up window on their own.

On an AT that can sneak into the middle of the spawn and hit an attack that does significantly more damage (Moonbeam does scale 4.6 damage on a critical, AS does scale 7) which carries a tohit debuff and chance for fear to everything around, and then continue to deal more damage in less time and actually kill the thing you're fighting... the range really is a tiny concern at best.

Perspective? In an online discussion?

And here I thought you were normally reasonable!

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Because they can be stacked to overcome low mag protection, for one; for another not everybody has it (until Clarion, and even then I think it's t4 for perma). I have several Kinetic Corruptors that would love mez protection. >.>

I've used the cloth belt. And the rope belt. But it's not at all like, say, the sashes the Carnies have.

Nitpick: Eye of the Magus doesn't affect Psi, just in case someone was thinking of trying this later on. It's still a great power to have, but that's the hole in it.

Because prostitution is illegal in most areas?

The Justice set worked for pseudo-plate mail also, and if you specifically want only one type of plate armor then you're likely to never be happy, and huge bulking plates don't mix well with other parts (which is why I don't use the Valkyrie boots or gloves most of the time, and only the smaller shoulder plates). Valkyrie works for plate over scale or just scale, the roman breastplate works to make it a lot look like plate, and if you fudge the colors and don't look to close you can pretend the scales in Valkyrie are chain mail. Some of the tech pieces work for plate over chain also, especially when you add patterns.

There are more options available than just "all of one set" - both under tights and armored tops.

But...but... a waist sash!!!!

Of course it's probably the only piece I'd use regularly, but still... I can already do armor quite well. How long have people asked for sashes?

Edit: not to mention the long skirt...

I've PM'd both Castle and Synapse about it notifying the mobs so they should be aware of it, but I'm not sure that having them so highly outleveled and them doing nothing is a perception issue. I've never gotten grey mobs to act first without directly affecting them previously via damage, taunt, or debuff on any character and think it's just a check the AI may do before acting.

As a side note, when this happens suppressable stealth actually does suppress; you can see the stealth radius drop occur if you use a stealth IO. I've done it with my EM/Elec Brute in Cap.

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You know, I think I give people playing here too much credit. Because I would have thought that it went without saying, and apparently at least one person felt it just had to be said.

Well, I did specifically leave holes in protection with what I was suggesting, and Arcanaville's idea involves absolutely no "protection" at all but high levels of mez resistance to break out of it faster.

But low mag mez protection (or high resistance) doesn't have to be all-encompassing like the newer armor sets provide - it could just as easily only affect holds and stuns, which are the ones that prevent you from really doing anything. Sleeps break the first time you're hit, and fear is weird by letting you act sometimes, and not others (and fear is also something that's not covered by most of the armor sets - only the newer ones truly provide blanket protection, but that's a separate discussion).

As for the last part of this paragraph, why not Blasters? As mentioned, the other "melee" ATs have entire armor sets. Blasters have the lowest hit points (tied with Stalkers), and until epic/patron pools don't get any more self-protection than anyone else. You can make the justification for it for any of the ATs, really, but given the lack of other personal defenses and number of melee/PBAoE powers in the AT you can make the case that it's warranted.

Elude's endurance crash isn't flagged to not stack, so it will be in the same boat as Overload - you'll have the endurance crash but not the -recovery.

Yes. And it means nothing when I close the browser window. Regardless of computer, browser, or aggravation expressed at the monitor.

I think in the "high recharge" thread, which didn't account for -resistance procs and whatnot, Stone Melee was the top without adding more targets for Soul Drain to push Dark Melee ahead of it. Once you account for procs things start shuffling around a lot, since any -resistance procs start having a multiplicative effect on your entire chain.

Also, things have changed since those threads were created, which is why BillZ asked for them to be unstickied. While mostly unindicative of the question, checking the pylon time thread for the top Brute scores that aren't using Lore pets is probably going to get you the closest to an answer.

Phantasm pretends to. So sure, why not?

I used a mixed bag from the Valkyrie, Roman, and Witch sets for my "armored" character, shown here:


The Roman chest makes it work a lot better than the bulkier Valkyrie ones did, so it may work for what you want until you get a better idea of what's actually in the Knight pack.

I'd like to see more options - I loved one of the images that I felt was completely unauthentic but looked really nice that someone else linked to and said that I would've expected something like that in the set. You can't make that one in the costume creator and I'd like it as an option, but people latched on to the image from The Quick and the Dead, and that one you can do fairly easily. But we're not going to get it anytime soon, which has already been explained, and while they may (read: probably) need to revise their time management on the asset pipeline if they're that far back that feedback can't be incorporated before it goes live, that's something that's also going to take a while to do and honestly isn't strictly limited to art assets. But that's also a problem of them trying to push things out at a rate of "at least one new thing in the market per week" - and if people don't like what's out that week then you get threads like this one, and if they slow down and try to fix issues that are brought up and cause release delays you have threads about "why isn't there anything new this week?!" They're damned if they do, and damned if they don't.

The posts I was trying to rebut with the image were mostly about how people can't make reasonable gunslinger outfits for women because of what's in the pack. Some of the items could work, most of them don't - but that has no bearing on the fact that it's optional and the amount of anger over it seemed a bit excessive.

Hm... I hadn't looked at how they did it for Vigilance, but I had checked Domination. It just checks for teammates within 300' every 10 seconds. And I guess that the parameter in the source.TeamSize call is the radius to check with 0 being "everything on the map" as well, since it's the same signature that's used in the Stalker line items. Since 0 seems to be a special case, I wonder if it actually does the variable lookup that I expected rather than looping through the whole map and counting entities that are teamed. You'd think the worst case on that would be O(n) where n is the number of people on the team, not on the map.