Slaunyeh

Dr. Aeon is way ahead of you. This is essentially how the PTS works.

Well, close enough.

I think this pretty much sums it up for me. Scrappers/brutes are all 'toggles up, charge in, hit random buttons 'till stuff is dead'. If you like that playstyle, then you'll probably like scrappers better than stalkers.

I don't like that. I find stalkers more interesting to play.

Don't mind him, Test_Rat is just bitter. He means well.

That's a very high difficulty for a low-level controller. It's doable, but controllers (being an old-school archetype) isn't the best for soloing. Especially not before level 32.

I think maybe this is an issue of tactics. I don't know what your slotting looks like, but a controller should be able to easily perma-hold a single boss. Your hold, if slotted with hold-duration enhancements, should last much longer than the recharge. Two applications will hold a boss. This should not be impossible to achieve. Again, with accuracy slotting you shouldn't be missing that much (hint: if you enable the combat attribute monitor, there's an option for "Last Hit Chance" that will tell you the exact hit chance for your last attack. You want this number to be as close to 95% as possible.)

If you haven't slotted your hold to work at its best, you don't really have any business at that kind of difficulty, IMHO.

Welcome to how MMOs played in 2004.
The Controller AT is an old-school AT, and while it has received some upgrades to make it more solo friendly (read: containment), it is still the most team-focused AT in the game (you don't want to know what it was like before).

Personally, I think there should be some consequences to death. To play "above your level" as it were. While WoW may have added extra graveyards, WoW also never had an inspiration system that let everyone resurrect themselves right there on the spot (just imagine that we're all playing shamans).

I can't remember when I was last forced to go to hospital, so here's a hint: If you find yourself dying a lot, or just about to start a tough fight you're not sure you can handle? Start the fight as far from the enemy group as possible. Pull them back a little bit more. Then, IF they do manage to defeat you, you can use an Awaken inspiration and be back in the fight right away.

And if you die a lot, keep a bunch of Awakens on you at all time.

I think the 'average wait time' is a complete fabrication. I can spend hours in the queue, and it will still happily tell me 4 minutes. So that's true. It's a new system though, I guess it's not quite working right yet.


That's a loaded question.

In short: You have hundreds of fantasy MMOs that swear by the "holy trinity" to choose from. Thankfully, this isn't one of them.

If you do task/strike-forces, you will find that support roles will be more efficient. Still, it shouldn't matter if you're on a team of eight scrappers, eight defenders, or some sort of "super balanced" team setup. The combat in CoH is supposed to be fast, action-packed, flashy and fun. If you don't like that, hitting 50 isn't going to do anything for you.

Also, this game isn't really about hitting 50. If you don't like how your character plays at 30 or 40, you are probably not going to like how it plays at 50.

The problem with the LFG tool is that, yeah there's only the DFB in it. But more seriously, you can't actually do anything while in the queue. They really need to fix it so you can continue to play while you wait.

Lastly, people simply aren't using it. If everyone queues up with a full 8-man group, then no one in the queue will be picked up. If you queue, odds are pretty good that you will end up with the bare minimum of a four-man group (and even then, the wait can be so long than when it finally does pop, half of those players are asleep and don't click ok in time )

I like the LFG tool. I hope they improve it and do more with it. Adding Positron's task forces would be weird, but they should add all the strike forces

Pretty much sums it up for me, as well.

A better comparison, I think, would be if Domination was the tier 1 power in every Assault secondary. You can't not have it, and there's little reason to slot it much (though I actually usually do!). An inherent Hide toggle could work, I think.

Should work just fine.

White huh? I guess that means one has to take extra care not to pick up a six-pack of diet coke by mistake.

At least in Founders you're not being mugged by low-life like the Outcasts. In Founders you have actual fire demons from hell standing around in the side of the street. That's class.

Yeah, StJ seems to work the best on stalkers if you don't mind respec'ing a couple of times before 30. Since I have more respec's than sense, it's working out pretty good for me so far.

As for Rib Cracker... I kinda miss it. I like the animation on Rib Cracker better than Shin Breaker. But other than that it doesn't seem like a crippling loss.

That's because people gather full teams before queueing for the trial. That way, no one in the queue will ever be picked up unless there happens to be enough for a full league in there.

I hate that about the DfB trial. IMHO, it's really bad form to queue with a full team. Think of the poor LFG'ers!

Hey! Riptide and gang are my henchmen. I don't remember Maelstrom fighting me for them!

This is true, and also the best reason why stalkers won't get the staff set. Remember how we've been countering Synapse's theme explanation for not giving titan weapons with "stalkers are not ninja!"?

Weeeell. This means (by our own admission!) that staffs are not thematic stalker weapons!

8 is a normal team, here. A normal task-force sized "raid" would be fine. Glad we agree!

It's a combination of things: It's the points (800 points just sounds like a lot. Especially when you only have 300 to your name). It's the market interface... it's kinda slow, and I have to slog through all that every time I want to grab a rename token on a whim, compared to before. Since I'm bound to never have enough points, I always have to go through that extra step of first buying the extra points, then wait for the market to figure out that I have enough points, then buy the thing I actually wanted.

Well, I shouldn't complain. It been keeping me from grabbing stuff on a whim. That's good for me (maybe not so good for Paragon )

If you've set your melee attack to auto, it will fire in time to hit the Lift'ed target even without knockback enhancements.

I've used this trick on my grav/psi Dom since day 1.

I'm surprised it wouldn't work due to redraw in thorns though. The to-hit should be calculated when the power is triggered, not when executed, shouldn't it?

Ouch! Well, fine. Now I hope we don't get that staff set. Nyah!

*sulks in a corner*

Actually, that'd suck. While I don't care about Titan Weapons beyond the principle of 'stalkers can't get new toys any more??' I do care about staff fighting. *sniff*

Maybe we should try asking for blaster sets instead. I want devices melee! What's more sneaky than hitting a guy over the head with a time bomb? (actually, that'd be an awesome assassin strike - sneak up, slip a time bomb in a guy's pocket, then run away). Or maybe Devices Armor. It's pretty obvious what power to drop for Hide (Taser, obviously) and I want to wear a jacket made of gun drones. That's sneaky!

Blasts are easy to convert to stalker sets, too. Replace the snipe with AS (don't even have to mess with the animation!) and reduce all ranged attacks to 7' range. Done!

Who're 'we'?