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A somewhat pointless thread which can be summed up here

"wahh wahh wahh EMs overpowered"

"cry cry cry no its not"

why dont we start threads about regens now, AS damage, repel powers, rad and a million other things already discussed to death. Whats next? Whining about taser as its a fast firing 100% stun, web grenade as it shuts down 2 travel powers? 3 if you dont have mez protections and/or combat jumping.

The upshot is EMs one of the few blaster powers that is balanced, high damage, long recharge, useful 2ndary effect, long animation. When looked into in context (and not in a uber buffed environment with support classes) its all it should be, high burst damage to reduce incoming damage. Its been acknowledged by the devs that the rest of the blaster 2ndaries need work and that was well over a year ago.

I dont beleive there is anything in this game now that is remotely close to being overpowered as A beats B, B beats C, C beats A truely exists now. Its just that a whole heap of 2ndaries need buffing significantly.

Earth mastery is very good, fissures disorient synergises very well with containment and earths embrace is an insane self heal/hp buff giving my fire kin a 800pt self heal and perma 1600 hit points

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(seriously though its nice to see pvp villains showing up)

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I came, I Thermed, I used my Patron Pool.

I honestly enjoy villains more for PvP, although that Thaw animation and rooting nearly let you catch me a number of times. As I said at the time, think I'll be back now I have the Therm at 50, and with an arena build next time. Coming along tonight helped me see what I need to change.

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drop all thermal powers except the aoe heal because you cant but make sure you 6 slot it for end reduc, take the fighting, presence pools and flurry, hasten and whirlwind from speed pool. Take every attack power and again 6 slot for end redux this will help with the fact that you wont be taking fitness pool

Unless of course you are in my team so make 2 builds....

was fun, annoyed that the therms turned up and threw my 2 shotting squishies out the window

(seriously though its nice to see pvp villains showing up)

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Just wondering if energy transfer makes aid self pretty much required. I'm planning out an inv/em and the taking damage to use it thing without a reliable heal scares me. Dull pain cycles slooooow and I have a tendency to use HP boosters to boost my max HP rather than heal myself.

So. Yeah. Necesary, or not really? I can fit aid self in pretty comfortably although it would require skipping Conserve Power. But then I'm hoping with an end reducer in all my attacks (and two in total focus) as well as all my toggles and stamina, I should be fine endurance wise.

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Aid self is not needed on any tank. Just pop a Heal Insp when you feel you need some extra health and dull pain isn't up.
Also, the actual amount of health drained by ET isn't that big.

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aid self is going on my ice/em tank

sounds like a nice match v vigilence and im a big fan of seeing villains getting used more in arena (though I still beleive that they are inherantly weaker due to sucktastic epics)

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Only got online for a short while, CE was aggroing lieuts properly and they followed me for quite a long time, but cant say for sure if it was the taunt effect or just the debuff, since I didnt have any other player to test it with.

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that was the debuff, I tested v grey lts and they ran off. Invince is the easiest to see not working as it has no additional componant that effects mobs.

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I've found grey mobs running off even after an actual Taunt; I thought if you damaged something a lot lower than you it was inclined to flee, and that could override the effects of being taunted? Although presumably while the taunt effects lasts it isn't allowed to break off and attack someone else, it's fleeing or attacking you, and no 3rd option...

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I didnt attack them and they ran off, and the US are reporting the same, the taunt portion is only affecting minions at the current time

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Only got online for a short while, CE was aggroing lieuts properly and they followed me for quite a long time, but cant say for sure if it was the taunt effect or just the debuff, since I didnt have any other player to test it with.

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that was the debuff, I tested v grey lts and they ran off. Invince is the easiest to see not working as it has no additional componant that effects mobs.

should be going bye bye

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....ev=#Post7483442

:O

I would advise checking US boards on a rad/psi

I would say though, having a rad/sonic with copious amounts of HOs and is as end effecient as you can possibly get, to ditch leadership entirely as you will NOT have the end to run it and will only be of any use teamed with a kinetic

pfft you think you some sort of big man now? anyone can take out mms with a fotm defender

very cool man

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Give me a shout @Jum , I'll always be willing to help out, no doubt have a toon in the right range.

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Pah you never online

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I might make a video of just me vs the two MMs, maybe if enough people ask for it lol.

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Yes, thanks for that.
Tankers - no trouble.
Scrappers - might hit hard but they are going down.
Blaster - Hah! Not even a real threat.
A certain Kinetics Defender - Hey, what happened to my endurance. Hey, why are all my pets just standing there. Ow. Ow. Ow. Why wont he just die, he's only a Defender.

Iguana Eddie, Thugs/Poison.

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hehe, its easy to think of defenders as an easy target solo but they can be the most powerful opponent

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welcome Flamm

sorry to hear your still having trouble scorp

Shoot the burgers

Was a good team tonight six bars down towards 27 scrapyard died again he started running when he saw it was the superteam after him again but there was no escape.

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and killed aurora borealis as AV in a Mayhem

ss is actually tasty damage all the way up to 50, just dont expect to be doing much damage to defs and trollers if they ahve their epic sheilds up. Rage is a joy but NRG is a harder hitter from 38 on though. Fire attack is too aoe to be of much use in pvp unless your intention is be a dedicated MM muncher

primaries its fire for a great heal and an extra build up, downside is you need acro for kb protection and cj for immob

inv is just pretty damn good generally for tanks though psi will devour you

ice is great

u were clearly trying not to focus mainly on yourself but your duel with the 2 mms was the best thing of the whole event and should ahve left it in entirely

oh and shame my kill on you wasnt caught

em/fire for monster single target damage

fire/fire for monster aoe damage

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Please see this thread

I still haven't had another chance to carry out more testing yet. I hope to be able to try it again tonight, I'm going to see if I can narrow it down to a particular power, or see if it is the set itself.

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my ice/cold works fine (admittedly with no sheilds) but thermal sheilds can inexplicably stretch to the sky and send my fps to low single figures

be glad you not a fire/ta troller, on indoor missions if you do ignite it, it will burn your pets and they will never again return to that location even once the slick has gone

3 synthetic membranes, 3 heal is optimal

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Corruptors are fine, other than the possible exception of Cold, which I feel may be horribly broken by the way.

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um in what respect? /cold is amazing

fire/fire is immense fun and with a good team you will be destroying all before you with aoe goodness.

post details in my thread in tech issues and lets get a trail going

Gratz mate

yay I just got a buff from the toggles no longer rooting on the next patch