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Quote:Stops the GM´s from spawning.Originally Posted by Eric Nelson
The Banner part of the event has nothing to do with the Eochai/Jack spawn part of the event. They are separate pieces, just as Trick or Treating is separate from them as well (all are linked by the theme, of course, but you can participate in any, all or none independantly of all other parts). -
I´m pretty sure banner events are new this year.
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Quote:I brawled Deathsurge pre i16 and he runs. He and Scarpyard can be a pita when there are drones nearbyOriginally Posted by GibberingLunatic
New bug. FLEEING MOBS.
Seriously, even purples are running after the first hit and just made me fail my Mayhem mission cause the second I shot anything, they would run away. EVERY FREAKIN LAST ONE OF THEM. This needs to be fixed massively cause this has been happening all day.
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You know its a bug when even GM's run away after the first hit. -
After huntig eochai upon eochai it gets tiring that a banner event appears and you have to do it all again. With his low spawn rate its getting pretty tedious to get that badge.
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Got my traps/sonic to 50 today and its been a fun ride.
Traps should work with all secondaries. I´m tempted to try all of them myself but i´m already short on influence since i´m gonna kit out both builds on my traps/sonic for different purposes. -
Been on 2 banner events and it lagged on epic proportions with massive rubberbandings and mapservers every 2 seconds. On a zombie apocalypse i had 1-2 minutes of powerlag.
This was on Union
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Quote:Your unslotted neutrino bolt is hax!Originally Posted by Firewasp
I am what you would call, someone that thinks "outside" of the box. My IQ was tested at 166, but that was back in high school. If I tell you that decreasing the defense of a critter by 50% will increase your dps, you might want to try it before flaming it just to get your post count up.
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Quote:I would rather have a dark slotted for damage to contribute to team dps since they would be stacking enough tohitdebuff at base to make a difference.Originally Posted by Firewasp
I have read all your posts for the last 30 minutes. Long ago when CoH was a few weeks old I was playing a dark/dark defender. After playing with my team for several missions, we were outside a mission waiting for couple others to sell/train, etc.
One of the others asked me if I understood what a Defender's role was. Told them I wasn't really sure. They said that it was to help defend the team. That I wasn't designed to be a mini blaster. One told me that my dark blasts were actually debuffs to accuracy and that I should slot them for that. In other words, they told me what I have been saying all along.
As i have teamed with emps that are able to attack and buff thus not removing anything from the teams dps i´m fully confident that you can do both.Quote:If a EMP joined your team and no one was getting healed because the emp was too busy blasting away at the target, would you care to have them on your team?
You are trolling right?Quote:If a TA/archer joined the team and all attacks were slotted for damage, would you want them?
LolQuote:If a controller came aboard and did nothing but let their pets do damage while they stood that watching, would you like that?
And this is what we are saying since judging from your questions you dont understandQuote:This is all I am saying. Every member on a team has their specific role to play. This is what makes up a team. If a team is made up of 8 blasters and they are fighting +4's, that team will constantly fail. It would also fail if it were 8 scrappers.
Half an archetype is crap. You are able to utilise both your primary and secondary. Get it?
Hey you see those little funny purple boxes with shields on them? Use them.Quote:I was in a team once with 7 Blasters and me - a claws/wp scrapper that had no choice but to play the tank. It worked, because 3 seconds after I jumped into a large group, the npcs were all dead. The Blasters needed someone with some sort of defense to take the alpha.
As i have had the privilige to play on an all blaster team. You click a purple and two, everybody fire their aoe´s dead spawn.
If you are not able to do damage while keeping the team alive perhaps you should go an see what wrong with what you are doing.Quote:I have an 18 rad/pain corruptor. Only have 1 offensive power that is unslotted and not even on the power bar. Everything else is in the heals. This way the team does more DPS, then if I were to cast blasts. The TEAM does more DPS because they are alive.
Also look up scourge and what secondary effect rad has which is real boon pre so´s.
Thats because you only have one unslotted blast of course you won´t contribute much.Quote:How much DPS can you do if you are dead? How much could you do if you rarely died? There was another pain corruptor on the team today. Her heals are like 100. Mine were over 250. And I could cast them really fast. If I stopped healing and started casting my blast, the DPS of the entire team would drop. -
Nice! Would Switching fireblast to 5 apocalypse (-damage) and putting a gladiators javelin toxic damage up the dps even further?
Something like this?
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EDIT: Ah thought he/she was talking about lethal melee sets in general
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Build for end game strikeforces/coop
No patron powers because of concept.
The main question is is should i plug a damage proc in subdue? Planning to run Subdue, Tk blast, Dominate, (pause)
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Quote:Crane Kick is knockback so unless your cycling it while mashing tab, there really is not much problems with the combo.Originally Posted by Heraclea
I'd go with Regen if you want Martial Arts. There's way too much knockback in that set for my liking, and with Invuln every mob you knock away means you're chipping away some of your defense. We have enough mobs for that; don't need to do it to yourself.
MA is better, but still not a fan. Cashiering my level 42 MA/Shield and rerolled Electric. -
Quote:I´m a fan of action buffing myself, if my pbaoe is up while fighting and i can hit a majority of the team with it i´ll do it.Originally Posted by Tabik
I think I've only ever asked a team to 'gather for buffs' once, when my Empathy/Sonic first got her RA's. Since then, it's always been my prerogative to try and get in range of as many people as I can at once and let 'em fly mid-battle. The only way to buff in my opinion.
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once i get my softcap S/L/E/Ranged build assembled on my ice/kin i´ll stress test it by starting at +1/8 and stop when i can´t kill fast enough
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Quote:But still Achilles didnt get its own entry, is that because of it being a pet(mortar)? Or is the power analyzer so inaccurate that it would show acid mortar as -20% and enervating field at -3.32%?Originally Posted by Stargazer
The Achilles Heel proc gets its own entry in the Combat Attributes window, so it should not have shown up under Acid Mortar. You should have gotten one entry for Acid Mortar (showing a fairly low number), and one entry for Achilles Heel, showing 20%.
As has already been mentioned, the reason that the Purple Patch does not reduce this number is that it is a power granted to the target.
It always *shows up* as -20%, but depending on the resistance of the target, it doesn't always *give* -20%.
The reason for this is that the sub-headings (the entry for each power) for each attribute shows the "natural" value given by that power, before resistances are taken into consideration (but after Combat Modifiers ("purple patch"). This means that these values are not always representative of the actual effect on the target.
The "main headings" for each attribute show the accurate (post-resistance) totals however.
e.g., if you have:
Smashing Resistance: x%
---Resistance affecting power 1: y%
---Resistance affecting power 2: z%
, then the value given for Smashing Resistance is guaranteed to be accurate, but the values listed for Resistance affecting power 1 and Resistance affecting power 2 might not be.
(Resistance buffs are generally unresistable, and will thus generally show the correct values. Most Resistance Debuffs are however resistable, and will thus show inaccurate values when your (unresistable) Resistance is non-zero (unresistable Resistance is what is used to resist resistable Resistance).
If you had a power called "Resistance Buff" giving you 50% Smashing Resistance, and a power called "Resistance Debuff" giving you -50% Smashing Resistance, the Combat Numbers display should show you this:
Smashing Resistance: 25%
---Resistance Buff: 50%
---Resistance Debuff: -50%
Resistance Debuff is *showing* -50%, but the actual debuff the target experiences is -50%*(1-50%) = -25%.
Thus, the total Smashing Resistance is 50% - 25% = 25%.
So, to find out the effective debuff of a power, you will often need to back-calculate it from the *total*, instead of looking at the entry for that specific power.
Going back to the case of Achilles' Heel, its entry should always show -20%, but if the target has Resistance, the effective debuff will actually be lower than this. -
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Quote:Cool except your pure theory base calculations doesnt mean much ingame unless you can predict ai behavior.Originally Posted by Frosticus
Well now, I guess you do know it all.
Let's see traps:
Mez protection? yep
53% res debuff and almost perma achiles on top of that? yep
53% -dam perma
500% regen (that's about 30hp sec on a decent defender, which is equivalent to using Rad Aura every 9 seconds!)
20.9% def to all to work from so easily capped def of your choice (24% w/ seekers added in vs AV)
AV's: 94 dps of -regen
Monsters/GM's: 353 dps of -regen
dps loss due to traps summons: (acid, seekers, pgt, triage) = ~30%
Rad:
Mez protection? nope, but mez res is pretty good, except RI and EF still drop
30% res debuff and about 4% from achilies in RI
-30% dam
30%+rech ( perma with very high recharge)
25%+ dam (perma with very high recharge )
Up to 60hp/sec healing (casting RA every 4.4 sec: 2.18 sec rech/2.244 cast)
7.125% effective tohit debuff vs AV's, so a lot harder to softcap
AV's: 70.7 dps of -regen
Monster/GM's: 264.4 dps of -regen
dps loss due to rad powers: (am, LR, RA equal to 300% regen, which brings it up to par with triage on the traps w/ health and IO's. So every 15.6 sec) =~23%
I'll concede that rad is still the faster AV killer (probably), I've even said that in another thread, but "big game" no I don't think so. Rad has to make up 89 dps just from the difference in -regen, which AM just can't do.
If you did 50 dps before buffs and debuffs
Traps: ~164 dps
less dps loss due to summons and 95% cap on tohit
109 dps
Rad: ~147 dps
less dps loss due to casting and 95% cap on tohit
108 dps
At which point the difference comes out as the extra 23.6 dps of -regen vs AV's and the extra 89 vs GM's.
*I"m being as impartial as I can be and referencing these builds for my purposes (though the 50 dps is just an example), but feel free to run w/e numbers you feel are pertinent
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All that said traps and rad are both very capable of the task. But seeing as how you nitpicked my comment about traps possibly being the best big game hunger blueside now, but not the fact that defs are the second best at it otherwise what troller do you feel is better than a traps/son?
A self heal which can avoid rooting will be far more valuable than regen in my opinion seeing as most gm´s have a ranged attack with heavy DoT.
You didnt include pool taunt even though you were so quick to jump on me for neglecting that.
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Quote:Take your condescending tone and shove it up your rear.Originally Posted by Frosticus
I know traps is new to blueside, but surely redside players can't be that much smarter can they?
It's nothing powerpool taunt can't easily solve. Some seem more affected by the flee factor of mortar too.
Fitting in pool taunt and softcapping defense is tricky while maintaing a good recharge speed and overall survivability.
Pool taunt will also decrease your dps which planting traps is already doing.
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What level is your trapper? I´m slotted with SO´s and common io´s and i have no problems with traps recharging slow. I do use my secondary though.
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Ice mistral still has issues with crystals falling off the carnie map which apparently been around for a long time.
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Quote:Except that acid mortar causes GM´s to run. You can immob AV´s but you got nothing to stop gm´s thanks to their high immob protection and resitance on top of that.Originally Posted by Frosticus
Defs are the second best big game hunter blueside.
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Have you tried using a base pillar?
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Quote:Yes.Originally Posted by EricHough
Wow - thanks, I assumed the system would count the buff from the proc as an 'external' buff. That is really cool, guess I may be changing my ill/rad's slotting fairly soon.
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Spectral Terror is a good power to have. All i am saying that it is fully possible to paly without it.