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Quote:You view aid self and air superiority as vital powers for your forcefield defender.Originally Posted by Karl_Rove_Man
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Quote:You didn't take tar patch since "they never stay still anyway."Originally Posted by mintmiki
(taken from guardian)
As a stone tank, you stand back with the squishies and die the whole time while firi pwns a speed LGTF on his blaster (I witnessed that one). -
Quote:Word on the street is that we're also getting alternative sprinkle sets. No more will you be limited merely to 'chocolate' jimmies which look vaguely like mouse poop; the new 'rainbow' and 'cinnamon' toppings will open up a whole new world of sprinkle application for Donut-topping individuals of a particular stripe.Originally Posted by Rhynwa
I also want information about the supposed up-coming 'Going Glazed' expansion! To be able to take my plain donuts and glaze them, or to take my glazed donuts and scrape off the icing interests me. Will there be a sprinkles option? If I have a donut that already exists can i then use it in the new expansion? If I have a glazed donut, and scrape off the icing, can I re-glaze it later? Will all the little glazed and un-glazed donuts be found in the same shop, or will they remain separate? Can the newly glazed donuts be eaten in the normal Sentai Sage Donut(tm) game?
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Quote:Yeah, I used to be part of the Hardcore Battering crowd until I realized that the improvements in taste relative to the time I invested were minimal.Originally Posted by Karl_Rove_Man
lol, World of Waffles sux. All they want is your money, and then they give you stale waffles with the other trillion waffle-eaters that play World of Waffles.
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Quote:In These Tough Economic Times, an extra donut is the only Consumer Relationship Management plan the Sentai Sage team can afford to add, it seems. While the ongoing Donut-Eater Rewards plan has been popular, if sometimes providing questionably useful benefits - the infamous wax paper customization upgrade comes to mind - it's disappointing to see the company so hampered in its industry-leading commitment to providing extra sugar to its fanbase.Originally Posted by mintmiki
Wow, a whole nother donut. What will i do with myself?
World of Waffles is planning to offer a fruit topping reward plan as part of their next expansion, which frankly outdoes anything the Donut team appears to be capable of. As much as they tout their improved funding and development due to the Entenmann's buyout, this is the best they can come up with? Black Coffee Bearclaw should be ashamed of himself. -
Quote:I've got your back, never fear.Originally Posted by Infinite_Zero
now who is gonna help me greif 2.1?
I think I ran into you about twice, Gremlen, but you seem to have been a good guy and it's a shame to see another Server Face go.
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Quote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaCU4...eature=relatedOriginally Posted by mintmiki
People are missing u and Crim on 2.1. I hearded their *coughEmbroilercough* quiet sadness
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Quote:Half again the damage for half again the endurance,. I can, of course, go FT --> GIS - and often do - and since FT is still ticking during the admittedly-long activation of GIS it is not any LESS effective with that as a followup.Originally Posted by dave_p
Not to belabor the issue, but you realize that you can fit in FT & IS in about the same time (just a hair more thanks to arcanatime) as GIS alone, right? And do a lot more damage to boot. FT alone almost does as much damage as GIS and in half the time if you're just looking for a cleanup attack.
Don't get me wrong: I know Ice Sword is the better attack if your scheme is for constant output. My priorities are burst delivery and minimum number of buttons pushed. I came over from playing a Fury Warrior in WoW. Despite what it looks like in videos, it is at baseline actually less click-intensive than just about any set in CoH on account of autoattack and the major attacks involved being (at the time) on a 6-second and 10-second cooldown respectively. While the vicissitudes of maintaining Sunder Armor and dumping rage into Heroic Strike or Cleave changed that up some, I still found it easier to get into a rhythm.
You aren't wrong, it's just that GIS is not as bad as you think. I'd be as pleased to see it buffed as anyone in this thread, and I would enormously prefer not to have waited 35 levels for something so unimpressive, but it's not without its uses. -
Quote:I suspect, now that I give it some thought, that it's because my usual way of approaching a spawn is Shield Charge, Frozen Aura, Ice Patch (optional depending on how much is still standing), Ice Storm (same!). I'm already in the cleanup phase by the time either of the ice swords would come into play. Rather than use Ice Sword repeatedly I prefer to hit Greater Ice Sword once and move on to the next group. Pairing the set with Shields has probably colored my Ice Melee experience to an even greater degree than I suppose it to have.Originally Posted by dave_p
Why would you use GIS instead of IS as a gap filler? In fact, FF & Kick should be endlessly be spammable (whether you want to or not is a different story altogether). If you have Ice Blast, FT > IS > IB > FF > IS > FF > IB should be a very attainable ST chain.
Your chain is most likely superior over time, but I don't have a lot of "over time" to worry about thanks to shield charge. -
Quote:... they, however, will be able to employ their mastery of oxidation combustion in new and different ways relative to their previous expertise. Conflagration, "an uncontrolled burning that threatens human life, health, property, or ecology,"* will not occur, as this is merely virtual flame and not the real and actual article.Originally Posted by Sun_Splitter
Well, from what I hear, when you turn level 41, you can access powers on your scrapper that let you control the element of fire. This, of course, does not count those scrappers that could already control the element of fire.
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Quote:That's the thing - half the reason I want to avoid Irradiate is that I've got no interest in being stuck melee-diving again for AoE after playing an earth/fire Dom as my most recent main project. My actual reason for wanting to go Rad is that it looks cool, and Liquefy + Atomic Blast should be very entertaining.Originally Posted by PosterChild
Sonic's general bane, much to my own displeasure, is Psionics. You offer, and get no protection from it. (My suggestion is currently to put some resist in Clarity...because it makes sense.)
That being said, I would really like to try and persuade you to a different secondary. Sonic is much more comfortable at range, where radiation, if you pick up Irradiate (which is way better than Electron Haze, Irradiate debuffs defense for like 37.5% I believe, where Haze is much less potent, where was I?) Right, Irradiate will make you melee centric.
Sonic is a great set to pair with a tank. It tops the tank off for common damages, and gives them a great -res aura around themselves to make them feel oh so much stonger!
Personally, I'd think about a more ranged secondary, maybe dark... for more -tohit to help the tank out even more.
That's just me
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Quote:Intriguingly, I did manage to add rep for that one.Originally Posted by Rhynwa
I am trying! *click*click*click* Bah.
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So with i16 on the way and a buddy being likely to roll an Elec Armor tanker, I've decided to put together a defender to play with him. I'll be going sonic emission/rad blast/power and, while I have a pretty good idea how I want to put the character together, I've got a couple questions:
Is Irradiate strictly better than Electron Haze even if I don't mind aiming a cone? At least one existent rad blast guides seem to suggest that it is, which seems odd as Electron Haze would appear to have marginally higher base damage.
If I load up Neutrino Bolt with the def debuff damage procs, am I going to like the results?
Cosmic Burst's stun would appear to be guaranteed. Is there any reason to slot it for duration apart from having ambitions to stun more than one thing at once?
Is slotting for status resistance going to be worth my time, given Sonic Dispersion's already-broad protection options? I'll probably splurge a little and get a Steadfast knockback IO for one of the shields regardless, but is there anything else I'll really need to watch out for in PvE content?
Are there any other must-haves or tricks you can think of that I ought to know about?
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Quote:Nice as it is to get recognition for my deliberately-baroque style of sass talk, my heart belongs to Triumph.Originally Posted by Thrunk
You are SO cute! Can I keep you?
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While Greater Ice Sword is, indeed, a pretty worthless attack by the DPA-focused criteria you've set up, I get a great deal of use out of it on my Shields/Ice tanker owing to its acceptable DPE and naturally high accuracy. My attack chain looks kind of out of place on a tanker to begin with and would look better on a brute, consisting as it does mostly of Frozen Fists, Kick (which I've got for set purposes), and Ice Blast. Now and then there's a recharge hole I can fill with GIS, particularly after Freezing Touch, and that's all I really need it to do. I wasn't looking to one-shot things, just to see big numbers on occasion, and not having to pay much for them and rarely missing even out of the box seems to me to be a fairly good deal, all things considered.
Add the lack of ice resists mentioned above and it does a hearty chunk of damage, if nothing overwhelming, on every use.
One thing I am definitely taking away from this thread, however, is that I really need to work out a respec that preserves my defense numbers and includes Frost. I should have made more of an effort to receive Cath's wisdom by this time, I guess. -
Quote:Whatever else, this will make things much simpler for those of us who run in superteams but enjoy playing the characters in their own right. We have something like an 8-level spread going in Hollow Brigade right now over on Redside. That's not so bad, but it's a big reason why my character is an Earth dom and runs Tactics. It's nice when we can all hit things.Originally Posted by B_Samson
I like the new super sidekicking idea. No more struggling to find the right mix of 50s and non-50s for starting an ITF, for example. And if we're now exing/sking to the level of whoever owns the currently selected mission (and still earning XP while exed, no less), that means that the missions from anyone on the team are now fair game. That raises the odds of all members on the team being able to take part in things like arc completion XP and merit rewards.
Of course, theory and practice aren't always as similar as we'd like them to be, so I'll reserve final judgment until I've actually seen it working first-hand.
Unfotunately, it'll get here too late for that toon - in all likelihood he'll hit 50 or be nearly there by the time i16 arrives - but I'm looking forward to this in the future.
One area I can think of where I'm not so pleased about the idea is that I have a habit of putting off things like Taunt, travel powers, alternate-element armors, and so forth until whatever level is convenient rather than getting them out of the way early, as I've seen others do. It's always neat to team with a level 20-some Blaster who's taken all of 6 powers combined between his primary and secondary, for example. :/ In particular I can see this change exerting more pressure on tankers to take Taunt ASAP, which is not an end-of-the-world bad thing but is hardly a 100% positive situation. -
Quote:Oh, that was you I was in AE with the other day on Catatumbo? That explains the fact that you learned better than to take your own alphas quickly.Originally Posted by Baba_Kanoosh
I have only one brute, and he just dinged 50. this be him
I would like some help with doing a Lord Recluse SF. My first attempt was a PUG, but I didn't get enough debuffs recruited and we fell flat at the end. My brute hung in there, so I think my build isn't too bad, but I had some therm/kin support to help. Instead of grabbing whoever is available at the spur of the moment I thought I would advertise in advance. Sooo, looking for 3 solid debuff ATs, a buffer such as therm is ALWAYS welcome. Another brute wouldn't hurt, but basically putting feelers out to see if anyone wants to give it a go. I would like to try and get a nice circuit of players for this and maybe Barracuda shots and semi-regular basis. I know Ultratroll does em from time to time so maybe some love there?
Anyways, this Saturday, Aug 15, at 8pm EST.
1) Blue Flame of Hades, lvl 50 Dark/Fire brute ( @planty girl )
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I can't do Saturday, unfortunately, as I still haven't run one despite having been 50 for half a year plus on that toon. Good luck getting the SF done; I hear it's a good one. -
Quote:Jeez, that's a lot of goodness squeezed into one set. I'd guess Stone Spikes is that stomp--> single target stalagmites thing you see CoT using on occasion.Originally Posted by Tatmia
Sorry, missed that. I'm going with the excuse that I took about a 6 month break from everything game related.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...2&postcount=18 They haven't removed the post, so I'm guessing non-NDA breaking. -
Quote:That, they told us.Originally Posted by Tatmia
Saw a screenie that looks like doms will have stone melee...
That, they didn't, and that's cool.Quote:Originally Posted by Tatmia
...but the giant poo hands will be replaced with stone spears. -
Quote:I'm thinking his frequent comments on TW2.1 are pretty much our server's version of Tupac albums, but what would I know?Originally Posted by Karl_Rove_Man
I swear I saw Dawun once, but no one believes me!!
I'm trying to get enough money together to drain Triumph and finally prove he exists once and for all. -
Quote:I think you're misunderstanding the ontological necessity of belief in a force larger than ourselves. Without visible attestations of our agreement such as that provided by myself, an individual human's spiritual well-being disintegrates into a chaos of misery and nihilism. You've illustrated this latter point well with your blank line, sir, and I commend you for such a lucid philosophical proposition, but the fact remains that without testimony there can be no search for an objective Truth.Originally Posted by Sentai_Sage
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Quote:qft.Originally Posted by catharctic
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Word on the street (or rather, the Tanker boards) is that Elec Armor is having Conserve Power replaced with what sounds like a fairly decent heal / regen / end conservation effect. See this post:
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Quote:Unless for some reason you're going for passive-based runspeed, which is something I've wondered how would turn out for a while.Originally Posted by Dersk
It's an auto power. Recharge enhancements aren't slottable. Anything more than one running enhancement is questionable.
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Quote:So my tanker is actually a shields / Cath Melee toon? I'll make a point of explaining him that way from now on.Originally Posted by Catharctic
It's called Ice / Cath Melee. Get it right!
EDIT: Fixed my goofy sentence to say what it was originally supposed to say.