Trickshooter

Just gonna focus on the FF for Corruptors part. Force Field on a Corruptor would suffer from a similar issue as Trick Arrows, in that it would be nearly a duplicate of the Mastermind version.

The damage from Force Bolt and Repulsion Bomb would be higher, Dispersion Bubble would give a little more Mez Protection, and Insulation Shield would grant slightly higher resistance to End Drain and Recovery debuffs, but otherwise...

Corruptors and Masterminds share the same modifier value for Defense buffs, Knockback, and Mez (Durations or Mag).

Even worse, Personal Force Field for MMs would give higher Defense and higher Resistance than the Corruptor version.

Forcefield is another set I think needs a little work before Corruptors get it. Otherwise, it'll be like Corruptor Trick Arrows all over again (by that I mean ).

Edit: Sonic Resonance is pretty much in the same boat; it'll be nearly identical for MMs and Corruptors.

Sands of Mu is flagged as "Melee_Attack, Smashing_Attack, Negative_Energy_Attack", which means only Melee, Smashing, and Negative Energy Defense can influence the tohit roll it will make.

Actually, both Yellows and Blues also have incredibly high defense to powers flagged "AoE_Attack", which Quills and Throw Spines both are. Spines is unfortunately the worst powerset to fight the Yellows with, as you can only use 3 attacks: Barb Swipe (Bleh), Lunge and Ripper.

But they're not useless for a Mind Controller, just a solo Mind Controller. A power that can only be used on pets would be useless for solo and teamed Mind Controllers unless they were teamed with another type Controller or Dark Defender.

They wouldn't allow it to be put on players because it grants an auto power, which means players wouldn't be able to turn it off while it aggro'd enemies around them. If they made it a toggle, it'd be watered-down to compensate for the increased uptime.

As far as using it on pets, they probably wouldn't allow it just because the tier 9 would be useless for Mind Control.

My funny what?

Let me pull out my grammar fairy wand... Your sentence, in the English language, currently reads something like this:

"Trick Arrows is anything but weak, and Poison is also not anything but weak."

Hate to be uptight about it, but hey, I'm funny that way. Or I guess so you can read this in your version of English: My funny that way.


Can you spot the irony in this statement?


Why? Illusion/Rad would still be a better choice for ST fights.

I've never heard anyone claim that is the reason for playing Illusion Control. It sounds like you haven't actually played Illusion Control.

And wait, is your argument that people incorrectly play Illusion to focus on ST and that Poison would be good for those people?


So... Poison would be a good set for Controllers because it has ST debuffs and Rad, Storm, Cold, etc... only have AoEs? Maybe Plant/Poison would be good against bosses, but uh... so will Plant/Rad. Oh, and Plant/Storm. And Plant/Cold. Probably Plant/Sonic, too. Plant/Anything really... Are you sure you play Plant Control?


I hate to burst your bubble, but Poison on any other AT other than Masterminds will not have Noxious Gas. Maybe something similar... in the way Detonator and Time Bomb are similar.


I hope this post doesn't make you laugh so hard that you can't find your next thread that mentions Mids, or anything else you don't like, to go ******* on.

As was said, soft capping Melee/Ranged/AoE will reliably cover more attacks in the game. Many debuffs don't have a damage component to defend against. So it's hard to say one is like the other.

If you want the kind of reliability that soft capped Melee/Ranged/AoE can offer, then I suggest trying /Nin or /SR instead. /SR will be a cheaper build, will be pretty much immune to defense debuffs, and will reach soft capping more easily, but if you can soft cap a /Nin build, you've got a heal, psi resistance, and some other tricks, but much lower defense debuff resistance. Either one is a good choice, though.

I assume it's probably something to do with side-switching, and maybe this is the best option to some issue that popped up.

Now that I think about it, I think the issue is that that 25 foot range shouldn't even be there.

Team Teleport is a PBAoE, so it shouldn't have a range, only a radius. Range determines how far away you can be from your target before a power activates, but a PBAoE targets the casting player, and a player can never be any number of feet away from themselves.

That tells me that the range displayed for this power (as well as the self Teleport power) probably do... nothing, and that the real range is somehow stored differently, or somewhere that CoD is not set up to display.

If I had to guess, I'd say that the ranges listed for those two powers is just there for display purposes, and that the 25 foot range displayed for Team Teleport is a typo (or is possibly left over from a point in beta where it WAS a 25 foot range), but because it doesn't negatively affect anything, there's no rush to fix it.

And I apologize for derailing the thread in to talk of Team Teleport. *blush* For what it's worth, I can say that Mental Scramble is definitely not autohit.

Psychic Clockwork King has no autohit attacks, but even they would show a to hit roll. His Psychic Wail power has two chances to do extra damage, maybe that's what hit you?

I don't think it's that CoD is wrong on the range of Team Teleport, just that Range on Teleport powers is funny.

Yes, with the normal Teleport, 300 foot range seems pretty self explanatory: You can place the targetting ring up to 300 feet away while unslotted.

But think about the other powers: Recall Friend has a 10000 foot range, but... can you place the targetting ring 10000 feet away? No, which means there is probably a second variable for the range of that targetting graphic. Same with Teleport Foe.

I don't know what is using that 25 foot range of Team Teleport, but it being there doesn't mean CoD is wrong, just that it's probably missing some hidden bit of data that determines how far away that targetting ring can be placed.