TwoHeadedBoy

Don't tell me what is or isn't for me. What you are doing now is putting your fingers in your ears and saying "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU." I'm not attacking anything, I was explaining why PBAOE knockback for players and pseudo pets is not good design. I wasn't saying "all knockback is evil."

The problem with this has been hashed and rehashed. There is no version of Luminous Blast that doesn't have KB, and unlike any Blaster secondary, you can't play Luminous Aura without taking Luminous Blast. I've said a million times that the KB in at least Photon Seekers and Solar Flare are not a good design. I can see keeping the KB in Nova AOE's, and the human TAOE/Cone, since the KB in all those powers can be used for deliberate mitigation, however Solar Flare can't be used deliberately- Or rather, the situations where it can are few and far between, and Photon Seekers KB can never be used deliberately unless you just get lucky (or you're on a very specific part of a map.) That is not good design imo.

Also, the ST KB is problematic since between Dwarf and human melee attacks, it's counter-intuitive to knock single targets away from you if it prevents you from being able to fluently use your other ST powers. Warshades suffer from this with Shadow Blast also, but that KB doesn't seem to happen nearly as often.

That is great.

You mean like the one time those Kheldian fools thought they could do the Keyes trial on a Saturday?

Seriously though... I want to set up a Kheldians vs. Tyrant trial on Freedom when i23 comes out. We need to pay our respects to the rightful ruler of the galaxy before we take him out.

Yep I'm replacing a 6 slotted Obliteration set with a non-Superior version of the new Kheld set (unless the recharge bonus is less than 10% catalyzed, otherwise it's a conflict.)

This will serve the purpose of retaining the recharge and melee defense from Oblit, and it'll also let me pull a Stupefy piece from Gravitic Emanation since the new Kheld set gives an identical ranged defense bonus. In the end this means I save a slot to put elsewhere and retain my high global recharge and 32.5% defense to all positions.

I'm probably going to use it to get an Accuracy IO back into Eclipse, or a toxic damage proc back on the end of Shadow Blast... Haven't decided yet.


Also to answer the question, the form shift animations aren't worth sacrificing all the positional defense I have on my human Warshade. Now when toggle suppression happens I will be in respec mode for sure.

Yeah you can. My Peacebringer does this, and it's just as doable with a Warshade build. PM me if you still need help.

Edit: It won't be *to all,* but you'll be able to do it for s/l. It's not practical to try and get greedy on a tri form build until toggle suppression happens, at which point it will get kind of silly since Dwarf will be your "quick Mire" form and human will be your tank form.

You shouldn't need to ever pick up someone elses slack and I (and presumably everyone else) wouldn't feel comfortable taking anything from you. It's not your responsibility... Very sweet of you though.

The point is that Illusion as a set adds much more offensively than Ice could hope to conjure whilst providing competitive if not outright superior control- Same could be said for Plant and Mind, being the top tier sets.

I may or may not get stunned if I was a minion, but probably not. If I didn't, and if I was anything higher, I'd probably just sap the **** out of you, stomp you in the face, and then wait to do it again until you slipped up on your tedious Pulsar animation while I pwnt yoo.

And when a Perma-PA, Perma Heat Loss Phantom/Ice Troller jumps in, do you really think that your high end Ice Controller can compete? What results would you be paying for, and what feats could you match exactly?

I'm only judging the set by the standards that other sets for the AT have set. Illusion solos GM's efficiently. Plant farms 54x8 competitively with high end melee sets. If the set can't compete at the high end of accomplishments and the efficiency with which they were achieved, it can't compete at the high end, period.. Which makes it at the best, a silver medal set, at least from my perspective. I personally find Ice to be low enough end that it can't compete with the majority of other sets...

And yes, I know that the purpose of a control set is control, not damage or solo feats. The thing is that other control sets are not justifiably better or worsen than the high end sets at control; And the high end sets who can also perform the aforementioned ridiculous feats lead to the lowered status of the rest.

Usually the COH community is pretty solid/trustworthy/etc. when it comes to this kind of thing. Note to self: Be more cynical.

Nonsense. I believe that I've polished up a shiny enough bronze medal.

With EB level regen, why has this TF not been soloed regularly?? My experience has always been that weakened hami regens faster than that but I hope you are right. Maybe if a few of you guys want to pad for me prior to the run this Friday, we can race Septipheran solo VS. Kheld Fridays on a LGTF Maybe a fair stipulation would be that I can stealth/speed and you guys can't. Do you accept?

A deck of cards? I mean, that'd be great and all. But if marketing really wanted me to spend money, they'd save the card theme for a melee secondary (somehow) or an epic power pool. So that I'd have a reason to buy Staff Fighting. And the card set, wherever it goes. So that I could play Staff/Cards. No reason.

I expect Arbiter Hawk to take longer than Zwil did on getting back to this.. He's working on Hybrid, as well as I'm sure countless other things. He doesn't have Zwil's luxury of posting smiley faces and lolcats on the forums as a job. (Ba-dum tsh, don't hurt me Zwil.)