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*shorter more concise post about opinion*

It's doable with one team, but the team would need a good amount of damage and/or debuffs(incarnate powers/pets help here). 2 people per banner is the standard single team setup, but even 1 per banner would work. Besides, making the banners vulnerable is the easy part. it's the banners themselves that require the most work.

Yes, but you'll generally want everyone on 1 banner, unless you have a large league or something.
That's for the normal Eochai/Jack in croatoa, and you don't really 'force' them(Like with GMs such as Deathsurge or Caleb) so much as speed up the process of them spawning.(more Here)

The spawn intervals for the halloween versions are set, with about 30 seconds between each spawn, once one has been defeated. It used to be 90% chance for Eochai and 10% chance for Jack, but they balanced it out more last Halloween, not sure of the exact % now.

The only 'forcing' of them lies in making sure the Unseelie that often spawn with them are defeated. If even 1 Unseelie is left alive, the next GM won't spawn as the game doesn't register them as defeated.

Heh, I think if I hadn't run out of EoE's at the 75% bloom I probably wouldn't have died at all(Final tally for me was 4 deaths). The empaths were quite consistant with Adrenalin boost though, so it turned out great, and Radial Rebirth was definitely a godsend to have for emergencys.(Speaking of which, I now have t4 radial rebirth as of last night.)

I had done mito tanking alot, but it was as Leo said my first time tanking Hamidon, it went much as I expected(My thought process going in was Taunt + EoE + Stay away from allies = Win?), and I got a Nucleous(Acc/Dam) for it .

If I ever run out of EoE's tanking Hamidon again though, I might try more sneaky maneuvers like taunt+breaking LoS with the rocks and doing hit-and-run taunting every so often.


Overall, it was fun, I'd do it again .

Hamidon has 95% resistance to ALL damage, and 87% regen resistance.

Basically meaning you would need to overcome his health regeneration doing only 5% damage.


I'm not sure it would be possible, even with all the power players have access to now.

A flight speed increase enhancement will enhance fly as much as any other flight power.
Due to the flight speed cap however, enhancing Fly won't increase Fly's speed(Fly is at the flight speed cap out of the box).

It works like resistance/or more similarly, defense debuff resistance in that 100% would negate it.

I'm sure not of the cap on it, but if it matches DDR it's 95%

In this case it would problably work both ways, but we have access to inspirations to refill endurance, endurance reduction enhancements, and a ZERO endurance cost brawl, enemies don't.

If you can do either of those, I'd have to call you a hacker, sir.

I'm guessing it's supposed to be Nightmare

Probably Nightmar in the filter to pick up those people who try to be all leetspeak and use Nightmar3..or it really is just a typo.

This is correct, for example, my Inv/SS tank with 90% s/l resist is practically...well, invulnerable to damage debuffing.

In fact, it's viewable in the combat attributes when it(I don't have a screenshot handy to prove it unfotunately, but I know this to be the case)

As was said though, it's based on type. The game uses 'strength' for each type(smasling/lethal/fire/etc) for all damage buff/debuff, resistance buff/debuff values.
This is why resistance resists resistance debuffs.

Why resistance powers are flagged as unaffected by strength changes(for example, power boost not boosting cold domination shields). Because if they werent, damage buffs such as build up, fury, etc would increase your resistances(During willpower beta, HPT wasn't flagged, and was giving obscene amounts of resistance when damage buffs were added ).

Finally this is also why resistance resists damage debuffs(unless they are flagged as unresistable of course), because as the game sees it, they're all connected .



Edit: forgot my list

1. Alpha - the general level boost and ehancement to all powers is just awesome
Final Verdict - 11/10

2. Destiny - Perma-able huge buffs to all allies in range? Yes please.
Also, incarnate shift, but honestly this was 10/10 for me already.
Final Verdict - 10/10

3. Judgement - The large target cap and damage(particularly combined with the musulature damage boost from alpha) make this a close match to Alpha.
Be nice if it was buffable..but then it'd probably have the endurance crash :-P
Final Verdict - 9/10

4. Lore - I'll admit these pets are nice, but only being up 1/3 of the time(and being unaffected by recharge at that), and kinda lacking AoE makes these almost less useful than interface, especially at +anything/x8.
Also, even with alpha's level shift, their base accuracy is lacking against anything above +0, though admittably this does make good use of the often unused nerve alpha.
I will say though that the damage they add is invaluable for soloing hard targets such as AVs, GMs, and RWZ Pylons. However it would be nice if they lasted until they died(which, running at +4x8, that generally happens fairly quick).
The buff pets are nice too, but not a game changer against the above hard targets like the boss/ltns are(Though admittably the invulnerable buff pets will probably help more against REALLY hard ones where the boss/ltn pets die in a few hits :-P)
In the end, the incarnate shift during trials/other future incarnate content puts this above interface for me.
Final Verdict - 6/10

5. Interface - Underwhelming compared to the previous 4, it's a nice addition, but asside from reactive's DoT, they feel like they're missing something.(Unresistable, higher stacking, higher debuff, I don't know..just..something.)
Final Verdict - 4/10

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Against an even level enemy with 0% regen resistance and no regen buffs, yes a 100% regen debuff would reduce his/her/it's health regeneration to nothing.

Against hard targets like AVs and GMs however, they have very high regen resistance(as noted above). Thus, to reduce them to 0 regeneration requires much more

For example, against a level 50 archvillain(85% regen resistance base), using a level 50 character, you would need ~667% -regen to reduce them to 0.

Any enemies with regen buffs would also need higher regen debuffs.

Keep in mind that the Purple Patch also affects regen debuffs.

Meaning, against a level 54 AV(87% base regen resistance), using a level 50 character(48% power effectiveness vs a +4) would require ~1603% -regen to debuff to 0.

Which is equivalent to 4 Lingering Radiations.



To your other question/comment, for maximum help vs AVs you want -resistance more than -regen, though stacking them is even more goovy

Thus, a cold/sonic defender or sonic/cold corruptor would provide the most debuffing, force multiplying goodness to a team.

With sonic attacks,sleet,heat loss, and benumb, all AVs shall fall before your AWESOME DEBUFFING POWER!!!(TM)(insert maniacal laughter).

This is in a team setting of course, where you have teammates for damage to make use of your ADP!!!(TM)

Not that Fire/Rad isn't awesome in and of itself though, so don't worry if you'd rather stay with what you have, I'm simply giving you why and how for best helping against hard targets.


Edit: That post was far longer than I wanted it to be, but I hope it was helpful