Vel_Overload

your team is only as strong as the weakest link.

Sonic Defender brings over 51% resistance to the table and a -30% res debuff, I'd rather have one of those than a.. H..E..A... whatever those outdated, less efficient support classes are called.

Death to the Empathies!

Dominators start off rather squishy with few options other than 'moar damage'. Mind/Psy actually has a few more than average. Once you pick up your AoEs, Drain Psyche and your heavy hitters, you'll be able to do +1/0 easy.

I don't mind the buffing part but I can't help but feel like they should just merge the typical 'two shields' into 'one shield'. Such as Insulation and Deflection Shield should just be merged so that a new power can be made for FF to help out soloers and make the set as a whole more appealing. But whatever, the sets aren't fun, and the lack of people playing them is proof of that.

So, after 5 years of playing this game on and off I've finally had enough with Poison. The Poison Powerset for Masterminds is sadly not up to par with the other choices. Of course there will always be a 'best' and 'worst' but in Poison's case, it is very very low on the ladder. But why? Well, there are a few reasons:

1. Noxious Gas' tooltip is a myth. Have you ever tried to see what Noxious Gas' numbers are? You can't. This, I feel is a turn-off for people trying to see what/how Poison performs once it is fully powered-up. This needs to be corrected. This isn't a personal opinion; this is fact. Fix the tooltip so we know what kind of numbers Noxious Gas is pulling.

2. Antidote has no backup. Antidote isn't a bad power. It's a carbon copy of Clear Mind. The issue is that it has no support to back up it's nice mez protection. Poison either needs better dmg/tohit debuffs or more healing. As a set called 'Poison' It's understandable that more healing wouldn't make sense. So lets give it an extra effect and possibly change the name to sound less 'healy' and more 'Poisony'

Toxicity: (same effects as Antidote)+Enemies deal X damage to themselves when they hit this ally. The damage doesn't have to be huge, but it fits the Mastermind playstyle of buffing their pets to dish out more damage and it actually gives them a reason to pick up Antidote/Toxicity. Tankerminds may not enjoy this power. Yet, Tanking as Poison is generally not a very good idea.

3. Envenom and Weaken should just be combined. It's bad enough that Poison has single target debuffs. It's even worse that it has 2. This is a wasted power slot. Just combine both of them and replace whichever one you moved with something else to help round out Poison. This single target debuff with the effects of both would be a fair power. Dark Miasma, Traps, Trick Arrow and even Thermal Radiation have AoE Debuffs so lets make that new free slot do something cool:

Infection (Anchor): Infect a target enemy. All enemies including your targeted enemy suffer from an infection that reduces their Regeneration and Movement Speed. It also has a small chance to confuse them for a few seconds (Think Arctic Air confusion.. like 2 seconds). This would help Poison keep enemies in line and stacks well with essentially every other power in the set without stacking too much of any one particular debuff. The -Regeneration doesn't have to be on par with Lingering Radiation, but would it make that much of a difference if it was?

4. Poison Trap is pitiful. It's effect is actually cool. It just takes forever to use and can be interrupted. I suggest just turning it into a Targeted AoE with the same effects just without the interrupt. Ofcourse Recharge, Endurance cost, duration and accuracy can be tweaked. The effects would remain the same.

With these changes Poison would be slightly more noob friendly while finally giving Poison some useful abilities to play with pre-38 (When the set finally becomes useful) Naturally my suggestions are just there to get everyone's mind working, not to say it's the best course of action.

So I'm back from a 6 month hiatus and OH MY GOD ICE/ICE IS AMAZING ARGHFLARGHMARGHOMGFLAAAAGGGBLARG.

Anyway, Anything of particular note I should now about going forward with ice/ice/ice? Arctic air is an end hog but I think I can manage.

How does the Purple Confuse Proc work exactly? I know it's a must for Arctic Air but the confuse on Arctic air doesn't last long (like 2 seconds, tops) so is it a 'must have' or can I just skip it and triple slot endo redux?

'Casts Resurrection'

Thread! Come back to life!!!!

You guys are funny when you necro threads...

I'd be more worried about Swift on Mobs. How the hell am I suppose to catach runners?

Also, will veteran mobs get the black wand and/or the nemesis staff in I19?

I'll keep this short, because I know everybody has a really long winded opinion:

Defense already outclassed Resistance prior to IO Sets due to you outright avoiding mezzes. Not that big a deal though, as Defense was only obtained through specific powersets and weren't the sturdiest characters against AVs.

IO Sets come out that give huge bonuses to Defense in comparison to literally every other bonus. 2-3% per set towards positional defense is HUGE. And we see this today. Nearly any AT with any powerset combonation can get atleast 25% defense in all positions (I know some ******** will point out that ONE obscure combination).

IO Sets give terrible Resistances, if any at all.

Thus, Resistance Based toons can stock up on Defense IOs and have high resistance AND Defense while Defense based toons just get more defense, which usually isn't a good thing if that character is already at 45%ish defenses.

TL DR:

IO Sets really hurt the balance between Resistance and Defense.

Brute /w Super Strength/Super Reflexes
Scrapper /w Dark Melee/Super Reflexes
Brute Clawz/Super Reflexes

Guessing:

I20: Coming Storm: A Shadow Shard revamp. lvl 50's only. Some areas are incarnates only! (or are too hard to do if your not an incarnate). 2 New taskforces and now with 70% less Dr. Quarterfield! Did I say Rularuu? I ment Nemesis plot Ritki!

I21: No more Warwall!: After Rikti get the crap beat out of them, the Warwalls are now obsolete! (Yay!) Dark Astoria gets invaded by Praetorians! (oh no!) and did I mention Sunlight in the Villain zones? Yeah, I did.

I22: More customization: More powers get alternate animations. Finishing up Power Proliferation! More, unique color options! (Like rainbow energy blast! White AND Black color combinations and even shiny new weapon models. Obligatory new powerset(s) here.

I23: No more villain/hero Archetypes: All non EAT archetypes can be made in Paragon, Mercy or Praetoria! No more getting to 20 then side switching. Hazard zones become special event zones! Any level can enter these areas as the enemies work like the zombie events and rikti events. Cool stuff is to be had.

I like the idea all around, gives me a reason to make a natural controller. Trip mine needs to be replaced with something different. Perhaps a toy that emits a taunt aura?

It should have been on the 5th so it would coinside with V for Vendetta. It would be fitting if you were a resistance character...

Remember, Remember the fifth of November (Because i19 came out that day)

beautiful, thanks!

The Noxious Gas tooltip is very very scarce on information. My question is, how long does the gas last once put on your pet? As long as it's alive? What are the debuff numbers for all of the debuffs? (I just assumed they were equal to Weaken+Envenom+Nuerobreath)

Also, Poison Trap, lol.

Yeah a Dark/Invuln brute doing those 1-4 RIP bosses would do it rather well. Although I don't like the AE, but I understand your frustration with the EATs. It is rather silly to get a character to 20 to unlock.

To be honest I was expecting Sharks with freakin' laser beams attached to their heads.

wtf man?

Well, it's been rumored for awhile Lucas wrote episodes 7-9... Oh god... <dies alittle inside> can we PLEASE leave star wars alone? LEAVE STAR WARS ALONE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc#t=00m58s

Now I know there was already a fairly recent thread on this. Careful, people around here are nay-sayers about new powers and what not and will destroy your hopes and dreams instead of being constructive.

ye be warned.

Wait a minute.. you stole my placate idea from the last thread and my teleport to ally idea. Or mabye you didn't. I got my eye on you O.o (i don't really care )
oh and we already have a 'charge' power. It's really just a teleport but whatever.