Vidszhite

PvP and PvE are completely different. First, there's no such thing as mez protection in PvP, just resistance, and since all mezzes last 4 seconds, they're not that big a deal anyway. Every AT gets resistance bonuses in PvP; Dominators get a damn 40% to everything just for showing up. Every time you get healed, all the next heals are diminishing returns unless you wait 8 seconds.

The damage numbers are all totally different, such that they look nothing like they do in PvE. The formula in PvP uses animation time instead of recharge to determine how much damage a power should do, so Total Focus will do more damage than Energy Transfer, despite ET still having the self damage component. Blaze does almost the same damage as Fire Blast. AoE powers basically don't do any damage at all.

PvP was dead before because it wasn't balanced. PvP is deader now because it still isn't balanced and it's also too damn complicated.

You go ahead and laugh, I'll keep the ability to hold everything in the area for 52 seconds.

Which I did not know, since I've been gone too long, but I know that now. It's decent as a part of an AoE Chain now, but I wouldn't take it on its own for AoE damage, and I definitely wouldn't take it and slot it for the disorient.

Basically, this.

Mass Hypnosis is incredible. Permanent with 6 slots. Total Domination is good with power boost, but not totally necessary. TK is one of those love-it-or-hate-it powers. I personally hate it.

There are plenty of scripted events like those you mentioned, but the maps can only handle so much, I'm afraid. Not only that, but Patrols remove actual spawns from the mission maps in order to work. The first map could be more damaged, I'm sure, but my options here are "not damaged at all" and "completely fraggin' destroyed" and I didn't want to go the latter route. The last map is the only outdoor map with a Front, Middle and Back distinction, so until I get more to work with, it stays.

The story bit I won't disagree with. I'll work on tweaking that.

I hate the MA's text editor sometimes. It's supposed to be "their" invasion.

I was a bit sad about the invisible space having no height to it, so it looks bugged. The blank space is supposed to be the joke, but that part ruins it.

I'll tweak those. Thanks. I was afraid of everything you mentioned.

Awesome. I'll scale it back then.

I was also afraid that this might be a problem as well. There are subtle differences, but they're just that: subtle. The minions are two-tone and have no capes, the LTs have red facemasks and have shoulder capes, and the Bosses have unique Auras and full capes. I'll work on it.

I can't change most of those for lore reasons. XJ are the Naturals; they have no powers, but they use weapons. VM are the lower-ranking powers division. SS-J is actually a play off the Nazi "SS" and the Japanese abbreviation for Super Saiyan (SSJ). WAFN SS-J is a play off of the Nazi rank "Waffen SS".

I succeeded in doing this with the High Command, who look awesome, but yeah, the Invaders need work.

I do. They are. Sometimes the maps just break. =/ On my first live playthrough, a Front-flagged spawn in the second mission got moved all the way to the very back of the mission, right next to the end boss. It was humiliating.

I may just remove the final glowie altogether. It serves no purpose but to tie up the loose ends, but it can be assumed to happen offscreen with no issues.

In the third mission, I can't spawn him in the front for story reasons, but in the fourth mission, the allies are SUPPOSED to spawn in the front, and about half the time... they don't. I'm terribly sorry about that. Looking at the map I chose, it turns out there's a "Front" spawn right in the back-*** end of the mission. I might just have to give up on that map, even if it's the only outdoor map with a Front and a Back.

Making the dynamite optional wouldn't make sense, so I'll just remove the secondary charges and make the primary charge the only glowie (it's already flagged to be the in the Back). The only reason they're even there is to discourage stealth runs, but no one stealths MA missions anyway, so I'm not sure what I was thinking.

I'll downgrade most of the EBs. I agree that the Longbow Heavy is way too powerful. The only way to beat it is to mez it or KB-lock it, and the latter option looks very buggy.

If at the end of any mission, you can't just click the exit button, then it's a bug caused by a mis-click. Thank you for pointing it out. I'd say you were playing a weeks-old version that shouldn't even be up there, but I reduced the glowies in the second mission to 5 very recently, so I must have accidentally clicked a button.

I swear to God, if a mob named Captain Beers is still in the final mission, I'm going to punch something. The MA server always seems to revert my changes even once I see that they took for two hours!

Well, that's fair. I don't know if I'll republish, but I may have to with the rating system the way it is, and the way the MA servers never seem to update anything. Thanks for the feedback, it's appreciated.

Sounds like a simple solution on paper. The problem is, to avoid redraw, they'd have to make a whole separate set of animations for every secondary power in every secondary powerset, for every primary with a drawn weapon.

Since that's just not a good use of dev time, all secondaries must instead be barehanded, and the only attacks that get the above treatment are brawl and some of the starting Origin powers.

No, not purple IOs, purple inspirations. Pretty much just give up on mezzing them and just straight up fight them like a Blaster would. Permadom isn't that much of a help against solo AVs unless you're Mind Control and you want to cast confuse a thousand times.

My Mind/Energy isn't even halfway to permadom and I think he's pretty awesome. He can one-shot two minions back to back and lay the smackdown against harder targets, all while stopping pretty much any damage from getting through. He even has a pretty bitchin' AoE chain from Damage/Mez HO-slotted Terrify > Energy Torrent > Whirling Hands > Explosive Blast. Doesn't matter if we come up against 4 Spawns at once, I'll mez 'em all. Terrify one, Mass Hypnosis another, Total Domination the third, Mass Confuse the fourth. Anybody dies, I get Power Boosted Vengeance. If I need Domination right the hell now, I have Frenzy.

If you aren't feeling the awesome from your dominator, I suggest respeccing into the Ice APP and getting Sleet. That seems to change everybody's mind.

Assault is just a flat out strong choice, if you have the end to use it. Only reason I didn't get it is build space because I want to min/max set bonuses, and Assault can't use any.

Anytime. We wish you well.

Heh, giving the Dom forum a list of sets to choose from and asking us to suggest a good combo is going to get you a shotgun-scatter of answers, assuming you don't get the generic "those are all fun combos!" Truth be told, you can't go wrong with Dominators. Each set is very different, but good at what it does. As a Team-based AT, any combo you pick will be effective on teams, and I find it easy to solo just about any of them.

Which is right for you, though? Hard to say. Need more information.

Fun is subjective. What kind of play-style do you like? Are you more aggressive? Do you like to be in the melee, slapping things while you hold them? Or do you like to play more defensively, keeping things far away while you plink away at them? Do you like to focus on one mob at a time, smashing them to bits in rapid succession, or do you like to kill big bunches of them all at once? Do you want big, loud, total control of the flow of battle, or do you like unique powers that help in more subtle ways? Perhaps you'd like a bit of both and want to watch things burn!

Are all of those fun for you? If so, which is the most fun?

If you can't decide which is the most fun, pick Fire/Thorn.

Right. But you're sacrificing both in this build, all so you can have defense. I think you've underestimated just how much you're giving up. We went over controls mostly because we want to stress that those are your Primary powers, which make Defense unnecessary, and which you are going to be using anyway, but I now want to stress the fact that you're also giving up your big damage powers completely. Without Total Focus, or Bone Smasher, or even Poisonous Ray, your DPS is going to be that of an all-range build. An all-range build with end problems. Nothing is worse for your DPS than an empty blue bar. That's why I went Cardiac. You actually have more at stake than I do, though, because your defense relies on your blue bar as well. At least when I run out of end, it's just irritating.

Speaking of which, why even take Tactics with the build you have? All it's doing is wasting a massive amount of endurance, which you already can't spare. Take Vengeance and give it a LotG. You have Assault and Maneuvers, you have a 66% global accuracy buff, and Tactics is being single-slotted. Only reason to have tactics is the Adjusted Targeting bonus, which you're not using it for.

Just to hit home how much end you're going to be using up, I went Cardiac Incarnate, and the only toggles I run are Combat Jumping (which uses almost 0 end), Tactics (5-slotted and using up very little end), and Maneuvers. I have Stamina slotted with two Lv50 Common EndMod IOs, plus a Performance Shifter Chance for +End. I still run out of endurance in long fights, and I run dry very quickly if I forget to turn off Super Speed. My Total Focus and Energy Transfer use up maybe 7 Endurance a pop because there's so much end redux in my powers. If you ran two-slotted Telekinesis permanently, that's how much end per second you're using up, and once you run out, your defense all disappears.

But if you really want this build, I shall reiterate, go for it, but you wanted feedback, so you got feedback.