Vitality

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

If you look at the other sets, usually an AOE damage toggle is what's lost. Wholly different proposition - if anything, they'll have a bit less END usage to worry about to begin with.

With Willpower and Regen, though, QR (additional +recovery) is one of the reasons for taking it in the first place on a scrapper. With Stalkers recent changes providing (more) encouragement to stick around and scrap it out, that loss of more +recovery is more noticable.

Also, for reference, the Stalker secondary sets "Lost" powers:
Dark Armor - Death Shroud. Cloak of Darkness modified to Shadow Dweller since we have Hide already.
Ice - Icicles. (We keep chilling embrace.)
Electric: Lightning Field
Energy: Kinetic Dampening adds the effect of Dampening Field. Lost Energy Cloak (stealth.) Gained Disrupt.
Nin: Nothing lost, unique to Stalkers
SR: Lost Lucky (auto power,) but given Hide gives AOE defense anyway...

So, really, you're comparing apples and antique farm equipment.

Originally Posted by AshleyHudson

*cry*

I know you don't mean that personally, though. I hope. =P

Those SFX are why I won't even throw Winterblack's ice armor on the team unless the content seems rough. I think I hate it, too. It'd be easier to not do if the buffs were less helpful. I would be sad if all my costumes were ice-people. A nice frosty aura would be a great alternative visual.

On the plus side, it makes it easy to spot my minions...er, teammates...in a crowd.

Originally Posted by Seldom

The only issue, not to discount your suggestion, lies in the fact that a global taunt would go off in anything that did a single tick of damage. This would be great for anything wanting to tank at all times, effectively giving every character gauntlet. The downside would be such a thing would be blatantly stepping on the toes of tankers, and would make it more difficult for them to establish aggro control, due to aggro rules.

This also becomes problematic in two more ways: if this is in a universal damage set, it means that a great many characters could not access the x6 bonus because they'd end up taunting everything they attacked. (Not everything with damage wants to tank) Likewise, IO's are permanent, so they would have no way to turn it off if the situation arose where they wished to do so.

Originally Posted by Seldom

I'd always thought about the lack of purple resistance/defense/healing sets, and had wondered how one could handle a purple resistance/defense set, as unlike all other purples those two have only three values to enhance. The solution I thought of was for such a set to have extra "effect" enhancements, and I thought a resistance+"taunt aura" purple IO might make sense. This would also perhaps grant a more convenient place for such an enhancer; resistance tends to be in toggle form, giving such an aura persistence- but as an aura it would still allow you to pick and choose when/where things were taunted or not.

Originally Posted by DJ_Korith

This should be doable through /bindloadfile

To do this, you will need to create some .txt files in your <COHInstallFolder>\data folder (often C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\data)

You will need to replace items in < > brackets with the correct values for your controller.


controller1.txt
<buttonnameright> "+$$bindloadfile controller2.txt"
<buttonname1> powexecname <power1>
<buttonname2> powexecname <power2>
<buttonname3> powexecname <power3>


controller2.txt
<buttonnameright> "+$$bindloadfile controller1.txt"
<buttonname1> powexecname <power1alt>
<buttonname2> powexecname <power2alt>
<buttonname3> powexecname <power3alt>


Then, in game, type /bindloadfile controller1.txt

After doing this, if the bind file is properly configured, pressing button 1 will activate <power1>, button 2 will activate <power2> and button 3 will activate <power3>. Holding down the right trigger will load controller2.txt, setting the three buttons to their alt powers. Releasing the right trigger will reload controller1.txt

Sometimes, hiccups (such as pressing and releasing the trigger quickly) may cause controller2.txt to be the "default". In these cases, it's suggested to have a reset bind or macro that runs /bindloadfile controller1.txt

Originally Posted by Rajani Isa

Should be able to.

What controller?

Originally Posted by oOStaticOo

And THAT is the key phrase there. "In my opinion." To tell me that I am wrong and have no idea what I'm talking about........I never said that building for defense is wrong and stupid. It's my opinion that you should build for the strengths of the powerset as I said. Never said anybody was wrong or that they didn't know what they were talking about or doing. My way works too, it's just not YOUR way.

Originally Posted by oOStaticOo

Because building towards resistance caps is "nearly impossible".

Originally Posted by Trickshooter

This isn't a guide to completing a Magisterium Trial; it's information you could probably use to develop your strategy. I'm just trying to clear up some false information. I've seen so many assumptions made about every AV in the trial, that I thought it would be helpful to clear up some of the confusion.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Its explicitly designed to do so: this was discussed when Alpha was being beta tested. It is an explicit feature of the Alpha slot that each alpha ability would interact with the other powers in the incarnate system in different ways, presenting a choice to the player within the system itself.

That's one of the reasons Alpha exists at all: its the only way to buff the other incarnate powers.

Originally Posted by Rylas

Obviously the Devs didn't want Judgement and Destiny coming up any faster.

The balance comes in the options you take. You want to max out damage potential? Take a +damage with your Judgement. Want maxed out survival? Take an alpha for your Destiny. Improve one or the other. Or don't. But they obviously don't want you maxing out both potentials with your alpha.

Makes sense to me. Nothing to get upset about.

Originally Posted by Trickshooter

THE LIGHTS. The Lights of the Well do not buff Tyrant. So please stop freaking out over them. The Lights of the Well serve one purpose: For each Light that is defeated, players will gain a level shift, up to +6 total which would put you at 50+9 to Tyrant's 54+5. In other words, defeating all the lights puts you at Tyrant's level for a few seconds. This is the time to spam him with sticky debuffs. Yes, they are important to the fight, but things don't get worse if they're not immediately defeated. They are big and bright and every player has the ability to see. We know when they show up, so go easy on the caps lock (LIGHTS. LIGHTS ARE UP. DEFEAT THE LIGHTS. COME ON GUYS, GET THE LIGHTS.) Currently they are bugged and only affect 16 targets each, which is why you might run in to people who don't want to use pets.

Once Tyrant is below 50% health, he will start gaining a scaling Regeneration boost. The lower his health, the stronger the +regeneration. As his health recovers, though, his regeneration levels will lower back down, reaching their normal level once he is back to 50% health. Again, his regeneration is in no way directly tied to the Lights of the Well.

Originally Posted by Rylas

And +def/+res Alphas are the only way to boost Barrier. It's a give and take. It's the same reason we have only so many slots for our builds, and so many power choices. You have to make a choice. And while you may prefer to see it as limited, there's still a choice there. You can boost this, or that. Not everything.

I can't remember what they call it... ballet... balloon... what's the word I'm looking for?... OH YEAH! BALANCE!

Originally Posted by Zul_Vakirol

Johnny is right in that Tankers do need at least some more damage now that Brutes can come over blueside with their same Threat Level modifier of 4. I would state the biggest thing to improve tanking would be to always have the highest Threat Level modifier of any AT, as I keep hearing about tankers losing aggro to brutes who can survive just as well while pushing out even more damage, the Tanker AT does seem more and more redundant like the Blaster AT.