Warkupo

I would like to beleive the playerbase isn't this stupid.

I really, really would.

I second this strategy.

While I appreciate the information, I've kind of stopped accepting "system limitations" as an excuse the last four or five times they proved themselves wrong.

Everything is a matter of time, and I'm pretty patient.

I totally knew you'd say that.

Gosh darnit, I don't care how you do it man, I JUST WANT PRETTY SPARKLY HAIR!

*sigh* Fine, when activating Ultra Mode, add an algorithm that also turns 'hair' on or off.

Gotta be so **** specific.

Make it part of Ultra Mode then.

of course, the hair would have to reflect everything, to keep up with Ultra Mode standards.

Yet they're pushing out Ultra Mode with the next issue, aren't they? I think BaB is just lying because he's lazy~

*hides*

That's unduly harsh. The patch is effecting NPC's it, by all logical thinking, should not. Legitimate missions are effected by this change as well as the exploitative ones.

The upside to all this is that the exploitative missions aren't being pushed out the door in such a large quantity, and are basically stale at this point, meaning you could feasibly push your actual storytelling to higher points on the list, where as before you hadn't a chance in hell.

Probably should have waited for a more feasible patch, though.

I have a Controller who has a cape with the Bolero robe/thing before they changed it so that you can't do that anymore. So it's definitely possible, they just don't want to hand out that option for whatever reason. Furthermore, you can still use a cape alongside the Butler's Tux jacket.

Yeaaah, the list is too inaccurate. I'm going to go through Red Tomax and make it right some time tomorrow. For now I sleep.

Mmm, considering I used Mids, this is probably correct. I trust Red Tomax over mids easily.

It does cut my pretty list down rather significantly, but I still think the point is prevalent; S/L isn't gonna cover everything. It probably covers 'enough'.

Agreed. Hell, I sometimes take CJ and Hover for SUPER ULTIMATE DEFENSE building.

AoE Ranged attacks still check for ranged (unless they specifically say they don't). That's why you're often able to neglect AOE defense to a degree.

I was rushing though, so I won't pretend the list is perfectly accurate.

No it's not. Even if you managed to get 500% recharge, the most you could lower a 120 second cool down too is 24 seconds. Nevermind that 500% recharge by yourself is impossible, 24 seconds between spawns is bad. You will need to rely on other abilities.

Heh, while I admire the effort, you are playing a very challenging game if you are going to correct all of *my* typos.

...Fireball is also a ranged attack. Is your point that you can use them in melee, so you should? Or that it's easier to hit multiple targets if they're all ganged up on you? You know you can just throw the fireball into the middle of the spawn for the same effect right? There's no real reason stating that these have to be used in melee range, and I can't figure out why you seem to insist that they should be.

And I refuted your list by how useful each power is. Yes, I understand they are melee attacks, but that doesn't automatically make them useful either.

Hail of Bullets isn't up every spawn. Neither if Flash Freeze or Drain Psyche. So yeah, that's a great tactic, but only if you want to wait 30 seconds between spawns.

Where is this several? Hail of Bullets is the only attack requiring melee range. One power does not several make. If you're referring to MM, then I've already explained this repeatidly

And no, there are not a "few", there are quite a number of them, including many control attacks which are probably one of the primary reasons you'd want to dodge attacks in the first place.

*EDIT* - My position is not that S/L will not help you, but that it will not cover everything. Ranged doesn't either, though it is easier to stay out of melee defense and rely entirely on ranged than it is to hope that nothing without an S/L component is ever aimed at you.

You should be going after both, *primarily* because Ice Armor is so easy to get and offers such a large bonus.

Unstoppable is a very specific event that your other psychic attacks can already take care of. Mind Probe is a bad attack because your ranged attacks do better damage and have the advantage of being ranged. It has nothing to offer that the other psychic powers do not.

I'm not sure where I'm getting the idea it does KB from either. I think his slotting confused me.

You have 3 melee attacks. one of which isn't worth picking, one which is very good, and one which is situational and probably not worth it if you picked stamina instead. I would not make my entire build focus around having melee defense for one, possibly two, good attacks, while the rest of my build would probably favor ranged quite a deal more.

You are still going to get hit with ranged attacks if you only slot for S/L. Ranged Defense is marginally better because you can stay out of melee, but then, it's very easy to pick Ice Armor so I don't particularly see the reason *not* to get it. I wouldn't only focus on one or the other though, as you will leave yourself open to attacks, which is sort of the anti-thesis for building for defense. If you're okay with having that hole, more power to you, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.

BotZ doesn't stop you from building for ranged defense, though it is one of the reasons it was so easy to soft-cap. That said, you don't *need* soft capped defenses either, 25% alone will make a very noticeable difference in your survival, and I can achieve that on any blaster without undo sacrifices.

Mind Probe isn't a good attack just because it's at melee range. In fact, it's a worse attack because it can only achieve melee range. It doesn't even do more damage than your first two tier ranged attacks. It's KB is also counterproductive to blapping, and I'd view it more of a control power than I would a viable attack, and not a very good one at that. The only good thing it has going for it is the recharge, and Psychic Scream offers that in a cone.

Bullet Rain... isn't... a melee attack.

Drain Psyche is really more of a utility ability, not an attack, which doesn't qualify it for blapping.

That pretty much leaves Hail of Bullets and Psychic Screams, which I've already given my opinions on, and don't care to repeat them.

With only one GOOD melee ability, no, MM is not a good blapper set, and I don't choose to "beleive" that out of ignorance. It's an opinion formulated after analyzing the powers. Not just a wild haphazard guess.