Wavicle

Thanks, that basically didn't have anything at all to do with my post. This is not a thread about complaining about the basic function of the Blaster AT, this thread is about PFF and its interaction with Defiance.

But where are the TAIL FEATHERS??

Has anyone else noticed this?

Defensive toggles were made to suppress when mezzed rather than detoggling. As a result, if you are using Personal Force Field to mitigate mezzes and one happens to get through the shield stays up (but is suppressed), leaving you with no defense And no way to fight back because you remain Only Effecting Self. Defiance can't work.

Now I am not necessarily saying this should be changed. In some ways it is a benefit because now you can eat a Break Free and the shield immediately becomes effective again rather than having to wait for it to recharge and put it back up. However, it ends up making me More reliant on Break Frees than I otherwise might be, which is frustrating since the changes to Defiance (and me Taking PFF) were essentially intended to make me less dependent on Break Frees.

So while I'm not going to insist that it be changed (and I'm not even certain how I would go about changing it. Should PFF detoggle when mezzed? Can the OES state be made to suppress as well? Could PFFd Blasters no longer be OES in PvE? I don't know...) it would certainly be nice if there were some way to make it a bit less frustrating. Since mez is pretty much the only weakness of the PFF (unless you think of OES as a weakness) it would be nice if I could at least shoot back when mezzed through it like I normally would be able to.

Who cares? Tankers still won't be 100% resistant to all damage and their attacks still won't cause the servers to crash so why bother?

Please do!

Dechs list of ways is quite good.

I'll mention one more: Go in with Nebulous Form running but with Shadow Cloak OFF. They will try to mez you, but they can't cause you're Phased!

Not sure if that will always work against Illusionists though, since they Phase as well.

I agree with the previous poster, the only Martial Arts ability you should skip is Confront.

In the Willpower set the only power you should probably skip is Revive (I think that's what the self rez is called).

Attacks can benefit quite well from 5-6 slots.

Most Defensive abilities only need a total of 3 slots.

Be ABSOLUTELY certain that you take the powers Indomitable Will and Rise to the Challenge very early. They will make your life a lot easier.

since enhancements don't effect -recharge strength it doesn't seem like there's any relationship

caltrops does not cause -recharge and yet can be slotted with slow sets

Pretty sure it is NOT an oversight.

The power already causes -90% run speed.

I believe the intent is that you Cannot increase that debuff.

Nice guide.

You might add: -Recharge effects slow down the recharge of the Bifurcation ability.

I admit, I don't have hard evidence of this, but I solod Trapdoor with my Warshade and my Widow. Neither used Holds. The Widow killed two Bifurcations (using the Clone Wars method) while taking him down. The Warshade only had to kill one. It certainly SEEMED that my -Recharge effects were slowing down the clone summoning.

The reason no one comes to his meeting is cause he's a JERK.

I'm not talking about the dev.

The Character has always been portrayed as an arrogant jerk.

I would guess Nerve is good for some Controllers and MMs.

If it wasn't fun then why did you keep doing it?

Pretty good but make the single target immob a single target hold instead.