berrycola
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Quote:90% ? Useless ? Seems an exaggeration. I have a AR/Dark corr; I took every power except for black hole. But even that power doesn't change my next statement.Originally Posted by Eldagore
AT where 90%of primary or secondary is useless outside of a team
I will say this about dark (and the AR/dark combo):
>> 100% of both powersets, every single power,
>> all effects/benefits of each power, are helpful
>> to the wielder, solo.
Granted, I'd say there are other powersets that might come close to the 90%. I'm just pointing out there are possibilities that aren't huge sticks coming out of back, or squid thing. -
Another vote for AR/Dark. My favorite character of all is a AR/Dark/Soul.
Slow/-res patch basically holds them in place while flamethrower/full auto/ignite.
Soul drain magnifies damage deliriously & pleasurable.
Big aoe stun.
Wide and long range cone fear.
Multiple single target mag 3 holds.
Stout heal.
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I have a Elec/EA brute that runs really good, before 21 even. Feels like they were made to go together, with the -end on both sets. The new taunt aura makes it even easier to keep the mob tight because after the first combo layup, no one in the mob has end anymore, which makes for being hit less often. There used to be a self heal with it, but that is gone. It now has a +defense tied with size of mob, also makes for being hit less often.
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I like the Ouro joke. Ya, I guess it was fun beating down Trap and Honoree. Oops on the posting in the wrong forum thing.
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I talk with my contacts every now and then, especially if they say they have something they want to talk to me about. So, with my already-incarnate 50, in between running TFs, I pop over to ouro and talk to him. He talks to me about the mysterious incarnate stuff. "Cool" I think, "he must have a new arc for me. After the Trapdoor/Honoree stuff he must be rewarding me with something better."
It turns out the incarnate arc has been reset. I remember finishing it, I remember going and getting a shivan and whatnot to cap Trapdoor and I still have the powers with charges left. Why is Ramiel giving me the arc again ? It is sort a unsettling. I don't see a way to cancel the arc other than to go through it again. Is there something I didn't do correctly the first time ? I have shards, components, slot(s) unlocked, etc.. -
The address prob changes frequently. Install wireshark, connect to the server you want, then start a trace. voila
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I soloed with my ar/dark corruptor
I slealthed into the room, got 10 feet behind him and summoned a shivan, a snow beast and 1 (one) fluffy to spawn directly behind him. He didn't know what was up; will all the pets starting their attacks he was still standing pretty, thinking out loud, "yeah, I bifucate like a BOSS."
After the last pet was summoned, I started my soul drain/flamethrower/full auto/shotgun chain. I only got to full auto before some pet KB tossed him over the rail. He was dead before he hit the lava. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Vidszhite
Well, most ATs can't solo AVs. The trick for a Dom is to downgrade them to Elite Bosses and bring lots of purples, greens, and blues. If all else fails, get a Shivan.Thank you for all the good information and hints. The mention of PTOD... I remember downgrading the bosses and still not having enough power to mez them. I remember downgrading all of my difficulty settings and still not being able to finish the final few fights in most arcs. There should be some way for doms to finish something without having purple ios and permadom a must.Quote:Originally Posted by Muon_Neutrino
To elaborate on what Vidszhite said, unless you specifically went to a difficulty adjuster and enabled the setting "I would like to fight (Heroes/Arch-villains) at their full strength, not as Elite Bosses", you're going to be fighting downgraded EBs, not full-fledged AVs/heroes.
The reason you have problems with them is that, even though these AVs/heroes have been downgraded to EBs, they retain the special mez protection power AVs get - the purple triangles of doom (aka PToD), which gives them mag 50 protection from most controls. This means that, 50 seconds out of every 75, they are almost immune to mezzes except for sleep and immobilize. So you can't hold these sorts of EBs with any reliability, and therefore of course they squish you into the pavement while they aren't mezzed.
Thanks for all the good suggestions. I'm going to dust my dommies off and give all them a try. -
I named my bane Collections Dept.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Siolfir
Quote:Originally Posted by RiverOcean
The Cliff Notes Version:Quote:Originally Posted by JJRAND
HOW????Quote:Originally Posted by Da_Captain
But my Mind/Energy has always been a beast and can solo the RSF, now even easier than before.
I got a mind / earth / ice and im having difficulty.. how do you do it?
Power Boosted, Perma Dom'd, welll slotted Mass Hypnosis! Keeps all the AV's slept while the team picks them off one by one.
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or... I don't feel that the answer matches the question asked
lol - I have a handful of doms that are stuck in their 40s because they aren't able to solo AVs. Even with domination going, the mezzes were just a tad shy of being able to hold the likes of say, Positron or Infernal ?
But, I haven't played them in about 6 months. I can see inherent fitness giving them more end to last longer battles. Perhaps that can make for the leadership pool, which can help with damage ?
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Quote:I like this AT just for the ability of have so drastically different types. I appreciate that we get a couple of builds per toon to try them out as well.Originally Posted by mr imposible
I am building my first arachnos soldier and i want to know the strengths and weaknesses of both. Any thoughts on the subject would be helpful.
My favorite turned out to be the up-close, stealthy, bangin bane. The Shatter and Crowd Control animations and sounds are rewarding to watch. The single target damage is impressive too. -
Thank you All,
I didn't have anything specific in mind; I just haven't played a dom for years, literally, and was wondering how doms 'feel' soloing and team.
The several years ago doms were plant/thorn and plant/fire. They were immensely fun to play. I got distracted by SOA villain ATs.
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+2 ? +3 ? Is funner to play dom at lower level (-..) and increased mob sized or tougher baddies ?
Related question - Prefer EB or AV ? -
My favoritist teams of all time came about with 4 brutes/ 4 corruptors. Battles < 1 min, Health and End > 90% at all times, brutes at full fury most of the time, ~%100 recharge rate at all times with /rad and /kin corruptor mix. Don't know how to translate that to blue side/ I was never one of the brutes but as long as the corruptors kept everyone healed up and +recovery rate and +recharge speed, it seemed like there was never a pause.
That being said, the teams that had good communication did the best as well. i.e., we could suffer with a member who didn't know how to play, but everyone chimed in with suggestions and the green was open to learning. Everytime a team loses one, gains one or reforms, really good team chat helped refind the team sweet spot. -
Ay, thanks all for letting me in that it was a bug. I honestly thought it was someone's idea to change the animation. The first time I saw it I thought, "is that true ? is my character really doing that to the air ?" -blink- -blink- -blink- <rub eyes> "yup."
*am still getting used to the forum change. I found the note in the bugs about it, but how do you know it was a result of trying to fix something with chat ?
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I don't know with what update it came, but I noticed that very recently the emote for porting across zones (pocketd, base tp, market tp) seems ... um, wierd. Does anyone know what I'm talking about ?
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I started a ice/dark Defender last week and I *thought* it was going to be weak and squishy, less damage than Blaster to boot.
Boy was I surprised, Defenders are fun to play! I was able to handle soloing easier than any blaster I've played. After the critters are loaded up with debufs, i sing "Can't touch this" and waste them all.
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