deadcat

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This is all in prep for reworking the LRSF so that it becomes more in line with the difficulty of the STF, right?

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Seeing as how it's pretty common to defeat the LRSF without either Shivans or stacked Vengeance, I'm not sure I see the relevance.

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sorry not everyone can find 5 corruptors, 2 masterminds, and a stone brute to do the LRSF with

also stalkers and dominators want to be useful on it too.

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Its player propogated myth that causes this, because alot of people want you to believe its the case. Ive been on RSFs that are led by invuls and elecs, and ive seen doms not only be useful, but LEAD rsfs.

The problem is the player base saying wanting the easy way out. Thru Vengeance and Shivans and 7 corrs and what have you. None of these are remotely necessary.

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its not the whole "easy way out thing" the first four missions are just basic regular missions with regular ways to complete them.

NOW then the last mission has 8 +3 heroes standing around ready to kill anything that moves because you threw a corpse at them.

Leading a LRSF is one thing since all you have to do is go and get the other people you need, and give the pitty spot to yourself. Heck you are out of your mind if you think when a LRSF starts up the team leader goes out of their way to find an invuln brute or an ice dominator or a claws stalker.

when my VG would do the LRSF every time we basically grabbed whatever toons we wanted to do it with, and got shivans, and nukes. Most of us would have vengence, and with those things we could finish it with different and unusual team members instead of desperately seeking stone brutes and certain types of corruptors.

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This is all in prep for reworking the LRSF so that it becomes more in line with the difficulty of the STF, right?

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Seeing as how it's pretty common to defeat the LRSF without either Shivans or stacked Vengeance, I'm not sure I see the relevance.

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sorry not everyone can find 5 corruptors, 2 masterminds, and a stone brute to do the LRSF with

also stalkers and dominators want to be useful on it too.

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Can someone explain what this hubbub is about, that I may be in the loop?

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you can still stack vengence using an exploit. I dont tell you how but... 7 stacked vengences is something like 210% defense 100% damage buff, 80 tohit buff, and alot of mez protection.

i just made those numbers up but its around there.

one vengence is like 30% defense, 25% damage buff, 15 tohit buff, and a bit extra mez protection.

When you do put the new tech in to prevent vengence from stacking can you also redesign the LRSF on the villian side so any half way decent combination of villian archtypes can do it instead of relying on shivans + nukes + vengence stacking.

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Hey Castle, crazy idea:

Let's take away -ATTACK- rooting on both players -and- A.I. mobs!

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that would make pve, and pvp unfun

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Fine... whatever. I don't think this is over with though and we'll know for sure halfway through issue 8

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i still personally think all interruptable powers should only be interruptable by damage. not if you are cold or standing in tar etc etc etc

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*cough* ripper is a cone that can catch 5 people in it.

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The angle isn't bad, but the Range of that "cone" is a Joke so it almost never comes into play.


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when i had a spines/da scrapper i could get at least 3 sky captains in a cone for ripper at a time. when i had a dm/fire brute with shadow maul i could get at least 3 whatever in it too. my point is with aoe attacks you can get a higher dps than a single target attack my hitting more than one person with it at a time.

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bitter ice blast is part of ice blast that has no snipe, and two rain powers.

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Which is the exact reason why most ppl prefer Ice... Snipes are a Detriment to DPS, not a selling point.
...speaking of which... how do you answer the charge, lil miss stalker... that snipes continue to get the shaft on interruption while Assassin's Strike is no longer interrupted by Debuffs, Hmm?!?

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snipes are usually used as an opener or a finisher on things that are running. i personally cant thing of any situation that anyone with access to a snipe would willingly stand in an enemy debuff field to fire off their snipe.

i personally think the reason snipes didnt get the interruptable to just damage thing was that...

if you put stalkers in a situation where its impossible to fire off their assasin strike what use are they then?

now lets put a blaster in a situation where its impossible for them to fire off their sinpe now how useful will they be?


i dont know i just kinda find snipes... useless now because of ED. when you could kill a red con minion in 1 hit with a snipe compared now where you cant kill an even with a snipe.

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Unbelievably, Impale is 80' range.

Disclaimer: No, that does not imply an impending range reduction for impale or increase for Focus.

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Example:
Scrapper: Level 32(both attacks slotted DMG) ... Foe: level 15 charger
Impale(High DMG): 435.02 3 slotted (range:85ft + immob, -RCH, -FLY)
Ripper(High DMG): 449.79 3 slotted (KB, -SPD, -RCH)

What the hell's up with that Castle? I thought Ranged/Melee
Modifiers were supposed to be the largest governing factor here?
...The Range Advantage = DPS advantage, plus Impale also recharges FASTER too...
Why does a level 8 power trump a level 26 in DPS and PvP in the same set no less?

Bitter Ice Blast also defies all logic-for-balance to the Nth degree in a similar
fashion. You gotta deal with this issue at some point man.... might as well be now.

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*cough* ripper is a cone that can catch 5 people in it. impale is a single target attack. spines is pretty balanced since most of it is lethal damage except for the dot

bitter ice blast is part of ice blast that has no snipe, and two rain powers.

OH MY a dev answered one of my posts ^_^ i deserve a cookie.

well its good to know there are more side missions the higher level you are.

Well I did 2 mayhem missions so far around level 8. From what i understand there are multiple side missions in each mayhem mission.

well for some reason i can only find the arson mission. where are the rest in the atlas mission?

if you need to use burn to get a mob off of you you have already lost. there is no way healing flames will keep you alive with it only healing 32% of your life back every 35 seconds.

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you're kind of missing the burn-as-defensive-power aspect...buuut.. *shrug*

edit: to be clear, i do think /FA needs a boost of some kind, but I think people exaggerate the problems with it.

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i always believed the 7th tiered powers in most of the power set are what make and really define a powerset.

regen: instant healing
invuln: invincibility
da: cloak of fear
ea: energy drain

well most of the time it works. FA gets... burn... pretty much its only use now is giving immobilization protection, and making enemies run and switch to ranged attacks.

sure that making them switch to range would be nice but brutes really dont have ranged attacks outside of hurl/hurl boulder.

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As far as the 25% heal vice 17% heal being a balance issue, I agree, it clearly is. Simply, it needs to be raised to the same level of every other self heal. The fact that it provides toxic resists in a click form is not sufficient enough of a boon to keep it at 17%. Dull pain by comparison provides so much more mitigation, it isn't really even a valid comparison.


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almost all the self heals and dull pain powers give +res(toxic).

healing flames USED to be fiery auras disorient protection. that i think is the only reason for the base to be 17% instead of 25% except healing flames is no longer the disorient protection for FA.

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with blazing aura + soul drain + dark consumption + consume i would kill the entire spawn.

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Why did you delete this guy? He sounds like a blast to play. Literally. Especially now that you can add burn and ball lightning to your list of aoes thanks to the patron powers.

EDIT: Man, the idea of a suped up fully fury + soul drain + firey embrace + nukage is making me all exciting now. I have too many alts I wanna make lol.

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three attacks for 30 levels made me crazy. shadow maul would lock me up at times to the point i would get killed. for some reason i fought a crap load of COT too and they are resistant to negative energy. overall it just wasnt fun for me.

i remade as a fire/fire brute, and i have access to more attacks, and more real AOE attacks.

so far dark melee feels about half as effective as fire melee in putting out damage.

before i deleted my level 32 dm/fire brute my "big aoe nuke" would be me herding up a few groups after eating a few purples.

with blazing aura + soul drain + dark consumption + consume i would kill the entire spawn. of course i would nearly die everytime i did this. sometimes i would die.

if consume had a +regen or +recovery i wouldnt mind it having a 3 minute recharge.

both of them require a tohit check. dark consumption is like 8 feet radius and does moderate neg energy damage. consumption is 20 feet and does minor fire damage.

the problem is they are on 3 minute recharges

more than just healing flames need to be fixed in FA. like give me a reason to take temp protection, and id like to have a useful tier9 power.

i remember when i actually used to use burn...

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besides, Villains have no gain from whacking this one rare spawn that Heroes need for a badge. I bet some Villains will kill Contaminated anyways just to grief Heroes.

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MUHAHAHA thats exactly what i plan on doing. now thats being a villian

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Yeah its amazing, our 4th tier PP has a 15 minute recharge! Thats basically the WORST recharge than any pet in the game. That means in a 10 min. Arena match, you'll be able to summon the pet twice. And thats only if you have 3 recharge in it.

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Actually isn't 15 minute recharge the longest recharge of any power in the entire game?

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i think serum has the longest recharge in the game its something like 20 minutes. accolade powers are like 25 minutes themselves

the tier 2 power in mace mastery for stalkers supposedly was a snipe but it reads as having the same damage/range/everything as the tier 1 power.

lets see....

*/eng
*/elec

will wreck a scrapper for sure

*/dev may not count but clever use of trip mine/time bomb will do it.

*/fire has one shotted me with fire sword on my mastermind and stalker. silly uses of hot feet, burn, blazing aura, and fire sword might be able to kill a scrapper.

*/ice just no no no no. */ice has never scared me on any of my villians. ive seen some amazing ice/ice blasters that use ice patch, shiver, and chilling embrace to keep the average stalker off of them, but ^_^ not me.

*/dev and */fire could do it with practice...

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Why should stalkers be any different from anyone else? You show me a scrapper that can jump into the middle of a smart team and take them all out single handedly.


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show me a stalker that can jump into the middle of a smart team and take them all out single handedly.

maybe regen but i know for a fact that blaster can output enough damage to kill a stalker in 2 hits in 2 seconds.

<.<

*uses awaken*

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hate to tell you this guys but as is gettign nerfed in pvp once issue 7 comes you will no longer be able to one huit in pvp.

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ahh everyone is getting nerfed so they cant one hit or be one hitted. so MY MASTERMIND WINSSSSSSSZORRSSSSS HAHAHAHAHAHA

the only archtype that cant one shot my mastermind are controllers. Saddly if ED wasnt here they could with me contained, and some of their buffs/debuffs. hell i beat a */energy dominator could one shot me with total focus and domination up

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Lol, been working on that Rocketman badge huh


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must... stop... people... from... getting.... badge!

*goes to warburg*