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I could have swore there was an unspoken arrangement where we don't ask Castle to look at defender secondaries and in exchange he doesn't "fix" them.

Defenders tend to attack with rubber bullets, but it's nice that there are a few hollow tips in there; if we use the few sets with hollow tips as a reason to request full metal jackets for the other sets it's more likely that he'll take all of our guns and give us Nerf.

On the other hand, fruit salad and Nerf sounds like a fun way to spend a Saturday.

If you've played a few different sets and decided that you like Devices, that's awesome go for it. However, if you haven't tried other things, you'll want to give them a shot. Liking Devices isn't a bad thing, it's just weird.

Character: PyroDomiantion (Fire/Fire/Force Blaster) IO'd for recharge
Settings: +0/x8/No bosses
Mission: Everybody's favorite council map

Inf from kills:9,333,112
Inf from drops: 3,105,536
Total Inf: 12,438,648

Not a farming build, built almost as squishy as possible around the assumption that he's always on a team with somebody to eat the aggro. Consequently, whenever i was getting more red yellow and blue inspirations than green purple and orange my speed got wrecked as I had to make inspirations in order to survive. I pause the timer when I sold mid run, but travel time is included. Also I lost about 5 minutes total to global chat channels and general absent mindedness.

Grav/Storm with Team Teleport. You can easily assure that you're the only person on your team having fun.

The combination of wormhole and team tp will let you hot drop your team onto a group of enemies then teleport the enemies away. It'll be amazing

Congratulations everybody who has ever called Sonic Repulsion "Ally targetted Repel" (or anything along those lines) because you're wrong. Sonic Repulsion is actually a bizzarre power that is in a class of its own.

First off, let me reiterate something about knockback most veterans will know. When a target is knocked back it is flung away from the caster, regardless of who or what the target is. This is why when somebody energy blasts into a crowd the enemies are flung in a sort of cone away from the energy blaster, they aren't flung outward from the target of the attack.

Again: knockback flings the target away from the caster.

With that established, here's the subtle part of repel that's very easy to miss. You are the caster, the player you cast it on is a target that's unaffected by the power (aka they're an anchor), and the enemies within 10 feet of the anchor are the target. The targets are flung away from the caster not the anchor. This means your position relative to the anchor means everything, and by carefully positioning yourself you get a nicely predictable form of knock back.

To drill in this point, if you throw sonic repulsion on a tank that has a group herded, and you do this from 30 ft away, the result will be the enemies thrown in a nice straight line, as if you galed the group. I believe the common belief is that it would fling the enemies outward as though the tank used hand clap, and this is wrong.

With all that said, i think it's more accurate to think sonic repulsion as automatically using gale on any enemy near the anchor. This doesn't turn it into some incredible power, but it does have some interesting applications.

*Put it on a ranged blaster or controller. Any enemy that tries to hit the blast is popped back toward the main group.
*When dealing with a scrapper or tank that has a group of enemies of their own while the rest of the aoe damage is focused somewhere else, stand like you were going to gale their herd into the main group and repulse them.
*If you fly you can use it as a quick aoe knockdown, particularly usueful near corners.

Again, it doesn't make the power a toggle orgasm, but for me realizing Sonic Repulsion is actually toggle autohit gale, really made it an interesting power for me.

Fire/Fire blaster: it's the best thing since the discovery of the orgasm.

I just started on of these. Only level 10ish now, but I'm waiting patiently for the moment when I can get dominate and have an attack chain of FOUR HOLDS!!!

I'm inspired by your name, and I really have been wanting to roll a new Dark...

Put on a much less serious note, when I saw you on Freedom my mind was blown for a few seconds before I checked your global and suddenly understood.

I can't speak for other AT's but looking at corrupt ors and defenders, the APPs win by a landslide. If I could take the APPs on a corr I'd respec within seconds of it going live. If I had to take a PPP on my defender I'd be pissed.

However, looking at the balance between the two AT's as a whole they're balanced because of it. The notable mitigation that defenders can get from their APPs keeps their edge in mitigation as substantial as the corrupter's damage advantage.

The most important thing to me is that when I'm looking at mids trying to decide whether I should make an X/Y def or Y/X corr, i'm always stuck there for an hour going "If corrupters just had Z power it would be an easy choice." Hard choice mean good job Team Castle!

If I was leading a team and you said SB only by request and you have to say thank you, I'd kick you from the team. If you were leading, I'd call you some uncivilized words and probably end up getting kicked. If a third party was leading, I'd call you the same uncivilized words and add you my ignore list before I get kicked... and still get kicked anyway.

I'm of the school of thought that SB is highly overrated, and I have no problem teaming with kins that skip it entirely or rarely use it. However, one way to piss me off quickly is compliments for average play. I'd gladly give a standing ovation when somebody pulls off something awesome such as taking control of near wipe situation caused by somebody else's (usually me) mistake. But saying thank you for clicking my name and pressing SB every 90 seconds? Go yourself. If you want your epeen stroked you have to earn it.

And because we're on the topic, here are some other etiquette issues that piss me off.
*Requesting a teleport and having to say thank you. It's one thing if somebody comes out of the mission or waits for you while others go in, but when you choose using recall friend over twiddling your thumbs you're not getting a thank you from me!

*Saying "gratz" (or even worse "gz") every time somebody levels. Honestly, none of us give a crap and we all know this. It's exceptionally meaningless when people have a bind to say some congratulatory phrase every time they hear that dinging sound. Screw that, if I'm going to congratulate you for leveling it will be meaningful (i.e. /e clap, or announcing the newest 50 to the world.

*Not kicking khelds from the team every time a cyst spawns. I'm sorry, but if I had you in my room and came across some giant cyst that was spewing black puffy stuff you'd be kicked out so fast you'd think I slotted SB for speed. Why am I not allowed to treat khelds the same way!

So after watching some StratusNexus videos I decided that I needed blazing aura to call myself a real blapper. So I opened mids and modified my current build a bit 4 hours later this is what happened.

I was on a trial account recently and on top of the trouble finding a team I actually found it pretty hard to find help. I could only talk in local and /hc, except it doesn't tell you in can talk in /hc. I assumed that like every other MMO the help channel would be /help or /h, but nope, those bring up some blob of text which didn't answer my question. At that point I forgot about my original question (though it was probably something trolly) and was scouring /help to figure out how to talk on /help. The worst part is that when I had the actual help channel highlighted and would try to chat into it, it would tell me that the command "/help takes 0 arguments"

Ironically the frustration from that set in motion the chain of events that ultimately made me reactivate... so what I see as poor design may actually be brilliant marketing...

Anyway, the first time I got a toon to 20 was on a trial account long ago when you could do that. I was on a stereotypical terrible Inv/SS tanker with six slotted brawl and taunt, and all the passive powers because I had such terrible end problem experience with a Stone tank, that I decided to play a set that go just use passive powers. It was so bad that if I came across a similar build today I wouldn't kick them off my team; I'd instead kick everybody else off my team and begin private instruction. With the advent of real numbers I doubt I'd have botched so hard, but it's still an example of how bad things can get.

As far as template builds go; if you look in any tabletop RPG's main book* you'll notice that they at some point include afew premade builds. It's good for if you just want to jump in without thinking (aka the freedom community), and it's good if you just want to see what a well rounded character looks like. Of any MMO I played, building for COH is the closest to building for a tabletop in terms of options, and therefore should probably look to the table top for inspirations.

*by any, i mean any that don't fail this common trait...

Interesting how marijuana gets decriminalized in California, then the devs decide to give defenders a buff.

*thinks about it for a minute*

*applies for a job*

Pfft, everything my ***. No where near the soft cap to hamidon damage.

That way, I can make a Corrupter Archery/Kinetics/Electric and call it CAKE.

I remeber a few months ago teaming with a Sonic Resonator that was excited about hitting 32 because Liquefy was the only tier 9 he never saw a player use. Considering that and how I can't think of any with a Sonic Resonator as a frequently played alt, I'm voting for Sonic as the least used.