macskull

If this were two years ago (or if you were talking about a Stalker) you'd be right. I13 didn't exactly hose Spines (well, free resists to everything makes all that toxic DoT lose its appeal pretty fast, and Ripper and Throw Spines are more or less bad now), but it made BS, Fire, and (lol) MA that much better. I hate every minute I play my Spines/Regen now just because I think of how ****** it is compared to what it used to be like.

That's great, but no one really cares what you make. It's just a bit silly to waste the resources to ask for help if you're not going to listen anyways.

Being a unique snowflake's nice and all, but there's a reason so many people play particular combinations. We're just trying to save you the time and trouble it will take to level and IO something and then discover it's not good. But hey, if you want to ignore the advice of people who've been there, done that, and tried to make "odd" things work, go right ahead.

Have fun with that. I'm looking forward to more chances at PvP IO drops.

Nope. "Best" is the build combination which does a particular task (in this case, getting kills while avoiding death) better than any other combination. Sorry, but SR's not up there on that list, especially post-elusivity nerf.

But hey, it's your $15 a month. Just don't come back to the forums whining about how you die a lot because you didn't listen to people who actually knew what they were talking about.

1. Ninjitsu has +perception as well.

2. Travel suppression affects any movement speed, including IOs, Quickness, Swift, Retsu, Elude, whatever.

Here's what you're getting with SR and Ninjitsu:

SR: More defense debuff resistance, 20% recharge buff, in-set knockback protection, scaling resists (largely worthless on a low-HP character in PvP).

Nin: Stackable psi resistance from Kuji-in Rin, fear resistance, good self-heal, cone confuse/sleep/-percep/-tohit power.

The only reason to go with SR over Nin is if you're a cheap ******* and don't want to buy -KB IOs.

No, no, and no.

Trying to PvP on a Dark is an absolute waste of time and inf.

Unless you are on a steam-powered computer, it shouldn't take more than a minute or so between resets (since it doesn't take long to SS/SJ back to the mission door, zone, reset the mission, and re-enter).

Force Bubble shows up in the combat logs.

I'm not sure it's being condoned so much as it is they don't have a way to stop it that wouldn't bring negative consequences. However, I'd hope that our devs are smart enough to realize that if you have people AFK farming for something, the bar may be set too high.

You give yourself waaaaaaaay too much credit, kid.

Protip: slotting your holds for hold duration will make them last longer.

Also my math was off, it seems the curve for +special isn't linear so you're getting less as you add more, but my point stands:

Dominate is base 4 seconds. ED-capped slotting gets you to 7.8 seconds. Adding 98% on top of that (Power Boost) gets you to 11.7 seconds. Adding 66% on top of that (Megalo) gets you to 14.4 seconds. Now let's pretend DR eats into that slotting so your ED-capped slotting is only 80%, and DR lowers the total bonus from PB + Megalo to 80% (as opposed to the 164% it would be). That's still around 10 seconds and that's being very liberal with the DR curves on slotted enhancements and +special. Even if the target has 100% hold resistance (i.e. is running Acro) that's still a 4 or 5 second hold. If you've got Domination up (you will most of the time if you're not solo) that'll last full duration and the target won't be able to do a damn thing about it even if they chomp a tray full of T3 Breakfrees. Yeah, that takes skill right there.

If you are going to try and insult me, it helps to make sense. Having someone proofread before you press the "post" button could help.

If you are using TF for the mez you are doing it wrong (but, that's right, you're also the one that said you shouldn't slot Power Push for KB)

That's odd. Slotted up Dominate has an 8-second-or-so (probably closer to 7, 7.5) duration. Closer to 14-15 with Power Boost. Closer to 18-20 with Megalo up as well. Completely unresisted if Domination is up. I'm sorry, but if you're whining about having to run into melee range to use Total Focus when you can mez just as well from 80+ feet, you're a ******* downie. The difference between that and holding that Tank for 2 minutes was that the Tank could do something about it if he hadn't had a lobotomy.