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More for zone and 2v2s, where Flares is a retardedly good power.

The Brute version of SR has a taunt effect in Evasion, plus SR's powers are re-ordered a bit from the Scrapper version so you aren't having to wait until 35 to get your AoE defense in. Energy Aura lacks a taunt aura, though, so building Fury might be a bit more difficult if you lack another way to maintain aggro.

I'd say DM/Shield, DM/SR, and DM/WP, in that order.

Ran the math on this using the base recovery value (1.67%) and the numbers came out to 2.11%. So, it's possible the totals calculator is broken (this has been known to happen at times) or Conditioning isn't giving the full 1.84 EPS it's supposed to. It is giving more than the standard base of 1.67 EPS (the numbers above would suggest it's giving 1.75 EPS, or about half as much as it's supposed to be giving), but it's not giving as much as it's supposed to.

What you are saying:

"The Kheld forms unlock extra inherent powers, and both the forms and the new powers can be slotted."

What he is saying:

"You cannot enhance a power to have an effect on your other powers."

The reason you can slot both the form and the extra powers on a Kheld is because they do entirely different things. Yes, you need to have the form activated to access its powers, but that's not what is being asked for here. What the OP is asking for is to be able to enhance Swap Ammo's toggles to improve the secondary effects of the powers used while that toggle is active. That's more akin to being able to slot Bright Nova (the toggle power, not the inherents that come with it) for defense debuff and have that enhancement apply to all the Nova attacks. The system does not and cannot work that way, which is why the OP's suggestion will not happen.

Sorry, second-lowest.

At least all these people playing the set will hopefully give the devs lots of solid information when they're datamining so they can give the set the buffs it needs sooner rather than later.

Dual Pistols is a very flashy set, and I've gotta give props to the dev team for making it look good and giving it a "gimmick" that differentiates it from other weapon-based sets. Unfortunately as far as numbers go it just doesn't add up, which is something that can be addressed.

This is one of those "learn to read" things. From the OP:
So no, he and I are not saying the same thing.

Absolutely and completely incorrect. DS will be pushed onto the servers at the same time as I17, but it will only be available if you pre-purchase GR. From the GR pre-purchase announcement:

Aha, that would probably be it. Just started leaving that option unchecked, and didn't even think that might be the cause of the problem.

...Because badges mean you are good at playing a character?

Right.

It does only affect your pets, but it should be noted that it affects all your pets, including temp pets (like the Shivan or Warwolf) and some mission allies (like Katie's Spirit in the last mission of the KHTF).

Yeah, this is weird for slow-moving powers like Will Dom or for some snipes. I'll know I am getting hit (I monitor hit rolls and damage in a separate window so I can tell if someone attacks me even before the damage comes in), and will get suppressed, but many times the suppression will be over and I'll be moving again before the damage actually hits me.

Regarding stack versus refresh: check your buff bar when you're getting spiked. As long as the damage keeps coming in with less than a two-second pause between attacks, you will stay suppressed. The icon for travel suppression will stay at the same place in your buff bar, as opposed to going off and then coming back on at the end of the bar. If there's a gap greater than two seconds in incoming attacks, then yes, there will be a momentary gap during which you'd be unsuppressed and be able to teleport.

...Such as? Given that travel suppression is a fixed duration and a fixed speed, if such is the case it's a bug and I wouldn't expect it to last.

If you're using low damage scale attacks (i.e. little "ping ping ping"-type powers such as Flares) this is true. For just about any decent attack, though, this is incorrect.

So what you're saying is that Invisibility or PFF reduce the duration of suppression? Doubtful - very doubtful. If it works this way, it's a bug. You may, however, have "suppression reduction" confused with "I toggle on invis so people can't see me" or "I toggle on PFF so people can't hit me." Knowing you, this is probably the case. In that case, of course you can TP away.

This is incorrect. TS does not stack, but it can have its duration refreshed, much like Fortitude doesn't stack but can be extended by the same caster. You've got attacks coming in at you, you stay suppressed unless those attacks aren't coming in fast enough to keep you surpressed. In the case of toggle debuffs or debuff patches, you will be unable to remove suppression until you either get that other player detoggled or leave the debuff patch. If you get webbed onto, say, Quicksand or Tar Patch, and don't have Super Speed, you're screwed because TS will disable teleport and you won't be able to quickly move off the debuff patch (oh wait, is that yet another situation where SS is preferable? my gosh, it is!).

If you have any insights on how to reduce 2 or 4 seconds (standard fixed duration of suppression for being attacked or activating a heal, for example) to "less than a second," I'm all ears.

What's broken about it?

I'm sorry, I was under the impression that playing without the ridiculous zone handicaps (hello, TS and HD) made you a better player. Obviously I'm wrong. You continue to think that your Hover/TP build will work - meanwhile we'll just webnade you and suppress you over and over, which completely removes your means of travel. All that time I'll still have at least one usable travel power, no matter what you're doing.

lol @ telling me "learn to PvP."

"Combat teleport" would imply that you are using teleport while in combat. Given that your ability to teleport is completely disabled while you're in combat, it is impossible to "combat teleport." Even if that weren't the case (i.e. arena rules) you'd still have to be able to keep up with someone who isn't standing still - teleport, fire off maybe one or two attacks (if you TP to where the person was going), and teleport again. All this time you're burning endurance and there are periods where you're entirely stationary where I'm basically getting free shots. Good luck keeping up and being able to close to finish someone off.

If TP and Hover was such a wonderful viable tactic, I'd expect more people to be using it. As it stands, almost every Fly/TPer I come across dies repeatedly to players who know how to counter them (easy, just look up!), and the ones that don't spend more time TPing up to the zone ceiling or their base than they do actually attacking/getting kills. SS/SJ is easier to use and more effective in almost every situation than Fly/TP, not to mention it grants access to three useful powers (Hasten, CJ, Acro). Given the choice between "easy to use and effective 99% of the time" and "slightly harder to use but almost never effective," I'll take the former.

Guess I have to give you props for throwing off just about every thread you post in by giving bad advice and then defending yourself when everyone who knows better says you're wrong.