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Originally Posted by Agent White

Well you'll still get access to Soul mastery once you complete his arc anyhow.

Originally Posted by Thoran_EU

Yesterday i managed to upgrade my Hybrid Radial Assault to t3, thanks to some great drops, but each time i upgraded it a tier higher, I kept the passive bonus from the tier below, so now my passive damage bonus is 2.5% (Assault Genome) + 5% (Assault Radial Genome) + 7.5% (Assault Total Radial Graft) = 15% extra damage.
At first I thought it might be a bug because of me equipping T2 and T3 during the same play session, but even after logging off i still keep the T1, T2 and T3 damage bonusses.

Is this working as intended, or is it a bug, and should i only be given the T3 passive +7.5% bonus?

Originally Posted by Maroon Warlock

Alright, so after reading the responses, I'll admit that Time Manipulation is not overpowered like I made it out to be. I think the "Willpower" of buffs comment sounds pretty accurate. I do think some of the powers are original and refreshing. However, I'm still a little bitter about the hold and the AoE click res/def debuff.

As for the Slow/Hold patch, I still do not know how it works. I just saw "chance to hold" and that it was a patch and thought "OMG Volcanic Gasses clone overpowered!" I think it still has a chance to hold without Time Crawl, but either way, that chance is small from what I've heard reading further into it. So, it's more like a slow/-rech patch with a small chance to hold; not a hold patch.

Time Stop. As some of you mentioned, stacking holds in non-control sets is nothing new. What IS new about that regard is that this is the first buff/debuff set that does this. Ice Blast/Time will sure be able to stack a lot of holds! Anyway, I can get over this though. The -heal aspect is pretty cool I think. I just wish the holds in some other buff/debuff sets (dark miasma and poisons) had some additional effects.

Slowed Response vs Melt Armor. I STILL do NOT like how these even out. Melt Armor lasts longer and is permable, but Slowed Response is more easily permable AND has a bigger radius. Slowed Response also burns less endurance, and has a longer range, but that doesn't really bother me. I guess I can take solace in the fact that if a therm cast Melt Armor and got one-shotted right after, that debuff would last longer than Slowed Response under the same circumstances. I think Melt Armor should also have a 25ft radius to help justify its longer recharge time and heavier end cost, but that's just how the jealous therm feels

I thought that a click res/def debuff was a specialty of Thermal Radiation, so I'm a little miffed that the "Willpower" of buff sets does that better. Is Time Manipulation an overpowered set overall? As many of you have pointed out, no. I now agree with you all on that. Thank you for the responses and putting things in better perspective in regards to Time Manipulation. I just have beef with the radius of Slowed Response. A small detail, I know, somebody call the WAAAAAmbulance on me :P

Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

None of those things are really the reason Time is overpowered, IMO.

The fact that you can soft cap to every position, including Psi, on SOs because Farsight can be Power Boost'ed might be, though.

Time actually isn't just up there with Rad and Kin... its competing with (and to some extent beating) Super Reflexes and Energy Aura.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

There's no question that there is more -regen in the trials than in the standard game. However, -Def isn't absent, and besides the Vickies the more serious threat comes from something missing from the paragonwiki page: the 9CUs. For those unfamiliar with their mechanics, they self buff their own tohit with every attack they use, like a perma-follow up. Those tohit buffs last for ten minutes, so they effectively stack indefinitely (unless you deliberately leave them alone for at least that long and "reset" them).

Originally Posted by Ectomy

OK Golden Girl riddle me this.

If I make a toon on lets say guardian and transfere that toon to lets say protector (cause really why play anywhere else). I have used up my 5 vet slots one of which is lost to the store being down, wasn't about to risk another slot. Having used up my alloted slots and vet slots and even the 2 I bought can I still transfere another over. Or since I'm over the original 12 or 8 whatever it is now would I have to buy another slot to bring another over.

Then I already "played" the new content on tester so running with my buddies on protector sounds much more fun then making a whip guy on another server just hoping I could transfere him later to no avail.....