So yesterday I have a team running missions in the Rikti War Zone and we are moving along very nicely when suddenly a couple of the team members quit in the middle and say they are going to go make a new Epic Villian. I type 'um ok'. Since it was so random and before they leave I ask them why the sudden exit and both of them basically said they were impressed with how my Fortunata was killing with no downtime.
so down two team members and coming up on an AV I say what the hell I will give it a try and see what happens. Well something interesting occured.
There were 4 Guardians in the room with the AV so I run up to them and Confuse them, but I get lucky and land a Contagious Confuse from the proc. All the Guardian use AM so now I am running around with 4 AMs, ML, Hasten, 100%+ damage and lots of recovery.
I engage the General for a battle and I am just working him when suddenly I get the you have been forcibly removed box on my screen.
Complete sadness.
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Man, that bites, but yeah. Once slotted up and you have your full array of powers VEATs are a sight to behold. Granted, some foes will give you trouble potentially (+2 Kalinda on a level 50 crab for example), but overall it's great. Espeically if there are mutlple VEATs.
One thing that made me sad though. I got on a team with 2 corrupters, 2 brutes, and 4 VEATs while playing my spider. I was the only VEAT with the baked in leadership toggles.
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One thing that made me sad though. I got on a team with 2 corrupters, 2 brutes, and 4 VEATs while playing my spider. I was the only VEAT with the baked in leadership toggles.
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Unfortunately that still happens from time to time. I ran a LGTF last week with a Fortunata that had skipped TT: M and Indomitable Will in favor of...wait for it...CT: O and Scramble Thoughts! Needless to say, they didn't last long when we took on the Riders.
Me, I'd take CT:O as well as all three leadership toggles 
That way slotting acc in attacks isn't that vital till I start putting in sets.
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I'd maybe take CT:O to start with for that reason, but I'd respec out of it later on; there's just too many good (read: better) powers to try and squeeze into a SoA build.
I'm always a little depressed when I see builds that have both CT:O and Wolf Spider Armor (especially if they also had the sense to take Crab Spider Armor Upgrade and Fortification), but no TT:M.
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I'd maybe take CT:O to start with for that reason, but I'd respec out of it later on; there's just too many good (read: better) powers to try and squeeze into a SoA build.
I'm always a little depressed when I see builds that have both CT:O and Wolf Spider Armor (especially if they also had the sense to take Crab Spider Armor Upgrade and Fortification), but no TT:M.
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My build will likely forgo patron powers, so I'll have enough room for wolf spider armor (more resistance/mez protection) and CT:O. Just too many VEAT powers I want more then a patron pool. I'll be forced to take a patron, but I don't have to use the pool.
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern." Lord Acton
Madam Enigma's History
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My build will likely forgo patron powers, so I'll have enough room for wolf spider armor (more resistance/mez protection) and CT:O.
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I find it utterly redundant on a Crab - at 50 it brings you from just over 14 mag mez protect (enough to block Romulus' rez-stun, and pretty much anything else PvE will throw at you) to just over 16. Especially since you get pretty reasonable base defense that stops most mezzes from even landing - it'll take a ridiculous amount of mez flying around to crack a Crab's protection. That leaves the 4.5% smash/lethal and 3% psi resist, which personally I find to be too low to use up a power and enhancement slots on (or rather, to pick that over the other options available) - ymmv.
I can maybe see it on a Bane, since they only get 4 mag protection otherwise. Even so, in 47 levels I've maybe been mezzed twice on my Bane without it.
Only other scenario I see it being worthwhile is if you're making a very specific IO build, either stacking up smash/lethal resist set bonuses, or using it as a mule for bonuses you can only get from the resist sets.
All that said, it only bothers me when I see it in a build that's skipped other *much* more useful powers like TT:M. But if the mainstays are covered and Wolf creeps in there, eh, I'll maybe struggle to understand why but I won't be shaking my head in dismay or anything.
Yeah it totally sucked but what can you do.
The only Archvillian that has given me trouble is Positron because of his stupid rad powers. Every other AV or Hero I have faced thats been over me hasn't been much trouble.
I loved fighting Ghost Widow because she would miss everything except when Soul Storm would break through my mez protection regardless. I really would like to know the mag of her hold because it has to be in the 20s or more becaus she even held my Sheild/Energy Tank with my mez protection overlapped.
"People love to talk, but hate to listen." Alice Duer Miller, American Author (1874-1942)
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I really would like to know the mag of her hold because it has to be in the 20s or more becaus she even held my Sheild/Energy Tank with my mez protection overlapped.
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It's Mag 100, I'm pretty sure. You basically need to be chain-chugging BFs or have someone stacking Enforced Morale or equivalents on you to overcome it.
Really? That's crazy. I never knew that. Has it always been mag 100 since CoVs inception?
"People love to talk, but hate to listen." Alice Duer Miller, American Author (1874-1942)
No, since ish 7. It's really annoying too. stone tankers running rooted AND granite armor get held by her regularly.
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern." Lord Acton
Madam Enigma's History
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Really? That's crazy. I never knew that. Has it always been mag 100 since CoVs inception?
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It has. She was doing that in RV pretty much since it came along. (I know the RV entity is different, but the mag of the hold is nuts there and in missions/TFs.)
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
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No, since ish 7. It's really annoying too. stone tankers running rooted AND granite armor get held by her regularly.
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You know whats really funny is all this time when I would see her hold Brutes or Tanks, etc I just figured it was because their mez toggle was off or their build sucked, but having a 100 point hold is just crazy, but it makes sense since the power is called Soul Storm and is grasping your soul.
"People love to talk, but hate to listen." Alice Duer Miller, American Author (1874-1942)
And yet, players who select soul storm DON'T get a mag 100 mez. It's mag 3 I believe for players. I have to stack it with the hold in /poison to affect bosses.
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern." Lord Acton
Madam Enigma's History
This weekend I am looking forward to running that new SF with a group of Night Widows so it should be interesting to see. It will also be my first time doing the new content also so double the excitement.
"People love to talk, but hate to listen." Alice Duer Miller, American Author (1874-1942)