Choking Cloud - what affects it's accuracy?

I'm trying to decide whether to take this power at the moment, and one thing I was wondering is what affects it accuracy? I'm pretty sure that aim helps out quite nicely, but does the -def of Irradiate and the +acc of tactics?

Cheers

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I have Choking Cloud on Capt since i3. I have it slotted with 2Mez Hamio's 2holddur and coupled with Tactics.

I'm pretty much a melee'ing defender and stay pretty close to the action. Dangerous but fun.

Spreading RI and then jumping in to irradiate drastrically reduces their defences, meaning Choking Cloud hit quite consistantly. Due to its slotting, the hold duration is pretty lengthy enabling CCloud to autohit again and also stack.

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@Captain Solaris
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Yeah, that's pretty much how I used to play when I had it, but I never used tactics back in those days. If the +acc from tactics and -def from RI work then I might just take it again

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For me radiation infection and irradite seems to be enough to hit almost all the time. (Just remember it only gets 50% of the stuff that is there max and is not too nice on your endurance)

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Damn u Capt for having 2 HOs in there

Having Tactics does appear to make a difference to the amount held. Powerboost can also buff the holds that CC is chucking out.

Another thing of note is that its not just the baddies within the cloud. If you run about, anything that *was* in the Cloud also gets a ToHit roll on them, so its possible to hold things outside the PBAoE, of course it won't be able to stack, but its a handy tactic to use, and pretty much gets everything if your running Tactics.

Although, I'm just saying on this thread, the 'Whether or not Tactics is bad/good' thread is currently on the Players Guides board..

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Before I spec'd out iradiate that did, RI does and so does Aim.

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Tactic does work with choking cloud.
The only disadvangtage of choking cloud , is that it pulses randomly , its not fixed pulse like for example blazing aura or death shroud.

Its like if you have 5 minions around you , about 3 will get hit , then couple second later another 3 of those 5.
It doesn´t garantee the same one being hit .
What is the adavangtage of choking cloud once they are hit , the duration does last quite a bit , for another pulse to hit the same one under the choking effect.

But in general its not as effective for a defender ,then it is for a controller with a spare AoE hold (am not counting emp pulse cause that one detoggles)

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Cool, I might jsut keep tactics in then

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The only disadvangtage of choking cloud , is that it pulses randomly , its not fixed pulse like for example blazing aura or death shroud.


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The pulse of choking cloud is every five seconds with 50% base accuracy, but there's no visual clues to this.

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If you're going to take Choking Cloud, taking Tactics is a must for me. CC is just not accurate enough without it.

For Darkshift, having to take two powers and about 10 slots and sacrificing so much endurance just to make one PBAoE power effective was too much. I've skipped Choking Cloud and never regretted it.

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I had it in my build for a long while but I got rid of it. I just miss the sound of all those guys gurgling and choking on radioactive goo

Also, tactics isn't just for choking cloud, I would have taken that anyway so it's not a big deal.

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