I got a thugs/ta and a Ninja/ta, tbh demons/ta sounds like a nice idea. Demons what I paired with thermal is very good.
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.
Yeah, it's killing me not doing Thermal with Demons. I love how it looks and the thematic matching of it all. I tried it for a bit too. I just don't like constant buffing. If those buffs lasted until death or zoning I'd be all over it. :P Although I am used to powers that debuff/CC enemies/damage mitigation and Thermal only gets some of that and very late.
The part that kills me is that if I don't do a Thermal now with such an awesome pairing in Demons then I never will. But maybe that's ok. :P
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I just got back to the game (again).
I made a Demon/TA. Partly because I've never given Trick Arrow a serious try because I still believe this set is very under-performing especially on MM. I thought Demon is mostly ranged but I find my first two pets running in quite often. I hate melee + TA. I've seen how sucky Ninja/TA is. It's neat combo but I don't want to babysit my squishy ninjas that much.
I've seen some Demon/Thermal. After making a Ninja/FF (works well), I've told myself I don't want to be a bubbler again. I can only play Ninja/FF for a while before I get so bored of re-casting bubbles.
What's left is to normalize all Assassin Strikes and improve Stalker's old sets (Claw, MA and EM)! You don't need to bring back the missing PbAoE attack. You just need to make the existing ones better! For example, make Slice a WIDER and LONGER cone.
I made a demon/ta... I just think /TA sucks. And no, I haven't got Oil Slick yet but the whole set is very very unimpressive.
What's left is to normalize all Assassin Strikes and improve Stalker's old sets (Claw, MA and EM)! You don't need to bring back the missing PbAoE attack. You just need to make the existing ones better! For example, make Slice a WIDER and LONGER cone.
I think the issue is /ta is built around keeping things at range but ds is a (mostly) melee set.
So I'm enjoying my Demons/Storm quite a bit. For a concept I'm also thinking of Demons/Trick Arrow. Has anyone given that a fair shake yet? The extra controls seem handy plus the extra powers that allow the demons to do more damage via -RES and whatnot. Plus the Vanguard Bow and Rularuu Bow can look pretty demonic when tinted just so.
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