Staff Fighting

From my other post.

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Originally Posted by Kractis_Sky "Staff" Fighting is actually the new MM set mixed with sonic: 1. yell at employees: foe -rez all 2. intern: basic pet, needs a lot of texting time 3. screem: pbaoe sonic 4. train lackey: pet upgrade 5. repremand: high damage sonic 6. secretaries: 3-5 pets 7. staff meeting: leadership-like uprade for entire staff +acc +def 8. manager high grade pet 9. Restructure: after long years of devoted service, "restucturing" causes general enragement +dam and randomly targetting an employee to be fired, sending your manager in a blind *RAGE* ending with self destruct

On a less redundant note, I'd hope dom's/trollers get dark/dark (have that for them yet?) and some sort of device holding like ropes, chains etc. Another assault set would be "device" assault: knives, boomerangs, throwing stars, granades, spears. Not necessarily all of theses in the same power set, but weaponry typed.

Staff could definately be used as the melee brandishing device and add ranged, pbaoe, and aoe with magical properties a-la Vanguard Wands (holding it up or planting it in the ground for various effects) or making it a contraption to hide other attacks.

I think control sets take way more work than melee sets...that's why it takes so long before another control set comes out. I am waiting on the Dom surprise as well.

Oh! I would think a Sythe would go along better with Titan weapons more than Staff would.

<_< Oathbound, you're starting to freak me out...I think you're following me :P.

I somewhat agree with you about the copy and the paste with the control powers but I already know about the how and the why's melee sets tend to be popular...it's even more obvious in game if you Pug/Run paper mishes. One can count on their fingers how many control or support toons that are available but when it comes to melee you need a whole extra pair of limbs .

I also chalk it up to it being far more easy to lvl a melee toon compared to a control heavy toon(give or take for some doms).

Now that I know we are getting Titanic weapons, I think a Scythe would fit better with those animation, rather than a pole arm. Could go either way though.

If sky splitter has a relatively low activation time, it is gonna be beastly. It does 276 damage base on a 15 sec recharge time for a scrapper, which is better than headsplitter, which only does 187 damage base on a 14 sec recharge time. I actually don't know of any powers with a higher base damage than that. Staff melee may end up breaking some rules on DPS if those numbers stay the same and the activation times aren't outrageous.

Looks like it does count that, I was just looking at the Real Numbers average damage, and we all know how misleading that can be.

Looking at the Perfection bonuses, AS THEY ARE PRESENTED HERE (unreleased beta numbers and all that) I can't really see any reason anyone would run anything other than Form of the Body.

Think about it, the bonuses for Form of the Body are Foe - Res and Self +res, but very useful effects.

The bonuses for Form of the Soul are a ToHit buff and a Regen/Recovery buff. While the regen/recovery are very nice bonuses, the ToHit buff is useless,.. since you have to already be able to hit them to build perfection to use the ability**. It's completely superfluous.

The bonuses from Form of the Mind are even worse. You have -Defense, which runs into the same problem as the +ToHit from above, you have to already** be able to hit them to build up to the power. The other bonus, -12%movement/recharge is such a trivial number, particularly as it's the only Recharge slow in the set, as to be pointless.



**This is assuming you only gain Perfection on a successful attack, like combo points.

@Oathbound & @Oathbound Too

Why would a tohit be bad? You can make sure the next few blows will more likely hit, same for -defense. Its a follow-up effect, if you open up with buildup you can be pretty sure the next few blows also hit.

(basicly the flaw of DB, no hit is no combo, no combo = gimp).

Must say these 2 sets look way more interesting then StJ and BR combined, couldnt they just swap out these with the current released 2?

[Guarded Spin] is only 12.25% L/M
[Titan Weapons.Defensive Sweep] is only 12.25% S/M

[Divine Avalanche] is 15% L/M
[Parry] is 15% L/M

)= Why can't they all be equal?
Unless of course if [Guarded Spin] and [Defensive Sweep] grant their defense per target hit (both are cones, max targets of 5).. then they would be pretty darn good!

Sucks how Titan gives S/M ... would much prefer it grant L/M. Oh well
Definitely going to suck slotting if each attack takes targetted AoE sets, seeing as how most TW attacks are cones. >.<

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Originally Posted by Wavicle CoH players are stupid and incompetent compared to WoW players.

I really like the looks of the titan set, WAY too much.

My fre sword swinging elec/fire tank main always should have been elec/sword. Now maybe I can get a set with both parry AND shatter armor, provided I can get a big freaking glowy magic sword as part of the package.

I have seldom wished for a powerset respec, but given all the T4s I have on that guy, and how long it'll take to get there agian, I can honestly say I can see the argument for one here...

Ah well, I guess there'll be new content to farm those incarnate powers from too.

waiting on this set. Hope it comes out soon.
Actually both of them are interesting.

generally I like the work their doing.