Anyone know when Titan Weapons drop?

FWIW I found another TW video, this one with like 5 minutes of pure gameplay.

Since momentum is such a simple 'buff' and people in the TW feedback thread are making a huge fuss of it, this video is good because it shows how it would play out on a click heavy secondary (even though the player is invul) or on a team where you move a lot.

Why? Because he doesn't care about 'OMG MOMENTUM TIME I HAVE TO FIT 4 ATTACKS NAO'. He does a lot of repositioning, uses BU after having momentum, switch targets, and guess what, it doesn't matter much. Because say, if you don't make 'full use' of a Momentum, like using only 2 attacks (like I did sometimes on my 50+1 TW/Regen Broot because of clickies) it doesn't matter, since every attack grants momentum again. So, say that you want to use 3 attacks after gaining Momentum but for some reason you only got 2 off and the third one goes off with the 'slow animation' you didn't intend, this 'slow' attack WILL grant momentum again. That's why I find the mechanics so simple and not a big deal, it's not like BU which i available on a long recharge and you want to make the most of the 10 seconds. Plus, what other set you can do something like BU- heavy hitter - (gains momentum)- Footstomp- Crowd Control- Crowd Control? (using FS and CC as an example because Whirling Smash is almost a FS clone, Sweeping Strike, the first cone, does a little less damage than CC and Arc of Destruction, the other cone, does way more, but since they are 120 degrees and CC is 180, it should even out)

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS5jy55HvC4 - you can see that he doesn't make full use of most momentums and even then he only casts the slow attacks occasionally since all of them gets him to Momentum time again (except for the two ones who require momentum before, but those you'll likely use right after you get Momentum, of at least after shatter armor since shatter armor does a little -res/-def) - even though he's playing the set way less worried about getting attacks during momentum than I did, you can see he's throwing more fast AoEs than a SS toon (and he has a footstomp clone - the whirling attack - and two very damaging cones, unlike SS, or War Mace which has a lousy PbAoE and two cones, one of them, shatter, being only a 45 degree cone and doing less damage than Arc of Destruction which is 120, plus Sweeping Strike is very close to CC damage and you get it early - ntm there's still a low damage cone that recharges in 4 secs and gives you +def like parry) and more STs than a EM toon.

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Originally Posted by Organicide Outside of suspension of disbelief I don't know what to tell you. Not every set is going to appeal to every player. As I mention earlier, I didn't think I'd be able to get into DP. Then I paired it with Traps and it was golden. Also, I disliked Kinetic Melee from the get go but now find I love it on Stalkers (tankers/brutes/scrappers still not so much). I guess what I'm getting at is wait till TW drops, play around with it and chances are, you'll find something that works with it.

Heh, same here, 1 blaster and 1 corr deleted because I wanted to make DP work for me until I found I was satisfied with a DP/Dark.

KM I hated the animations (they're well done, just personal taste) so I gave up on the set.

On the bright side this looks like a decent farming set.


oh wait

Ok, i wont make friends with this, but still..

What very very very very dissapointing animations this set will get.

Titan weapon, but the moves are nothing more then a 'assasinstyle prepare' and then a quick move, nothing 'tinanish' about this.

If anyone knows Seigfried from Soul Calibur, Warrior from Cabal Online, Beserker from Tera Online or Gladiator from Aion Online, those are the same kind of weapons, with 1000 times better animations and moves. Not some stupid prepare animation and some quick swipes, but trough the entire animation you really see them whielding a huge heavy weapon. You literly feel the impact of a huge axe/sword smashing into the group, you see their struggle to raise the weapon up in the sky to let it drop and cause mayhem.

edit, i assume the stupid 'assasinate style chargeup' is the system of the fast-cast version while having that momentum running, cheap, stupid and lame.

I really these animations are not the final ones, i had really high hopes on these.. but this is a huge dissapointment.

Some people might not care about nice animations, but for me.. all the previous released 'unique' sets are dull, simple and boring. The only exception might be DP (the shadow-style move), but the added animations on existing sets, beam rifle or DB, dull, simple and ugly.

If your main complaint is that the weapons don't look heavy, than your alternative would leave out character concepts that assume the character is strong enough to whip such a weapon around like a teppan chef wielding a ginzu knife. Either way, someone's getting "left out", no matter how they animate it, short of adding alternate animations. Which itself wouldn't be a bad thing.

Ambush AE farming is nerfed in 21.5, and rezing enemies in AE is already nerfed. Then MARTy is in effect, but normal CEBR stuff doesn't seem to trigger it. Farming in general will always be in effect, it's that AE abuses that make farming too lucrative that is being addressed. Worst case scenario, people will just go back to PI and demon farming missions outside of AE.

The real question is

TW/WP

TW/EA

or other?

Perhaps Brute > Scrapper in this case (maximize WP).

I think you want to avoid clicky secondaries so maybe that's the nod to WP over EA.

I wanted /regen but yes too many redraw. I believe i'll be rolling /WP

I'm really looking forward to the set and I'll play it and have fun with it regardless, but I am really disappointed in the animations. I thought that the previously mentioned games were great examples of people using overly large weapons. In my mind, using something that huge would result in lots of large arcing strikes that have a kind of slow but immensely powerful feel to them. So I guess I'm imagining lots of arcs greater than 180 degrees.

The t8 is prolly the animation I like the most, and the t7 and t9 seem the most silly to me. I honestly wouldn't mind if the animations all looked really similar just so long as they felt big and sweeping. Oh and the leg lift in the t2 bothers me too, but not as much. The animations as they are kinda seem like the characters wielding the weapon like a big baseball bat.

But like I said regardless of whether or not the animations end up changing I'm really excited about the set!