Unanswered Pummit Questions

That's what Dark Astoria is for

Yeah good point. It will be kinda odd that using AS is easier than using it during hidden. lol

That's cool. Since Assassin Strike isn't going to be taken out of the set, we might as well make it a super AWESOME attack. Interruption during Hidden is still annoying at high level content when there's so much "dot" on the ground and so many mobs attacking. Is Assassin Strike going to be uninterruptable during Hidden as well?

Does Assassin Focus work like current SJ combo points? You hit 3-5 times and the next Assassin Strike that hits is guaranteed 100% critical? Or it's more of "random" thing? Assassin Focus just gives you more chance and if you miss it or if you don't get lucky enough to score a critical, the "Focus" counter resets?

Any chance that Martial Arts and Energy Melee can have one aoe attack?

It is now. I believe that it will become co-op when revamped.

Right now, yes - but in I22 it's going to be open to Villains too - and it's even going to have evil content for them too, so red siders won't have to go there just to help save the day

No solid answers on this, however it sounded like they were planning on everything with E. Merits being time-gated and maybe some randomness (i.e. you get a merit but the type is not garunteed).

Repeatable contnet and you can re-runt he arcs through Ouro.

Going by memory here so power order is wrong off but powers were:
Single Target Immobilize
Single Target Hold
Cone style AoE Immobilize
Fearsome Stare (from Dark Miasma)
An PBAoE Stun
Haunt, a power that summons two temporary pets that will attack the foe you target and damage + terrorize him.
A targeted AoE hold power (it sounded like it was a patch power similar to Distortion Field)

The last power was not announced and I'm forgetting one other power.

Additionally Controllers will get Dark Affinity and Dominators will get Dark Assault.

Dark Affinity is basically Dark Miasma with Fearsome Stare and Petrifying Gaze removed. One of the replacement powers was a team wide high magnitude, short duration Defense buff (the comparison used was to Moment of Glory) but I forget the other.

They do get it.

I asked during the art panel. The answer was basically: "we are now aware that you don't like it".

Time-gating Empyreans seems like the simplest way of slowing down the non-Trial progress.

Another interesting thing about the DA revamp is that with the changes to the LFG tool to let players queue while doing missions, I could totally see DA becoming the new Trial staging ground, with players running the repeatables or even the arcs there in normal sized teams while waiting for the league to form - or even just street sweeping.
It's got the potential to totally remove the reward downtime between Trials by allowing players to continue to earn Incarnate rewards in between Trial runs.

Wow awesome info. Thanks a bunch!!!!

That "Haunt" power sounds very cool. I wonder if it's an Unaffected pet like Phantom Army. Could this be Dominator's "Illusion" control?

Dark Affinity... I am sure those controller fans will love it. They've been wanting /Dark for the longest time. Even without fear and single hold, the team buff will be useful.

So Dom is going to be Dark Assault...

The Haunt pets will be killable, although since they are single target focused and have a mez they should not draw to much aggro. One of the devs (I think it was Synapse) basically said that invincible pets are a balance nightmare.

Soo True! I have no problem with killable pets.. I can finally Make a Fear Dom!!! YES!!!

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

So once the target is dead, the pets disappear? And does Controller get Dark Control as well?

If Controller gets Dark Control, then I guess Dominator still needs to wait for another version of Illusion control?

No, they will attack another target (but you can't control them beyond the original target choice). Yes, Controllers get Dark Control as well (and Dark Affinity as a secondary).

Considering issues 4, 9, 12, 14, 17 and 20 were April/May releases. I would put money in on that being the release date. The only issue to be released before that window was issue 3 and that was a January release.

Good point.

Thanks for this info Adeon - once again the dev's have me eagerly anticipating an update. Dark control sounds like an awesome set for doms, if ok at best for controllers as the cone AoE immob sounds a lot harder to use than most immobs and combining it with a fear is iffy - since most immob do their damage in DoT's, which are not good for fears. Hopefully the dev's will keep that in mind when they design it - the fact that a cone tends to be harder to use than the current TAoE immobs most sets get would justify having it do all its damage up front, rather than in a DoT, which would make it a lot easier to leverage the fear.

Dark Affinity however sounds great, even without the 2 control powers and I am looking forward to dark assault.

This will definitely let me use the LFG tool to pick up random trials, both because you can actually do something while in the Q and because it gives me something to DO on my L50's (other than grind A-Merits). My current play standard is to log on one of my low level alts and work on them while watching the global chat channels for a trial - and alting to a 50 when a trial comes up. With this change I will happily log on my 50's, go play in DA while I am sitting in the LFG queue and run whatever trials come along.

As a long-time player of Dark Blast with Dark Miasma, I don't see this. Is it less optimal than leaving feared foes alone so they do nothing? Yes. However, the fear still reduces their attack rate (contrary to persistent misinformation on the forums, feared NPCs do not attack each time damaged) and if it truly is a ported version of Fearsome Stare, it will include a -toHit debuff.

Also, if they make DA a VIP zone, that would remove the problem of forming leagues, and then finding out someone is a premium or freebie.

Not sure I like this idea, though it has its merits. For example, Adamastor could not be in the zone without restricting that badge to VIPs.

That's not the end of the world, but I'm not eager to see them gate non-incarnate stuff behind VIP status. It degrades the "freedom" aspects of Freedom.

If it's an Incarnate zone, then Adamastor would be upgraded to an Incarnate level enemy, so the badge for him would be the same as any of the badges on the Incarate Trials.

Not mechanically he wouldn't. He's a Giant Monster. Those already scale (in major ways) with combat level of the people attacking them, and that includes level shifts. He would probably be given the base HP of at least a level 50 critter underneath GM veneer, and he might be given more powers just to make him a better challenge for level 50s in general, but he wouldn't need anything that specifically tags him as "incarnate".

... I'd like that variant on a defender or corruptor. Alas.

With A Pony Wish List Item: Be nice if we could have alternate version powersets, or powersets with mutually exclusive choices.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Softcapping an Invuln is fantastic. Softcapping a Willpower is amazing. Softcapping SR is kissing your sister.