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By Agent White,
Posted on: 2012-05-14 24:05 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Originally Posted by minimalist_NA View Post
Powersets that benefit from having targets scattered all over creation:

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My energy blaster has benefitted from having all enemies on their back, whether scattered or otherwise.

But for my part, I've always preferred KU to KB/KD. If I had a set with all single target and AoE KU, I'd slot for it in every power. All the awesome visual of tossing people around with none of the drawbacks of KB.

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Originally Posted by warden_de_dios View Post
Finally Umbral Torrent will no longer mess up Night Fall and Tentacles on my Dark blaster. Nice. And it adds Ranged Defence to a Targetted AoE. Also nice.

But it's only able to be slotted in one power, so it's not going to change Energy blasters all that much.

Ideally, the tank will die precisely as everyone else starts fighting, allowing aggro to be spread evenly among the blaster. -seebs, "How to Suck at CoH/CoV" Guide

 

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Originally Posted by Stealth_Bomber View Post
But it's only able to be slotted in one power, so it's not going to change Energy blasters all that much.

Sadly.

 

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I wonder if we can use catalysts on these as well? That would be sweet!

I can see my Archer making good use of this set in Explosive Arrow!

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Originally Posted by Tenzhi View Post
My energy blaster has benefitted from having all enemies on their back, whether scattered or otherwise.

But for my part, I've always preferred KU to KB/KD. If I had a set with all single target and AoE KU, I'd slot for it in every power. All the awesome visual of tossing people around with none of the drawbacks of KB.
That just illustrates why people are so excited. In this game KU and KD are in the vast, vast majority of situations superior to KB.

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Would you Stormies rather slot this in Tornado or Hurricane?

Apparently, I play "City of Shakespeare"
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Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare View Post
Would you Stormies rather slot this in Tornado or Hurricane?
It's a Damage IO, Hurricane doesn't do damage. It's going to make Tornado... interesting, to say the least.

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Originally Posted by McNum View Post
It's a Damage IO, Hurricane doesn't do damage. It's going to make Tornado... interesting, to say the least.
Not necessarily. The AoE damage from Tornado is decent, but it's a fairly small radius, over a long time and not especially better than some attack powers.

Most hard targets that you'd want to use it on for single target damage are immune to knockback anyway, so no change there.

Edit: Tornado also has a fear component with a 20' radius (damage/KB is only 7'), which will cause enemies to try to run away from it if they are able.

 

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Originally Posted by McNum View Post
It's a Damage IO, Hurricane doesn't do damage. It's going to make Tornado... interesting, to say the least.

D'oh! :/


Side note: This could get me using /Storms on toons other than Controllers; like a Sonic/Storm Corr (and I might actually consider an Elec/Storm Controller now).

Apparently, I play "City of Shakespeare"
*Arc #95278-Gathering the Four Winds -3 step arc; challenging - 5 Ratings/3 Stars (still working out the kinks)
*Arc #177826-Lights, Camera, Scream! - 3 step arc, camp horror; try out in 1st person POV - 35 Ratings/4 Stars

 

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Oh yeah, and Tornado also has a tendency to be somewhat... spastic... about target selection when enemies are spread out.

 

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Originally Posted by Codewalker View Post
Oh yeah, and Tornado also has a tendency to be somewhat... spastic... about target selection when enemies are spread out.
Someone mentioned (in another thread) using Snowstorm as a clustering tool for helping with mob spread.

Apparently, I play "City of Shakespeare"
*Arc #95278-Gathering the Four Winds -3 step arc; challenging - 5 Ratings/3 Stars (still working out the kinks)
*Arc #177826-Lights, Camera, Scream! - 3 step arc, camp horror; try out in 1st person POV - 35 Ratings/4 Stars

 

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Originally Posted by McNum View Post
It's a Damage IO, Hurricane doesn't do damage. It's going to make Tornado... interesting, to say the least.
The thing is, I am absolutely sure this is only the first such proc. I would be really shocked if the devs don't offer other means to accomplish this. Hopefully, sooner rather than later as it's well overdue.

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Originally Posted by DarkGob View Post
Mazel tov. Not the case anymore, unless the lack of damage was somehow a bug that just got fixed very recently.
That was less than a month ago and i was testing to see if I could use it for damage badge purposes when I went afk and I could, so lava should do damage unless different lava pits are coded differently

 

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Originally Posted by Radmind View Post
I wonder if we can use catalysts on these as well? That would be sweet!
Negative Ghost Writer. Harbiter Awk confirmed they're not catalyzable.

I just made a new word.

Boom.

Andy Belford
Community Manager
Paragon Studios

 

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
Negative Ghost Writer. Harbiter Awk confirmed they're not catalyzable.

I just made a new word.

Boom.
can they be "in set" converted?

 

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Hey Zwillinger, if I slot it in knockout blow does the knock-up change into back-up?

 

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
Negative Ghost Writer. Harbiter Awk confirmed they're not catalyzable.

I just made a new word.

Boom.
You just stole credit for making a new word.

It's been seen elsewhere on the forums before today.

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Originally Posted by Liquid View Post
Maybe the new word was 'Harbiter'.
Was it Harbiter?

Or was it Awk?

At least we have a new nickname to tease him with.

Zwhywastherenomemepicturewiththatpost is always giving us the good stuff like that.

EDIT: He's behind on meme pictures and spelled the one he used wrong. Ghost Writer. Sheesh.

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Originally Posted by Texas Justice View Post
EDIT: He's behind on meme pictures and spelled the one he used wrong. Ghost Writer. Sheesh.
He had to say that to bypass the name filter, because it can't tell the difference between copyright infringement of a Marvel property and a Top Gun reference.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
Negative Ghost Writer. Harbiter Awk confirmed they're not catalyzable.

I just made a new word.

Boom.
Don't be silly. "Boom" has been a word for quite some time.

Now "Harbiter"; I think that's a new one.

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Originally Posted by Liquid View Post
He had to say that to bypass the name filter, because it can't tell the difference between copyright infringement of a Marvel property and a Top Gun reference.
Well played sir.

Tell her I said she owes you a kiss for that.

If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
They're gaming journalists. They have to play hundreds of games for a living, so maybe we could give them a bit of leeway?

Look at it this way: people who would be new to COH aren't exactly looking to see how well the guy behind the keyboard is playing the game. These live streams are great exposure for the game, which is why we're looking to host some ourselves.
Sounds like a plan I'm game sign me up.

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There also needs to be a way to have this Global ins all powers Damage or not...If so there's going to be a lot of new toons cooking in my mids cauldron.

Claws
Kinetic Melee
Peacebringer
Storm Defender/Corr
Bonfire
Repel from Kinetics would be worth taking

ect!