Carnifax

The booms were the only thing which killed my Rad/MA as well. Which I did on purpose cos I wanted to parse them out. Which lead to this hilarity. 30,000 damage in one second (well 5 really since I graph at 5 second intervals). Oh Ripplesurge killed me as well actually, not sure how. I was mostly looking for instances of unresistable -Res in the TF. Didn't see some but I'm suspicious of whatever it is Ripple does. Edit: Looks like "Unstable Ripple Rift" did for me, dumped 6,000+ damage on me very quickly too Edit2: Ah-ha. Unstable has a weird damage type. That'd do it

(As it is in Rad Therapy, which is 1/3rd of the End Cost and has much higher innate Accuracy for some reason). Honestly I tried this on a Dark Tank, along with all the usual Chance for End and +Recovery uniques and was still really struggling with Dark Armour End woes in my mid-20s. Ended up rerolling them.

This basically. Good examples of "proccy pets" are Clouded Senses in Dark Servant, because all his attacks have some -ToHit. Achilles & Shield Breaker in Fly Trap because most of their attacks do -Def. Ditto with Grave Knights for a Necro MM, all their Sword attacks have some -Def. Explosive Strike isn't bad in Phantasm, 2 of his attacks do knockback (add a Overwhelming kb2kd to make him less annoying) Overwhelming Chance to Knockdown in any pet power which summons a lot of pets, like MM Tier 1s and Imps. This is just because there's a lot to go around.

Nature's thing are the 3 pbaoe buffs most importantly. Regrowth and Wild Bastion on your squishy zombies will help a bit. Overgrowth is great, you want that up as much as possible. Regrowth as your main heal obvs. Spore Cloud is good-but-an-annoying-toggle. Generally a on-the-boss type thing. Ditto for Corrosive. Lifegiving Spores are decent in longer fights too, just as a way to top up a team. I found I "lost" mine a lot by leaving it behind... Rebirth I've never taken. Entangling works, I take it but you may not have much reason to be in melee. This is probably the next mosty skippable.

T5 is Freezing Rain for me.

Specifically for Khelds in forms all the toggles which drop (including proposed Power Pool powers) are, with one exception, Defensive as well. So them supressing rather than dropping in forms makes sense. Orbiting Debt is the only offensive one and I wouldn't weep if that was the only exception in this specific case. Although like I said in the original post Pool Power toggles should really stay up through forms (and manual powers like Hasten should be allowed to be cast, although animations potentially raise their heads then). Kheld defensive toggles should supress. Kheld offensive toggle(s) should drop. All that being said I'd love to see a few more Kheld powers get the Shadow Bolt / Ebon Eye treatment and be available in forms too (Orbiting Death for WS lobsters and maybe the Cone stun for Nova). Not sure what the equivelent for PBs is. And I know I'm digressing here from the subject and should stop. So I will 🙂

That was an excellent read. Thank you @Number Six. (Big "aaaah" moment for me was the explanation of why Singy got the effect first. Makes total sense)

I don't think I was on the actual forums much. I burnt out on the game about a year after Victory is Life when it dawned on me that logging in to do the rep and duty officer stuff was basically hamster wheel crap and the missions being released were all along the lines of "Just run this 20 times over the next 4 weeks to get a shiny"

There was some weirdness with Epic Pools and Containment around Issue Tweenager. They were removed and thus Epics didn't do containment. Now they do again. But multi-Imps was removed at the start of i5 I believe and Containment added after that so there was no "Armies of Imps and Blaster level fireballs at the same time".

Oh yikes. We've turned our forums into Star Trek Online! All we need now is 50,000 different currency types and incredibly confusing build mechanics.

Fire is fun. Fire with something that can trigger Forced Feedbacks regularly is silly. Fire/Mace for example would (eventually) be fun. Downside is your AoE in Mace comes a little later. Crowd Control is love. Or staff if you can get past the redraw (which allegedly has no in-game effect but seems to delay when the 'hit' occurs to me). Fire/Stone was the very 1st CoH char I ever made back in i4. Didn't make it to 50. With the upcoming Stone changes that might be worth a look.

Hell I'd be stoked if it could just get a pass now. Nature really suffers from it too. And while you're at it why not make kheld toggles and pool powers also supress when in forms (if it's low hanging fruit). Although personally I think pool powers toggles should persist through forms (if that's lower hanging fruit just do that instead )

I'm deeping intrigued by this proc-heavy Lobster approach. Hmmmm....

Be aware that Aegis is a bit of Mez resistence, not protection. And it's only 20% (which I think = reducing mez times to 83.3% of their usual duration). Rune of Protection is likely your best overall option for "I want to break free". Squeezing it in may be irksome though (good place for the Resist unqiues though if you're thinking of skipping Fighting).

20 is fine for me. That's close enough for Rad Therapy / Nukey-boom-boom. What IS the new Tank AT modifier for AoEs anyway?

There are people here who are WAY better at builds than I am. I mostly nicked off of them (@Sovera for the Fire/Claws and a whole heap of folk for the Rad/MA) You just got lucky you requested a hybrid of my two good / mostly-stolen builds 😂

I do on my Fire/Claws and my Rad/Martial Tank. I like having the ability to annoy someone across the room from me without moving. Plus the -range in the Taunt is nice for "Come a lil closer". I know once they get into melee Beta or Fire Aura will keep them close but I do like having Taunt as an option personally.

So why did it say it hit me at 16:29:46 and 16:30:52 but I didn't take damage? Is there a "Get out" delay of X seconds before the actual boom and someone killed them or I got out of the way (probably the 1st one since it is me).

So how does Power Core Meltdown work? I grepped out all the mentions of it from my Combat Log but don't really get it? ToHit rolls and damage seem mins apart. 2021-11-13 16:29:46 Golden Brickernaut MISSES! Power Core Meltdown power had a 84.50% chance to hit, but rolled a 93.08. 2021-11-13 16:30:52 Golden Brickernaut HITS you! Power Core Meltdown power had a 95.00% chance to hit and rolled a 72.30. 2021-11-13 16:33:03 Golden Brickernaut hits you with their Power Core Meltdown for 1800.87 points of Energy damage. 2021-11-13 16:33:03 Golden Brickernaut hits you with their Power Core Meltdown for 1800.87 points of Fire damage. 2021-11-13 16:33:03 Golden Brickernaut knocks you off your feet with their Power Core Meltdown! 2021-11-13 16:33:03 Golden Brickernaut HITS you! Power Core Meltdown power had a 95.00% chance to hit and rolled a 79.92. 2021-11-13 16:33:03 Golden Brickernaut hits you with their Power Core Meltdown for 27013.1 points of Energy damage over time. 2021-11-13 16:52:13 Golden Brickernaut HITS you! Power Core Meltdown power had a 84.50% chance to hit and rolled a 41.57. 2021-11-13 16:52:20 Golden Brickernaut HITS you! Power Core Meltdown power had a 95.00% chance to hit and rolled a 54.87.

Do you have a datachunk for that build so it can be opened in Mids? Personally, once you're going Triform and you have Eclipse I feel the human form shields are essentially unique mules, nothing more. Just because they drop when you form shift (and perma-Eclipsing things mob to mob renders them sorta obsolete after 38/39) . The nice thing about that is that frees up precious slots, both from not 4 slotting them and freeing any extra slots you were using for uniques (kb protection is nice to have if you can, nothing worse than being knocked out of your EclipseMireNuke spot). Here's my current Live build, which isn't too dear. And my "Hmmm. The Experimentation Adrenal Boost power looks interesting for Warshades" build, which I haven't gotten around to trying yet.

Let's play a game of "At what point in the TF did the game decide to murder Carni". Those explody guys be nasty. 30,000 damage in one second on a tank with capped resists (I think a few of them decided to pop at the same time). Overall a good SF with some total madness in it. We did it as as 8 man, +4*8 with Diff 1 set for the EB spawns. Was looking to see if there were any unresistable -Res debuffs floating around but didn't register them. Here's my parsed combat log for the TF. https://www.carnifax.org/?uuid=10168d8f-99bf-4cc8-b7f1-46304a0a62df

Me. I detest sets fighting with each other or powers being a bit "clashy" (like cones but you also wanna be in melee). I dumped my Staff/NRG brute cos the redraw drove me mad. Even if it's an illusion and you can cancel / counter it it didn't feel right. And that was probably my favourite concept of all my Homecoming chars (Snookered: a cue ball for a head robot dressed like an early 80s snooker player and who wields a cue).

You won't need Physical Perfection. Nukey-chance-for-endy-Rad Therapy is ridiculously good at replenishing the blue bar. It's also stupidly huge AoE on a tank (hence why I ended up sticking the purple proc in there). It's a very "even" tank in that you end up not fearing anything much at all. Only +3/4 Banished frost bosses are remotely threatening, if you aren't paying attention.

I'm planning a Poison / Elec for Page whateverthehellthisoneisinbeta And I do like my Time/Sonic. Mostly for the deranged SFX. "whEEEEE. wOooooOOOO. RaaaaaaAAAAA"

Yep, I think it was just "Well this just feels slow / clunky and my End sucks". Which is does but like you say it's constantly pinging out damage via 2 damage auras. I ended up finding more 'immediate' Brutes like Mace/Rad more enjoyable.