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Dunno I might be with the OP on this sub-topic. Actually telling people when you afk is for squares 🙂

Doesn’t MoM have rezzes you don’t want to take?

Yeah entities running from harm sounds like logical behavior that mitigates every encounter feeling like a faceroll fire farm. Perhaps annoying but definitely reasonable.

It’s a controller APP vs a widow secondary power. APP/PPP is always inherently less powerful than primary/secondary by design. Outside of proc rates that is. So what you describe here is *supposed* to be the case across the board.

Oh boy Actually whites are a minority in my character library so clearly I’m morally superior to all of you deplorables 🙄

Goodness gracious some of you are implying you value Jump Kick and Flurry way too much. What’s with all the reasonably usable but skippable powers.

Thanks for this, it is gorgeous. 🙂

I’m going to respectfully be a contrarian on this one after a lovely friday evening of fairly fruitful rocketeering. Is it optimal? No. Is it in the top 10 worst? Hell no. As long as you aren’t so dumb that you use it on a mob your team is already killing, and as long as you pad it with damage procs, it’s a fine little secondary nuke.

May I ask what other MMO’s you have experience with? Because not only have items’ prices fallen by incredible factors like 100 to 1, but it is now also far far quicker/easier to kit out a character with the highest end gear in CoX than in any other well-known MMO I am aware of. It is pitifully easy to do. You seem to have no idea what you’re talking about on this subject. Before we go any further without comprehending your logic, please clarify (1) how cheap do you think a fully maxed out build should be and (2) how quickly should you be able to attain it in in-game time.

I love Munitions Mastery as is. Every power but the Sleep Grenade can be highly effective in the right hands. Maybe that can too but I don’t use sleeps. Surveillance is definitely the most meta-relevant reason to pick the pool. -res and Achilles’ Heel slottability are both things many blasters lack. I use this when I really want to max out S/T DPS. Works wonders with Beam Rifle. It’s more than “OK” - it can put a serious dent in your AV/pylon/etc kill time. Cryo Freeze Ray is a hold with a longish recharge. Holds with longish recharge are exceptional S/T damage when slotted appropriately for procs with maximized proc rates - we all know this, nuff said. I use it to shore up my Assault Rifle’s weakass S/T damage. Body Armor is fine as auto. It fills out a special niche that way. LRM Rocket requires two things to be effective: (1) extra damage. For that activation time, you want a nuke. Easy. Slot it with procs and it will be basically nuke-level damage. (2) time to hit a mob before everything is dead. The key is NOT to be dumb enough to use this on the mob your team is fighting. Use it on the next one or something. A 2nd nuke is not a bad thing to have if you know how to use it. The amount of buffs the OP suggests for it is ludicrous. One of those things, sure, but certainly not two or more.

Agree at least that ITF and Market Crash are more fun as kill most/all 🙂

It really doesn’t need to be re-examined in a sense though. Yes, it’s weak, but there’s no way in hell you’re getting a much more effective AoE confuse from an ancillary pool unless the endurance cost skyrockets to compensate.

This post is in bug reports so someone is certainly alleging a bug although there is none.

Yep. If you’re targeting a tank or brute in a PvP free for all match, you’ve already lost. That’s what we call a complete waste of time.

*laughs in arbitrary penalty tankers take on damage resistance DR curve*

Took my newest build draft for a spin last night. Only defense bonus I have besides 3% procs and my toggles is Coercive Persuasion 5%. Only danger was if you ran in without considering options. If you started off with Flash Arrow, maybe a couple Deceives, and Phantom Army taking a chunk of aggro, there was no cause for concern. Damage was pretty dope for a Controller even though I skipped Flash so my Psinado rarely got containment.

It’s an indisputable fact that IO’s have become more affordable. Orders of magnitude more affordable in some areas in fact. Some IO’s are literally 100x cheaper than they were at certain points on live. There are literally IO’s I couldn’t dream of owning 1 on live where I now have 100. Did you play on live?

Don’t think you read the parts about what determines merit counts. If median completion time is what determines merit counts, then TT, Incarnates, and everything else capable of swaying completion times are relevant.

It’s two of the most OP sets in the game. I don’t think you have any cause for concern.

That thread’s instructions have never worked for me. Neither have most Wine things. But I guess I could give it the annual try.

You probably wanna snag both “/jranger” and “no.” for those occasions when posters are advocating for the ban of one or the other. That leaves little room for the affirmative but oh well 😉

Yes, I would queue in a heartbeat if you could queue up for some casual arena. The biggest reason I stopped PvP’ing in CoH a year or two ago is because my interest in PvP games over the years has shifted more and more towards casual instanced/arena PvP. You can do that all day long in GW2 and ESO. I would routinely do dozens of matches a day. Maybe PvP 6 hours straight on a nice Saturday. But that literally does not exist here anymore. It used to in a limited capacity before i13, but the PvP community has become way more insulated since then - if you aren’t wanting to play at the hardcore high end competitive level with scheduled practices and mandatory voice chat, they don’t want you there. Casual means no discord, chat window communication optional. Every time I bring this up, some PvP’ers swarm me to say people do that hardcore stuff in every game and I should get over it or shut up. They are misrepresenting the point. The point is that a player has choices in other games. There are healthy hardcore communities and healthy casual communities. The casual arena community in CoH has a population of zero last I checked. That said, interest in PvP is way too low for a sweeping system revamp to be a high dev priority, so this all feels hypothetical.

You’re not wrong I suppose. I just set a pile of cash on fire recently repairing it because my cat chewed on the corner of the screen 😞

I’m rebuilding mine... Everyone agree I’m gonna be ok skipping Glue and Poison Gas? Since the TA revamp I like all the powers too much 🙂 The unresistable -damage sounds tempting for AV’s but I bet it’s basically unnoticeable.... On my defender I like to open with it after Flash Arrow if solo just to mitigate more of the alpha, but what is Illusion for after all. The slow is tempting to keep things in Oil Slick better but, again, trying to squeeze more in here. Don’t think I’m as focused on AoE as the OP here. Highly doubt I can manage to squeeze in a well-slotted Psi Tornado on that note. If I skip both, I think I can do Flying/Speed/Fighting/Leadership and have all the goodies. Draft I made last night has both but Combat Jumping instead of Leadership. And I’m worried that my accuracy on 3 different 6-procced attacks needs Leadership. Calculating 96% chance to hit without accuracy enhancement vs 54’s after my accuracy bonuses, so zero room to be debuffed and still have the 95% cap.

Impossible question, and this is a complete shot in the dark that will absolutely change with the direction of the breeze but... I feel like saying Ill/Storm right now.