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Wormhole is a LOT fancier than just “a set’s standard AoE mez”. I’d say the stun is little more than a secondary effect.

I actually love that you can throw Neutron Bomb from a distance and then run into the middle of the mob and Irradiate by the time the first attack hits them.

Sounds like typical twitch streamer behavior. Watched the video and meh.

That would probably be for the best. But yeah every Radiation Melee character I have right now slots the thing with 5-6 procs because you’re currently gimping your potential if you don’t.

Being so dogmatic that parts of the game are not “the game” is a super weird vibe

Clearly some posters are talking about solid well-rounded sets with no clear major issues and some are talking about overpowered sets 😉

Are you implying what I think you might be implying

Add it back with no opt out. Game needs every minor challenge it can get.

No one in this thread is against gap closers.

People are allowed and even encouraged (“feedback”) to disagree with suggestions. If you’re one of those anti-disagreement types, expect lots of disappointment from life. Constant affirmation isn’t a thing in the real world.

My understanding is that whether you want to twerk, strip, or identify as a furry, Everlasting has it all.

My Ill/Dark has all of these now: Arcane Bolt, Enflame, Poisonous Ray, and Toxic Tarantula. Turned >30 minutes to kill a 54 AV into <5.

Yeah don’t play Dark Armor without Ageless or Cardiac, that’d be silly talk. I just meant I see tons of my ITF farming friends running Dark Embrace from the epic pools on their Corruptors/Defenders/Etc. Invuln will do the job but if you want to max out effectiveness on ITF, you want to focus on DDR and on bonuses for E/N res, E/N def

I have Ill/Storm, Ill/Dark, Ill/TA, Ill/Traps. All are OP, but only caveat with Dark is it’s the lowest on solo damage of the 4 without investment in particular pools or APP’s/PPP’s. I’ve made it every bit as capable of burning through AV HP bars as others, but I had to respec into specific pool stuff to do that well. The AV’s that I drop in a few minutes now were taking forever to kill with my original build, which was pretty bad. Do not expect the damage from primary and secondary alone to elegantly slay a level 54 AV.

An Illusion/ Controller with any of the debuff secondaries, preferably that offer consistent high values of -regen, is probably the most obvious pick here. /Cold, /Traps, or /Rad would be my top 3 picks for you to have the easiest time on AV’s and GM’s, but many others will work. These ensure that you will have zero problems with (2) and (3) while still having a generally team oriented archetype for (1).

I can’t remember my own group’s stats on various all-one-AT runs and I’m not interested in playing anything without inspirations at the moment except for Relentless Aeon SF so… Remind me… wasn’t 8 corruptors still coming out on top of 8 scrappers in ITF’s even without “master rules”? [people keep telling me to run tests against them with no inspirations but because I never have a problem with them normally I build pretty offensively, rendering my builds a little non-ideal for this stuff…]

Yeah I don’t really understand the position that “the game” is anything less than everything that happens after you load up the game and log in… I guess I literally don’t play this game because all I do is make 50’s and then play them. Who knew. I may play lower level content but only ever with a level 50. Can anyone help me understand what exactly I *have* been doing all these years?

Unless the weapons are guided / magically controlled so they could go up then down, no. I guess you wouldn’t want to lock someone into a concept like that on an otherwise natural-origin-friendly set.

Looks like Nemu’s got you on the right track RE: E/N mitigation. I didn’t used to think it was the ideal resistance shield, but I know a lot of people that spend half their time running ITF’s (and half of the other half running Apex-Tin Mage, perhaps)… and I’ve never seen so many people running Dark Embrace. Like often not even with Soul Drain or whatever other reason you’d think of going Dark or Soul.

Anyone who doesn't slot LotG's in an SR needs to be immediately kidnapped, taken to a lab, and studied. Cuz they on some whole other shit.

I acknowledged in my own post that it wasn’t bullet proof, but it doesn’t have to be. You pretty much said the idea behind the cottage rule has zero meaning except to Castle and the devs of his era, and that much is obviously untrue. Literally every example Jimmy cited as the most extreme deviations from the rule in HC, is less extreme than your idea to remove a power’s core functionality from a set entirely. But again, I can tell this has accomplished nothing. Guess I gotta know when to give up.

I literally searched the forums and quoted a dev to avoid a post like this being considered a valid response. But I guess the devs’ own words on design vision have no weight.

The 2nd point is obviously not true so don’t worry about that.

Rage -> Endurance Problems -> Enhancements -> Money

I figured it would either be like a PBAoE Hail of Bullets type thing (preferably a slightly cooler looking dance than Dual Pistols gun-fu though) or a Rain of Arrows type thing.