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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.

[Electric/Fire/Ice]/Poison/Psy PBAoE auras and mez protection to keep them up. I have jokingly thought of my Poisons as “Poison Scrappers” for a long time. I have 6 50 Poisons because they rule. I believe that’s the 2nd most I have of any set in the game... think I count 7 Ice Blasts and 5 Storm Summoning off the top of my head.

Did not know that

I could see khelds coming in last here even with more tightly controlled testing, but 115 deaths = something was up, yeah. I don’t see why any single player of any powerset combo ever would ever need to die 115/8 times on an ITF unless some IO/Incarnate goodies were in very short supply. Personally, I have to start blaming drugs if I die half that much ever outside of Aeon. Tho I haven’t done a strict all kheld one - all EAT’s definitely but not all HEAT’s yet.

Logged in and idk if I wanna share this one. My other Ills/ and one of my TA’s were more recently given tune-ups, but this one made some funny looking decisions (I try things out from time to time... hello build with Aid Self).

Respectfully disagree. Recharge and endurance management, yes. Regeneration and defense are absolutely optional things to build for in most cases. My Ill/ trollers solo 54 AV’s or x8 content just fine with few or zero additional defense bonuses. So what is there to “out-survive”? And my Ill/Dark certainly would have never achieved pylon times south of 2 minutes without my offensive building style. Need to update my Ill/TA before I say too much about what that one’s capable of.

Read: 6 damage procs at 90% chance to fire. That’s average damage of >400 versus +0.

Ice Arrow does -special and has a 90% proc rate. Probably the best single target attack you have access to besides Blind and potentially Seismic Smash. Guess you don’t have to, but I like all my characters to have at least a couple very solid single target attacks because I feel like you can wind up taking forever to clean up bosses / EB’s no matter how good your AoE damage is. Since the release of Ice Mistral’s Torment, it can now accept 6 damage procs, all at 90% chance to fire. I use that setup on all 3 of my TA’s. Also I use 4 damage procs / 2 -res procs in Acid Arrow on all 3 but you’ve more or less got that already. I could share mine with you later on. I can’t remember which epic I have though Psi is usually a good pick. My Ill/Storm has Psi and my Ill/Dark has Mace, just blanking on the TA... Oh one other thing for now. I’d ditch World of Confusion here. I have it on some characters but your build has zero other reasons to enter melee, so it seems counterintuitive unless it’s purely a mule.

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First thing’s first, needs 6-procced Ice Arrow for damage. Might look more later 🙂

You me and Bill all know there are, at minimum, a few grains of truth embedded there. Come at me 🙂

PC privilege detected 😉 If you arents calculating everything manually in a spreadsheet, you arents trying!

Also while we’re here can we pretty please have the Total Focus activation buff for Incandescent Strike? Mine does a huge burst of damage when loaded up with procs, but there’s so little it can be trusted not to corpse-blast...

That would still constitute the Kheldian contributing more, not less.

Fair nuff. Like I said, your proposed buff sounds fine. I still say your Bio-to-everything ratio is insane. Go try more stuff.

Do they? Are we sure? Your proposal sounds reasonable and fine to implement, but I’m skeptical of this statement considering I’m pretty sure (1) your post history tells me you most likely think about 80% of powersets in the game are garbage. I’ve heard you praise maybe 5 sets in the game tops that weren’t available to Scrappers/Tankers, and if I had to guess I’d say you probably have more min-maxed no nonsense Bio Armor characters than all non-melee AT’s combined. (2) my experience of Kheldians is consistently awesome AoE, awesome mitigation, and horrible single target DPS. Sounds kind of like a balanced product to me. Am I wrong? Will a small buff push them over the edge on power creep? No. Do they need “a lot of help”? Not sure on that one.

Excel People with Mids are showing their privilege

Is this a secret plot to get Entangling Arrow’s proc rate buffed?

But a small object like a crate, a short distance away from a team fight, does the job just fine as long as you keep eyes on the enemy, so the delay is needed to keep it from being a viable in-combat power.

Not entirely factual. For most general play, yes. For content that you literally cannot complete on a character without email insps, obviously the risk-reward ratio changes substantially. Since, you know, the risk for impossible content is effectively infinite versus the reward of zero. And no, we can’t treat all content as interchangeable because you can’t get HO’s/etc from just switching over to a more manageable type of content. Will await a report of a Fire/Fire blaster soloing MLTF without chaining email insps before agreeing that chaining email insps does not make the game easier in any way ever. Absent something like that, it obviously does. ”I can do X task but only with email insps” and “email insps make the game harder not easier” are contradictory statements.

Or at least do what I do and use IO’s but more for procs and offense and less for defense 🙂 I won’t touch SO’s with a 10 foot pole, but my “squishy” AT’s prefer to run at 15-25% defenses than 45%, which is certainly going to make things at least a little bit trickier than playing a Scrapper. If you feel the need to go godmode for a little bit you’re still just a couple purple inspirations away anyway. Thunderstrikes and Artilleries and whatnot are laaaame.

Defenders, Blasters, and Tankers are my favorite AT’s, probably in that order. I vote Defender.