roleki

If Poison doesn't jump out at you on paper, try it on Test. It plays a little like /Rad, kind of, except the major debuffs are just click & stand nearby. The -Res is pretty significant; my Mind/Poison Controller routinely unloads 1300 pound Seismic Smashes on stuff. Corruptors, a combination of nukes and either /Soul or /Dark Mastery will set you up nicely.

I can't even "in before everyone bitches about this."

I may be remembering this incorrectly, but I think a single target will only be affected by one of the -Res procs in Refractor Beam; having two increases your odds of applying -Res, period, but I don't think it would get double -Res if both went off. I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure someone forumsplained it to me one time that one effect replaces the other.

Keep in mind, they have to split the difference between solo, team, and league play. Most of the set bonuses ARE tiny, but necessarily so. If the second/third/fourth piece of a set gave better bonuses, it could get a little crazy out there.

I always slot for +Def, +End, and +Rech in that order; way I figure it, nothing increases your DPS quite like being upright and fully fueled, with attacks ready to fire. If a set I'm using to reach these goals has a damage proc, even better, but I don't often frankenslot just to jam more damage procs into a power. That said, if I have room for -Res procs I will slot them, as they increase EVERYONE'S DPS for a little window.

Added bonus, a Spines/Bio scrapper is a lot of fun.

If I was the old me, all of you people would be looking at goatse right now.

My favorite kind of correct: thoroughly.

I have it on good authority that nuking your own threads is the recipe for blindness.

While we're here, kudos to the AFK masterminds who spam Fold Space at the hotel, that's some genius-level horsefuckery.

I rather like 'dead powers' or at least, I see them as opportunities to zig where others might zag. That said, some powersets, we all zig... that's probably not ideal.

Yeah, but do you FONDLY remember that? I sure don't. That said, being gimped as all get out back in the day DID make teaming more palatable. But I prefer things this way.

Repulsion Field and Force Bubble are combined now, but the repel effect from Force Bubble is negated by the Sudden Acceleration KB:KD enhancement. Anyone know if the proc calc is based off the 9' inner AoE (Repulsion Field) or does it use the 25' outer AoE of Force Bubble? And if it uses the outer AoE, isn't that a bit incorrect?

I can't tell from the patch notes, was the Dominator version of PA still tauntless?

If you're packing a confuse, you should have no trouble with the EBs. They're not bad, once they're attacking anyone but you. Oddly enough, it's my melee characters that seem to have trouble with the Halloween EBs. Nerf Terrorize!

Fair point, but... Dark will get DDR sooner too once Page 5 hits. I mean, I guess I should be happy FF is getting DDR at all, right? Also, just because YOU found no use for Force Bubble doesn't mean other people haven't. It's especially useful under P4, with the aggro changes. But it's on its way out, so, who gives a fuck?

Have read them, have played the game for better than a decade. Well aware that for all of the playable history of the game, T9 in the secondary was selectable at 38. Also well aware that this will change when the patch hits. But the patch hasn't hit yet.

What the hell is this blank thread?

If I take Repulsion Field, which I always do, and slot it with KB:KD, which I always do, I've lost Force Bubble. So as I mentioned, I've effectively lost Force Bubble. Granted, we're not talking a huge loss, but it IS a loss, and what replaced it may or may not be worth it. My suspicion is that Dampening Field will be a worthwhile replacement, but without a strong visual cue, even the caster won't be entirely sure if they're standing in it, and unless people live in City of Data, they won't realize that that Hurricane isn't flooring their -ToHit quite as much. And while I am as big a proponent of ToHit and -ToHit as you're likely to find in this game, I cannot subscribe to "Dark should have DDR at 20 because it does -ToHit, and Force Field should have DDR at 38 because it does +Defense" like some people apparently are.

Maybe make PFF an auto that kicks in like the Preventive Medicine proc, give it a 30s duration, 20s Only Affecting Self, 10s 'Rage Crash'? Nine times out of ten, I don't get to fire off PFF when it would have maybe saved my butt. As an auto, would be a good place to hide Kismet and so on, as well. That's very likely, people probably aren't going to notice "hey, my recharge isn't AS effected as it usually is when facing X" or what have you. Just at the end of the mission, it will maybe have gone smoother had Damping Field not been employed. Still, if I'm effectively losing Force Bubble, I would have preferred getting something I didn't have to explain to other people what it does, and convince them that it really IS active right now, with the only indication to any of us being that the power is still recharging so it must be up, somewhere. And in general, I still say, scrap the -Res and add a thimbleful of DDR to the three shields. It's ridiculous that FF didn't do DDR at all before, and now it gets it in its T9. Dark gets it sooner, and far stronger. Dark isn't about defense. FF is.

This was a great change and it solved SO many problems, like, server population.

Oddly enough, I am a fan of the EBs? I think they really amped up the ToT event. Having that bigass pile of HP anchored at a spawn point encourages people who are in the area to linger and click the doors nearby, which produces more EBs at the spawn point, to encourage MORE clicking/spawning, until nobody can click THAT door again and we have to move. It's glorious. And, also, MMs are strangely OP for ToTing. I couldn't get an invite last night on Excel, but just kind of hung out with my Thugs/Emp MM (Missionary Physician) at the hotel, knocking on doors and pitching in. Gained a full level in about 40 minutes (with offline XP) and got all EB badges, even though my EMP has no attacks of his own.

I really like my Beam/TA Corruptor, but it tends to kill stuff too fast to dazzle me with Scourge messages the way I expected it to when I first drafted the build. I was *this* close to rolling up a TA/Beam Defender to see how that went, but let's just say recent developments have pretty much blunted my interest in taking part in these little experiments.

Oh. Well in that case, everything's fine!

I do that a lot. I'm inundated with Fire/TA corruptors, Fire/FF controllers, and Rad/Fire brutes. I want one of each on every shard I play on, on both accounts. They're even slotted identically, +5'd in the same places and so on.