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Personally I'd go Bots/Marine for two reasons. 1) MM primaries these days often want you to pick up a lot of powers from the set. The attacks tend to have powerful modifiers, you need your pets, and then there's the Tier 7 "burst mode" power like Serum or Gang War. But Marine is similar in that it wants you to usually pick up 8 of 9 of it's powers. This crowds out power pool option. But you can skip that Tier 7 power on Bots because it's really bad, and your Protectors already heal with the second upgrade, and because very likely you'll have your own heal with Marine. Skip that, and skip one or two beam rifle attacks and now you can fit in a new power pool. 2) Between Protectors' bubbles, Toroidol Bubble, and Barrier Reef? Your pets (and you) are pretty tanky. And that matters when you're fighting at +4/8 and your minions are -2. Dead DPS does no damage. Instead of summoning new minions you can be doing other offensive tasks with your action economy.

Not accurate. In a click power they have a chance to proc on power activation, not guaranteed, and in the case of Numina's will apply a 2 minute regen/recovery buff.

I second what Kelika wrote, and I have no KM Stalkers to worry about. The values on Power Siphon are abysmal. For something that has a "ramp up" time to get similar value as Build Up, but still requires a button press and a cool down? That's pretty shit. Power Siphon could be made an Auto Power and get a value buff to the amount of +DMG the player receives and it still wouldn't be as good as Build Up. +all the rest of the valid points about animation times. Might as well increase the crit% chance on Burst, too. Since that's another thing that makes KM kinda good on Stalkers. Can't get to 100% obviously but doubling it would narrow the gap.

Nope, not at all. It's perma out of the box and with global recharge factored in you're likely to have it ready to go ahead halfway through the original application. It doesn't stack, only overwrites itself. So slotting for Recharge is a waste. How I slot it depends on the Blaster build overall and what I need out of set bonuses. If I'm looking really good on Recovery, I'll usually 6-slot the Entire Preventative Med set for the bonuses. This will also provide a nice chunk of Regen, but on a Blaster that's more like free chicken than a specific goal. If my Recovery looks like it needs help, I'll likely 3-slot Prev Med Health, Health/Endurance, and Absorb Proc (again for the bonuses) and then slot Preemptive Optimization EndMod/Endurance and End/Recharge for the 1.8 percent Max Endurance. On top of the 53% enhancement value (before ED) that increased Max End should improve your overal Recovery stat, as well as boosting your returns on Performance Shift procs.

This is not the case by default. What you are talking about likely stems from an example bind listed on the HC Wiki for fly poses (at the bottom). https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Guide_to_Flight_Poses

It's less that they fear making their own team (plenty of people do, and still join the old fashioned way) but rather the concept of shard-wide LFG chat as the method for team formation is completely alien. Lunar already mentioned this in the part you quoted but by 2010 no MMO had manual team forming. It was a genre staple to just drop on and out of teams. People for being introduced to MMOs in 2010 were born in the 90s. These are our newer players. COH is the weird kid here. It's not that new players are doing anything wrong persay.

Can Teleport my characters directly to zones for solo missions and/or badge hunting: WIA. ===== Okay non-smartass protip: If you want to get some actual functionality out of this feature, you can use it with some careful timing to Teleport to TF contacts after being invited to a team. Here's how: 0) See someone recruiting for a TF you want; open up LFG tool and find that TF. 1) Send person recruiting a message you wish to join. 2) Click the radio button for said TF and lock the team. Do not queue. 3) Wait for the invite prompt to appear. Do not immediatly accept. 4) Queue for the TF; click the green button to Teleport to the contact. 5) Get ready! Have your cursor over that team join yes button or your finger over the hotkey. When the LFG dialog box closes and your character begins to Teleport, press YES. 6) You will join the team and zone right to the TF contact without fail. With a bit of practice on timing, this whole process takes about 5-10 seconds. Faster to execute than it took you to read the instructions.

You're the fire blaster Snarky. It's your job. Get em, tiger.

Call me insane. 1x 53 Hami Acc/Mez will get you to enough acc and mag for bosses, and filling the rest with %damage procs makes this an impressive if inconsistent source of sustained damage. I didn't trust this at first until I tested it and it's pretty good; over time it contributes a lot. I go with Glympse of the Abyss, two hold %damage procs (build depending), Cacophony, and Malaise's Illusions. Admittedly I've done nothing beyond empirical observation but I'm guess somehow the randomness of the effects bypassed the toggle's flooring effect on proc rates? Because I'm seeing a lot of orange numbers flying up when enemies are feared/confused/held. IMO this toggle runs best on Brutes where Fury carries the flat damage rate while the procs add on top of it.

It's on the confuse chain instead of the aoe hold.

Not sure what would necessitate this? I mean who doesn't love a good ole fashioned straight damage buff. Sign me up, I love Doms. But where is the issue? Doms already do pretty well in the "damage dealing CC" role they fill, and if you know how to build them they can abuse the wide array of %damage procs in the CC sets. Usually these kind of straight buffs are for underperformers.. and I don't know that there's a wide consensus out there that Doms are lacking.

Monkey's Paw Curls: We get a finished incarnate system with all 10 slots and even more options to choose from, but all incarnate powers are heavily nerfed to "balance" the power creep. Careful what you wish for with this dev team.

You're potentially leaving one of the best all time engagement combos on the table. 1) Burst of Speed to center of mob 2) Dragon's Tail for a quick knockdown. Bonus if you slotted Force Feedback proc cause you're definitely setting it off. 3) Hail of Bullets to finish. Optional: Burst of Speed into a different direction.

This has been brought up many years prior and without an screenshot to quote from exaclty, I think the reason why it can't be a thing is apparently a code issue with entering an instance directly from an SG base (though in reverse this is clearly not an issue).

Not aure why, either. But it's not unique to Catherine Wheel. A few other Control set pets have this attribute. But not all. Not sure what the logic is, but were I to tap both Occam's and Hanlon's razors, I would hazard a guess that Catherine Wheel (and Reverberant as well) were crafted from a copy and paste of Singularity code and that little bit wasn't scrubbed out. During testing and later live I found this had the best application as an opener, both taking attention away from you and causing the mob to gather so you can lasso a neat little bundle to the floor and start cranking out the containment damage. My belief is that this was the intention: provide a method other than Fold Space to get everything bundled up before the beatdown. Subsequent applications mid fight or in a steamrolling team are less useful and more like what you mentioned.

Elec Blast on Corrs is kind of a "win more" set since at the lower end of an enemy's health bar you've also likely drained enough to be popping Shocked crits alongside Scourge. Which is a neat, unique interaction to Corruptors IMO. Having the Mez Protect from either FF or Sonic is pretty choice, too. Both sets are less busy and allow you to focus primarily on offense. Personally I'm more of a fan of FF over Sonic but that's entirely because 1) Slotting opportunities and 2) Power Boosting.

Another issue that might explain the delay you are encountering is that consuming an inspiration is considered a power activation. If you're using powers (attacking, buffing, healing, etc) while clicking your EoE, the inspiration won't be consumed until your power is finished activating and there is nothing queued up after it. Similarly, you can queue an inspiration to be consumed by clicking it during a power activation and waiting until after the activation for it to be used.

I agree that would be superior but thematically the idea is the shot is piercing through two other targets. It's a narrow cone because doing so is a mechanically simple way to evoke that idea.

PSA: the MATablet emote now only requires the Thrill Seeker badge to unlock.

Tried to do something a little experimental with this one, and though it didn't quite come together as I'd hoped, I'm still pretty happy with how Pillager turned out (Energy/Dev Blaster).

Sorry for your loss, and thank you for sharing her memory with us.

Hi! Unfortunately I've only run one Seismic Blaster and I went with Earth Mastery because both powers had just debuted. I felt it paired "fine" and have no problem recommending it, but Seismic would probably also slap with Tac Arrow, Devices, or Ninjutsu. But that's just off the top of my head.

Also the Regen Resist is enhanceable. You can get to around 75% without any RR stacks with minimal slotting (a +5 Heal IO in FH and AR) and over-cap it quickly with a few stacks.

At least with regards to Crimson and Maria's arcs, I've picked these up before 50 frim the contacts so I don't think it's a case of "this is how it is now." The other two I don't usually run so no comments. However unlike the strategy above I never abandon one-off missions if I get them. I always accept and complete what's offered and occasionally that will mean that the final arc is the only thing left. Frustrating when it happens but I've never had the contact go "whoops all out of work" without being offered World Wide Red or A Hero's Epic.