Apparition

Probably because it is about to be removed from the game.

The why is easy. IO enhancements and Incarnate powers. Between the two, everyone has soft-capped defense or near it on their own. Capped resistance is more difficult, but not impossible.

Mag 4, and you can stack up to eight hours.

Yes. They require 2.6.0.7.

Asking to skip a powerful debuff boggles my mind. But then I know some people have said that Sonic Siphon is skippable when playing a Sonic Resonance character...

It's a combination of things. As you said, Defenders are easier to build for. They have more wiggle room, leaving them with more slots to play with that they can load up with procs. Add that onto the stronger debuff values, and you have a problem.

This is why procs need to be nerfed into the ground. The sooner the better.

That's how I've been playing my Stalker. If I wait for the team, my Stalker feels like a second-rate Scrapper. So I jump a few mobs ahead of the group. As long as we're all getting XP and drops, that's what matters.

A few months ago, Captain Powerhouse stated that the damage resistances would eventually be touched, so lethal may not have be so heavily resisted in the future.

What would be a good primary for an /Energy Aura Scrapper for soloing that isn't Radiation Melee, Savage Melee, nor Titan Weapons? I would prefer some AoE (doesn't have to be great at it, just decent), attacks that aren't as slow as Radiation Melee, and no combo system... or at least a combo system that I can ignore like Radiation Melee. I plan to level this character completely solo.

Negative, Ghost Rider.

Just a reminder that the weekly scheduled MSR trial will launch from Pocket D in less than seven hours, y'all. You must be level 35+ and have the Member of Vanguard badge to participate. There will be a 200 million INF kill shot prize for the drop ship! I hope to see y'all there.

No one is arguing that Sentinels aren't terrible, but making their damage equivalent to Blasters is not the answer as they are safer than Blasters thanks to their armor.

Yep, Staff Fighting was a premium power set added in Issue 22.

I taunted Hamidon in a five person Hamidon raid on an Ice Melee/Regeneration Brute. I definitely lasted more than one minute at a time in the goo. About two to three minutes. Dark Melee definitely would have been a better primary, but the original goal was to do a six person Hamidon raid with two Ice Melee/Regeneration Brutes switching off between tanking Hamidon and green mito duty, but the second Ice Melee/Regeneration Brute never showed up, so we decided to five man it instead with my being the sole Hamidon taunter.

That # of level 50 Corruptors and # of level 50 Defenders isn't the whole picture. Look at the number of play hours between level 50 Corruptors and level 50 Defenders, as seen here. There is a disparity. Of course it's an anecdote, but over the past several months I have seen many, many more Defenders at level 50 than I have Corruptors. I notice these things while running raids and doing Incarnate trials.

Hellion sees a wee little robot come to him: "Awww, what's this? Hey there, little guy." The wee little robot then lasers the Hellion to death. I approve.

True, but conceptually I think there is an issue that a power set that specializes in resistance does less -resistance on most ATs than a power set that also offers -500% regen.

Part of the problem with Sonic is that it's whole shtick is resistance, both +resistance and -resistance. Yet the Controller/Corruptor/Mastermind version of Sonic Resonance does 15% less -resistance than the Controller/Corruptor/Mastermind version of Cold Domination, and Cold Domination's -resistance is AoE. Now, whether or not this is a problem with Sonic or with Cold Domination, that's a value call I won't make. But it is a problem that makes Sonic seem less desirable on those ATs. As for Liquefy, I'd just reduce its recharge time in half.

Never respec while inside your SG base or in any other instance. It's known to be bugged. You need to respec while in a zone. Have you tried logging and re-logging?

So there we have it. Bump Defenders' Sleet to 35%, nerf Controllers/Corruptors/MMs Sleet and Freezing Rain to 26.25%. :p

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The Number 204 mission "Defeat all Nemesis in area" appears to be bugged. You are supposed to defeat all of the Nemesis in an Arachnos lab map. A friend of mine and I duoed the mission, defeated all of the Nemesis, and nothing. No mission complete. We each went through the entire map about a half dozen times. Nothing. Not a Nemesis soldier in sight. I died earlier in the mission and was sent to the Arachnos jail, so just on the off chance that for some reason the Arachnos jail cell doors were counting, or that perhaps a stray Nemesis soldier would show on the map after all of the jail cell doors were destroyed, I proceeded to destroy each and every Arachnos jail cell door. Afterwards... still nothing. I went through the entire map again on Hover, so that I would go through extra slowly to perhaps attract a wandering Nemesis eye. Nothing.

Makes me glad that I take Tier 4 Degenerative Core and Tier 4 Reactive Radial on all of my characters.

I just want to say that this thread is a perfect example of why Titan Weapons and procs need to be nerfed much sooner than later. People become entitled to them. The longer you wait to nerf something, the bigger the backlash.