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After trying and abandoning Champions and Star Trek Online, I ended up playing Star Wars: The Old Republic. I played all the classes on light and dark side to max level and joined a fairly active guild. The stories are pretty good but it's very much tied to the DPS/Tank/Healer meta. End game is grindy as you're constantly forced to upgrade your gear to play the newest content.

As long as it's an option and not a replacement. I dislike Symphony's sounds with a passion and I don't like the animations either.

What's the difference between a lawyer and a shark? One is a pitiless monster that will eat you alive and the other is a fish.

There are 3 versions of the Sentinel of Mot, the AV you fight in the Dilemma Diabolique Trial and 2 EBs. The EBs have identical powers and differ only in their appearance (you face him as an EB in 3 different story arcs). The AV definitely has interesting mechanics and requires more than just tank and spank. Agree that the EB isn't challenging, particularly for a team, but the non-scaling issue extends to all the EBs in the DA story arcs. I believe the only EB in those arcs that will spawn as an AV is Black Scorpion. https://cod.uberguy.net/html/entity.html?entity=banishedpantheonendgame_sentinel_of_mot https://cod.uberguy.net/html/entity.html?entity=banishedpantheonendgame_sentinel_of_mot_eliteboss https://cod.uberguy.net/html/entity.html?entity=banishedpantheonendgame_sentinel_of_mot_eliteboss_02

Almost as bad are all the Unai missions requiring you to close 20 dimensional ruptures.

You've got a lot of your IOs set to lvl 30. Assuming you're using attuned enhancements, you should reset everything to max/default value in Mids.

Most AVs have the purple triangles. When the triangles are up they have mag 50 mezz protection and can't be mezzed. When the triangles are down they have boss-level mezz protection and Arctic Air alone (with Domination) should confuse them. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Purple_Triangles

There are five IO sets that provide KB protection as a set bonus. There are none that provide KB resistance. Acrobatics only provides KB protection, not KB resistance.

Crimson Prototype has unresistable KB.

You are correct regarding Evasive Maneuvers. Also Rune of Protection has it, but only for 60 seconds (w/ 180s recharge).

Yes, and mag -12 to -15 (depending on AT) in Grounded but only when near the ground. Since you can cap your resists to everything except toxic without it, I don't think I've ever seen anyone with Electric Armor actually take Power Surge.

KB protection is binary - if your protection exceeds the magnitude of the KB, you aren't knocked back. KB resistance reduces the strength of the KB but doesn't protect you against it. Most armor sets with KB protection also include 10000% KB resistance. As a result, even if you only have mag 10 KB protection, the KB resistance will stop a mag 20 KB from knocking you down. There are multiple IOs and set bonuses that provide KB protection, however, there are none that provide KB resistance. There are multiple IOs and set bonuses that provide mez resistance (reducing the duration of status effects). Usually these are 5-10% each and on a complete build you might get to 75% or so, What if the list of status effects these work on was expanded to include KB? (If my math is correct, 75% resistance would reduce a mag 20 KB to mag 12.5.) I'm thinking primarily of Fire, Dark and Electric Armor users who have no access to KB resistance. They can slot 12 or 14 mag of KB IOs and set bonuses and still get bounced by Crimson Prototype or Lord Recluse.

I may be missing it, but it looks like you only have 4 mag of kb protection. Not going to cut it on a tank. You'll be knocked all over the place. I agree with Snarky that you don't want to chase defense with Dark Armor. I built mine for high resists and skipped CoF and OG. (Note, this was built before the changes to power level availability.) Uundead - Tanker (Dark Armor).mbd

Neither Entangling Aura or Arctic Air have a tohit check and are unaffected by tohit buffs. They're autohit with an x% chance of their effect(s) occurring every 2 seconds. Enhancing hold or confuse duration will reduce the chance of the effect dropping. (World of Confusion does have a tohit check.) You shouldn't run Arctic Air and Entangling Aura together. The hold will negate the confuse.

You've stated your opinion. Now you're just being pedantic.

You're missing the point. The buff will stack with the typed defense on Bio, Energy, Ice, Invulnerability, Stone and Willpower. I doubt that they need Sefu's help either, but it's a bug if the buff benefits some players but not others.

This is an NPC ally that follows you and buffs you. Having his powers work the way they do makes the buffs worthless to players with positional defense (SR, Shield, Ninjitsu). It's only 3 missions so obviously not a big deal, but back on live the same fix was applied to the Force Field and Cold Domination shields as well all pool powers that buff defense.

There are a number of missions in the RWZ arcs in which you rescue Sefu Tendaji and he fights as your ally. He runs Dispersion Bubble and buffs you with Protective Shield. Both of these powers provide S/L/F/C/E/N typed defense but no M/R/A positional defense. As a result, these buffs don't stack with any positional defense you may have. Pretty much every ally defense buff and pool defense power in the game has been modified to provide both typed and positional defense in order to avoid this issue. Sefu's shields should get the same treatment.

When you exemp you have access to powers taken 5 levels above your combat level. That will give you access to PA down to level 13, which would cover Posi 1 and Karsis. About the only content it wouldn't be available for would be the lvl 5-9 contacts in Atlas, Kings Row and the Hollows.

Why bother playing Dark at all? Skip Shadowy Binds and Haunt. Glue Arrow is also skippable on a controller.

I have an homage to the character Geoffrey Holder played in the 1970s advertising campaign for 7-Up named Uuncola.

In the Dark Astoria arcs, many of the signature foes spawn only as EBs regardless of your settings or team size. Sentinel of Mot is one of these. I believe the only place you can fight him as an AV is in the Dilemma Diabolique trial.

Mr. G's missions will spawn in whatever zone you're in when you call him. This doesn't work with his blue side counterpart, Provost Marchand (whose missions spawn in Brickstown).

You want hard? Try this:

Depends what AT you're playing and what TA is combined with. It's less useful on controllers that have an AoE immobilize. I find it (and other slow patches) useful on corruptors/defenders in combination with rain powers. Lay down the patch between you and the spawn, draw them into it, then drop Rain of Fire/Ice Storm/Rain of Arrows on top of them and finish them off with your other AoEs. This also works with Time/Distortion Field. Ah, so you had the other one.