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Then definitely play a tanker first and you will have the benefit of knowing how to play a controller/dom without pissing off the tanker. 🤪 Also... welcome!

I think this one has many uses but isn't used often enough...

*sigh*. No, they didn't. The ranged power Cogs have is called "Charged Bolts" and it drains all of 1 endurance. Each shot. Not 100%. One... endurance point. Uno. Even if they were max level 20 and +3 to you that would only go up to 1.33 endurance each. So four endurance total from a volley of 3 level 20 Cogs. Unless you went INTO that fight with 14% of your max endurance left, there is no way you are sitting at 10% after they shot you. If they could drain endurance anywhere close to as good as you claim, Synapse's TF would be a bloodbath. That said, Malta Sappers are the minions who can do this. Their Sapper Overload power drains 20 end/s for four seconds. But it's kind of also the ONLY thing they can do and everyone knows it. They don't live long if the heroes know what they are doing.

I think a whole team of Kin Melees might just drive me insane with those sound effects. Neither set really stacks anything up either, except maybe the disorient in KM. I know it's not your fave, but Rad Melee could be interesting in a full group. Lots of damage patches and the Contaminated mechanism works no matter who applied the status. So, e.g. you can hit someone and apply Contaminated and then someone else can hit them for the burst AoE damage or the siphon healing.

No way you're talking about a random street spawn in Steel. They are at least 20 levels below you. They can't put a scratch on you let alone debuff you that badly. Purple Patch says all of their attacks and debuffs are at 1% of their original strength when used against you. Sure you didn't run into someone else's ambush that was much higher level than the ordinary thugs in Steel?

Derp. Yeah. I have edited the post so hopefully it makes a bit more sense.

On anyone intending to tank for a team or solo extensively at high difficultly levels, I'd say yeah shoot for 80% at least. I think that can be reduced down a little for high-defense characters since they enjoy the benefit of simply being missed by most debuffs, only being hit by auto/aura/ground type debuffs. Or for anyone that ISN'T going to be the focus of all attention.

Can't say I've checked EVERY one of the buffs I add from the station, but any time I've looked right afterwards, the timer is at 1:30:00 on the power.

Not the point I was making. I am talking about what you can do to avoid or reduce the effect BEFORE it lands. The game does provide counters. You're not using them. It has. There's been no real change to how debuffs work since Live, so far as I am aware. If you didn't notice it before you either don't remember it or you were playing characters who had some innate slow resist or simply better defense so as not to have so much slow stacked up on them. Or you're being more aggressive these days going after +4 enemies (which can sometimes be +5 if you are below level 50) or something. Almost everything an enemy does to you is amplified if they are that much higher in level. No. Slow isn't considered a mez, so breakfrees offer no protection or resistance to it. Use defense insps instead to avoid getting hit as much. As has been pointed out, no way are you slowed this much by a single minion. It's gotta be several stacked slows on you. If the enemy you're fighting has a slow aura, try to stay clear of them or mez them to disable it. I get that this game, like any game, can be frustrating, but I guarantee you there is really no such thing as a "nothing you can do"(*) situation in this game or EVERYBODY would be complaining about it. (*) Within reason, obviously. I'm not saying you can solo the Kronos Titan with a level 1 Blaster or anything.

He is fond of this particular complaint, but always wrong about it. Many, if not most debuffs, are carried by attacks that need to hit you. So first line of defense against them... is defense. Doesn't mean none will ever hit you but it greatly reduces the odds they'll stack on you if only 1 in 5 or 10 hits you. Second, specific debuffs can have specific resistances. Recharge debuffs are countered by recharge debuff resistance, a.k.a. slow resistance. Two easiest places to get this are (1) Winter's Gift: Slow resistance IO. One slot, 20% resist to slow. Goes in a travel power. (2) The SG Base empowerment station can give you a temporary 20% boost for 90 minutes to slow resistance (and a lot of other useful things too, like say... endurance drain resistance, recovery boost, etc.) Cost you a bit of minor salvage each time. Aside from this, slow resistance is found in Winter Set ATOs which are, admittedly, very expensive. Slow resistance is also found in some armor sets and powers. I've got a bit in my Rad Armor tankers for example and I build much more on top since I get hit by everything (no defense). It is possible to attain 100% slow resistance and be affected only by unresistible slows, of which there are very few in the game. Endurance drain is countered by endurance drain resist, which isn't super common or available in IO sets. But you can increase endurance and endurance recovery. Having powers that restore endurance is nice too. Recovery serum temp power from START vendor. etc. etc. Solutions abound, in other words. He just needs to look for them.

In my experience it is rare that throwing out a Taunt doesn't cause a mob to turn right around and come after me. I've seen it happen that they just keep running... but I can't say I've seen it happen a lot. And I'm pretty sure I am not confusing it with mobs that are chasing after teammates... unless their pathing is just REALLY confused.

Don't know that much about them. Any chance they have self buffs for toHit or something like that? Don't know what else would explain not seeing a ton of misses in the combat log. They should be missing you more than hitting you otherwise.

There isn't a run-away mode, I think. There's an NPC status called "Afraid" which causes them to run. Afraid has a magnitude though and I think enough taunt can still maintain a lock on the mob. Generally, Tanker/Brute taunt (especially taunt auras) are really effective at preventing runners. You still see it sometimes, but it's pretty rare. A good place to see high mag Afraid in action is to go taunt a Longbow Eagle. They have a melee AoE power called "Positioning" which has an 8ft radius but doesn't affect any of its targets. Instead it only affects the caster, causing them to flee for 3 seconds with 10000% Afraid status. It's a neat little hack to cause them to flee from melee range and then continue attacking at range and they do so even when taunted. Important side point: Afraid and Terrorize are different. In the beginning, powers that cased fear caused Afraid status. So mobs could run away when feared. That was quickly discovered to be counter-productive, so they were re-coded to Terrorize, which just makes them tremble in place. But people still think it has something to do with making mobs more likely to run. I think that's probably not true since the original Live devs went to the trouble to STOP mobs from doing that when feared in the first place. There's yet another NPC status called "Avoid". It just causes mobs to run out of damaging fields like Rain of Fire and the like. i.e. It just causes them to avoid an area since Avoid is typically very short duration (e.g. 0.75 seconds). Once a mob moves out of range of the Rain power, it's not being hit by Avoid anymore either. I do think Afraid can be bugged because I have seen stuff just take off despite multiple taunts and then run clear across a map, seemingly. Just recently on an All-Tanker MSR, we had U'Kon immediately take off and run all the way to the edge of the ship before stopping to fight. It was weird. There was certainly no lack of taunting there. Romulus often does something similar on the ITF.

The people that are on those low pop servers CHOOSE to be there. If they wanted to, they could hop over to Excelsior. They haven't, so apparently the low population isn't a problem for them. Why do you think it's okay to force them to merge with another server just to make your team building easier?

Joking aside, it's also very practical on a team tanker for two reasons (1) The knockdown momentarily stops the mobs from attacking so it's a great way to save someone who is suddenly overwhelmed by an ambush or something. It not only hits them with a bit of heal, but it knocks all their attackers on their asses. (2) The knockdown is great visual communication to the team of what you just taunted and that it's safe for them to engage. I love it when I see a Kin zip in and fulcrum shift them all when they're still picking themselves up. It's just a really nice opening shot.

Making one of those 2 the Avalanche rech/knockdown proc is hilarious, if you have not tried it. High proc chance, high target count (up to 30 including teammates), and very large radius = "everybody take a seat!" Also, very much agree with skipping Dark Consumption. Rad Therapy with a Theft of Essense:+end is all you need on top of Rad's already stellar recovery. Did you have trouble with toHit debuffs? I generally can't avoid taking Focused Accuracy on resist-based toons. Or does Soul Drain mostly take care of this too? I really wish there were more sources of toHit debuff resistance (or debuff resistances in general). It's a real advantage of defense-based toons that they can naturally avoid most debuffs by simply not being hit by any but the autohit variety of debuffs.

My Journeyman Boots are slower after this last patch. I swear! Stealth nerf?

Yeah, speaking of a dollar short I just looked at my Shield tanker. He's still up on blocks in the back yard. I must have scavenged him for ATOs at some point and also never really got around to IOing him yet even though he's 37. *rolls up sleeves*

No, the Challenge idea will be to roll new Stone/Weapon tankers and run them only on Tanker Tuesday on Indomitable. So once a month. It will still be a normal TT, so mish team if needed for those not doing the challenge. An All-Shield ITF is just an event idea for TT on Torchbearer this coming Tuesday. Again, other teams will be available as it's still a normal TT.

Who doesn't like hearing that Pavlovian "ding!" occasionally though? Vanity? Pfft! If you've got it, flaunt it, I say! Kind of like having 1602 badges or something, right? 🤪 In all seriousness, though, I just keep that sucker counting and it tells me how much (maybe too much) I've been playing my faves instead of trying out new things. I've yet to have anyone comment negatively, although my highest is "only" just now breaking into the 300s. I DO alt... just not a whole lot.

I don't know about Spring Attack, but I don't think Savage Leap was ever a psuedopet and it works this way too. So does Radiation Melee for its Contaminated AoE damage. All of these "Apply 'Execute Power'" effects include the Copy Boosts to Entity attribute, so despite the name, it probably just works the same way on an executed power as it does a created pseudopet.

It should. If you look back at the effects line in pool power Spring Attack it has attribute "Boosts are copied to entity".

ALL origins are mutually exclusive since the game only lets you pick one. The deal with DOs was simply that two different origins could both buy the same DOs. It mattered back when you had to hump it over to a store specific to your origin to buy your enhancements but those days are long gone. As I've said, the only use for origins these days is arguing about origins on the forums. Otherwise, just ignore them in game.

The odds that someone with a name you want even visits the forums at all, let alone the server forums, is small. You will have a better chance sending them a tell directly. You can find the character's global: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Get_global_name_(Slash_Command) Then send a tell to that global asking if they might consider releasing the name. Keep in mind, the person may not be an active player anymore. If the name is on a level 50 character on an inactive account, it will never be automatically released unless the policy changes in the future... and that seems unlikely.