Razor Cure

I was just looking at this in Mids. Apparently you can NOT have rooted/granite active with combat jumping. No idea if that is just in Mids or in game too. Also, totally weird, but when I turn rooted and granite on in the Totals tab, my JumpSpd goes UP! Up! The jump height though, goes down as expected.

If Master Brawler is in fact giving resistance to mez effects (as in actual res, and not just a misleading power description), it is way way less desirable than PB. PB gives mez protection. Mez resistance just means those effects wear off faster, but will still actually mez you. Looking at Mids, there is no info on MB..so either 58% of people somehow think mez res is better than protection, or the info is just off. There really isn't. Frozen Armour and ScorpShield are def based..that just happen to have a very minor +res to one element. The major benefit of that is as slot mules for the 2 +def IOs. The resists aren't worth slotting otherwise.

Ooh yes. Like States come back but as an EVIL States. Maybe Tyrant somehow uses his last powers and his connection to Tartarus (or whatever it was to transfer his mind into States' body. The States breaks the hell out of his city hall memorial, wrecks Atlas (cause, fun. And Atlas could appear as teh ruined atlas maps). But then, the Phalanx, LR and goons, fresh from their cooperation in the Sig Arcs and DA story line, all rock up to try stop him.

I dont know..all the deaths in the Sig Arcs are pretty stupid. States dies just because he develops sudden idiot syndrome and cant work out the normal, weak human guy would NOT have a plan.. Sis dies because manti is a tool, and cant just kock her out (stunning arrow, anyone?) Malaise just randomly turns into an evil dick. Granted, he was always very dark, but I thought that made him a more interesting hero (kinda like how Scirocco is a villain, but conflicted). He basically had zero motivation for the entire thing, nothing was built up. One min he is a dark hero, happy to help. The next, bam. Evil.

Got this also. However I have ALWAYS gotten it when doing that mission, at the time I got it. That is, if I get teh mission at lvl 19, do it right then. Today I tried it on a toon that got the solo mission and out lvl'd it. ANd no super serum!

The old RSF was truly epic. I remember doing it way way back, before IOs (I forget what issue it was). I had my very first 50, a fire/invul brute, and heard people talking about how HARD it was, how almost no teams could actually succed. One guy said that the Devs had a contest, for the first team to finish, becuase even they couldn't win! No idea how true that is, but back then..it seemed pretty likely. So I got a team together with a few friends to try it. This was after I did a LOT of research, with the general info being..'take a stone brute and 7 corrs' OR 'nukes and shivens and there is still a huge chance of failing.' We loaded up on both, made it to the final mission after about two tough hours. We tried rushing. Death. We tried pulling. Got one, then the rest would come, every single time (compare that to lolSTF when the most you fight at once is 4 AVs, and you can easily pull them if you need to). In a nutshell, we failed, which hurt, but I totally felt like we did our best! Now of course, with IOs and incarnate stuff and side switching (for example, one tank and an emp fender could do the job of that stone/7corr villian team), both are way, way easier. However..for non incarnate teams, the extra difficulty in old RSF compared to STF seems a bit unfair to me. Add it to Oro and let the hardcore people run it if they want to.

Yeah they do..but StoneArmour has about the worst Ex'd performance..especially if you HAVE granite, then respec'd out of all the shitty powers in teh set, that granite makes worthless. As for playing a blaster with IOs (and the mez gap, which STILL exists for blasters at 50+, unless they get clarion.)..you mean like..well..basically every single blaster that got to level 30 (cause they wont have that many IOs at that point). Yay, you only need to be on a league with 47 kins to jump! Actually, Granite on a tank (actually Rooter, granite doesnt show a -jhump) is -50,000% jump..IR on a kin fender is +2780% jump. So about 18 kins. All with IR. Good luck. lol.

Yeah..no. Doing that wont even be a sure fire crit on AS. Great solution. How is Slow AS boring? Thats like saying any other slow, long animation attack is boring. There is literally no better way to open a fight than AS from hide. Then cant hit you till it lands..and it does about the best damage in the game.

I was wondering about that. I didn't think it was that much but when I checked the power..CU goes from 168 damage at 0 to 217 at 3. That is a bit.

Basically..the set is a load of shit, besides one OP power that also comes with huge drawbacks.

OMG the CLANKET! That is so awesome! Also, totally not saying we need 'real' ads..just funny and stupid ones! I was thinking more about my Freak-run massage parlor. The ad could be like a superman type, in tights, face down on a massage table, with the massuer (or however that silly word goes!) leaning over him, all freakified, with teh punk hair and a clamour style bionic arm! For those REAL hard to get out knots in your back!

I had a Stj scrappa on Live, and figured I'd give it a go on a stalker, because their ATOs are stupidly awesome. The Stalker is 33 atm..and I have noticed.. The stalker version has Build Up, instead of COmbat Readiness. This seems to be a pure buff, and damage wise, it is. However...it does NOT grant the auto 'combo level 3' status at the scrapper version does. Why is this annoying? You dive it a fresh mob, hit BU/CR and the whack it with Crushing Uppercut, getting that sweet lvl 3 boost. On a scrapper that is. On the stalker..you sneak in, BU, then AS the big nasty (AS gives +2 combo lvls). And then crushing uppercut. But it is NOT at combo3. Can you use another attack in between to get to lvl 3? Sure can. But.. EVERY other stalker has the ability with the ATO in AS to do the following..BU..AS..Best Attack, with said attack getting an almost 100% crit from the chance to hide IO. But STJ cant do that. Granted, I could put the ATO in another power (which I will have to experiment with), but it just works SO good in AS. I am thinking that placing it in another attack might make the proc rate crappy, at least compared to AS, when it fire basically every time. The other problem. Both sets have 4 combo building powers...but the stalker has one of those becoming AS. Leaving 3, one of those being the pissy tier attack. that would basically never get used with a decent attack chain. Suggestions: Make AS a combo lvl 3 builder all by itself (perhaps the lvl 3 ONLY works when used from hide?) to make up for the lack of +3 in build up. Let Sweeping Cross be used as a finisher OR builder. If used at lvl 3, it fires as a Finisher. If less than 3 stacks are present, it fires as a builder. Add the combo level 3 buff to Build Up itself.

Recently while running around doing various story arcs, I have been noticing some of the signs around CoX. Maybe of these are quite amusing (i like the Family Pizza one..made fresh, by Made men) and clever! Obviously updating and adding to these signs would be a very minor priority for the dev team..and so I was thinking..let US do it. We could have some 'create a sign' type contests, where all that is needed is a resolution and file type, and a location (so people could tailor the message to the zone somewhat) and away we go! Those without artistic software, talent or inclination could simply submit slogans that others could use. Just picture it..a building in talos..the 'Get Freaky' massage parlor, obviously appearing in the freak-run terrority.

You know a good way to find out if you like the toon? Don't PL it. Why are you on this server? Seriously. Aren't there ones that give you like 8 slots per power and let you auto jump to 50? Not trying to be rude here in any way..honestly curious. Yeah cause farming every toon..isn't a grind right? Doing the exact same map on the same toon..over and over. That sounds super interesting.

Exactly. You did it ONCE. Once. So costume bits behind some kinda..effort..would not need to be done for every alt. I totally forget what was needed to actually unlock this, but even if the requirements were toned down a lot (say..to completing one of the RWZ story arcs), in order to make it much less of a grind, and something easily done on the journey to 50.

Did I say they won BECAUSE they earned bits? I am merely saying that costumes are totally a bragging thing, and something to feel proud of. Even if the lvl 50 who 'earned' a few costume parts didn't win, that does not take away the sense of accomplishment for doing that. Let's go to the next step. We aren't paying for HC. They dont need to give us a grind to keep us here. So lets go ahead and auto level everyone to 50, and give us whatever IOs we want, because..no one needs to grind for anything, ever.

Was it so bad having to earn things like capes, aura and other stuff? Like getting high enough to fight/help Vanguard, before actually getting to use some of their bits? Well..you wouldn't, right. But doesn't the reverse apply? Why can you get a costume part that adds something special to your concept (like vanguard armour) without having to DO anything? If the concept is so important to the character, wouldn't that unlocking be a clear progression of said character? Costume Contests say Hi.

Just to add my 2 cents..I totally feel like STF and Epic pools for blueside should also have an 'unlock' to get them. I know that would annoy a lot of people, but in a similar manner to the OP, I always felt like I earned the patron pools (that and the arcs all have some pretty amazing missions) and the RSF. I mean..WHY should Recluse give you this super task, unless he has seen you doing all that stuff first (that is, the patron arc). The patron poools are hardly 'better' than the epics..but those come for no work at all. Likewise, I also enjoyed getting to 25, and being able to earn an AUra. I mean..its cool we can get them at 0..but maybe if the creation auras were more limited and basic, and the aura missions unlocked some extra cool ones (or at least a badge?).

I know there was another thread on it..but I still think a Halloween IO set would be cool. Maybe with a fear type proc or something!

Oooh. Great point. Sonic SIphon giving YOU +rez and recovery, because you cant use your shields on yourself, and the set does have a lot of end heavy powers (well, 2).

That is true..although the -res on sonic is easier to have always going (at least on one target). Heast Loss is a pretty long rech..and honestly, looking at teh set just now..Heat Loss shouldnt even have -res. It doesnt make a heap of sense, even more so for a set about 'cold domination' somehow have more -res than a set based on resists.

Tar Patch is a power with totally DIFFERENT effects. Tar is -res and slow. Sonic has (i think) the most -res of any set, with two powers that do it (even though one needs a team mate). Liquefy does -def, a chance to hold, knockback (or down, I forget), and a totally huge amount of -to hit. Having it on the same rech as TarPatch would make it stuipdly good. ANd also mean that the main mitigation for a Resist based set..suddenly became -to hit. Make it a bit faster..not that much.

Off topic but...why are AE farms still SO much faster to level than anything else in the game? Risk Vs Reward and all. Back to the point..I woulnd't mind if Task Force gave extra rewards for certain tasks, in a similar way to how iTrails give astal/emps for tasks. Kill the RomulusPhalanx in under 2 mins, get 3 extra merits/rare salavge/rare recipe drop/whatever. Take down all 4 towers in STF, actually rescue Glacia and Infernia on LG (make it 500 merits, cause damn that mission is a pain!) etc etc. At the very least, Master runs should give something extra.

I just keep the Siege mission saved on a toon, and use it as needed on alts. But I agree, its silly that he isnt in the arc, since he used to be. There is other missions in teh arc with two AVs, so why not add him to the Nightstar one?

I like the idea of a super quick, close dagger set, with throw attacks too. The gimmick needs work though..you get a debuff just for NOT attacking fast enough? That would really favour secondaries with +rech and recovery. And it would need some kind of benefit too offset it..combo stuff with added effects perhaps?