MoonSheep

100%. I also find that whether Controls or Assault are the primary focus depends on the team and challenge. There’s some instances where I’m focusing almost entirely on controls to keep things going, others where I’m just DPS’ing to the max i don’t find the lack of AoE a problem as I play on teams and that tends to be handled by other players. there’s a number of dom assault secondaries which have blaster rivalling single target DPS - fire and energy for example. earth and ice also quite damaging

oh man, thank god you posted this. i recently made an alt and it's been driving me mad that since the recent release the camera pan is broken and keeps pinging back round unless the middle button is held down

i’d still pick it up. still gives a moderate +34% dmg boost and also boosts other attributes like heals, end drain and defense buffs by 74%. great if you used it alongside something like vengeance https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=dominator_assault.sonic_assault.bass_boost&at=dominator

i’m posting a reply simply to be part of a Diantane thread, the Salvador Dali of HC forum posters

i wouldn’t worry about it mate, it’s not for everyone

you’ll pick up IOs etc in time. i’d say you’re actually in a lucky position to be enjoying the game without needing to put everything on max settings and require expensive builds yet the IO system is complex, i’d say start with one power and a good set and then branch out if you need any influence along the way give me or anyone on here a shout, everyone’s happy to help

it’s a common meta in the HC era, people want every AT to be a scrapper and build every AT in the same way and then get disappointed they didn’t click “Scrapper” when they chose their AT when making the alt blasters have high damage and low defences, always been that way. the best defense is a great offense

“why isn’t my blaster a scrapper?”

@Xiddo it’s your time to shine

aw man, what a good film! i watched it a few weeks ago. way better than i was expecting

i’m sorry to say that i click them every time immediately, and if i was told not to it would encourage me even more i yearn for the chaos

hope you feel better soon mate

with a rad you’re not going to have the same tangible impact like you do with a set like kin, cold, thermal, nature etc where you can visually see the effects and see the numbers change debuffs are still worthwhile, and good for applying damage procs into your powers. personal buffs don’t change the damage of a proc, but a 30% debuff increases its damage by 30%! i have a rad/ice i play on test and really enjoy it. i’d say stick with it and enjoy the more relaxed pace on teams

shhh, i need to hide my disdain for certain ATs under semi plausible excuses

all the more reason to choose a scrapper then - i’ve never been a fan of brutes

yeah - bigger mobs, more chaos. more often you’ll be hopping through sequentially large mobs near each other when solo encounters are often less frequent and don’t last as long

if you play solo i’d go scrapper so you’re not constantly feeling the need to chase fury

amazing, welcome back! everything’s going really well. people are having fun, there’s great balance in the game, we recently star.. oh, regen? yeah, uh he’s doing great too! lovely guy, always doing.. great.. can you see him? eerrmm, i think.. i er, he’s at his parents right now.. somewhere far i think a phone? no.. i don’t think he bought a phone with him.. you know regen haha, he likes to be disconnected from the world sometimes doesn’t he anyway lovely to see you! just don’t go in that barn that’s making weak dull pain sounds, it’s uh.. haunted or something

some thoughts if helpful spoiler: cheap cheap cheap! i use mine for mostly posi 1 and 2’s thesedays if i was to re-roll my kin i’d likely go with /rad for the -def as i love my low lvl posi’s, helps with the CoT. /elec feels like an obvious pairing but kin is often so fast paced i don’t think the benefits of the end drain are able to shine

sorry this is General Discussion not Fan Fiction 😛

i confuse the titan on my mind dom, no ambrosia needed - handy the other approach as Veracor says is to have a few key people pop some ambrosia and thrash through it all - some heals for the titan are useful. can complete the trial in around 5 minutes with a good team

perhaps but when i’m recruiting on a team and i see the person i’ve invited is a mastermind, it’s like asking a mate to come to the pub for a pint and he turns up with his wife and 4 children who are running all over the place

it’s always been the policy, but jeez man at least try to do something original

i’d still much rather play a /regen than any mastermind though