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Put it this way, Hibernate got a workout last night.
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Before I switched servers to last night's TT, I thought "I should get some SG boosts before switching because you never know what TT will serve up." I then, of course, forgot about it till after I switched and was SG-less. Man, I could have used some End Drain Resistance and Fear Resistance vs those 4 Horsemen. Famine, I guess, kept doing a massive end drain combined with Terrorize that would detoggle everything. Those were some challenging fights for Shiny Doom Ball (ice/spines).
But the whole thing was fun and not many people can say they've done a tank-only LGTF. Next time, I'm respeccing to get more holds!
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On 3/12/2024 at 11:39 PM, Warboss said:
Good run on Torch tonight. Four teams. MsA lead the Cavern team, Ronin went red with a Patron unlock, PLV lead Yin and I ran missions (I think the covers it).
3/16 This coming Sat, we're on Reunion at 9:30AM PDT. Meet in KR by IP gate as always.
3/19 We're on Everlasting. Meet in KR at 6PM PDT/9PM EDT and we'll get rolling from there.
Werewolf World dumpster diving with the mission team was a lot of old school fun.
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On 1/10/2024 at 1:34 PM, Psyonico said:
Since all of dark's AoE is cones (except black star) how do you handle being in melee for venomous gas?
I played Kin/Dark and wasn't crazy about it for this reason. Kin really likes melee and /Dark really likes range, so you end up hopping around a lot. Too busy for me. I wonder if TA/Dark would be good though, since they both love range.
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Corruptors of any set are going to shine when taking on big HP bags like AVs and Giant Monsters. On those targets, scourge can be meaningful. On regular minions, scourge is mostly irrelevant since if they are below half hit points (when scourge can trigger) then you are probably going to defeat them on the next hit regardless. But corruptors do have better damage scales and higher damage caps.
For Dark/Dark specifically, I agree that the debuff values are so high and layered (especially -ACC), that it can be overkill on a defender so you may as well get the extra damage from a corruptor. However, defenders can be significantly tankier if they take an epic armor, tough, weave, and maneuvers, which is a reason to go defender instead of corruptor. Defenders gets max value from those armor-like powers just like other buffs. It just depends on your preference; I would probably go corruptor but both have their advantages.
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17 minutes ago, kwsapphire said:
And that's about all that really changes.
Now you don't have to be a law-breaking, anarchistic, punk-pirate to play your favorite game.
So, I guess I need to find some additional outlet for throwing off the shackles of The Man.
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I realize this is an ancient thread but when my group did this task force, it was very fun up until the last battle. The air strikes were not bad, you just had to pay a little attention. But the BBG started teleporting constantly after we got him down to half-way or so. And it's a multilevel outside map so our melee guys were very frustrated. And it's not like he teleported once and healed a little, he started teleporting after just a few hits for the rest of the mission. After spending as much time fighting him as we did getting through the entirety of the rest of the TF we just quit because we couldn't get him to stand still (there were only 6 of us, so maybe a little under powered, but still.) Is that normal behavior? Is he supposed to pop around with everyone running after him?
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Huh, I just logged him in and then out and the tokens had all refreshed. Weird. Or, if a GM saw this post and fixed it for me, thanks. 🙂
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I have a tank move around for Tanker Tuesday but he's been stuck on Everlasting for over a month with a "no transfer tokens" message. He's the only character I transfer and I haven't touched him in weeks so my tokens should have refreshed several times over. Is there a hold or something going on?
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Time, in addition to Earth and Storm mentioned above, is really good here. By 30 Time has a couple AoE slows including a persistent placed one and a slow aura. All those debuffs trigger aggro on the runners and stop them from running. A Rad tank, with all the AoE patches and auras is also good on this. Any damage and, I assume, most debuffs stop them from running; the Time patches definitely do.
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I'm not sure if you were looking for what sets or just general theory but I get the recharge up first so I can put it on more teammates and then I start pumping up the defense after the recharge is 90%+. I don't think I've ever worried about increasing the to-hit buff. People generally build to be pretty decent at accuracy/to hit w/o buffs so the buff is just gravy and/or to counter debuffs.
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My PC crashed (I think my graphic card is fried) so I pulled out my old (2010) Mac Air and tried to run Island Time on it. I had run it before probably 6 months ago or less. A message came up that said it wouldn't run on Sierra and I had to update to High Sierra to run it (which seems odd since it ran fine before and I didn't update Island Rum but whatever). I updated to High Sierra. Now Island Rum launches but it's just a window with "Island Rum" at the top and the rest of the window is black. Does anyone have any advice on how to address? I have not had much to do with Macs in decades so I'm pretty clueless.
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So, is it Indomitable tonight i.e., the regular schedule?
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Rad/Martial is loaded with PBAOEs and has the very fun ki punch-then-snipe (or Cosmic Burst) as the boss floats away. Also, Cosmic Burst (stun+damage) + Throw Sand (AoE stun) seems like it has potential but I only just leveled up to it (mid 30s) so I'm not sure how it will actually play out.
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From what I remember ID has a short (1 min?) duration so it's more practical for breaking mezzes and hitting whoever is eating an alpha just before the alpha. The only time I would try to really keep it on the team was if we were low level and facing ruin mages - the AoE KD they do (earthquake?) can really screw up a low-level team w/o KB protection yet. But that's very niche; most of the time I'd treat it like clear mind and just throw if someone was mezzed. Note: the mezz protection only hits the individual you target whereas the S/E resist hits the whole team.
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On 7/13/2020 at 7:16 PM, Hjarki said:
I think the larger concern is the question of whether you put slow in Freezing Rain. For a Corruptor/Defender, I'd view it as nearly essential. Without hitting the slow cap, all you're going to end up doing is scattering the spawn.
Secondary makes a difference here though. When I FR I'm actually casting FR+Ice Storm and often Blizzard on top of that so FR doesn't need to do all the slowing.
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I frankenslot with 2 Slow/End/Rec and 1 generic Recharge. That puts my recharge at/near the ED cap and the slow is enhanced 42% at 50.
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16 hours ago, ImpousVileTerror said:
EDIT: WAIT! It just hit me (ouch)!
Fleet Fists!
Fleet is one of the world's largest producers of enemas so Fleet Fist may...well, it's a niche character concept.
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On 5/18/2020 at 3:05 PM, Scientist said:
I was curious about the mezz protect ATO, it can go into ST or AoE attacks, am I correct in guessing that it is better to go into a fairly frequently usable AoE since it only has to proc on one target to provide the mezz protection? I was thinking that based on normally suggested slotting for the Force Feedback proc and other "self affecting" procs.
I slot it in one of my tier 1 attacks (or tier 2 of primary) so that I can use it while mezzed and possibly break the mez.
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I'm no proc expert at all but wouldn't adding 2 Recharges each to Aim & Build Up add a lot more damage than any number of procs?
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Someone explained it in detail long ago but my memory of it is that Acrobatics will stop one "normal" hold that lands on you from doing anything. If another hold lands while the first is active then Acrobatics' protection is overcome and you're held. "Normal" holds meaning not outliers like AVs or other oddballs.
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I like tanks on my team because, without conversation, I make certain assumptions:
Tank - will eat the alpha; may control aggro, may do significant damage
Scrappers, Stalkers - will kill bosses; may kill lots of other stuff
Controllers, Dominators - will mitigate damage overall through control; may eat alphas, may buff/debuff, may do significant damage
Defenders, Corrupters - will...do stuff that's good for the party; watch and see, alpha eating, good damage, damage mitigation, and more are possible but not obvious from just the AT.
I get that there is more complex content but for pugs. just having someone who can eat the alpha and everyone knows they will eat the alpha is a huge efficiency boost. I am very happy to have a tank on my pug for that reason regardless of anything else they bring.
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On 7/27/2019 at 10:19 PM, Riverdusk said:
Probably the most "noob" friendly set is plant control. Seeds of confusion that you get at the low level of 8 is a game changer. I'd suggest giving that one a try. Secondary almost doesn't matter.
This. You get seeds early and it's very effective when you get it and remains a good power all the way to 50. It's more reliable than the AoE holds that sets get around the same time since it recharges faster and works OK without a ton of slotting and enhancing. You want to slot and enhance it as you level up but unlike some powers it's pretty useful out of the box. It makes opening against a group much easier.
It's always been this way - a tank's true role
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The idea that tanks have "weak secondary attacks" is untrue. Tank's melee damage scalar is .95; for comparison Blaster and Stalkers are at 1.00. Tanks are capable of doing significant damage, especially when you take into account their large AoEs with high target caps. Tanks are ideal for taking out the trash and then keeping hard targets focused on them. More to the point, they can slot up their attacks well and still be tough enough to tank hard content. The idea that you have to gimp yourself in order to survive and hold aggro just isn't true. (And attacks are a significant way of generating and holding aggro anyway).
Yes, eating the alpha has traditionally been a tank's role but lots of ATs can do that well enough. Tanks excel at it but any big -ACC debuffer or an AoE controller or dominator can blunt it enough to get the job done. So the idea of a tank who just eats alphas and doesn't otherwise contribute to damage output of the team is pretty underwhelming; I mean, I can see that being a thing at level 10 but if at level 29 that's still the only contribution, that's not what I would expect or want.