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taunt is pretty useless and dangerous, at target cap. the extras flip attention (eg added group), the released will recapture from taunt aura, and youve a flip activated mob loose, with its range reduced, wholl go to the highest threat it is aware of aside the caster. granted, that's with a lot of monsters, but not all that uncommon. aside, and functionally, its rarely if ever required. taunt already can do damage with the io adding chance for psi, which is nice i suppose, in the set that gives it. but, to me, core problem is the mobs wont stick past target cap on you, same as if you try to pick up too many in a farm. if anything, doubling the target cap or extending it with taunt, specifically, would be nice.

now i remember...

on topic then: dmg like spectral wounds on taunt to - 1/ put more threat / punchvoke on taunter AT 2/ let taunt clip low end crap as an execute (shitty gear coggy things etc would be killed if enough phantom dmg) 3/ make taunt a more attractive pick, especially coupled with io that chance for psi dmg 4/ like a bit less than 'fault' damage? i like it, personally, but powercreep - or needed enablement?

battle axe proliferate........ i know jacobs ladder is terrible, and chain induction is a 5 cap... the tp is amaze but i can just combat teleport.... is rad melee that bad? our one tier list is quite out of date. im probably the best stalker on homecoming, probably. so i should make one if no one else does...

what was that show... it was great at the time. cheesy, but good 🧀

im prolly gonna make a bunch of them and keep being re-roll'ey at ~20... there's always broadsword/shield. his name is Figs tho. wish you could do thorn / shield...

Stalker (Electrical Melee - Radiation Armor).mbd ...why not... something like... (attached, mids still messed up)??? ya... but he looks hardy on the build thing. EDIT: oh, no no he's not... i had the soul push-def toggled on in mids... fixed in attached... he can get shadow meld every 35s, and it lasts 15s... so that'd help... Stalker (Electrical Melee - Radiation Armor).mbd

oooh... well, will i live tho...? ive always done def sets on stalker, and indeed soul epp for moonbeam + the moment-of-survive-more thing. tempting, i like rad armor on my rad/staff tanker.

Electrical Melee / ??? which secondary (pls comment with why)

it's just how things are.

I'm probably the most skilled tanker on excelsior, so I'll help you understand how I protect my team! 1/ taunt isnt wonderous one slotted. the range reduce will force mobs to approach you, and you then hope a taunting aura or them seeing your punch-voke holds them to you 2/ DAMAGE can be added with the 'chance to add psionic damage' IO - it goes off maybe 50-60% of things hit, depends on its mood. 3/ if you 6 slot taunt... hm... well, itll have a higher duration, and on overlap of reapply of taunt you'll end up with mag stacking...but you run into a problem --> you could also take a 2nd taunt from the powerpool 'tuff stuff' or whatever its called. this gives another proc spot for the damage io, and lets you really spam about taunts. but it won't stop THE problem... 4/ THE problem is target cap -- you cant have more than the target cap of monsters on you. to the point they'll stop entirely if you keep trying to get more. the new ones will stick, the older ones who'd been with you will drop off. -->> this can be DANGEROUS in groups, where those mobs over cap will peel off and start on other players if those other players are in range and the mob is aware of them. could taunt use more/some damage? that's not really its job. could the target cap for tankers and brutes be doubled without devestating balance or anything exciting like that - yes, but people would complain farms got faster or now they die in farms bc more mobs. THE problem is aggro hold on max target cap and drop off of excess mob in a way that can be unexpected for ordering of dropoff, to me. And my characters are probably the mightiest of tankers on homecoming. so I'd know.

^ as said, great control set, terrible damage. it might best to think your role as disablement (which you can do with sleep patch and jolting chain almost on its own... paired with dark affinity you'll have what is always a good 2ndary, unique to controller. it works best to shine though if you can layer up to hit debuff from a primary that generates it - dark, or to a lesser but still exceptional (and autofiring cone cannon) degree; illusion and its spectral terror. illusion is not a high damaging set... unless... you can get phantom army permanent. then its decent, and youll have spookieboogie dark servant, and the phantasm (who isnt nearly as weak as some say)... plus, show your pet window, so youll see right away if he dies. illusion also stacks well with dark affinity for defense holding powers and luck of the gambler (you can have 5) elec gremlin pets do decent damage, its you in the equation that does not, power wise. epic pool - scorpion. this will help any controller imo. poison ray and disruptor blast take like 5 and 6 procs respectively, and you have opportunity for focused accuracy for hard content (you dont need to worry about end much at all on dark affinity, soul absorbtion is a monster skill for long lasting, often near cap recovery, and about 5/s if you hit literally only 1 mob, when 6 slotted set for end mod). returning to strengths of elec control - it has the best sleep in game - bc it puts them back into it after theyre hit by you or team. elec / kin corruptor would work well'ish, because of shock when the enemies have low or no endurance. best elec ranged imo os elec/elec blaster - where that shock mechanic is going off a lot. to the point where it doesnt feel worse than fire, and is certainly a change. melee, elec/shield, stalker. on dominator: elec/earth - melee splosion elec/thorny - just wonderous aoe, skip ripper and thorntrops elec/savage - sleep, then tp in sleep, then tp in can be also achieved with spring attack from leaping pool, which you can proc up but has high base cooldown.

its a quite common one. you don't need to look hard. that's why they picked it.

is that not the duty of every community minded player? why does this thread exist? to call to a problem, consider it and give attention - and ideally provide discussion for admins to think upon - and fix it. we should not have to endure another spike like seen, and dealt with promptly - nor should we have a pox upon public chat channels.

but it is, when you start linking pejoratives with a placeholder word, and not a clever one either - where do 'pandas' come from? why would you want to harm them and har har about it in public chat? why would you just use the word as a placeholder for other things? to be racist, and enjoy non-culpability, more than likely. it is not reasonable to want to 'round (em) up <pandas>, and burn them in a pit' -- its a placeholder to allow one to be awful.

the quality of the paper may be awful - and to point, why do you think they spelled something about covid as pandAmonium? its that which appeals to the kind that do the same in public channels on excelsior. 'woo woo'? ignorant, knowing of it and rolling about in it. yes, unfortunately.

it's pretty much akin to calling COVID-19, the 'China virus'. its a type that does, that whole counter-culture a prior poster mentioned. the 'deplorables', others would say.

did you talk about putting pandas in a pit and setting them aflame? or bbqing them? or starving them? <place word> <insulting text> ===> non-culpable?

for about 20m after the recent wall of hate incident, no. but yes. if anything of a furor at these folks should the astartes have shot the inquisitor in the head?

it is probably referring to people from a part of the world... when you say 'put xyz in a pit', 'string up abc' you don't need vast intellect, nor to be possessed of a madness, to see a malaise.

see maybe its me being extremely unlucky, but that is not the play experience i encounter every day or two - an event like the racist post swarm IS exceptionally rare. however, snide remarks, targeted xenophobia (see pandas, what ine does to pandas, what one wants to do to pandas, how one burns pandas in a pit... its regular enough to have me wondering if everlasting is free of this) a thin shroud, and the same offenders (probably) i dont want to filter them, because they announce on public channels and this ends up hurting a lot of people. i want to see it when it happens, scold them, report them if an issue can be contrived, and i want it to go away.

thorny. it has diversity of powers, toxic dots, and you can skip thorntrops and the ripper cone. for melee on dom: earth assault is hard to beat. pairs well with elec, or fire, or illusion... or anything favoring pbaoe. sonic assault is alright. but earth you can put a lot of force feedbacks in, making permadom easier to achieve. i wrote a guide, just look for the tag you'd think of: #honoroitisfantastic

the machines can see humans, and some will decry it as end of an imagined privacy, before they were categorized many times a second. its already known, its more of a problem as to what to do to address the wickedness of Man. for every utterance that is in earshot, for every scratching put to media that can be seen. i welcome it. -- honoroit, herald of joy

im not going to get warned, so i'll simply say - you are you behind a keyboard, its why codes of conduct exist. they address the human.

what was more interesting to me was that whomever was doing it seemed to get squelched / removed, and were rapidly replaced with another who'd do the same in general, lfg and on. all in all it was a blanket across public channels lasting ~10m. it highlighted: - theres not a suppression mechanism in post frequency, especially of the same text, or if this is it only considers the single user posting - chat system probably susceptible to effective denial of channels, with only a handful of accounts - rapidity of account creation is a good safety, youd need to staye a number of accounts over time, connect them, and then carry out such an affair. i do not know if one can programmatically sign in and chat outside the game client, but you could drive the ui with a bank of precrested accounts. run that through a vpn for each and on each session - and you'd have a mess maker thatd create pressure-hassle to contain for admins. suppress on post frequency of repeating or highly similar text, keyword scanning prior to post execution, and other else those more versed in system could think to implement may create safety from such - i.e. system will not allow storms.