honoroit

so what is the story. im building out a shield/stone, which is awesome.. and have skipped taunt this far. Ive 1x power pick left, and its taunt or tactics. a year or so back id tried to make taunt effective, and ended up going with provoke as well, to get enough mob grab. is it really only 5 mobs? or is it like punch-voked, a la contageous confusion spread like. taunt enh seem to increase the time of taunt, as opposed to a threat table as you might be used to in other mmo. problem: it doesnt work for any amount of time. the auras are better for that but they are very short ranged. im solving for this with shield charge and leap attack (which is very good, but gets a bad rep for reasons i dont understand)... i.e. move to the problem, and the aggro tends to switch to you very quickly. so is taunt needed, rather is it practical to take and six slot the thing? problem: theres too many targets, it captures action time, 5 is too low. so i havent taken it, and dont think i will. seems normal these days to NOT take it, even if primarily switching about targets, being hardy enough to herd, watching for strays... and for me teleporting to them, or using the quite ample cc of shield/stone/earth.

im only being silly. its an entertaining thread 🙂 -- likewise

dark affinity's soul absorb ->> so very good for recovery and regen, coupled with the -hit on haunt, the doggo, all your skills, tar patch, dark servant... a 40y radius on shadow fall, fade... mobs hit rate is reduced, significantly. if they hit you, your pushing res all, and a small bit of def, if people are nearby, lucky them.

i avoid the hard content because players are uncommonly nasty there, or can tend to be. its not an issue of player skill or reading to arrange set bonuses (thats not as hard as youd think considering all the give me build posts), nor doing homework for abc mechanic. it just feels unpleasant, to me. im too tired for that mess. prisms? farm, or cash in reward merits for seasonals and ah. (people are mean on excelsior, sometimes)

that will definately piss off teams, and nerf you - theyre lotg mules if nothing else. dark dark stacks. the pets stack. stuff cant hit you. you like dark. slows are ok'ish, undervalued. but there's a cap on it or some such, i want to say 85% down? infrequency of hits / coupled with slow, is helped by def so the fewer rolls dont connect. nothing is safer on teams, than what I've personally been able to bring with dark/dark control. most interesting controller? probably grav/kin (to me) right now. never done ice, its due a buff.

darkness affinity is pretty special, and unique, on controllers: fade / soul absorb, tar patch...the silly pet... its good. cold does def shields and debuffs on too long timers (coming off of poison as compare)

it better not be an encoding of insurgent coordinations. it isnt, its too infrequent to represent anything other than named actor(s) selection criteria or something like radio frequency channel options. *bandwidth of interchange too low, unless multiplexed with lyrics or waveform of song, or location of recording studio, other else). too tenuous. unlikely. other than that, id not make it a concern. i would put nothing past the domestic insurgent. and foreign insurgents, in times past, have used world of warcraft for mild coordinations. you could get map topograph similitudes there on /loc. could in paragon too, what cross section should the xyz happen at at <selection> from seemingly disconnected subject matter post. worry if they start rapidly spewing encrypted baseN strings to coh chat. its only useful as its deeply obfuscated as a channel, inoquous to access, and hides in plain sight within. wind whispers. is it this, or is it people sharing music, people overreacting, then an upsurge to take the piss? there was an upsurge of music track posts to general yesterday. yes... suspicious... -- honoroit, the vigilant

id still beat you in pvp. ^ (this isnt very productive, you sound like a peacock looks showing off its plumage)

i hate farming, only do it because of my new obsession with prismatic costumes (prisms were over 4.5m each yesterday!) spines/fire. dont dual box. the character cant die normally, but recently if i zone out/micronap (regularly) while farming ive noticed a crash that happens where theyll end up killing me. dunno what it is, sometimes my health just plummets, and youre needing like 4x good lucks to plug the hole. i do that big mob tunnel one mainly, no elite bosses, it seems slower to have them on, less inf and no appreciable drop change i notice.

went psi / mental - character "complicate". very happy so far: i did NOT realize that psi snipe grants 10s of 50% range!! makes the cones big. drain psyche isnt as awful as id remembered. /atomic is an awesome set, but i was so put back by dark/atomic coming from a fire/fire (i hate that slow pbaoe where you spread your arms in /fire).... dark atomic had niche on hard targets, but aside was...nit great. theres such a thing as an overload of single target ranged, and dark/atomic felt like that. psi mental, no, its like a better fortunata (albeit without the support functions)

mind / psi. yup yup. rolled me a psi/mental blaster for the weekend. its fantasmagorical. got the name 'complicate' - one of my fav mesmer skill names from guild wars, so im set. psst. telekinesis is awesome on a dom. its a pulsing mag 6. put that on as a base, and youll even punch through purple triangles / av mag 50 cc stack to plough through. unfortunately theres a reset and theyll snap out, but a mind dom using telekinesis and stacking dominate, is the only one that can really do that. mass hypnosis is also great. use it as a brief interrupt. because dark is borrrring. have fun, whatever you decide! schrödinger's profit.mp4

humans, talking. filling the air. its ok not to care about it, but this is harmless, no? why? they are happy and are sharing that. thats typically friendly behavior, one might suppose. try to endure it?

agree, i used it on a dark/atomic (not a great combo, decent st, i guess, but quite abyssmal in practice - but that was dark's fault not atomic) psi seems better than dp, which is the other i considered, plus i like the sfx of psi! positronic punch was kinda slow tho, compared to say seismic smash, its like a second slower.

psi primary got buffed. i wanna believe that something can approach fire (not on robots, but otherwise!) secondary tho... there's mental manipulation - but it has a less than great lvl 20 in drain psyche, that can backfire on you if you mistime it after mobs get 1 shot. sonic manip seems good, and I hear wonders about temporal as a de facto choice in rounds... I'm conflicted.

yes! ive never made a nin, im always paranoid ill roll another dark/atomic blaster and realize... oh, this is SHIT.... but nin stealth (and energy's?) has only like an 8s delay before your hidden again, which is similar or at what stalker hide is. their ato's are better, but they dont get titan weapons, and a lot of sets get stripped of aoe. ty for suggestion.

you can move them, then fulcrum shift. you can banish them in a way that doesnt (certainly shouldnt) upset people because phased. your pet is good/great. you address controller dmg low with a solid st chain and some aoe splash. youre a /kin. negatively, i guess, your immob doesnt prevent knock. but w/e its not too fiddly, as ive seen it. if you dont mind spoilers play a little on brainstorm (beta) as pvl and see if your going to like what arises. bear in mind thats like walking into a max lvl character youve not grpwn with, which can naturally cause a distaste.

any thoughts on a good secondary for titan weapon scrapper? fire - the new rez is a pbaoe nuke if you can go below 75% health. stone - a dmg global, geode is alright i guess bio - every character i make is bio, but its good. dark - does it work?? it is end HEAVY with all the things on, many toggle. nin - cool moves 😎, but.. a lot of fluff it appears. energy - go for recharge?? elec - dunno. other??? offensive as primary goal. what might you advise?

a few glow in the 'cyber-something-or-other' set, 6 for example has a nice ring around the left arm that glows very brightly and meshes well with magic'ey concepts. but not like the tsoo incarnate glow. there is a tsoo incarnate prism costume if you wanna drop 40M.

the delay is troublesome - as theres often a steamroll race to incarnate-zap / aoe open, but meta-game-wise you can think it a few seconds to gtfo if you dont want the threat in range.

thread shouldnt be locked, a community management solves issues by confronting them. it's rare, but theres on occassion some just awful hatespew on excelsior, often abstracted 'just a bit' so a crew enfaging in it can skirt a line, while, intendong only to harm. i dont know if this is just an excelsior problem, but it exists. for any given, does this intend to harm. theres a good measure, and one not at all subjective when topics get all 5th column.

there is such thing as mind poison. some of it is views, sure, they differ. and some of it is just poison - only intended to harm and generate culture of harm. to paraphrase an earlier poster; they bloody well know better.

i just dont want to encounter the worst of right wing America, masquerading as thought police, of spewing diatribe, anywhere. talk about whatever, just don't try to rez a lost war. such presence demeans our community.

people who dislike politics tend to have off view, and dont like that coming up in a forum where theyre exposed. the bigot, the fascist, the twisted to abuse - those that foster unkindess of thought and work that to belief or self definition... theres a segment of those - at least on excelsior.

theyre troublesome to collect in reasonable amounts from leveling content, which tends to be where i play, at least. sometimes 1x for tf, rarely more.