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Why Summon Blaster over Call Reinforcements? Call Reinforcements is the better power, no? Or does it not matter, because you're only after the S/L set bonus?

I think you're out of luck.

Freakshow Boss: Tank Smasher (Sawblade, Cybernetic Hammers, Hand Clap, Tank Grenade) Lieutenant: Juicer Chief (Lightning Bolt, Ball Lightning, Charged Bolts) Support: Noise Tank (Sonic Dispersion, Rock Anthem (PBAoE +Dam, +Rech click), Shriek (Partial Radial only)) Animus Arcana Boss: Forbidden Knowledge (Fire Ball, Bitter Ice Blast, Dark Obliteration, Arcane Bolt) Lieutenant: Crystal Ball (Lift, Spectral Wounds, Arcane Bolt) Support: Cure Wounds (Cure Wounds (targeted ally heal), Regeneration Aura, Arcane Bolt (Partial Radial only)) (Looks like the contact Rejuvenate in the Midnighter Mansion) Ghosts Boss: Poltergeist (Smite, Midnight Grasp, Life Drain, Dark Obliteration) (Looks like a Spectral Daemon Lord) Lieutenant: Wraith (Gloom, Umbral Torrent (knockdown version)) (Looks like a Spectral Daemon) Support: Wight (Midnight Grasp, Fade, Dark Blast (Partial Radial only)) (Looks like a Spectral Follower) Shivans Boss: Shivan Destroyer (Contaminated Strike, Radioactive Smash, Irradiate, Neutron Bomb, X-Ray Beam) Lieutenant: Shivan Irradiator (Neutrino Bolt, Electron Haze) (Looks like a Shivan Smasher) Support: Shivan Energizer (Radiant Aura, Accelerate Metabolism, X-Ray Beam (Partial Radial only)) (Looks like a minion Shivan) Paragon Police Boss: PPD Hardsuit (Bone Smasher, Laser Burst, Laser Spray, Foot Stomp) Lieutenant: PPD Shell (Minigun Burst, Minigun Spray) Support: PPD Guardian (Repair, Force Shield, Laser Burst (Partial Radial only))

Nah, ol' Stanno had more hair than Marchand.

Then what's the point of them having armor toggles? Running into and out of melee, hit-and-running with ranged and melee attacks? That's a Blaster. You've designed the Blaster.

What's going to happen if you give Assault sets to a DPS or tanking AT is you'll effectively have made another melee class. They'll need to use their melee attacks to fill their attack chain, so they'll be in melee all the time. Assault works for Dominators because they can fill their ranged chains with holds and such from their primary, and it might work for a Buff/Support class for similar reasons, but for a DPS class with a Defense Primary or Secondary? I don't see it being very different from the four melee classes we already have.

Archvillains resist debuffs including -ToHit by a large amount, and retain this resistance even when downgraded to Elite Bosses by your difficulty settings. However, normal Elite Bosses have no such universal debuff resistance (though it’s possible for individual examples of EB mobs to have some debuff resistance).

NPC only, I'm afraid.

This is true in some games, but there doesn't seem to be any reason for it in CoH. Jump Height and Jump Speed are discrete, separate stats, and there's no apparent reason why Hurdle's buff to the latter are so strong.

Energy Blast does have guaranteed knockback, in Power Push (and Sniper Blast IIRC). And it can knockback said boss with every attack; unlike Sonic or Dark who only have the one each. (And Sonic's has an accuracy penalty.)

More like Eternity of Glory!

You already opt out of incarnate content by not crafting any incarnate skills. A setting to disable drops and incarnate XP would only have the effect of you not seeing some otherwise harmless messages, which doesn't seem like a worthwhile addition.

Expanding on this, the glowy hands are synched with the old animation time as well - could that be fixed? Also, I noticed in the character creator that Fling Thorns in Thorny Assault seems to hit the target before the projectile even fires. Someone else was saying that the same thing happens in-game to Hurl Boulder in Earth Assault, and that's apparent in the creator as well. I wasn't able to test it out myself, but it seems like that probably happens in-game to Fling Thorns as well if it shows that way in the creator.

You kidding? Energy Blast's knockback means even bosses can be rendered temporarily harmless, long enough to dash in and get free hits with Energy Manipulation's excellent melee attacks. It's great synergy!

Actually, even with this change running the arc would still be by far the faster method of getting Dimensional Warder.

It seems ridiculous to me! With both, you jump 50% faster than you run at base. I always took Swift and never Hurdle before Stamina was inherent, because I hate how Hurdle turns you into a bunny-hopping weirdo if you want to move fast. I asked Castle once why it was that way, and all he said was "Weird math." Which makes no sense to me, since Combat Jumping barely increases your jump speed at all, so it doesn't seem like Hurdle HAS to make you jump faster in order to work.

Fly is already at the flight speed cap at all levels. There's nothing for the Jump Pack to buff. Try using it with Hover, or while Afterburner is running too.

If you read the description for the power you'd see that it's working as intended, many of the buffs kick in when the power is toggled off.

You'll appreciate your 50 more if you earn it.

I think it's a hoax.

I tried out the new Total Focus for Doms, I was afraid it'd look silly but it's fine. I like it. The only problem is the "whoosh" sound is synched with the normal, slow animation. Any chance a new one could be made that syncs with the new one? Edit: BUG! Power Burst in Energy Assault plays no sound on activation.

Well, forgive me if I'm out of line, but that makes it sound like you have endurance issues if you don't pace yourself. I tried out your build with the changes I posted about earlier (plus a few more) on Justin, and I was pretty pleased with the results. Just seems a shame to have so much melee and AoE defense and no powers to really take advantage of it. But I did notice a few other things you could improve on your build. For example, why Positron's Blast in Fire Breath? You could put Ragnarok in there and get better versions of all its set bonuses. You could even 5-slot Ragnarok minus the Damage IO, and keep the Positron's proc in exchance for losing the toxic and psi resist bonus. Also, you've six-slotted Ring of Fire with Enfeebled Operation to get the melee defense bonuses, but since you said your playstyle is to hover out of range and blast, why do you need the melee defense? You could put an Apocalypse or Gravitational Anchor set in there for more global recharge, for example, or put the slots into Melt Armor for some recharge and accuracy, or put some slots into Fly and Afterburner to make them faster. Lastly, about the endurance thing. I break into hives if I don't try to maximize recovery, so when I tried the build on Justin I changed the slotting for Cauterizing Aura. Instead of the Preventive Medicine set, I put 2 50+5 End Mod IOs, 2 50+5 Heal IOs, and a Performance shifter proc, and moved the last slot to Stamina for a 50+5 End Mod IO. (This cost a little global recharge, but I made some of it up by swapping the Positron's Blast in Fire Breath for Ragnarok, like I said above.) I actually forgot to slot the Panacea proc in Health, but had absolutely no end problems without it using that slotting, so you could put the Preventive Medicine proc in Health instead so you don't have to lose that proc.

(And the ninjas' version in the Summer Blockbuster too) Getting slowed to a crawl when fighting these guys suuuuuucks. If our characters have slow resistance, I'd like to be able to benefit from it.

It's the same as on the regular servers, a yellow circle when fast snipe is active. That said, I can foresee an issue where even though this isn't a nerf, it could feel like a nerf. On the normal servers, when you get that yellow ring, it's like a big "push me!" sign that you want to jump on. Now, that yellow ring is on pretty much all the time, but if you've been conditioned to nail that ring every time it appears, the damage will feel lower because the ring doesn't appear with the 22% ToHit threshold that makes the damage identical to what it used to be. Maybe the ring could be a different color if you have 22% or more ToHit?

Been trying out the 64-bit client, haven't noticed any real issues. We'll have to try to get a mothership raid or Hamidon raid running on Justin to see if our modern machines are still bottlenecking.