TheAdjustor

This is a very interesting thread, thanks to everyone that has participated in it. If I may interject there seems to be some talking at cross purposes and old assumptions being used. 1) just what is endgame content ? Our two raids ? Incarnate trials ? Task forces ? Re-Running early content through Ouro ? If you answer the question of what you want to do first it makes it much easier to answer the question of why one AT or another. 2) Fighting at range vs fighting in melee. If your goal is to do damage a blaster isn't your choice at all, blasters do the best ranged damage which isn't saying much and is pretty useless unless you always plan on flying or running with a tank or other aggro magnet. Both Blasters and Sentinels need to be in melee to do their top damage and even so there's only a few combinations that are actually worth the effort. Cryptic really hated the idea of ranged damage for some reason. 3) There's a lot of reference to the pylon thread. There's two problems there. Originally on the old forums they tried to discourage builds that specifically built to kill pylons. Pylons were picked because they were a target that provided some challenge to survive, and had a large enough reservoir of HP that they would provide a good measurement that wasn't just burst damage. These days we would probably need soloing Reichsman and his entire room to provide a good measurement.

I need a bewildered jaw drop reaction. Having the raid go badly and have to be cancelled is exactly what griefers want and while it's not what the afk leachers want it's really a no skin off their back situation seeing as they were afkish and leeching and anyway. I also have to ask just what form will "peer pressure" take ? You're going do what shun somebody's second/third/4th account ? That will show them. You may also find that most people really aren't itching to be part of a vengeance mob. Edit: Oh forgot to say this the firs time and wasn't plain but, If I spend 30-45 minutes getting a raid going why wouldn't I be mad that it had to be cancelled ? How the hell is that a wash ?

Haven't seen this mentioned before so I thought I would post. Mid's Reborn 2.603 update 6/8/2019 Loads /tactical arrow builds with raptor pack instead of electrified net arrow in the buld and won't remove raptor pack from the power slot.

Not even going to try and explain, it's obvious there is nothing to be gained.

I think it was likely server problems from load issues. Just a guess I try not to pretend to greater knowledge than I have. If the developers wanted to reinstate raid mechanics there's lots of ways to do that without doing this. If they felt the raid was being abused all that was needed to put hard diminishing returns on the raid. 1 reward every 20 hours would have done it.

You do love to make assumptions. I suppose it's just the tenor of the times. All people have to do, to grief is come in the zone and stay. That means people that want to participate can't get in and those that are have a much more difficult time. Which lets face it is the goal of griefing.

Good job nothing quite like seeing someone who can't see further than their nose try to be the navigator for everyone. The problem I was referring to is you will simply have the zone fill up with free loaders and griefers. No this is not speculation, it did happen on live and with some frequency.

Your miracle is other people's curse. Because of the mechanics of the Hami raid this will open up all kinds of problems for future raids and likely make it something only people who are in, in groups get to participate in.

I'd take blizzard over inferno every day of the week and twice on Sundays. Base Damage Inferno: 419.2 (~250 points initial tick plus 9 ticks for 18.77 points of cancel on miss fire damage ) Bilzzard: 417 points (75 ticks check for hit every time ticks) Pretty similar for base damage but oh man the other effects Blizzard -to hit, -speed, knockdown Inferno : Nothing !!! Blizzard is also ranged vs inferno being pbaoe

QFT and something the original devs were never able to understand or rather were never willing to come clean with playerbase about

Outside of new content or at least badges for Khalisti Wharf how about taking a look at revamping the AT scalars and the PPM system 1. The PPM system divides the damage sets into those that can abuse them and those that can't. Those that can have an enormous advantage over those that can't and it's much larger than the problem PPM was to fix aka Buzzsaw builds. Currently you can have 4 procs triggering in every activation that's fired off nearly as often as it would be under the old system, but under the old system there would be an expected value of a fraction of a proc activating. The old system helped equalize out the sets as the faster firing ones in general had lower damage abilitie. Percentage chance of procs allowed them to boost damage at the expense of set bonuses. 2. Currently you can build a tank that will outdamage about 80% of the blaster combinations, and just about everything a sentinel can do. You can do the same with the epics. Something is out of line and it was even on live. For some reason the original devs had an insane fear of range. Why ? who knows ? It might just be another case of Positron and the Empath badge, or a case of Castle fixing melee mastermind pets by destroying the value of recharge. Either way it sticks out like a sore thumb.

No it's on and works. I just used it a few minutes ago.

Fire and Ice are the two big primaries for a blaster. In that thread there's Ice/fire doing mid 500s. Really there are just so many blaster power sets it's not funny. I think it was I9 when Castle ? (It's been awhile and I really didn't care for Castle, being friendly with players is nice competence would have been preferred*) rebalanced all t1 and t2 blasts to awful. *TBF it may not have been incompetence the idea that they deliberately put things into the game that are bad because people trying in frustration to make them good would still have been profit is certainly something to consider. Edit: and thinking a little bit about it, time to reconsider my ice mental build.

Mid 200 dps isn't bad. Blasters in general have crap ST damage. (Really the simplest fix and the best for the AT instead we got all kinds of weirdness that would have had the lives devs nerfing till the AT was toxic to everyone) With the current proc per minute situation situation ice might well be able to to beat fire. Freeze ray can do an easy 500 dpa. Don't know what the best blaster time is I believe I saw a fire electric pull three hundred and change in the pylon thread

Stalkers/Masterminds/Aoe Blasters/Tanks/Defenders and all very well.

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Nah I am the idiot I didn't read all the hidden sections.

The corruptor/defender version of time will let you easily softcap defense to everything make certain you can hit everything,and give excellent debuffs and team support

That's a really impressive build the high across the board defense is very impressive. I have to ask though what was your dps on the pylon and how does it compare to a scrapper ? In general Blappers of any sort seem to me to be personal challenge toons for people who think that scrappers are too easy.

I am sorry but you are mistaken. Solo Farmers are if anything deflationary because they have highest Goods/Inf production ratio. Teams are the problem seeing as while everyone doesn't get as much overall, there is considerably more inf generated /(kill- salvage- recipe)

Ice/Ment should fit the bill. Drain Psyche is something of a pain to use, but you have a very good single target attacks. /ment's cone attack is excellent and rounds out any aoe chain, and blizzard is hands down the best nuke in the game you might not be able to proc it out but you don't need to. No snipe though.

Gotta say it was fun on live. I remember one day somebody bragged on the channel they wanted to drive up the price of psionic threat reports and I was glad to help them out

Not to be a downer but at 3 converters/merit and listing at 90k/converter will get you 27 million gross/ 100 merits and 24.3 million net with almost no effort.

Sonic devices seems ridiculously safe. Sirens Song, Time Bomb and Howl for the fun. If you like drop some mines on the way to you and toss caltrops in front of them. Doubt it even really needs a build to make it work.