Snarky

energy blast is so pretty. and, besides (like everyone) doing less damage than Fire, pays a 1 slot penalty on every power... so does less DPS than any other Blast set in game.

i struggle wuth this a lot across various powersets and ATs. "Dark" and "black" are not consistent. some turn the area around your character inky splorch, while others do shades of grey. many "Dark" powers are actually colored with blues and purples. not to mention most "orig" power colors are 3-4 color mixes, then when you option to bright or dark you get 2.

decades for this guy to find the "secret" next week hundreds have "discovered" it too...

Welcome Home Victory Villains! Err…Heroes!

In higher level content this exists. Adding it to low level PuGs is trolling imo. As it is “The Really Hard Way” badge is nigh unattainable due to “mechanics”. It is easy if the league does very specific things. But that requires teamwork, knowledge, leadership, and the ability to follow instructions…. Cosmic Council used to do it once a week, the boss fight taking under 5 min and 99% successful

have you tried fire?

Yes, the DPS increase is quite disingenuous in my opinion. Having to place KB->KD slots is a DPS penalty. Energy Blasters are a great example. Asking for a way out of that is POWERGAMING!!!!!!!

Everyone has an opinion. And i appreciate the feedback. I do. i am honestly shocked there is so much pro knockback votes. 3 is obvs a joke. But peeps against option 2??? Interesting indeed

I did a “tank mage” invul/kinetic melee tank. It did indeed fight from short “range” quite a lot. It….was not my most exciting run. Adding in ranged pool attacks would make this more “ranged” but also stretch a Brute build into even more contorted caricature of itself. It CAN be done. I have a friend who runs “toggle man” taking only powers that are toggles. Obviously they do not inflict this strangeness on unknowing PUGs. It performs…like a toon using only toggles.

Arent all Soldiers of Arachnos “natural” even the armored crab spiders?

I love the fact every CoH group has their own rhythm.

I would suggest Null have a on/off for Knockback. Global to character. 1) default. Powers act as normal 2) knockback to knockdown. ALL powers act as if they have a KB->KD in them 3) bonus option. All powers do knockback. Muah hah hah

Synapse is a dice roll. People do not have slots to invest in things like KB->KD and are experimenting with new powers. Makes it hilarious. Be patient and relax into the madness

this soloes well, but it is all about tactics (depending on missions/settings) at +0/x1 any Blaster should run great. the trick to utilize this "F U from over here" build is to really hit hard first. The nuke is great for that. using bonfire and fracture to control any ambushes. then knocking down the most dangerous enemies in the spawns with ST until the nuke pops back up.

i would never give up that hard hitting nuke. it is a case of "dont just spam it" you have to know it is needed and 90% likely not to be wasted. here is my oddball take on it. leveraging even more range for safety... Blaster Seismic Earth 2024 v1.02.mbd

Xx FLAMING DINGUS xX is my alt acct farmer. You know I destroy PUGs. Probably a bad decision…

many farmers easily achieve this. netting vet levels per hour. Goddess Lauciana is a major event leader on Excelsior. the character is loved and played. a lot! if you play the toon vet levels come easily.

from Wiki.... In the Sinosphere, qi (/ˈtʃiː/ CHEE)[note 1] is traditionally believed to be a vital force part of all living entities. Literally meaning 'vapor', 'air', or 'breath',[2] the word qi is polysemous, often translated as 'vital energy', 'vital force', 'material energy', or simply 'energy'.[3] Qi is also a concept in traditional Chinese medicine and in Chinese martial arts. The attempt to cultivate and balance qi is called qigong. Believers in qi describe it as a vital force, with one's good health requiring its flow to be unimpeded. Qi is a pseudoscientific concept,[4][failed verification][5] and does not correspond to the concept of energy as used in the physical sciences,[6][7][8] with the notion of vital force itself being abandoned by the scientific community.[9] Chinese gods and immortals, especially anthropomorphic gods, are sometimes thought to have qi and be a reflection of the microcosm of qi in humans, both having qi that can concentrate in certain body parts.[10] my own take.... "magic" generally refers to things/powers/events that primitive people cannot define or scientists say is impossible. (again, my take) In this context it is easy to describe Chi as "Magic", yet it could very easily be considered "Natural" or, with a nod to Stan Lee & Co. "Mutant" (in that people with extraordinary Chi were actually mutants and that was the word used to describe people's extraordinary powers...)

you can work around this. at least i can on the Razer devices. on Razer you can define buttons to be things like Alt+Shift+F7. then in game you can bind that to the button by putting the /macro button you create in alt tray 1 or alt tray 2. then in menu options match the Alt+Shift+F7 to that tray sl;ot. click the razer button, which activates the key strokes, which the game recognizes activate alt tray 1 slot 8, and in that slot is /macro "kill them all" clunky but works.

i too believe the Rogue Isles should improve escort services and provide this to Blue and Gold areas as well.

and neither does stacking as celerity+stealth with field operative. i have already whined my way thruogh all possible alternatives lol i will 99% chance be on a Stalker, although a Bane or a Dom are still bouncing thru my head...

I am not regurgitating anything for anybody if that is where this is going….

Exactly. Freedom!

i am starting to understand!