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You have left out what powers. The enhancement sets for Knockback increase KB distance except the proc in force feedback that turns it to knockdown. Energy Mastery power build up says it does but it does not. Was changed and text is outdated. Without what power is giving you the knockback 50% kind of firing blind

Yes. The team handled that fine. I had the easy job as the fire3 blaster. Kill anything near team. If confused about primary target then Target thru the tank

Lambda. I heard that could happen. Never seen it. Hey, we’ve all done stupid things. Uh, or at least according to 31.11% of polls I have. So, you’re in great company!

blame jeff....errrrr, The Blue Raja

Dark is a resist set. That uses game mechanics for defense instead of regular "defense" Non suppressing stealth. Less folks see you. less folks attack you. Defense Stun Arua. stunned folks do not attack you. Defense Fear Aura. Feared opponents attack you way less. Defense To hit debuffs. lowering your opponents chances of hitting. Defense. Then the best heal in the game. Nothing else comes close to that heal.

when you build up some ban and want to run at 50 i would re roll this as a BA / Invul and use a hyperstrike invul build. at 50 invul does everything willpower does and more. a lot more survivable. invul brutes can serve as main tanks in master of attempts in most TF/SF if you know the game.

Well i had been slumbering in my coffin. But since you woke me up… My favorite Tanker is an invulnerability/dark. Damned near unkillable. But one year for winter i made an ice/ice theme tank. It was insane how easy it was to tank, because everyone in the room hated him. It was like people were telling people a hundred feet away to swarm the tank. At least it felt that way. Lot of agro. A lot. Dark Armor is stronger on a Tank. No doubt. And the AoE increase is nice on Dark/Dark. Very nice. But since Dark Armor uses non suppressed stealth as a survival trick it acts the OPPOSITE of ice armor. Making it, in my mind, just more work to tank with. Because i am a lazy old vampire.

So… a few days ago i did a pug 2 star itf that was so bad. How bad was it? Bad enough to write about lol. Last night I was with Justice Superteamers on Excelsior. There were 10-11 of us. We split into two teams. Regular 4/8 kill most and a 2 star. I was on the 2 star. We had 2 Tanks a Fender a dom, a troller, and me on a Fire3 Blaster. We finished in smart form with deaths in mid 30s. Not a PUG, on Discord. But 6, light on “pure dps,” and i thought it would be “hard”. Good feeling

Keep smiling and casually steal as much random stuff as you can. Might come in handy.

The common denominator on all bad pugs. Sigh.

Thanks. I am going to rebuild my Blaster based on everything I learned from my Corr. I will come back to the Dom. But it has two powers that give off a brilliant rainbow …. Not great lol.

NEVER attune a purple. It is 1) a waste. Purples are by nature attuned. They are a 50 only set with set bonuses that attune down to one. 2) if you attune them you cannot boost them. So, only buy them in the crafted enhancer section off AH, unattuned. +5 most purple sets is overkill and gets very little back once ED beats it down. Having said that over half my slotted purples are +5 boosted. Because….

I do not know where you get the idea I okay as support. I play the Dark Corr as a Blaster and am trying to figure if Dom does more dps. Taking out the + range removes damage as it lessens cone aoe. It also decreases ranged dps survivability. Imo

My “meta plot” take on it is simple, yet complex. Also, absolutely true. Journey with me…; The CoH/CoV starts when you create a character. Day one. Every single character has the same day one. Now, it is about to get through the looking glass weird. As you progress from level 1 to 50 (and this could take 3 hours in an event like mapserver. Or years.) The game. Does not. Change. Ever. Day one. It looks like the clocks turn, day turns to night, to day. But CoH/V time is “stuck” on a specific day. The Menders know this. They take advantage of it. They want your help. To 1) fix all the things wrong with today. ( admitted by them, although they leave out the “today” part) 2) find a way to move the whole world past “day 1”. ( they will never admit this and probably not all Menders know).

yeah, the gather shadows rainbow thing.... like, dam.... i have an seismic/temp blaster and a seismic/earth blaster but have not tried those powers on a dom yet. Seriosly considering dropping the dark/dark dom over the two rainbow powers. It is not F-ing Twilight over here....

I would LOVE to talk to dollface. The demon that is wearing her like a sock? Not so much.

fearsome stare is a MUST for any Dark player. I play a lot of dark, every AT, this power is Gold. Do i hit it EVERY time it is off cooldown? No. Do i lean into it as soon as I see a large group? Oh yeah. Do I hit it again on a large group? Oh yeah. Trying to determine if I need to fit Haunt and Unmral Beast back in. I really dislike pets, except in rare circumstances. Haunt is less pet than strange ST attack. But what could I drop to get it in? Soul Consumption? Which is more of an O crap button on a build I try to play ranged. The thing plays well. Trying to determine if I like it better than Corr, and it is definitely different than that.

So I am trying out a dominator now. i have this dark dark dom all situated. the costume, hand colored every power. dark, evil. oh, and the domination power? looks like a unicorn crapped on my head.... why is an "villain" archetype set up with this pretty pretty princess affect color for their signature archetype power. which cannot be recolored?

here is my version. Dominator (Darkness Control - Dark Assault) 2024 v 1.1.mbd

That is what I have, the "joke" wasa a Tank-Mage. And i made it a undead sorcerous Invul/KM that stood around looking like it was casting spells. It wasnt horrid....and it achieved the look....but not crushing any records for anything.

nevermind figured it out...

i want fat characters available in CoH. this would be a great vamp

For starters I would go with a rock solid set like Invul, if you can fit that into a concept. Aim for a Hyperstrike build. Although Invul with just SO enhancers is dam good. If you dont mind the crash Super Strength is awesome. part of this is the giant +to hit that is part of the set. The overloaded DPS makes up for it being S/L. If shit is not res to S/L it is insane. Claws and Savage are both fast hard hitting sets. Energy Melee is a solid ST performer, and now has decent AoE Dark Melee is a very hard hitting ST set with a toolkit of heal/+end/to hit debuffs going for it. The pairing of Dark/Invul will make one of the toughest Brutes walking. Dark has little AoE and some people hate the melee cone. There are some sets I would avoid, combo sets and gimmick sets do not do well late game. I have run Kinetic melee at 50. do not do that lol.

bwah hah hah. there is a story there actually. in my dabbling in art i have studied about people that hoard "junk" and create art. one of my instructors did this and was becoming quite successful with her work. i grok it, yet find it beyond my skill. taking beautiful pigments and destroying them by trying to make them into something on canvas is the height of my ability.