WindDemon21

It would in no way overpower MA to grant that defense bonus on scrappers and stalkers as well, since clearly tanks and brutes can get it and they are even better with their defensive capabilities.

I've often thought that storm kick should be a cone so much, that I honestly thought that was a change to the power and that it was a cone now XD. It really makes sense that it would be a cone, like when a fighter in a movie does a roundhouse that kicks like 3 enemies in the face with one motion etc. But the issue is that if tanks and brutes have it, its an addition that was needed for the set and should be available to scrappers as well. I like the stylishness of MA, but until I thought that MA got that defense bonus I would never have considered rolling another MA toon again for how lacking the aoe is, and the animations for even the single target feel kinda slow for that being it's specialty, and being one of the most resisted damage types in the game.

Sets are also not supposed to be balanced around 600 million influence builds either, which to get that much defense you would have to be using multiple purple, winter, and ATO sets.

It's only aoe dragons tail only has an 8ft radius. Of course the set is decent to single target cause it specializes in that more but even at that it's still only smashing damage which is one of the most resisted in the game. When compared to *most* sets it is on the bottom tier easily as most content is focused around having aoe damage as it is. I'm not saying I dont like MA. It's very stylish and I want to love it, but it should have the defense bonus on scraps and stalkers as well and it wouldn't break anything on the set. Honestly dragons tail should be earlier in the set as well at least swapped with CAK. For how low the set is for aoe it should at least get it sooner. But back to the main issue it should have the defense bonus on those two classes as well and it would easily not break the set (and 5% extra crit chance is definitely not worth the tradeoff of losing that global defense bonus, and it would give a lot more flexibility in builds for MA as well.)

Yes this was on a tanker. On a side note that's absurd if the other ATs dont have that. Stupid crap like that is why I hated the devs that I would hope the new devs would put more effort to correcting these type of mess ups from the old devs.

You need to play it then, cause it does. It has a 5 target splash damage in a small radius around the enemy you hit with it. It may have been bugged on the mission I was on, or some other factor, or they had a new patch fixing that part of it cause it seems to be working for the splash damage now. The bonus buff however is still broken and needs fixed asap.

I posted a bug report for it, and supposedly it only gives the defense bonus to tanks and brutes? Which it even scales the value down to 7.5% for brutes which should clearly be given to scrappers and stalkers as well. MA overall is pretty lacking in general, it's aoe is one of the worst in the melee classes, and it's damage type is one of the most resisted in the game. There is no reason that scrappers and stalkers shouldn't get the defense bonus from it as well. Someone mentioned that it has a higher crit chance, but checking the power 5% more chance to crit is WAYYY not worth it to lose that 7.5% defense bonus to all damage. Please update this power correctly to provide the defense bonus for scrappers and stalkers. I would gladly lose that 5% extra crit chance. (which btw brutes still gain fury off of the power, AND get that defense boost, and tanks get the defense boost, and also gauntlet from it as well, so saying that it gets extra crit for it is kinda absurd either way, and no, i want to pair it as a scrapper with ninja for a ninja theme, so i'm not rolling as a brute, and that defense bonus that it should rightfully have is pretty crucial to the build)

The lasting buff form sky splitter for the recovery, regen, and to hit values has been broken for a while now. I think someone said they tried to patch it the other day to fix it, but it's still broken, and now the power isn't even doing it's aoe damage either now.

That's specific to "ai" psuedo pets. patch-pets like burn etc still benefit though. Additionally though i'll point out every chance I get that they need to remove the fear component in tornado. Even with the kb-kd IO in it, it makes the power basically useless outside of AVs unless you have an aoe immobilize to prevent them from running halway accross the map into multiple other mobs.

Ice armor is great, on a tank you should be able to cap your defense anyway, but with MA its nice and easy with the 10% global defense buff it gives with storm kick, and ice armor will give you extra aoe damage with icicles, and its aoe aggro control will help offset the lack of aoe that MA has. It's a really solid combo. If you really want to use that MA defense buff though roll a Dark/MA, WP/MA, or Invuln/MA, they use it better, Especially Dark armor, plus the stuns stack with OG so it's super fun. I would agree I think rad melee is the best pairing with the heal, and even more aoe, plus good ST attack damage. But spines is also great for the best aoe taunting because spine burst is up faster, and it and quills have a larger radius to them, plus throw spines. unfortunately quills isn't until 35 though (rads toggle may be as well i have to check), but it does get ripper at like level 16 i think so you can have a better attack chain sooner. The -rech/-speed also stacks with Ice Armor's. Any of the weapons sets work pretty well with it too really, Ice Armor can handle it's own when slotted up.

We need to be able to slot the universal travel sets, ie blessing of the zephry kb and winters gift slow resistance IOs into the sprint powers.

To restate, it does ON AVERAGE seem to have a lower value as the enemies get higher above you, but this is not how it's supposed to work. It's supposed to be a guaranteed buff of that amount regardless of what level the enemies are or how many you hit with it. As stated, Against +2s or +3s i was fighting, I will get 66% or 54% recovery on AVERAGE instead of what's supposed to be 83%, but that doesn't mean that sometimes against the same exact enemy, even when fighting just one of them, that the buff won't randomly go lower or higher on that same enemy. It is unfortunately almost always lower than it should be 95% of the time.

I was literally just about to post this. I submitted a bug report but they just tell me to post on the forums. I have reported several things so far on there and they'll get one or two replies, never from anyone in charge and then nothing ever happens 😕 It does on average seem to have a lower value when fighting higher level enemies, but this is not how it's supposed to work, and still doesn't mean anything as it will still randomly change even if you fight the same level all the time. One rare instance it even took me to 8.33% recovery per second which was the cap for my level, this was against +2s or +3s mind you, when the next combo sky splitter did only 54% recovery off the same exact enemy, to which it's of course supposed to always be 83%, and the regen 125%. Of course the high ones are very rare, and almost always performs with the buff smaller than what it's supposed to be. It also has zero effect on how many enemies you hit with it. This is not supposed to affect it, but just in case you were thinking that may be part of what it's doing it's not. I'm on a tank as well in case maybe it works right for other ATs, but it is definitely not on a tank. It's bad that i'm just finding this (just got sky splitter yesterday) and noticing that you posted this from October 2nd and still not even one reply :/.

OMG i've noticed and said this a lot. Tremor on my stone/rad brute is also a very big offender. Generally any rock particles.

Friend asked me to make a build for these two sets and is having trouble logging in so I'm posting them here for ease of use and discussion if anyone has any suggestion: Bots/Dark: http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/download.php?uc=1463&c=672&a=1344&f=HEX&dc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hugs/Storm: http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/download.php?uc=1464&c=656&a=1312&f=HEX&dc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

Clearly as I just stated a +1 boss killed it in about 5 seconds that's not really true. Sure it may be more resilient than other pets but its inability to be healed is far outweighs that in many circumstances. I did find where there was a change back in issue 6 but there were no values listed and I couldn't find a lot of later issues, so bottom line that at one point it definitely was, and in today's game especially since it's not able to be healed its resistances should be brought back up to compensate.

I've been playing mine through 3 different iterations since 2004 as well and there is no way. Before the kb-kd proc even I would cast him near the mob and he'd tank it easily against decently tough mobs. The whole reason it can't be healed is specifically why it had those capped resistances. Otherwise it's way too big of a drawback to not being able to heal it if its not. IIRC it may have been lower at start, but then when they made it so you can only have one at a time I believe is when it was set to capped resistance but could be wrong on that timing. At any rate if it can't be healed it needs that capped resitance as that was always its trade-off. I'm not the only one who's noticed this as well, within a minute or two last night had three other people who also noticed this. There was no way for a non heal-able pet that he died within 5 seconds from just one +1 boss. I used to specifically test him on live for this.

I remember on live it had capped resistances at 90% to all, and 100% to Psi damage, which is the very reasoning why it is not affected by heals at all. Something has bugged in the interim and its only listing as 50% resistances, which outside of smashing damage is lower than even the animate stone. It's controllery aspect is the offset of the generally much lower/less usable controls that gravity has so isn't and never did play a factor in its resistances. That was always the reason that it was unable to be healed which is a pretty big gimp if it doesn't have those capped resistances. Tested last night, 7 even level carnie minnions killed it pretty easily, when it was in the middle even with the kb-kd proc in it. Next a +1 malta zeus titan boss (not kronos) killed it in no joke 5 seconds. This should definitely not be, and was not, the case on live when it had capped resistances, and needs fixed asap.

I would fully support that funny. It also bugs me how most cones have only a 10 target cap when takes have a 16 target cap.

I can see both sides spotlore. Where that can be true, mobs usually move around and you have to reposition the cones anyway though. However as the tier 9 it should keep its 80 ft range, but 20 degrees is just far too thin and needs to be at least 30 or 45 degrees.

I would definitely be fine with 45 degrees as well (60 would start to not make sense unless you moved it left and right like flamethrower). I'm not sure cause I forgot to check that but if not it should definitely be 16 target max as well.

To start here I would advise dropping the end reduction in superior invis as it was changed to only be .2 end/sec it's not that big of a drain. For the alpha also go agility core, will grant extra end mod for stamina/chrono shift, and will also boost all your defense powers to cap, which don't forget incarnate content is 57 or 59% to hit the soft cap, and then adds on recharge as well for everything and can lax slotting/save money on purples etc. With all the rech you will also really not need time stop outside of the -regen for AVs/monsters so minimal slotting is needed for acc/end/rech perhaps, maybe to the 4 slots just for the rech from basilisks gaze but probably wouldn't even bother that far depending on slotting, and even that is such low -regen i wouldn't really bother with the power at all, its much more useful on a defender/corrupter who doesn't already get a good ST hold power. You'll also really want to have hover for an Illusion controller, there is no beating it with it's playstyle and I almost always use cj on any other toon. I also wouldn't skip on Temporal Selection, it's a very good buff and it's regen component can help a lot as well. Also for spectral terror, you won't want to slot for fear, as that can cause it to stack and make enemies run away, and it's base fear is mostly around it's aura that you want which pretty much perma's on them as it is unslotted. You'll want to slot it with 4 Dark Watchers Despair for the extra to hit debuff and 5% rech vs 6.25% which isn't much of a loss in those terms. Time's juncture is also very good for this as well to extra stack the -to hit, and it's also great with the slow to help protect you should anything get too close. Also, distortion field's chance to hold is only 2 or 3%, it's not worth slotting for that. You'll want to slot it for a little slow to help control the battlefield and keep them in the spectral terrors aura more. It will save you slots as well. Also, when you powerboost group invis, which can be cast right after farsight as well, Here is the build I would use for an ill/time, apologies for spectral terror which would have the 4 DWD, and the other empty slots are for kb-kd IO which pines also does not have: http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/download.php?uc=1477&c=686&a=1372&f=HEX&dc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

I've stated this during live many times and IMO still rings true, but the cone for full auto should be 30 degrees and not 20. The same I would say for Night Fall as well. 20 degrees is just far too thin for a blast aoe attack. I'm very good with cones, but it's a consistent annoyance vs any other cone in the game (even melee like golden dragonfly as thats more of a 2-3 enemies only in a direct'ish line)

The +regen component which is listing as a proc and not unique is not stacking with multiple slottings of this IO.

Again though it should be a pbaoe toggle at least as well then. And as mentioned it's only like 12% base recovery in the end which is insanely paltry even with an included, but insanely weak heal over time. Regarding the values if it procd every second it would be about where it should be at.