KaizenSoze

Yes, it is a weird quirk of VEATs. Because there are two exclusive power branches, you have to pick one at level 24.

Gentle, gentle, don't scare him away. We must coax him into the dark... Archnos side. Did anyone remember the cookies?

First question, Night Widow or Fortunata? What is your budget? Widows drink endurance, so if you're on just SOs, make sure and slot endurance reducers. Night Widow you should go for melee. Night Widow AOEs suck, Poison Dart is a decent single target ranged attack. The Epic pool will give you Gloom which is a very good ranged attack. Fortunata - I would go for hybrid melee/ranged.

Yes, but only on tankers.

I am quite handy with ranged cones, but there something about melee cones. It's probably just expectations vs reality. I feel I am lined up well, but miss mobs that seem to me to be obviously in the cone. I have tried practicing on the RWZ dummies and think I got it. Then wiff on mobs in missions. There seems to be a sweet spot a step back from the target mob that works best, but is hard to gauge. Which is why I was asking about where the point of the cone is in relation to the character.

I find melee incredibly cones very frustrating. I feel lucky if I hit two mobs, amazed if I hit three or more. How do you line up your melee cones? Where is the point of the cone in relation to your character? Should I be to the left of the mob or the right? Or dead center? Example melee cones: https://cod.uberguy.net./html/power.html?power=widow_training.night_widow_training.nw_eviscerate&at=arachnos_widow https://cod.uberguy.net./html/power.html?power=pool.fighting.cross_punch&at=arachnos_widow

Ninjitsu, works with any primary because you get a clickable endurance re-fill power pretty early.

I am sure this has been said many times in the 13 pages of replies. We just need to advertise the existence of the game. Due to this thread, I posted on reddit.com/r/gaming. It didn't get a lot of upvotes, but it did get 6K+ views. This is a good month to advertise, since it's the third anniversary of Homecoming.

Yes, I think Sentinels win the thread.

Yes, it's a shame there isn't Null the gull hack to turn a character gold side. An Arachnos Solider would be a very good gold site starting char, lots of attacks, some mez protection, end friendly.

Not to say it doesn't do very good damage. Stack glue arrow and oil slice on a group, then use Umbral and Tenebrous to pin. BBQ time. The single target rotation is decent. You can be very aggressive with your attacks due to the tanky ness.

I was talking about all procs. For instance, some powers need a ton of recharge to highly effective. Storm Summoning for example w/o lot of recharge falls off pretty badly. Though it is still effective due to other powers, so I wouldn't say that it requires procs to be successful.

I wanted to share this build. It was originally created as an 801 build, but has turned into my favorite blaster. Pros: Very tanky lots of -toHit, self heal, good status resists Incredibly speedy Infiltration + Gymnastics + Set bonuses. No need for a travel power. Great for speed runs Good crowd control Tenebrous Tentacles + Net Arrow means you can immobilize anything, except a few exceptions likes wolves Umbral Torrent + Oil Slick lots of knockdown and recharge EDS Arrow for good spawn hold Damage is good, not amazing. I can run a trapdoor between 7:00 and 7:30 Cons: Damage is not top tier blaster You can play entirely at range except for Blackstar. Umbral Torrent's cone is so large you can flatten entire spawns, then keep them down while generating lots of recharge Build:

I know you cannot start a VEAT on gold side, because Emperor Marcus Cole killed Stefan Richter in that timeline. So, Arachnos does not exists. But can you create a VEAT, go to Pocket D, then jump to gold side and start leveling? Do you need to be a particular alignment? Do the gold side contacts talk to you?

Now, combo the two. Trick Arrow/Dual Pistols is probably the one of the most monstrous proc monsters in the current game.

I post this going out the door. To be specific. The pylon times were tests between a minimally proc'ed Night Widow and a heavily proc'ed Night Widow.

Are you talking specifically about Dual Pistols or procs in general? Because turns a 240 second pylon time into a 140 second time. I have run this test myself.

Some sets are good with or without procs. Some sets are not good, because you cannot proc them and they need it. Then there are sets that are only good if you turn them into proc monsters. What are these sets? I know one, defender: Dual Pistol. You can proc practically every power and need too if you want any serious performance.

You can still take Ninja Run and run it at the same time. That was part of the movement overhaul. Pretty much all travels powers, except stealth ones, can be run at the same time.

It's all good. Most of us have done this at least once.

I am working my way through the lesser used secondaries. What is the main strength of plant manipulation? Control? Debuff? What primary would you pair with it?

Looking for player experience with blaster secondaries. In particular, the single target damage. I would guess Energy because of the heavy melee attacks, but time and electric also have nice melee attacks. But for instance, electric has random knockbacks in some attacks, which is annoying. Opinions?

Since, Yin is one of the Weekly Strike Targets. A gentle bump.

I had forgotten about the new Ice Mistral proc. I'll have to tinker with that. 🙂 I also think Shatter Armor is overrated, yes it hit hards, but it has a long recharge and you have to take a bad power to get it. Speaking about bad power choices did you take Spirit Shark or School of Sharks? I have to give the Levi pool one thing, it has a wide variety of damage types. I had high hopes for Bile Spray, one of the few pure Toxic attacks, but that cast length, cone size, and recharge killed it for me.

I understand your point and it's a good one. I tried a Levi heavy AOE Mace only build and there were two issues. Endurance and the stupidly long cast times of the Levi attacks. The person that designed the Levi pool must have designed Bane ranged mace attacks. Nothing takes less that 2+ seconds to fire. 🙂