Master Debuffer?

[Spankea]

3 hours ago, Captain Fabulous said:

Then don't do 3-star content. 🤷‍♂️

You'll find a way. I have faith in you.

Yeah, just choose a primary with fire or energy damage...

 

[Captain Fabulous]

18 minutes ago, Spankea said:

Yeah, just choose a primary with fire or energy damage...

 

Or a pool power. Or not worry about it cause someone on your team will likely have one.

[Spankea]

3 minutes ago, Captain Fabulous said:

Or a pool power. Or not worry about it cause someone on your team will likely have one.

I wants to be the Robinhood and ignite it though.

[Captain Fabulous]

5 minutes ago, Spankea said:

I wants to be the Robinhood and ignite it though.

Thankfully there are plenty of options to choose from.

[Zect]

On 3/15/2023 at 5:52 AM, Spankea said:

Yeah, just choose a primary with fire or energy damage...

 

It's trivia time! Out of the 14 blast sets in the game, how many cannot light their own OSA? (answer at the bottom of this post)

 

Here are the sets that can:

• Fire, energy, elec, rad, beam rifle - You know what these do.
• Pistols - fire ammo.
• AR - flamethrower, ignite.
• Archery - explosive arrow, blazing arrow. Technically only the dot of blazing arrow is fire. I promise you will notice no difference in play.
• Sonic - all attacks are half energy or pure energy.
• Water - Steam spray and geyser are fire damage. Yes, you can set oil on fire with water in coh. No, I am not kidding.
• Seismic - Meteor has fire damage. "But it's a nuke!" Yes, with about the same rech as OSA. Always use them together.

 

This leaves the ones that can't:

Spoiler

dark, psi and ice.

 

And while 3/14, or 21.4%, is not negligible, it's also not really constricting...

 

...Especially since those easily get around the problem in 4* hardmode with reactive flawless interface. You're welcome.

 

Edited March 16, 2023 by Zect

[Uun]

13 hours ago, Zect said:

...Especially since those easily get around the problem in 4* hardmode with reactive flawless interface. You're welcome.

You can also take one of the epic sets with energy or fire damage.

[Spankea]

15 hours ago, Zect said:

 

It's trivia time! Out of the 14 blast sets in the game, how many cannot light their own OSA? (answer at the bottom of this post)

 

Here are the sets that can:

• Fire, energy, elec, rad, beam rifle - You know what these do.
• Pistols - fire ammo.
• AR - flamethrower, ignite.
• Archery - explosive arrow, blazing arrow. Technically only the dot of blazing arrow is fire. I promise you will notice no difference in play.
• Sonic - all attacks are half energy or pure energy.
• Water - Steam spray and geyser are fire damage. Yes, you can set oil on fire with water in coh. No, I am not kidding.
• Seismic - Meteor has fire damage. "But it's a nuke!" Yes, with about the same rech as OSA. Always use them together.

 

This leaves the ones that can't:

  Reveal hidden contents

dark, psi and ice.

 

And while 3/14, or 21.4%, is not negligible, it's also not really constricting...

 

...Especially since those easily get around the problem in 4* hardmode with reactive flawless interface. You're welcome.

 

Now which blast set has the highest chance to ignite OSA is what order?

[Uun]

1 hour ago, Spankea said:

Now which blast set has the highest chance to ignite OSA is what order?

You only need one attack to ignite OSA, and assuming it's slotted for accuracy, it will have a 95% chance to ignite it (yes OSA is subject to the 5% chance to miss). There are multiple sets in which every attack can ignite OSA (Beam, Electric, Energy, Fire, Radiation, Sonic), but that doesn't increase your chance, it just gives you a backup in case the first attack misses.

[Wavicle]

OSA will also get triggered by Blazing Aura, Cauterizing Aura, Dynamo, Mud Pots/Bath, etc.

[You]

I would recommend a Traps/Sonic as a Mater debuffer.  On a fast recharge build, it does abandon amount of -res and -regen: two of the most valuable debuffs.

[Spankea]

I ended up with a ice/ta and with reactive interface and char from fire epic set I should be fine setting the oil patch.  I wasn't aware that ice arrow has a 50% -Res effect till yesterday.

[Uun]

37 minutes ago, Spankea said:

I wasn't aware that ice arrow has a 50% -Res effect till yesterday.

It doesn't. It debuffs the secondary effects of the target's powers.

 

-50.287% Heal Dmg, Absorb, Endurance, RunningSpeed, FlyingSpeed, Confused, Terrorized, Held, Immobilized, Stunned, Sleep Strength (all affected targets) for 60s
-50.287% Ranged, Melee, Area, Smashing, Lethal, Fire, Cold, Energy, Negative Energy, Psionic, Toxic, Base Defense, ToHit Strength (all affected targets) for 60s
 

The -res is in Entangling Arrow and Disruption Arrow.

[Jiro Ito]

On 3/16/2023 at 4:47 PM, Zect said:

 

• Water - Steam spray and geyser are fire damage. Yes, you can set oil on fire with water in coh. No, I am not kidding.

 

 

Not weird, throw water on hot oil and see what happens!

 

...just kidding, don't do that...

[Spankea]

I ended up making both an ice/posion and ice/ta, both all T4 now.  I've personally liked ta more than poison.  I've attached my ice/ta build for critique.

ice-ta.mbd

[Voltak]

On 3/14/2023 at 3:14 PM, Captain Fabulous said:

Then don't do 3-star content. 🤷‍♂️

You'll find a way. I have faith in you.

Well, if I may humbly add an even more applicable add to this, in 3 star content you are never soloing.  Chances are someone will in fact light up w/e you lay down.  
And 99% sure someone will have procs in some attacks to boot.  
I mean, in team make up, trick arrow shines without worry about igniting oil slick 

_______________

Trick Arrow
Cold
poison 

______

Dark
Rad 
_________

Someone who really knows how to play traps well will also argue it's a great set with vast potential. 

I seen Traps/Ice Defenders who know what they doing  melt things quickly 

[Spankea]

Enflame is the best way to ignite oil patch.  It's preignition as long as you place it in the area of Enflame's burn patch.

[Cryoterm]

 

[Spankea]

14 hours ago, Cryoterm said:

 

Ice/Rad and Ice/Kin are some of my old school favorites!

[Doomguide2005]

As an added thought the new Storm Blast set can also ignite OS both directly with a couple powers and the lightning that procs as a result of Storm Cell.  And I'm enjoying the heck out of a Storm Blast/Trick Arrow character.  Chain Lightning on OS plus Scourge gives you an absolute sea of orange numbers to gratify your need for such.