Candlestick

It's not an *amazing* power, but it's not bad either. I find it works best when you don't really have the cash to blow on IO's for +recovery. It's also great after a nuke. Pop Conserve power, hit the nuke, and then pop a blue. Conserve Power+the blue will allow you get a decent amount of attacks off before the -recovery debuff wears off.

And of course, the most obvious use is... When you start getting really low on end, hit it for an emergency endurance button.

Prob because having what amounts to 4 Endurance Reduction SO's in every single power being Perma would be a little OP.

I'll put it bluntly... Yes you are kinda playing it wrong.

Build Up and Aim should never be used as "Autofire" powers. Build Up and Aim are openers. For instance, move up to mob, pop BU+Aim, hit Firebreath, and Fireball. It will instantly kill all minions in a spawn up to +2 level.

Build Up and Aim together give a +166% damage bonus for 10 seconds. This means that you pop them to give yourself tons of burst damage to end a fight in seconds. When you hit BU and Aim, you should KNOW what powers you are firing as soon as they are done activating. If you need to drop a boss, usually Blaze, Fireball, Firesword. If you are trying to drop an enemy spawn, Firebreath+Fireball. (Or if you take my advice, BU+Aim, Firesword Circle, Burn, Fireball)

As for Leadership, I don't think any of the powers are worth it. Blasters leadership gives pretty minor bonuses, and you will be helping your team more by being an AoE powerhouse, then by putting up pretty minor leadership buffs.
Same with Medicine. Wakies are REALLY easy to make. Resuscitation is just unneeded on nearly any team.


As for Tough/Weave, yes, they most certainly stack with Hover. Personally though, I would take a more aggressive travel power, so you can use your PbAoE powers like Firesword Circle and Burn. Burn you can't even use while hovering, and with Firesword Circle, you want to be able to jump into the middle of the enemy, fire it off, and jump back, and you can't do that with Hover.

Melt Armour is not a huge debuff, and you won't notice a massive change, but it does add a little bit of -resistance and defense. It's not worth slotting. You're WAAAAAY better off going with Fire Shield.

It doesn't suck, but I dislike the long animation time. It's on the *average* scale of PbAoE's.

Enjoy

Burn was completely changed. It now acts more like a normal AoE. The damage is front-loaded, and it no longer causes the fear effect.

Heh, I'm already having issues making this build as is. I won't be able to fit in PvP IO's, especially not for a 3% HP bonus.

I'll see how I do on RSF's with this build. If I find that I can tank with ease, I may replace the Siphon Insights on Gloom with purples. The Siphon's are dirt cheap, so I'm not worried about slotting over them.

People were joking about making a Dual Pistols/Trick Arrow/Black Scorpion corrupter, and calling him Redraw Mcgraw.

lol pvp

Close, with Accolades, he is at 188% HP.

Exactly. One of the reasons why I love villains is that they actually PLAY like villains. Players compete with each other for killing, and basically proving how awesome they are. My mastermind competes with the brute for aggro and taking alpha. The dominator is often doing the same with their controls. The stalker is trying as hard as he can to kill that Boss before the team gets into the fight, the Corrupter is trying to out AoE the Arachnos Soliders, and so on and so forth.

And yet, the still mesh well. Who needs a tank when you have 2 Arachnos on the team, giving you +30% defense? Who needs a tank with two masterminds charging into the thick of things with Debuffs(Or buffs) flying, and soaking up the damage with their gazillion HP? Who needs a tank when that Dominator has the entire spawn held solid, bosses included, in an AoE hold? Who needs a tank when that corrupter has nerfed the spawn with debuffs, or buffed the entire team up?

The only thing a Villain team needs is someone to keep the pace going, and taking alphas. And that spot can be held by different AT's. A well built stalker can take an alpha. A well built Dom can take an Alpha. Brutes and Masterminds can easily take an alpha. Depending on what set they are, Corrupters can easily take alphas.

Tanks are the most unnecessary AT redside.

To be fair, those ffamous RPG games are so painful these days because they haven't evolved in 10 years. It's the same tired gameplay, with the same tired stories. There is a difference between having a linear story, and spoon feeding you that story.

Compare it to say, a Star Wars RPG made by a bunch of crazy Canadians. While the story is still linear, which allows the pacing to be great, the story is not spoon fed to you via tons of cutscenes. You unravel it yourself through the game, which is what makes it enjoyable. That and I just think the writing is better.

I have found that the story in *sandbox* style games like you described to be lacking. The sandbox is good, the story is good, but the sandbox ruins any form of pacing the author may try and put in. You often forget entirely about the story, and focus on side-quest after side-quest, until you get bored and finally go back to the story. This has a tendancy to ruin emotional impact of the game. In fact, with said nuclear waste game, I actually got bored 3/4th of the way through the game, and havn't bothered to touch it since. The pacing of the story just couldn't keep me focused. It wasn't like a good book that grips you to the very end.

I miss my Poison Trap.

I don't, and it prob won't be quite as good as Fire/Kin, because of no Hot Feet, but it looks to be kinda close.