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Nice to hear it MarquandDance

It should be very amusing to see what they make of a whole team of trappers in BB...

Rightio, I'll try and get to lvl 16 and unlock Brass for next week.

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If you all have caltrops, then I have one thing to say.

Knives. Of. Artemis.

If you all have FFG, then you're all effectively SR scrappers when in 8 bubbles, and effectively un-mezzable.

If you all have Poison trap, then nothing can get near you without losing its lunch and being held.

And of course, my favourite power from the set. 8 Web grenades means that nothing is going to be running away from you, ever.

Of course, all the above rely on optimal situations, where you've got 8 of each, all overlapping/stacking.

But 8 Trappers does have a lot of potential for teleganking

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Been playing around with my necro/traps, having loving bubble boy the FF generator. But sometimes it just dont wanna follow in a proper way, or stick too far away from me. Since it has fast recharge, i often dismiss it and resummon it at the spot i want it.
Now i tried to make a macro that dismis it and exec the power again so i get i get the clicky cursor again. But wich command can i use to dismis the FFG, since /releasepets destroy everything and petcom_name Force dismiss isnt working (says no active pets wich such name).

Anyone experience with the bind/macro's on non-active pets?

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You're thinking way, wayyy too fancy.

Just resummon it. The old one self destructs, and the new one appears where you summoned it.

Problem solved

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Battle Drones don't use their own endurance much at all - the only bot that does is the Protectors. So maybe drop a DefBuf from them and add in an EndRdx

Stamina isn't a big need on Bots/FF but I can understand if you want it. Maybe move it to later in your build and pick up Leadership/Medicine earlier as you'll get more use from it (levels 16-20 on your build look boring! Try mixing in active skills every other level when taking passives)

I hope your Force Bubble slotting wasn't meant to be all Rchg and was actually meant to be EndRdx...

Otherwise looks good - I recommend Black Scorpion for a choice of Patron to stack a Defense based shield, the AoE Immob (hold things inside bot burn patches nicely) and the Hold if you like that sort of thing (I know I do!)

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There's one big, BIG hole in that build.

Where in the name of the Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish is Dispersion Bubble? o_O

Oh, and if you go Mace, then for the love of god, skip the Cone Blast. The Shield and the controls are more than useful enough though

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According to Sherksilver's Hero Builder, it lasts 30 seconds. Not sure how accurate that is though.

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I wish

Lasts only a few seconds - usualy long enough to fire off two powers, maybe 3 if their fast activating.

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12.5 seconds according to Nofuture.

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* +149% Stun Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Sleep Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Confused Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Terrorized Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Immobilize Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Held Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Knockback Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Knockup Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Repel Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% RunSpeed Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% FlySpeed Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Defense Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Defense(Melee) Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Defense(Ranged) Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Defense(AOE) Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Defense(Smashing) Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Defense(Lethal) Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Defense(Fire) Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Defense(Cold) Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Defense(Energy) Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Defense(Negative_Energy) Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Defense(Psionic) Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Heal Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% ToHit Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* +149% Endurance Enhancement to Self for 12.5 seconds
* 10% ToHit to Self for 12.5 seconds
* 80% Damage Buff(Smashing) to Self for 12.5 seconds [Ignores Enhancements &amp; Buffs]
* 80% Damage Buff(Lethal) to Self for 12.5 seconds [Ignores Enhancements &amp; Buffs]
* 80% Damage Buff(Fire) to Self for 12.5 seconds [Ignores Enhancements &amp; Buffs]
* 80% Damage Buff(Cold) to Self for 12.5 seconds [Ignores Enhancements &amp; Buffs]
* 80% Damage Buff(Energy) to Self for 12.5 seconds [Ignores Enhancements &amp; Buffs]
* 80% Damage Buff(negative_Energy) to Self for 12.5 seconds [Ignores Enhancements &amp; Buffs]
* 80% Damage Buff(Psionic) to Self for 12.5 seconds [Ignores Enhancements &amp; Buffs]
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The sheer weight of mortars and caltrops is a joy to watch and I can't wait to see what the poison trap en masse will do

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Never mind Acid Mortars, see what happens when you're sat with 80%+ defence to everything due to 8 FFG's around you.

And don't use Poison Traps en masse. Stagger them, so you get overlapping effects, 'cos the duration on the hold/debuff isn't huge, but with 8 of them, you could have a permanent -1000%regen debuff on whatever is the target of your ire, and if it's a humanoid, then it has a good chance of spending a fair while losing its lunch

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what a noisy bunch we are!

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Yeah. how on earth are my ninja's meant to sneak when they can hear you lot from miles away

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Ancient Ninja Art of Misdirection, surely? If all the attention of the opposition is directed over there -&gt; because of all the noise and disruption, then you come in from over here &lt;-

Or am I overthinking things?

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Although Fire Breath is about twice the damage of Short Circuit, having 4 attacks that you can use as PBAoEs could be pretty neat ( FSC, Combustion, Lightning Ball and Short Circuit ). A Fire/Fire blaster would have to jump out to reposition for the Fire Breath. An Elec/Fire could just hold still.

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And Maxwell's Demon (Elec/Fire) does. He runs in, stands there and explodes. Repeatedly.

He takes some keeping alive though (I should know, I was his designated tanker for a good while) and never quite learned that lots of Nemesis Jaegers going boom all at once around him hurts. Although the same could be said of a certain elec/elec/elec PBAoE blaster of my acquaintance that I was trying to tank for at the same time...

So this all boils down to what you consider 'blasting'. Me, I consider it to be primarily ranged combat, but that's just me, and I'm a little odd in that the only melee power I have on my Blaster is Power Thrust. And that's only because I had it forced on me.

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I have a level 39 dark / traps corrupter on defiant message me if you want to team

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This team's on Union and only level 10 or so at the moment, IIRC. (I'm not part of the team, just a lurker in the thread, who may join in if/when they get closer to 50)

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I'm more than happy to wait for Mooney to get sorted.

It's always a pleasure to team with him. Besides, despite having a Hero on the DWA I've not managed to team with many (if any) Dark Wings and I'd very much like to.

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It's easy Roent. You pop onto the DW channel and say 'Any teams going atm?' and then prepare to be pestered into installing Teamspeak

So long as you don't mind being SK'd or exemped and there's space on the team, then that should be about it...

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Don't wait on me. There's so much content and trials and TFs I ain't seen it ain't be making no difference to me, no sir, not one bit.

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You'd sound more convincing if you hadn't said that through gritted teeth....

Besides, I've decided. At some point, you WILL find your glowing, cratered behind being dragged through Eden. The only limiting factor is time, i.e. you finding enough of it spare to attend.

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But, true, I see the DWs passing through again. Gonna havta be a cheesey little SK mostly seems.

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&lt;shrug&gt; And since when has that been a problem? Other than when we've not actually got any SK/Exemp slots left on the team?

Anyway, if/when Tundra gets back, you may get a chance to catch up for a little while, as we'll be off to Villains to finish off Tundra and Lifeline's first Villain 50's.

Admittedly, it'll not necessarily give you a lot of time to catch up....

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On the other matter... we spoke in game...
I'm having "real life matters" at the moment.
Best not to make any promises at the moment that I can't keep.
Don't worry about little old me.
See you when I see you.

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That's fair enough.

Moon. I check these boards on a regular basis, and you know I'm in game most evenings, so in the event that RL settles down to the point where you can set aside some time, then either post in this thread, or let me know in game and we'll start putting a team together.

At recent speed though, the current crop of DW's may end up overshooting the trial again....

No hurry though, we should be able to dig up a 38-41 alt from somewhere to start off the trial.

Nice to see you back, and let me know if/when you can attend a 2-3 hour rip through the trial

All this, of course, means that the Next DW rip through the Eden Trial is on indefinite hold until Moon gets the time, or until we get alts into the right level range (current crop is at roughly 28ish, so it'll be a few weeks until we get to 38 at our usual pace), so apologies to those who were hoping to attend on an imminent basis.

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I'll prod the mooner on Silent Tempest forums. He shoots the breeze there when able.

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Ta Coile.

On a related note, your post led to a truly horrifying thought.... Moon and Brutal having a conversation. Polysyllabic would most definitely not be the word to describe it...

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I've not seen him in game for a good few days and I'm not sure he checks these boards much.

I'll be sure to point him this way when I see him next.

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Yeah, I've not seen him around much recently, either.

Ah well, he'll turn up eventually, I suppose, but kicking him in this direction would be a good move

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I r back.
Imo, best blasted blastering is the blasterer ice/fire...ok, it's truly the most fun i had and why i say so...and what i say is teh truth. Serious damage, serious fun. Elec/ice pwns squishies, but ice/fire is teh 1337.

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Pah.

Archery/EM.

Boost Range, Build Up, Aim, Rain of Arrows, Explosive arrow, Fistful of Arrows.

Where'd all the mobs go?

(this is an argument that can go round and round and round and....)

Besides, Magnesium's not a blaster, he's a blapper, If I'm remembering corectly. They're a subspecies of those who follow the one true path of ranged combat

Cheers for the responses, but until Moon replies and lets us know potential times, there's no real point trying to build teams.

I'll keep you all in mind (hell, there'd be a shout over global about it anyway) but at the moment, a more useful move would be to kick Moon up the behind and point him to this thread , if and when you see him online...

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Was that the start of a regular thing?! I didn't realise what I was getting myself into! Though that idea does appeal.

You have made me want to start tanking again though. Maybe an Axe/Stone Melee one, I've not tried either of those sets before.

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No, that was a 'Meh, I'm getting tired of this, what stupid idea can I come up with?' moment. You're the one who sets up regular teams like that

Besides, an excuse to get various 50 alts out of semi-retirement shouldn't really be required

(and Axe will be a good way of annoying yourself, BTW. Knocking mobs away from yourself and having to chase after them? Not for me, I think)

:edit: I misread axe/stone as Stone Armour/Axe, hence the slowly chasing after them comment, fixed now :/edit:

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Hey, it's only 2 or 3 nights a week! You make it sound like it's 4 or 5! I'm not crazy, you know.

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You're not?

Then why didn't you object last night when I suggested the all tank team, hmm? (I've not seen herd sizes like that since Eden in Issue 3 )

So, Echo.

How long until your entire week is planned out ahead of time with themed team nights?

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Just wanted to chip in (even though it's not really relevant to Phase Shift). When slotting Intangibilty Duration enhancements in Wormhole you don't actually increase the duration, it increases the magnitude of the power. Not sure if the same goes for Black Hole or not as I dont have any experience with this power.

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Probably true, I couldn't remember whether it was intangibility duration or magnitude, I had a feeling it was something odd, though.

But Wormhole's a Disorient, not a Phase shift &lt;/pedant&gt;

Oi, Moon!

Time to start figuring out a time when we can drag your cratered behind through the Eden Trial.

Since, so far as I can foresee, it may be a prolonged process of negotiating with people saying "I can't do that date, what about this date?" etc. etc., let's kick this off.

You're one of the ones with the tightest time constraints, so you kick off, but preferably a weekend where grabbing 3 hours in a row won't be too much trouble for most people.

And if we're doing Eden, then it really shouldn't take more than 3 hours all told.

Coile's said he'd run through it again, I know Lifeline and myself would attend and I dare say we could convince Jet and/or Cap to tag along too, nwo they're back in Paragon, so out of all those alts, putting a decent team together should be no hassle.

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Just to mention, we lost our channel again yesterday, and at least one mate logged in to see her global changed automatically and with a blank global list. The problem might be only as fresh as 24 hours, although I would be inclided to blame the month ago crash too.

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Yeah, there was another Global server Brain fart yesterday.

*I* didn't lose the DW channel, but pretty much everybody else did... So I spent a lot of last night reinviting people to it, and I'll need to reinvite Jet and Cap to the channel AGAIN &lt;sigh&gt;

I just keep telling myself "Global chat is a massive QoL boon, put up with occasional glitches for being able to spout drivel over a comms channel that doesn't care if the account owner is playing hero or villain, or hidden or whatever." Global chat does a MASSIVE amount for community cohesion, IMO, but occasional glitches are all the more irritating for that exact reason.

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My only question about Phase shift is that if it can only last 30 seconds tops (as in the description) why the hell are there so many "extend intangibility duration" enhancements? Off topic I know, but I lost sight of the "pool power" forum category.

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Black hole from Dark Miasma and Dimension shift from Gravity Control, both are AoE Foe Intangibility powers, and both will take intangibility duration enhancements.

Plus, I think the enhancements are a little bit of a hangover from earlier versions of CoH where there was more variety in the type of enhancements available, Cone Range Enhancements, Endurance Recovery and Endurance Drain enhancements being separate and specialised, for example.

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Shame to see you go Jester, but no doubt wil hear you as you pop up on TS during you WoW trial.

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Personally, I'm now wondering if the idiot clown may return to Paragon, now that the potential for getting smashed over TS while kicking heads with Cap and Jet has reared its ugly head again

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The main reason I'm back is because so is my bro (Green Jet) and unfortunately for you lot that means I'm back too as we come as a kinda double act. Alos WoW is getting a little stressy for me top end and I'm after some less complicated fun.

Those of you who remember me as Captain USA/Unstoppable my Global is @Captain Unstoppable, please remove me from your global list and reinvite as some strange buggy thing has occured in my abscence and I have no one on my Global list BOO HOO

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Hmm, now where have I seen the 'Double act' concept before?

Apart from the fact that Moon keeps referring to me as one half of the 'Li/Lifey Bi-form'

And am I reading it right, or are you suggesting that the global server wouldn't have dared to throw a fit if you'd been here out of sheer terror at the possibility of a reprogramming with an AK-47 that it would never forget? (apologies to Douglas Adams)

Anyway Cap, welcome back, and as I said, play whatever the hell you want, whenever the hell you want (game, alt, AT, powerset, whatever). The DW (such as remain) have long since given up caring over much about getting the 'perfect' team composition

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I have reactivated my account and found that all my global friends have disappeared...

It appears that a lot of people that had my global STILL have my global - whereas mine is blank... if you still want me on your global, please delete @Green Jet from your list and reinvite me when you get the chance.


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Hah, and you thought you could get away without poking your head above the parapet? &lt;muahahaha&gt; &lt;ahem&gt; Sorry, a little too much villainy recently, methinks.

Like I said last night, the Global server had a brain fart a month or so ago, a good few global channel vanished into the void, and lots of people had the same issue. Unfortunately, the official reponse is along the lines of 'Oops, you'll have to rebuild your channels and global friends lists' &lt;sigh&gt;

I'll kick Lifeline tonight assuming he's back on (and he probably will be) and remind him to do this for you and Cap on both his accounts, since the idle swine relies on me reading the boards and passing any interesting bits on...

Anyway, 'twas nice to kick some heads last night, and I'll see you around as and when you get the time. next time, I think we need to dig out some 50's and try some more advanced head kicking... Li, Corten, Cap, Jet, and whatever other scrappers we can dig up should be... interesting