Carnifax

Hmmm. Now I want to rename my Dark/Sonic defender to "Negative Vibes"

Maintenance?

Yes, because it's impossible to post anywhere else in the forums. They've trapped us in a small electronic box, the fiends.

Me too. I keep mine floating in a jar in my secret underground laboratory.

The writhing mass of tentacles I used to replace them is totally ogling your cleavage though .

And the winner of the 'Best Use of an Emoticon 2009' award is...

Hurrah for Healing Arrow! (I slotted it there too, more so I could say that I'd a healing arrow rather than it's super powerful)

Of course rumours are that with the new Cataclysm expansion that's exactly what WoW is going to be doing, EVE stylee. They are just rumours though.

For me Going Rogue will really be an indication of how Paragon Studios & the CoH franchise will progress (or even if it will progress). Adding a few new zones and powersets alone for me will indicate a lack of ambition and ideas.

But you'll also have access to the Closed Beta boards and can Rage at any imbalances or downward power readjustments that might happen (even if they make sense).

Founders Falls and Peregine Isle are isolated areas now?

Given the Email they sent out on 1/10/09 contains this :
We bloody well better.

Me too, asterisks indicate that it's got new info in it, like an *OMG, look at this new stuff*

I came rushing in all excited to be rapidly deflated to find just another "So when" type post.

Boo-urns.

"No way am I getting into that scrum"

Yes. Why on earth would my Fire/Rad/Stone controller want to be in melee range using Fissure, Seismic Smash and Air Superiority? Clearly that'd be a stupid way to play him...

In fairness Vanessa looks like she's just got off a bus named Priscilla and is about to launch into a lip-synch and dance routine.

Well no, it takes down the market across all the servers, but the login and game servers over here can stay running. It often happened before when the maintence times over here didn't match the US ones (our servers are indeed in Germany), you could play the game but not access the Market or the Mission Architect.

I've no idea why they changed ours to match the US times either. Not a huge difference to me usually (it happens around lunchtime over here now). Still, staggering it occasionally would show a less US-centric approach which might generate a fair bit of good will. Even just occasionally move them forward or back a few hours.

Hmmm. War Mace/Elec would be an interesting combo actually. A less annoyingly slow Stone/Elec.

*boink* *falldown* *boink* *stun*

Are you going to be on here on Tuesday giving out about the prices in Wentworths?

I play all 3 (Storm and Rad as controllers, Dark as a MM and a Defender), I've given you plenty of examples. I can't help you any more. Dark would add much more support than Storm does to pets, plus in many cases give you ranged stacking stuns (and still equalling Storms big debuff). Rad / Dark is closer but Fluffy + you would be better at keeping things like Imps alive, add more constant ranged control (which 4 Controller sets can stack)

Of course I am of the opinion that Controllers should never have gotten Rad or Kin either, they should have stayed Defender only sets. They're too capable of creating edge cases like the GM soloers and the best farmers in the game. I'd be worried that Dark would cause the same sort of edge cases when combined with some control sets.

I don't care about uniqueness really. I'd be more worried about potential edge cases (Illusion/Dark, Fire/Dark, Earth/Dark, Mind/Dark most notably).

(and yes, sorry. I misquoted you on the EMP doing a stun thing. Soz)

This is nonsense though however. A Fire/Dark controller could have 2 Ranged AOE Stuns (one Autohit!) by level 12. Combine with Darkest Night, Tar patch, Hotfeet & Cages... HT is a superb (auto-hit) control power. One you could stack or stagger with Flashfire or Stalimites (and also does excellent -regen. Oh, and it'll also rez someone if they happen to die). Plus it's only one component of the awesome that is Dark.

Would I refuse to roll a Dark if it went to Controllers? Nope. I'd be all over it like a rash on someone who slept with Paris Hilton. But I would think Castle has lost it for allowing it

I've a feeling instead that Domis will get Dark Control & Dark Assault and that Dark Control will be proliferated to Controllers as well (along with maybe a renamed Poison and / or Traps at some point). That way things like Fearsome Stare can be copied across, along with the other controlling Dark Power animations. I've no idea if Fluffy would be though, I'd say a new Tier 9 would be made.

Actually I believe Dark MMs show exactly why giving Controllers Dark Miasma would be a bad idea. Dark is easily the most powerful secondary MM set for normal PvE play. A Dark Servant + Fire Imps in the middle of a spawn would be insane. As would the amount of AOE Fear and -ToHit a Illusion/Dark could stack (somewhere up to 48%, before Fluffy and Darkest Night are even used).

EMP does a hold, not a stun. Yes it is more powerful. Which probably explains why you've to wait until level 38 to get it, compared to level 10 for Howling Twilight. And 180 seconds is 60% of the recharge of EMP. Plus EMP & EMP Arrow have a -Recovery built into them.

I love Dark Miasma, it's my favourite debuff set in the game. So much so that I really think it should stay unique to Defenders Blueside, it's that good.

Erm, no. Dark Miasma is far better at hard control than Storm. A Cone Mez which affects Lieuts (and can also affect bosses), an auto-hit aoe stun and a hold. Plus a pet with a built-in hold and an aoe immob.

Storm has an AOE stun (which only affects minions) and an erratic stunning pseudopet (whioch often doesn't go down well on teams). Other than that it's just soft control via knockback, which doesn't work nearly as well.

Mind you Trick Arrow has tonnes of Control. But it's not quite the debuff monster that Dark is.

Fearsome Stare & Howling Twilight would be sick on Controllers. As would another pet who heals.

I suspect either a cut-down version of Dark Miasma might be replicated across or Traps will be instead.

My Claws/Elec Brute is a blast. Spin is brilliant AOE at level 6, plus you get Lightning Field to go with it. Building Fury, with Claws nice quick animations & recharges, is pretty trivial as well. Elec Aura is nice since you can basically skip the Fitness Pool and it has fewer holes than Fiery Aura (at the expense of less damage and less healing) and no End woes (eventually). I had to slot Stamina in in the 20s, but it's getting dropped for Boxing, Tough and Follow-Up in a level 36 or 37 respec. Annoying but needed to be done.