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Snowstorm & FR are ideal for stopping things escaping the Rains. But they won't do anything to counter the knockback that Tornado & LS do unfortunately. It means that without an AOE immob which prevents knockback (which is only in the Mace Mastery set) Lightning Storm will knock things directly back out of your Patch Of Death and Tornado will scatter things to the 4 winds.

One word of warning, both Tornado and Lightning Storm do a fair chunk of damage, but come with knockback. Because of this Mace Mastery might be of use so you can AOE immob things in place and then let Tornado & LS whittle them down along with your Fire powers.

Because Shadow Field has a chance of holding after it's been cast any of the Psi Damage procs should have a chance of hitting anyone in the AOE once every 10 seconds (like any patch power) and additional one-off chance of going off when initially cast.

A standard PROC at 50 slotted in a patch boils down to something like 1.4 DPS if I remember rightly?

Living Shadows (or any AOE immob) is usually an excellent place for PROCs thanks to the wide AOE (Living Shadows is a cone, but a wide one) and low, low recharge.

The Cloud Senses proc in Haunt looks to be a decent choice, as all of their attacks should benefit. Doggie only has two attacks which should inherit, but one is a cone.

For Patches I'd usually recommend focusing on ones which recharge more often, in your case Tar Patch is a decent enough choice because it's always out. Fearsome Stare is a mixed bag, it gets fired a lot but the proc will allow any affected characters a shot at you.

2 != soloing

I just find the lack of the immob very noticeable before I get the Epic blast on low damage controllers, even with the 2 Vet attacks.

There's no harm in it if you're planning to team a lot. On an 8 man the trickle of single target DoT you're adding isn't anything to write home about.

If you find yourself soloing you'll go nuts though.

Just to make your life even more difficult : Seismic Smash is also an awesome power.

What are you spending your power choices on? Do you have a load of LOTG mules or something?

I've become what I hate

*Dons Leprechaun Hat of Shame*

Most of the items about Leprechauns in that article are not drawn from Celtic folklore. I'm afraid the internet is lying to you.

Look, I'm tired of fighting about this to be honest, I find this item be be a lazy, sterotypical American trope of a Leprechaun and view of Ireland in general. You don't understand that.

Can we just leave it there?

Erm, the Irish didn't create most of the things now commonly associated with them, such as the red hair, shamrocks or even the fact they wear green all the time. It was more that all those things accrued to it in movies and other media, things like those Lucky Charms cereals you have over there and films like Darby O'Gill. They all fed in together to propagate this amalgam of sterotypes which comes out every 17th of March.

But I still don't find it an offensive stereotype, just a tiresome one. They're basically a cringeworthy tourist trap which symbolise everything twee which people seem to associate with Ireland.

Like I said I'm not that overly fussed really, I just think it's pretty terrible writing and a terribly lazy idea to be spending development time on.

I pretty much summed it up at the top of the page. It's not really that the use of a leprechaun is hideously offensive but the whole thing is just one giant, unfunny, lazy sterotype, both in terms of the Pet itself and the post at the start of this thread. I mean really? That's the best you could manage?

Actually it was the "sure and begorrah" Darby O'Gill speak I was more disappointed in.

I'm not insulted in the slightest, I just thought Paragon Studios were more creative than resorting to tired old sterotypes of the laziest kind in order to try and be humorous when selling their tat.

Have a look at how Valve do it Paragon Studios, their press releases for their releases are frequently brilliant (the Valentines Day one was genius).

It has happened that way in the past alright.

Mind you Rogue Isles of Demons, Widows and Soldiers of Archnos was pretty cool (as long as you weren't in melee with the tide of howling demon flesh)

I found Dark/Rad to be somewhat underperforming. The damage is pretty poor overall.

My Dark/Sonic was a dream though and was possibly the character I felt was most useful in an AV fight of any I've ever played.

People paid for the other vanity pets? And can I ask, as a returnee, why there's a frisbee power mentioned in the launcher as well? What the hell is that about?? I'm enjoying the game, but I'm beginning to recall one of the main reasons I'd left in the first place, the plethora of overpriced crap which kept appearing in the store.

Although given that in Ireland we use Leprechauns chiefly to make tourists pay over the odds for tat I suppose it is appropriate enough that Paragon Studios do the same (we also use them for slave labour in our underground Guinness mines).

Yep, Fearsome Stare is your Alpha-B-gone move. I'd never remove it, it's the #1 AOE mez in the set. Plus ToHit Debuff IOs are relatively cheap and come with some nice bonuses.

Flash Arrow and Acid Arrow won't stack. Disruption will because it creates separate pseudo-pets which apply the effect.

Gas Arrow doesn't as far as I'm aware because it only uses a Pseudopet for the graphical fx, the actual power effect is direct from the caster and set not to stack (could be wrong about that though)

Yep, I hadn't seen it until yesterday since I was away so I was just going on the description. I had in mind a vague, gorilla-like black shape, a bestial humanoid figure (like a giant Imp on Steroids), not GothLassie.

And it's bloody huge. Even a more lithe, panther-like 4-legged mob would have suited the set better

At least the Caspers look the part.

Well it's a new, refurbished home where the wallpaper and decor looks a million times better than it did 6 months ago (I love you new PC), but thank you GG.

A couple of pets do that. Spirits from Necromancy and the Warshade pets for example.