Carnifax_NA

Wouldn't 8 Poison Gas Arrows be more useful than trying to apply 16 minor ToHit debuffs?



What's the -Damage cap?*

I'm @Carnifax, a former EU sider who has jumped Virtue side in the last few months. The difference in terms of getting teams is staggering.

Loads of alts EU side obviously and the bug is spreading although I'm trying to resist making too many characters. At the mo my main is Bryophyta, a Plant/Empathy controller who I'm enjoying more than I thought I would. No-one has yelled at me for not healing or not having a rez yet (she's now level 34). She's a PuG specialist who hasn't run a single one of her own missions yet, just to see if I can.*

Villain-side I'm still casting around for a character which is new and fun. At the moment I'm playing RuntimeException, an Ice/Psi dominator whose concept is that it's an exceptionally buggy, virus-ridden robot which has a Clockwork Psionic Transmitter fitted to it. So anyone getting close almost shuts down due to the constant wave of psionic spam and Denial of Service attacks eminating from her. Bit of a slog at the moment but hopefully she'll start to bloom in her 20s.

At the mo I'm on most nights (about 21:00 BST onwards) and will be looking for a compatible SG/VG soon as well but given my relatively weird playtimes it's tricky to find a Group with events running at times which suit. Got a 3 year old and another en route so finding playtime can be tough, especially at weekends.

Personally I'd like to see a Debuff set sitting between Poison and Rad with some interesting mechanics nicked from things like Chain Induction, Carrion Creepers and other oddball powers. I'd guess it would disease or plague based, maybe slanted towards being able to stack -damage effects more than other debuff sets.

* So lots of the debuffs would be like Chain Induction ones, single target with a change of jumping to other targets. Have a -Perception/-ToHit one which affects the senses and a Weaken style one which does -Damage, Slow and -Defense.

Other effects would be like something nicked from Dragon Age, a single target infection (similiar to something like Acid Arrow but switch the -defense for -damage again) but if the opponent dies the body explodes into a minor damage, -damage and -resist AOE.


Leveraging the Carrion Creepers mechanics a pseudopet which uses bodies in some way, maybe by throwing out intense, short duration +Regen and +Recovery AOE buffs for each body it "consumes".


* Some sort of placeable object which does a wide area debuff when triggered (something like a Trip Mine or Time Bomb / Oil Slick combo so it would either go off itself in some way or be shootible to do so) would also be interesting.

Obviously there's a lot of holes in there and no numbers but I'd like the idea of a Debuff set with fairly unique ways of working with a good spread of -Damage effects. It'd be a chunk of work though as more complex powers like these have had issues in the past (and some still do) in terms of working properly, especially with things like PROCs.

I'm currently trying to make my way through the teens with 2 different Doms. Having tried various combos I'm left wishing I'd gone Mind/Fire or Plant/Psi really.

*I tried Mind in the past (Mind/Psi) before the Dom changes and Mind is a very good early Dominator set, all the single target controls work well with a Dom. But I'm not convinced Psi suits it well. From trying Fire separately (on an Earth/Fire) I think Fire is an ideal combo for Mind. Lots of range, lots of control (with easily the best single target control) and lots of varied damage.

My Plant controller is a beast and a Plant/Psi would be an amazing combo, especially post-22 (I've currently got a wee teen Ice/Psi who is alright but a complete End hog at the mo. Arctic Air < Seeds of Confusion). Plant/Fire would be even better in terms of creating a wasteland where once there was a spawn. If I hadn't got a Plant Controller I'd almost certainly be rolling a Plant/Fire.


Seeds is so good I'm worried it's due a rebalancing / normalizing back to a 90 second recharge 11.8 second duration power. At the moment it's recharge is 60 seconds and it's duration 24 which is well off any other "secondary AOE mez" in the control sets (other than Terrorize, but Fear is a weaker control than Confuse).

* Ice/Psi is what I'm actually trying to play at the mo (and Earth/Fire but I don't like the playstyle, they're 2 really good powersets but I like some sort of synergy to make powersets 'click' for me). Think I took Arctic Air way too early and I'm suffering because of it slightly but post 22 he should be pretty tough.

Cheers for the info WW. Wish it was a bit more concrete but what can you do. Think I'll stick to the US side for Going Rogue now, I'll just have to make sure I don't alt too much so I've got a character available for Incarnates when they come along.

Pffft. Anyone paying attention knows the "stick a vowel in front of words" fad tends to change every few years. We had eEverything around 2000 and iEverything once Apple took over the world.



So the smart money is on u being the next hot prefix.*


*runs off to copyright uMail, uPod, uPad, uWii and uLevels*

Erm, attached where?

I was on a team on Saturday night which was 4 controllers and a defender : 1 bored Emp which was me (happily I am Plant/Emp so still had loads to do), 2 FF (1 defender and one controller) and 2 Kin Support sets. And some other guys of some sort, I forget what they were. Tanks or something, they started running off to other spawns after a while so they had something to do.*


I'd never understood the term Force Multiplier properly until then. Talk about God Mode. And this was only late 20s as well.

We'd better get Glow Sticks as a glove option...