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Quote:Originally Posted by _Zep_
I find lockdown +2 mag awesome in char.
My char recharges in under 5 seconds. I can spam it around the board and have a very good chance of holding bosses and EB's in one hit.
To respond to another post: recovery is everything for a fire/storm controller. Both fire control and storm summoning eat endurance like cotton candy. I am toggle heavy though.
I agree with the usefulness of the Lockdown in char. You're sacrificing a slot in order to add another chance to Overpower to the hold. Against nasty bosses (which the Incarnate Trials are stuffed with) it's a nice addition IMO.
Of course it's wasted against Lieuts and Minions, but at the end game level they're mostly trivial distractions anyway in terms of suitable targets for a single target hold. -
Quote:Sloe Gin is gin flavoured with Sloe berries.Originally Posted by UnicyclePeon
I dont get the pun. Is djinn supposed to sound like down? Thats all I can guess, and its more than a bit of a stretch, even with the different ways I have heard djinn and its spelling variants pronounced.
Lewis.
So Sloe D'jinn is a play on Sloe Gin, but where the two component words also play on the features of the primary and secondary (A Djinn is a demon / spirit type usually associated with Fire Magic and Deserts. Time is good at slowing things down) -
Quote:I think a lot of the problem is "busyness". Poison is reasonably clicky, Beam Rifle works well well you can focus on it in other to Spread Disintegration. Both are pretty single target focused (which means you tend to get drowned out on 8 man teams sometimes).Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
Hi. First time poster on the Corruptor board, haven't really played corrs before.
I've made a heroic Beam/Poison corr and thematically, Beam/Poison is great. I thought I'd check out this forum for some ideas of how to choose powers/use her etc, and I've seen lots of 'Poison is crap' comments.
/Traps might fit the theme, amd she's only lvl 2 as yet so I could reroll her np, but I like the look of Poison.
I'm nit a great player by any stretch. I solo or duo mostly on lowest dufficulty settings. I don't need to kill AVs or PvP. I've got a few 50s with loads of inf so I can afford to pimp her out if necessary.
Is it just players who know the ins and outs of numbers etc who notice Poison's shortcomings? If I'm bimbling along just slowly playing for story, will I be ok?
Eco
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Quote:Bonesmasher is pretty much your fastest DPS move, plus it comes with a 50% chance of a stun which can Dominate, which is rather nice.Originally Posted by Death_Volt
Really, Bonesmasher's a must have? It's almost identical to Power Blast, with a slight advantage in damage and activation time while being melee. I was figuring on taking the snipe to replace TF, but yeah, PP + TF does sound great... Power Push is definitely fantastic, hard to find a fault with that one.
Fire looks like the way to go with APPs. Is the dominator Melt Armor nerfed beyond reason or is it still a good force multiplier?
The only better attack in terms of DPS is Power Push (and then only just) with 79 DPS at 50. Bonesmasher has 76. Total Focus : 69 (but it also comes with a high risk of Corpse Clobbering on teams), neck and neck with Power Burst : 68.5, then Power Blast : 62.275 and way down in last Power Bolt : 53 (but Energys advantage is that you can eventually no slot it at all and remove it from your toolbar).
So even though PP and Bonesmasher come early they're the two best attacks in the set.
Note that I'm biased though, I play Elec/NRG so it's a primary which lends itself to melee (my Plant is a Plant/Emp controller).
I'm not sold on Melt Armour at all, 11.75% -resist every 200 seconds. Whereas Sleet is -30% every 90. I'd just go for the Armour, Rain and Fireball I think. -
A lot of the Traps are the Corruptor version too aren't they? IE FFG gives you 10% defense as oppose to the 7.5% you'd expect a MM version to do (and as MM Dispersion Bubble does).
I think the End costs are higher than Corruptor versions but any of the powers which use a Pseudopet (even Trip Mine!) uses the corruptor version. -
Beam suits the Fire and forget nature of traps. Drop traps, they debuff, you shoot things and try and get the Disintergration Spread message as much as possible. It's also nicely thematic.
Dark has some lovely synergies, lots of -Tohit to stack with FFG, an AOE Stun for easy toe-bombing, a Cone Immob and a self-heal. Darks downside is a crappy other cone (Nightfail) and somewhat meh single target damage (although Life Drain may have be bolstered, I'm not sure).
I have a Traps/Beam and like it a lot, but occasionally I yearn for a Dark/Traps too. -
Quote:*snickt*Originally Posted by LISAR
That was launch...
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Quote:Bah, a pox on cookies of my liking. It's smelly and ho... oh wait.Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
it's okay *offers cookie of Carnifax's liking*
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Quote:Bah, a pox on gated pieces I've no chance ever of getting thanks to my years spent on an EU account.Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
Celestial Armor
Well it's smelly and horrid anyway and I never wanted it in the first place. -
Quote:Nice! What's that Chest piece?Originally Posted by CBeet
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Quote:Well in fairness we've already HAD things like this for past Valentines events (Wedding Pack). So extrapolating that with this new fancy-pants marketplace and the relative ease of publishing things on it that we might again isn't exactly the greatest logic leap I've ever seen.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I just use logic
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Quote:That's... unsettling. Very, very unsettling.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
This is Insane Rick. Insane Rick is insane, and more than a little dense, but he was born with the mutant power to survive and heal from any injury, which is the only thing that has kept him alive to this day.
One day, Insane Rick decided that he would be happier without his head. After a bit of thought, tick decided to remove his head with the help of heavy construction equipment. Rick's head never grew back, but he didn't seem to be any worse off for it. When a mad scientist noticed a man walking around the back alleys without a head yet still somehow alive, he took Rick in to serve as a guinea pig for his experiments. Rick didn't seem to mind. He didn't think he'd miss his arms, anyway, and the cool mechanical replacements the scientist gave him seemed to work just fine.
Eventually, the mad scientist was arrested by police and Insane Rick had to be rehabilitated into normal society. To his surprise, most people didn't want to be friends with a man who had no head and refused to wear clothes. Such strange people. But Rick was good person and tried to help people anyway. So when those nice bank robbers came to rob the bank and shot several magazines into his chest, Rick politely asked them to leave. When they refused, he removed their heads, but unlike him, they did not prove as good at living life without a head.
These days, Insane Rick lives on the streets and doesn't eat or sleep, but this doesn't seem to bother him. He tries to be nice to people, but they usually scream and run away. He tries to be nice to bad people, too, but they usually try to hurt him. And when Rick returns the favour, the always seem to die, somehow. It's all very strange and confusing to Rick. He just wants to help. In the eyes of some, he is a hero. In the eyes of others, he is a monster. In his own eyes... Well, he doesn't really have eyes any more. -
Quote:That's an epic name / pun! Kudos!Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades
So as I pondered Sloe D'Jinn was born.
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Quote:I'd go for Praetorian Devouring Earth, but only cos there'd be lots of squishy organic powers hopefully (somewhere between Traps, Plant and some sort of Mastermind set where you summon weird beasties)Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
If they where going to add a new epic AT, I would go for Carnival of Light/War.
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Quote:DF *should* be acting exactly as Poison Gas Trap in terms of how Lockdown works with it (and other procs). There should be proc rolls against every in the AOE every 10 seconds starting at second 0.Originally Posted by Nox__Fatalis
Has anyone really found out if it's just one chance at casting or this?
Haven't gotten to level 27 yet to test it properly though (because I got distracted getting my Traps/Beam defender to 27 to do exactly the same thing with PGT
) DF recharging 50% faster than PGT makes it even more inviting to PROC up though.
For Arctic Air you really want to slot out the Confuse on that sucker. Max End Reduction, Max Confuse. Yes the duration is lowish, but so is the 30% pulse time, so slotting up Confuse will help out a lot in terms of keeping more things confused. -
Quote:SQUEEE!!! My Favourite animal. I once tried to make a Dark/Dark Cuttlefish character, years ago but failed*Originally Posted by Mr_Squid
I do have a decent Sea Urchin though called Echinoderm.
I demand the ability to make proper cephalopods ingame. The Beast Pack was biased against invertebrates.
*Edit : Actually I may have another stab at it when I get home using one-coloured snakes somehow. -
Quote:Really? I'm (once more) in agreement with you so. That's daft.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Wanna' bet? The Fireman Helmet never made it to either New or Featured.
Sometimes it seems like the Market is being run like a Charity Shop curated by two doddery old ladies. -
Quote:No, they're from the "Post your Best Design" thread, which makes more sense. Easy mistake to make if English isn't your first language.Originally Posted by Fireheart
Despite what he said in the OP, none of those are from the (Re-)Design thread.
Be Well!
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Quote:TF is skippable IMO, although personally I love one-shotting a Lieut. The animation is SLOOOOOW. Bonesmasher on the other hand is a must-have. Power Push is my favourite power in the set, decent damage, insane base Acc and great animation time plus some soft control in the knockback. PP > TF is an epic Boss Clobbering combo if you queue them (PP will send them flying but TF will still animate and hit them even though they're halfway across the room now).Originally Posted by Death_Volt
Is TF skippable or is it that good? (I mean, there's some wiggle room to just have it anyway, but Plant and my ranged attacks are already quite slot-hungry.)
Fire? It's orange and you get the delicious Rain Of Fire & Creepers combo & Fireball.Quote:Any suggestions for a Mango/Tropical-themed APP/Patron Pool pick? (Ice could be kinda like a tropical storm but I hate looking like a popsicle)
PB is a little debatable, my NRG is Elec so it's important for him. PBing an AOE Hold is superb though. Vines I'd get, it's an AOE hold but it's ranged which means it can be used preemptively, especially when combined with Domination & PB. If you're tight on slots (and you will be) then 3-4 Acc/Hold/Recharges in Vines is easily good enough as oppose to going for a set and leaving it underpowered (or go for Basilisks Gaze for the set bonuses if you've got the slots)Quote:Anyone have a Plant/* or */Energy build (or any dom build) that features Perma-Dom without Hasten? (Just one less thing to click)
Vines and Powerboost seem so worthless with Seeds of Confusion and Domination, should I bother with those powers? -
Quote:It's early over in NCSoft /Paragon Studios now so it'll probably be recategorized and made a New and/or Featured Product once they've had their morning coffee and danish.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Oh, great, thanks... Like I hadn't made enough characters as it is...
See, when I talk about sets worth their money, THIS is what I mean. Sure, the Vampire faces are horrible and the fish man head is goofy, but the "think tank" alone is worth the price of admission, and the Vampire Collar is just priceless. It's a bit too high to use without some kind of shoulder support to balance it, but DAMN if I won't be using it! Oh, sure, it clips with most hair styles, but I'm fully capable of picking a hairstyle that it doesn't clip with, so it's still good. I just want to see the ascot fixed, as it's bugged right now.
So, yeah... I'm happy with this. I couldn't be happier. I'll buy this set as soon as I'm done making this post, in fact.
*edit*
If I can ******* find it! Why are new costume sets never listed under, you know, "NEW" in the Paragon Market? Why do I have to go fish for them manually?
*edit*
Oh, this is rich. So the Halloween costume pack is NOT in the "Featured" items, it's not in the "New" items, and if I go looking for costume bundles, it's the last item on the last page. Um... Why? Do you NOT want me to buy the costume set? -
Quote:Yes but there's a but.Originally Posted by Vasagi
hi all
first post in about 5years
is it possible for a SoA to turn hero?
ill keep looking for info and if i find the ansrew ill close this, thanks for the help in advance
Vasagi
If you want to get PPPs and you're still levelling up you're best off only getting to Rogue. That'll let you join in on teams Hero Side but also take and complete missions villain side so you can do the Patron Arc.
Once you've done the arc and unlocked the PPPS (or if you had already) you can go full Hero and still use or respec them as normal. -
Loadsa quoting ahoy.
Quote:This. You Paragon Studios have discriminated against Lovecraftesque Things-That-Should-Not-Be long enough. Gis Tentacle face details & maybe backpack options. Pretty please? Even Eldritch Horrors have feelings ya know!Originally Posted by CyberTaz
What, no Tentacles?
This too, the jar is excellent. I'd quite like some silly things in it too, like goldfish. But animating that would be rather tricky.Quote:Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed
The brain in the jar is awesome! Only wish would be to be able to have some other heads inside it like a skull or the prianah head or just some of the regular heads.
The Piranha head is very nice, but wish there was a way to remove the deely bobbers from it. That would make it it look much better.
This too. Is there any reason boys can't have snakes for hair too. Yes I know Medusa was a lady-type, but more options is always good.Quote:Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
And here is the Medusa Face and Medusa Hair...
I really like the hair... I have to admit that I wish males could use it too!
Overall though this pack is snazzy (once the bugs have been dealt with) so kudos to whomever dreamed these up.
Mind you in the next week I forsee a lot of Paternity Tests coming up for the Clockwork King as a swarm of illegimate clockwork princes turn up to make stake on his kingdom. -
Quote:I dusted off mine from my old account (now Premium) during the week. He's quite fun but End use is an embuggerance as you say.Originally Posted by _Elektro_
Okay, that's what I had heard.
When I checked my poor old brute out he was stripped of I/O's and dirt poor. lol
I guess years ago I respecc'd him to steal some expensive I/O's and burn wasn't in his build.
I do remember stone melee being ridiculously heavy in end use. I love the animations, but the lack of people responding to this thread make me believe perhaps it's a bad combo?
Tremor is meh, as people point out. Mind you FE > Fault > Burn > Tremor always cracks me up regardless.
Fiery Embrace is now excellent on Brutes because it adds a second tick of Fiery Damage to all your attacks when active and that second Tick is affected by Damage Enhancements, Damage Buffs (like Build Up) & Fury. FE > Build Up > Single Target Attack Chain is silly, especially if you've a bit of Fury going.
You can still be considered squishy for a Brute, your main defenses are making things fall over (and Seismic Smashing bosses) while you melt them but I find the animations of Stone great fun. -
I'm a bit miffed about this, last time we got a pack (CoT) we're told lots of items didn't make it due to Quality control / Clipping issues. This week we get a pack which looks great and has lots of cool pieces but seems clippy and buggy as hell.
Can't we have some sort of happy medium (I suppose we did with the Barbarian Set, which I love to bits).
Mind you I'll still be buying this one, but given the stance on dealing with "bad looking" pieces which Posi delivered in the last Pack thread I'll expect it to be patched pronto. -
Quote:I've done loads of testing on the procs on Creepers (there's a post somewhere about it all). Basically the Slow and Posi onces proc about 10 times more often than the others because they chain down to all the different attacks the various Creeper components use. The Immob and Knockdown procs are only used by one or two sub-attacks.Originally Posted by Donna_
~Hey Carnifax, I was hoping you would see this
So I have a Plant/Psi/Fire already at 50 so this would save me some time.... but does this AT posses the potential to out damage or at least keep up with a brute?
ps. How would you slot Creepers? atm I have 1x Acc 5x Procs
I think I slotted with Posi and the Slow proc, a Nucleolus Exposure HO, 2 Damage/Recharge IOs and a Recharge IO (although I replaced that during my tests with various of the other PROCs).
Because the Vine Spawn can take up to 10 or 15 seconds to happen when the invisible creeper is following you it's often best to recast it in the middle of a spawn so you get an insta-batch of Vines, which is why I have Recharge maxed out.
In terms of "does this have the ability to keep up with a Brute" I dunno really.
However one thing to maybe consider is taking Ice over Fire as the -Resist from Sleet will bolster Creepers and all the procs as well. Dunno if it'd be worth sacrificing Fire Ball and RoF for Sleet and Ice Storm but it might be, overall.