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Procs in Hot Feet and Mud Pots proc once every 10 seconds, not once per tick. A normal proc in a toggle adds 1.4 DPS (which isn't very much) : That is 20% chance of 70 damage every 10 seconds. Incarnate Interfaces now follow the same logic.

The Proc Monster of Dominators is Plant thanks to Roots (big AOE, best damage of any AOE Immob and quick recharge) and especially Carrion Creepers (lots and lots of pseudopets making individual attacks: Posi Blast and the Slow Set one are gold here). Fly Trap can take a few -Defence ones as well and proc with them on 3 of her 4 attacks.

We only got a firemans helmet last week, so there's a chance a Cossie Set is going to show up.

Not a hope in hell of Titan Weapons this week though, unless Marketing have totally lost it (which is always possible I suppose). You want to get people to buy and play a new set as much as possible before you release a direct "competitor" to it (ie another melee one)

Sure we'll see when the prices come out. I'm in the happy position of not really having anything to spend my points on currently anyway.

Even then it doesn't remove the fact that there's no ingame way to get enhancements of the same quality, the only way you can "earn" them is via the Market, which sits uneasily with me personally.

I don't mind the new model, assuming that there is no advantage between those who play the game to earn things and those who can afford to buy the equivalents.

However I do have a problem with it when those who can pay get better things than those who are active ingame doing things.

These new IOs, along with the forthcoming Attuned IOs which level up with you (and of which there are apparently lots more coming) are better than what you can earn ingame, which to me smacks of ******* out the best items for finanical gain.

NCSoft can of course do what they like with their game, but they should take a lesson from Eve Online in terms of what happens when Players decide a line has been crossed and make sure they don't accidently stumble across it.

Actually this is one place where Titan Weapons makes some sort of sense to me too, that it's used for representing someone with superhuman strength using a stop sign or whatever was to hand as a weapon. Of course the downside is that the person carries it around with them, rather than just using whatever is to hand, but it actually sits a lot better with me personally than someone running around with a 12 foot sword.

This would be true, except for the look of it. Either the model or the colour means I don't really have any characters where I'd say "yeah, this is a good match"
If I could colour it and/or choose a different model I'd be all over it like a rash though.

Ninja/Beast however is a great way to get about. Eventually I do pick a travel power at around level 30, but it's nice not having the pressure of taking it at 14 any more.

I did say said Control, Assault and Pet.

Electric Control has ranged chaining effects. Yes it was taken from Electric Melee but it's the first time it was applied to ranged control effects. Personally I'd call them elaborate power effects.

Kinetic Melee has a pretty unique build up mechanic, Dual Pistols introduced the "Ammo type" concept which they are applying to Staff Melee (hopefully in a better way).

Demons is unique among Mastermind sets in both the attacks using all new Whip animations and in terms of the variety of minions with different powers & effects you get and the "make a demon poop tiny fire imps" power.

Personally I didn't enjoy Kinetic Melee as the first few powers are very samey to me and Demons are screeching nightmares but they did both try and introduce new things to the sets compared to older sets in the AT.

Nope, this is false. It used to be bandied around as a truth but the Devs discovered they were wrong about it (BaBs and Castle tried to fix it I think but it broke lots of other things)

Powers with "baked in" weapons like Fire Swords it is true, but any set where you pick a weapon model you can suffer from redraw.

Well, except when new zone content has been released in the past there tends to be a glut of PuG teams running it anyway. That's what happened with Praetoria, even though half the teams one would join could be of an "opposite" alignment to you.

But with First Ward it just isn't the case. The lack of any search tools (and no acknowledgement of the issue even) seems to have killed the zone off ridiculously quickly.

You're doing "You're doing it wrong" wrong!


(not being a grammar nazi by the way, it just amused me to type that out)

Earth Assault was pretty lazy alright, it was a copy and pasta job, but I like the thought that went into Electric Control, the layered controls and quick recharging AOE control powers (or pseudo-AOE in the case of the chaining Confuse) work well with steamrollering teams.

Dark Assault and Dark Control I am worried about, there's a chance that Dark Assault could be everything I hate about Dark in one place (long animating 7 foot cone attack, a snipe early on, not very good Ranged Damage due to the lack of a proper Tier 3 blast, NightFail).

Mind you it could also go the other way (Siphon Life, some Soul Drain / Mire derivative, changed enough to avoid the "no duplicate powers" pseudo-rule, other interesting bits and bobs like Oppresive Gloom, Cloak of Fear or the damage aura in there somewhere).

You appear to be getting mixed up here. I never said anything about time being wasted. I just said it looks daft and I'll probably be laughing at the swarm of people playing it next week. Which is sorta the point too, giant weapons are supposed to be tongue-in-cheek

I just hope we don't have a bunch of people who buy it and then ***** about it not being the super-best-set-in-the-game like we had with Street Justice.

I've personally no problem with Paragon Studios making it (other than it shows a bit of a lack of imagination, but we'll see what weapons they make for it) but I reserve the right to laugh at all the ridiculous anime style characters running around with oversized protuberances next week.

[TODO : insert George Takei "Oh my" image here]

I wish they'd get out of this Melee set rut though. I want a funky Control, Assault or Pet set with some new mechanics in it.

I'm also in the "This is stupid" camp. The game is going to look daft for a few weeks while people run around with weapon models which look like Jay got the scaling wrong.

Roll on Staff Melee.

If your energy reserves are so low that they can be dangerously depleted typing a few lines of text then you've probably got greater issues than silly giant swords alright.

Only in the case of the End Mod one. Procs will carry down to Pseudopets if the Pseudopet also has the effect / accepts those IOs (Carrion Creepers being the best example of this)

I've seen Devestation proc on chains quite happily on my Elec/NRG Domi.