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Me too. It could be tactically pretty interesting for some things like some huge ambushes etc in TFs. My only Grav is a Grav/TA though.

This last sentence sums it up for me. The fact that we've gotten four free sets in the same timescale balances things out for me.

Powerset output is, so far, the best single thing about Freedom, by a mile. I'm loving the variety and range of new sets which we've had in the last 6 months (9 sets in 6 months. That's insane! In a good way).

I reckon we're due a new Armour set or two (surprised there's been 4 melee sets and no Armour sets to go with them), a new Blast set and a new Assault / Blaster Manipulation weapon set next (a weapon using one, I think developing it as both an Assault & taking powers from it for a Manip set makes sense). I'm hoping for a new Control set as well (hopefully Insect control) at some point too.

And quite likely a new EAT or two as well before the end of the year.

Feed me.

And Mind, Earth, Elec, Dark and then Gravity again. Plant really doesn't need a pass at all.

Ice really needs a pass to bring it up to speed. At the moment it suffers from having no decent Alpha and the fact it's main control is easily countered by teammates and a poor relation to one of the 3 AOE controls Earth has.

I don't think Fire will get a pass, it's not in the same boat as Ice in terms of just being all-round meh (and I say this having played an Ice/Thorns and an Ice/Psi Domi).

But if you keep them out of the phase your attacks do nothing to them.

I don't think Phase powers use Only Affect self nowadays, as Honbrid says it now uses a Phases flag and only two things with matching Phase statuses can hurt each other. If they're outside your field you can't affect each other.

Given server ticks etc I reckon they'd be constantly running to the edge of Dimension Shift, phasing and maybe getting an attack off and then being repelled back out, losing Phase and becoming immune to the repel effect again (Immobs don't protect against Repel, and Gravs don't even counter knockback). Rinse and repeat.

Dimension Shift & Hurricane might work better in that case if you wanted to be Mr Roadblock, Hurricane has the Range and ToHit debuffs so anything sneaking into the phase gets debuffed and pushed back. But I don't think you're going to be able to combine it with shooting things outside the bubble.

Apparently Eddie Izzard is going to star as Grandpa in a remake of the Munsters called Mockingbird Lane.

The circle of crazy is complete.

Ironically the place they now gather instead is indeed a ghost-town (and a zombie town and fog central).

Dark Astoria has been revamped into an Incarnate zone so that's where people tend to gather I believe.

Certain Gravity Powers grant a buff now (the holds according to the Wiki). Lift and Propel do bonus damage when hitting foes affected by those powers resulting in Impact.

I thought it was only meant to be for those two powers though, not Stone Spears, or any Domi secondary (although if it was expanded to include Domi secondaries it would be a welcome buff to Gravity Domis)

Ew. You sicko. That's absolutely vile. You should be ashamed of yourself.


Sweet and sour sauce! Yuck. Everyone knows stir fried kitten and broccoli goes better with oyster sauce, and maybe a squeeze of fresh lime.

It's Thursday. Which means it's routine maintenance doesn't it?

Didn't you get your Pariah Starter Kit in the mail?

The idea that people would decide to snub you for voicing an opinion on something in a forum where the whole idea is to voice opinions on something is pretty ridiculous, isn't it. Luckily I've never seen any sign of it here at all. icemanstryketh is the first person I've ever seen even mention it. Maybe I don't hang around the same circles (or maybe that circle has already made me a pariah and I never noticed)

If anything it's almost always more fun to counter-argue with someone than decide that you're now "snubbing" them in some way online. How would they even know? And why would they even care?

Pariah material? Does that mean we have to live in sewers and hang around with guys with TVs on their heads (when are they upgrading to flatscreens by the way devs).

Farsight does probably need to be brought into line with other AOE Defense to All buffs like Fade and Mindlink. As is it's an outlier in how it interacts with Power Boost and Time doesn't need it (unlike poor Forcefield), it's still an excellent set with a wide variety of abilites (more so than nearly any other set)

Best? Dunno. Which of the two would I pick (I have both at 50 with other secondaries), Illusion. The recharge + PAs is overwhelmingly tempting. But then I'm waiting for Traps proliferation before I play Grav again.

One of each it is so!

I don't believe Singy is melee prone any more though

There appears to be a "crack" running through the chunk.

You could replace the Level 12 melee power (usually the Taunt) with some mez-protection. i think every melee set has it in there (at least in terms of Scrapper/Tank/Brute sets).

Ditto with any new AT with Pets like Assault or Melee/Pets, you could replace the Pet Attacks with armours and mez protection

Phantom Army doesn't need to be perma, and if I was running an SO only build then Time would be my first port of call due to the tasty self-recharge the tier 9 has. And both TJ and DF would work nicely really nicely with it. You'll be safe in melee anyway once you start stacking Spectral and TJs -ToHit. And Phants Decoy doesn't do knockback, unless that's changed recently, only Phantasm himself does.

Electrical Control is a nice set, but it's a low damage one. Jolting Chain does poor enough damage, it's a soft control power primarily.

No and no, unless the hold actually kicks in as far as I know (and maybe not even then, certainly if the hold does wake them up they'll be held, and should be asleep again before it wears off)

Who's that last statement aimed at? Not sure it's necessary regardless.

There's been a few examples of powers combos (or even just powers) which turned out to be overpowered or needed toning down once the player base got their hands on them. Fire Control has had a fair few tweaks since the days of FireKin farmers (Hotfeet and Imps were toned down a bit).

Shield Charge was memorably buffed by Synapse into its former broken state (he used the wrong damage modifiers or something in his calculations) and the devs didn't even realise until he was told in a thread. Despite it having been the main topic of conversation on Scrapper boards for months and months. What seems obvious to the player base and is frequently discussed on the boards has often passed the devs by.

So saying "Surely it wouldn't have gotten into the live game without being spotted" isn't true really. Experience shows that yes it could, regardless of beta (I'm still trying to work out if Titan Weapons was considered balanced in beta. Now that I'm playing one on live I can't see how it could be, although I'm reserving judgement as Brutes are generally early overachievers)

Overall I find the idea of what Bridger on the EU forums used to call "corner cases" pretty interesting when it comes to two powers or sets synergizing so well they cause the total to be far greater than the sum of their parts.

One could, if one was in the habit of calling fixes for a well known exploit, which had been labelled as such for years by both players and devs, nerfs. Which is another interesting point, when is a nerf a nerf and when is it a bug fix (I wouldn't classify the Farsight & PB combo a bug mind so any change which came along preventing FS from gaining from PB would be a nerf, but not to my mind an unreasonable one since Farsight is a pretty excellent power anyway and sticks out like a sore thumb amongst its ilk in terms of how it plays with PB).

Power Boost specifically is a weird one (and has been singled out by the Devs in the past as a bit of a headache) because of the way it works in clicky powers.

To be even more specific how Power Boost works with some AOE Buffs, most famously Farsight (but also Force Field shields) but not with others (like Fade, Mind Link in the Domi APPs and Cold Shields) makes it at least suspect in terms of how those powers were implemented. Mechanically I know why the difference exists but in terms of balancing sets it means sets are wildly disparate once you throw Power Boost or Power Build Up into the mix.

Farsight is especially guilty here, at least when you judge the set as a whole. Time is already pretty good with lots of tricks and abilities, why a Perma AOE Defense Boost was created recently which allowed to gain from Power Boost is a bit beyond me and would seem to me to be an oversight.

To my mind the only Buff Defense shields which should be PBable would be Fortitude from Empathy (because you're not going to get more than 2-3 people buffed with it) and the bubbles from Forcefield (since FF is such a one-trick pony buff-wise).

All my own opinion of course.

Oh, and the Recharge floor is 25% of normal recharge.