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Ice is just a bit dull I found. I might retry it but I gave up and moved onto more exciting combos, Ices main issue is the mediocre damage, coupled with nothing particularly flashy to look forward to in it.

There's a bit of synergy between Elec and the additional aura and early PBAOE attack in Ice, and some nice, quick animations, but overall I found it underwhelming.

Psi is nice as a secondary (I've an Ice/Psi), Static Field & Drain Psyche would be an excellent, safe method of maxing out the drain. You will be to-and-fro in and out of melee though, Psis two biggest hitters are melee attacks when levelling.

Edit : I think I'm going to chance Thorns personally. It was my gut choice when heard about Elec Assault coming and one I want to retry (very first villain was a failed Fire/Thorns), I'm aware of the lack of synergy between the sleep and the DoT but at least they'll be able to do decent damage.

I'm not sure I understand the first line, but it's exactly the same AOE as my Scrappers Blazing Aura.

I'd agree with the second point though, it's End Expensive and a Domi probably has more useful options to take. Jolting Fences is certainly one of them, amazingly useful and cool looking power (and very interesting PROC options IMO).

My Fire/Dark corrupter will cast it where ever makes most sense in terms of hitting max number of baddies with it. Which could quite feasibly be the exact same place you decided to drop Sleepie-nighty-snoozey-snooze. Mind you it's going on top of Fearsome Stare and Tar Patch and there's a Fireball and Breath of Fire following it up, so I too would be perplexed if it was just a RoF and no follow-up AOEs to finish the job.

The Fire Blaster was right to do so, especially if you were also Fencing them nicely for him and no-one was dying.

At least Static Field has the option of being a nice Recovery tool for the meleers as well. A lot of AOE control becomes very marginal indeed on a decent steamrolling team.

I've never run Tactics on my Necro/Dark and didn't notice anything too untoward in regards to the zombies missing. Just get them to 75%+ Acc and they're good.

Trying to run a Staminaless Dark with the Leadership Toggles sounds like no fun to me personally.

Kiwis build with the Leadership toggles swapped for Petrifying Gaze and another Whip attack would be roughly how I'd build one.

Yep, and WP works really well with anything that also likes being surrounded. Dark/WP is awesome for the self-heal which happens to be stuck in your attack chain anyway, along with Soul Drain.

I'd reckon the new MA and WP and Dual Blades & WP would work well together as well for the PBAOE knockdowns.

Now this I agree with, the 3rd respec should allow multiple runs.

Much better than the OPs suggestion.

You can buy your own strong liquor. Your days of being asked for ID as you do so are done as well

"The new companion will be Bonnie Langford as Mel, who is taking over from Perry"

For a 12 year old boy THAT was the worst news EVAR!

Actually I remember, I did two of Hatchets missions yesterday as a duo, so a marginally increased rate of levelling there which probably caused it. I'm on the third zone and doing it exclusively solo so I'll see how that goes for him (although I joined a PuG for one mission yesterday. Damn it! Although that provided it's own merriment by way of a Loyalist Demon MM Teamie who conned as an enemy to us and got irate because his silly demons kept wandering into range of my broadsword).

My Fire/Dark Corrupter hasn't actually done ANY of her own missions at all and she's level 15, she's too irresistible to PuGs (purely my own fault of course).

^This (although blaster is a pretty bad example IMO, they do tend to need it). Buff your pets that need it (and resummoning isn't the end of the world if the odd tier 1 drops), ignore any one elses pets and don't bother shielding anyone who doesn't need it, for example Ranged VEATs are probably ok. And, oddly, things like Tanks, Brutes and Scrappers can often be pretty much self-contained and not need your shields at all. My Empathy Controller generally ignores the tank for Buffs as they're usually built well enough in general play without them.

I'll agree with this much. Honestly I don't see why GR didn't stretch to 1-30, the level ranges of the last two zones are surprisingly small (6 and 4-5 levels or so?).

Tis weird. I'm loving GR, but I'm just rather surprised by that decision having seen how much work went into each zone (coupled with the fact that I've generally been levelling so fast I haven't even made it through a single morality mission yet, I get to the end of the 2nd or 3rd contact and I've actually outlevelled the rest and don't get referred to the next one).

I'm towards the end now doing the last series of arcs and I'm here now. Getting my bosses downgraded to Lieuts is now irking me.

Sticking in the difficulty settings would let me set sensibly so that my squishies can manage the 1-9 settings easily and my older characters can set theirs to something which suits them better.

Seems to be a no brainer now that we're two weeks in and most people are aware of the new factions and how nasty they can be.

Dark would work well as PB will also affect Dark Pit (which is usually pants but if you Frankenslot it it'd be alright). Not to mention a self-heal and all that stacking -ToHit.

You'd be very team orientated of course.

More or less this. I wouldn't touch Thermal on a MM because of the tediousness of having to reapply all those Fire Shields (don't be a loser MM and just buff your pets).


Of the choices I'd personally go Pain but probably recommend Dark, because I already have a Necro/Dark MM. Dark is awesomely good, even with the small heal radius.*

Yep, this. I love playing my Fort/Widow. Log in, decide if I'm in a Blasty mood or a slashy mood and switch builds accordingly. Also dead handy when you're PuGing, you can alternate according to team make-up (in other words switch to Fort when you find yourself on a team with a Demoo MM. Damn screeching, shoving cows).

And if you get another VEAT on the you basically both become god-like (softcapped defenses and usually stacking damage buffs), as does the rest of the team.

Also these. Dark/Sonic is great at neutering a spawn and then focusing firing with a Scrapper in order to melt a boss (or do nasty things to an AV). Sonic/Dark Corrupter would also work well (even better against an AV or EB thanks to Scourge).

And I had to stop playing my Praetorian Fire/Dark corrupter in order to actually see some of the GR mission arcs rather than PuGing my way through them, as I was leveling too fast. On a team they are lethal.

Enjoying my Broadsword/Fire scrapper at the mo too, great soloer since he's nicely self-contained and decent on teams (but nothing like as silly as the Fire/Dark corrupter).

For your example (Deflection Shield) it sticks around for the duration of the Shield (4 mins). Ditto with something like Fortitude.

Your big bubble would only get it for 15 seconds though (ditto with the PPP Defense Shield Black Scorp has) because they are toggles, and Cold Defenders are out of luck altogether because it won't affect that at all due to the minor Resistance each shield also gives AFAIK.

In fairness in their case I think it's scripted / expected behaviour. They are snipers after all, and they do tend to reposition and take potshots at you, rather than doing the ridiculous "Run away in terror and then stroll leisurely back to their starting point".

I do agree that it does seem borked though the amount it happens, especially at the start of combat BEFORE ANYONE IS EVEN HURT.

I've had Purple conning Freak Tanks take off from the off, which makes no sense to me.