ClawsandEffect

Any time I see a melee character with Fly, I assume it is for concept.

Air Superiority isn't a bad attack. It has guaranteed knockdown, and it is probably the best attack available in a power pool. If your concept calls for flying, but you don't want to spend all your time in combat hovering, Air Superiority is the way to go.

Also, I don't know for sure, but I don't think you can use Foot Stomp while hovering. That alone, if it is true, is reason enough to skip Hover.

Yes, Johnny, I know you think tanks should be both the toughest AND most damaging AT in the game. That doesn't change the fact that tanks benefit more from Rage than brutes.

I was comparing them in a vacuum, as though you were solo, with no outside buffs.

Tanks get more from Rage than brutes do.

80% bonus on top of 0% is huge.

80% bonus on top of 160% isn't as great.

It's still a great power for both ATs, but tanks benefit from it more.

Also, as Willpower, you will have to actively try a little harder to hold agro than some builds. The taunt aura in WP (RttC) is pretty weak compared to some others.

Huge problem with introducing inf sinks.

If the cost is high enough for it to be an EFFECTIVE inf sink, the cost is also high enough to put it out of reach of all but the wealthiest players.

If the cost is low enough that your average player can pay it with no trouble, it isn't a very effective inf sink at all, because the extremely wealthy won't even put a dent in their inf piles paying it.

Personally, I'm of the opinion that the devs should introduce level 51-53 IOs, so we can spread the wealth around a little bit. (there would be a HUGE outcry from those who weren't paying attention to announcements and lost billions on empty bids though)

I think whoever animated that watched Iron Man 2 shortly before going to work on it.

It depends on what point your build is at defense-wise. If you are softcapped and almost never getting hit, then Oppressive Gloom will end up doing more damage to you than enemy attacks. If you are NOT rocking that much defense, Oppressive Gloom is still damn useful, because it pretty much takes any and all minions out of the fight. Interesting tip that I learned when running with my wife's DA/Fire tank: OGloom will stack to stun anything short of an EB.

Also, I dropped it on my main build in favor of Cloak of Fear, but I'm working on a second build for exemping purposes that will be getting it back. If I drop below level 47 while exemping, I lose a BIG chunk of my set bonuses, so I won't be softcapped at lower levels. In that situation, Oppressive Gloom will be very useful again.


You can run Combat Jumping and Hover at the same time, and their defense will stack. Also, if you are hovering, anything that punches through your KB protection will just make you do a backflip, regardless of the magnitude of the KB. SO instead of flying across the room in cases of extreme KB, you will just do a flip and be back in the fight much faster.

My BS/DA isn't quite softcapped anymore, due to a nerf to the IOs I was using for a good chunk of my ranged/AoE defense. I believe I'm sitting at 44% ranged, and around 41% AoE. For all practical purposes, unless I'm watching my combat window like a hawk, I never notice a difference from when it was softcapped.

Keep in mind that you also have solid resistance, including good Psi resistance, and the best self-heal in the game, so if you can't manage to hit the softcap, it's not the end of the world. Anything over 30% will increase your survivability quite a bit.

No one was questioning the DoT, we know that deals it's damage every time it procs.

I think what was in question was how many times the -resistance portion will stack.

I believe Reactive is a max of 10 regardless of source. I know the -regen one IS a max of 4 though. I don't have any verifiable proof though, just something I remember reading.

This actually sums up your problem fairly well.

You are attempting to do something designed to require teamwork with crappy teammates.

In these trials, if your support sucks you are going to get slaughtered. Everyone has to pull their weight, and if the support doesn't do so, the melee is NOT going to be able to pick up the slack and do it all themselves.

You support them by taking agro, they support you by buffing and healing so you can survive that agro. Even with an obscene amount of force multiplication, at the end of the day those ATs are squishier than you. They can and will be one and two shotted by things that you could survive, so it makes sense for them to buff you so you can take those hits for them.

What doesn't make sense is for you to expect to waltz in and handle all of that agro by yourself when your support isn't up to snuff. I've watched a Stone tank in Granite get beaten down by a mob in seconds flat because he thought he didn't need help.

In short, everyone needs to support each other. If you try to be the hero and take all that agro while your teammates twiddle their thumbs, you are going to die, messily and repeatedly.

No, actually engine limitations were the argument against Super Speed being made faster. Currently, Super Speed gets you moving about as fast as the game can render terrain. Any faster and you could quite literally run off the map.

The argument against faster flight was usually based in the fact that flight is already the safest travel power by far, in that you can go from point A to point B without ever being in danger of being attacked. You can also travel anywhere the game will allow you to go using flight. The cost of those advantages is it being somewhat slower than other travel powers. If it were just as fast as Super Jump or Super Speed, it would have advantages over both of them, and no downside. I think it's actually pretty fairly balanced the way it is.

You have to admit, being impossible to do is a pretty good argument against it. And we were told it was impossible by the devs themselves, so there's no question about the veracity of the argument.

Edit: I REALLY need to pay more attention to post dates on OPs. Didn't realize this was necro'd.

Apparently I was the victim of a bug that I didn't realize was a bug then, because I actually lost 4 levels worth of xp and had to earn it over.

I couldn't tell you if it happened more than once, because all the other level pacts I have done were with characters of the same level.

What's the name of this novel? I have a Barnes and Noble gift card sitting around somewhere that I need to use.

Not at all, I have a DM/SR brute and a DM/Nin stalker that I enjoy quite a bit, and I have several Shield Defense characters I like just as much. And that post wasn't directed at anyone in particular.

I still don't see why you're discarding the fact that if the to-hit had NOT been raised, these trials would be comparatively trivial for defense based characters. Especially the ones that could already solo on +4/x8.

Would it be fair for these trials to be hard for squishies and resistance based sets, but a walk in the park for defense based characters because 95% of everything thrown at them misses? Or do you just get a kick out of being invincible while your teammates get frustrated with repeated faceplants? I'm trying to understand why 14% extra to-hit is such a HUGE deal.

If it has to be made difficult, it has to be made difficult for everyone, not just difficult for everyone who isn't softcapped. And the only way to really make it more difficult for anyone that IS softcapped is to make it easier for things to hit them.

You are very much acting like adding 14% to the enemies' base to-hit makes your entire secondary worthless. That isn't the case. If you REALLY believe that it does, try jumping in with your toggles turned off and see how long you live compared to with them on. I mean, if your entire secondary is worthless in the face of 14% extra to-hit, running in with no toggles should be no problem, right?

Melee has NOT been made worthless or redundant. It has just been made to be more reliant on the other ATs for a change.

I'd imagine that makes the players of those other ATs smile a bit after the last several years of feeling rather useless to you because your melee character didn't really need anything they had to offer.

I don't have a bone to pick with defense based sets. I DO, however, have a problem with the idea that anything LESS than completely flooring everything's to-hit is a waste of time.

You've played on Pinnacle haven't you?

Though, oddly enough, some of the people on Pinnacle I've seen play remarkably well while hammered.

Me neither.

Given the responses to my post thus far, I'm starting to suspect it may have been a bug that I thought was working as intended, so I never petitioned it.