ClawsandEffect

I bolded the part that stuck out to me.

If there is agro beyond the cap, there is nothing your tank/brute can do about it, and it isn't their fault that it happened.

Not sure if you're aware of this or not, but the agro cap is exactly that. You can't have more than 17 enemies focused on you at once. If 35 got agroed because people started firing AoEs carelessly, you can't blame the tank for that.

Don't get into the music or entertainment field. If you react this way to every contract that is put in front of you, you will quickly find that you signed away all the rights to whatever it was you created.

ALWAYS read what you're signing at least once, so you at least have some sort of vague idea of what you just signed.

Sorry, signing anything without reading it is just dumb. Since you didn't read it, for all you know NCSoft might own your computer and any other computer you have played the game on. (they don't, but you wouldn't know it if they did)

Also, if you read the EULA further (I did, just to make sure for myself), it implicitly states that any character you create in the game is the property of NCSoft.

If you create a copyrighted/trademarked character in the game, it can be viewed as NCSoft claiming to own that character. If NCSoft is shown to be aware of said violation and does nothing a lawsuit could be the result of it, because of the clause Forbin already mentioned that requires the copyright owner to take action in order to retain their rights to their IP.

That said, the OP probably has nothing to worry about, since it would be a bit of a stretch to say his characters are violating any particular copyright or trademark.

The only way eye color is automatically blue is if you only ever use one face. The different faces all have different eye colors. There are brown and green options as well.

Actually, it can't play 2 animations at once. You have the movement animation, and the attack animation.

You can try it for yourself. Log in any character with an armor power that does not root you and activate it while moving forward. No animation for the power happens at all because the movement animation overrides it.

In order to remove rooting they would have to add animations for: Running forward, back and sideways, jumping forward back and sideways, and flying forward back and sideways.

That's 9 new animations for ONE POWER. The powers that have multiple available animations would need 18. Then you have to multiply that by 3 for the 3 body types. So, a minimum of 27 animations for every power in the game, and it goes up to 54 for each power that has 2 choices.

So, every power in the game, including pool powers and APPs would need at least 27 new animations programmed for it.

That doesn't even take into account what the removal of rooting would do to the powersets themselves, or how much worse it would break PvP than it already is (a ranged character that doesn't have to ever stop moving would never be killed by a melee character again, for starters)

Fixed that for you. Fiery Embrace won't take anything but Recharge enhancement, and maybe End Reduction. Since it doesn't buff to-hit, it won't accept to-hit sets.

I'd go with 3 recharge IOs.

Pure Fire and Cold might be somewhat problematic, but they are pretty rare.

Psi damage makes Invulns curl up into a little ball and cry, but you already know that.

Looks like you should be in pretty good shape overall. If possible, swap some slotting around to softcap E/N defense at the expense of S/L (one set of 4xEradication in an AoE should do it)

Which seems to me to be the devs' response to the complaints over the years that melee characters are overpowered. They introduced encounters that melee characters are at a significant disadvantage in.

Both Trapdoor, and from what I understand the BM fight in Apex (haven't run it yet) are noticeably easier on ranged characters than melee. Trapdoor is easier on a ranged character because you don't have to move as much to kill his bifurcations with ranged attacks, where with a melee character you have to run all over the room to get them and he regenerates in the meantime.

So, if you have ever complained about how overpowered melee characters are compared to ranged characters, you are partially to blame for melee characters getting screwed in the Battle Maiden fight.

While it is true that armors and other toggles that only affect you don't root you, it is ALSO true that when you are moving and activate those powers it completely overrides the animation of the power. It is reasonable to assume the same thing would happen if you removed rooting from attack powers, leaving you with nothing visibly happening and damage occurring out of nowhere.

All of the attack animations in the game are designed from a stationary position, and most of them would look extremely stupid if you could move while animating them.

It's not as simple as "Just remove the rooting", because animation time plays a role in how powers are balanced against each other. Animation time is directly connected to root time.

In order to remove rooting, and NOT have every attack in the game look pants-on-head stupid, they would more than likely have to re-code and re-animate every power in the game with both a moving and stationary version.

Unless that talent was let go in order to work on CoH2.

I don't think it's particularly likely, but it's possible.

Well, except for the fact that powers don't start recharging until the animation is done.

You can Jab quickly, but there will always be a gap in there.

A lot of Malta summoning Auto Turrets at once can suck if your character doesn't have high regeneration or Aid Self.

You have to be in melee to get that first attack off anyway, and if you're not in melee....why do you need melee defense?

It is trivial to land that first attack before anything in the spawn has a chance to attack you, especially if you're running Cloak of Darkness. More often than not, the spawn won't even know you're there until that first tick from Death Shroud gets their attention, giving you plenty of time to land that first Parry.

Sword/Dark is the only Dark Armor combo I would ever build for positional defense. For pretty much every other combo available, you will get more out of slotting for typed defense.

Sorry if you didn't like the way I put it, I was posting in a hurry and didn't have time to go into great detail.

What I was getting at is: anything that debuffs defense will wreak havoc on all those set bonuses you've built up here, and if you don't have a couple purples you're going to completely lose the first layer of your mitigation.

Fortunately, Dark Armor has more than one layer, but if you suddenly find yourself going from being hit by 1 out of 20 attacks to being hit by 10 out of 20 (or more if they put you in the negative), it will suck in a big way. Especially if you're fighting higher level enemies.

Point of fact: A +4 boss can and will kill you in the span of time between activating Dark Regeneration and actually receiving the heal. I've had it happen numerous times over the course of playing my BS/DA.

I concur.

Health is the better choice here.

Though, if you have the slot to spare you could put it in True Grit as well and it would be just as effective.

I was talking to the OP, not je_saist. Though in reading my post again that may not have been clear.

You're giving me too much credit here dude.

I'm good with builds, but I'm constantly asking Werner to calculate the recharge I need for me