ClawsandEffect

This is going to be virtually impossible to confirm in-game.

Anything you hit with those powers is going to agro on you anyway, how do you tell if it agroed because of a taunt effect or because you just hit it?

Maybe try it when a Tanker has your target in his taunt aura to see if you can pull it away?

This.......hadn't occurred to me.

My Fire/Kin Controller will be running that dealy as soon as I get a chance.

My Claws/Regen's Shockwave will receive it.

I might actually roll a few characters that I've been wanting to where the KB was a deterrent.

I enhance it if I have the slots to spare.

On my main Claws/Regen build I have a couple slots in it, and it is part of what gets me to 750%+ passive regen.

But if slots are tight, it is the absolute lowest priority for slotting.

We're referring to damage types.

S = Smashing
L = Lethal
E = Energy
N = Negative Energy
F= Fire
C = Cold

So, if someone types S/L/E/N compare that to what the letters stand for and you see that it is referring to Smashing/Lethal/Energy/NegativeEnergy defense.

And the soft cap is 45%, so if we say soft-cap to S/L/E/N what we mean is that the defense totals for those damage types are above 45%

For TW/Elec, I would actually focus on F/C defense instead of E/N.

You're going to be resistance capped to Energy damage, and you're immune to end drain, which is the main danger of pure Energy attacks (most of which are Electric)

You could save a few slots that way as well by slotting 3 Aegis instead of 4 Reactive Armor.

Just food for thought.

My wife and I play sitting about 2 feet apart all the time.

We're a pretty fierce PvP combo when I can convince her to do it. Which is rare, the jacktards we used to have in the zones turned her off on the whole thing.

Arbiter Hawk has said that ONLY the short range blasts in blast sets and Dominator t9 short range blasts will be changed in this way.

Claws Focus doesn't qualify, neither does Impale or Focused Burst.

I would wager that Poisonous Ray won't fit the bill either.

A chance to chain added to ALL Electric Blast attacks would probably be a little overpowered.

I was going to keep this to myself, since I PMed Hawk with it directly already (no, he hasn't responded), but I had an idea to add a chain effect to Electric Blast that wouldn't alter too much.

In light of the mechanic introduced with Time Manipulation and used to buff Gravity, my idea was to use that mechanic in Electric Blast.

If you fire your tier 1 or tier 2 blast at an enemy who is affected by Tesla Cage (most Electric Blasters take Tesla Cage, right?), it will have a chance to chain to up to 5 nearby targets.

Note that I said "affected by" not "held by", so it will still work on GMs and AVs who are difficult to hold.

I have no idea how difficult this might be to implement, or if it's even possible, but I thought it would be a thematically cool idea that wouldn't be as potentially overpowered as just adding a chain effect to Electric Blast powers as an inherent ability.

The chance would have to be pretty small (like 10-15%) to avoid being overpowered, but I thought it could be a cool addition to the set. Plus it would look cool to see electricity arc off the ball of Tesla Cage and hit a random target.

I had another suggestion in there as well, but my wife convinced me that one was a bad idea.

Edit: Also, a possible solution to the KB comlpaint about Force of Thunder. Simply add a tiny amount of damage to it, similar to other stun powers. That way someone could slot the KB modifier IO in it if they are so inclined. Simply changing it to KD would annoy some people, because they LIKE the fact that it will get an entire spawn at once out of their melee range. But if you added a tiny amount of damage and let it be slotted for damage, people could choose for themselves whether they want to modify it.

Didn't have a question at this time.

Just wanted to mention: Heinlein FTW!

(I just read it again a couple months ago)

Not worthless, because Dull Pain doesn't quite get a Brute to its HP cap by itself. But there are definitely better bonuses you could be shooting for.

I would not drop that many slots from Integration, but you could definitely lose one slot and be fine. I usually 3 slot mine, but now with Enhancement Boosters I might reconsider that plan and use 2.

Are you farking KIDDING ME?!

As of i24, my Fire/Fire/Mace blaster will become a GOD!

Softcapped to S/L/E AND a heal over time?

*laughs maniacally*

This is gonna be AWESOME.

You mean Chimera?

Ummm......hate to break this to you dude....but Chimera is the one most people pick to find out if their character can solo an AV.

And how the hell did an EB that does all Lethal damage manage to kill an Invuln tank?!?

The loss of max HP is completely irrelevant in this case.

Your build is capable of perma Dull Pain, which means you don't NEED max HP bonuses, because they become relatively useless when Dull Pain is active.

If your damage enhancement is over 95%, then adding more damage enhancement is also irrelevant because it smacks into the ED limiter. Plus, you have Fury, so anything over 90% will get you to about that power's max potential with full Fury. Seriously, the difference will be like 10 damage one way or the other.

Lower end cost means you can keep wailing away on stuff longer. You have a metric crap ton of endurance recovery, but in order to make that work, you also need to make your powers cost less. Mids' only shows you the cost of your toggles, and attacking burns WAY more endurance than running toggles ever will.

If you don't increase the regen %, your health doesn't come back any faster.

For the record, the difference between 5% of 3000 and 5% of 3500 is 25 HP. (150 vs 175) Increasing your max HP by 500 points only gives you 25 HP more per tick. The base regeneration rate is one tick every 12 seconds. Tell me, is 25 more HP every 12 seconds really that big of an improvement?

Increasing your regen % increases how fast the ticks come. 25 more HP every 12 seconds isn't much of an improvement. But if you are getting 25 HP more every 2 seconds, it's a much bigger deal.

Simply increasing your max HP doesn't increase your regen rate as much as you're trying to imply here. If you want to see improvement, you need more HP AND more regen %. Increasing your regen % is every bit as important as increasing your max HP. Saying otherwise is misleading.

This is wrong.

You regenerate 5% of your Max HP per tick. This does not change.

The regeneration percentage is how FAST those ticks come, not how much you regenerate per tick. 100% regeneration is the normal regeneration speed. 750% regeneration means those ticks come 750% faster.

High max HP IS good, but not for the reason you're saying here.

Read up on it here: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Health_Regeneration

You know, if you actually enhanced the power, you would gain more regen than sticking all those procs in there is getting you.

Health is a better spot for the procs, because it gives you less base regen to build on. Physical Perfection is an even better spot, if you took Body Mastery.

And what would it be enhancing?

Taunt enhancements don't ADD taunt to the power, they just increase the taunt that is already there.

It's like adding recharge to an autopower. It does no good because the aspect you are trying to enhance doesn't exist.

I agree that a global Taunt IO should never happen.

I like the idea of a single power Taunt IO though. Assuming that it would be a unique and you couldn't just slot it into everything.

It'd be nice to be able to slot something like that into my Spines/Fire scrapper's damage aura and stop having things run in 12 different directions when I fire Spine Burst.

Do I think it is NEEDED? No, but it'd be nice.