ClawsandEffect

Not a mission exactly, but I still go out of my way to run teh Freaklympics arc in level range of it. I did that before merits existed, and now that they do I get a good chunk of them for an arc I enjoy anyway, so it's a win/win.

It occurs to me that Eradication 6 slotted is a better set than is readily apparent.

It gives you both a little bit of Ranged Defense for 3 slots, and a good chunk of AoE defense for 6, and teh enhancement values aren't bad for a level 30 set. (Bonus of keeping those set bonuses exemped as low as 27 as well). It also gives you Max End and Max HP in with those bonuses, which are useful for Shield Defense characters.

I might have to fiddle with it and see what I can do.

I think the Quartz emanators are designed to make things difficult for ANY defense based character, it just hits SR a little harder because defense is all they have.

If you have a character with extremely high defense, you are going to be practically unkillable in most normal situations. It stands to reason that the devs would want to put something in the game to ensure that those characters aren't practically unkillable in every situation.

DE are not especially common in the game and they are pretty easily avoided, so if you don't like the fact that you have a weakness to them (and one that is easily rectified at that), you don't ever have to fight them. It's not like they are CoT, Council, Arachnos, or Longbow, or any of the enemy groups that are seemingly everywhere.

Pretty sure it's actually somewhat of a priority. If I recall correctly they wanted to do it in i16, but they ran out of time before the deadline to release it.

I'd say we can expect it sometime within the next couple issues.

Get a Regenerative Tissue +Regeneration in there somewhere (I'd replace the Heal IO in Fast Healing with it)

If you can find a couple spare slots, add one to QR and Stamina to 4 slot Performance Shifter, including the proc.

Otherwise you have it built more or less how I would build a WP tank, so I can't really offer too many more suggestions.

Yes, Regen has issues with Council Marksmen if enough of them spawn in one place and agro on you. Marksmen hit you with a good amount of -recharge. If enough of them stack it on you, your heals won't recharge in time to save you, and your attacks take too long to come back so you can kill them.

My Claws/Regen is pretty tough, I can consistently run on +2/x6. But if it's a Council mission I turn it down because 5-6 Marksmen will floor my recharge, and floored recharge is a death sentence for a /Regen.

There are more enemies that use psi than people usually think about. Rikti Mesmerists for example use a large amount of Psi, and they are bosses, so they can do a significant amount of damage before you kill them. Earlier in the game there are some CoT mages that use Psi, and I'm pretty sure there is at least one Tsoo mob that does as well. And the Lost. Oh, and Carnies, don't forget about the Carnies. Even ONE psi user in a high level spawn can cut through Invuln with relative ease, especially if it's a scrapper, because they have fewer HP to soak the damage with.

Also, how exactly do you give SR a weakness without ignoring it's defense? Defense is binary, you either get hit or you don't. A softcapped SR will be nigh immortal in a large number of situations, it is perfectly fair for there to be one or two situations that will annihilate them.

My question still hasn't been answered, so I'll reiterate.

How exactly do you propose we stop people from fasrming in BOTH versions of Atlas Park? If both zones are identical (which they would have to be), there is nothing stopping anyone from AE farming in either zone.

If you're suggesting an alternate Atlas Park be created that doesn't have AE in it, my reaction will be as follows:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

There is no way in hell the devs are going to create a separate AP that has no AE in it just to appease a vocal minority on the forums.

If the broadcast chatter annoys you that much, start somewhere else, or simply turn broadcast off in your chat window.

/bind <key> targetcustomnext Quartz

It will be your best friend in DE missions with a defense based character.

I'll put in another plug for Pinnacle. It's the only server I spend a large amount of time on, and I've loved the community there since I started playing 5 years ago.

Yes, SR has problems against DE.

Regen has problems against large numbers of Council Marksmen.

Invuln has problems against Psi users.

And so on and so forth. Every powerset in the game has it's foils.
In the case of Devouring Earth annihilating SR....that's an easy fix:
/bind <key> targetcustomnext Quartz
You will automatically target any Quartzes that may have been dropped so you can take them out before teh DE being buffed by them faceplant you.

Can't really do the same as easily with other sets' weaknesses.

If you separate Atlas into Farm and Non-Farm versions, you will run into the problem of new players not knowing the difference and zoning into the Farm version by mistake.

That would color their perception of the game as being nothing but a massive grindfest that takes place in an extremely small area. If I had gotten that impression from the game when I started playing I would most definitely not be here now.

Also, what's to stop the farmers from farming in BOTH Atlas Parks? Then you'd have solved nothing and made the headaches worse for the people who would like to avoid it.

The inherent problem with that is that the players who farm ARE doing it for fun.

Some people enjoy farming.

Sorry, it really sounds like you're saying "Play the way *I* want you to play....or go away"

Farming probably should be addressed somehow, but making the farmers feel like pariahs isn't the best idea.

Oh, the "Blasters are underpowered" argument got ported over to THIS thread now?

Seriously, leave it alone already. Blasters are fine at what they are meant to do, which is deal damage. You can't crank up their damage any more, or add survivability without breaking the balance point of them.

No, I'm serious. There are blaster builds that 2 shot entire spawns. If that were to be improved you would have builds 1 shotting entire spawns, essentially making it so Fireball and Blaze are the ONLY powers you need to solo the entire game.

If you have an issue with your blaster either A) dying too often, or B) not dealing enough damage, the issue is with YOU, not the AT.