ClawsandEffect

Well, there are no attacks in the game that are flagged just "toxic". Every toxic attack in existence is flagged with a position as well.

So, if you want to avoid toxic attacks, beef up your positional defense.

So, what do they think of Electric Manipulation, which has 7 out of 9 powers requiring you to be in melee?

Or Fire Manipulation? Also 7 of 9 requiring melee range.

Ice Manipulation: 6 of 9 melee.

Devices: 0 of 9 melee dependant. The ONLY blaster secondary that isn't heavily weighted toward use in melee range.

Mental Manipulation has 5 powers that require melee range. So almost 2/3rds of the set that is supposed to be getting away from melee powers requires you to be in melee to use. I wouldn't say it's all that different from the other blaster secondaries in that regard.

I'd say this one probably describes the definition the best.

Actually a set of Touch of Death (at level 40) smacks into the ED limit on damage, where it suffers is Accuracy and Recharge. I usually make up for the accuracy with set bonuses from elsewhere, and Quickness will make up for the lack of recharge on an SR.

The Stealth cap of 571.5 feet for non-stalker, non-VEAT characters is verifiably true, Paragonwiki says it, and in-game numbers agree.

Sonic/Devices Blaster w/Cloaking Device + Stealth IO = 571.5 feet

BS/DA Scrapper w/Cloak of Darkness + Stealth IO = 571.5 feet

Fire/Fire Blaster w/Invisibility + Stealth IO = 571.5 feet

Illusion Controller w/Superior Invisibility = 571.5 feet.

I have tested the stealth cap extensively, monitoring the numbers while I do so. In PvP the cap for anything not a stalker or VEAT is 571.5 feet. This is a FACT, not just my opinion. You can log in and check it yourself if you don't believe me.

As far as ease of getting there, I haven't tested it lately, but I can't imagine it's all that difficult even now.

My statement of it being pretty useless stems from personal experience. With all 4 of the characters I listed that I have tested with, it didn't make much difference at all whether I was at the stealth cap or not. Sure, you can be invisible to people with no added perception, but how many PvP characters have no added perception? Especially since it is available to everyone. The +Perception IO puts your perception at 600 feet before Diminished Returns, that's just simple math (500 + 20%), and Tactics raises it even higher than that.

So, in my experience, being at the stealth cap did me no good at all. It didn't stop me from being attacked, because just about everyone in the zone saw right through it. And any time *I* attack it strips all that stealth away.

So, the stealth cap being 571.5 feet is inarguable fact. It being pretty pointless in PvP is my opinion based on personal experience.

Stealth for non-stalker characters caps at 571 feet. Base perception is 500 feet.

Getting to the Stealth cap is A) Pretty easy, and B) Pretty pointless, because +Perception is readily available to anyone in the form of Tactics.

Well, at least it used to be pretty easy, I haven't bothered to find out how hard Diminished Returns smacks stacked stealth powers.

That's what I keep suggesting they replace Life Drain with in a port of Dark Blast to blasters.

Since it getting ported with the self heal and large amounts of to-hit debuff intact is pretty unlikely.

Now you know how I feel about this, and that I am aware of the devs' stance on it.

But saying THE. DEVELOPERS. SAID. NO.

.....and then linking to a number of posts in which you also said that they said no.....doesn't prove anything at all. You're basically telling people to just take your word for it that they did indeed say no. Like the fact that you yourself have said it multiple times somehow makes it more true.

Would work MUCH better if you linked to posts FROM the devs saying no, instead of linking to posts where you say they said no.

BIG difference here.

Power customization they said wasn't going to happen because at the time it was too much work for the staff that they had.

Then they hired a bunch of new people and it became feasible.

In that case, they WANTED to do it, but they just didn't have the resources. When they DID have them, it was done.

In THIS case, they said "No".

They didn't say "we'd like to do it, but we just can't right now"

They said "We're not doing this, whether we can or not is not the issue"

It would be HIGHLY exploitable if we were given the ability to switch powersets or ATs.

"Gee, I'd really like a level 50 Electric/Shield scrapper because they're awesome farmers, but I don't like how squishy Shield is in the low levels. Ooh, I know! I'll just level the character as a Katana/Willpower scrapper and switch to Electric/Shield when I get to 50!"

Or

"Wow, a Stone tank in Granite form NEVER dies, but I don't want to play the set before I can use Granite. Hmmm, I can just level as Willpower/Dark Melee and switch at level 34, so I can just jump into slotted Granite Armor."

People would do that kind of thing ALL the time. Leveling as one thing and switching to a late blooming set when the powers become available that make the set awesome.

That's just ONE problem, I'm sure there are many others.

Wow, really?

You don't say.

Oh, wait....you didn't say. Not legibly at least.

But.....their damage DOES increase if you reduce your target's damage resistance. Confirmed this one on my Sonic/Devices blaster.

I didn't say to do anything at all to them. I was just pointing out to the person I quoted that there are more than just Dimension SHift and Black Hole.

Mine is 6 slotted with Gaussian's for the defense bonus. I needed a place for it and Claws doesn't have Build Up to put it in. (Follow Up will accept it...but that's about the dumbest slotting for that power you can have)

TRAITOR!!!!


Oh......you were being ironic.

Never mind....carry on.

You're forgetting the intangible powers in Force Field and Sonic.

I bolded the part that jumped out at me.

Your Katana/Regen is a character that purple set bonuses are actually USEFUL for. Regen likes lots and lots of recharge, which the purples provide quite a bit of.