DreadShinobi

I've seen the 'GMs' die near and she wasnt held. In those circumstances I usually just guess the game didn't register it or it wasn't quite close enough. I've just never concerned myself over it, since I've never failed over it, since if it doesn't work with one, you should always be pulling multiple GMs to her location in case one isn't killed properly. (which I am sure you know)


I've seen her immobilized/held countless times with just a single GM killed near her.


Due to the 60s base recharge on TK, you can either move the bosses or TK tilman, but not both. Basically if your league has low dps you TK tilman or if your league is having trouble positioning the bosses you can TK the bosses. Typically melee taunters will be able to handle positioning the bosses just fine, but TK is great for giving your league alot of extra time to kill tilman.

You also need to be careful if you are TKing Tilman not to toggle it on until the boss is killed first, otherwise you can push the boss away from tilman resulting in a wasted kill.

If it is not working as intended, then it _should_ be fixed, better now than 3 months-3 years down the line when there will be many unhappy customers.

If it is working as intended, and the developers do decide to nerf it, then it will be on them to refund people their points. But honestly, I don't think it's broken. It is better than the normal version, but so are all of the SBEs. And if they do nerf it, it's not going to be because of this thread. And if they don't implement the Gaussian proc at 1 PPM, it won't be because of this thread. If it wasn't meant to be in the game, then it wasn't meant to be in the game, thread or not.

Being all secretive over stuff like this is pretty silly.

Dom Blaze has a 12s base recharge unlike all other versions of Blaze, so that would be a 20% chance.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=285594

and

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=285677

And Super Strength gains much more benefit from Patron/Epic AoEs than Titan Weapons does because of no redraw and rage. So while you can't compare SS aoe to TW aoe without factoring in TW cones, you can't compare TW aoe with cones to SS aoe without factoring in patron/epic aoes.

ATO, or Archetype Origin, doesn't imply that they are IOs. If you said ATIO, then that would be technically wrong. Either way I don't think it's a big deal, whether people call them ATOs, ATIOs, ATEs, or whatever, people will get the point.

Ah, cool.

What changes were these?

Well technically I got 3 of those purples the day before i22 went live, but that is still pretty much the same thing, I just said it the way I did for simplicity. And now consider the only thing I've been doing since i22 release is farming and running DA content, it really isn't that insane.

Whether you believe it or not is irrelevant, since even if I linked all the purples I got now, there is no way I could say I got them when I said I did.

It's actually quite typical of how I (and many other people) get purples. I will get a bunch within a few days then go months with getting barely any.

But the amount of stuff I got wasn't the point of my post, it just goes to show how the RNG can cause pretty much anything to happen.

It's not just because it's pvp related. Things taking massively abnormal amounts of time to be fixed/balanced/debugged is not at all uncommon for NCsoft. At best being pvp related was only a contributing factor, and more than likely it was a small one. You just can't expect anything (pvp related or not) to happen quickly around here.

Yep, it's basically just a perma mag 6 hold that costs an exorbitant amount of endurance as ketch said.

However there are 2 things it can be good for:
1) On teams people aren't likely going to wait around for you to stack mag 56+ holds on an av, so being able to lock them down faster does have it's merits. After your 5th hold, you can do a quick attack chain of Dominate>TK>Dominate>Total Domination>Dominate, which will perma hold your target ~6-7 seconds faster (and then untoggle TK after 2 more holds). Whether or not you consider that worth it is totally up to you. You will probably have total domination anyways.
2) Tilman in the 4th phase of MoM. After she is affected by a GM TKing her all the way back to the wall gives your league ALOT of breathing room.

Otherwise it's a very skippable power imo.

That'll teach them to stop wasting their time sleeping them so they can put more(less?) time into actually killing them.

*cough*

Yes. Confuse has a longer base duration compared to a Dominator's Single target hold.

Yes, however a faster animating single target hold makes it much easier (Dominate, Char).
Edit: I should say that any permadom dominator can do it.

You need to stack mag 56 on an AV to permahold or confuse it. This means stacking 10 mezzes (56/6=9.33, round up) on it. Simply use (C+R)*10=D. Where C is your hold's cast time using arcanatime numbers, R is it's recharge, and D is the duration you need. Let's say your cast time is 1 and your recharge is 3, this would mean your hold's duration would need to be at least 40.

However there are 4 asterisks to this.
1) A Domination boosted hold works in 2 parts. 1 is the regular duration mag 3 hold, and the other is the domination duration mag 3 hold. It is a total of mag 6, but there are 2 seperate durations, 1 shorter and 1 longer. Make sure to factor that in. Sometimes this can mean needing more than 10 mezzes to permahold an AV depending on what hold you are using and how much recharge you have.
2) If you are using an attack chain that would mean not using your single target hold immediately when it is up make sure you factor that in and add that time to R in the formula above.
3) Don't forget about your 5% chance to miss. For this reason you should be building for enough recharge to be able to stack more than the bare minimum to hold the AV.
4) Higher level AVs are resistant to mez which will cut into your durations. It is significantly easier to permahold a lvl 50 AV compared to a lvl 53 AV.

You can confuse your target AV first. Confuse doesn't cause aggro so you can safely stack mag 60 on it without any hate. After you have your confuses set up start cycling in your single target hold, when the AV is permaheld you can stop using confuse and start using your attacks. If you aren't concerned about it, you can pop Demonic/Archmage and start using Holds right off the bat.

I wouldn't be putting the entire set in Midnight Grasp, only the proc (which is a nearly perma 63% dmg buff at 3 stacks). That leaves plenty of room for enhancing MG's high base damage. The best place for the dom ATO proc is in an attack that is an integral part of your attack chain.

Even if they are going to add more ATOs, they should still be account bound.

Just the slotted power.

The set itself is a very nice replacement for positrons blast. (although the proc isn't very good in an aoe, the enhancement value and set bonuses make up for it)
The Ranged defense isn't bad, even if you're going for S/L defense.

These 2 powers take 2.9 secs to animate too, -res or not they're pretty crappy powers.

I did actually use Leviathan Mastery on my crab for a while when Arachnos ATs were originally released. It is vastly outclassed by Mu's Electrifying Fences and Ball Lightning.