DreadShinobi

If I'm fighting Lost I sure as hell will always have at least 1 breakfree on hand on any non melee AT. If you know you are going to be fighting an enemy group with mezzes on a toon without mez protection and you don't bring provisions to deal with it, then it's your own fault you died.

Y u no BF? And he should have never closed into melee with you, since you could have Chillblain'd him even after getting mezzed.

This isn't rocket science.

No, even there you shouldn't need that much accuracy.

Also they are treated as 3 seperate trials, making the chance that it is at least 1 of them much higher.

^^

DD is brand new. People want to do the new content. This is the same for any issue. Give it a week or two and things will even out.



Do Dark Astoria when there is downtime between trials, it doesn't have to be the only way you progress. I also mentioned quite a bit more than just DA/Apex/TM. Stop being stubborn and look outside the box.

The enemies in DD are all lvl 56 and the bosses are lvl 57. If you aren't +2 or +3 you are not going to be doing anything significant to anything in that trial, no matter what you are, no matter how good you are. This isn't players excluding other players, it's just the way the trials are set up.

It is also a brand new trial, and while it is already obnoxiously easy, it's nice to have a stronger group until the trial gets to "farm status".

There are plenty of options for progressing your unshifted toons to +3 without leeching on the trial with highest level enemies. Including but not limited to - lvl 50 TFs, Apex, TM, Lam, BAF, Keyes, TPN, Dark Astoria, and to a lesser extent MoM/UGT (which are better for level shifted toons also)

As for asking for support only, it was probably this reason:

Yes, it can be troublesome for older characters and we shouldn't have to pay to adjust to game changes, but when they can profit off it, which route do you think they would prefer?

Since when??!?! Lies!!!! D:

Powerboost doesn't affect -res debuffs.

Bingo. Also there are 2 more you can get from the patron arcs.

If you went TW/Elec on a scrapper you would only have 75% energy resistance instead of 90% and you would have no taunt aura (scrapper damage auras do not have taunt auras) meaning things would be running all over the place, and no aoe taunt either. TW works best when everything is neatly bunched up to maximize your aoes.

If you went TW/Elec on a brute you would have 90% energy resist, a taunt aura, aoe taunt, and deal pretty much the same amount of damage as a scrapper. Damage auras are also best on Brutes, which can mean alot for Titan Weapons, if you're left with 1 enemy with just a smidge of health left and you don't have momentum it can suck to have to finish that off with a long animating (usually high end) attack, Fury boosted Damage auras work very well to solve that issue.

If you went TW/Elec on a tank you would be in the same situation as a brute except dealing significantly less damage, with only slightly better non energy resists to show for it.

TW/Elec performs extremely well on Brutes.


Defense Softcap for all ATs is 45%. The Incarnate softcap is 59%.

Resistance hardcap is 75% for scrappers and 90% for brutes and tankers.

They have said before that many of the animations done are performed/experimented with at paragon studios live. They probably have at least 1 staff already that they have been using.

Bleh, I was hoping it would be updated before double xp so I could figure out if I wanted to level anything. I guess I will have to makeshift an update myself so I can start working on dark assault and staff fighting builds.

Using Arcanatime:
Fire: 1.32
Ice: 1.32
Dark: 1.452
Plant: 1.452

Ice and Plant are not tied, and Dark is slower than Fire and ice.


Fire: 1.32
Mind: 1.32
Dark: 1.848
Ill: 1.848

Fire and Mind are significantly faster.

Fire's aoe hold is also ~0.5 secs faster than dark's aoe hold which balances that out. The only other set with an aoe stun is Earth and it is only 0.4 secs slower, and it also has a significantly faster aoe hold.

Howling Twilight is also a 500% regen debuff, 62.5% rchg and movement speed debuff, and mass rez, it's a very important power for /dark.

Believe it or not, I'm pro blaster buffing. I do think they need help. I do NOT think they need such an extreme amount of help as you make it out to be. My opinion on the best way to lobby for buffs is to be reasonable about it, which you are not. You are asking for blaster buffs the same way tanks were demanding massive buffs to their damage output not too long ago. Basically they wanted to be able to be the most survivable and be able to be top tier damage dealers, because thats how many tanks are portrayed in comics. This doesn't work in MMOs, there needs to be balance, you can't have everything.


And to add: the 2 statements you quoted are not related and I still stand by each of those statements. And I will quote Arcana's response:

As mine as well. I've said it before and I will say it again, flat mez protection is not the only answer.

Random clicking ftw. I pretty much don't read any of it.