Ironblade

Yeah, this is awesome. Not as good an UniqueDragon, but pretty awesome.

This. Ignore the DoT and lag theories.

Below average? A friend of mine likes to obliterate entire spawns - fast and alone. Fulcrum Shift + Blackstar = ugly.

Here's the issue: I read your statement as "You can build an excellent team with no DEFENDERS." However, you can just as easily replace the all caps word with any other AT name. No AT is irreplaceable. And yet defenders are quite powerful. A friend of mine runs all-defender STF's on a regular basis. With 8 defenders, you don't need *ANY* other AT. And, here's the important part, IT'S EASY. People have done the STF with all tanks and, from what I hear, it was a struggle. But all defenders is a walk in the park.

Eight scrappers gives you 8 times as much damage as one scrapper. But having a couple of defenders can leverage everyone on the team. Defenders are 'force multipliers'. With a few defenders, you can have enemies doing only a fraction of their normal damage, only hitting 5% of the time, and the team doing double or triple normal damage (because they can increase team damage *AND* decrease enemy resistance). In my opinion, defenders are absolutely devastating in what they can accomplish.

A pretty reasonable position. However, I feel that, even if one or more of my teammates suck, I'll keep them alive if I can. Unless they're so bad that they can cause a teamwipe - then I'll hang them out to dry.


Also, someone else said that all tanks but ice really need Taunt to hold aggro. I think that is an exaggeration. <ahem> To be fair, though, every one of my tanks EXCEPT my ice tank does have Taunt.

hmm... The respec trials normally scale to the levels actually on the team. I'm guessing you were already in the mission and had these drops and they were high-level toons quitting. You could have restarted and it would scale to the current levels. FYI, the respec trial is not hard for a duo. (Blue side. I've only done the red respec once so I'm not qualified to have an opinion.)

This. My SG is named 'Enclave of Honor' so we went from that: Honoree, Revered, Exalted, etc.

Give us SOMETHING to work with!

Also, let's not forget: "The only dumb question is the one you don't ask."

Let's re-emphasize this part. I believe regular procs have a 10% chance to do additional Minor damage. The purples have a 33% chance to do additional MODERATE level damage.

This is relatively brutal. When I'm on the Positron TF, exemping really nerfs the enhancements and one of my attacks will hit for around 50 HP. If the proc fires, it adds about FORTY points of damage. (Yes, it shows up as a separate number over the head of the target - just like controllers Containment damage.)

Not necessarily PHYSICALLY stuck. Sometimes the game THINKS the button is still being pressed. Tapping the button a couple of times will usually fix this.

On the bright side, the Abandoned Sewers trial had issues also and was fixed. It works great now. Hopefully the Eden trial can get some love next. (i.e. Just fixing the level issue - the rest of the trial is remarkable.)

Personally, I'd like this. However, the ski runs get a lot of complaints because some people just don't have the 'twitch' gaming skills and some people's computers are too sluggish to allow them to have a chance. Although, as I recall, the main complaint was that they therefore had no chance at the badges. As long as there are no unique rewards associated with it, that should be fine.

With the introduction of 'branching' for dialog and missions, I'd like to see 'puzzle' arcs, where you have to actually figure things out.

um, both parts of that are wrong. What you're describing applies to task forces and trials, not arcs.

No, they do not. As to why.... I would imagine that it's to avoid exploiting where you have a bunch of your pals join just for the last mission so they get the arcs worth of merits for completing a single mission. Supporting this theory is the fact that doing the same arc through Ouroboros will award merits to everyone - they have to be in from the start and can't join mid-arc.

It depends. On my inv/EM, I have Boxing six-slotted and it's part of my attack chain. I have a fire/fire with Boxing four-slotted. My dark/dark is only level 25 but he has Boxing in his attack chain. Most of my tank are pretty lean on attacks and Boxing is tons better than Brawl.

On the other hand, my shield/axe tank has Tough with no additional slots and it's not in my power tray. A big part of the reason for this is that it forces a redraw. EM, fire and dark don't have a weapon.

I think you misunderstood part of what he said. He was talking about earning 6 million prestige *in one day*.


Nope. Prestige *IS* doubled during Double XP Weekends. If you don't believe me, check ParagonWiki on Double XP Weekends.

Actually, it was reduced from 1 billion to 100 million a while ago. That 1 billion figure was admitted to be a typo.

What what what? When? Did they say which weekend yet?

Given that the exchange rate is SO lousy, I don't see any problem with being able to buy prestige. Try not to be so hung up on who's number one.

Spiderman existed long before CO. In the Spiderman game, which is built around that mechanic, it works. In CoH, it would look stupid.