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Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon

Well, my understanding is that part of the problem with the pet AI is inherited from critters, which is that any one critter in a spawn will choose to close to melee. This is actually to make things easier for players, it gets easier to pick them off one by one when they are running at you that way. Thus, if they fixed that for pets, they would also fix it for critters, and your gameplay would become a lot harder.

However, I'm not sure how removing melee attacks from a pet would effect that AI. It might just run into melee with no attack to actually use. Which might actually be preferential, as long as the remaining attacks do more damage than the brawl.

BTW, in testing I found that Brawl usually did increase pet damage, especially early on when they have few upgrades, since it gave them an additional attack to cycle. I pretty much ran all the tests I could with both Brawl, in melee, and without it at range. I don't think I ever found a case where the damage went up without Brawl, although often it was close. And of course, the issue is not Brawl being used in melee, it is the pet closing to melee when you don't want it to.

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

Claws/SR on a brute is an easier ride that it is on a scrapper for two reasons: more HP which means you get more out of the passive scaling resists, and evasion comes into the build a lot earlier.

Le Blanc, hit 22 and get SOs. It makes a world of difference. Snag tough and get the steadfast +3 defense slotted. The two together make things even better.

Keep on truckin. You'll be shocked at how just how good a soft-capped SR can be especially comparing it to how hard a ride it is early on.

Originally Posted by Zem

I think if you look at the power detail in game you find that CS doesn't crit at all, ever. The mechanism for recharging Build Up seems to be handled behind the scenes somehow or else it's just that they forgot to add the code that could translate that line-item in CS's effect list into English for the power detail screen.

Either way, it sounds from reading threads like this one that it boils down to a 20% chance to recharge Build Up whenever CS *hits* regardless of your Hidden state. That would also seem to preclude the "double critical" bug from happening with CS (thus giving you two chances after a Placate) which only occurs when the power has different behavior inside Hide and outside of Hide. Or to put it still another way, using CS after Placate is completely pointless and a waste of Placate.

Or have I misunderstood?

Originally Posted by Person34

Just curious... when Concentrated Strike "crits", does it notify you of buildup's recharge somehow? Or do you just need to keep an eye on the buildup button?

Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon

Well, for one thing, White Dwarf Flare has an AoE Taunt component, and Black Dwarf Mire does not. So that is one component in the White Dwarf's greater tanking capabilities. The Peacebringer is the better tanker, while the Warshade is the better damage dealer.

Mire also originally had a much longer recharge time. It was given a shorter recharge and damage buff duration so it could be applied multiple times between each application of Human form Mire. That was mainly to stop form shifting to Nova after a double Mire, but also to boost the damage of the Dwarf form and make it competitive once you got the defense of Eclipse in your other forms. The increase in damage from using Mire so much more often was just a bonus to that.

Really, for Peacebringers your Human form is your melee capability. You've got Incandescent Strike, Radiant Strike, and even the human form Flare. (Although the knockback really cuts down the usefulness of it as an attack) Their forms are really more specialized for tanking or damage dealing in Dwarf and Nova form respectively, while the Warshade is more versatile and less specialized overall.

Originally Posted by TwilightPhoenix

Singy is awesome. Laura, the name I arbitrarily gave to my Grav/TA's Singy, allows me to perma-hold upwards to four bosses or more with just single target holds. Part of it is Overpower, hold procs, and Ice Arrow, but it's still nice being able to mez that many hard targets without much effort.




Wormhole is like Storm Summoning: poor use is very disastrous and extremely obvious. Unlike Storm though, excellent use generally goes unnoticed. Nobody says anything when the group flickers for a moment and is suddenly stunned because you Wormholed them to the same spot, rather than being scattered to the four corners of the map. But when you have a team that can handle Wormhole's maximum potential, then it's just ridiculous.

Originally Posted by Leo_G

If it did work out like that, I could imagine another tactic for a really tough target to be BU > CS > Placate > Stack BU > AS. This wouldn't be efficient for DPS but it'd definitely get a big burst off on a single target if you could manage it.

Originally Posted by Novawulfe

Then my vote goes to electric melee/shield defense. :P

Originally Posted by Peacemoon

It has been suggested for many years, but I doubt it will ever happen. You can always hope of course, but I'm just being realistic.

We should probably just be thankful they turned it into an AoE Stun, originally it was single target only. Taken from Issue 4 patch notes:



Before i4, Grav's only AoE control was Dimension Shift, Crushing Field and Gravity Distortion Field.

I miss those earlier patches, we had loads of changes to the controller sets to make them balanced, good and bad. Now not so much, just the occasional damage change.

Originally Posted by Peacemoon

Although changes to Gravity's animation are in the pipeline somewhere. Castle said in GR beta that they were going to look at the set's animations. So hopefully the case of "dieing before wormhole has finished activating" will be a thing of the past.

Originally Posted by Ossuary

It happens when the power hits, before the TP. Also, it is the most useless proc I have encountered. It frustrates me to no end because, like you, I wanted that sweet, sweet defense. But I would rather have an IO that increases the potency of the power than that waste of a proc.

The only somewhat slight use it has is actually with Wormhole, since mobs are alerted to your presence right when the power activates, allowing them some time to attack. With the KB proc, sometimes a couple of them might get knocked back, meaning that they wont be attacking you before the Wormhole TP.

But on most stuns, I honestly can't see the point. I mean, I just stunned them. What does also knocking them back accomplish? Any stun I use is going to last longer than the KB, so knocking them back doesn't mitigate anything. Maybe for powers that only have a chance to stun, now you also have a chance to KB? I guess.

Originally Posted by Rintera

the only widows that have redraw between claw and psychic attacks are fortunata and blood widows.

the night widows use their claws with their psychic attacks, so no redraw.