Jibikao

It's definitely not Psionic as described in the game!!!

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ok, so today i'm playing my Cold Domination corrupter, using my shields to buff my team as you do.

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brute "Stop shielding me"
Me "Any reason in particular"
Brute "Cold Shields slow down your recharge rate"
Me "ummmm... I assure you they don't"

I hear stuff like this on occasion and wonder where it comes from?

Anyone else have classic stories about being told how a power works, when you know that's complete rubbish?

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Is that Brute a RETARDED??? This is the most ridiculous myth I've heard.. but I think I should read more of this thread now.

How about a well invested Night Widow with Double Assault?

An attack chain of:

Lunge, Slash, Eviscerate and Poison Dart

Poison Dart has built in -25% regen and I think they stack??


I feel my Night Widow does a lot of damage while having a lot of defense and good -slow debuff. I don't hear much about NW doing good damage here, which I find kinda weird.


In fact, I think Crab with Call Reinforcement (almost perma) does a lot of damage too. Venom has -20% resistance debuff which benefits himself and the two bigger spiders (the small ones kinda suck if you can perma them without losing much, then they should add good dps if they don't die).

Venom + Double Assault + Slice + Arm Lash + Longfang should be good dps. Mine is at lvl 49 and I find myself killing rather quick.

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Emps have Absorb Pain, y'know. They don't get anything out of it except the -heal. Also, you're level fifteen. Your powers aren't slotted well, you don't have World of Pain, you don't have Anguishing Cry, and you don't have Painbringer.

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Thus I said at lvl 15, I feel Pain is the weakest so far. I am still gonna lvl this toon because I enjoy using Sonic Blast with my twin bro. We just think Pain is quite weak.

PS: And I've never played Empathy....

I am sorry but I have to rank /Pain as the worst /secondary so far at lvl 15. The only time I dare to use Share Pain is when I play like a chicken !@#$# behind a Brute or somebody that I can babysit. The 25% damage is nice but if I blast too much, I can't get healed at all. I already dislike healing. I think healing is over-rated but not getting healed at all for 15s is beyond retarded.

I don't know why I see so many Pain Corrs. I've teamed with many of them before and I always find them not contributing much. I think I can see why....


That big red ball's radius is so small....

Share Pain needs to reduce that anti-healing resistance to like 5s or get rid of the 10% hurt.

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A bad player can make a bad set much worse. But a good player can't make a bad set much better.

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This I agree. I've seen some good Corrs who try to kb things to corner but it's really not that efficient. They just annoy "less".

I don't mind kbs as much. I just hate it when people don't know where they are knocking. I don't mind chasing a target with my Brute but I do mind if somebody kb foes to another group and then MM's pets or Dom's pets can't get recalled in time and then aggro another group.


Energy Blast, any way I look at it...is inferior but it's NOT unplayable. I am sure you can lvl to 50 with Energy Blast just fine. Energy's got style at least. Much like I think Martial Art is a poor child for Stalker. For single DPS, you can do much better with dark melee and energy melee. Why do you need a smashing set that masters nothing? (not in stun or knockback)

Here is how I see it:

Energy Blast can knock things to wall/corner and become useful.

Most of other sets don't even need to "position" yourself much to become useful and most sets have debuffs that can stack nicely.

It's hard to stack kbs..you just kb further and annoy some people more.


I think Energy Blast needs to do more damage. I can live with the kb but I think damage is not good especially other sets have better debuffs against AV/Hero.

Energy does look very cool.

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Ok, so my bro and I both made Sonic/Pain. We are only lvl 7 right now.

We do not like Share Pain. I was really looking forward to this power as it is kinda unique.

I see I got hurt quite a bit but what I did not know is the 100% resistance to healing for 15s?? Are you kidding me? 25% Damage Buff isn't THAT much and it only lasts 15s.

Is it me or I feel Pain Domination is kinda weak? We are still going to keep lvling but Share Pain is really kinda sucky.

I mean they can at least make damage buff last longer or reduce the healing resistance to like 5s. 15s immue to healing? WTf??

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Share pain works much better for MM's due to bodyguard spreading the -health out and because their soothing aura power is +regen, rather than a heal. So while share pain does -regen it is only 100%, which is very easy to overcome.

The corr version of soothign aura is +regen in pvp as well, which imo makes it a much better power than in pve.

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I see because you can have +regen higher than 100% but you can't have healing % higher than 100%.

I don't know...I feel Pain is quite weak right now. Share Pain is quite a disappointment. I already hurt myself when I use it but what's worse is I can't get healed at all for 15s? You gotta be kidding me.

Ok, so my bro and I both made Sonic/Pain. We are only lvl 7 right now.

We do not like Share Pain. I was really looking forward to this power as it is kinda unique.

I see I got hurt quite a bit but what I did not know is the 100% resistance to healing for 15s?? Are you kidding me? 25% Damage Buff isn't THAT much and it only lasts 15s.

Is it me or I feel Pain Domination is kinda weak? We are still going to keep lvling but Share Pain is really kinda sucky.

I mean they can at least make damage buff last longer or reduce the healing resistance to like 5s. 15s immue to healing? WTf??

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Shame noone bothers reading my guide I wrote :-/

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I am going to read it now.

Sorry, I didn't know you wrote a guide...

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You've got to use mobs that are specific to the range you want the mission to scale to.

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How about using my own mobs? How do I set level for them?

I am trying to create another arc but how do I make it auto scale to certain level? I love doing auto scaled mish so I don't need to worry about side-kicks.

Any idea?

Midnight Grasp and Siphon Life have 100% critical from Hidden and if you use them follow by Placate, you may score double critical... now that's a lot of damage! The % chance of happening is small but when it happens, man..

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I'm trying to decide what AT I like to play a DB character. I 'm leaning more to brute or stalker since I just finished playing a scrapper to 50. I haven't played DB before so any info on the set will help. The secondaries I'm thinking to go with for each AT will be brute DB/EA, stalker DB/Nin, and if I go scrapper it be DB/Regan. Thanks in advance.

P.S. Any info on EA or Nin will help too since I haven't played them either I do have a claw/regan so I have a feel how it plays.

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Dual Blade Scrapper and Brute are basically the same so if you want a more different experience, I would go with Stalker dual blade.

Yes, DB combos on Stalker are kinda weird but Stalker's 1K Cut has longer reach and Attack Vital combo is easier (a lot higher ST damage). DB on Stalker also has Build Up instead of Follow Up so you can do pretty impressive melee cone damage with just Build Up + 1K Cuts. 1K Cuts has 50% to critical during Hidden.

I have a lvl 50 DB/Nin.

I also have a lvl 48 Spines/EA. EA is not as bad as most people claim.

If you want more versatility, I would go with DB/Nin.

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I made my first widow today on virtue, and made it to 10 ten so far. It's fun but survival is a risky game, having to pop greens and rest often. Does this ever improve? I was hoping it would be more like a brute or scrapper.

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Maneuver + Foresight + Mind Link = god mode.

SoA starts out kinda weak when you solo but I believe SoA's design is for "team play". If you have a few SoA with leaderships, it's very powerful.

I took Aim. Crab's Aim is 50% damage buff (Corr's 40%).

If you start with Aim + Venom + whatever, it's a lot of damage buff. It's like 50% damage buff + 20% resistance debuff.

Aim costs a lot less endurance than Assault.

I mean you really only need 3 slots in Aim. You really can't fit in Aim?

I guess you can go with double Assault but Assault from leadership tool costs a lot of endurance.

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So I'm new to the game and I just got a bots/ff to lvl 10. I like it as I'm more of a buffer/healer. Before I choose to keep lvling this I want to compare it to a mm that is more active/offensive just to make sure the greater defense makes up for the lack of offense. So what is the most offensive dmg output mm combination?

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If you want "offense", /FF is the last choice. Robot/FF starts out extremely low on offense too.

Robot isn't that good until lvl 32 with 2nd upgrade. So basically you chose the least offensive combo.

If you want offense AND defense (you don't deal offense if your pets just die too quickly!), try Robot/Dark, Robot/Trap and Robot/Storm.

Another good primary for newbie MM is Thug. Thug starts out a lot more offensive than Robot.

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this game should lower its monthly fee to $9.99 instead of 14.99 imo. its getting old. its 5yrs old now. any game this old should not be going for 14.99/month still. if the rate wasn't so high i would keep my subscription going for a longer time. since its so high i will only subscribe for one more month before quiting.

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I think 14.99 is very cheap for the amount of time you spend with it.

Think about how much you spend on movies? A ticket is like what? $13.00 per person? That's what I spent on awful Terminator two days ago...


While this game is "old", it is by far the best quality I've seen, my opinion anyway. I've tried WAR and WoW and they didn't last even 5 months. I quit WoW after 1 month and that's last year....

I know for a fact that Acid Mortar has a chance to proc every time it shoots.

Caltrops check once in 10s.

Not sure about Triage but you REALLY don't want to put Numina unique there. Put it in your health, please. Even if it procs once in 10s (which I doubt), the effect is sitll not good.

Poison Trap's proc happens once every 10s now..I think. The puking effect has been nerfed to !@#$#. I can't recall the last time I saw somebody puke after the initial burst. I can understand the proc damage nerf but they also nerf the puking effect which I think it's totally uncalled for. It's not like /Trap is the best secondary. I mean I used to bring my Ice/Trap to pvp and occassionally I scored a win when puking effect happened but that's if the person stayed within the radius. Poor trap....

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http://www.wegame.com/watch/Mr_Rainbows/
This won't be my only video, still keeping your ideas in mind.

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Very nicely done video. Great quality.

What else can ignite Oil Slick besides Flamethrower? Commando doesn't use it unless he is at closer range.

I don't know. I just feel Oil Slick looks quite weak because other sets like /dark and /storm, they use Pet debuff values so their base debuff values are a lot higher than TA's. One Freezing Rain can debuff 30% resistance while Disruption Arrow only debuffs 15%. You have to throw Acid Arrow to get to 30%.

Endurance cost also seems high to do the job. Freezing Rain costs 22 end but Disruption + Acid Arrow = 27ish end.

I would like to try TA again but I just don't think it's gonna be good.

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1. Pistols
2. Dual Wield
3. Empty Clips
4. Aim

These are a given.


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Gunslinger has an ice hold (Freezing Shot?) and a fire shot?

I am hoping Dual Pistol can have combos too like Dual Blade. Not every set needs Aim.

A very expensive build.... that's what it looks like to me. lol

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If you like the animation and want the harder hitting, slower recharging attack, then by all means take Barrage.

But...

*** Warning: Personal Preference Ahead ***

Barrage is the lowest DPA of the attacks in EM, even after the damage increase (Stun isn't an attack in my mind). If you're building towards having an attack chain, it's still not worth it.

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Barrage has been increased to 6s recharge right? Its activation is 1.33s. Is it that bad? Bone Smasher is 1.5s. If DPA matters that much, shouldn't I just take Barrage and Energy Punch and use TF during Hidden?

I think Bone Smasher has better stun chance right?

Would it be better now to skip Energy Transfer since it's slow and it can't critical on Stalker?

So you go with Energy Punch, Barrage, Bone Smash and TF?

Or, I am gimping myself a lot for not taking ET?


By the way, not sure if Hero Builder is messed up but how come Barrage's stun duration is only 0.3s??

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So I’m thinking about making a Dominator to team with a Bot/Pain MM and I can't decide on Ice/Psy or Earth/Psy. Earth and Ice are so similar I don't know which one to go with.

I was thinking ice/psy would fit together better due to some melee powers in ice and the couple melee attacks in psy.

Any thoughts?

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I've tried Ice Control to lvl 42 and 41 (twice) and I think Earth control (to 47) is a much better control set. While most of the powers in Earth can't benefit from Domination, they are still top notch.

Ice Control is kinda meh... you really have to watch out your aggro as you have very few hard-controls. ST hold, aoe hold (super long recharge) and that's it.


However, I would rate Ice/Psi as the best Ice combo simply because two good powers are pbaoe and they sort of help each other.