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Quote:Hmm. Making a tank for the purpose of farming is sort of the same logic as making a scrapper for the purpose of tanking.Originally Posted by Cale_Gunner
Was looking into getting a tank for farming purposes. something to knock off the monotony of fire/kin trollers. So i have been looking into primaries and secondaries with high damage potential and still real survivable.
Ice and Shield were my initial thoughts on primary. Ice having the icicle damage bonus and Shield's against all odds damage bonus. So figured those were probably best options but am up for any suggestions.
Secondary I was really looking at Fire. I know SS has rage and so forth..but for pure damage i was liking the aoe with fire a lot better looking through the builds.
anyone have any suggestions on which way to go.. or maybe an entirely different selection altogether if i'm really off base here.
feel free to post your builds as well for me to look through if you like.
Thx for the help.
It can be done. But keep in mind that a tank built for farming is not a tank built for tanking.
But if farming is your #1 purpose then you should pick the right tool for the job. Scrappers and possibly some controllers are your best farming builds. Period. And the controllers are only arguable good farmers in the later game.
But hey. To each his/her own. I just don't wantcha to get 30 levels into a tank and then realize you shoulda built a scrapper. That feeling sucks. -
Quote:Hmmm. I wonder if a feasable option here would be to scale Tanker numbers as team members are added.Originally Posted by Arlow
More damage so I can solo things more quickly and efficiently on my Energy/Invul tank please
For example. When solo, the tankers damage modifier would be say 1.5 of it's current value. While their defense/resistnce modifier would be 0.75 of it's current value.
As team mates are added, the damage modifer comes down while the defense/resistance modifer goes up.
This would essentially skew the tanker to the scrapper side of the spectrum when he has fewer team mates. Making the tanker less painful to solo but not overpowering him on a team.
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Quote:My Inv/DM tank is like 28 and my opinon has been leaning similar. While i have not used the power on my tank, I am familure with it. It seems that it would only useful for mitigation...it's essentially a hold. Now holds are great and all, but I'm not certain that this toon needs a hold. In particular, I'm not sure he needs something to hold minons with. They usually are not a threat anyway.Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
My Invul/DM tank is now 39. Never took fear, do not plan too. It takes a lot of slotting to make it useful on bosses, and it is useless on AVs. I can already control up to agro cap without the power. If a minion of Lt stands and shakes or tried to wail on me doesnt matter, as long as their attention is on me. I will use the power slot that I might have used for fear to grab another epic power.
Synopsis: Taunt beats the crap outta fear for minion/lt/boss/AV control
I will proably take it to see how well it works since I've got room right now. But the power is going to have to justify itsself in order for me to keep it. -
I saw a scrapper with a note that said they were a healer.
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Quote:Speaking from just 27 levels of solo invulnerable tanker...I say yes. I think some folks consider resist energies skipable though.Originally Posted by Ferrosol
Basically are the passives now worth taking after the buff they received? and if so are they worth additional slots and what IO's should go in them?
Going up against even-level and +1 I barely have to turn on my toggles at all.
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Only if it was two hours or AE speed runs! that would be awesome!
Seriouslly though. It might be the first super heroe movie that has a truely epic giant monster battles...Not sure how they'd pull off a 6ft man doing melee with a 30 ft monster though. -
[QUOTE=Memphis_Bill;2702195]
COT: Rooftops
BP: Ground.
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Thats the conventional wisdom on CoT of course. But was not true when I was there recently. vast majroity of roof tops were banished. -
Quote:1) The roof tops are hard to find cause of da fogOriginally Posted by Memphis_Bill
How is this difficult? Look on the rooftops. Usually there in good sized groups.
2) From a distance, the banished can look like CoT since they do the same green glowing sacrificey thingy ritual.
Seriouslly, they wuz hard to find. I found em though cause i'm the master of the universe -
Quote:i wil play moar if ncsoft bu me boozeOriginally Posted by Lucky
All the casinos in vegas bribe their customers to stay longer,
hello free booze.
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You know...Assigning a mission to defeat 30 CoT in Dark Astroia is evil. I've been working on this for like 2 hours.
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I think a modified version of this idea would be fine.
For example, Once you acheive say 48 month vet status, you get to autolevel one toon, once a year.
But sometimes people THINK they want something, but in fact they really don't. The toons that I've powerleveled have been the very first ones I've abandoned or deleted. If it were offered, I'm not entirely certain that I would use it. -
Quote:The mistake is yours. If you're playing AE, all expectations need to be dropped. Fast. Because if you don't you'll be in for a reality check.Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
Last night on my blaster I was teamed with 3 tankers. 2 had no taunt. The other had a 4 billion build (I saw the bonuses). They engaged 1 Samurai spawn, maybe 15 Samurai. I waited 10 seconds, lined up my cones, and started cleaning the critters off. I was pretty surprised when 3 peeled off and decided I was their biggest threat level.
Now I started a thread about taunting, and I got some good discussion. This is more of a complaint.
I now feel like I have to interview tankers to see if they know what they are supposed to be doing.
This is the equivalent of a dom deciding that they are just gonna do attack, frack controlling anything.
I do not mind not having a tank on the team. I understand a lot of tankers really want a brute blueside. I get it, that's why most of my 50s are brutes, with just 2 50 tanks. But this really got to me. 3 tanks that could not hold agro, because not a single one hit taunt. Really frustrating because the stadard response from each of them is "I am doing damage" lol. Yeah, I am glad doms and trollers do not have this strange problem.
Blue teams are set up to be stronger than the sum of their parts. It goes back to the Devs reading comics. I agree Tankers should do more damage, did they miss that bricks on most teams do tons of damage? But they did give tankers tools to save their teammates. And yes, that is their job.
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Is there anything in the game that is UN-SOLOABLE?
When I say UNSOLOABLE, I mean absolutly un-soloable under any circumstances with ANY build whatsoever. Un-soloable as in 0 human team mate help. (Defining help here as using any powers)
Some might say task forces and such, but techincally I think that some people have done it by having players quit after joining....I would consider that "soloable" since you have no human help other than place fillers to alow you to perform the task force.
The only one that comes to my mind is the Hamidon. While I have never been in a Hamidon raid, I'm quite certain that no build cold ever mathematically defeat Hamidon.
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I'm sure the devs have a close eye on DP. Time will tell wheather there needs to be an adjustment. My impression is that the Devs would rather a new set be underpowered when it is introduced rather than overpowered. The nerf backlash is just plain nasty.
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I think the hot one in PvP is regen and I think the hot one in PvE is Shield.
I honesltly think that the rest are pretty evenly distributed with SR probably at the bottom.
Hard to say though cause "popular" is tough to define. For example, I played one toon exclusivly(95%) for years, now I haven't pulled that toon out in months. once people acheive something, the toon gets little use afterwards. -
somewhere in the forrest is a frog with a penus, but can grow a bangina if it has to. based on this I think its possible that GR will cause all toons to reroll as FF/Elec defenders and no one will team evar agin
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You are not ebil. The tide raises all boats.
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I've seen two.
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A long long time ago in an issue far far away, there was once a bit of an phase shift exploit that was being used. I belive that it was blasters that were using it. Aim-Build up-Blastem -Phase out or something. If memory serves (and it may not), phase shift could be perma-toggled and had no crash or significant cost other then the fact that you couldn't attack. Even the activation time was shorter so it could be used on short notice.
Fuzzy memory though on that...maybe it was scrappers that was using it. -
One wish? Up the global difficulty of the game so that my tankers primary strength (tanking) is actually a needed commodity on a team.
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You might want to post your build. Elec/Shield should be a pretty darn good farmer.
What are you farming? Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that most of the time the term "Farming" is speaking to obtaining purples. Or maybe farming tickets...but in that case they usually say, "farming tickets." -
Repetative content is repetative.
Tieing with this is the lack of "unknowns". Before any fight I can calculate in my head the probabilty of suiccess. It's almost like I know too much about the game and its mobs. Not the devs fault, but I think I'm just getting bored with the game.
I miss the mystery in the game...Sometimes I..I think I want to start seeing other MMOs. -
Just found out that you can't get them.
Bogus. I say bogus. -
Quote:Well, empathy is proably the closest thing to being 'pure support" It's also probably the simplest defender priamary (other than FF) in that it does not have a dependance on mob or player location, and mob anchors and such.Originally Posted by Damiontech
i been realy bored on my claw/regen so i was hoping on making a alt well i want to make a pure supporter class u know a class with healing for raids and posabilby tping but i dnt know wat to pick and supporters out there can plz help i need power sets also just for a idea mainly
But kin is pretty high demand these day thanks to all the damage buff it brings. I made a kin recently and really enjoing it. -
Quote:Agreed here. While I enjoy high defense as much as anyone else, there is no question in my mind that this was not the design intent.Originally Posted by IanTheM1
And hopefully one day Castle will wake up and realize how completely and patently broken this is.
(And this is coming from someone who has an SR Blaster. And yes, I've already donned my fireproof gear.)
I'd be all for GDF 2.