Kahlan_

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  1. Just a heads up to folks, my beta character lost several billion it had stored in bids on nonexistent items (level 53 recipes) when the merger happened. So better safe than sorry...
  2. I still haven't been able to figure out exactly what the recharges are on the alignment powers, or if they are affected by global recharge. Anyone know?
  3. We were just collecting info on him. (Power Analyzer)
  4. Indeed, special thanks to Arli and Bud for being able to cover anything on the fly.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by B_Witched View Post
    we can turn it off in arena
    only parts of it sadly
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dollymistress View Post
    So tactic is get Numina to pwn all the other FP then Kahlan take her out when she's the only one left? That's awesome - I guess double or triple-stacking Domination?

    Does this mean Kahlan can take down Miss Liberty, solo?
    Essentially that was the idea. These AVs aggro if you blink loudly though, so we had several close calls and interesting challenges.
  7. Nice

    Now if only there was a way for our mind doms to tackle the stf...
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cobalt_Azurean View Post
    While Rest does debuff your status resistance, accordin' to Mids, you still have a fair amount o' protection. 12.98 unRested, 11.98 Rested. Dependin' on the severity o' the stun, the duration, and how fast Hami would spam it in addition to his other attack, that could prove to be a problem.
    They last a very long time. I've tested this.

    In regard to the damage type, it is correct to say that it is 'untyped', and also correct to say that it is 'special', as this is how the game labels it.

    In regard to threat, an enemy can easily stay aggrod on you even if the taunt aura isn't doing anything to them.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cobalt_Azurean View Post
    It involves one Hami taunter grabbin' aggro while the other goes into Rest out o' Hami's targetted AoE range to cap his regen/recov with his Taunt aura on next to it's main mass. Once he's in Rest, have the other tank stop tauntin' and move slightly outside taunt aura range until the taunt aura from the Rested tank grabs his attention. As long as the greens are bein' taken care of by the other six tanks on team, the Rested tank should be able to out-regen any damage dealt by Hami alone.
    There are problems with this: Rest makes any mez last forever. The stuns will stack quickly. And Rest makes the taunt aura do nothing. Also, Rest gives huge -resistance to yourself (including special typed damage).
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Myrmydon View Post
    Question: Will we actually need a yellow taunt group if everyone in the raid has Mezz toggles?
    I would highly recommend still using a yellow taunt team. Yellows put out a lot of damage, thus having such a team reduces the total number of EoEs used by the raid.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Llewthor View Post
    When I was taunting Hami on my stoner, I believe that three ABs, in additional to rooted, was capping my regen. I'm also pretty sure that in lieu of ABs one bio nuke (plus rooted) caps my regen as well.

    I sent this PM to Myrm, but here was my list of concerns/items to overcome for an all-Tanker Hami raid:

    Off the top of my head, here are a couple of things, that I'm sure you've thought of, that would be obstacles:

    1 - actually filling the zone with tanks, since there isn't a way to restrict other ATs from entering the zone

    2 - the lack of +regen powers (specifically from emps), since this is how we've been using a solo tank to taunt hami (and the auras certainly help the other taunting tanks too)

    3 - the lack of holds -- this might be the big stumbling block, because you would have to go through the build of just about every tank the entered the zone to see if they had a hold and then put them on the hold team

    4 - lack of ranged damage -- to take down the blues. you'd have to treat this the same as the holds issue, i think. Or, you would have to ask people to make pretty specific hami builds and essentially take pyre mastery for char (hold) fire blast and fire ball (or switch to the brute patron powers along the same line of thinking)

    5 - what to do with granite tanks? -- for example, my stoner is my only tank. i know with multiple emps help i can solo-taunt hami with no issues, but when i'm on yellow taunt i can't assist with the green or blue mito take-down because i can't get off the ground. Seismic Smash is at least a hold, but will i survive if i drop granite/rooted, and since I didn't use any epic pool powers, I don't have a ranged attack.

    -Llew.
    Dual builds can solve 3, 4, and 5. Just use your second build to pick up some ancillary pool powers (this assumes people are willing to plan for this). 2 can be solved either with bio nukes or by rotating tanks. I don't have an answer for 1.
  12. So there's no way I'm playing a tank
    with that said:

    If you allow the use of temp powers, this won't be too difficult. Just get everyone to get a bio nuke, and make sure as many as possible take a hold and a ranged attack (the ones in the ancillary pool for instance). Then you can essentially run the raid with the normal strategy, and just warn people that no one except the hami taunter should have their taunt aura on.

    If you don't want to allow temp powers, it becomes very difficult, but still possible I think (Amy and I had a discussion about this). You'll need to be able to rotate the hami taunter, so someone on the hami taunt team should have recall friend, and then either the tanks on there should have self-rez powers or someone should take rez from the medicine pool. If need be you could have a couple tanks taunting greens to make hami taunt's job easier. You'll still need lots of tanks to have holds/ranged attacks as before. You'll also need to choose your yellow tanks carefully, since they will have no external buffs.

    Just a note on something people get confused about:
    Self and targeted heals are greatly diminished by the debuffs from the various parts of hami (with enough debuff they basically do nothing). There are two exceptions: any heal that has a resistance portion, and dark regeneration. This means sets like fire armor and dark armor can still heal even when under all the debuffs.
  13. Looks good except for the lack of perception (assuming you want to duel sometimes). I'd personally take leadership instead of concealment, for tactics, and then take hibernate so you still have a phase power.
  14. I would totally be there if it weren't melee only >>
  15. I appreciate the offers very much, but I still have plenty of inf. Thank you though
  16. The only thing I can think to suggest is updating your drivers, but I'm sure you've thought of that.
  17. One of my characters (psi/em blaster) gets huge network lag in any zone. I see lots of red when I type /netgraph 1. Any other character has no lag whatsoever and no red in the graph. This is confusing to me. Anyone have ideas?

    EDIT: After further testing, it also is the case that this only happens in certain zones (still only for this one character)


  18. The picture says it all... I knew this would happen to me eventually
  19. I realize I'm several months late, but great guide! Fortunatas are so awesome in every way, both solo and teamed, and have amazing buffs that require practically no effort!
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gulver View Post
    You just don't know how to play a scrapper.

    Just need to do one thing.

    Keep attacking and stop when you get one of the two outcomes.

    A. You die.
    B. They die.

    In the event of B, you're doing it wrong since you shouldn't stop.
    Actually Silas plays a scrapper much better than almost anyone I know. It's just that he prefers playing corrs (and I agree, corrs are super awesome).
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silas View Post
    Everyone would have capped res to all,
    except psi
  22. Has anyone tested how much of a difference the -slifbos 2 command actually makes? I'm wondering if I should use it when i17 comes out. Qualitatively I couldn't see much difference.
  23. I deny having a brute. there's no way that's me in the screenie >>