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Hurdle + CJ, each with one +0 Jump SO, gets you to 38.3 mph.

Fly with one +0 SO hits 51.7 mph.

And slotting CJ may be detrimental to your overall speed. TopDoc's testing indicated that hitting a certain jump height resulted in decreased forward speed.

Three-slotting Hurdle, not slotting CJ with Jump enhancements and picking up as many +Movement/Jump bonuses as possible is the way to go. You want fast, shallow leaps, not high bounding jumps.

Flight speed is capped at 58.6 mph. Fly is also the most popular travel power, according to developer data mining. I can make Hurdle + CJ builds which exceed 58.6 mph. So your claim that travel powers are "too fast" is clearly in error.

And readers should also keep in mind that those "full benefits" come with corresponding penalties, such as high endurance costs and travel power suppression, things Hurdlers don't have to live with.

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Cherry-flavored suppositories?

And reflective water.

Question is, have they added dynamic lighting?

Whole thing. Exemplaring applies reductions to the total, not to individual slots or enhancements.

Last year was the first time I had an opportunity to participate in the Halloween event. It was one of the most fun things I've done in this game. I'd click a door, three minions would pop out and I'd start blasting. Or zombies would start popping out of the ground and really make me sweat to drive them back when I was alone. I ran into one boss every 30-60m when I was clicking doors last year, and only one lieutenant every 5-10 zombies during an invasion.

This year... one out of every four or five doors spawns a boss. And when a zombie invasion occurs, most of what spawns near me are lieutenants. It's not much fun for me now. I don't like fighting bosses or lieutenants, I like beating up lots of minions. Fast, somewhat risky because there are a lot of them, but that's the way I like it.

I think I'm done with this year's event, despite only putting ~4h into it. It's highly unlikely that I'll be able to get the new badges, either, since they require teams, so I suppose I'll just go back to missions and wait for Christmas.

Maneuvers for blasters: 2.275% Defense (all)
Grant Invisibility for blasters: 1.75% Defense (all)

Slotted Maneuvers: 2.275 * 1.56 = 3.549%
Slotted Grant Invis: 1.75 * 1.56 = 2.73%

Eight blasters using Maneuvers: 3.549 * 8 = 28.392%
Grant Invis total for seven blasters (can't use it on yourself): 2.73 * 7 = 19.11%

Total Defense (all): 47.502%

Wouldn't guarantee survival, but it would go a long way toward making success possible.

I'm not even close to the top yet. Wait for another "heal arrow" thread, then you can see me blow a fruit loop.

We already know it won't be you, because people like you, who believe defenders are buff bots and "healers", who think they've discovered something new five years after everyone else figured it out, who state that it's impossible to fight purple-con foes without a "healer", don't achieve the impossible. People like you don't even hit average. People like you set your standards so low that what you consider "impossible" is the daily routine for everyone else.

Get over yourself, snowflake.

Has nothing to do with ownership.

Has everything to do with understanding the game, the AT and that defenders are capable of doing more than kissing boo-boos and guarding the front door.

It took me a few days to stop hyperventilating every time I read this, but I wanted to say thank you. In addition to being frightened of people, I lack confidence in myself, so seeing that something I wrote came out well enough to receive an honorable mention... it's significant for me. It's more than I expected, honestly.

So, thank you. All of you. I sincerely hope my next arc is as good.

*wanders off to have a happy cry*

You never were.

You insist that Co* is exactly like WoW, and therefore requires dedicated babysitters. If you were any more IN the box, you'd be a shoe.

Let me be the first to offer my sympathy for whatever accident resulted in the sharp decline.

We already knew that. We also know that we can attack, too, and increase the speed at which our teams progress, which also reduces overall incoming damage by assisting in defeating enemies sooner (dead = 0 damage).

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Go, 166 IQ! Huzzah!

So you're not actually basing your ridiculous BS on experience or actual in-game research, you've just kept your account active for a couple of years and decided to drop by to spread the same rumor you were spoon fed when you first started. If you had played and even attempted to study defender mechanics, you would've experimented with attacks, done calculations to determine the potential contribution of dealing damage while debuffing/controlling with those attacks and, as evidenced by everyone else's experiences, come to a drastically different conclusion. A conclusion which would not have led you to believe that anyone with 1 point of damage was somehow, mysteriously, suffering from reduced damage output.

Yo, genius, try using another attack. Or *gasp*, slotting enhancements.

I'd say that everyone who pointed out the flaws in your statements are some of the best defenders you'll never have a chance to meet, because they're not so pathetically, painfully stupid that they actually buy into the narrow-minded, delusional garbage you spewed.

You know, I'm so done trying to avoid flaming you. You're worse than the average "healer" who posts here because you claim to be educated and intelligent and to have done at least the semblance of research to support your misguided beliefs, and it's all pretense. You say you think outside of the box, but you didn't think at all when you were told to conform to other MMORPG models for "class roles", you just swallowed it and passed it on. You say you have a high IQ, but you apparently aren't smart enough to do some simple tests which would have disproved everything you said about defenders using attacks, or even to realize that no-one needs to be at 100% HP 100% of the time.

You're not just ignorant, you're hypocritically, viciously, determinedly, willfully clueless. You're so convinced of your own superiority and inability to err that you're blatantly disregarding facts and collectively dozens of years of experience with this game in order to chastise the better players for doing everything right, just so you feel validated in your (lack of) play style.

Christ on a crutch, you're the punchline to the "healer" joke. Put your rectum necklace back on and hie off to one of your other 28 MMORPGs.

The only thing squashed here was your towering ego.

Yes. Why waste my time with FS when I can get Soul Drain instead and still have more choices for my primary tier 9 power?

No, it does not. It doubles damage for those who are limited to 400% damage caps and who don't use other Damage buffs and who are in the appropriate area to receive the buff.

Which, in practice, is not even remotely close to everyone. Some ATs have higher damage caps, all ATs have their own Damage buffs (in addition to Rage class inspirations) and getting everyone organized so they all receive the buff is like herding cats more often than not (and frequently pointless).

It seems that way because you're overemphasizing the importance and contribution of FS. It's not that spectacular. I have a level 50 Kin/Elec, I know what it does and how it works.

Good. That's what should be happening when you play well and/or with good players who cooperate. Tier 9 powers do what they do and have long recharge times because they're not intended to be used frequently. If you never have to use them, that's a good thing. FS is different because Kinetics is different (no other AoE debuff, no Defense buffs, extremely limited Resistance buff, no other team-friendly damage mitigation other than the heal, Repel and FS).

Liquefy has a 35.7% ToHit Debuff.

Sonic Dispersion is a PBAoE toggle.

You were fed a line of BS by players who came to this game with the belief that it would work exactly like every other previous MMORPG. They were wrong. You are wrong. Wise up.

If no-one's in danger of being defeated, why shouldn't he/she be attacking?

Archery has no secondary debuff or control effects, other than the KB in Explosive, so I can't imagine what else you think a /Archery defender could possible slot other than damage.

Think about it.

There are far too many variables to explain why a tank would be going down frequently. It also has nothing to do with your assertions, because the tank is obviously "filling his role", or attempting to, and therefore not related to your hypothesis of teams failing because no-one is cramming themselves into the trifecta from other MMORPGs.

If it works, why not?

Incorrect. What makes a team is two to eight people working together and sharing the rewards. That, and only that, is what makes a team. Everything else is minor details which can be worked out as you go along.

Again, incorrect. Every AT has super team organizers who post on the forums to assemble players and showcase their progress. They aren't as ridiculously overpowered as defender super teams, but they also aren't "constantly" failing.

They wanted someone else to take the alpha, they didn't need it.

The team could have done more DPS if you'd used your Rad attacks, which debuff defense. The team didn't deal more or less DPS because their HP bars were green, yellow or red.

There are multiple points between "dead" and "alive" in this game. You limit yourself to the two at the ends and ignore everything else between, but that doesn't mean that's all there is. Everyone deals the same damage at 100% HP that they do at 1% HP.

No, the team's collective DPS would have increased, because you would have added your damage output to everyone else's plus reduced the enemies' defense. Again, there are multiple points between "dead" and "alive", and at no time does damage output decrease if someone takes a few points of damage and isn't instantly healed.

Could you imagine this game not being WoW? It isn't.

Proven wrong every day by thousands of players.

So your entire premise is based on the belief that only defenders need to slot their defensive powers "the right way"? What do you do when that tank has slotted his/her defensive powers well enough to take that big hit without concern? Quit the team and go find players with underslotted builds to make you feel important?

A defender can do that in addition to attacking, or even while attacking (in the case of /Rad).

This isn't the army, or WoW, and despite your wishful thinking, the game doesn't work, at all, the way you believe it does.

No travel power is "best". A travel power may be most preferred or preferable to a player, but every player is different and what is "best" for that player is entirely subjective.

I can effectively argue that Hurdle is "best", just like you argued that SS is "best", and give compelling reasons why, and it would be just as applicable as your statement. And, really, just as subjective, and just as meaningless.

On the other hand, there's also no reason not to take them, since there aren't special limits imposed for playing according to concept. You aren't hindered by not having "free" Invisibility or Stealth, or not hitting the run speed cap.

I was going to try to take this post seriously, but this just killed it. Asking for a defender to have access to a Warburg Chem nuke every 90s is ridiculous. It's not balanced, especially when taking all of the other aspects of Liquefy into account.

And here you're expecting that the two best Holds in the game (both have 1.0 accuracy, as opposed to the 0.8 accuracy of all other AoE Holds; both have a 50% chance for an additional mag 1 Hold, which means they have a 50% chance to Hold bosses without stacking another Hold; neither has an endurance crash; and both have insanely long durations for defender powers) be made better?

I have an idea. Don't recommend changes in the name of "balance" until you know what is and is not balanced in this game. Hint: your suggestions aren't even close to balanced.

Because babysitting, or standing around with your thumb jammed in a dark, stinky hole while awaiting a reason, need or chance to use your primary, is boring, stupid, pointless and a huge waste of time.

Irrelevant. What a blaster can, can't, will or won't do has no bearing on what a defender does. Blaster potential is no more related to defender action than bananas are related to fish.

And, frankly, it's ridiculous to say that one shouldn't use half of one's capabilities because someone else might be able to do the same thing a little better. A blaster deals more damage, but a blaster and defender both attacking deal more damage together than either could individually. And what about those secondary effects on the defender's blasts? They're more powerful than what blasters have, they provide significant damage mitigation or damage improvement... by not attacking, you increase the risk to your team and force them to progress more slowly. Why? Because you mistakenly believed that anyone who can't deal as much damage as a blaster shouldn't attack.

Repeat Offenders.

You could have simply done a 30s forum search and found out that this kind of thing has been going on for five years, to the degree that even the developers have commented on it.

You play a defender as a gimped single-faceted anchor around a team's neck. The rest of us will be busy ripping apart spawns solo while teams say things like, "I thought you said you were playing a defender, not a blaster" and "I had no idea defenders could deal that much damage".

Yes, I have had people say those things to me. Fortunately, no-one has ever been stupid enough to tell me not to attack. Fortunately for them.

Well, most of us reading this didn't have to spend "hundreds of hours" figuring out what RO has been doing every day for several years, and we're smart enough to know that even if we're only adding 50% as much damage as a blaster, that's still more than 0% and thus improving the team's pace... and we also don't believe that the developers gave everyone two powersets with the expectation that anyone, anyone would deliberately restrict themselves to only one of those powersets.

Why? No-one on your team will be attacking if they're all defenders. And they could just play with any of the hundreds of RO members, who won't impose ridiculous restrictions like "You can only use half of your powers".

The waste of time was this post. Despite "hundreds of hours" of research, you still don't understand the potential of defenders.

Ask an RO member to let you play in an RO super team. Whatever you imagine you can accomplish, they can pull off with their eyes closed, in their sleep and without limbs.

No, I'm not a member of RO.

Yammering about abusing exploits in another game removed. Don't care, not relevant.

Unlikely.

Pets inherit buffs on the caster at the time of summoning. They don't inherit buffs which are applied after the pet is summoned, so the most one can expect to gain from Tactics is the full 0.75s from a single pulse.

You can pretty much throw the third RoA tick (0.80s) to the wind because it's outside of the 0.75s Tactics pulse duration. And since you can't time the Tactics pulses, either, you have absolutely no way to ensure that you're activating RoA at the "right" moment for it to inherit the buff long enough for it to be applied to the second tick (0.40s).

Tactics: Buff duration - 0.75s, activation - 0.50s. This means that every 0.50s, it applies a buff which lasts for 0.75s. You can check it at City of Data for yourself, all of the Leadership toggles use the same duration and activation time.

I haven't checked every toggle and auto power in the game, but all of them that I have looked at work this way. Stamina, for example, is a 10.25s duration, 10s activation. Durations and activation times vary, of course, but that's the basic mechanic for toggles and auto powers. None of them are constant, they're just automated clicks with a brief window of overlap to ensure that they appear to be constant.

I'm always up for some antics!

Power Mastery for Power Boost and Conserve Power, or Psi Mastery for additional control (and Dominate doubles as a decent attack, too).

I prefer Dark Mastery, but I also don't use Hover on any of my TA defenders (so i tend to get a lot of minions trying to hit me with melee attacks).

You're not aiming for IO sets, but you can still pick up common IOs and recipes and use those. Level 25 IOs are only 1% below +0 SOs, so you could slot IOs at 22 instead of SOs and save a very appreciable amount of influence over the long term (you won't have to replace the level 25 IOs, whereas you would have to replace SOs every five levels).

For reference, three-slotting with level 25 IOs results in only a ~2.7% difference from three-slotting +0 SOs.

If you're going to use Snap Shot, put the two slots from Entangling there and slot it for more damage. If you're not going to use Snap Shot, another slot or two in Health wouldn't hurt. If you're going to use Hover for more than a -KB mule, meaning, you're actually going to toggle it on and move around, a couple of Flight Speed enhancements would be extremely beneficial (and one Endurance Reduction wouldn't hurt), and a slot or two in Swift would buff both Hover and Fly (Swift accepts Flight Speed enhancements. it doesn't make a dramatic difference, but it's an option). Otherwise, I'd use the extra slots to smooth out some of the rough spots, like tossing a little more Endurance Reduction into your attacks or Charged Armor, or reserving slots for "special" IOs like procs or globals.