MaXimillion_Zero

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Secondly, if the team tank goes over the aggro cap of 16 mobs.

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Do you have something against AoE's? In that case, fire/fire is really NOT the set to take...

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I was under the impression that ONLY tanks have gauntlet, brutes have fury. As far as I understand the only taunt factor in brute attacks is the damage that you do which has no more aggro than any other damage being done. Which means if another player out damages your attacks the aggro is passed to that player.

Bu8t if you are right Max, it does explain why AVs and Heroes turn to team mates in a long fight and why taunt is he only way to get their attention back.

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Trust us, the gauntlet issue with tanks, brutes and AVs has been discussed to near death..

[/ QUOTE ]I suspect the discussion will resurface with next patch however, depending on whether or not the changes are sufficient.

Just about everyone who seriously PvP's and doesn't have KB protection in their sets takes acrobatics. Against those who don't, it still works.

Drop temp. protection (It's useless against anything but cold damage, which is very rare), pick up combustion instead.
Acro doesn't need that much EndRdx, it costs the same as your shields.
Where is blazing aura? You won't get much out of fire/fire unless you herd, you'll need it for that.
Grab fire sword circle as well, and slot it.

Brutes definitely have single-target gauntlet.

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Umm brutes have gauntlet? Methinks not. Taunt is the only way to keep attention fixed on the "tank" in a COV team.

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Im not sure but iirc they have a singletarget version of gauntlet, whereas Tanks gauntlet affects also enemies in close AoE range around the hit target.

[/ QUOTE ]Correct, Tanks have gauntlet that hits the target and up to 4 foes around it (for ST attacks), brutes have one that only taunts foes they actually hit.

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Well, lets take valkyrie fight for example: I was pumping her with all 5 energy attacks, including endurance drain and she still turned around and made for the nearest squishy after 20 seconds or so, without taunt, that squishy would have been eating sidewalk.


[/ QUOTE ]The only way to currently taunt AV's and GM's is with taunt, they ignore gauntlet. However, this will be fixed in next patch.

There have been some reports that would indicate healing might generate aggro, at least against some villain groups. However, AFAIK it's never been proven that it does generate aggro.

There is some salvage, like alien tech, that is not refined, but rather used directly in creating base items.

Well, my FF/NRG specialized in KB and damage, but then ED came and now all she can do is Bubble and KB... If you're not taking energy to maximize KB, or Psi/Rad to do damage, you're propably going to get bored with FF pretty fast...

If you slot 3 hold, each hold pulse that hits will stack twice as long. This effectivily doubles the mag of the power.

Hold durations, regardless of power, increase the duration of hold effects of that power.

KB does indeed have a magnitude. However, most of the time it's irrelevant, since usually you're not going to be able to stack KB's to break through protection.

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is it just me who finds maximillion an insufferable, opinionated [censored]?

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quills will stop those stalks

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In other words, does Power Boost increase the effectiveness of Aim & Build Up? Given that they both give a boost to accuracy and damage, does this mean that their damage buff is increased?

Forgive me if this sounds foolish, I thought that Power Boost only boosted the secondary effects of powers so would it for example, increase the Damage buff on Aim and the Accuracy boost on Build Up? Or am I making this up?


[/ QUOTE ]The term secondary effect is misleading. What count as secondary effects are set, they do not vary by the power. It basically affects most things apart for damage, damage (de)buffs, Accuracy (It affects ToHit though) and Resistance (de)buffs. A full list (AFAIK), here:

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Effects Source Level 50 Blaster
Effect +119.2% Stun Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Sleep Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Confused Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Terrorized Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Immobilize Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Held Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Knockback Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Knockup Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Repel Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% RunSpeed Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% FlySpeed Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Defense Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Defense(Melee) Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Defense(Ranged) Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Defense(AOE) Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Defense(Smashing) Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Defense(Lethal) Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Defense(Fire) Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Defense(Cold) Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Defense(Energy) Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Defense(Negative_Energy) Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Defense(Psionic) Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Heal Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% ToHit Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds
Effect +119.2% Endurance Enhancement to Self for 15 seconds

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War mace...It's like axe, but with less damage and balls.

3 recharge in siphon speed. Really, you NEED to fix that.

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So, my question is... is it fair or reasonable to expect someone to spend 23 endurance, 20 seconds to cycle, on an AoE that doesn't even do the amount of damage that Air Sup does? Because to me that feels exorbitantly out of whack.

[/ QUOTE ]Considering that this attack has the potential (Being a ranged AoE) to do up to 16 times that damage in total, I'd say it's, if not reasonable, at least close to it. And this is not taking into account the fact that it's psi damage, and has a knockup effect. I wouldn't go cutting the recharge (since that would be increasing the damage output), but some sort of endurance reduction to psi tornado might be good.

DoT is purely damage, while power boost enhances secondary effects (Things other than damage, accuracy (Not to be confused with ToHit) and resistance), so PB won't boost the DoT of fire.

I might be interested, provided it would be happening at times I can play was available. (I'm not available after 8 PM GMT on any days other than fridays and saturdays)

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They see that controllers are doing way too much damage (from fire/kin/fire), and instead of nerfing that particular power set (perhaps making the AoE epics not use containment, perhaps by limiting FS on controllers), they hit every single controller build with a hefty nerf.

[/ QUOTE ]So you're saying making epics ignore containment would've been a much better answer? Doing either that or what they're currently doing would've have had the same result on epic damage on contained targets. And it's hardly every single build, it's merely those who take epic attacks.

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Blasters can do +160% of their damage with aim and build up.

[/ QUOTE ]It's 160% only without any other buffs OR enhancements. And not all blasters get aim or BU.

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And Defiance helping to deal potentially 300% (was it? max value..) buffed damage?

Chiefette

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