MaXimillion_Zero

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ah, but I only have EA just now, and the initial 3xend red really helps for the levels in between. I may experiment with dropping to just two end reds in it, but as I don't have any endreds in glacial, frozen armour or chilling embrace, and just a single endred in wet ice, i may just keep it there.


[/ QUOTE ]Ah, might be different then, all my toggles have 1 EndRdx.

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Chilling embrace applies instantly and lasts a while, with a bit moving around you can keep 17 foes with it.

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And while you are moving around, those 7 strays are firing off one attack each at the original object of their aggro, the squishy AoE magnet blaster.

[/ QUOTE ]They're not, because I team with people who can wait a few seconds before attacking, for me to group the foes in a way that's optimum for AoE attackers. Those who team with me either learn that, or die.

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Then you're down to the question of why on earth not to take it in the first place?

[/ QUOTE ] Because I had powers I felt I needed more. I am putting taunt in at L49.

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It's like an empath taking absorb pain instead of aid other. They both a heal a target in trouble but one is so blindingly, obviously designed for it that it's madness

[/ QUOTE ] Yes, and that one is absorb pain.

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Is it me or did someone just **** in here?

i say that cos all your how to get by without taunt so far offers no one any potentially nigh on guaranteed safety and i like potentially nigh on guaranteed safety.

[/ QUOTE ]So, you say my playstyle is not safe, without ever seeing me play?

If you take them, I'd say 1 acc 2 End 3 dam, or 2 acc 1 end 3 dam. EndRdx isn't that important with ice tanks since we get EA.

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ATsexpecially

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I'll be there

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I'd suggest that the reason there are so few Ta/Psi defenders is that there aren't any energy or fire attacks in /Psi to light the oil slick which is the most awesome part of being a trick arrow defender.


[/ QUOTE ]You get the warding rune from croatoa at L25+, which lasts 2 days in-game time, and does energy damage.

I had something like -400k in the builder at one point, but I just sold one room and it went back to normal.

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1. I am going to get Air Superiority at lvl 6 as I figure it will pack a nice wallop on contained targets. However I've noticed the both Brawl and Mutagen don't get the damage bonus from Containment. Will AS get the Containment damage buff?

[/ QUOTE ] Inheret powers dont work with AT abilities, pool powers do.
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2. Is Steamy Mist worth it? I know the +def is pretty poor but what is the +Res to energy etc. like? I should imagine the res vrs. Confuse would be nice in PvP.

[/ QUOTE ] The damage resistances are nice, and worht slotting.

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3. Is it possible to make a Dominator type build? As I said I'm getting AS and could get Punch and then Tough from the fighting pools. IS this viable or just a more efficent way to collect debt?



[/ QUOTE ]AS will be useful, punch is quite low damage, tough is worthless. Rather just get your ST and AoE immobilizes, and fire epic, if you want to do damage.

So that would make it ~95% damage buff in total.

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(I think you should be able to light it with your elec epic attacks? not sure)

[/ QUOTE ]Yup, that's what they're there for

Personally, I'm not a fan of the psi cone....I'll propably try it in respec later, but for now I'll be sticking with the snipe, since one-shotting clockwork is fun

Grav/NRG Dominator rawks

Hmmm... I could swear he was an EB, he went down so fast...

EDIT: Bah, NoFuture lists him as an AV....Well, if he is one, he sure is the squishiest AV ever.

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hasten for SS would be my next bet but SS is pretty much gimped inCov due to the overlad map lay outs.

[/ QUOTE ]Nonsense, it's no less viable in CoV than it is in CoH, you just need to learn the map layout.

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With Corruptor and MM I think certain powersets are busier than others, but the other ATs seem less affected by that.

[/ QUOTE ]Defender primaries (and thus controller, corruptor and MM secondaries) have always been the most varying powerset pool for playstyles and character roles.

Pick Ice Patch up ASAP (Or well, BIB first, but then that), it's the main power of /ice. Also, I dunno about getting bitter freeze ray, and if you do get it, I'd suggest dropping it later when you get access to the hold from your secondary (and epic, possibly), since the activation time is so damn long.

My personal picks from ice/ice (as a levelling build, not a respec one):
Ice Bolt
Ice Blast
Aim
Freeze Ray
Ice Storm
BIB
BFR
Blizzard
ChillBlain
Ice Sword
BU
Ice Patch
Freezing touch

Leaving room for SJ, stamina, and then 2 pool powers, possibly hasten+acro or aid other+self, and 4 epic powers.

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So, depending on when you want to start TF'ing, you'll get AV's from level 10 onwards (Cavern of Transcedence, Synapse (but not Positron) etc.).

Just get Taunt. Only then will I stop bugging you.

[/ QUOTE ]CoTT has EB, not AV, so earliest would be L16.

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Taunt aura holds 10 so after the tanker has herded 17 (a blaster can hit upto 16 at once so thats good xp/time), 7 can quickly come for you

[/ QUOTE ]Chilling embrace applies instantly and lasts a while, with a bit moving around you can keep 17 foes with it.

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Do any tenker players out there slot taunt enhancements in your attacks or do you rely on gauntlet

[/ QUOTE ]Slotting taunt enhancements in attacks increases the duration of gauntlet's taunt effect for that attack.

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I tested one equal level minion (level 50) and I seem to do 280 damage without buffs and with critical that 2 times more, so 2x280=560 damage.

[/ QUOTE ]3 slotted for damage or unslotted?

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Does the -Spd and -Rech in glue arrow stack with multiple applications from the same defender? I find glue arrow refreshes very quickly and was going to slot 1 Rech 3 Slow on my TA.


[/ QUOTE ]Yes, it does, since the debuff is actually applied by the glue arrows themselves, that are seperate entities from the defender.

Blizzard is LBAoE, thus it ignores AoE caps. A nuke that ignores AoE caps > All.

There, after few computer problems that arose, I finally managed to get on, and can confirm that the TF has indeed vanished. The only reason I know how this could have happened is if all but one member quit (unlikely), or somebody went and soloed it...

Logging in to check right now.

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Taunting AoE's like chilling embrace and blazing aura along with the punchvoke/gauntlet will enable you to hold aggro most of the time but when you have scattering mobs making a beeline for the ranged squishies you are left with three choices

- Hope the squishy can take the aggro
- Chase the aggro down, risking your current aggro scattering if you move out of range as the mobs are attacked
- Taunt the mob to bring him to you while standing safely in the middle of your already gathered aggro.


[/ QUOTE ]Or use ranged temporary/APP power