MajorTractor
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My Fire/Fire/Fire perma dom. A Blaster with crowd control. Slotted for dmg, dmg, dmg, and recharge, it took a T3 cardiac to make his endurance managable even with a free blue bar every 90 seconds, but everything gets melted in seconds.
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I rarely delete a character (they get moved to an empty server or I buy more slots), but out of the 2 you mentioned, I'd delete the lvl 50 because thats as good as its going to get. You have seen it all so to speak.
Also, Cold domination is a very late blooming set and at lvl 24 you haven't even gotten any of the good stuff yet. It also syncs well with the -tohit and vampiric heal of Dark blast. -
Quote:This is so true.Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot
Although, if you can do both, do so. Defense is always good to have.
My Fire/cold corr with soft cap s/l and 40+% ranged defense feels like a /SR scrapper with all ranged attacks and huge buff/debuff powers. Nothing ever seems to hit him. -
It says Time manipulation is a primary for Defenders and a secondary for Controllers, DOMINATORS, and Masterminds.
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The hardest part will be to survive. I have a fire/fire/fire dom and it does great in traditional farm maps. It does even better if you have someone to take agro for you.
I was on the old Liberate television farm, the Nemesis one, with a couple globals for old time sake this weekend. With a brute to take the alpha strike, my dom was tearing everything up.
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A /Fire with a pure farming build with only +rech and tons of AOE's is obviously going to have pathetic mitigation outside of fire farms.
But build for def, hitpoints, and rech for healing flames and you can do pretty well (mine heals ~830 hitpoints every ~11 seconds thats not bad). Also, Incarnate powers that make squishy blasters and dom's tough work double well on your Fire brute.
My SS/Fire that was fairly tough before incarnate has become a nearly unstoppable firey instrument of destruction.
He's not a top of the line farmer though. Its a trade off and I only farm for tickets and to trade PL's with buddies anyways. -
Last few Lambda's I was on, I was able to use my Jet Pack. I believe it was the temp power one you get from the NPC in Grandville for 10,000 inf.
I thought that this problem was fixed in a recent patch. -
Quote:I think 3 lvl 50 I/O rech in hasten with t4 spiritual alpha gives you perma hasten without any global bonuses.Originally Posted by jhonny3232
will 72.5 recharge without hasten and with t4 spiritual core give me perma hasten?
IDK I might be way off because of no mids at work. -
An Executioners strike Shatter out of hide with a Bane is pretty awesome. I have noticed the lesser amount of AOE dmg though.
I've had massive amounts of fun with my Bane on speed ITF's on the second and third missions. Run in and 2 or 3 shot a nictus crystal or EB general and SS off to the next one. -
Quote:Haha! After all this Billz math says exactly the oposite of what he was trying to prove.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
dangit.... see what 7 months off does to a man's brain? Yes, redraw time has to be added in as well.
Just as an example, in the chain I posted above, there's 3 redraws. At .63 seconds each, you have to add 1.89 seconds, which drops even that chain from Base DPS of Claws chain: 22.199 (*9 = 199.791) to 180.315 and the big total from 97149 to 87633.09 which has it only beating single stacked rage SS.
That's not good.
I still say equally "good" builds anything /fire can be awesome. Play what you want to play. -
Any Frontloaded Fire map will work. Just keep an eye on your tickets and when you get about 700 grab a glowie and get out.
We are splitting hairs here anyways. Anything /fire played properly is going to be pretty close to the same.
Gotta love that FF proc in footstomp though. -
Quote:But you are done before you ever get to that first rage crash. So what I do during rage crash is reset the mission and buy insp. But if you don't finish, I use Judgement, Consume and then pop some insp.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
I keep reading this but my own experience with my SS/Fire brute had me sitting there questioning how anyone can deal with 10 seconds of either no damage before IOs or nothing but proc damage after IOs every minute.
Wait one... I've gotten this wrong before.
Doublestacked rage means that it fires off every minute and lasts two minutes, right?
Rage fires
1 min w/ 80% buff
Rage fires
1min w/ 160% buff
Rage fires
10 seconds -10000% damage
50 seconds 160% buff
Rage fires
10 seconds -10000% damage
50 seconds 160% buff
Repeat? Is this correct?
I just don't get how that extra 80% buff for 50 seconds overcomes doing little to no damage 1/6th of the time.
Also you can't put the Force Feedback proc in Spin. -
With softcap to S/L/E and 40+% ranged, my fire/cold basically never gets touched. The Rebirth more than makes up that little bit. He plays so well without it that I usually use it as a team heal/buff more than for myself.
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Its not Footstomp that makes SS/fire so good. It is double stacked rage.
Still in an ideal ambush farm with inspiration combining binds where both claws and SS are sitting at dmg cap, claws would win if Billz's dmg and rech numbers are correct. -
Fire/Dark Corr. Tar Patch, Fireball, and Rain of Fire is great for melting mobs and you get it all very early. Also, you get darkest night and twilight grasp to keep you alive.
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On any WP you want to slot for defense and hitpoints. If you are going on the cheap side, I'd suggest touch of deaths and maco's to build your ranged and meele defense and hitpoints. Ranged over Meele because mobs in meele are fueling your RttC, but some of both. Its pretty easy to get over 20% to meele and ranged defense and will make a big difference.
Also, definately slot high pain tolerance with heals for hit points. -
You use a 2nd account or a get a buddy to make a "throw away" character. One made solely to level pact and get PL'd to 20 and deleted. Its useful as a way to get blue side AT's over to red side (or vice versa) without doing 2 days of tips.
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Sonic/Rad is a great AV/GM killer. The defender version has slightly better -resist on its attacks but the corr makes up for it with scourge, which really shines on AV/GM fights.
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Quote:I'll quote myself here, "Was it way crazy overpowered? Yes."Originally Posted by DarkSideLeague
Last Friday, my Blaster participated in a Cathedral of Pain run. My Group had myself (Fire Blaster with reactive) and a Cold/Ice Defender with Reactive. We all went to our Obelisks and started - by the time the other two teams had downed the barriers, my team had accidentally taken ours down in about 5 seconds - Rain of Fire, Sleet, and Ice Storm all at once. Boom. Reactive proccing FIFTEEN TIMES A SECOND. For 12 damage + Any resistance debuffs from Sleet. (Reactive's DoT doesn't quite follow the 4 limit since you can reset the first application with the fifth, doing massive dots).
Later, my Blaster soloed an entire mob with RoF, a Second with Judgement, and a third with his regular AoEs - the mobs dropped in about 10 seconds. -
Quote:My question is how big is the endurance hit on it going to be. It is probably going to take half your END bar to us SB now,a lot like the MM pets buffs.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Speed boost is group wide now? Awesome. I can't wait to read all of the crying and gnashing of teeth over that one.
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Anyone know when this goes live?
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I still say the other interface powers need a buff. Reactive is still to much of an obvious choice.
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Was it way crazy overpowered? Yes. Was it "breaking the game." I don't think so. How does me spamming RoF and Sleet walking through TF's with my buds for a couple weeks break the game? If we are talking game breaking bugs, you'd have more merit talking about the AE monkey and mito get your lvl 1 to 50 in an hour farms than this.
If you rolled a character just for it though, that sucks. It was obviously going to get nerfed sooner than later. As long as the fix for the broken fix comes quickly, I have no complaints. -
I ran into this problem over the weekend and ended up just buying them on the market. I didn't even think to try buying them with regular merits.
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As long as they fix Interface to work correctly ASAP, it is fine by me. I'll miss my perma alternating crashless nukes on my fire/cold corr, but everybody knew it was too good to be true.