Miladys_Knight

Actually my bubble fender has Group fly and used it frequently (all of this was before there were jet pack vendors in the shard and folks ran out of flight time from the Raptor they got between level 5 and 10. Now though, group fly is truely useless with the single exception of MoSTFs when your raptor pack won't work) in the STF to allow the team to take out the Arachnos Flier, in both the old and new Hami raids for taking out mitos, in the LGTF for taking out the mitos, and for flying around on the shard TFs prior to having access to recall team if we didn't have anyone with recall friend.

I wouldn't discount the procs. My Ice/Rad has Lockdown slotted in Choking Cloud and it procs frequently. It actually performs better than I though it would in normal play.

That's esentially what Going Rogue will do. It will merge every thing but the markets. Heros and villians can all ready team together in coop zones like RWZ and Cimerora. Going Rogue will allow them to switch back and forth between non-coop zones.... but the markets will still be separate. Which is one of those things that make us scratch our heads and say WTH?!?!?!?

Not better per se though it is certainly doable. There are times when you can/will/should use both. STF when you are supporting the tank before the red tower is down comes to mind as one example.

Don't discount the Ice primary. Jack has a hold too. Chillblain can be slotted with the Devastation proc and the Grav Anchor proc. Block of Ice can be slotted with the Devastation proc and the Lockdown proc. Choking Cloud will take the Lockdown proc as will Glacier and EM Pulse.

Epic choice is either Primal for Power Boost and Power Blast with a Devastation proc or Earth for Seismic Smash with a Lockdown proc and Hurl Boulder with a Devastation proc.

EDIT - Thinking about it, I wonder if a TA/Ice/Psi defender could do it? There are 2 holds in the primary (EMP Arrow, and Ice Arrow) which will both take the Lock Down proc, Entangling can be slotted with the Grav Anchor proc, there are 2 holds in the secondary that can take both the Devastation and Lockdown procs, and 3 single target blasts that can take the Devastation proc. Psi mastery gets Dominate which is a hold and will take both the hold procs and TK which could be used judiciously after stacking holds as a capper.

It's so he can downsize it quick in case the boss walks by and sees him doing...... his job?

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Nuff said

Yep. In game I'm @Grandpa Squeak (the Mrs. is Grandma Squeak it's not a second account that belongs to me it's hers). My BS/Shield on Justice is Milady's Knight.

True but EVERYONE has access to travel powers and many players take more than one. (Several of my toons have both Super Speed and Super Jump, Teleport and Hover are also common pairings. Some ATs have little or no access to Melee/Ranged attacks.

I would think that powers that everyone (barring PBs and WSs) has access to and virtually everyone takes would be weighted a bit higher than what the market and my random rolls seem to be showing.

I have a suspicion that the weighting for some set IO drops in Pool C may be very very off. I have received a preponderance of Mako and Devastation set recipes and about what is expected of most other sets......

However, I have not received a single stealth IO since I16 went live and the dates on the last 5 in both the run and jump categories on blue side when I last checked were going stale (last 5 with dates in weeks rather than days). None for sale at any level with multiple outstanding bids.

I know that Posi doesn't "really" like people stealthing missions. I wonder just how low the weighting on stealth IO drops may have been made.

You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word. - Al Capone

This. Nuff said.

I agree with this as a marketeer and would take advantage of it (having all ready done some research on where to make the best investments) but "most" players aren't marketeers and this would give us as marketeers yet another advantage over the "poor purpless casual Warshade" that we probably don't really need.

As a player I believe that the best way for the devs to proceed would be to "tell us" that a merger isn't happening and then hand us a merged market as a fait accompli.

ED is all ready a form of DR. That's enough thanks. I wouldn't really like to get double dipped.

It's nice. You'll need to slot a bit of slow in Frost Breath and Ice Storm and you'll do better with some ranged defense from sets to handle the alpha. Solo bosses are easy, just stack holds from your secondary. EB and AVs are more of a challenge.

You might be surprised. I ran hero stats for a while on my Fire/Fire blasters and found out that Hot Feet, fully slotted for damage, is one of the main sources of damage contribution. Meeting or exceeding the contributions from Combustion and Fire Sword Circle.

To give you a comparison, ED capped Burn takes 12 seconds from the start of casting time until all the damage completes and does 325 damage in an 8 foot radius. In that same amount of time ED capped Hot Feet will have contributed 162 damage, not used any casting time, and will have done that damage to every thing in a 20 foot radius AND will have provided damage mitigation from all those targets from the avoid mechanism.

Slotting Hot Feet with Impeded Swiftness reduces it's damage output by 33% (including the damage from the proc) and only provides 2.5% more mitgation to Melee attacks and 1.25% mitigation to Smash and Lethal (which is the only decent bonus the set gives). It's not worth the trade off in this power.

If you really want to get the most out Hot Feet, franken slot it. As an example, 4 pieces of the Curtail Speed set and 2 pieces of Sciroccos Dervish will get you almost the same mitigation at the cost of only 10% of Hot Feet's Damage output.

My preffered slotting for Hot Feet is 3 Nucleolus Exposures and 3 Microfilament Exposures.

Burn has a few problems for the blaster.

1 - It has a huge avoid mag built into it so unless a mob is immobilized it's generally not worth the casting time. Most mobs will spend less time in burn than it takes to cast it (even at the -runspeed cap) and the radius is so small that it is practically a single target attack especially if you don't have a way to immobilize multiple mobs.

2 - Blaze does in 1 second of casting time more damage than Burn in the 12.03 seconds of Cast + DoT.

3 - Hot feet is better (because of it's larger radius and no additional cast time since it's a toggle) if you are planning on dropping Burn and standing in the patch for avoid mitigation.

4 - Due to all your other AoEs Burn will be wasted on most every thing but Bosses and higher. In the case of a boss you'll have to cast Ring of Fire twice and drop Burn and wait for it's DoT to complete. That's going to be roughly 17 seconds. You can do more damage than that in 4 seconds with Blaze, Blast, and Flares.

5 - Once you immob a boss to take advantage of the damage from Burn you've eliminated all the mitigation from the avoid and you will take a melee attack when you jump in to drop burn unless you are VERY good at kiting.

In my experience Burn was only really useful for things that ignore avoid (like AVs) or against EBs when on a team with a controller that can keep the entire spawn immobilized. Typically against standard spawns you can just target the boss, unload your AoEs and then toss in your single target attacks while the spawn burns up from Combustion and Hot Feet. Once your DoTs complete the entire spawn will be gone and you won't have had the time or the need to cast Burn.

I've found that there were a lot more powers that were useful much more often than Burn and have respec'd out of it on EVERY toon I have that has it available (even my tanks and scrappers.)

I sort of agree with this. The PnP Champions game had knock back based on part of the damage that was dealt. That wouldn't be too rough a formula to come up with it's just a proportion of damage/hit points/distance. Just because a player is a scrapper or a tank doesn't mean that they should be immune to KB effects. Super strong comic heros (that are essentially unaffected by KB in this game) spend lots of time flying around when attacked by equivalently powered baddies in the comics. (Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer has an excellent example.)

The other thing that is noteworthy is that KB in the game is a complete lock out of using powers but in the Comics "blasters" like Johnny Storm are still getting shots off mid KB because it's thematically appropriate for them to do so.

That's what Acrobatics "should" do for you. It should allow you to attack while being KB'd and you should have a % chance to land on your feet and avoid the getting up animation rather than just ignore KB affects below certain magnitude.

I doubt that it would be resonable to propose and problematic to implement but it would enhance the flavor of the game if you are trying to parallel the comics.

Speaking as a player who slots FOR increased knockback effects.... no, don't touch it.

I do sympathize with the noobie player that is clueless about how to use and control their knockback and their teammates that have to deal with it (that's what the "kick" button for.)

I would like to have more personal control of KB though. I can increase it on my toons that actively use it but can't do anything to actively decrease it. (Yes I would use that feature on some of my toons if it were available.) Shockwave will knock targets out of the range of Sirens on my sonic blaster for instance. The ability to personally tune my knockback to reduce it's distance would be as welcome to me as the ability to increase it all ready is.

Doubtful since traps and devices are both extremely safe sets when played for safety.

My blaster's Time Bomb would never detonate.