MisterD

Lightform gets status protection now? Did it always have that? And does Eclipse? I'm sure I recall being held while Eclipsed on my WS..seems a bit..unfair?

I assume on your dp/time toon..using the time power causes weapon redraw? I wish the would make it possible to use powers with weapons out.

As a comparison..try playing one of your scrappers using only the vet attacks..see how fun it is.

Both examples you give..the Mobs have some of teh most plentiful mex in the game! No wonder your dying. Hell, carnies especially, the master illus alone can mez a melee toon just with them and the summoned pets. If you did say..+0/4 council, you would pretty much breeze through it. And to make another point, a lot of those mezzers, the psi holds, then have NO positional defence. Then are tagged just psi, meaning if you had that silly ranged def build, they would hit you just as often.
Again though..from that example, it is your playstyle thats wrong. You cant do a carnie or rikti mission on a squishy and expect never to be mezzed...not gonna happen.

Given that Scorp Shield is like..21% smash/lethal def slotted...surely its better, and easier, to be building for s/l def, than ranged. When ranged will be starting at 0%..compared to the 21 s/l.
Not sure what your playstyle is..but you shouldnt be dying a heap on a fire dark. Carry break frees, use your debuffs. Let melees get their aggro. Mez mezzers before they get you.
Also agree with Akh...you just cant expect to be uber at lower levels. And again with the retarded 'no incarnate powers' comment Saist. Get over it would you. The fact the OP posted a build WITH IOs, pretty clearly shows he wants to be uber..at 50, WITH his IOs. Not to mention, half of the sets needed to get your magical ranged def, would not work at all teh low levels anyway. So, stop making your comment about Incarnates not including 95% of the game..when if he used your build, it wouldnt include the entire game either!

Clarion partial core...perma mez prot to everything at T3.

If you are taking, or not taking, a power based on the assumption that when you use it, team mates are going to wipe spawns, what is the point even taking ANY powers? With judgements, its basically the first two people too Judge a spawn..kill it. That's how it goes. Ignite is still fun and useful..if only as a set mule for Posi's.

I agree..saying it isnt worth it is crazy. Ar has a ton of aoes, another aoe = good. Ar has few single target attacks..meaning its usually quite easy to fit things it the build. My ar/em blaster has ignite to go with webnade and scorp shield. The aoe of Ignite is small, and takes a bit to get used to, but the damage is totally worth it. Even if your only using it on hard targets, consider it a place to throw another posi blast set.
Vs avs and stuff..well...its flat out awesome. Immob them and go to toon, I have seen it do over 100 damage a tic heaps of times. Thats 1500! damage (I think its 15 tics..). And 1500 damage that is constantly going, allowing you to keep attacking. Not to mention, get the rech down, and you can use it over and over.
Oh, but to answer the question..yes..get an immob. But then again..even using it just on teams, good odds someone will have an immob, if you do not.

Also dont forget that you can solo, and NEVER see scourge. If your attacking something, and get it to say..70% hp with your first attack..second attack getting it down to 45%,...then use a big hitter, that KILLS the target...that 3rd attack can apply with no Scourging at all.

Looks great..but....isnt it a little odd to have the minions for one of the most common villain groups in the game suddenly look more detailed and spiffy than a lot of bosses/ebs/avs for other groups?

Pvp is dead..yet the channel has over 100 people? I guess they are all dead...or possibly the channel lead has 100 alt accounts and padding his own channel? You sad like the one that's butt hurt..did the devs nerf your poor perma dom or something?

That helps..but I wish the devs would fix it going of in the single target sleep too. lol

I am trying to pick an interface for my mind thorns dom. Wondering if anyone has any experience with Mind + reactive fire dot? I know the dot breaks the sleep on mesmerize..which I can maybe handle...but my main question is..will the dot break the 'fear' state from terrify? That is, the dot damage giving them that 10 second window to move and attack?

I would, have, will again, kick people for doing this. Other night on Virtue, an MM jumped into the cut scene, after spending most of the collection phase dead. He jumped in and started spammed some huge stupid bind.

When I commented on this, he said he was only Roleplaying. Clearly playing the role of a selfish, unhelpful idiot who does not want to assist his team.

As to the question, would you kick someone right before the end? Totally, after making sure they use their temp powers.

Don't forget that a lot of the Pocket D rp crowd won't say what they prefer..cause they are busy acting out the lesbian futa catgirls.

Just a few ideas on working through alpha slot progression..bear with it

The last few nights, I have been talking with a few friends on the way we slot up our toons post level 50. We mainly play on the one server, freedumb, but have a fair few level 50 alts on virtue and other servers.

Nearly all of my toons of Free are t4 alpha'd and high in the judge/int/etc powers, but most of my alts on Virtue had very little. Naturally, as lesser played alts...they get the shinies later on, and having less friends to team with over there, I am less inclined to pug tfs. Nevermind that the tfs are usually less common now..since most people are doing the iTrials.

So, what to do? How to get an alpha, hopefully T3, on an alt on a server you don’t often play. Assuming your toon has no or very few shards, and that you do not want to spend a few nights grinding trials over and over. And that you’re just after a t3 alpha to get the +1 shift.

Tier 1 alpha needs 12 shards, or 3 shard components, or 3 thread components. Obviously the best way to get them is 3 specific level 50 task forces, to get the three components. One friend was talking about using Vouchers to convert astral merits into shards (via Astral Christy in oro) but complaining that the exchange rate was unfair. Looking at the rate..
12 shards to get your T1, that is 12 astrals merits. Which is..2 BAFS, kinda. About an hour at most, not counting finding the trial teams.

Another friend said she was making her entire alpha from thread components, that is, using threads to craft into the salvage bits that the corresponding alpha boost requires. Sounds like a better way doesn’t it? Well..it isn’t.
Tier 1 Alpha: 3 Thread components, each costing 20 threads. If you are getting those threads directly via astrals...that is SIXTY threads, 15 Astral merits.

So it is actually better to convert astrals straight to shards, than into threads, to slot your alpha. Worried how you’re going to GET astrals for your alt on whatever server it is, where trials might not be as common? Simple, run them on toons on some of the more populated servers and Voucher them to your alts.

Another thing, I have found it is much much easier to create your T2 alpha boost from Thread components. Why? Because uncommon trial salvage is actually the most common, and a lot easier to get (usually) than the 12 shards a single uncommon shard component costs to create. So if you get your tier 1 via global voucher astrals, run say..2 bafs on your alt, it is pretty good odds you will get an uncommon drop and convert the emp merits to threads, for the common parts. Then, you just need a WTF for the notice of the well...which should be fairly easy to find on any server.

Anyway..a few people I have spoken to did not even realise we can trade astrals and shards on our accounts..hopefully I have given some people ideas

So Energy Aura gets some wicked sounding buffs...How about using the opportunity to FIX some of the powers in Poison..poison (C)Trap especially?
And why does dark blast suddenly get AIm? So it fits for blasters...why doesnt AR and Dp have aim? If you can 'aim' throwing bolts of darkness, aim with a bow..why cant you look down the sights of a gun?

Just saw another thread covering this..
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=264969

Incarnate XP

Incarnate XP is being incorrectly divided in leagues of greater than 8 participants. The amount being received is less than intended.
A fix is in progress.

Just saw another thread covering this..
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=264969

Incarnate XP

Incarnate XP is being incorrectly divided in leagues of greater than 8 participants. The amount being received is less than intended.
A fix is in progress.

Opps! Totally posted this in the wrong thread..! Ignore that..lol

Its half the xp of normal trials..which are giving a third of what they were....so half of a third...meaning bugger all.

I would love for NtG to have an option to force a client defaulting to ALL power custom colors. I remember teaming with a friend on her pink dark fender, and it basically brought my pc to a standstill. She swapped to a different color, problem was GONE. Instantly!

When stupid Ultra Mode hit, even though I had ZERO UM options on, the game became suddenly unp[layed on my pc. Now, I know people will say..Time to get a new PC. And it was, so I did. Point is, having zero of the new shiny option on, why did it make a difference? Same with custom power colors, Id love to go back to no power color changes for a day and see what difference it made to peoples lag.

Not to mention..I am sure we have all joined a team where some twit thinks his bight green with pink spots sonic dispersion bubble is the epitome of style..yet it gives everyone else a splitting headache!

I forget what the thread was called, but one I found when I made my dp blaster...the guy basically calculated that even versus an enemy with lower resists to say..cold damage, your overall damage would be higher using Fire ammo anyway.
Could see the ammo effects maybe helping a bit more when combined with the Interface proc...but like you said, a long way away for you. I think that..blaster, damage is your goal, and fire does that.
Oh and I would recommend taking Exe SHot..just cause it looks so cool, and its your best attack. Piercing IS super cool, but I view the multihit as a bonus, since the cone is so pathetic. Also..ES provides 18% more damage when you use it...using it before Hail of Bullets..you WILL notice that, especially since DP gets no aim.

As much as I like the idea....before half way sgs, we need a way to send offline sg invites to specif toons, so people can invite their own alts to solo sgs. It is completely crazy that you can't do that yet. Seriously..how long would that take?