Miyabi
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Definitely the I-beams first I would think
They seem glaringly separate from the rest of the point-and-pew-pew of the sets they belong to.
From there? Total Focus/Thunderstrike style attacks. They're somewhat comical (hur hur pun) looking, and could use some "y so sewious"ing. -
I'm going to suggest against DP Blaster. Go Corr or Defender. I personally recommend the Corruptor, DP/Kin or DP/Traps, or even DP/Sonic, all of which will buff your damage output, on top of Scourge. I'll recommend against Pain, Thermal, and Trick Arrow, as the redraw WILL eventually drive you insane.
I have Elec/Dev, Fire/Fire, Archery/EM, and DP/EM blasters. I only got to 44 with the DP/EM, as I couldn't take it anymore. YMMV of course, so play what you feel is right. -
Quote:I think a lot of people are replying and missed this part.Originally Posted by Sagamemnon
...and acted like voltaic sentinel...
He's saying if PA was untargettable by mobs. As in, you drop Phantom Army, the only target enemies can find is you, the Controller.
There's a few very good reasons people have a love/hate relationship relationship with Voltaic, and the fact that it draws aggro onto the user and is untargetable is one of the primary ones. -
It sounds like you're thinking in a perma-PA vaccum
Permanent Phantom Army, with enough cooldown. In that single thought train, no taunt wouldn't really make a difference, as the Controller would just stay at range, dropping PA endlessly.
In the "Levelling up" world, which is most of the game, it would hurt the Controller rather badly, as their invincible, built-in tanks no longer control mobs, which means everything would go after the Controller immediately.
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The only thing I would want to see changed is the Corrupter aura replaced with the MM version. Regen instead of the tick heal. Good for low HP toons, bad for everybody else...
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I was going to throw out a "Dump to SG Storage" option if your base has enough open storage, but that could prove very problematic in a variety of ways, lol
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Quote:Definite yes on lowering Consume's recharge. It's tohit check alone should translate to some sort of buff. Even thirty seconds off its current recharge would be a help.Originally Posted by Fire_Storm
...or like Fire, ludicrously expensive build to fix.
As having both fire/fire tanks and a brute.....small adjustments to fire might just fix it.
Yes, consume needs love. No questions asked. The recharge on it is that bad. Now i will say this, with full fury, it will occasionally kill a minion or something. But that is so few and far between, it is hardly justifies its recharge. Leave the accuracy check.
Temperature Protection....add End drain resistance or GIVE us an IO that grants a 20% end drain resistance....just like the Winter Slow Resistance IO. That one IO really is noticable when you get some semblance of slow resistance from TP and the IO. If we had an IO 20% resist end drain, then consume recharge could be dropped somewhat....and it still not be perfect, but tolerable.
KB protection...fine, leave it out. i can live with it.
Burn, up the damage/up end cost, so what little they stay in it, does more damage. Consider adding a slow, or increase the time for the fear to start (ie they stay in the patch longer takes longer to run from it, but not by that much...) Leave the scatter and the fear, yes that can be used for damage mitigation. The power doesn't change much which the devs might do, but helps atleast get like tier 1 aoe blaster damage out of it.
With adjustments/fixes (and not major ones at that) and IOs, an immob (like my brute)....or a tank on team with an immob, would be a truely damaging toon. An aoe immob for burn, like my brute, survives better sometimes, because Burn is cheap damage endurance wise, and Consume is so bad on recharge, cheap damage really helps fire. GR and switching sides is coming. And an Immob might be avail to the tankers. But Burn needs a bit more tweaking than just an access to an immob patron power, to put fire back on the top of damage. With an extremely expensive (ludicrously expensive build) my fire tanker and brutes are ok, not on par with the others, but really ok. You should IO to improve, not become par with the other sets....that is whats wrong.
We should WANT to take Temperature Protection, but that goes into my theory of "All powers should be desirable" issue. Better Cold Res, End drain res, even some small amount of defense built into it would be great. Its fire res is completely pointless. The slow res is a help, but you have to slot a Winter's Gift IO for the slow res to equal Quickness', which almost feels like an afterthought in Quickness. Fiery has basically been turned into a...somehow LESS survivable Regen, relying on it's click heal and Burn's scatter to keep afloat.
I think Temp Prot should be something like 10% Fire Res, 20% Cold Res (To bring Cold up to the other Shield's levels), 40% Slow Res, +20% Recharge. Sort of a ******* child of Temp Protection and Quickness.
It hurts me to say this, but Burn is fine as-is, due to it being Fiery's primary mitigation. The problem is that Burn makes Blazing Aura pointless. BA's strength comes from having multiple enemies inside its radius for extended periods of time. If Fiery's Blazing Aura were a combination of BA and Hot Feet with less range, enemies would enter to attack the player, hit the Burn patch, try to run, and be stuck in the aura (And possibly inside the Burn still as well). The damage for the aura should also be increased as well. Maybe Scrapper value to 15, Tanker to 12, and Brute to 10 (Due to Fury)
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Quote:I think EM should remain a single target centric set. Whirling is meant to be a minion buster. If anything, speeding up Total Focus and Energy Transfer's animations (Half?) would make it once more ST King. You're giving up team value (AoE) for the ability to make a huge difference when fighting AVs and bosses.
ENERGY MELEE
Insert Typed versus Positional argument and two-hundred posts here.Quote:ENERGY AURA
I've tweaked with the set. I've ran builds, and psuedo-builds in Mids, and pondered and thoughted and thinked and...I just don't know. The set seems decent on paper, but when you actually use it...
I consider it the positional defense equivalent of Electric Armor, one absorbing/reducing damage and the other attempting to avoid it, plus minor absorb/reduce. What did Electric Armor need to bring it up to par? A decent heal +regen built into its endurance reduction power. Is Ele top dog? No, but it's much better now than ever before. As many have pointed out before, EA's sap+heal is all but worthless against a single target.
Maybe give Gauntlet the Vigilance treatment? Since Defenders and Tankers are over-specialized, the two sort of go hand in hand. +Damage that scales down with increasing team size.Quote:NO REAL TANKER INHERENT
...is a mess. This coming from someone who's only Tank is a Fire/Fire. It's good with IOs, but the game isn't balanced around IOs. The things you give up for Fiery Embrace (Long recharge BU), Burn (Ghetto Immobilize Resist, enormous fear effects), Blazing Aura (0.89 more damage than Ele and Dark's damage auras), and a self-rez (Look at all my survival holes, woo!), are staggering.Quote:FIRE AURA -
Quote:I agree. It'd take changing a lot of numbers in the power to make Time Bomb shine. Halve the wait time to seven seconds. Maybe even five. Then you can throw on your travel power and "escape by the skin of your teeth."Originally Posted by Warkupo
As it stands, Trip Mine > Time Bomb for nearly every situation I can think of.
In a team scenario, sans AoE spamming enemies, yes, toe bombing is achievable. In a smaller team setting, and/or being hit by everything's spray and pray, it turns into a "where'd my end go, lol" like Electric Armor pre-Energize with Aid Self. And Snipes. *twitch*Quote:It is not difficult to Toe Bomb with Trip Mine as it is. Increasing the recharge by 10s to get rid of the interrupt of 4s is a net loss in my book.
With some recharge, even mediocre (50%) recharge from anything, that ten second recharge increase drops considerably. It was only a suggestion. One of many.
One step forward, two steps back. But that's sort of how he rolls. I didn't really care for it before, now it's simply cemented in my mind.Quote:As an aside, am I the only one who really *doesn't* like the change to Gun Drone? -
Quote:Implying increasing Trip Mine's recharge from twenty seconds to thirty would make any remarkable impact.Originally Posted by Ben_Arizona
...little or no improvement at a significant cost, and for Time Bomb it wouldn't address any of the issues that make it problematic.
It would also allow people to plant Time Bomb mid-fight with the knowledge that it will indeed go off, instead of wasting time. It's a buff. Is it an excellent buff? No. But what do you want out of Time Bomb, a second nuke?
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Quote:Cottage rule. It's either going to be a damage-based time-delayed device, or it's going to be Time Bomb.Originally Posted by Warkupo
I'm voting for a 'Range Amplifier Device' personally.
I vote for increased recharge on both Time Bomb and Land Mine, in exchange for removal of the interrupt. At least then we can toe bomb.
Also...
Then it wouldn't be named Time Bomb. It'd be Remote Bomb.Quote:Time Bomb with Remote Detontator (Toggle) -
Have you played Pain or Empathy before? Although Pain's a bit more offensive minded, lol
Soothe: Your main heal as a Pain/Emp
Share Pain: Optional, will pretty much fully heal whatever you target in one shot, needs minimal slotting (1-2 recharge)
Conduit of Pain: Optional
Enforced Morale: Optional as well, but buffs
Painbringer: Turns whatever you use it on into an almost unstoppable juggernaut, one EndMod slotted in it can defeat nuke crashes.
You're going for Ranged defense bonuses though, so I don't have much to add besides that. Pain is pretty demanding power-selection-wise, under normal circumstances. -
Ignite for boss killing, Full Auto for pew pew pew
RoA for mob-wiping, overall good performance
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Defenders can AoE Sap as well, Kin/Ele/Ele is Transference/Short Circuit/Power Sink
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I'll use my experiences on my DP/EM PUG teaming as an example, as they're the most recent
Helping out with some BMing, we had two slightly lower level Stone Tanks with us. Both had Granite, both had Mud Pots, and both had Taunt. They would both Teleport into a mob, one on each side, and go to work (One was /Fire, can't remember the other...). I'd wait three seconds, Build Up, and use Bullet Rain. As BR finished animating, I'd start a Range Boosted Empty Clips, and suddenly be eating 1/3rd of my health arrows from various corners of the mob.
I face-planted nearly every other mob. With two Tanks. Both with Mud Pots and Taunt, but neither using said Taunt.
Another example is a friend of mine running his first Tanker, a Fire/Fire. He had Blazing Aura and Taunt. He would leap into a group of demons, and immediately go into a "Miss miss miss miss hit miss miss" attack chain. The one enemy he would focus on would eventually get hit, and he drew a little attention with his aura. All the enemies outside his aura? Turned around and started beating the snot out of everyone else on the team. These being CoT demons, they could simply sit back and Flare/Fire Bolt squishies to death.
The above examples are more a lesson in bad Tanking than in Taunting. A Tank is a mitigation meatshield. Your existence is mob control through whatever means necessary, and you have the survivability to do it. Whether that be through damage, auras, or Taunt. If you can hit with your attacks and micromanage, Gauntlet works fine. If your aura can hit, it'll keep everything close to you ticked off.
Taunt is just another tool. But it's an auto-hit, -75% range debuff tool.
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I'm going to say something along these lines. I'm very against giving Blasters Dark Regen, even though it'd promote getting them into melee range more. Even with increased recharge on it, it's still a massive self-heal in an archetype that doesn't get in-set self heals.
- Dark Blast -
1) Dark Blast
1) Gloom
2) Dark Obliteration
6) Aim
8) Tenebrous Tentacles
12) Nightfall
18) Moonbeam
26) Life Drain (Siphon's Damage)
32) Blackstar
- Dark Manipulation -
1) ST Tenebrous Tentacles
2) Shadow Punch
4) Death Shroud
10) Smite
16) Build Up
20) Soul Storm
28) Dark Consumption
35) Oppresssive Gloom
38) Midnight Grasp
With Blaster numbers, the normal Dark attacks do fairly good damage. Dark/Dark would be an interesting damage/control combination without going overboard on either. Dark/Dark's synergy would be that your third-tier attack is in your secondary, Soul Storm, which also gives other powersets lacking a 3rd (Elec, AR) a new option.
Edit: Although damage increased Life Drain is sort of it's third-tier attack... o_o;; -
I posted these awhile ago, might as well toss them out
- Dark Control -
1) Horror - Single-target Fear/Immobilize/Moderate Damage
1) Terror - Single-target Hold/Moderate Damage
2) Wave of Horror - Targetted AoE Immobilize/ToHit Debuff/Minor Damage (Tenebrous Tentacles' graphics)
6) Panic - Single-target Confuse (Confuse+Smoke Effect on target's head for graphics)
8) Nightmare - Targetted AoE Sleep/ToHit Debuff
12) Dread - Location AoE Fear/ToHit Debuff (No Line of Sight required, translucent Tar Patch graphics)
18) Doppelganger - Summons temporary pet based on fallen enemy (See Mastermind Soul Extraction, translucent copy of enemy, doesn't work on Elite Bosses/Archvillains/Heroes)
26) Gaze into the Abyss - Single Target Fear/Immobilize/Hold/Stun/Sleep/Confuse/ToHit Debuff
32) Dusk Essences - Summons what is effectively the Banished Pantheon Masks, each with an additional ranged attack per their type (Gloom, Subdue, Power Burst, Irradiate). Uses Lanaruu elemental graphics.
- Dark Assault -
1) Dark Blast
2) Smite
4) Nightfall
10) Gloom
16) Power Boost
20) Dark Consumption
28) Siphon Life
35) Moonbeam
38) Midnight Grasp
Hmmm, I should do a Blaster Dark Blast too... -
Under-performing sets being retooled to perform well
Aggro cap raised (Not lifted) for Tankers
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Here's my build as a little food for thought. Feel free to scoot Rez/CM further up (I may have done so myself in my current build). Also, the HamiOs are just something to work towards.
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Miyabi: Level 50 Mutation Defender
Primary Power Set: Empathy
Secondary Power Set: Dark Blast
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Power Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Healing Aura- (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal
- (3) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
- (5) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge
- (7) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
- (9) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (A) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage
- (31) Devastation - Damage/Endurance
- (34) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (37) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (37) Cloud Senses - Chance for Negative Energy Damage
- (40) Decimation - Chance of Build Up
- (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal
- (3) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
- (5) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge
- (7) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
- (9) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (A) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage
- (31) Devastation - Damage/Endurance
- (36) Devastation - Damage/Recharge
- (36) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (37) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (43) Cloud Senses - Chance for Negative Energy Damage
- (A) Flight Speed IO
- (A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range
- (15) Blessing of the Zephyr - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range/Endurance
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (11) Recharge Reduction IO
- (11) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Red Fortune - Defense
- (13) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance
- (13) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge
- (17) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
- (17) Red Fortune - Endurance/Recharge
- (31) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range
- (15) Blessing of the Zephyr - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range/Endurance
- (A) Miracle - +Recovery
- (43) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (19) Recharge Reduction IO
- (19) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Performance Shifter - EndMod
- (21) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge
- (21) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge
- (48) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy
- (50) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
- (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
- (23) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
- (23) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
- (46) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
- (50) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (50) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)
- (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
- (25) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
- (25) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
- (43) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
- (46) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (46) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)
- (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal
- (27) Doctored Wounds - Recharge
- (27) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge
- (29) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
- (29) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal
- (33) Doctored Wounds - Recharge
- (33) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge
- (33) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
- (34) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (34) Endurance Modification IO
- (A) Endurance Reduction IO
- (36) Endurance Reduction IO
- (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff
- (39) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge
- (39) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance
- (39) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Recharge/Endurance
- (40) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance
- (40) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up
- (A) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Recharge
- (42) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Endurance/Recharge
- (42) Adjusted Targeting - Endurance/Recharge
- (42) Adjusted Targeting - Recharge
- (A) HamiO:Ribosome Exposure
- (45) HamiO:Ribosome Exposure
- (45) HamiO:Ribosome Exposure
- (45) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
- (A) HamiO:Membrane Exposure
- (48) HamiO:Membrane Exposure
- (48) HamiO:Membrane Exposure
- (A) Healing IO
Level 1: Brawl- (A) Accuracy IO
- (A) Celerity - +Stealth
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
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Set Bonus Totals:- 15% DamageBuff(Smashing)
- 15% DamageBuff(Lethal)
- 15% DamageBuff(Fire)
- 15% DamageBuff(Cold)
- 15% DamageBuff(Energy)
- 15% DamageBuff(Negative)
- 15% DamageBuff(Toxic)
- 15% DamageBuff(Psionic)
- 4.25% Defense(Smashing)
- 4.25% Defense(Lethal)
- 4.25% Defense(Fire)
- 4.25% Defense(Cold)
- 7.38% Defense(Energy)
- 7.38% Defense(Negative)
- 3% Defense(Psionic)
- 5.5% Defense(Melee)
- 11.8% Defense(Ranged)
- 5.5% Defense(AoE)
- 27% Enhancement(Accuracy)
- 37.5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
- 16% Enhancement(Heal)
- 10% FlySpeed
- 83.9 HP (8.25%) HitPoints
- 10% JumpHeight
- 10% JumpSpeed
- MezResist(Held) 3.3%
- MezResist(Immobilize) 2.2%
- MezResist(Terrorized) 8.8%
- 10% (0.17 End/sec) Recovery
- 24% (1.02 HP/sec) Regeneration
- 9.45% Resistance(Fire)
- 9.45% Resistance(Cold)
- 1.26% Resistance(Energy)
- 1.26% Resistance(Negative)
- 6.25% Resistance(Toxic)
- 10% RunSpeed
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I'm really surprised I haven't run into any other Malta DPers
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Meh, it's like fighting angry, feudal Skittles®
I mean, come on, they don't even have bows or katanas (or horses!). Where's the fun in beating on Samurai if they're just going to throw sucker punches all day? -
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Quote:This works both ways though. Why take a Brute when you have a Kin, Pain, or Thermal along who can Fulcrum/Painbringer/Forge a Tank. Certainly, there's a very large difference in damage cap, but I thought I'd just lay that out there <3Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Regarding brutes versus tanks, however, I would much rather have a brute on my team than a tank. I'm very curious as to what, if anything, is done to make tanks more beneficial to teams when a team can buff a brute into tank levels of mitigation while it retains scrapper level damage output.
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I'll bite on this one too
Options: Ice/Kin, Fire/Pain, Bots/Traps, or Energy/Electric Armor Brute (Can multi-build into Taunt if needed) -
Quote:I'm not even going to warrant you a proper response, Captain Literal.Originally Posted by Umbral
Apparently Miyabi doesn't realize that powers don't begin recharging until they finish animating. Of course, if anyone cared to even look at the actual numbers that I put up, which explicitly state that several times.