Necromatic

After a bit of assessment, I can say that one of my characters has the lag issue much worse than the others. I am wondering if it has something to do with my costume.

Heh, so had a thought experiment with a coworker during lunch (who also plays CoX) about the 'lazy' super team.

He had recommended all rad/sonics. Here's why, in addition to the auto res, -res, and mez pro from /sonic, the rad/ adds a small PBAOE that recharges frequently. Namely Irradiate, which could be done roughly every 10s.

LOL, when f2p comes, I can start 7 clients with unpaid accounts with 7 rad/sonics. Set Irradiate to auto, turn on disruption and dispersion, assault, maneuvers, and tactics.

There's gonna be other combinations (spines/fire scraps), that would be doing similar things. I wonder how CoX will prevent multiple creation of unpaid accounts for the purpose of filling and farming.

I have an elec/cold corr. Never got +recovery post nuke give more than the -recovery.

Yeah but that's too much work for a 'lazy' team.

With near capped def from maneuvers (capped with combat jumping with +def res/def unique and a few ranged set bonuses), 8X assault, capped res from sonic dispersion (no shields necessary), mez pro in dispersion as well, the only thing that's needs to be done once all setup is clicking the attack powers.

It may not be the best super team, but it should be a team that requires nothing more after the initial setup (leadership powers on, sonic dispersion, and sonic disruption). Just move en masse and attack.

Anybody experience lag after exiting a door or an elevator? It's sometimes on the order of 3-5 seconds? This is happening in Atlas.

True true. I was thinking DP because of the targetted AOEs and the PBAOE mini-nuke. Heck, archery would be fine too.

Fire would bring more dps for harder targets.

I am really open to any primary. Maybe just a /sonic super team.

Just checking interest in creating an new super team composed of all dp/sonic corruptors or a mix of corruptors and defenders (sonic/dp).

Why is this 'lazy'? Well having all dp/sonic means capped res and close to cap def (maneuvers). With assault you got lots of damage as well, not to mention all the -res from dispersion field. No need for casting shields or anything, just point and click damage after sonic dispersion and dispersion field setup.

Why dp? Good mix of cone, targetted AOE, PBAOE, and good effects like -dam.

Everybody hates to have their prey escape. At the same time, everybody wants the super getaway power.

Sorry for the run-on, but I think it's relevant for what I have to say next.

It appears to me that the devs attempted to change pvp so that all arc-types, all powersets were more or less on a level playing field in terms of effectiveness. What is meant by effectiveness? Defeating your foe. Too bad that that outcome is the only 'reward' in the current pvp system. Now if that were to change, I think pvp would be much more fun.

Heck, you should get that victory if you forced your opponent to turn tail and run. Buffers should be rewarded for buffing their teammates, healers for healing, tanks for tanking, etc.

Now on to the main topic, I would love to see the old system back with a few tweaks (same travel suppression as old pre i13 pvp, no heal decay, no dr):

1. Retain the offensive toggle drop when mezzed, but defensive toggle remain.
2. Rework mez powers a little so that duration's are relevant to the effects. Fear powers used to last a long time and that was OK since the effect was simply a non toggle dropping (pre i13) hold until you were attacked.

Oh come on. I was tired when I wrote that.

Note to self, do not post to Blaster forums after farming late at night.

I doubt blasters are getting dark regen. However, hopeful for soul drain, life drain or siphon life. I bet dark consumption will be in there along with soul transfer. Maybe mix in tof or fearsome stair.

I think I might do a sonic/poison to go after hard targets.

I'm hoping for a power that reduces cast times.

Have they said which psi corruptors will be getting?

Just wondering, has anyone tried 11.6 driver only without the control center? My 11.2 is working like a charm, no big reason to change but was curious.

Gonna go a little unconventional, but I think a dp/traps with a dp/dark or dp/rad would be a hoot. The dark would star with fearsome and/or darkest while the trapper toe trapped.

Then go double hob, bullet rains.

A speedier set, but at the expense of survivability, would be dp/dark and dp/kin. Again, fearsome stare with tar patch and fulcrum shift plus double hob and bullet rains.

I like dp, not as much damage as fire, but flashy and fun. Some interesting things with -dam too.

I want Time Stop similar to the d&d Time Stop spell for wizards.

When playing my sonic/dark corr, the only blaster that would give me trouble 1 on 1 was psi/.

Fire does more damage of course, but the ambush style of psi damage is harder to recover from.

Not saying it is broken, but 1 on 1 it's tough to beat. For teams, sonic or fire is better.