New Dawn

I liked to compare different tanker types in DA as in one BP group you can have upto 3 lieuts, all shamans but different ones ie Avalanche, Death and Storm. At 21, on DOs I liked to aim to solo entire groups using "build only" and see how high in +lvls I can go with them. It was after ED and prior to healing flames being buffed in recharge so it used to be harder but anyway..its a good check on your playstyle and build as between those 3 Lieuts alone you would be -spd, -rechg'd, -def'd (like ya care ), kb'd, immob'd, -acc'd (which if you do +enough levels could make you whiff air outside of the build up period). You can be affected by -fly, have pets spawn and have a slight end drain on you (with which it doesn't help how many attack chains to the end bar you put out).

Firetanks being a Res set, find special effects somewhat hard to dodge and so what DA offers is the chance to see how you and your build fairs against them relying on as little as possible. Once you get SOs its easier and like I say with healing flames of greater recharge now its easier, the -rechg doesn't hold it off so long but still you can see how far up in levels above you that you can solo whole groups and hone the playstyle.

But anyway as a Firetank doing +lvls insp less its still a nice test. The -end and -spd can mean you have to cut fight duration to self by as much as possible before you try to wipe out a group. I did taunt pulls to an outside corner to tighten up before they can hit me or if they were tight enough just jumped in. It's no good taking on loads at a time and then running out of end before defeating them, so the idea would be to herd fast with least number of effects on you then do as much AoE as possible to defeat them as fast as possible before all the secondary effects take their toll/time.

And with the blame game, no changes are likely to be made, and I would be grateful as its not "my needs" that I think off.

The Devs do have people who don't farm and who don't PL, who basically do not repeat content so that it is easy from being highly predictable and fast. They have not failed that. These are the people with the type of gaming spirit that all MMO creators compete for custom. No game would get far on doing the same thing over and over. It is by being without a wide variety of content to test characters differently that developers would show little sign of imagination, talent and or hardwork.

AE is meant to encourage peoples creativity but peoples abilities to challenge eachother and themselves. If you wade through each and every arc you should have a lifetimes worth of unpredictable content. People who cut their teeth on unpredictable content will always be the better gamers. If you choose to farm the same things all the time for an easy life then that is the character in you.

AE is a great idea but it just needs anything that can be exploited taken out and as much as people may not like it, asap, hopefully in a way that can auto adjusts peoples missions rather than break them.

I seen what looked like the Brute with 4 sonic and 4 bubble dispersion and G knows how much +Dam buffs on him running around followed by friendly NPCs who were obviously the buffers cleaning up lots totally and absolutely unchallenged, he probably had an SO build.

A DA is capable of doing more, much more, depends on what AVs we are talking about but the real trick in teams is keeping them all and that makes dealing with so many pointless to me.

Well not quite.

This. I play more than tanks.

Its clear that some of the sort of people who'd like these changes sit on farm maps and powerlevel theirs and other peoples toons as a form of easy mode. Such people should ALWAYS have their requests denied.

Have to say that, that has been my best team experience but I like anything desperate looking ie someones worst idea.

Many a leader has made a team wait for what could easily of been the duration of the TF for a much needed whatever. ITF = 30 mins but the team building for it took = 1 hour. XD

Yeah I have a bee in my bonnet about that as well.

Tbh there is even more survivability on offer than either people need to know or will ever know. It varies. Although some team make ups should be more efficient than others I wouldn't for potential go about writing every desperate looking team make up off.

In that build I have seen the +6.25% rechg bonus about 7 times on that build which won't work. On 2 attacks you may as well either franken slot them bonuses out and aim to get extra slots. Read what small bonuses some slots give you and ask is it worth that slot?

I do Ar/Dev and my team and solo build are pretty much the same.
Only thing that matters to me are +rechg bonuses and so much, well enough comes from haste. You can rely on AR and the right gadgets alone and in doing so offer controls, debuffs, cut fight durations, let gun drone take an alphas of mezzes, anything that can help save other people not just yourself. Between AR/Dev/Mun I have a blaster/controller/defender hybrid and the drone is an alpha taker.

If I as any type of tanker couldn't find both a defender and controller on a STF team an Ar/Dev could fill both roles. We'd have to make do. That's how the game works, another AT can fill the role, just not as well. I am so v confident with tanks.

Crumbs that is a huge text.

EU side, I barely know anyone who cares about def debuffs. Its been pretty much ruled out due to how we generally make our builds. Also if he has aggro cap, any extra won't be taunted but will hopefully be slept. As the enemies are defeated then the ones effected by the power should remember him.

Also for the OP, I would if I were you replace Miracles with Doctors Wounds as Earths Embrace has a res component and with that I don't think the +heal will work. You could if like me put them in the enh tray and use them on another toon, I dunno.

Sleep potential ambushers on a steam roll maybe.

Hasten works out to be something in the region of 0.08 eps otoh. I can't be bothered to work it out again and it differs in a minor way for those with +rechg on top.

Your attack chain is end heavy from being hasted the higher dam attacks are more end costly and rechg quick. Toggles like Manuevers, Foc Acc, Assault affect end rec in a big way.

But ya prolly know.

In playing with it 4 years ago, having to line up the flight path to score a hit was how I remembered it, however it could of been missing "alot" and hitting at the times when I did line it up. Back then there was not a lot of info or as a new gamer I was definitely one of them people who would not test things properly. 20ft Radius Aura at level 4 makes for a "No wonder it got known as Orbiting Debt". Telling me that its not flight path bound has altered my perception of it.

Using the power graphs I think for me to get value for money out of OD mobs would have to survive for 7.5 secs of its use and be a minimum of 2 targets. That doesn't sound bad.

So depending on who I team with that power does have some use.

To everyone. Thanks for all replies so far, I think so far of all uses its possibly the hitting targets you can't see is one thing but that's something other powers can do too no?

Inky aspect detects one then you AoE the found target.

(Am used to sets with +per)

As an Elec Brute, waiting till lvl 28 to come into your own is nothing

AE is broke and farming is boring. I'll wait till we can adjust the team size if I fancy something extraordinary.