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  1. New Dawn

    HAMI on Defiant

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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by New Dawn View Post
    but please not when X Factors on
    I wasn't there leading the tank team the second time. Clearly X Factor was on.
  2. New Dawn
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Redlynne View Post
    The Players, I'm guessing ...
    You can fool some players some of the time, but not all the players all of the time.

    Anyone is welcome to approach me ingame and show me that despite the fact I believe in having forms for "certain things" . I won't actually need them for them "certain things" making a statement such as there is no high end reason to take them as true.

    The sort of things I anticipate doing might not be the sort of things people believe they'll experience doing. Just like one of the opinions on taunt from a dev that was given years ago was "it adds flexibility" when so many saw no reason to take taunt, so do the forms.
  3. New Dawn
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn View Post
    The second thread will include the more "realistic" ideas that come out of the consolidated suggestion thread, or at the very least the changes that we think are more reflective of what the Tanker community wants the Devs to really look at.
    Who gets to decide what's realistic and what's reflective?

    Tanker community is going to be made up of people who will always want more damage, even if its wanting their secondary to potentially farm as well as /SS or /Fire.

    Throw everything summarised into one thread and trust in a Dev just to skip/skim "the never in a million years (unrealistic) parts" and then no one will feel excluded because their ideas have been excluded into the unrealistic thread.
  4. New Dawn
    Rage on Footstomp is a constant 80% damage buff typically over 120s in 130s.

    Build Up is a constant 80% damage buff typically over 10s in 31.32s.

    A damage buff is applied to Superstrength more often than is applied to Energy Melee.

    As far as I recall how single target attacks go the amount of typical attack chaining, damage, to the end bar of EM compared to SS was fine before the change to EM, EM had great DPA, StunPA making it awesome in PvP. They lowered them.

    Over the peaks and troughs the damage buffs (rage and build up) give the powers an amount of potential DPEPS, there is an amount with Footstomp to the endurance bar (before 0 End) which was greater than the amount of potential DPEPS of Whirling Hands, because they're Max 10 PbAoEs, they're damage is multiplied over 10 targets showing an even wider gap in potential.

    At 50 I would expect SS to farm quicker than EM.

    I ain't up for subjective thought on this so I am currently breaking the sets down in excel.
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    Straight after the change I thought something could be done to whirling hands, the Devs said nothing needed to be done, over time more and more players felt something needed to be done but its still quiet.

    If you attempt matching the powersets of Superstrength with Energy Melee on Mids then you might agree that there doesn't look to be alot of inbalance.

    But if you have Perma Rage on the SS whilst Build Up up and downness causes peaks and trowels in EM damage output you might see a difference.

    Overtime the DPS of Footstomp might be way better than the DPS of Whirling Hands due to Rage. I thought the STs had to change how they did, but after doing so the DPS of Whirling Hands needed to improve. The improvement never happened afaik and all this, is iirc.
  6. New Dawn
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rangle M. Down View Post
    In the end, all that matters is you're happy with the choices and the way your character plays.
    This is it, like Rangles sig, suggestions are but darts thrown at the dartboard with the hope something sticks. It's all part of one of his plots.
  7. New Dawn
    I did the slots ya cld expect to fill for a decent build. Works better with enhancements in them rather than me imagining but I have an Ice/Ice so I shouldn't be too bad.

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  8. New Dawn
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Smiling_Joe View Post
    Out of curiosity, what are your reasons (and if you've specified before now I missed it and apologize) for taking the forms in the high end game?

    Human form already competes with Nova dps-wise (giving Nova a slight edge) but I don't have nearly the heartburn with nova as I do with what perma-light form does to white dwarf.

    For white dwarf, the only reason I can see is the auto-hit taunt and gauntlet in the attacks. The problem with that reasoning, IMHO, is that in the high end game there is little reason for you to tank. You're either solo or on a team with high end builds that are nigh unkillable and don't need anyone to tank. And if you're in an i-Trial you've got an actual tanker or a brute. Sometimes two or three.

    So the one thing they gave white dwarf over human form is the one thing that's invalidated by the time perma light form is achieved.

    I respect your opinion, so I'm curious.
    We don't all look at going about the high end game the same way. We look at approaching problems differently. Some people are out and out DPS and I am out and about flexibility. Some people look at what normally happens and some people take into account "what ifs?". A human form only PB is not equipped for some scenarios. You can build based on experience and I can build based on anticipation. On an all Kheld STF, going up against a buffed Recluse there is no need for someone in Dwarf form. You are right, there is no need there for a Tanker, a bunch of human only formers would be playing with fire whereas a group of Novas would just ace it instantly with a coffee in one hand. So many ways to deal with so many problems I prefer variety. That's what I do, I see a potential problem waiting for me.
  9. New Dawn
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Robotech_Master View Post
    Haven't tried exemplaring lower yet.
    Positron TF. Plenty of CoT. We know that teams do not need a tank. Exemplaring won't happen often but I myself don't like to be caught short for anything, at anytime.
  10. New Dawn
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by BrandX View Post
    And then you'd have people crying sexist all over again, and saying limiting of concepts.

    Further proof, the devs cant win.
    Nope, its historical and/or mythologically correct.

    I wouldn't complain about sexism when it comes to being historically correct.

    Political correctness has no place when it comes to historical correctness.
  11. New Dawn
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Firemoth View Post
    Here's another way of looking at it, I guess. The devs say they don't want to objectify the females, or to make them into harems, etc etc....yet they have been coming out with objectifying costumes...including a harem like outfit (Genie).....to use their own statement they "can't have it both ways"
    Yeah I took one look at the womens costume for gunslinger and just thought of the old west brothels or the can can girl. I was only really happy with the hair.



    Amazon women MMs now please. They signify strength, independence and most of all, no living in a mans world.


    Just had a thought:


    If you select male at the character selection screen you should get the tribe of men that once a year had relationships with the Amazon women for pets. They raised the boys.

    If you select female then you get the Amazon women.
  12. New Dawn
    My problem with the build is that taunt comes too late. If your effects miss then somebody else gets aggro. So under tohit debuffs or versus good def you could be a waste of space for a few moments before 28. Mudpots is autohit when it comes to taunt but I just don't always visualize a Stone whizzing around.
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    No one has to have IOs. No one wants other people to decide for them that its a bad thing. People used to complain about the lack of crafting, end game content, to solve that ED came along then IOs and IO sets came along. As much as people might of complained about or left over ED the mistake was in the very beginning, so long before IOs and IO sets were concieved. ED should of existed from the start.
  14. New Dawn
    I'd wanna tank with as many different primaries/secondaries I can. If I haven't played it, it doesn't exist.


    Edit: Everytime I see Dread Shinobis avatar I end up pausing at a Japanese(?) version of my little sister. Uncanny.
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    I have a high end reason to take Nova form.

    I have a high end reason to take Dwarf.

    They're both practical.

    Any Dev worth his/her salt is going to know this. Who would I be fooling?
  16. New Dawn

    Invincible?

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    Boppaholic does that pet like to hang by your tail sharing in every aoe on you?
  17. New Dawn
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Robotech_Master View Post
    So if I were to make an alternate build with similar powers, but arranged and slotted for most effectiveness when exemplaring down to the late-teens-to-20s range, how would I go about that?

    You can arrange powers in a good order by dragging them in Mids and you can also drag slots.

    I dragged powers around and played with your build to get to this in about 2 mins:

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    If I couldn't tank low end content with what is a 50 build I'd need mental help so there is no serious need for a second build if that's what you're considering.

    Also in saying that pre granite I would be tougher due to fight pool and with granite again tougher due to fight pool.
  18. New Dawn
    Here's somethings I am expecting a No to.

    Aggro auto win. Not something I have asked for.
    Tankers doing more base or raw whatever you want to call it, DPE.
    Aggro Cap change.

    I'd be flat on my back, passed out, if any one of these changed.
  19. New Dawn
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rangle M. Down View Post
    First of all, I'm sorry YOU didn't recognize a light hearted joke. (HINT: there was a reason I did the emote at the end of my "statement".)
    Whilst this is off-topic, in different areas the emoticons mean different things because facial expressions mean different things

    When you use this it can mean that you are being a self obsessed cool, smug, git with some contempt to whom you are replying to. If you watch Lie to me, the half smile can show contempt.

    When you use this your saying something in jest.

    I avoid half smiles, in my post history they're extremely rare.
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    My prob with that would be the end cost in Fireball, 19 end points gone in a sec every 12 secs roughly. You could just Acc Char and pull a slot from there and perhaps a slot from health to better slot Fireball. If I was playing it I'd look to use Fireball once per group, try to set mob level so that in teams I have a 20s fight duration, then have 5s between mobs, needing Fireball every 25s thus making sure I can consistantly pace myself.
  21. New Dawn
    I did a doubletake on your last build Robotech. In totals I saw figures I didn't expect to see from the slotting.

    This is why perhaps sometimes people have a different idea on builds, we don't see the same figures.

    I'll leave it to see if anyone else spots anything odd and perhaps it maybe just me.

    I got fight pool on mine. Out of Granite mostly.
  22. New Dawn
    In a group some targets are harder to hit than others. This maybe sometimes just subjective but I did notice a better success rate with Blinding Feint on certain targets before going onto attack harder to hit targets.

    A dualbladers experience does change with different armour sets. Invulns being one of the safer bets with +Tohit coming from Invincible.

    My Dual Blade scrapper being Willpower, is min/maxxed with full leaderships, one of them obviously being tactics. QR does help in endurance so why not.

    On the subject though, I'd love to see it buffed. Attacks that have to hit to give +tohit have always been limited so any buff is good and seriously I don't see a reason why not. Dual Blades is good but not that good that it couldnt do with a buff.
  23. New Dawn
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn View Post
    Okay, so to sum up....*lalala*

    With each point there could be a brief reason stated. It's one thing listing what people want but it's largely sterile without why people want it.

    If it weren't for Hyperstrike sharing something similar to my views you would of missed my point which makes me wonder how many other points were missed.

    @Deut_Otiosis, I didn't read anything you had to say since my last reply to you. It would of been a complete waste of my time.

    Johnny Butane can have any viewpoint he likes, I could of earned thousands in the collective time people have spent trying to change it.
  24. New Dawn
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Smiling_Joe View Post
    You could always try uploading the excel spreadsheet to google docs and sharing the link. I'd be curious too.
    The more people that see it the more I'd have to elaborate it. I might do a more elaborate one when I have the freetime and then show it as an open doc. It'll pay me to redo it better as you might know halfway through you can go "would of been so much easier if I did this and that" and then not have to bodge a quick fix making things somewhere in the ballpark.
  25. New Dawn
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by _Pine_ View Post
    Tankers should have Mag 5 or 6 taunt, to be able to out aggro even Phantom Army (which has Mag 5 Taunt).

    I can keep an AV from being interested in a Ill/Storm who is using everything at his disposal from 114ft. Brutes gauntleting+aura and taunting (perhaps) are another matter in melee.