Oathbound

This rationale doesn't really work so well. There are many, many melee sets that share the same secondary effects. Hell, most of them do. The only ones that actually have unique secondaries are Fire (DoT), Ice (Slow), Dark (-tohit), Energy (Disorient) Electric (-End and sleep), and Spines (DoT, Slow and Immobilize).

Battle Axe, Dual Blades, Martial Arts, Stone Melee, Street Justice, Super Strength, War Mace, Titan Weapons, Staff Fighting, Broadsword, Katana, Ninja Blade, Kinetic and Claws are all just mixes of Knockback/up/down, Disorients, Defense debuffs etc.

Kinetic and Claws are somewhat special cases, Claws' "secondary effect" is an end/recharge discount, but it's "debuff" type effects aren't unique at all. Kinetics has a unique effect, but only while Power Siphon is active, otherwise it just uses the typical generic effects.

I don't see why Ranged sets all have to have unique debuffs associated with them, when most melee sets don't.

Interestingly enough, there are lots of male Awakened, which are Seer flunkies... so either -all- men flunk out of the Seers.... or something unfortunate happens to them during the process....

A thousand times this.

In altering their stance on future costume set creation to what it is now, all they've done is trade one type of inequality (inequality in how themes are represented across the genders) for another type of inequality (being numerical inequality).

Indeed.... they said he wanted to make her his Princess not his Queen.

That implies a more platonic or familial relationship, not a romantic one.

One of his lines during the LGTF is about protecting her from "boys" which always struck me as very fatherly. (Who hasn't had/been faced with the overbearing father who never thinks you're good enough for his daughter?)

UGH.... So.... tempted.....

Sadly while I have the money for it NOW (YAY taxes!), I have no idea if I'd actually still have the money to make the trip by time April 28th got here... and I only live an hour or two away too.

Dark Watcher did the rezzing, not Lady Grey. (Though she IS a dark/dark defender, so she should be able to do it herself anyhow.)

Couldn't it have been done as a skirt/kilt option instead of a belt? Is there some reason it wouldn't have worked that way?

Fade is an 18.75% pbaoe defense buff that lasts for 15seconds on a 3minute recharge timer. It also has some Defense debuff Resistance.

Soul Absorption is a pbaoe regen/recovery buff that grants 30% Regen and 15% Recovery per defeated mob in a 20 foot radius. The buff lasts 30seconds and it has a 2minute recharge.


The incredibly poor uptime of Fade makes it virtually useless for anything but an Alpha absorber, but even as that it's long recharge means it's not likely to be available more often than every second or third group. If you don't need it 1/2 or more of the time, then you flat out don't need it, IMO.

The idea behind the power was a "Mini MoG" for your team, but it fails as that. Either it needs to have an equivalent amount of Resist added to it, to make it really count as an emergency use "oh sh**" power, or it's recharge needs cut down to something more palatable (say 2 minutes, that way on SO it's up for 15s once a minute) so that it can be up every spawn.



Soul Absorption either needs the buff to be frontloaded (Big buff for the first body, stacking smaller buffs for additional), or needs the recharge cut down a good deal.

It's modeled after Warshade's Stygian Circle, but what makes Stygian Circle the great power it is are it's very fast recharge, and it's large value heal/end return. That way even if there aren't more than a couple bodies to "feed" on it still provides a very tangible effect.

Soul Absorption keeps the main problem with Stygian Circle (bodies fade/scattered/being unable to really control where they die) and adds to that the need to "Herd" your teammates in for the buff in a VERY limited time.

Frontloading the buff values would allow you to more easily use the buff whenever it was needed/available without worrying about "wasting" it with only 1 or 2 bodies in the radius.

Alternately, having it target living enemies instead (same way Dark Regen works) would let you use the power at any point during combat, instead of as an "After Combat" recovery tool.

I believe that the Dark immobilizes do have -KB, so Gravity and Electric are still the only ones without it.




As for myself, I'll probably use Dark/ for a Dominator and try to level a Gravity Controller again.

I won't be touching /Darkness Affinity. Fade and Soul Absorption are still mediocre powers at best and there's been absolutely no indication that they're getting improved in any way shape or form.

This right here is what I was afraid of, and specifically arguing AGAINST in those damned "Gender Equality" threads.

As I feared "Gender Equality" did in fact just turn out to mean "Everything for females."

Agreed.

God I loved that show, then they had to go and cancel it.

I loveded you, piggy. I loveded you.

Likely the opposite. Starts out high mag then slowly loses power, like the Destiny Incarnate buffs.

Makes you wonder why they even bother doing it.

Seriously what's the point in having any kind of Question and Answer session if they never give any REAL ANSWERS.

Just don't even bother.

Agreed on Mind, but honestly I think TJ is still a good power for Gravity.

Where Mind has a cone power that you *have* to use from range to maximize it's usefulness, Gravity can be played just as well from melee as it can from Range and the -ToHit/-Dmg can help a lot (at least at low level) when you've got jack, besides Crushing Field, for AoE control. (The large radius means you can still stay out of range of a mobs melee attacks, and reduce the effectiveness of their ranged attacks they'd be hitting you with anyhow.)

You could drop it later on though, once your control has matured a bit.

Ah yeah, didn't think about the purple patch... so flooring the recharge of a level 54 AV (as a level 50 PC) would actually take closer to.... 1200% -Recharge? Likewise hitting the -Runspeed cap vs a 54AV would take nearly 1450%.

Man that's a lot.

I'd say that depends more on where your control set plays from, than just being a Controller.

TJ can be a valuable tool for PBAoE based Controllers (Fire/Ice/Electric), but it's not very useful for characters that choose to play at range (Earth/Gravity/Mind/Plant), and can be mostly useless for those that basically have to play at range (Dark, due to it's mostly Cone based nature... which is a shame since the -ToHit would work incredibly well with Darkness Control).

I'd personally consider Temporal Selection the most skippable. I mean I *have* it on all my Time Manipulation characters, but with all my other tools I often forget it's even there.

Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

The goal of new currencies is to prevent people from just plopping down stored currency of the old type for the new stuff as soon as it comes out, then being bored/unhappy with the system again. (Plus the devs don't like to feel like their own work is being trivialized.)

The only other option I can think of to accomplish the same thing (not trivializing getting the new stuff) is for the new stuff to have an utterly ridiculous cost to it, which would in turn make those stockpiling players feel specifically slighted. This would likely also necessitate dramatically increased rewards for higher end trials to let non-hoarders actually get the new stuff. Which in turn would likely require additional gating (Must be +3 to join, etc) for the new trials, so as not to trivialize earning the lower incarnate levels. Which would then also split the trial raiding population into multiple groups, making it that much harder to form and run any trial of a particular type.

So, yeah.

You want some real brainmelters.... take a gander.

I can't help but laugh at how ridiculous some of them sound.

My favorites are

Millinillion and Quinquagintacentillion