Oathbound

Green Machines are actually pretty crazy. (I say this as an Earth/Emp green machiner.)

Stacked Fortitude, Perma AB, essentially Perma RAs, then of course everyone could take assault since with AB/RA you're never going to have any endurance issues, combine that with APP attacks and the fact that everyone sets up containment for everyone else and it can be surprisingly brutal.

Yes the lower levels are going to be slow(and safe), but the upper levels should be a cakewalk.

Edit: Perma-AB, AM is in the wrong powerset.

Yeah, it seems to vary from place to place.

I tend to just not grab glowies in other people's missions (or leave it up to the team leader in TFs), but I will call it out if I find one and no one else seems to have noticed it. If someone says "Grab it" then I will, otherwise I'll wait or someone else to get it.

On my own missions, I tend not to care if other people grab the glowies. Knock yourself out.

If someone seems to be under a false impression about whether you should use glowies (like in TV trial) I'll do my best to dispel that nonsense.

I doubt that. Shades have Shadow Punch as their attack. Punching wolves doesn't seem like a good fit. Also, the pic only shows 1 of them, and yes, that doesn't mean there's -only- one, I would think that if they were displaying the [Haunt] power they'd make a point of showing two pets.

Also, I'm pretty sure that Shades have fly (I'm not on beta atm so I can't double check) and again, Punching Wolves-Flying Wolves.

It's a combat pet. In fact is has a surprisingly nice assortment of powers, given that it's the third pet for the set.

Claw Rake - Single melee (3s)
Vicious Bite - Single melee (7s)
Umbra Swipe - Cone melee (8s)
Shadowy Binds - Single immobilize (4s)
Terrifying Roar - Cone damage/fear (10s)

Terrifying Roar is Mag3 and lasts 8.94s at level 50.

Umbra Beast looks like it will indeed be... a beast.

Agreed on Death Shroud.

It'd be alright if it were a normal PBAoE, because it's not that difficult to jump in/out of range for Cone/PBAoE once in a while, but with the PBAoE being a toggle, and with Night Fall having such a fast recharge for an AoE and having such a long, narrow cone, you're going to lose damage from the toggle just to use your other AoE.

Mudpots works better in Earth, since both of it's AoEs are spherical and can be used point blank, and people STILL skip that. Few people are going to bother with Death Shroud.

QFT

I've never been much a fan of the way MMs play, but for animal summoning... I'll make it work.

Dark blast is Dark's starter blast, and is identical in damage/end cost/recharge to Charged Bolts.

Also, i22 beta is UP. Power list or the set is available. I'm still patching though, so I can't see it yet.

From what I see in the feedback threads it's looking somewhat disappointingly as I predicted...

Moonbeam: IN
Death Shroud: IN
Nightfall: IN (Yay or horribly conflicting PBAoE aura vs extremely narrow ranged cones! )

I'll put up more specifics in a bit.

EDIT: Power list from Beta:

Dark Blast
Smite
Gloom
Nightfall
Gather Shadows
Moonbeam
Life Drain
Death Shroud
Midnight Grasp


Honestly.... I HATE, hate, hate, hate, HATE waiting until level 26/35 for Life Drain on my Corruptors and Defenders, any those both have -other- means of self healing. Having Life Drain stuck in Dark Assault's tier7 slot (level 28) is quite frankly, Balls. I'd much rather they swap it with Moonbeam. (Or get rid of Moonbeam all together.)

Anywho, that's what the feedback thread is for.

I suppose other than the arm thrusting motion, it's not that obvious. The idea of it seems, to me, to be more: Form wormhole behind mobs>Push them through it.

I just flat out disagree with Arbiter Hawk. I think KnockDown would still keep the overall feel, and make the power easier to use/less annoying to teammates.

Good God I hope so.



Edit:
I don't think this would actually work, apparently the workaround that makes this power functional is that the toggle basically targets a pseudo-pet, because it's anchor needs to be in the same phase as you.

If you phased after activating the toggle, you'd no longer be in the same phase as your anchor, and the toggle would drop because it lacks a valid target.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..... .

Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? You are! Yeah you are! Yeah you are! Who wants to eat the bad guys? You wanna go eat em? You wanna? Yeah? Yeah?

GO GID EM!

Fixed.

Yes/No/Maybe/Sorta-Kinda.

Impact will work on a mob even if the hold doesn't take effect (Say because of PTOD), though it won't deal as much extra damage as Containment would have and is -only- applied by Grav's holds, not any other control type (because it's only the holds in Gravity that give -KB).

It might be nice if they went through and added the Impact flag to the powers in other powersets (Such as the immobilizes in Fire/ice/et all), since they prevent KB just as much as Gravity's hold.

Other Controllers/Doms of any type can enable another person's Containment, it'd be nice if other Controllers/Doms could also enable your Impact with the powers of theirs that also disable your KB.

I feel more or less the same way, though honestly I'd be happy if there was just a male version of the Female hat and bracers. I mean the hat doesn't even really look particularly feminine, and I much prefer it's relative simplicity to the gaudiness of the Male's helmet.

Really, that's all it'd take. The rest looks to be a version of the Bolero, a Tops with Skin option, and a Bottoms with Skin option, which men get access to none of, so really All I'd ask was or access to the two female pieces that men *could* actually wear (within the CC's categorization) to balance out that females get *Everything* that males get.

See, Knockdown is still a knock effect though. It's just knockback, for a very, very short distance.

If anything I think knockUP would be worse than KD for the feel of the power. The direction of force is horizontal, having the knock effect be vertical would just look weird.

Yes, I know, but it's not the same thing as a ground targeted (Location) effect (pseudo-pet), which it seems like some people are assuming it is.

It's the word "location" that's questionable here, Location (to me at least) implies ground targeted, which there's no indication new DS is. It's just an enemy targeted AoE, same as it already is. It's just a toggle now instead of a click.

Where does it say anything about it being a LOCATION AoE? He said it was going to be a Target AoE toggle.

Arbiter Hawk said:
There's no indication that the radius is around a location, instead of just around your Target.

I don't think this would actually work. The Knockback from Wormhole hits when the power first lands, it's just delayed. The phase effect wouldn't be applied to them until afterwards, so the KB effect would already be on them, even if it doesn't take effect until after the phase does.

Unless I'm mistaken, that just means they'd get KB'd after they phased.

Edit: It's the same reason why you can still be mezzed by an attack after activating a phase shift power. All it takes is for that power to "hit" you with a delayed effect before you activate the phase.

Looking at City of Data, (Controller) Detention field is mag7.45, Dimension Shift is mag3. So it's not looking like DS will be very effective against AVs.

All in all I'm quite happy that additional changes are being made to Gravity, but I've got to take exception with the bolded part.

The knockback is absolutely irrelevant to the synergy between Wormhole and Dimension Shift, and in fact can be anti-synergistic.

The teleport aspect of wormhole alone allows you to drop groups of mobs into your active dimension shift, no KB at all required. The knock effect actually makes it MORE difficult to ensure that mobs end up inside of Dimension Shift, because it makes it harder to tell exactly where they're going to end up.

Honestly, I've said it many times before, I wholeheartedly believe that knockDOWN would still be enough to maintain the "feel" of Wormhole, without hampering it's use as the PRIMARY control power for the set.