Oathbound

Not all groups have EBs or AVs associated with them. Even many of those that do, the EBs are specific one-off characters, not just relatively strong faceless minions.

It's not a case of just having bosses spawn with a higher rank either, as I believe there actually needs to be a unique entity created for the game to call up. In order to add this as a difficulty option they would have to go in and make new "generic" Elite Bosses for most (almost all) groups.

That's not to say I'm against it (more power to ya), just that it'd probably be a sizable a time-sink to implement, so not all that likely to happen.

The point people are trying to make is that if it's going to be a bonus on an Archetype specific set, it should actually WORK for ALL possible combinations of that archetype.

It doesn't matter if most Defenders have a heal. It only matters that not all of them do.

I don't think chains (as currently implemented) would work with AoE powers, unless each mob only had a Chance to chain.

As is, when a mob gets hit by a chaining power they get an effect that says they can't get hit by that power again for X Seconds. If you use an AoE that just means every mob gets that effect, which means there's no legal targets for the power to chain too (except any mobs you might have missed).

You can't really have the chain without the "can't get hit again" effect though, cause that just means the chains would be able to bounce back and forth between the same few mobs over and over again. Making an AoE chain used against fewer mobs deal crazy damage to them (because each would get hit with the chain multiple times).


I could see having a chance to chain on Charged Bolt and Lightning Bolt though. Increase the set's AoE potential to make up for it's lower single target damage.

Well, we already have a falling Leaves aura. (I believe it's from the Origins pack.)

I do agree that it seems more Springy.... but eh, whatever.

Honestly, allowing Power Customization at all kinda threw that out the window.

Simply being able to alter the colors opens each set up to a myriad of off-theme concepts, but certain sets are denied a good portion of that customizability, based on theme.

I made a Spines/Fire scrapper using Thorns and colored the fire using Dark Greens/yellows/reds. So now it's no longer fire... it's pollen, spores and other plant based materials.

And it seems like that's completely Okay with the Devs.

But then certain other sets, it's not Okay to do the same thing with. It's kind of nonsensical to say it's alright being able to go off-theme with one set (Via customization), but not another.

Eh. The cast time is only 2.17seconds which isn't all that bad (It's certainly no Shout).

I don't think you're ever going to see it at the fairly ridiculous 1-1.07 seconds of TkB, Blaze and BiB.

Just bump it up to 2.12scale damage to match Cosmic Burst/Power Burst/Shout (or even the 1.96 of TkB) and call it good.

Electric Control/Poison maybe.

The PBAoE nature of Electric works well with VG, and Poison Trap's end drain (however you may view it's effectiveness) compliments Electric's.

Fire/Poison could also work well on Controllers, but it'd be hell on the blue bar.

For Blast sets, Fire, Rad and Electric don't mind being in Point Blank range. I would personally avoid the weapon sets, because Poison's debuffs are pretty clicky and I hate redraw. (The redraw bit means I largely avoid weapon sets entirely, though.)



My poison character is actually Dark/Poison, even though dark's cones are particularly bad with PBAoE effects (Due to being long and very narrow, and quick recharging too) but they work well with Neurotoxic Breath before then. Plus Dark Blast gets a heal to make up for Poison's lack of significant mitigation despite forcing you into melee range at the upper levels.

Honestly Conserve power is crap for an Endurance management tool just due to it's god awful Uptime: Downtime ratio.

I'd like it a hell of a lot better if it were only HALF as much end discount with half the damned recharge, at least then you could perma it and have constant, if only moderate, benefit instead of not using any end half the time and just being ***** out the other half.

I would take Physical Perfection over CP in a heartbeat.

I generally slot it the same way you have it now, honestly. It gets you all the enhancement you need, and a 5% recharge bonus.

I suppose you could lose the accuracy, Quicksand is a 45% (autohit) defense debuff, which will end up capping your ToHit against the vast majority of mobs anyhow, but I don't like being dependent on using specific powers in a specific order for them to be useful.

No. There's no real way to survive it beyond outhealing the DoT.

The end cost on this is really high, and where you mention it's more of a situational toggle, the rather long recharge on it means that either people will run it all the time (and complain about it's cost) or none of the time because it's a hassle to micromanage it. This is exacerbated by the fact that they don't need this for a taunt toggle, since Hellfire Halo fills that role for MUCH less end.

Currently the combined end cost of all the toggles from the Primary and Secondary is 2.86end/second. Even Dark Armor, the most end intensive armor set is only 2.01end/sec, and is already much lamented as an End hog (that's including Cloak of Fear, which almost no one takes/uses).

Now, I realize that the inherent provides a recovery boost, but even assuming Maxed out Essence and fully slotted Stamina you have total recovery of about 3.47end/sec. You use over 80% of your recovery at maximum Essence just by running your toggles. Even assuming 2SOs worth of End Redux in the damage toggles that chews up nearly 60% of your end recovery, without using any other powers at all.

I's say Drop the end cost to 1.04, or even 0.78 end/second, to match the powers that it's based on. (Orbiting Death and Mudpots are 0.78/sec, Hotfeet is 1.04.)

If Malignant Haze were dropped to 0.78/sec then the total would be 2.08end/sec (unslotted). If you dropped it to 1.04, then I would also suggest dropping the resist toggles to 0.21end/sec (Which is used by most of the Dark, Shield and Willpower toggles). Total end in this situation would be 2.19end/sec (unslotted).


The VEAT conditioning is something like 20% Regen and 5% Recovery bonus, half of that is honestly, pretty useless, particularly the Recovery component. Especially compared to what's available in the other Mantles. I know VEAT inherents don't really give much to work with, but something more appealing needs to be added. (Edit: perhaps a small amount of Defense (2.5%?), given that all of the VEAT Branches are Partially/Mostly/almost Entirely defense dependent.)

This should only be Mag3, about the only mag4 hard controls left in the game are Non-Dominator Seismic Smash and Fortunata Scramble Thoughts, both on much longer recharges. Additionally the secondary effects of most holds (when they have any) generally lasts for 12-15seconds.

*******

Beyond that, You've got a typo in the numbers for Ethereal Ward Circle. You have it listed as buffing for 15%resist, when it should be 20%. (The 0.75modifier was for Melee Resist, where EWC should be using the Ranged Resist mod of 1.0.)

Joss Whedon Online, where the GMs will occasionally delete your favorite characters, for the shock value.

Thing with pseudo-pets is that in order for them to get Containment damage, the power has to summon an alternate version for Controllers. (Same with Corruptors and Scourge.)

Controllers Ice Storm gets half Containment (They get twice as many ticks of the Cold Damage portion, but not the Lethal Damage part.)

UGH. Just the existence of the idea, even as a joke, in someone's mind has made the world a worse place to live.

Eh, I can kinda see the idea behind those. If the control doesn't take effect (Say it's only mag2 and you're facing Lts) or if someone breaks the sleep, then you still get some mitigation out of it.

That's not to say they're worth a hill of beans, but I can understand them.

Honestly, not even then. I used to have it slotted in my WP/Ice tank's Frozen Aura, and it's totally worthless. Not worth the inf spent crafting it IMO, and I fire that thing off a heck of a lot more often than most Controllers/Doms will get to use their AoE sleeps.


This. You can slot the thing in Static Field all you want, it just won't really do any good.

Yeah, it's one of those weird instances where the term for it, and it's function can be sort of confusing.

+Recharge is a recharge bonus (The good kind), which reduces the recharge of your powers, which would make you think -Recharge (Subtracted from).

Where -Recharge is a recharge slow (The bad kind), which increases the recharge of the power, which you would think would be +recharge (Added to).

This is because + and - effects aren't added to or subtracted from the actual Recharge value of the power, but rather increase or decrease the Recharge Bonus modifier, which the power's recharge is then divided by.

Powers have a base recharge modifier of 100%(or 1.0), using a power with a 60second recharge as an example, that means 60seconds/1.0=60seconds. Where if you had a +50% Recharge Buff that'd make it 1.0+0.5=1.5, 60/1.5=40seconds for that power to be ready again.

-Recharge works similarly, but is subtracted from your 100% base before dividing the power's recharge. That same 60second power with a -50% Recharge Debuff works out to: 1.0-0.5=0.5, 60seconds/0.5=120seconds, so your power would take twice as long to recharge.

Dominators and Controllers are the only archetypes left that don't already have dark, so they're the only ones left for it to be proliferated to. How would that be "Every other non-melee set?" And obviously enough people disagree with the idea that Dark for Doms/Trollers would be "boring" particularly if they do make new powers for them (which they really may as well, since Dark Control would be shared with controllers, who would also likely get Dark Miasma, and if they just stole a bunch of the controlish powers from DM for Dark Control they'd have to make new powers to fill in DM anyhow).

New powers also explains why they didn't just slap together Dark Control or Dark Assault for the last proliferation, "just to give doms something." Because they didn't have art team time for animations.