Oathbound

I did say "established player base" right?

New players aren't really going to care why something is locked, just that it is locked. They're not the ones constantly asking "why are trollers locked and doms not?"

Locking an uneven number of Red/Blue archetypes doesn't really matter to new/free players, but it would set off those veteran players with the constant "Devs hate....." BS.

That's not how people think though.

It doesn't matter that they're all available on both sides NOW. Masterminds will always be a Villain Archetype, and Controllers will always be a Hero Archetype as the established player base at large sees it.

There are games that have a mechanic very similar to this for some of their DPS/Healer hybrids. You had 2 attributes that you built which would provide a bonus to your spells. Using an attack would build the attribute that buffed your healing powers, using heals would build the attribute that buffed your attacks.

They also have classes which use a second resource pool that you built by attacking, which then could be used to cast some of the more powerful support powers.

By doing it this way you end up where in order to make the most out of the class you had to actively utilize both halves of your character.

Honestly I don't think this would work well at all. No mez protection (outside of specific sets), marginal self defense (again outside of specific sets), minimal hipoints, and exposure to NPS'c generally higher damage melee attacks (which themselves often carry a chance for mez), and AoEs (damage and mez) targetted on your other, much more survivable, melee archetypes.

Seems like a recipe for disaster to me.



Do some combinations/players make Defenders/Corruptors work in Melee Range? Without a doubt. Some sets are arguably safer there (Time, I'm looking at you). Is it remotely possible for all sets to do so? No. Not even close.

A Melee/Support Archetype would need to be designed for it. Not just tossed, square peg into a round hole.

Just note that currently DEFENDER Chrono Shift is bugged on live, and has a much longer recharge than it's supposed to. (It cannot currently be made permanent.)

This is fixed on the Beta server, and the fix should go live with i21.5/Media Blitz (or whatever they're calling it).

For the most part Psi Blast's damage is comparable to non-fire based blast sets.

There are some discrepancies; Mental Blast takes longer to animate than other tier1s, Will Domination has a 2-4second longer recharge than typical Tier3s. Psionic Tornado is a fairly long DoT with again a 4second longer than standard recharge. Lack of Aim.

Psi has a good assortment of soft controls though, plus a fourth single target blast.

Really I think the only issue a Psi/ Corruptor is likely to come across are the Mechanical/Zombie mobs that are insanely Psi resistant, but your debuffs should help with those.

The 360seconds is the actual time the power takes to recharge.

The 90seconds is for Recharge Bonus the power provides. (Where the Heal over Time and +Recovery are the part that only lasts 30seconds.)


It can be made permanent with 300% recharge bonus (95%from recharge enhancements +50%from the power itself +70%from Hasten +85%from IO Set bonuses).

(EDITED: to fix that Chronoshift gives 50% recharge bonus, not 30%. It's Temporal Selection that gives your target a 30% buff, I always get those backwards since normally the single target buff is stronger than the AoE.)

Inherent Health FTW! (That's where I put my Miracles and Numinas already, why not 1 more?.)

This isn't true. Blaster's Psychic Blast has Telekinetic Blast as an equivalent to the powers you listed.

TkB deals scale 1.96 damage with a 10second recharge. While it is the lowest damage tier3 blast, the standard is 2.12scale, which is a difference of 0.16scale, or a whopping 10 damage at level 50.

It also animates considerably faster than any of the 2.12scale blasts, and is available at level 2.

Not a suspicion, really. Pretty much confirmed by this post here:

*emphasis mine*

Sounds like a bug.

Possible work around: Click the button to link all costume piece colors and pick the primary/secondary colors you want for your shoulders. Then deselect that and fix the color for your other parts if you need too.

And put in a bug report.

Is it hot in here.... cause, *whew* I think I need some air...

This was often proposed back when people wanted a Heroside equivalent to masterminds. Idea being that instead of "sending your minions in to die" like a "villain would," YOU hold the agro and take the damage while your pets assist you.

Now that you can actually have a Hero MM, I think it's less likely (particularly since we know summoning sets are far more work than any conventional set type).

Physical Perfection does take End Mod sets though. It being an Auto power nor not has nothing to do with it.

PP modifies Endurance recovery, End Mod sets buff end recovery, thus it takes the set.

CP is an Endurance Reduction buff, End Mod sets do not buff end reduction, thus it doesn't take the set. Not to mention CP's End Reduction ignores enhancements and buffs anyhow, so even if End Mod sets DID modify end discounts, and CP Could slot them, it wouldn't do any good.

Exactly the line I was thinking.

Other power animations that could fit:

Touch of Fear
Crush
Fossilize
Siphon Life
Scorch

How is it a terrible power? It deals 40% more damage than Fireball with the same recharge and has higher than normal accuracy.

Basically the only downside to the power is that it's a pretty narrow cone. That doesn't make it "relatively terrible."





(That said, I did skip it on my Time/Fire defender, both because I don't like "breath" powers aesthetically, and because cones conflict with the PBAOE nature of Time's Juncture.)

I see it the other way. It's not a monetary way to get around gameplay. It's a Gameplay option to attain something that you would otherwise have to pay for.

But Crystal and Brimstone armors are ugly.

Radiation is -Defense, same as Lethal.

Poison/Acid could work with any number of secondary effects. For that reason I think you'd have to specify which it was. Is it a neurotoxin? Is it a caustic chemical?

Acid tends to work from the outside in, apply it to something and it corrodes. -Def and/or -Resist could work (thematically dissolving your opponent's armor/protective gear). -Damage could also work here since burning large areas of a person's skin is debilitatingly painful.

Poison though typically weakens from the inside out. -Regen/Recovery and -Damage could both work for it.




The problem with a Toxic based damage set is that there's no Toxic Defense. Simply doesn't exist. So either all the attacks have to have split damage (Like how Sonic Blast deals 1/2 smashing and 1/2 energy) or they have to be typed with a more mundane damage type, even if they don't actually deal any damage of that type just so that they have a typed defense to check against.

You could do split damage with Acid, just have it do a small amount of Fire damage so that it checks Fire Defense(decent enough logic being that Acid burns, though chemical burns don't require heat, so don't think too hard about it).

Dark Extraction is the only (non-Mastermind) pet power left in the game that still allows multiple summons, cause of the defeated enemy requirement. If PBs got a pet without that requirement I'd be dollars to donuts it'd be a single summon power.

It'd be equally as unlikely for that pet to be controllable. That's still a Mastermind thing, even if Incarnates break the rules.