Oathbound

{EDIT}Nm. Religious debate is never a good thing to get into on the forums.


Suffice it to say Atheist /= Antitheist, but sadly gets lumped together.

The only thing that stands out to me about Psi's single target attacks, is the fact that the set gets 2 tier2 blasts (Mental Blast and Subdue) instead of a t2 and a t3 (because originally Mental Blast was a tier1 that got buffed to be a tier2, while Subdue wasn't changed at the same time).

Maybe Subdue could use the push up to 1.96DS/10sec?

Also keep in mind that cones almost always have better damage/faster recharge than AoE/PBAoEs. I believe it's to balance out the ease of use factor, particularly for Dominators, where in order to maximize a Cone's effectiveness you have to bounce in and out of range for your melee powers.

The only instances I can think of where the PBAoE or (non-rain)AoE in a set is better than the Cone AoE, is when dealing with Fire Melee's BoF vs FSC, and Dual Pistol's Empty Clips vs Bullet Rain.

EDIT: Gah, NM... only one of them starts in IP, so that answers my question of which level trial is being run.

I'll try and be there.

Happy Birthday VexXxa. (Sorry if it's late, I've had such an issue loading the CoH forums/website lately, some days I just don't even bother trying.)

Seems like Adamastor is the entry level GM for soloers.

Achievement: Soloed Adamastor on my level 43 Dark/Ice defender (I need to try him [Adamastor] again now that he [my Defender] is a 50(+1).)

Disachievement: Took 2 Shivans an Amy and the better part of 10minutes to do it.

So far that's my only time soloing an AV or Gm... at least that I can recall.

Achievement: Finally made a perma-hasten IO build (For my Fortunata).

Disachievement: Took me 3months gathering AMerits and RMerits, cause I'm too damned cheap to pay the ungodly ridiculous prices people sell stuff for on the markets. (This is my only significant IO build of any kind up to this point.)

Dark Control

1) Tenebrous Grasp -- Single target Immobilize, Moderate DoT, -tohit
(standard issue black tentacles)

1) Soul Storm -- Single target hold, Moderate DoT
(same power from Soul Mastery)

2) Tenebrous Expanse -- AoE Immobilize, Minor DoT -tohit
(standard stuff)

6) Fetid Wastes -- Location AoE, -Speed, -Regeneration, Chance for Vomit
(location targeted pet like Quicksand or Tar Patch. Lowers enemy movement and regen, has a low chance to cause mobs to vomit (hold? sleep? whatever) each tick)

8) Starlit Shroud -- PBAoE Toggle, -Tohit, -Damage, Chance for Placate
(basically a Dark equivalent to Arctic Air (Not entirely sure if Placate would work well here, but it could get swapped for Chance for Fear instead))

12) Oppressive Gloom -- PBAoE Toggle, Disorient, Self Damage Special
(same ol' OG it's always been (if that proves overpowered then Dark Pit can be subbed in instead with numbers modified appropriately)

18) Stygian Embrace -- PBAoE Toggle, Minor DoT, -End, Self +Regeneration, +Recovery (or +Heal, +End)
(kind of Death Shroud meets Conductive Aura. Drains the HP and End of any nearby foes and returns it to you)

26) Spirit Squall -- Target AoE, Very Long recharge, Hold
(pretty typical ranged aoe hold)

32) Surging Shadow -- AoE, Long Recharge.
(Animates your enemy's shadow and turns it against them. Summons an immobile Shadow (like Phantasm's decoy) for each target within the radius of the power. These Shadows are targetable, and attackable, but are indestructible. Each Shadow uses Deathshroud, damaging and taunting foes to attack them. Basically creates a damage field that absorbs agro for you. Since it's not a real pet, and each Shadow despawns when it's anchor mob is defeated, the recharge would be MUCH shorter (Say 60-90seconds) allowing them to be resummoned frequently.)

Set notes:

As you might have noticed, it's a pretty toggle heavy set which relies on being right in the thick of things, chewing through endurance and hitpoint the like. That was the main reason for the inclusion of Stygian Embrace. It's both the set's main source of damage (outside of the pets) and serves to mitigate the cost of the toggles, and HP cost of Oppressive Gloom.

The set is relatively light on control, instead utilizing damage mitigation tools (-tohit/-dmg) and agro management (pets) to control the field.

I did not use any Dark Miasma powers in the set because I'd still like dark as a Controller secondary with the following alterations:

Fearsome Stare - Cone shortened to 50feet. Recharge increased from 40seconds to 60seconds. Magnitude lowered from 3, to 2. This still leaves it useful for neutralizing minions, or for stacking, akin to Thunder Clap's uses from Storm.

Dark Servant - Gets the Mastermind treatment... Recharge upped from 240seconds to 500seconds. Retains it's 240seconds duration.

Must... Have... Squishy... Foxy...


*twitch*