Obscure Blade
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Quote:Along with [Divine Core Oscillation] and [Paradox Core Eternity]. All three listed here.Originally Posted by Santorican
Freem is a temp power from mender ramiel's arc, its given to you in the first mission. -
Quote:Oranbega maps on my Bots/Storm are quite fun, all these nasty CoT trying to force their way though a tight tunnel filled with knockback-laden lightning and Tornadoes and Hurricane...Originally Posted by Lord_Regulus
Instead of seeing KB as a bad thing, just learn how to effectively use your KB. on Indoor maps, corners are your friends.
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Well, don't take the pistols then, they aren't worth it anyway.
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Thugs/Traps is great. High damage, the Enforcer's Defense aura stacks with Force Field Generator, and I've never noticed a major problem with knockback. Especially since they fiddled with the Bruiser a while back.
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Quote:Using Group Fly is more likely to get you kicked than the knockback, thanks to the large -accuracy debuff it hits your teammates (and bots) with.Originally Posted by Berzerker_NA
Also, would taking group fly help anything? I've heard people say the KB becomes KD, but I've never actually tried it.
Ha, yes. I like my level 41 Bots/Storm villain so much I went and rolled a Praetorian Bots/Storm in order to have a second one heroside.Quote:Originally Posted by Psylenz
I have a level 50 Bots/storm I liked so much I rerolled another just to play it again. -
Quote:Thug control! You snap your fingers and guys run in from off screen and put your target in an armlock!Originally Posted by Leo_G
Okay, so we got 'natural alien/being' control sets, could probably use some 'gadget use' control sets but those other sets could be explained as coming from gadgets (like Elec Control) but what would a control set that doesn't come from a device be if the character was simply a human with no powers?
Any bright ideas?
More seriously, I once casually threw together an "Arrow Control" powerset to go with Trick Arrow:
You could also vary the control mechanisms, use some throwing-object animations and call it Ninjutsu Control.Quote:Archery Control, as a counterpart for Trick Arrow. Something like this (the first two pretty much have to be copies of TA powers):
1: Entangling Arrow: Single target immobilize.
2: Freeze Arrow: Single target hold.
3: Net Arrow: AoE net style immobilize.
4: Incendiary Arrow: Causes moderate fire damage with DoT on target, and can spread to nearby targets. A chain effect, like Chain Induction. Useful for lighting Oil Slick too.
5: Barbed Arrow: This painful and difficult to remove arrow disables the target for some time. Single target slow/damage & accuracy debuff power, minor DoT damage.
6: Stun Arrow: AoE stun, the bread-and-butter AoE control power.
7: Cryogenic Arrow: AoE Hold.
8: Arrow Storm: By unleashing a massive flurry of arrows you drive your enemies into a panicked attempt to escape the onslaught. A Rain of Arrows style targeted AoE that does minor damage but causes Fear.
9: Summon Disciples: Your martial prowess has attracted fellow devotees of the ancient forms of combat whom you can summon to aid you in battle. You summon three human NPC pets, which are randomly either archers or swordfighters. -
Well, it works pretty good in PvE (or did, the present AI issues screw up ranged henchmen). It's no Bots/Traps, but Mercs are only weak by MM standards.
I never PvP, so I can't answer that. -
Well, I don't know what's causing the loading problems for you today but the forum seems to be loading just fine for me. But I do agree that in general the new forums haven't worked all that well.
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Earth/Fire (or Earth/ anything, really) also has the advantage that with all the -def in Earth/ you can skimp a bit on slotting for accuracy, which is nice at the lower levels because Doms are really slot hungry then.
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Quote:More like 40-50 I think? At any rate it gives a countdown so you shouldn't be blindsided.Originally Posted by Ironik
Re: the mail thing. Stuff you mail disappears after 30 days, so claim it sooner rather than later.
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If anything it's better, you no longer need to suffer 38 levels of awful damage.
And technically speaking it wasn't a nerf, it was a fix; the power was badly bugged. Castle knew it for a long time too, but the rest of the set was so bad off that properly balancing PS by itself would have crippled it completely. So he let it slide until he had the time to properly rebalance the whole powerset. -
No; I missed it. Anyone take screen shots? I'm not likely to have any more new 50s for quite some time.
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Items and inf can now be e-mailed, just use your @globalname.
Heroes and villains can now trade. Markets are merged.
The last few enemies/glowies will now show up on the map (usually). Useful with kill-alls and such.
You can now have more active missions.
Conserve Power in Electric Armor is now Energize, is acts as a regeneration boost now.
Temperature Control in Fire armor now grants slow resistance.
Vigilance was buffed, if you like Defenders. It now increases damage on small teams/solo.
Quote:Did you get the Martial Arts Superbooster, aka the Natural Pack? Ninja Run alone is worth the price, and I like the costumes too.Originally Posted by Lothan
I picked up the GR pack. Anything else in the store I should get? -
Quote:Probably a placeholder. I recall before the Halloween Event was first implemented teleporting to Nerva from my SG, and running into a male scientist calling himself "Granny Beldam".Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Why is Jenni Adair standing behind Wentworths on Talos Island with the name "Albert Maurer" above her, and the message "Hello, Golden Girl. I've heard of the work you've done, keep it up. You and I have nothing to work on together...at the moment" when you click on her?
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Quote:I doubt it, due to it lacking tools to keep your pets alive /kinetics would have been a marginally playable set for Masterminds even before the Great Recharge Nerf. I wouldn't both making one unless the Mastermind version of /kin was seriously changed and buffed for them. /Kin is hard to port because it is too weak for an MM, not too strong.Originally Posted by PumBumbler
1. Pets are no longer affected by recharge, plus or minus. This was a big whack against MMs, could be because they've been toying with some way to get kinetics ported over to MMs via powerset proliferation?
AI issues were at most a side issue; Castle admitted at the time the change was to stop things like Lightning Storm and Fire Imps from overperforming.Quote:Originally Posted by Dispari
The recharge thing is kind of a necessary evil. It causes bad AI issues. What would you rather have, pets that can't improve their attack chain, or pets that for some reason only use one power in their attack chain because their recharge is too high and they get confused? Randomly activating various attacks with some delay is better than only using Head Splitter and nothing else.
Demons being implemented has been blamed for whatever AI changes causes pets of every type to now run into melee, even those without melee attacks like Phantasm.Quote:Originally Posted by Dispari
Screwed up how?Quote:Originally Posted by Hot_Head_Mike
They screwed up masterminds when Demon Summoning came out. Stick to a melee predominant set of pets.
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Quote:And I just fought her on my level 40 Bots/Storm. She really doesn't like /Storm; she immediately started running this time as well.Originally Posted by Obscure Blade
Fought her on my level 39 Illusion/Storm. She ran around in panic like a little girl, and it turns out that you can knock her down with enough KB; I knocked her right down the side of the hill. Not a difficult fight except for the usual problem of running out of endurance on a /storm; it took a while since she wouldn't stay still.
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Quote:Endurance recovery, you'll want that. Probably not slows; you'll be putting everything at the slow cap without trying. Maybe some defense, to stack with the -accuracy effect of Hurricane. Possibly a stealth IO to stack with Steamy Mist. Either a Karma or Steadfast to protect from knockback; either can fit in Steamy. You'll want -accuracy and end reduction in Hurricane, resist and endurance reduction in Steamy Mist.Originally Posted by Will_Cosmic
Ice/Storm was a great choice thematically for me (i've just started leveling one). It's lots of fun and I love the effects, though I wonder what sort of attributes I should try to focus on when I start to IO out the character. Focus on damage? On slows? Any thoughts?
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Fought her on my level 39 Illusion/Storm. She ran around in panic like a little girl, and it turns out that you can knock her down with enough KB; I knocked her right down the side of the hill. Not a difficult fight except for the usual problem of running out of endurance on a /storm; it took a while since she wouldn't stay still.
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Both combos are good. Energy does have solo synergy; you can Sleep entire spawns easily early on with Mass Hypnosis, and kill them one by one.
On the other hand...yes, Drain Psyche IS that good. -
Level 37 SS/WP Brute: Beat her with most of a tray of Inspirations.
Level 50 Ill/Rad Controller: Crushed her like a bug, repeatedly.
Level 50 Bots/Traps Mastermind: Squashed her without losing a pet.
Level 35 Fortunata in a team against the AV version: Beat her repeatedly, some deaths on the team do to crashing defense/resistances. Her defense regularly crashed to a few percent even with Mind Link. -
Server page claims some of them are up now.
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Quote:The Bot's missiles even sound like fireworks. Or a Fire/Traps Corruptor if a Mastermind isn't what Madamme Mayhem likes. Color the various fire attacks to be different firework-like shades, like green and white and bright red.Originally Posted by DSorrow
Bots/traps would be my choice. You get seeker drones from you and the bots and flashy missiles. Just name the bots Mobile Launch Site 1 to 6.
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I fought him on my Bots/Traps, he was noticeably harder. And the bugged pet AI didn't help since whenever he fell into the lava my bots tended to jump in after him and fry.
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I fought her on my level 37 SS/WP brute; I won, but used most of a tray of Inspirations in the process.
I fought her on my level 50 Ill/Rad and ate her alive. As said, she's weak at ranged, and she doesn't like -regen at all. I also managed to successfully Hold her off and on.
I fought the AV version of her on a team with my Fortunata. We won repeatedly, but those nasty -def debuffs caused a few deaths. My Fortunata's Mindlinked defense values would crash to a few percent on a regular basis. -
I've tried twice solo on my heroic Fortunata, once in Steel and once in Founder's; was sent to Atlas both times.