Obscure Blade
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Fire/Storm: Spectacular and powerful.
Ice/Storm: Slightly less spectacular but somewhat more survivable.
Energy/Storm: Not the best from a min/max DPS perspective, but with all the knockback great at feeling powerful in a "get away from me, you insects!" way.
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You could also make an Ice/Mental Manipulation blaster and color the /MM effects white for a "waves of cold" look. /MM even has -recharge.
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Also, the most common psi-resitant enemies you will run into are robots - and as an Earth/Psi you just happen to have Mister Smashing Damage running around with you.
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Quote:Never heard "Twoey" before. Audrey, Chompy and Bitey, that I've heard.Originally Posted by Local_Man
Fly Trap (nicknamed "Twoey" after the plant named "Audrey II" from the play/movie, "Little Shop of Horrors")
I find Thunder Clap useful on mine, since I solo a lot. The single target hold takes out Lts, Thunder Clap takes out minions. And besides, it's such a cool power to fire off...Quote:Originally Posted by Local_Man
My personal recommendations are to skip Thunderclap (a PB AoE stun that is only Mag 2, so it only gets Minions) and probably Spores (situationally useful).
Also, using Seeds + Roots + Freezing Rain means that your Confused targets will remain upright and pounding on each other even while debuffed by the Rain.Quote:Originally Posted by Local_Man
Your general strategy in lower levels will be to open with Seeds+Roots, then hit the group with Freezing Rain and keep throwing Roots for damage (Roots should be slotted for damage -- it does twice the damage of other AoE Immob powers from other control sets.) -
Quote:Ah, that must be what I was thinking of, sorry for the error.Originally Posted by Nihilii
Yeah, they stack just fine. I suppose Obscure Blade might be confused about the change - they used to be unresistable -res, so 3-4 of them would send your res to negative numbers even on a Granite tanker. Now, the debuff is resisted by your resistances, so if you have good resistances, sonic grenades aren't the showstopper they used to be.
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Quote:I recall quite a few complaints when it came out that is was "pre-nerfed" because of PvP and inferior to the Defender version; I haven't really looked at it since though. I have heard people say that if/when Corruptors get Psi Blast they hope that it's the Defender version.Originally Posted by Blighted_Dream
Is there no info on it because its not any good?
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Quote:Actually no, they removed the ability for Power Boost to affect Knockback quite some time ago. Yet another PvP related nerf as I recall; it was the same Issue they nerfed Acrobatics.Originally Posted by Sailboat
Question for the general readership: how useful is Power Boost to Energy/Energy? I feel like (especially since I am foregoing defense) it doesn't add much, just to the Medicine Pool heal and to my stuns, really (knockback too, but distance isn't much of an addition). Can I skip it, or is it the bees' knees for some reason?
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Quote:It's never worked for me, either.Originally Posted by sleestack
Quit to Character Select has not worked for me yet. Not even once. Every single time I either get the 'account already logged in' message, or 'you must enter your username and password' and the password box is empty.
This 'feature' sucks, and not in a good way.
I do. I've also gotten it on occasion after crashing to the desktop and logging back on.Quote:Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
I've never gotten that message when logging to the character screen. -
Quote:If it's like normal it will go in after maintainance.Originally Posted by 2short2care
Ok this might be a very stupid question, but I honestly don't know this, right now it is 11:38pm est do I have to wait til after midnight my time to get the free respec or after midnight there (east coast southern CA)? Because if it takes into effect after midnight my time woohoo I only have 20 minutes to wait.
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Quote:I disagree with this; you can take Fly, just don't Fly while fighting.Originally Posted by mauk2
if you take Air Sup, do NOT take hover or fly: You only knockback protection is grounded, a power that you have to be on the ground to use.
Arachnos has quite a bit of Toxic damage actually. And another hole at high levels would be Longbow -Resistance grenades, although at least they don't stack anymore and send you into negative resistance numbers.Quote:Originally Posted by King Krimson
The only big hole in /ela for a scrapper or tank for that matter is toxic damage(there are some threads about it)but proably easily avoided since its mostly vahz i think? -
For Doms? Electricity Control if you have Going Rogue. Before that, Earth Assault. And there's the Alpha Slot for level 50s this Issue (although all ATs can go for the Slot). Outside of those I don't recall any changes for Doms since the Great Revamp.
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Fire/Energy has somewhat more synergy since Power Boost from /Energy will help it quite a bit more than it will help Earth/. Earth's patches/pseudopets don't benefit from it any more than they do from Domination (not that they really need it of course). Since Fire/'s biggest weakness is low control the benefit of that is obvious. And the three Imps and Hot Feet help make up for the single target focus of /Energy.
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Quote:Yes! Very irritating, especially since you can't autocomplete Safeguards. Although in my case the villain in the elevator was also invisible; nothing but weapons, the bag and glowy eyes were there.Originally Posted by Avatea
[*]Safeguard Missions
- The mysterious floating bag of cash should no longer appear in bank vaults on these missions.
- Villains on the heist should no longer appear to get stuck in elevators as they are attempting to flee with the loot.
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Quote:The Winter Event running long never bothers me. It's not like the Halloween event; after a while nothing but nighttime gets oppressive, and the zone events can bug people who aren't interested. The WE is pretty unobtrusive.Originally Posted by Quasadu
I think they're still looking for a balance between too short and too long. They probably feel that a month is too long and players will get bored of the event. I think it's a no win situation because there will always be some players who want it to go on longer, and some who want it to just end already.
Three weekends is just about right for me. I would probably be burned out on it by then and start ignoring it. But any shorter and it doesn't seem worth the effort to have an event at all. So I think this is about perfect. -
Quote:Cool, but slow; you still see it for Gale.Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer
Kinda miss that animation. It was cool, actually.
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I was lucky in the multiple-portals room; I just guessed and got it right the first time.
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Quote:Botis, not Bolt.Originally Posted by Blood_Beret
Find Bolt mission.
The very first NPC you meet, the Portal Keeper drops a Clue.Quote:Originally Posted by Blood_Beret
I must have missed those clues, but I don't remember any of the NPC's saying anything. -
Quote:And they also thankfully seem to have realized that people don't like the "go talk to this contact whether you want to or not" method of introducing a new contact. We aren't being forced to trek across the Isles to talk to Wade if we don't feel like it the way the introductions to the PvP zone contacts (or Dave Wincott and Stephanie Peebles blueside) force us to.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
The developers finally started realising that forcing people to do three to five paper missions plus a Mayhem just to get a legitimate contact was bad design, so they introduced all their new contacts via the "So and so has contacted you" pop-up, or by making them introducable by other contacts.
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Quote:For me it was for two days.Originally Posted by Healix
There seemed to be a downtime for the forums yesterday. Don't know if it was a prob, or perhaps some maintainance was being performed, but a ton of people said it couldn't be accessed at all in the afternoon.
At the moment it seems to be working correctly. Hopefully whatever was wrong was a temporary bug or was fixed. -
For about the last two days it has taken me several tries and usually a wait of several minutes to access anything on the forums. Usually the attempt fails and I get a connection timed out message. I've heard people on other forums complain of this; it seems a major problem for some and nonexistent for others.
Hopefully this attempt to post a thread will work...
Edit: OK, this is weird. The problem vanished for a minute or two as soon as I posted this thread; now it's back.
Edit 2: The problem vanished again - I assume temporarily - as soon as the first edit made it though. But that took six minutes more than the time stamp for me to see. -
Quote:Well, since the rebalancing a while back they are quite a bit better in my opinion.Originally Posted by American_Knight
As the title indicated, I am wanting to try out this AT with my only experience being from when COV first came out and I tried a Dom -cant remember the sets- and was underwhelmed by the experience.
A very strong combo. Earth/ doesn't get much from Domination because it uses several pseudopets, but it doesn't really need it. And all that -def makes it easier to hit; important with low level doms since they are slot hungry then. Properly slotting up both your attacks and controls takes a while.Quote:Originally Posted by American_Knight
Have a concept for a Earth/Fire and I like the controls earth has.
And also remember that since you don't get a Containment bonus from it, getting an immobilize power at all is a low priority. I mention this because back when I started playing Doms I made the mistake of playing them like a controller and wasted a lot of time, endurance and power slots on immobilizing things "for Containment".Quote:Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade
Some tips:
Don't open with your AoE immobilize. You should already know that one from your controller experience though =). -
Quote:From Paragonwiki:Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon
I would expect it to be more than 5% and less than 33%, though)
Quote:Part of the bonuses given by Incarnate System slotted boosts will bypass Enhancement Diversification, even if a character's power is slotted to the final threshold. Depending on rarity, boosts will bypass ED with anywhere from one-sixth to two-thirds of the boost. -
I understand however that it checks if the procs fire before the Rain applies its defense debuff, so make sure you slot in some accuracy if you are going to add procs.
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Another person here who already had everything but the Party Pack. It's not on sale so there wasn't anything to tempt me. Not that the Party Pack is all that tempting.
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The indiscriminate use of heavy weapons would become much more morally acceptable. Hose down a crowd with flamethrowers or explosives and only the bad guys get hurt. You can even nuke a city and kill nothing but the criminals! Civilians (or anyone else on your side) are just fine, and there's no property damage except maybe a scorch mark that disappears in a few seconds.
Well, unless they are near a bank. Then cars and dustbins and so forth will explode. But civilians nearby are still untouched.