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If knockback stacked... wouldn't that make storm quite powerful?

Sounds good to me.

Congratz

Well what a sorry group of heroes we were last night!

How painful was that TF??!

Anyway, I move to say that I agree with Psychic Desire. Next week it's Faultline and some easy mishes. when we have speedboost we can consider doing something more complicated

I may respec my mind/kin as well. I don't feel my build is really working the way I expected it to...

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... even at a Hami Raid

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Yeah, I was at the raid on Friday and i was pretty surprised by how smoothly everything ran... I didnt even have to turn down any settings. Was nice...

Slowed down a little when I loaded my second account but not too much

Will be there on Tuesday, and have my new PC now

Congratz - was fun teaming last night. Good luck with your squid, did you pick warshade or peacebringer in the end?

Sounds good to me... and my new PC arrived this morning so I will actually be able to play once it's all set up and the download has happened \o/

Gratz on your 50 FG

Oh wow, hamidon raids not on Sunday or Monday?! crackers, I might actually be at one for a change.

I read a stack of comics to keep me sane... but I had the telly on in the background... and I also started trying to draw (badly, but hey it was my first stab so I'm not going to beat myself up too much about that).

I don't mind telly that much and I found some good stuff to watch (films on Film4 mostly and old episodes of CSI). However, I'm looking forward to not watching TV for much longer and the lounge in our house not being used and looking a lot tidier for it

Aye would be good if everyone couldn't make it rather than just me hehe

I'm just hoping I really do get my PC sorted this week... not sure how much more TV I can take without going really crazy...

Thought I better post here as I doubt I will be about on Tuesday

My PC died on wednesday and the stupid place Gonk ordered me a new one from was basically [censored] so we cancelled the order this morning... we've placed a new order with a different place but it only arrives on Tuesday so I don't think I will be set up and ready to go until late-ish Tuesday evening.

ho hum

Well I did say empathy or rad.

Personally I would discount dark as well. If it is going to be your typical unbalanced PUG then I can see chasing after the blasters to try and heal them only to have the heal miss when you finally get in range to cause quite a few problems...

If it wasn't a PuG-type-team then I could see dark working quite well...

I disagree with the comment about empathy not keeping the squishies alive and causing lots of debt. IMO if you really will be fighting +5s dark has far greater potential to cause that just by having to hit to heal...

Yeah it is, love my sonic/energy blaster - so much fun. I'd go home and play mine this afternoon too only I don't have a PC at the moment

In general situations then yes, but as a panic button knockback is good. Or for knocking a mob into a corner of the room. Or when there is no tank on the team managing the aggro. Or when you want to knock a mob back into a debuff.

Knockback doesn't have to be bad. It can be used to improve things for the team... or just because you like it

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(Trials, Task Forces, Archvillains, fighting against +5's)

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I think this is the most important part to pick up on...

Kinetics and Dark are great sets and in most cases would work well but imo +5s will make them too unreliable. The game will feel painful and there will be many trips back and forth to the hospital below lvl 22ish. Although at least with dark you have the group rez After 22 when you have SOs slotted, and are perhaps running leadership it would even out.

Radiation wouldn't suffer the same way at all, you'd have a decent heal, accelerate metabolism and your debuffs which will help the team a lot and when you get up to fighting Avs level will make a huge difference.

Storm and trick arrow I would say just aren’t going to provide the defence you are looking for if you are a sole defender on a team. Storm would probably end up causing a bit too much chaos (and while this can be good while fighting +5s I imagine it would be a serious pain).

Sonic and forcefield I think could do a really good job of providing good defence for the team, the thing that will be lacking is that vs +5s a squishy will probably get one shot killed so you may need medicine pool to back you up in the early levels. Not 100% sure how it would work later on, have only ever teamed with a high level forcefielder but they were rarely the sole defence on the team.

Empaths… well… empaths would be FTW vs +5s You get to boost some of the teams accuracy, stop the team being mezzed and have two strong uninterruptible directional heals… not to mention recovery and regen aura and adrenalin boost.

If it was me I’d either pick Rad or Empath, (although I’d be inclined to make it an empath controller).

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And in Sirens Song you have a much more useful panic button which is much much more team freindly.

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really disagree here...

I have both shockwave and sirens song and as a panic button sirens song just doesn't work that well. Why? Well, if you are on a team and in need of a panic button then chances are shots and slaps are being fired off all around you. Sending the enemies to sleep just isn't going to work... they will just wake right back up again. Knocking them on the floor on the other hand actually guarantees you some breathing space.

Welcome back, hehe

Congratz!

Well we finished this week on 17ish and we were discussing doing Synapse TF next week OR having a bit of a run around in Overbrook (faultline) if Issue 8 is released. Of course... if Issue 8 is actually released on Tuesday it may not be possible*... but votes of preference please.

* I may or may not have to spend all of Tuesday in Icon if Issue 8 hits live then... disco!

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Numbers/statistics are better than playing and enjoying the game as is?

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I have to say that I hated I5 and ED because I feel they forced me to pay attention to the numbers..

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You don't have to tho, you can certainly get by without it... apart from knowing that more than 3 of any enhancement type is a bad thing to do I don't really have a clue about any of the numbers. And I think I prefer it that way..

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Yes I do if I want to maintain a fraction of my survivability of before. Not to mention not having my play constantly interrupted by dying.

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Hmm, I wasn't actually saying that you (as in hammer) didn't have to, it was more of "yes, but you (as in generic) don't have to do that"

And I still think you (generic) don't have to know anything about the numbers, just a general knowledge of how to slot.

This is getting confusing now... but basically... the average person could get by without having any knowledge of numbers and statistics, still have fun and still not die all that much. Admittedly not everyone enjoys playing the game that way and would prefer to know all about the numbers and the stats. Different strokes for different folks and all that.

Should be there at 6.30 tonight... I notice this thread has gone very quiet... hope to see you all there...

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Numbers/statistics are better than playing and enjoying the game as is?

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I have to say that I hated I5 and ED because I feel they forced me to pay attention to the numbers..

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You don't have to tho, you can certainly get by without it... apart from knowing that more than 3 of any enhancement type is a bad thing to do I don't really have a clue about any of the numbers. And I think I prefer it that way..

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I advise you slot speed boost with 3 end mods in it. It's a godly power and really great!

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I'm not sure it actually needs 3 end mods. I used to have 3 slotted on mine but on a respec shuffled some slots about and put it down to 1 slot... and tbh although I've noticed a difference in end gain of the team it's not as much as I expected. I eventually put it back up to 2 slots and it almost feels optimum...