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Originally Posted by Forevermore

Ha! Found it! I knew this thread was in here.

I just started my own Stj/Nin stalker, and knew that a thread like this was on the forums. Gonna have to peruse this closely as I level, and also try and figure out your build Grim. Probably be easier when I'm not sleep deprived.

Originally Posted by PsychicKitty

oh good there is badge for it....

I saw this event....went to kings row....killed the things....it seams faster then they appeared.....i didnt see any othe rplayers there....so i didnt get any giant monster or anything

by the way...
they are not counted as real nemesis toward the other badges

I had a mission for defeating 30 of them where ever i wanted...but these guys didnt count....

seamed a bit wimpy...but i guess you cant get he actual monster unless you have a large team...oh well....

Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast

Did you really need to up your post count that much?

I see CoH every day at work...I work in a prison and when I see the inmates in their orange scrubs I immediately think of the Zig.

Originally Posted by Nericus

My fire armor brutes have the proc in their blazing aura, stone brutes have the proc in mudpots, electric brutes have it in lightning field. It works very nicely in those powers and I've seen the fury bonus. Also the majority of my brutes are splitting the ATO set in 2 powers due to the S/L bonus.

Originally Posted by Tater Todd

I think that the ATO proc works better in a regular power like Thunderstrke. Procs only have a chance to fire every 10 seconds in a toggle I think.

Originally Posted by Megajoule

We're being invaded. Again. This time, instead of aliens, zombies, or eyeballs with teeth, it's the marching band.

Originally Posted by Zyphoid

Agility for me. It pushes End rec, rech, and def to right where I want them.

From my experience in the end game most problems arise for melee ATs (Tanks are the exception) because of their secondary and not their primary. In the case of Staff, if you went with a Def secondary it actually helps with end game issues. Trust me, if claws or spines can get it done in the end game, then Staff sure as heck can.

Originally Posted by Vysires

I like defense too. However it's far easier to add defense to a resist set then it is to add resist to a defense set. Like you said, it's not hard to get good S/L defense with a resist set. I believe a S/L capped /Electric will be more durable then most defense based characters in general. I haven't build an /Electric yet, but I have a SS/Fire brute who has about 32% S/L defense, and she is very durable. I think you will find a S/L capped /Electric to be plenty durable. This is aided by the fact that a lot of high level damage is Energy and Psi, /Electric caps out energy resist, and has one of the best resists vs Psi.

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

If you're tier 9 he makes airplane noises.

Originally Posted by Rodion

I have noticed the same thing, and it bugs me. On Freedom I queued several times, and within a few minutes the dialog appears with four to six players, two of whom decline immediately, which usually means the trial fails to start at all.

Which is totally bogus. DfB is trivial to do with eight. It's trivial to do with four, regardless of AT. I even completed it with one other guy after two of our four-person league bailed on us during the Lost phase.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

And if the people complaining about having to wait forever in queue would take the initiative to recruit their own teams they'd be doing the DFB as frequently as everyone else.

Originally Posted by Test_Rat

Anyone who says this does not know how to play traps correctly.

END OF STORY.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Something I expressed to the devs recently is the fact that among the problems Blasters have is a harsh meta problem unique to them. While the devs have some concerns about one archetype stepping on the toes of another, that *doesn't* include blasters. Uniquely, Blasters are defined in terms of what they are not allowed to be but not given *any* protection against other archetypes stepping on them.

Blasters are really only explicitly designed to do one thing: damage. That's it. Everything else is incidental to their design. So tell me: which archetype's damage has been restrained to make absolutely certain they don't infringe on blasters? Scrappers have consistently had a higher damage modifier, the same damage cap, and even with the recent increase in Blaster ranged modifier Scrappers still trump that with criticals, and still have higher melee modifiers. Even *dominators* have a higher melee modifier than Blasters.

Conversely, look at the long list of things Blasters have to avoid: they have to avoid doing too much burst damage and infringing on Stalkers; they can't have personal defenses which would infringe on the melee archetypes; they can have significant control; they can't have ally buffing; they can't have too much foe debuffing.

Some archetypes have the problem of too much overlap: Defenders and Controllers on buff/debuff, or Defenders and Corruptors just plain everywhere. But Blasters *uniquely* have the problem of being fenced in on all sides. They can't have *anything* except damage.

And the best part is, they can't have too much of that either.


So once Stalkers are looked at, and Tankers are looked at, after Dominators were looked at and Kheldians were looked at, after everything else has the damage players believe *everything* should have in the "current game" and after every game mechanic from mez to AoE effects to damage buffs to ally buffs are doled out to "fix" the other archetypes, what are the devs going to be able to do with Blasters?

Nothing. They will be painted into a corner with no options left that other archetypes haven't already laid claim to.

The honest truth is that blasters are the designated killer of things that don't matter, provided its not too many of them, and they take a lot of damage while they are doing it. And preferably, they should die periodically to prove they aren't too defensively strong while they are killing those things that don't matter.

Originally Posted by dugfromthearth

a powerset that has 2 powers that most people do not want is fine. Some people will want them for whatever reason.

much worse are powersets that only use a few powers and 5 or more are unused. Granite armor, dual blades, super strength.

If you don't think Traps or Devices are good sets, don't play them.

There are tons of powersets. Find ones you like.

Originally Posted by Kitsune9tails

City of was apparently designed to have teams occaisionally encounter spawns that were so dangerous, you were supposed to puzzle your way around or through them, rather than just power through.