Reiraku

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Tankers have decent offense. They're certainly not the weakest-hitting AT.

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Quite true. Some people seem to think that by doing less damage than other melee AT's, they're somehow doing insignificant damage. Being the "weakest melee AT" does not make one weak, same as how having the slowest NASCAR car still means you have a damn fast car.

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No he wouldn't. He's intelligent enough not to get that emotionally invested in a video game.

More so, you can also ignore some auto-hit powers (KoA caltrops as well as the CoT crystals) that normal stealthing can't.

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As a constructive suggestion, assign specific individuals as Magi spotters. I prefer to use bubblers, debuff defenders, or blasters for this, as they are usually in the center and don't need to watch their teammates.

Set up a macro "targetname magi" and have them spin and spam it until a Magi appears. Then they call out in the raid channel "Magi at 3 o'clock!" and everyone piles on.

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Quick tangent, is that a "Nuke 'em till They Glow" reference I see in your sig?

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"I am not young enough to know everything". cant remember where I heard this quote from but I remember seeing it in somebody's sig somewhere. lol


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iirc it was castle's sig that held that charged bit of wisdom.



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Actually, it was the sig line of a poster called "Screwloose"

i5 actually had something I was looking forward to.

i15 doesn't come close.

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Whats the issue anyway? Why can't PVP/PVE have the same combat system?

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I'm guessing by this question that you've never been the victim of a Mind Controller or Dominator's Telekinesis power before. Prior to the changes in mezzes if you were caught by this power and didn't have 4 or more Break Frees to pop all at once there was literally NOTHING you could do except die. In PvE it is a TOGGLE hold, it's duration lasts as long as you have endurance to run it. In this era of insane endurance recovery a Mind controller or dominator can keep an enemy in this hold indefinitely.

I disagree with a lot of the changes, especially travel suppression when attacked. But this change I agree with. That one power made Mind Control characters unbeatable unless you got the drop on them, if they saw you first you were quite simply dead.

There are a lot of powers that have similar issues, I'm just using Telekinesis as an example because it was the biggest outlier.

Stalker one-shotting was a problem as well. An enemy that you could not see that was capable of killing you in ONE HIT. That was actually the first PvP change. Stalkers brought about the anti-one shot coding.

If PvP was exactly like PvE it wold be even more unfair than it is now. No one likes fighting an opponent they are helpless against. The zones would turn into nothing but Mind Control, stalkers, and blasters, with an occasional suicidal scrapper. Just like it used to be. Honestly, they need to find a middle ground between i12 PvP and i13 PvP. A lot of the changes needed to happen, but they took it too far.

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You must have missed where they changed the way BF's reacted to Telekinesis before i13. I believe it was around i11 that it only took 2 to completely resist both the repel and the hold. Not to mention if an opponent was incapable of killing you during the duration of a mez, then mez suppression would kick in and you'd have an opportunity to launch a counter-offensive.

If PvP were closer to PvE (such as how it was in i12), then it would be a lot more fair than it is now.

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I think that the main reason I don't try Stone Armour is knowing that Granite is unrelated to the character I put in it. That's my reason for not giving the set more of a spin myself.

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Whoa, check me if I am wrong but did you not make a snarky comment about my providing feeback on a set that I pld. (you missed the part when I had said I had also tried in the past to play one up but gave up in the late 20's)

Before I go on I would also like to add that I played as normal from 38 to 50 on the stone armor brute, and I have two level 50 tanks and 3 other level 50 brute's as well. I think I have a fairly good working knowlege of the armor sets. *edit* also adding that the stone brute and my second kinetic are the ONLY toons I have ever pld. Ive done the content numerous times, it is not like I am an AE baby with no vet rewards and several 50's. I pld that brute because I wanted a stoner but didnt want to have to have a pocket kin to play through the low levels. The second kin character got pld because I was bored and made it to help another 50 some month friend level up.

Now you come out and say that you have not really given the set a try. You definately have me confused now.

If you were suggesting a change that might make the set more appealing to you I would understand your presence in this thread. However you seem to be very much against any changes to the set, a set that by your own admission you do not play.

So why are you even posting on the subject? If you do not play stone armor, and you do not want any changes, why are you here?

Your posting in this thread has contributed nothing to the discusion. It has only served to derail the thread and now you admit to this.

I think you have be back at confused, so never mind go about your mad post count bumping.

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Actually, I believe he said that if one wants a set to change, they must provide numerical evidence to support their claim. Not that he is against the change in and of itself. There is a difference.

My Spine/SR is amazingly fun to play. It starts a little slow, but has one of the best pay-offs you can build for.

Contained Alternative Suit Providing Ethereal Retention

CASPER

QFT = Quoted For Truth.

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What are the other ten or so methods of time-travel?

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My favorite is the Royal Pendent.

Or Epoch, post Blackbird.

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Bucket, definitely.

Unfortunately, when the company that's publishing the game is different than the one developing it, when one releases it isn't always up to the ones developing it.

get better at being where someone is heading and timing it properly.

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Those ideas all sound good to me. I think Sigium woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

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Wow, just reading some of the stuff in here is crazy.

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And for everyone else, get a life, this is a game, dont you have real life things to do than to browse the forums all day looking for peoples differences and throw your (unwanted) 2 cents in?


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Quoted for Irony.

Not really.

Tanks were less damage dealers and more utility back then. If you wanted damage from a tank, you went fire. SS might not have been balanced against other sets/ATs in terms of damage then, but it was far from an afterthought.

If you couldn't even take down Numina with that line-up, I question the quality of your players.

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There are people who like DR???

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Is there an established birthday for Lord Recluse, and if not, might I suggest one?

(Above may or may not relate to a mini-mastermind who may or may not share a name with said dictator that may or may not turn 1 on Sept. 5th.) >_>

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from what I understand, there was no PvP at all until CoV was released. None. Zero.

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Actually, Arena was in issue 4, two issues before CoV came out

Aid Self can be handy if you have room for it.

They decided to remove all status protection from PvP, and left it as status resistance. This means there's nothing stopping you from getting held, stunned, etc, just that said effects won't last as long.