Schismatrix

IIRC resistance powers granting resistance to damage debuffs only apply to the damage types they resist. Which means my Dark/Ice Defender, even with Mind Over Body, has no significant resistance to having her cold damage debuffed. However, it will help against damage debuffs for teammates who use smashing, lethal, negative, energy and especially psy damage.

i approve of this message.
Okay, i approve of the middle bit, but that's only if it means what i think it means.

Ice cream?

Just tossing in quotes and links from the server status page into one post for anyone new who comes into the thread purely for the sake of their convenience. So, none i guess.

Ah, hmm. i keep forgetting about those quirks of the engine. So that means that TG makes it even better.

Which almost puzzles me. It's travel speed/end and the only travel power i bother slotting for endurance is Teleport, which the HO is useless in.

An even more belated HBD to Kat.

i don't understand where you got that impression at all. My reading was that the Tanker had drawn more mobs than he could hold aggro on into the corridor and the Freakshow had started peeling away and dropping squishies.
Force Field Defender turns on Force Bubble (using positioning and an understanding of the game's physics that apparently eludes Turbo) and pushes all the Freakshow into a corner where they were unable to melee the squishies any more. (Freakshow ranged attacks are trivial compared to their melee attacks.) Now i will admit that the Tanker would have had to move a bit to get back into the middle of the mobs and start claiming his lost aggro, but Force Bubble does allow allies freedom of movement.

When herding large numbers of enemies i've seen many Tankers with taunt lose aggro on multiple mobs who then attack other members of the team. Without taunt or a strong taunt aura Gauntlet isn't enough to maintain aggro on large groups if the team has any players with significant AoE damage.

The only real arrogance i've seen displayed on this thread is on Turbo_Ski.

Wait Tar Patch debuffs damage? i'm guessing you meant Twilight Grasp instead of Tar Patch even though they're very different in mechanics, one being a dropped autohit AoE patch and the other a ST ranged debuff that requires a tohit roll.

According to RedTomax: TG -12.5% + DN -37.5 = -50% damage before any rank or level modifiers.

So the change being proposed is that Defender debuffs would ignore both level and rank scaling while retaining current values? i agree that it appears a bit overpowered with current debuff values. On the other hand current mechanics make things like tohit debuffs almost useless against AV rank enemies and damage resistance resists damage debuffs. Would adjusting the values for debuff reductions due to rank and level scaling for Defenders to make debuffs somewhat better against higher rank/level enemies be reasonable?

Eh, why? Are all the market locations that crowded and laggy on Freedom?

Pie

Possibly, but that aspect hasn't been revealed yet. The only powersets confirmed as having alternate animations are primary and secondary sets. However, this does mean that eventually all powers could have alternate animations, so it's likely that alternate flight animations will be available shortly after i16, if not in i16 itself.

Healers? i thought we were talking about Defenders vs. Controllers?
Maybe it's my preference for buff and debuff sets, but all of my Controllers & Defenders rarely do much healing. Too busy making awesome happen.

Ah, under a different name?

Works for me. It's the added features that i like the most. The new boards still need a bit of tweaking, but overall i like them. Then again, i've never been a four-colour person.

Welcome to Champion server.
i've seen your name mentioned in passing, usually in a humorous/whimsical context.

i'm not sure about stylish and sophisticated, but definitely sleeker in some ways. The old boards had what i'd almost call a classic comics feel compared to the new boards, but the more i use the new forums the more i like them.

Exactly what i was thinking.

Since it'll be a few weeks until i get mine i have a question.
On instanced maps does it fill in the map for everyone on the team like exploring a map usually does?

Seems perfectly fair to me. i suppose the fact that i'm not going to be affected by the outcome of any such toss, and also not the one being tossed into the air is biasing me.
*flips coin*
Heads!

You'll have to contact a mod for that currently. The naming changes are a side-effect of merging two forums together. Somewhere out there is someone who is now Ellis_EU because of you.

i'm finding it easy to adapt to the new boards.
i have a feeling that some of the options currently enabled
will be disabled or limited in the near future.
(rep, font sizes, a few others)

You can enable the advanced menu that shows even more quick coding options than the old boards in your user settings. i spent a little while digging around there because i hate having to code all my tags by hand, and then shortly after i found it on my own i saw a post about how to do it in another section of the forums.