Shubbie

you need a team with alot of debuff and dps.

You might have a point, for leveling below like 30, once you get to the post 30 and especially the 50 game, +rech and +rec flys around like candy.

+dam is very rare.

But lets be honest, damage still overrides nearly every other consideration in the game.

Its not a debuff per se, but it is a debuff in the fact that its not as good as the damage bonus which is what its balanced around, Ill refer all arguments to DP.

Im looking for objective reviews of performance I probably should have stated that clearly.

Not it looks cool, I poke things with a pool cue, what could be more awesome.


Basically what I want to know is does this perform well compared to the average on melee sets.

I know everything looks like mud compared to SS,TW and fire melee.

Example DP being lackluster compared to fire or archery is acceptable, DP being lackluster compared to the middle of the pack is not.

Right now Staff is looking somewhere between mediocre to slightly under mediocre. I do believe a paid set needs to be a little better than that.

The problem seems to be the lack of buildup and the general damage cut it takes for having a constant damage buff available which means your locked into the damage form and cant leave without destroying your damage output.

Im guessing this problem does NOT apply to stalkers. I havent gottent o test a stalker yet, so please keep the reviews seperate.


Ive seen this come up in other games, Form of the body is not a buff, its a debuff for not being in it.

Not trying to be rude.

But people enjoy Beast Mastery,dual pistols, Electric blast, and Ice melee, it doesnt mean they are in any way shape or form good sets.

That being said, my impression is that Staff isnt nearly as bad as these, but it seems a little lackluster

Needs a bit more damage.

Not asking for a complete revamp

Just asking for more access to players such as cross server or even cross side teaming opportunities.

Failing that, just inflate rewards, blatant bribery usually does work.

Redside teaming is not fine

Just declaring it so does not make it so.

I have, usually have about 3 fail start tf's and trials a week.

Dib was especially fun, lauched with 6 after being unable to find 2 more. lost 1 to a disco, second to RL problem, couldnt kill shivans, called it.

Ice mistral, only could get 5, no support, called TF because .. its just not gonna happen. Did not launch.

Dont like failed launches and Failed TF's, it tends to give you a bad reputation making it harder to lauch others later, so I no longer start Redside TF's, I only start blues and coops now.

Yeah but the place got a bad rap, and now no one starts there even though it actually isnt as bad anymore.

So its solo or very small team only.

Sometimes I do based on build, at, level range, total speed.

But generally I dont start turning it up more than that till post 30.

No I just forgot to mention MM's since I dont play them anymore. They are easy to level but are a joke, a bad joke for anything incarnate. Id didnt mention tanks either but they arent hard to solo either.

I was more refering to Blasters, Defenders, controllers, Dominators and Corruptors who get absolutly beat on by the excessive status effects of longbow, arachnos, and cot which make up most of the missions.

Heroes do have Tsoo and Cot, but they arent all that common, and Outcast, family, freaks are really easy mobs.

I dont like soloing redside at all.

The devs seem to think they can put hard content in the same... area as legacy easier content and people will actually choose to do the harder, longer, less rewarding content....

um.... yeah.... NO!

Ive honestly just given up trying to team redside, I just fire farm to 35 now..

Its just not worth the fight of trying to get teams.

I usually just do actually other than when I can find a friend to powerlevel a reddie to 35.

But at that point why not just close up redside if you just going to tell everyone to go blueside.


Go look at the orginal post.

Delte the character now and remake blue is not an acceptable solution to redside teaming probems.

To play with some friends, usually not enough to get a TF or trial going.

BUt usually enough to get farmed.

I said COOP Zones, like Crim and RWZ.

redside is fine post 35, ITF's lauch about every 3 minutes on freedom and about ever 5 on virtue, the problems are gone at that point.

But whatever someone logic is to play redside, teaming needs to be improved redside.

Yeah a 1-30 coop zone would do WONDERS.

Something along the lines of a low level crimorea

NO MORE PREATORIA, it will just be ignored and villified like everything else praetoria is, it has too bad a reputation as a player grinder to ever draw players even if it was easy.

I play on virtue and freedom, on blueside I can get a Dib/DFB together any time of day or night, weekend or holiday rain or shine.

The devs cant increase the redside population, but they can make cross server teaming, they can make BETTER coop zones with more draw so players actually go there, they can make it easier to cross side team to increase availible playerage.


ITs not completly a dev or a player problem and both are too blame, and they devs INSITANCE on holding out on cross side markets is one of the big killers of early redside development which redside never recovered from.

BUt this is a problem the devs have to fix, the players dont have the coordination to do it themselves, I mean I could start up a repeat offender style superteam and blitz to 50 in 2 weeks with about 20 other people but that doesnt actually solve anything.

Thats a VERY poor solution as it would leave players who cant or wont switch in even worse of a shape.

we need a solution that doesnt involve spending money by the players.

We need a low level coop zone that is NOT praetoria... for the most part players hate preatoria, they avoid it like the plague, stop ramming it down our throats dev's.

They got a bad taste for it early one when it was way too difficult and they just wont touch it with a 39 1/2 ft pole now.

I havent seen more than a player or two farming ghoul badges in first ward in months.