Silas

That's my point though. If you can't take the shields down due to people dying or whatever while the Aspect is shielded, they're gonna be wiping when the shields are down anyway.

If the teams are wiping because you're getting blown to bits by him while trying to clear the cubes, the teams are going to get blown to bits just the same if you get the shields down and are trying to kill him.

The only objection to the Aspect being able to attack while bubbled that I can get behind is that it's unfair or that it's a bug (if the shield is really meant to give him the Only Affecting Self flag).

But setting it so the Aspect can't attack while bubbled isn't going to somehow fix teams that are wiping while trying to bring his shields down.

I suppose it could be a problem of the damage from the Aspect combined with the spawns you're trying to clear, but if the team survival is that fragile, you're probably still going to have massive wipes when the cube spawns respawn each time and alpha the hell out of everyone.

I just don't buy that the Aspect being able to attack through his bubble is somehow a huge obstacle and changing it would make the CoP more easy and accessible.

What I think is most likely is that people object to it because they think it's unfair. Well, maybe, but uh, tough? It's supposed to be an endgame trial. Until we get AI good enough to challenge coordinated teams of humans, sometimes the AI is going to have to cheat.

Heroes and Vigilantes can run it together, as can Rogues and Villains IIRC.

Classic Myrmydon.

This. Fire^3 Dominator puts out crazy amounts of AoE damage. More safe and better for teams than a Blaster too because of all the mezz they bring.

Eye sea watt ewe did

I c wut u did thar

Except I guess he didn't bother with the thar

Yeah, that's an oversight tbh. I've since rerolled my Sonic/Rad into a Fire/Rad and I get much more use out of LR on non-AV spawns because the slow in conjunction with RoFs slow is good times.

That said, you don't need a lot of slow enh in it. It's 60% base, the -run cap being -90% so iirc an SOs worth will bring mobs to the slow cap. Or LR combined with another slow like RoF/Ice Storm/Rain of Fire.

So basically: Focus on acc/rech, a little slow enh is nice but not super important.

Am using this oppertunity to update my rad guide

This.

You could find some people interested in forming a group here on Champion, but you'd probably have better luck on Virtue.

Have a poke around the Virtue forums, I'd imagine they've got a lot of information there on the RP scene and what kinds of groups are running.

Myr, link is here

You can jump to Castles two posts on the matter via the Dev Digest as usual.

Might not have been intentional. I'm not super experienced with the Patrons on a STF but if their aggro is at all like the aggro like the Freedom Phalanx on a RSF it can be hellishly difficult and largely down to luck.

You're half right The Cold shields don't receive any PB buff at all due to their having a resist component.

The FF shields also have resist components but they're flagged as unaffected by buffs/etc, unlike the Cold ones which can be enhanced.