SinisterDirge
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I would eat a bag of doritos and sleep the devils lettuce off.
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Quote:Dont get me wrong Local_Man, as I accede you have superior knowledge of illusion, and most likely of poison as well. That said with the pairing of these sets, I would hope there would be more than enough control available to keep the mobs inside the rain. 2 pbaoe holds should more than handle anything boss level and under,and then you have 2 quick firing single target holds to grab anything missed by the pbaoe's. I'd figure you would want to be using them anyway to keep the mobs placed for venemous gasses. Maybe I am wrong, but that is most likely how I would play it.Originally Posted by Local_Man
First, I disagree with switching out Frost Breath for Ice Storm for an Illusion controller. Frost Breath is all up-front damage, which is far better to leverage illusory damage. Ice Storm is all DoT and foes can run out of the area since Illusion has no way to hold them in the area.
Also, looking at it again, I would get another slot in PT and slot the lockdown proc in it.
Imo, defence looks fine if you are planing on poping two small purples to cap you. Otherwise, I would build for more(Not that big a worry with perma PA mind you.). I would also slot weaken with cloud senses for the recharge over siphon insight for acc. -
Switched in some purple sets, and most of the panacea set. Pretty expensive build now, but build is at 141% recharge before hasten. Also slotted a winters gift in so you have resistance to recharge debuffs, which perma pa will appreciate. Oh, and if losing recall friend is a deal breaker, sorry.
Conversely, to keep everything as it is and keep the cost down get your spiritual alpha slotted.
Its an interesting combination. Will freaking wreck av's and probably gm's.
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Quote:It doesn't work on pets period. Well, at least you can target a pet to fire it off, no idea if the get buffed or not.Originally Posted by SteelDominator
I beleive it's only controllable pets that vengeance has effect on.
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Quote:Sounds like a job for test server. Interesting idea though.Originally Posted by Colt_Martin
Does this work? Top it off with vengeance, and you have a big angry mob. I'd like to know for sure before I respec, I'm worried it Gang War might "cap" at 10 pets, and I just wind up with double the duration or something.
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Quote:If you are selling, pm me. WTB means want to buy mate.Originally Posted by Theshakingleaf
Still looking to sell
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I love the doom and gloom about pay to win in this thread. Quite refreshing after reading a thread where the op is specifically asking what he can purchase to improve the power of his toons, and the majority are replying with rocket board or extra enhancement slots. Pay to win indeed.
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I used to dream I could fly. I still do, but I used to too.
Mine are always dreams of falling a great distance, and slowly coming to the conclusion that I am not going to hit ground, so start trying to control the fall(Thats kinda like flying right? Throwing yourself at the ground and missing?). Funny thing is, I have never parachuted, but that is exactly what I imagine a freefall with a glider suit to be like.
I also get dreams where I am drowning only to realise I can actually breathe, and end up chilling out swimming and exploring. Merman Dad. I'm a Merman! -
It was stated as a subjective contest in the second sentence. I may recommend that next time you ask everyone to pm you the build Op. Less chance of buthurt when you pick a build subjectively.
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Quote:Hah. I have an angry black clown named Ohmie D Clown.Originally Posted by Local_Man
he is dressed in an Orange vest, khaki pants and a white short-sleeve shirt, and named "Ohm Depot."
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Quote:My buddy runs one. It is absolutely ridiculous what he can do on that toon.Originally Posted by OneFrigidWitch
I run elec/psi/ice.
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Most of my experience is with traps, so if I erred on reslotting any of the dp powers, take that into consideration. I tried to leave as much of the feel of the build as possible, while improving the effectiveness of your traps. You will notice the numbers are pretty high on sm/l and e. However, a single small purple will softcap you to all types and positions.
TomG is correct, hovertrapping is a pita. Of course, if you are used to it, and like it, concept trumps all.
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This post took me a bit to find.
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Quote:looks like a hand up in the air saying "pick me" or "I know the answer teach"Originally Posted by Gruntle
.o/ = Waving Hello
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I am not a dom expert either. Psi is a popular choice because drain psyche(I think) gives incredible survivability. Also, most farming doms I have run across swear by /ice for hoarfrost and sleet.
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Quote:It's not unusual to build toons that will be loved by anyoneOriginally Posted by Angelxman81
I always made the wrost combos possible, with poor singergies.
It's not unusual to kick mobs in the junk with anyone
but when I see you busting heads with just about anyone
It's not unusual to see me try,
oh I wanna' cry.
It's not unusual to eat dirt at any time
but when I see you out and about stopping crime
if you should ever want to be teamed with anyone,
It's not unusual it happens every day no matter what you say
you find teaming happens all the time
Lovee will never do what you want it to
why can't this crazy love be mine
It's not unusual, to be mad with anyone
It's not unusual, to be sad with anyone
but if I ever find that you've changed powers at anytime
it's not unusual to find out that I'm in love with you
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I second the dark/dp defender combo. Kin and colds are pretty uber, but with a smudge just under -40% dmg aoe with darkest night running, dark is more reliable for my purposes.
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I would just like to second(or third, fourth) the request to add/sticky the different ATs to this sub forum. I might even recommend adding the AT's primary sets as a subforum to the ATs.
There are way too many build possibilities. I doubt I will ever get past the third or fourth page.
Also, Is there a way to go back and change the title of a thread? I mean, what if there comes a time where I am not actually interested in any more feedback? What if with the help of my peers the build has achieved perfection? The tittle would be there, mocking people, because they couldn't infact make any constructive feedback?
While we are fixing up the forums, any way we can fix it so I stay logged in? Or because free players arn't as invested in actually going through the log in rigmarole, is the forum logout bug now just being called a security feature? "oh, SD didnt log out before he shut down his browser... lets do it for him!"
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Quote:The affected mobs get the regular old -resist debuff aura(red shield with down arrows) like if you get debuffed by a sonic if I recall correctly.Originally Posted by Donna_
Ah brilliant ok thanks, I have made a Rad/Poison corr, was looking to see if I could hit -res cap in groups... was looking at Achillies Proc in irridate and Nut.Bomb, PvP -res proc in Irridate also, then another Achillies in Envenom and Venomous Gas toggle....
Is -res cap 70% ? and is there a way to see when procs Fire and on who ?
Ta.
Considering with just envenom and venomous gas gives you just about -50% there will likely be multiple mobs in the spawn at -70%, but they will be pretty random.
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Fire/traps corruptor. All the things you do to support the team work just as well if solo.
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The fury of the gladiator proc will stack with it though.
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Forum logout ate my (imo better)response this am, so if this seems disjointed, my appologies.
Quote:Absolutely. I dont think that was the best game design decision though. but since I dont have a way to fix it, I am not going to ***** too much about it.Originally Posted by Katie V
Because of the way the game computes power boosts, if Power Boost affected resistance powers, so would Fulcrum Shift. I'm sure you can see how that would be overpowered.
First, I just want to say thank you for the in depth explanation. It is exactly what I was looking for. A follow up question though. In the end game, where all the debuffs are flying around at saturation levels, and defence ekes out ahead, would it not be possible to increase the availability of resistance bonuses without kicking balance in the teeth and at least make resistance a viable option?(Perhaps with bonuses that don't examp down past 45, much like the incarnate abilities)Quote:Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Where this flips is in the end game, where *all* debuffs are pretty much flying around at often saturation levels. In that situation, being able to avoid *anything* is better than getting hit from everything and then resisting the damage. Its specifically in the end game that defense becomes much more preeminent than resistance. Outside of it, its much more balanced: defense avoids debuffs, but defense itself can be much more easily removed.
In fact, its specifically because the devs have always had the ace in the hole that they haven't been as bothered by giving out lots of defense, in power pools, in invention bonuses, etc. The devs wield two trivial ways to nullify high defense: defense debuffs which work on almost everyone, and tohit buffs which work on everyone. Keep in mind that the primary way to punch through resistance is to increase damage, and that doesn't just offset high resistance, it kills everyone else. The alternative is something the players often find far more "cheating" than tohit buffs: unresistable damage.
It makes sense that increasing damage could be a bad thing, and while there is the two shot rule, squishies probably don't want to be two shotted by average minions. Is leveraging -resists a worse option because resist debuffs are in fact resisted by resists?(I dont know how it works, I have just heard that it indeed does) How is that different than softcapped defence avoiding defence debuffs 95% of the time? Is part of the issue that say you have no defence(regen scrapper) you can basically laugh at defence debuffs, but with resistance debuffs, if you have no resistance, getting debuffed means the mobs will be hitting you far harder?
Understood. Again, not the way I would have designed it standing here 7 years later, but since hindsight is 20/20, and I have no idea how to do it better, I will just accept it for what it is.Quote:So why can't powerboost buff your smashing resistance? Well, the only way to do that would be to buff your character's Smashing Strength, and that would also buff your Smashing damage - Power Boost would simultaneously be Build Up. In fact, *all* powers that boost "damage" are intrinsically *trying* to boost your resistances as well: they are the same effect. So to make sure that all damage buffs aren't simultaneously resistance buffs the devs at the beginning of time set all resistance powers to ignore all buffs except those slotted into them. As a result, resistance powers can't be buffed by Power Boost even if the devs wanted Power Boost to do that: the resistance powers themselves are designed to ignore that.
This doesn't affect defense because defense has nothing to do with damage. What we call "smashing defense" doesn't have anything to do with smashing damage at all: its actually something called "smashing_attack" defense, a totally different thing with a similar name. These are what we call "attack vectors" and every attack is tagged with them. To put it simply, if a power deals smashing typed damage, its obvious dealing smashing typed damage. But if a power deals smashing typed damage, that has nothing to do with what defense works on it. If, and only if, the devs have tagged the power "smashing_attack" will smashing defense work on it. If they don't, it won't.
Defense and Resistance are based on totally different mechanisms that have nothing to do with each other. But Resistance is linked to Damage, and that's why it has entanglements with how Damage works. Defense is totally unrelated to damage.
Again, Thanks Arcana.
An interesting read. I am surprised I haven't read it before.Quote:Originally Posted by Sailboat
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Quote:4x Sonic corrs just running Sonic dispersion will just about cap everything but psi(71.56 if 4 sloted with ribo's) That gives everyone 2 extra power picks if you want to ignore the shields which I would probably recommend.Originally Posted by Pyro_Master_NA
On a shielder, after 2 people cast, the other two are pointless.
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A buddy of mine is complaining about the same issue. He is not new to building toons at all and was surprised he was able to make an end heavy willpower toon.
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4 fire/sonic corrs softcapped. Capped resistance and -90% resistance paired with fires aoe's. Th-th-th-th-that's all folks!
Honestly, ANY pairing of a buff/debuff set will make things melt real nice.