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Quote:Replace with two KB and one range!Originally Posted by Fiftycalsniper
Wait, Gale isn't an attack? Dammit, now I have to pull out my 3 slots of damage enhancers that are in it! Boooooo! -
Quote:Actually, I have been running an Emp/Ice defender solo without using any Vet powers and I was thinking the same thing. It occurred to me that removing the end use of those 2 powers might be helpful when I found that if I stopped using them I had fewer endurance problems (although I might have some health problems). Unless I really need to kill an enemy quick or I am just being impatient, I try not to use either power anymore (which is very hard, since Ice Blast only gets 2 single target attacks up until level 28).Originally Posted by Kruunch
This would work for Tankers (and Scrappers) but wouldn't necessarily mesh well with ranged based sets (most others).
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Quote:Because nothing is more fun for the player of that melee AT than being the only (or at least the last) survivor of team-wipe they caused in their arrogance?Originally Posted by Turbo_Ski
You're purposely making playing a melee AT not fun anymore by simply using force bubble and you're being a jerk when asked to stop using it. Yes I would have kicked you immediately for such an attitude.
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Quote:lol.Originally Posted by Catwhoorg
Yeah. The one downside is the time from starting he animation to the first tick of damage. Nothing is worse than a daft tank changing their mind about where they were grouping foes up after you have started.
I have wormholed entire spawns out from under my SG mate's Arch/Devices RoA. 
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Quote:Rain of Arrows is fantastic on a team of blind monkeys!Originally Posted by Catwhoorg
Im a big fan of my arch/NRG, in fact he just hit 50 last night.
Rain of arrows is fantastic on a team that understands (or solo in fact). I have built for a decent chunk of ranged defence. Sat not quite at the soft cap, but close.
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Quote:If only there was some other power in the game with a similar result, but much more team friendly.Originally Posted by Oliin
No, what they need to do is make Time Bomb into a power that's easily usable in a group setting and then port that change over to /devices.
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Not that I um ... have any /devices blasters or anything, certainly not a 50 .... -
Quote:Just so you know, I believe the stun is pretty iffy, 20% chance IIRC, however, the Knockback is guaranteed and is usually plenty to give you the needed time to resolve the situation somehow.Originally Posted by Leese
If Lightning Clap doesn't require much slotting I might try it. I already have 2 holds, a hold proc and a stun, which is starting to feel like I rolled a controller, but given how badly things can go for me if I don't get the drop on the enemies or I'm ambushed an AOE stun might be very useful.
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How many slots do you have to spare for these last two powers?
Do you like to use your melee attacks, you already have three and Charged Brawl is a great addition, but only if you can slot it. Power Sink is a fabulous Endurance recovery tool; I would call it a must have, but some people attack less prolifically than I and find they can do without.
Lightning Clap is a decent control tool and doesn't require slotting beyond the base slot for an Accuracy. -
*stunned at the deplorable lack of cookies*
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Quote:I was thinking, how about City Vault?Originally Posted by Wuigly_Squigly
New forums, thats nice, now how bout that there 16th issue.
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Yay! New Blood. Welcome world.
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I believe Shadowfall and Steamy Mist used to have movement penalties. Removing the -jump speed from MM Shadowfall must have been accidentally missed.
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Have you started your EMP/ICE character yet ?
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I have. Level 5. Obviously, cake so far. Hard Drive is full, so I have to actually compress some video and make some new movies before I can continue because I want to try to video a bunch of the stuff until level 20. -
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actual belief that my team will actually follow me into the battle (usually the reason I tend to die)
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I get that. I find that, usually, the team gets it after my second or third death and all of a sudden they start keeping up. Sometimes, they never get it, sadly.
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Even 30 seconds I start to get itchy.
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Your patience astounds me.
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Its very hard to convince me that 7 other people can enjoy HUGE rewards that I provide, but cannot also provide to myself.
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When you make a blaster on your team unkillable with bubbles, you ARE providing HUGE rewards to yourself.
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WHY then is it somehow balanced that he can do JUST THAT to 7 other people in a team.
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Some might say its not balanced.
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There is NO HARM in everyone soloing decently (Albeit at different capabilties) because TEAMING will ALWAYS be BETTER.
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This is demonstrably not always the case, there are aspects of the game where soloing is "better". Also, all defenders already solo "decently", although I agree there is room for minor improvement.
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So I REJECT your notion of SOLO (team-agnostic) or SUPPORT (Team-reliant) and say that it is simply a fact of Game genesis.
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I kind of like that there are some ATs that solo very well but only team decently, while other ATs team very well but only solo decently. The variety of experience is very nice. I like that there are powers that require a teammate to be useful, especially when those powers are as amazing as bubbles, Fortitude, and Speed Boost. -
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Shockwave and Focus aren't powers that are going to generate near-equivalent performance to an entire secondary.
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I teamed with Iakona on Test with their Claws/Regen. People underestimate what can be done with Shockwave and Focus. Vastly. -
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Yeah I would pretty much lose faith in the AT if they went thru the powersets and instead of boosting sets like Empathy, we got Rad, Dark, Storm, etc... NERFED so they too could solo poorly. ::::Shivverrr:::
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I'm saying that based on past history there's no reason to believe blasters are unlikely to get a straight port of the 10% Life Drain. It's not overpowered by any stretch of the imagination.
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Overpowered has little to do with it, IMO. Life Drain is not Blastery. That isn't a death knell for it, every set has something odd about it. I want Aim and I hope the Devs believe in its near necessity as well; the logical sacrifices would be Dark Pit and Life Drain. I'd like to see them both removed and Dark Obliteration and Aim added, but I could see keeping either Pit or Life Drain and just adding Aim. -
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Could go for an ice cream cake...
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This.
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Defenders tend to use less endurance on teams because they don't have to spend it all killing things. My Dark/Rad Defender has never had endurance issues on teams, not in Issue 1, not in Issue 7, not in Issue 15. Solo, though, he's always running out despite my slotting.
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I think the real reason is because slow people delay the team inbetween battles, so you have more time to recover.
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That could explain why my experience is mildly different. Most teams I am on move quicker than we should. -
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Yep would of loved therm and fire but instead we get Traps and AR??? whats up with that.
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to me it's a toss up...
Emp/Fire is a combo i've wanted ever since I became the self-proclaimed Emeril Lagasse of Empathy...
TA/AR is a combo I've wanted since I realized how brokenly powerful the combination will be.
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Empathy/Fire? What would your character name be? "Feel the Burn"?
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The only thing I think I want more than Empathy / Fire Blast would be Empathy / Fire Manipulation (or Fire Manipulation / Empathy, depending on how an AT like that might be designed). -
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Im wondering if the people that complain about vigilance actually monitor their end redux?
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I actually do not monitor it, but if my team fails to take damage, I can't help but notice that I run out of endurance. Its not a big issue at that point, since a team taking no damage is usually doing well enough that it won't matter if I have to slow down a bit on shooting stuff.
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Green numbers are but one of a Defenders many vital uses and one of the only things Vigilance works for, to some degree.
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I never understood the fascination people have with blaming healing for vigilance. Healing ruins vigilance. Enervating Field is an expensive toggle that is, hopefully, preventing your team from dying, but not stopping vigilance. RI is a cheap toggle that hopefully prevents vigilance, but if something goes wrong, it does not eliminate vigilance. Dropping Tar Patch and using DN and FS are all much easier with a bit of vigilance.
The single best thing about vigilance, IME, is being able to blast and blast and blast without worrying about my blue bar. That often saves a team health loss and endurance.
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It's one powerset proliferated from two others.
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Just like that Dark Manipulation secondary for blasters is one powerset proliferated from three others.
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Jack & Coke?
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I am fond of Windsor & Coke or a good lager.