Tater Todd

Originally Posted by Deus_Otiosus

A friend of mine got turned away from a team on his Fort because "we have too many melee".

Let that sink in a moment.




Some people, are just dumb.

Originally Posted by Calhou

In /Poison, I'd suggest taking everything except:

Antidote
Elixir of Life
Poison Trap

In Sonic/, I'd suggest taking everything except:

Screech
Shockwave
Dreadful Wail

That said, you may well want to try these powers out, and take them if you like them.

Originally Posted by _Pine_

How exactly?
Envenom -30% *unstackable +15% single Target
Venomous Gas -18.75% *unstackable
AH proc for another -20%
Equals: -83.75% res

*And to Local Man*
I think we need to agree to disagree. Neither of us are going to back down and agree

Originally Posted by Dz131

I meant to type GM killer :P I mean all that is good and all but it looks like the degen is lacking to take out any gms

Originally Posted by Dz131

Why is /traps considered the AV killer? The -1000 regen is nice, but it's only 10 seconds and next to impossible to perma. I don't know how people manage it.

Originally Posted by Kioshi

Is it better on Tornado? Never had the power. I don't think I need more than 2 achilles (I have another in FR), so I may move if it's better than on FlyTrap (she has the cone thorns attack so I thought she'd be better for the proc).

I'm thinking about trading the slows on FR for recharge IOs (since I have snow storm and roots guess I'd better make FR ble to double stack) and finding a slot to add another damage proc in roots.

Originally Posted by DMystic

Well look at it this way one AS dealt 9% of the AV's total health.
2 would be 18, 3 brings it up to 27 etc.

now lets look at 8

8 AS is 72% of the Av's health

not even a team focused on buffs/debuff's and getting the Av's res and regen to the debuff cap, while damage capping themselves could take AV's down that fast.

Originally Posted by EvilRyu

I agree, the more I look at these changes are paper I do not think its going to be enough. Essentially what we need is for our single target damage to be equivalent to aoe in terms of killing power. What I see with the changes though is it makes stalkers closer to how brutes are in the early levels. Most brutes get a hard hitting attack like KO blow or Seismic Smash. But that does not help us in the end game. I still think we to revist the scaling AS idea that was tested a few issues back, it just does not need to be as powerful as before though. Maybe take off 5% of an AV's health instead of 9% it was doing.

Originally Posted by ketch

Given recent betas, this is probably, sadly true. At least we'll still get Spooky though I wonder if it will still be possible to have him out full time.

Originally Posted by Obscure Blade

Um, Darkness Manipulation? Just this last Issue?

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Even I've said this in the past, but that was in the context of talking about full mez protection. We all have damage, that doesn't mean its pointless for the critters to have health.

Melee gets mez protection: mez just doesn't affect them, at all. If we gave blasters mez resistance then the *duration* of mez would decrease but they'd still be affected by it. That wouldn't make mez pointless. In fact, it would cut directly to the heart of one particular problem with mez. In order for mez to have *any* chance at affecting a melee archetype - and they are supposed to be *theoretically* threatened by mez - it has to stack. To stack, it has to last long enough to have a chance to stack. But that duration is not just acting to give mez a chance to affect melee, its also just plain killing squishies. There's no other rational explanation for 30 second stun grenades except a) they are long duration to have a chance at stacking on melee if they allow themselves to get pounded by them or b) the devs are sadistic bastards.

Another thing about mez protection is that there's no specific reason why blasters would have to obtain protection against *all* mez. In fact, only two mezzes are problematic: stuns and holds. Both prevent the blaster from taking reactive action, like using inspirations (except break frees). I don't care if blasters are vulnerable to sleep: sleep will only incapacitate until the blaster is hit again, and that train is never late. Terrorize is more problematic, but at least its a problem most things are in a similar boat to: most melee don't have terrorize protection either.

But when you can be held or stunned for a longer period of time than it takes to roll a new alt, that's a problem. And I do think there is something to the notion that long-duration mezzes are long duration at least in part to have a chance to stack, which means giving blasters mez resistance acts less to escape mez, and more to bring it back to reasonable levels of duration in the first place: levels of duration that would have been more likely if the devs didn't have to consider stacking and building mez against melee.