Test_Rat

Originally Posted by Obscure Blade

When you have a pet that spams cone attacks, it is fairly questionable yes. And IIRC it also generates aggro, so you can't even use it for stealthing. Now if they turned it into a pulsing sleep effect like Static Field that would be different, but I can't see them giving Plant/ a second really good AoE control power.

Originally Posted by SinisterDirge

To my knowledge these, the following AT's can solo AV's:

Defenders
Corruptors
Controllers
Blasters
Dominators
Masterminds
Scrappers
Brutes
Tanks

Haven't specifically heard if stalkers or H/Veats but I wouldnt be suprised, and I'm sure someone will come and say they have. The question is what you have to sacrifice in your build in order to do so. Again, that is not what the game is balanced around, and thank heavens, all that single target damage appeals to me not.

Originally Posted by Enyalios

Did @Smurphy ever do purple farms? I believe he's not even active in the game at the moment so if the prices are high and he's involved its cause he's not doing it atm.

I think the core issue here is that alot of people who used to spend alot of inf on other parts of their build like LotG +7.5% and Numina/Miracle uniques are now finding those recipes cheaper which leaves more inf for the ultra-rare stuff.

Additionally since amerit farming is new and shiny....and with old purple/pool C prices probably the best way to make inf.......alot of people haven't been purple farming. At one point in i14 I was popping more than 10% of all redside purples and making ooodles of inf (total earned was something along the lines of 45B over a month and a few days). If you want to complain about the prices being high but don't see the opportunity to make inf then well......you don't understand economics.

As for what the uber-rich on CoX do with their inf.....who cares....some maybe like to sit on piles of shiny inf like Smaug and be happy with the size of their pile. I don't do that....since I slotted out most of the toons I wanted slotted high-end, I have been blowing it up to get my duo-VG with spouse to #1 on prestige list on Freedom....and I only need like 200B more so I guess its time to go pop 10 purples a week again (which will make me alot of inf AND lower prices by increasing supply).

Originally Posted by SwellGuy

You mean you don't see the doom in the market the past month?!!!

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

... and this is a game. So whatever the Devs decide on, that's how the mechanics work. I mean, I've fired plenty of guns in my lifetime and not once could I curve a bullet like Bullet Rain, or toss them in the air to make the bullets go faster like Piercing Rounds. :/

Originally Posted by Smiling_Joe

What made you respec out of it?

Originally Posted by T_Immortalus

Brutes are not just for high end damage. They buffed(in my opinion) Fury by making it much easier to get up to 75% and keep it up there even if you're soloing at a relatively leisurely pace.


By the way, scrapper have worse crit chance than stalkers and both are HEAVILY dependent on luck with the RNG.
I like consistency a lot more and Fury is consistent.

Instead of 1 in 10 attacks being buffed 100%, I see every attack, after maybe the first 15 seconds, being buffed 135% or more.
That trumps even the perfect crit scenario.



I'll take higher defenses and higher consistent damage thank you very much, even if it takes a little initial ramp up.

Originally Posted by Fomsie

It does give a healthy bonus, yes. You do know that it does nothing against certain types of damage, right?

The point is that it would greatly help Stalkers, especially in the close quarters, mass chaos team situations when AoEs are flying to actually be able to make use of, you know, their inherent ability? You know the one... only does a lot of damage while hidden, right?

EDIT: And just to add, of the 50's I have and play, 3 are Scrappers, 2 are Brutes, 1 is a Tanker... none are Stalkers. This is just what I have seen in my 40 levels as a Stalker and in many times of teaming with them and seeing their usefulness hampered compared to the other melee ATs. It is currently too easy for a Stalker's main offense and defense to be not just hindered, but completely nullified.

Originally Posted by Smiling_Joe

For what it does, its accuracy ought to be practically autohit. It doesn't return you to hide, its nearly 2 second animation may mean you die even though your foes are de-aggroed to you, and it has the same 120 second recharge as Blinding Powder.

For comparison:

Blinding Powder - doesn't aggro, carries a sleep, a chance to confuse, a 7.5% tohit debuff, and a chance to hold. It has almost half the cast time and 120 second recharge.

FOR THE SAME RECHARGE, Smoke flash offers: a 1.4 accuracy AoE that de-aggros you that activates in almost twice the time. That's it. It doesn't return you to hidden status and enable you to crit, it breaks hide which makes it useless as a pre-emptive strike on high perception targets.

Speaking of high perception targets, most of them - like Rikti Drones - have enough defense to render that extra .4 accuracy that smoke bomb does get irrelevant.




Except Smoke Bomb actually doesn't carry any kind of tohit debuff whatsoever. All it does is placate up to ten targets without returning you to hide, all the while breaking whatever hide effect you have on you.

Since Blinding Powder doesn't aggro to begin with, I'm unsure how you're stacking it in ANY useful way with Blinding Powder.

If Smoke Bomb had a very short activation and recharge, I'd have more room for it in a build. If it returned you to hide, I'd have MUCH more room for it in my build. If it didn't break hide when you used it I'd have more room for it.

Quite frankly I'd be better off just grabbing a phase temp power.