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Originally Posted by Golden Girl

I think that's been around for a while - there are a few Statesman related jokes with the AE NPCs, inlcuding one that's complainong that their "Statesman's Furry Adventures" arc has been deleted 3 times for TOS violations

Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane

I'm just the deranged Tanker damage guy.




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Originally Posted by Kazz

Honestly, I just want them to take a look at:

1. Whirling Hands' radius. It doesn't make much sense that the Brute, the melee archetype, has an 8-foot radius on the attack when Dominators have a 15-foot radius.
2. Total Focus' animation. Currently, I'm utterly unimpressed with its DPA, especially when compared to the other "hard hitters" ala Knockout Blow.

If they change one or both of those, I can forgive my other nagging complaints (like the animation time of ET - I was never around during its glory days so I understand it needed a fix, but I think it might have been overfixed) and enjoy the set again.

Originally Posted by Airhammer

They really need to stop tweaking this set and fix it from the ground up..

Dimension Shift is crap and they know it... they should add an option for another power in the set like HEAT's and VEAT's have for those people who for some reason like that power.

They still arent addressing the problem with Wormholes excessive and unnecessary knockback and the fact that I get the crap shot out of me because the stun is applied AFTER they go through the wormhole...

Genuis...

Originally Posted by High Beam

You got that right. I played up my Mercs/Traps to 50 and even now still play her because she is A) Fun to play and B) a death machine.

Originally Posted by Jibikao

Yup you sure can. At first I thought it's harder but my SJ/Ice has no problem doing Placate + Uppercut. You just need to use it asap.

You can also do Placate + AS. You won't get interrupted but you also don't get critical.

This means Kinetic/Ice is better than I thought. At first I thought CE is interrupting too quick.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

I still think it should have been called the "critical state" because I said in CoV beta that calling it the hidden state when it doesn't actually have anything to do with stealth would be an indefinite source of confusion. It tended to promote the false belief that Hidden State = Placate or something else strange.

Being in the hidden state is very much like being in the right state to land a combo. In and of itself that's all it is: a flag that says your next attack will do something special. The confusion stems from the fact that the two primary ways to achieve that state is to either let Hide stealth you, or use the Placate power on a target.

In fact that's another endless source of confusion. The Placate power is not synonymous with the placate mez effect. The Placate power hits the target with the placate effect and simultaneously places the caster in the hidden state. The placate *effect* does not automatically place the stalker in the hidden state: using powers that have placate effects other than the actual Placate power does not put you into the hidden state.

So Placate placates and puts you into hidden, but the placate effect doesn't put you into hidden. The Placate power also does not Hide you when it puts you into the hidden state. Hide puts you into hidden and also stealths you, but doesn't placate anything. Overloading the words hide/hidden and placate was not the best idea.

Originally Posted by Razia

Just to add it again: I don't think anything is wrong with Traps, I love my DP/Traps incarnate. We're talking about out of combat powers here, like Time Bomb or Snipes. Plus you can't compare Traps to Devices. Traps is awesome.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Yeah, when you figure out a way to immobilize Infernal, Nosferatu or Brukholder, let me know, because I'd really like to know. On my end, they ignore Caltrops almost entirely and just shrug off web grenades. If I'm able to stack maybe five on them at a time, they get stopped, but I can't manage to stop them for more than a fraction of the second every once in a while.

Originally Posted by Purus

This occurred to me as I was reading Samuel Tow's post http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=281056. Traps is fairly useless on teams due to the high placement times etc etc but the one thing it does offer is ForceField Gen for +10% defence. Then I realised time has farsight for +9.38%

I then looked at it more and see a lot of similarities between the sets. Traps has more damage powers but time seems a better rounded set. They both have -def, -reg and -res. The heal power in time is better in time and time has better team buffs.

So.......do you all think bots/time is equal to bots/traps??????

On a side note how do Demons compare as a primary to Bots

Originally Posted by Microcosm

By "no budget" do you mean can't afford anything or have no budget limit?

If the stalker changes actually end up as they have been planned, on a top end build you will never need to use either of the first two powers or vengeful slice. Your chain would be Assassin>Ablat>Sweeping>Ablat with some very brief pauses; when build up recharges, make sure to use it before Assassin to get extra combo damage from the Stalker version of Sweep (BU>AS>Ablat).

Anyway, that gives you two attacks you can skip.

Originally Posted by EvilRyu

Why would you want this trash on a stalker? This set has not been good on scrappers since issue 2 when you could go perma-unstoppable and it has not been great on tanks since issue 4. So why would you want this? True enough you could work magic with IOs but you should not need IOs just so its workable.