Tiny Bolt

What other games are they playing with less drama? Mariokart? Sorry, just can't think of a MMO off the top of my head with a LACK of drama.

And insert tired response of I don't have trouble finding teams. You ask people or you have a friends list for a reason. There are global chat channels. People still occasionally say things in zones, like broadcast chat. Also, the past couple nights the game has been packed. Just because it's not Freedom's population, it's not dead. Is it the busiest? No, but it's not low-pop, comparatively speaking.

Infinity isn't the best server, but I really don't see the basis of the accusations, but I'd love for you to set me in my place.

Man, I leave the game for a while and the whining gets lackadaisical. There are far better things to get worked up about.

Or the dev team got SO AWESOME while I was gone, this is the best you can come up with for complaints?

It wasn't so much 'meh' (in my section of the room)--there was a lot of cheering and happiness when they announced the two new powersets, and I think it was more the silence of thinking rather than the silence of meh considering we all laughed and clapped once the guy shouted out "I love you!". And realizing "Oh, that's the end of the video, whoops", given it cut out with no real...indication.

I know I watched it and mentally winced at the length of the animations. Coupled with the fact that I have no concept for kinetic melee anyways, I wasn't super excited about it. But I know a lot of people talked about it after the panel.

That being said, I'm actually excited for kinetic melee because yay more choices! I dislike melee toons because a lot of the choices are pretty much the same. This looks very different, which is exciting.
And I cannot WAIT for staves! They are one of two of my favorite weapons in real life.

Eye no, rite, it's AWFUL.

And alrighty. I really was just checking. I had the initial thought of willpower tanks as well, but I had rooted explained to me and such.

Sounds solid to me. As someone who has never ever even shown up at one.

Er...but wouldn't that make Invuln just the same as Stone Armor, since Earth's Embrace is functionally the same as Dull Pain? Or did you mean Earth's Embrace and Rooted?

I'm not really a tank person, but was just curious on the reasoning.

And I am free except for Tuesdays and Thursdays so far, just for scheduling purposes.

Did you ask her pretty please with cherries and sprinkles on top?

Speaking as the storm/ice he is duoing tfs with...mutation is useful. We tend to each herd half the level and then meet in the middle, which works well, except when I get distracted and kill myself, and I use my inspirations for things like lucks and such, rather than making wakies.

Ok, edit, since he changed his build since the last tf we did. I still stand by my statement that mutation is useful, especially for high level tfs.

Also, what should he take instead?

You look on the bottom right of the post. You see the little letter with a GIANT plus symbol on it? Click it on as many posts as you want to quote. Then hit 'new reply' at the bottom of the thread. Viola. Multiple posts, quoted!

Like magic.

The rest of the advice is solid, so I'm not adding anything to the ice/storm build help other than I would actually avoid the AoE immob unless you really like Tornado because while making sure they aren't getting knocked around means that Freezing Rain isn't knocking things on their butt, which is a huge mitagation in storm (think of doms and Ice Slick, freezing rain just also has a huge debuff attached).

And for Frost Breath vs Ice Storm...I take both, because I love AoE and cones. If I only had to pick one, I'd probably go with Ice Storm. It's a larger AoE and the animation isn't as long (I bunny hop like I'm on some fun substance when playing a stormy most of the time, so rooting really bothers me, but that's a personal playstyle thing). It's also highly useful as a 'oh, crud' power when you're trying to get some breathing room or gently encourage mobs to go one direction or another.

When I was leveling my ice/cold, I took Frost Breath first and put off Ice Storm for a long time...when I did that, I used Frost Breath as a ghetto Shiver (the cone slow from ice control set), rather than as an attack.

And as for the OP's question on how you control mobs low level before you get Freezing Ray? Snowstorm + ice blasts + ice storm/frost breath + eventually freezing rain= very slow mobs. If you know how to use knockback, Gale is actually pretty useful as well, just knock them against walls. Constantly.

Except it does a lot of tick damage. And looks far cooler. And is faaaar more powerful then the rest of the set. Yes, it has a long animation time, but it's recharge is short and has decent damage.

As for DP...haven't played the live version, but played it in beta and have been watching others play it on live...it's not the best set ever, but it's fun to play/watch and it isn't a terrible slouch in terms of damage. It does seem like it works better for 'fenders and corrs, and to be honest, I'm going to be a terrible person and say I'm ok with that.