Twilight_Snow

The low levels are pretty quick. It's probably not too big a deal to pick powers in a slightly different order. And I'm not quite sure that having both assault and dispersion bubble before stamina will be easy for endurance, given that bubbling can be quite exhausting by itself.

For my force-field defender, I eventually respec out of force bolt, as I found that there are few situations that really need force bolt. Most of the time, team mates have no problems with the mob, I can let them stand there to kill, just that if I force bolt, they can simply move a couple steps and continue to kill.

For the posted build, I'll probably slot some powers slightly differently. For example, I'll put a endurance reduction for the deflection and insulation shield instead of recharge. If you buff a player with both shields, the first shield should be already recharged when you go to the next player.

I think you probably want some endurance reduction for toggles like hover and temporary invulnerability. You can see how endurance usage is like with conserve power, and your +end proc in stamina before buying the miracle and Numina unique. The endurance problem may not be as serious as you envisioned, in particular if you can use IO sets later. Although the toggles that you picked are nice, maybe you don't really need that many.

I picked force bubble and detention field myself. Force bubble is actually ok. I use force bubble in a passive way. I turn it on all the time and stand at the back of the team. Squishies can jump in and out of the force bubble to shed aggro. Great for messy situation like ambush spawning on top of the team for example. You probably need to self soft cap defense though, such that you won't get defeated from the aggro you get. Up till now, the only good use of detention field is to bubble the towers in STF. My other attempts of using it are mostly hilarious.

Do all summoners keep on summoning? Whether people farm or not depends on the xp. If the pet xp is relatively low, it's more efficient to grab a new mission.

Parhelia, level 50 empathy/dark blast defender, signs up for all of them.

I run at -1/x1

Yes, resistable debuff will affect resistance sets and defense sets in roughly the same way. However, if you only compare the defense sets, does resistable debuff affect them the same way?

Maybe further discussion on EA will lead the thread too far away. The reason I mentioned EA in the first place is that the resistable -res/-def debuff suggestion is a little problematic. While it does remove the disparity between resistance and defense, rage will then affect different defense sets differently. The same is true for resistance sets. While it is technically correct that this is an issue of defense debuff resistance, not an issue of the suggestted rage, I'm not sure this is the best solution.

EA and super reflexes are just examples. EA has utilities like stealth and endurance management. While these utilities might not add much to survival, you can't make EA the same as super reflexes, then add stealth and endurance management on top. Therefore, the defense (and probably defense debuff resistance) in EA has to be lower. In the brute forum, we tried to fight for a better EA for a long time, and a higher defense debuff resistance is one of the suggestion. All we got is a small heal and toxic resistance in an irrelevant passive.

Technically, as you said, defense debuff resistance is a measure of how easily something (including mobs and rage) can affect defense. I think it's probably intended as a measure of how easily mobs can affect defense. Super reflexes have high resistance because the power set only has defense. Other power sets usually have lower resistance because they have other layers of mitigation. Let's say if rage is changed to have a resistable defense debuff, I'm not sure energy aura can then ask for a higher defense debuff resistance just because of rage.

Mainly low defense against psionic (toxic is a little problematic as well), and not enough defense debuff resistance. The stealth is not useful most of the time, people take energy cloak for the defense. With energy drain, conserve power is not really useful, except during overload crash.

EA does not really suck. Just that a power set has only 9 powers, it is not very appealing when the toggles and passives are just standard, and the special features are not that useful.

We could not find the original post, but here is a recent post by Castle.

I think bubbles can be consistent with resistance. For every incoming attack, the bubble deflects away part of the damage, and the rest comes through to hit. For defense, the bubble acts differently: attacks are either completely deflected, or can bypass the bubble to hit.

In this game, I think most resistance powers are like a layer on the body. If an attack hits, the body resists part of it. I guess this is where the suggestion of this thread comes from. From the Warshade's power description, it's not clear that the graphics have to be a bubble or not. Probably, the bubble is what the designer envisioned the powers should look like.

In the midnighter's club, when you are far away from a lady, she will pull up her skirt.



When you're closer, she will put it back down.

I think the spawn needs to be on some sort of timer though. I believe the design is that the next spawn should somehow overlap with the current spawn, such that the team can be overwhelmed in some way. If the next spawn comes only when the current one is completely done, then the team will never be overwhelmed.

Yeah, the original version was harder. The argument is that people do respec because they are gimped. The respec shouldn't make gimped toons fail.

Currently, the mobs are spawned at certain fixed time intervals. I think if new tech can be implemented to measure the killing rate of players, then the spawn rate can be automatically adjusted on the fly. If players can kill very fast, then mobs can spawn continuously.

I'm not sure if it is a good idea to present challenges by imposing handicap on players or changing the rules of the game. I think it's interesting. It might be ok if the suggestions are not that extreme. It would be better if you can beat players when they are at their best, not when they are in a bad shape.