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weird that they'd bother then

that's not the only problem with the set :/

dont see that choice in CoV

i'd like illusion as a primary, even if i had to lose my control

mm's can't control their pets that well either

a few have 1 or 2 ranged attacks in their primary

though they could just weaken those accordingly, if they upped the range modifier...

so there's no point to doing 2 in a zone? that's kinda dum

doesnt resist toxic though


btw, anyone got final res numbers for this set? (to compare with the other resist sets, which all have a self heal)

that's dumb then

castle said that stalker snipes WITH crit (from hide) will do .9 of blaster snipes

and stalkers only get BU, while blasters can get BU and aim, so stalkers snipes could only out-damage a blaster's if the stalker used BU and was hidden, and the blaster used neither aim or buildup

if they changed that...that's retarded

can anyone confirm/deny this?

does it resist confuse/fear?

brutes, stalkers, etc have a higher modifier on their melee attacks than their ranged attacks

for example a stalker using the same snipe as a dark corrupter (moonbeam) will do far less damage, because stalkers are meant to be weaker with ranged attacks and stronger with melee

there's more detail than that, but im not a dev or a supernerd

tanks and scrappers complained about their ranged epic powers being weak back when they were first introduced, so they got this fix too. im surprised it wasn't automatically given to the villains too, since the devs went through this already

what about trollers with illusion (or other pets) going in and out of PFF dropping holds in the interim? why was that not nerf-worthy?

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is that the only fix planned to be implemented before i7 hits live?

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FYI: Electric Shields' Grounding Power will have Immobilize and Knockback Protection added. The set will still not have a Heal power or HP Buff power.

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will it remain a passive?

well now we just all have to take aid self and hope our lack of defense lets it go off

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Honestly, what's _Castle_ going to do. Best thing that will happen is people keep saying how poor they are compared to the APPs and maybe 2-3 months down the line, you might see a change. It's not like they are going to scrap this entire issue and the Patron sets. Reason why Lord Recluse quit was because he couldn't do the things he wanted to do with the epic pools (or so it is rumored).

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Gooooood news

I PMed _Castle_ about the ranged modifier issue for stalkers/burtes V.S. scrappers/tanks that Kerzak posted and he just responded. "You are correct! Thanks. Maybe we'll get the villain PPPs set up similarly." Thanks for Kerzak for bringing the issue to light and we all know _Castle_ is the man!

err.. Am I not supposed to quote a dev directly form a PM?

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so our ranged attacks will compare with laser eyes now? thank god

vills dont get force mastery, psi mastery, body mastery, etc

on test i swapped out the passives on my nb/sr stalker for stimulant/aidself, and noticed immediately a much longer longevity

oh well, every set's gotta have some skippable powers so you can fill holes with power pools, right? lol

slakers? lol

fire and dark have self heals though

might wanna PM that stuff to a dev, they might've stopped reading this past pg 10 or so

i've tried about 5 different combos of doms up to about lvl 12 (have a plant/fire i've gotten to 14)

yes i took the holds and not the immobs

but the control is just lacking on most until past lvl 20, it's like I could hold 1 guy and do some soft control on another, and do some piddly-[censored] damage, and leech off the team mostly

I'd rather have 2 control sets instead of 1 control set and 1 crappy damage set

oh well, guess doms aren't for me

too bad the passives aren't worth taking on stalkers

and our rock shouldn't be just a wet ball of dirt

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That maybe it.

Well you can ignore me, carry on

Oh and I appreciate the number crunching you and the others are doing.

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i appreciate it too. too bad the devs didnt bother doing it to tell that these powers are crap

if we're level 41, we should be getting stronger powers than we could get at lvl 4

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So, say a group member puts sonic or fire shields on my bots, those shields somehow cease to exist when the bot interposes itself between me and the attack? That's just dumb. The attack should auto-hit on the bot of course, but the bot's resistances should still apply, his metal hide, or any resistance based shields aren't going to just vanish.

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i know it should, but it doesnt. dummmmmmbb