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The quickest way in Mids to cap S/L defense is to slot Kinetic Combats in your melee attacks. In reality though it can take a really long time to gather a full set of Kinetic Combats. On my EM/EA I slotted Smashing Haymaker in my melee attacks and when I finally acquire a full set of Kinetic Combats I just slot them over the Haymakers.

Haymakers grant 1.88 where as Kinetics offer 3.75 to s/l defense. IIRC

It's rain made out of fire.

RoF is a great soft control in the early game. Way back in the day, when everyone did the Hollows, which meant everyone was doing Frostfire, I took RoF cause I new I could keep teams alive at a certain point in that mission. You come around a corner and the hallway goes forward and then heads to the left, there's a door to a room at the point where that hallway cuts to the left. There's a mob in that room and a mob between you and the that room.

Nowadays people have learned and generally pull the first mob, but back then people would rush the first mob and get wiped by the second mob pouring out of the room. RoF if dropped in that doorway would force the second mob to scatter to the back of that room and leave the team alone for the duration of RoF.

One of the other things I liked about RoF, was if you're going to use it as a control power it doesn't require alot of slots. This all took place back when I was 6 slotting stamina and hasten. So having a power that only required the default slot, filled with a recharge, was a great bargin.

The higher in level you get the less need there is for the kind of soft control RoF offers , and since it's not really a power you can spam every time it's recharged you can't take it too early or your attack chain and DPS is gonna suffer.

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Only /fire toon I have is sonic/fire so I don't have any advice or an opinion on HOt Feet since I skipped it. FSC and combustion have got some funky animation times. FSC delivers its damage very quickly but there's this pause at the end of the power when you can't do any thing (I'm very happy to say the pause isn't as bad a couple years ago). Combustion is the total opposite, you fire it off, do this real long animation and then you deal the damage.

With my sonic/fire my favorite tactic is to shockwave a mob(plural) into a corner, howl, sleep them, jump into the middle hitting Aim, Bu on the way in, fire off combustion

during the combustion animation you get to play the "when during this animation are they going to wake up. Most of the times it towards the end of the animation, I say most because it sure isn't always.

and then fire off FSC. Going Combustion then FSC lets you cluster the damage closer together, using them in opposite order spreads that damage out.

Would anyone skip Energy Transfer?

how did we know 375 million wasn't the highest bid at the time.

sounds like Panzer dodged a bullet either way.

Back when this game was under previous management

I haven't played my fire/dev in ages but I to be pretty good at judging how far time bomb could toss a boss and laying out 4 or 5 trip mines in the spot the boss would land at. Death Mages in Founders feared me. I've had alot of fun with it in the past but if I ever roll another /dev blaster again Time Bomb will be on the short list of powers most likely to be skipped. It will be listed right below Gun Drone.

Awsome.

I'd assume GR as well since the pattern is named after one of the GR factions.


Not complaining but I hope I can get a pattern like that without the little S.

Still Awsome

What is British Summer Time?

Is it your version of daylight savings?

If this event was happening in November would it say British Winter Time?

I've not paired the two but something I think about playing my earth/earth is do I use my AOE immobilize or not. If I use stone cages I grant everyone I hit KB/KD resistance which means I just cancelled out the mitigation that earth assualt has. Grav's AOE immobilize doesn't have any KB/KD protection so you wouldn't have to worry about losing a whole secondaries worth of mitigation at once.

I wonder if you leave Pretoria as a vigilante/rouge or you are a full blooded villain/hero?

If you have to choose between full blooded hero and villain, going villain is gonna be extra lame. Hey your level 20 and a villain time for you to leave this cool new zone and head to Sharkshead Island.

Unless GR introduces some insane powers and abilities that reward being full blooded heroes/villains over being rouge/vigilante every toon I have is gonna be grey.

I hope this powerset has a power like Swap Ammo. A toggle with immediate recharge that controls the magnitude of KB. Well that sounds like a boring power, maybe the toggle sould grant +kb and +dmg.