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it's funny, a lot of ranged/melee damage sets were designed as secondaries for a tank/defender, rather than primaries for a scrapper/blaster, so they're underwhelming if you try to play them for actual damage. something something this is why powersets weren't initially proliferated like, what they SHOULD do, is tweak the DPS-facing version of Psi Melee to be better for dealing damage, and leave the tanker version alone, I imagine that's what Cryptic/Paragon were spending all their time on when they did powerset proliferations I'm kind of handwaving a lot at specific sets/the actual history of those sets but I think the basic premise is sound
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Flesh Forge posted:It's a phenomenal soft CC power that also does non trivial damage, alongside a reasonably good set of single target damage and a single target confuse that is funny to spam on bosses and AVs I love the idea of Boggle but the animation time is painful and I hate the contradictory nature of "confuse something and then keep attacking it to generate insight". (Though I realize in practice it's more like you get to choose between the two effects.) LordSaturn posted:it's funny, a lot of ranged/melee damage sets were designed as secondaries for a tank/defender, rather than primaries for a scrapper/blaster, so they're underwhelming if you try to play them for actual damage. something something this is why powersets weren't initially proliferated Nine times out of ten there's literally no reason to manually differentiate sets like that. Every AT has inherent modifiers that multiply base values which keep everything internally consistent. Besides, all of the problems with Psi Melee are unrelated to damage values anyway. It's more down to things like the set never getting animation time refinements and Insight being unfinished, which affects all versions more or less equally. Also it's less than ideal that the set gives up an entire power slot for Boggle, which as I said above is frustratingly janky and weird. (Honestly I feel like Boggle should've just been an outright Confront/Taunt replacement.) John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Apr 26, 2022 |
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John Murdoch posted:I love the idea of Boggle but the animation time is painful and I hate the contradictory nature of "confuse something and then keep attacking it to generate insight". (Though I realize in practice it's more like you get to choose between the two effects.) on the other hand, the purple confuse proc piece. I also took the confusion interface power and the CC oriented Support toggle lol
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I've been out of things for a couple years. Anything cool happen lately? Reasons to come back?
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Nehru the Damaja posted:I've been out of things for a couple years. Anything cool happen lately? Reasons to come back? Resurgence wise, there haven't been any major changes.
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Finally got around to updating my defender's bio - take off, eh!
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psi melee is great for making Raziel from Legacy of Kain, or maybe Psylocke from X-Men aesthetically, that's about it
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Good goddamn I forgot escort quests are excruciating when you can't run more than like 10 feet away from the NPC you're escorting.
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Freakazoid_ posted:psi melee is great for making Raziel from Legacy of Kain, or maybe Psylocke from X-Men works pretty well for green lantern types too, even if it's mostly limited to fists or slashy energy blades if it was possible to use it with a control secondary or forcefield secondary it'd be pretty easy to do a lantern pretty effectively
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Re-colored Ice Armor, Shield, and crystal graphic Stone armor are great for melee Lantern concepts.
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Freakazoid_ posted:psi melee is great for making Raziel from Legacy of Kain, or maybe Psylocke from X-Men Tbh, I was also always annoyed that we ended up with a split between mind punches and psi swords. And don't get me wrong, the mind punches are fun, but the set is begging for alternate animations.
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They should go all in on a Hardlight set with the most goofy poo poo they can think of. Spring-loaded boxing gloves, anvils from heaven, a glowing green Trex n poo poo.
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Someone posted pictures of a character in BigHands mode and one of the devteam saw it and vowed to patch it out of existence and I am saddened. They've since walked it back to 'just a note' which I don't know if that means they'll do anything about it or not.
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they should just add a hand size slider instead. in fact, more sliders in general. let me go DK mode.
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Inzombiac posted:They should go all in on a Hardlight set with the most goofy poo poo they can think of. Completely on board for this
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My spelling, much like my posting, is diahorrea.
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Logged onto homecoming only to catch the server reboot after dying to some clockwork. Anyone have a decent tri-form peacebringer build?
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Hopefully someone has an answer, but if not then sometimes the HC forums will have something: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/23-peacebringer-amp-warshade/ I'm also hoping someone has a good ice/cold corruptor build. I tried a gimmick build where I slotted everything I could with slowing enhancement sets and the result is...not great. Although it's amusing to watch enemies run around in extreme slo-mo, my damage output leaves a lot to be desired. A build that combines a bit of damage and slow would be great.
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I'd just slot one Slow in the applicable powers and then enhance like normal, giving up dmg instead of acc. It's more important to hit often than occasionally hit hard.
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Also damage procs in freeze ray and bitter freeze ray, not enhancing them for recharge, then pumping some decent global recharge (which you want anyway for heat loss, sleet, ice storm, and blizzard) will vastly out-DPS ice blast/bitter ice blast for single target due to how proc timers work
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TalonDemonKing posted:Anyone have a decent tri-form peacebringer build? I've been having a blast with this guy's PB build. I haven't gone nuts with inventions yet. I crafted the KB to KD IOs for most of the powers and a couple IOs for status resists and KB protection. Gets pretty silly: Human form aoe as an opener. While everything is knocked down switch to Nova for more aoe. Dwarf to absorb any hits and use aoe. Rinse and repeat. https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/32986-my-powerful-tri-form-peacebringer-farming-build-sl/
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I’ll see if I can dump Parhelion’s builds into a link for people when I finish driving cross country. Both his Human form build and Triform performed at the Itrial/Really Hard Way level so they should be decent enough. I will warn that Triform is mostly, well, not very good on Peacebringer even with the best of intentions and IOs. It can do alright but it’s a lot of work for modest returns. The important cooldowns that can only be activated in Human form are the big nuisance. On the flip side though Triform is EXCELLENT for doing any content where you’re Exemplared down with folks, and conversely Human form only really shines at 50. TL;DR here is even as a human form main I ended up using both situationally. I sometimes needed to use Triform for tricky Itrial achievements for folks.
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Ok, I'm sold, psi/shield stalker owns and now I have an exiled timecop from another dimension running around Paragon City putting right what might go wrong 
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May 12, 2022 22:59
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Very nice use of colors and parts. I love it.
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Yeah that look is  The way the shoulder pads continue the yellow rings from the gloves all the way up the arms is really cool.
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I've come to the understanding that people love running every possible variation on ITF that they can. A few weeks ago, I was in an all-defender ITF. A friend of mine was in an all-tanker ITF (no one died). I've seen all-controller/dominator ITFs, all-35 ITFs, all-melee ITFs. I'm pretty sure I even saw someone fill an all-knockback ITF within minutes.
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The rings!!!!
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Howard Beale posted:Ok, I'm sold, psi/shield stalker owns and now I have an exiled timecop from another dimension running around Paragon City putting right what might go wrong you are gonna absolutely wreck poo poo, that's a hilariously OP combo for stalker Seventh Arrow posted:I've come to the understanding that people love running every possible variation on ITF that they can. A few weeks ago, I was in an all-defender ITF. A friend of mine was in an all-tanker ITF (no one died). I've seen all-controller/dominator ITFs, all-35 ITFs, all-melee ITFs. I'm pretty sure I even saw someone fill an all-knockback ITF within minutes. he'll yes
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Seventh Arrow posted:I've come to the understanding that people love running every possible variation on ITF that they can. A few weeks ago, I was in an all-defender ITF. A friend of mine was in an all-tanker ITF (no one died). I've seen all-controller/dominator ITFs, all-35 ITFs, all-melee ITFs. I'm pretty sure I even saw someone fill an all-knockback ITF within minutes. Back in the day I was part of a 4-brute, 4-tank ITF that just barely had enough damage to beat the last boss. Good times.
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ITF still the best 1973
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my first speedrun was a goon ITF. took 29 minutes, which was lightning fast compared to the 75-90-ish minute runs I was used to. Everyone but the lead brute (who I think was Tommy) kept dying to the ambush waves in mission two, and I couldn't stop laughing
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John Murdoch posted:Yeah that look is Thanks, folks. I'm pretty happy with the way the arms and gloves came out, too. If the sci-fi rings could glow only during combat, I'd do it. I have a combat glowing eye aura which I might swap out for atomic around the fists. Psi combat is already really busy, though, but brilliant. I really like how you have a lot of ways to control a pack. And I got the void skiff (which would be nice if you could recolor) which means more rings, hell yes.   
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Looking forward to Dek's return as a villain after being left for dead. Probably brought back by Dr. Aeon.
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Just today I saw someone advertising in LFG for a bio, rad, and poison ITF. And, like the all-KB one, it filled up in minutes. Granted, that's a lot of powersets but it's still an amusing niche.
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More niches! I didn't come up with this one, but I wish I had! However, I did decide to do a level 50 DFB! Why? Who knows, but I got some interest and it was fun! Of course it leveled us down to 5 or something but whatever  There was also an abnormal amount of Canada-themed heroes in General, so I decided to form a spontaneous all-Canuck group!  As you can imagine, there was red and white spandex everywhere! (except for one guy who was dressed like a Mountie)  Finally, I hosted Wattage Wednesday! An all-electric Market Crash:   As you would expect, this is what the enemy end bars looked like:  And the screen looked like this ALL. THE. TIME.  Funny thing is, I have a hero who looks like Synapse and there was a guy on the team who looked like Positron, it was pretty hilarious: 
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All those elec blasters with short circuit. T-posing for dominance left and right.
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I want to try Titan Weapons out, which class uses it better, Scrapper, Brute or Tank? Also, I'm still around but I've been dealing with serious shyness and self-esteem issues recently so I've mainly been soloing. My characters tend to be either named afters Muppets or snack foods, depending on if I can make a passable Muppet costume for a powerset idea.
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If you're doing it on homecoming, tanks have an enhanced AoE and target cap, but scrappers and brutes can both acquire the large numbers. I try not to repeat powersets so I only have a titan scrapper, but I can't complain. Originally BS/Regen back in I0, I rebuilt her as Titan/Will when Titan Weapons came out. 
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Fearless_Decoy posted:I want to try Titan Weapons out, which class uses it better, Scrapper, Brute or Tank? I haven't played with Titan much, but I'm assuming its "Never stop attacking" mechanic would synergise really well with the Brute's Fury. And sorry to hear about your current issues; if you're ever bored and want to hang out in a no-pressure situation, I find smaller Twitch channels can be a lot of fun. Right now I see three people live streaming City of Heroes even, despite it being a "dead" game and it being 2:30 AM on a Monday morning.
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