1701

Is there a trial of this available?

1702

I don’t see PFF as being all that bad, although you do need to combine it with Field Surge. Seems like it should protect better against spike damage than the others, which is the primary way you’d die in PvP.

Also, what do you make of Idrisz’ view that Lightning Reflexes is the best at high levels? I haven’t gotten far enough to try it, but I can see his point.

I also don’t believe it is ever a good idea to take special attacks instead of blocking, even with LR. Even assuming you do dodge it, which is not assured by any means, i think Block mitigates more damage and it generates more energy.

You can’t reliably block, between holds, knockback, Crippling Challenge, and DoT. Unless you’re desperate, I think you’re generally better served doing something proactive, like trying to interrupt people charging up powers like Tazer Arrow, or taking cover.

There are some corner cases where blocking works good, especially with Regeneration in Tier 1 (where your block probably works), but in the long run I think you can count on people having ways to work around block – I know I try to.

1703

I haven’t fought any cosmic enemies yet so don’t know about that. You might even want to use an offensive passive in a situation where you have an actual tank though instead of relying on LR to catch big aoe blasts. blocking and linger block effect combined with small self healing should be enough i’d imagine. I just don’t like the LR excels primarily in the exact situations where it would be more advantageous to just block. Pvp probably changes that a bit, but in pve it sure seems that way. I still felt WAY more survivable with LR than with PFF though. LR also only requires one stat, Dex, which is an amazing dps stat, where as PFF requires end and ego (both pretty good stats but ego without dex is kind of underwhelming and you can’t have 3 super stats). If you can take con possibly, i just don’t see how Lr can compare to Invuln, much less PFF which is basically the 12 year old school girl mistakenly entered in a fight on the UFC.

I don’t pvp so maybe that is why our opinions differ on the matter. The “classes” i’ve played most, telekinetic and (to a slightly lesser extent) munitions don’t have reliable interupt type abilities either.

1704

I’ve fought a lot of cosmic enemies, and believe me, even before the major nerf to passive defenses, you really want to be using block, or you’re fucking dead. Regardless of your defenses and hp, if you don’t block, there are situations where you’ll be trying to mitigate more than twice your life bar in health. That’s just not feasable.

1705

Anyone with some power armor experience know if they really need force block linger to use those toggles for long periods or can i go with the more defensively sound tk block and still do good damage.

Obviously i have PFF and am end/int.

1706

Sounds like. Then again, I haven’t tried out PFF since all the defenses were weakened, and am just eyeballing the numbers. I definitely agree it should recover out of combat faster, so you don’t strictly need Field Surge.

Also, for Munitions, check out Grenade. It’s a quick and solid AoE knockback that you can toss out every 6 seconds. I passed over it at first, as it seemed to have a long animation – but you can start doing something else (Mojo!) while the grenade is in flight, and it takes effect quicker than it seems it would. Often, if I see someone charging, I’ll just toss that out instead of block.

1707

Not that I’m aware of, I figure 3-6 months before a trial is available… unless they do a special buddy key program.

1708

Pff used to be really good before the overall defense nerf though. i used it a bunch then too and loved it. Now it is pretty much universally considered the worst defense, even with how much people dislike LR.

I really like block on my munitions hero and have the tk block linger up almost constantly resulting in a huge boost to survival and energy generation. LR can be decent against spikes, but to me at least, the real weakness of LR is sustained damage which block linger helps a huge amount against. In any event, after the nerf, blocking in general seems to lower damage significantly more than any passive.

1709

Saw a very nice Batman inspired hero tonight:

Also saw my first M.Bison impersonator who did a good job, but I’ll spare you.

1710

How do servers work> currently downloading, want to start where everyone is. Searched a bit, found names but no server info.

1711

It works like Guild Wars version of City of Heroes. It’s all one server, but each zone is broken up into 30-40 shards generally. Also, the naming conventions make it so you don’t have to worry about getting your prefered name. There’s server maintenance tonight from 1am-3am pst, just fyi. It’s to fix crashing issues on ATI cards (mine doesn’t have a problem, so I’m assuming post 1950xt cards). Though I don’t know how often maintenance goes shorter.

1712

I think that was this AM, it said 1am on the 12th.

1713

Brainfart, you’re right. Had the date off a day in my mind. Thanks. :)

Edit: One thing that’s beginning to annoy me is that it saves your /afk setting between sessions and even when you come back to the keyboard. So often I’ll hit /afk to find out I’m no longer away… heh.

1714

Quartermasters is now open for business. Get your free costume slot now! Message @zomd, @circuit, @Miramon, @quatoria for an invite. There’s more who can, but the names escape me atm, sorry! But if you see one of few of us Quartermasters, just ask and we’ll find you an invite.

Oh, and be sure to include a snazzy beret!

1715

The Platinum Skull!

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1716

The login server’s being a jerk right now.

1717

Yeah - also I had just hit level 8 and the site now calls me level 5, which is where I was last night at 3am…

1718

It doesn’t update continuously. Hell, I’m not even sure it updates once a day.

1719

Nice costume, Moore. How much did the skull set him back? Heh.

1720

Nice. Apparently whenever cryptic decides to radically change something (ironically posted after and in a long nerf thread) it is a bug fix, even if the descriptions of the ability and common sense itself contradicts them.

I guess i’ll hold off on that free respec on my munitions char with tk block. Playing CO makes me feel like the only way to correctly play is to level without spending any points and then half a year later when cryptic decides what they want everything to do, spend them then. Just when i thought it was safe to not take force block too…

I’ve played in a lot of mmorpgs when they first came out and this is by far the most chaotic one yet.