weapons irrelevant?

Is dcuo getting rid of weapons? With am and power back mechanics and 80% somers, weapons are becoming obsolete. I mod mine with replenishing mod and only use it when I run out of power to recharge.

Not sure about the answers to your questions other than to say I believe their goal is to give players the option to use Weapon Mastery or other Advanced Mechanics depending on personal preference.

As for the second part:

I thought that the blast adapter mod now works with power use too, no?

When they can balance the damage out so that WM is equal to AM, all will be well. So far, there is no sign of that happening, which gives AM users a clear advantage and ostricises everyone else.

Round and round we go.

Some powers that use their AM, like Nature and Electricity, still require weapons and weapon mastery combos. I don't think they're doing away with them.

Last year it's all about wm, now its powerback where are the devs going with this

Not the point of your thread but if your dpsing you really should be using blast adapter (I think that's the name)/ will help to do more damage..


Anyways to the point of OP, weapons reduction use has been the community doing and not really the devs.
It the community that wanted the ability to spam powers without using a weapon just like a "real" superhero/villain.
The original intention for game play was heavily Dependant on weapon use. The idea was doing multiple weapon attacks and finishing with a power attack. Easily repowering your self with your own combos. But the players didn't do that, they spammed power after power, which for one caused bosses to seem weaker than intended, so they got buffed up causing more power spamming needed to beat content, which forced trolls to be dps's batteries, which eventually forced many trolls to quit trolling, leaving the community with a hole.
So devs responded with a quick answer..Weapon mastery...and a long term answer..Advance mechanics...

So here we are now, weapons are still viable in low content and solo, duo, alerts, but for raids were never the communities 'weapon of choice'..

I have yet to need weapons with my nature AM. But... Electricity got an AM? Seriously? If this is true, then I need to pay more attention! (Not being sarcastic! I really did not know electric had an AM.)

What do you do after you stack your DoTs ? I do 3 WM combos before refreshing Harvest.

And yes, Electricity has an AM, it's similar to ours.

"Only a fool will spam powers without its weapons" but its clearly obvious from day 1 the main focus should have been powers than weapons.

Yes it's similar to natures. Dot stacking and refreshing.

With nature, you can stack your four dots (Swarm counts as the fourth), then change into wolf form (with Carnage in your loadout)...pop carnage, roar (jump cnacel after a couple of seconds), hit Serpents Call and hit them with your hold range attack twice. Refresh your original dots, hit Swarm again when it's off cooldown, rinse and repeat until everything is dead.

Yes I know about Wolf Form lol. She has said she doesn't use a weapon, so I was wondering what her rotation was without using any weapon attacks.

The rotation I mentioned doesn't use any weapon attacks technically. You can have any high stat weapon equipped...say dual pistols. Drop your four dots, hit harvest to spread, change to wolf, Pop carnage, hit Howl (jump cancel after a few seconds), hit Serpent's Call, Hold triangle, hold triangle, Harvest, back to Howl and Serpents call and then carnage again. Then change back to human form for the new set of adds or a different boss (or to reset your dots if they disappear). Wolf form uses martial arts hold moves for its range attacks. No actual weapon attacks involved.

Shoulda made weapons as a power instead

I need to look up Electric am again. Last time i did was a few days ago and i didn't find anything. o_o

My rotation for nature is: Savage Growth, Vine Lash, Briar, Harvest (For my optimum power refund.) I only run down when I use this rotation about 4 or 5 times in a row, unless the mob is substantial. Large groups keep my power up. But I will not run out of power before all npc's are dead. With a troller putting out a decent pot, It seems my power is eternal. The only time I ever need to rely on WM is when my rotation is broken twice or more, or during a stat-clamp.

I just looked for a guide the other day. Did Mepps post anything on it that you know of? I am uber curious about this. I have neglected my electricity toon for too long.

Again, I know how it works. Lupine Darts are a weapon attack. She said she doesn't use weapons, so I was thinking along the lines of Quantum and Mental, where you literally just use powers over and over again, without weapon attacks.

Anyways ...

City of Heroes

Electricity's AM was added close to a year ago.

Also are you saying you hit Savage Growth immediately after you've hit Harvest ? You are losing damage if you hit those 4 powers over and over non-stop.