_Mojo_

Scrapper
Katana
Repeatable and Sustainable (for long AV fights)

With Divine Avalanche (for melee/lethal based enemies)
Gambler's Cut > Golden Dragonfly > Gambler's Cut > Soaring Dragon > Gambler's Cut > Divine Avalanche

Without Divine Avalanche
Gambler's Cut > Golden Dragonfly > Gambler's Cut > Soaring Dragon > Gambler's Cut > Flashing Steel

The nice thing with Katana is that you don't need tons of +recharge. I forget how much +recharge is actually needed and I'm at work so I can't go look, but I remember not needing a 5th lotg, and if you want to calculate it the +recharge requirement revoles around getting Golden Dragonfly back up in time to restart the chain. If you want to know the proc slotting I can give you that too.

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Touch of Fear

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Touch of Fear is already on par with Cobra Strike. Touch of Fear has a -acc debuff (which is only really useful against enemies that resist most of it anyway) and no damage to go along with the fear. Cobra Strike does damage (however minor it may be) and does a stun, which is a better status effect than Fear for mitigation purposes.

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Siphon Life, and Parry/Divine Avalanche.

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Siphon Life is less a mitigation power and more of an attack with slight mitigation potential attacked to it. It's an attack that has a tad bit of a heal attached (it really isn't all that impressive, honestly). Parry/DA, on the other hand, are absurdly powerful. I don't think we'll be seeing anything quite like it again ever. Parry/DA are just... ugh...

And how are you trying to match Touch of Fear (re: pure mitigation) with the Parry/DA (mitigation attack)? Touch of Fear is pure mitigation whereas Parry and DA are inferior versions of existing attacks (re: worse DPA) that provide a large amount of buff to compensate. The only power that is really commensurate to it is ToF and ToF doesn't deal damage.

However, I think I can agree with your intent. Giving Cobra Strike a faster recharge, actual damage, and possibly either a lower mag stun or shorter duration to account for the improvement would work wonders for it.

However, this only really addresses Cobra Strikes woes. Siphon Life was fixed to account for DM's lack of real attack powers (Smite, Shadow Punch, and MG were pretty much it unless you wanted to saddle yourself with Shadow Maul). MA still has 5 other perfectly serviceable single target attacks, 3 of which have some form of mitigatory potential (knockdown and chance to stun). Maybe it would be better to instead add some additional utility to Cobra Strike to make it a viable attack. Tossing in some -def and -res would probably make it a bit more popular, especially since you'd be increasing the damage against the target by poking him silly. 10% -def and 20% -res for 10 secs probably wouldn't be entirely out of the question, especially considering how much damage you'd be losing out on by including it in an attack chain.

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Um I agree with you on everything except 1 thing I want to point out:

The others are mitigation attacks (except for ToF, of course), however they are all stackable, which makes them consistent and useful (or just consistently useful).

A breakdown of the numbers:

Touch of Fear puts a -11% tohit debuff for 20 seconds, with a 8 second base recharge. (Neglecting fear for its arguement of usefulness)

Parry/DA gives +15% defense for 10 seconds with a 3 second base recharge.

Cobra Strike gives a mag 3 stun for 12 seconds with a 20 second base recharge.

Cobra Strike is the only one of the three that gives you a longer recharge than duration of the effect. That means bosses can be taken out of comission with the power by itself in various cases. I agree that either giving it better damage or a shorter recharge would make it more useful.

I look at it from 2 angles.

1) What is your attack chain? Do you have enough +recharge to sustain the chain with no gaps? If no, then +recharge.

2) Do you plan on solo'ing 8 man spawns of romans and the like? If so, then maybe the +4% defense just for a little buffer. Be it as it may, the +1% buffer may just be enough as is. Don't forget that you're DM, which stacks on -tohit on the enemies as it is, so you probably don't need that extra defense.

Off the top of my head, the DM chains require alot of recharge for some, so you may as well go that route.

The first round in RWZ last night went extremely well, filled up the zone and ripped through for 450+ merits. Bombs went off consecutively and Hro' went down fast.

The all-scrapper ITF....how badly I want to participate in this event. I have a date tonight and I'm trying to push it to be earlier in the day so I can make it by 9:35, but who knows if she's going to want to hang out afterwards or not.

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Oak Park/Detroit area. Ferndale High School and a Wayne State University graduate/masters student.

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Awesome! I've got quite a few friends that went to Wayne State. I grew up in Richmond, over between St. Clair and Romeo. My Dad still works in Southfield.

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That's cool, depending on when they started and their major, I might know some of them, haha. Unless it was a while back.

Oak Park/Detroit area. Ferndale High School and a Wayne State University graduate/masters student.

This compels me to log in.

Sorry to be missing out on so much.

I would go if it were cedar point, but then again I'm going in like 15 days. Actually I might hold that off.

Anyways, southeast michigan means ~2 hours to cedar point.

I want to go try this now.

lol @ Bad for being the leader of BAD.

no srsly thos gais r srsbsns.

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Mojo was pinching me

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Fairy was pinching Mojo.

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All I know is my right buttcheek is sore and I didn't want to be alone with the pain.

Damn Fairies.

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Lol @ Heather for no computer!


Oooh I went there, buuuuurn.

This makes me cry for suspending my account for 2 years...

But it's just so awesome!

QR even though I know it's already been said.

So I buy the Mac Version of CoH and get 5 bucks off the pack?

Sweet.

Holy crap I have to go home and burn those freespecs.

How did I become infamous? I thought that was funny.


Wait no it's ok I want to keep playing with this.

Oh crap I forgot to leave work!

won't be home til late tonight, lol.

Well, it WAS a nice outfit.

Hope the second run went well, yeah I was knocked out soon as I logged off and didn't wake up until I was late for work, lol.

I'd be down, but I might not be able to show up for Mondays or Fridays, I can get a more clearcut schedule for you later.

Interesting, aren't the invasions supposed to start today too? Guess I'll go along with it!

Star Strider Forces Registry
Name: Mojo's Destiny
Global Contact: @Mojobaby817
Level of Classification: 50
Origin: Natural
Super Rank & Super Group: Fusion Force Legends - Fusioneer.

Well that sucks hard.

Merits are subject to diminishing returns?

Holy crap no way.

Sorry for the double....not sure if it's been answered.

Since the reward window is thrown out, does that mean TF's can be done back to back to back with no 3 hour wait? If so, then in some ways then I see why they got rid of the random drop after a TF. If not, then, that's just stupid.

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It seems to me that the system is going to make it more difficult to IO your character out as you progress from 35-50. Right now you can run an ITF from 35-50 and get about a lvl a run. That means you get 15 random recipies. Now you will get 375 merits, which equates to only 10 "rolls".

Removing the post TF random recipie ruins the entire system for me. I never understood why people complained about that process so much...

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Uhh, isn't a random recipe 25 merits in the new system? How does that equate to 10 random rolls, and not 15?

Since ITF gives 25 merits and a random recipe is 25 merits *shrug*