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Don't forget Black Scorpion's Web Envelope AoE Immob. The only downside of any of these methods is I don't think any have KB protection so you can punt them out of your Ignite with several of your AR attacks. Ignite's radius is very small. Like 5ft. So you'll hit whatever is standing directly in the Ignite patch and anything immediately surrounding it. Works well to pull a bunch of enemies to a corner, immobilize them in a tight group, and then proceed with the burnination.

After playing CO for the one month of life it has in it... I think I still prefer CoH's unique names. It WAS ugly seeing all those @globals in broadcast and the only upside was not having to see or deal with the typo-tricks some people play here to get a common name. Yet because of the @global tacked on the end it wasn't much better than seeing "xXTheHulkXx" really.

It sucks not getting the name you want, but it's also really good to get that unadulterated version of the name you DO want when it happens. And it does still from time to time.

http://cityofheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Frankenslot

Terrify + Any bunch of inanimate objects in a Villain Mayhem.

"Boo!"

*kaboom!*

???

Seems like TFs are also a little broken with SSK right now. Instead of being set to the mission level (which for most TFs is the max level of the TF) it seems that setting the mission just locks you in at the current leader's level and then you can't change it by having the leader log out. At least that's what happened to us on an Ice Mistral last night when the leader DC'd.. Fortunately the new leader was just one level down so it was like running at difficulty + 1 for that mission. No big deal. But it could have been if the new leader had been minimum level and we didn't catch it before the mission was set. Maybe logging everyone out fixes that. I don't know. We didn't bother.

I wouldn't mind if TFs just auto-leveled everyone up/down to the TF mission level.

Yeah, but even someone who isn't AmazingMOO could fill several walls-of-text with what was annoying about the *old* SK system. I've run into this problem with SSK on zone events and the like before as well. A way to just de-select the mission and return the team to the leader's level would fix this little problem.

On the flip side, my dom dinged level 49 last night... in a level 20 Cap SF. Thx SSK!

It's been awhile since I messed with this and my search-fu is not turning up solid answers. I THINK that the way pet IO slotting works is that enhancements slotted in the summoning power apply to each power they CAN apply to. So yeah, a heal set IO is only going to apply to the Servant's powers that accept heal sets. SOs and HOs should apply to all powers since they are not restricted in slotting the way IO sets are. The exception, I think, is recharge enhancement which doesn't carry over and only reduces the recharge time of the summoning power itself.

Global accuracy (and IO set bonuses in general) only apply to the player, not the summoned pet. I think there is a specific MM IO set bonus that is an exception to this but I don't play MMs. In any case, doesn't apply to non-MM pets I think.

Now, used to be that if you slotted an IO set enhancement that included recharge, that WOULD affect the recharge time of the pet's powers. I don't think that's true anymore but haven't really tested it either. Probably ask this on the MM forums and you'll get better answers.

You can also experiment by adding "Pet Hit Rolls" and "Pet Combat" text to a chat window and monitoring the pet's tohit chances that way. With no acc enhancement and no tohit buffs / defense debuffs going, you should see the pet needing a 75% roll to hit an even-con minion.

Smoke Flash has pretty limited use. It's not good on teams... unless you just don't like your teammates. It's not even that good for its stated purpose of "getting out of a bad situation". For that, I find just "getting out" works as well. You might use it while soloing with a single-target focused primary as kind of a ghetto Mass Hypnosis, but that's a pretty specific case too and with the long recharge it's not available that often anyway.

It's got my vote for most-skippable power in Ninjitsu, definitely. In fact, I've never actually taken it. It's never looked good enough on paper for me to bother with it.

My AR/Dark has Sniper Rifle but aside from using it to finish off some runner I am too lazy to chase, it's more useful as a container for IO set bonuses than as an attack. I have often thought about replacing it with something I'd use more. With as much defense as I have with IOs and from tohit debuffs I could easily get snipes off in combat, even against multiple enemies and yet I still don't use it.

It just isn't worth the time and the possibility someone will get lucky and interrupt me when the payoff at the end is less damage-per-activation-second than I could have achieved just cycling attacks. And that's from a primary that doesn't have great single target damage to begin with. Even just a Burst + Slug combo does roughly the same amount of damage for pretty much the same endurance cost except it's a full second faster. Add to that it has no chance of interruption and a greater chance to Scourge on the second attack in the combo. The snipe would only be worth doing if I had no other attack ready and in a fully developed build that is pretty much never the case.

Most toggles use less endurance than spamming a Tier 1 attack, so you don't want to go nuts on EndRdx. What you have there looks good. If at all possible, you want any spare slots to go to EndRdx in your most often-used attacks.

You've got a ton of +acc and +rech from set bonuses so maybe LR is okay. One thing that might need more accuracy however is Ignite. Unless you rely on rad's -def, Ignite will be missing higher level / higher rank opponents quite alot. It's precisely the targets that Ignite is best used against, AVs and GMs, which will resist those debuffs quite a bit. Remember that it's a pseudo-pet power, so the 2.0x accuracy listed on the power detail is meaningless. The "Flames" pet summoned by this power has normal 1.0x accuracy on its attack. It ticks five times a second, so if you're just looking at the damage numbers floating up it's easy to not notice how much it is missing. Check the combat log and make sure it's showing pet hit rolls. You'll see it there.

Other than that, you might consider Leadership instead of Fighting. Yeah, you're a little tougher with Tough/Weave, but one thing AR really lacks is +tohit. You've got good +acc from IOs but that still won't do very well against enemies with high defense and AR has no Aim. Maneuvers, Tactics, and Vengeance to replace Boxing, Tough, Weave. Vengeance can hold a LOTG +rech, you get some of that defense back, and you get the much needed +tohit, not to mention this helps your teammates as well.

Maybe enough that they won't notice you're carrying three "use on dead teammate" powers.