_Ryxx_

Wow that is really awful. I had my wisdom teeth cut out a few years ago, but they put me to sleep so I didn't have any kind of experience (I did request to keep my teeth, I still have them in a little ziplock bag; so does Ele from when he got his cut out as well). They didn't have to break them or anything. I can't imagine being conscious during something like that though, I'm sorry you went through something like that.

I LOLd

Same video, on youtube though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61YuQ...os=NstjbqTcYVk

Super gratssss

I had a few amusing ones on my comments in a certain recent thread here that has since been nuked, wish I could remember them.

HBD2U!! And you know who says she'll get you a special birthday watermelon for your celebration!

I'm fairly new to building out scrappers, but I mostly built this for +dmg and +hp with the intention of taking it to pylon challenges and being all-around awesome. Also took assault at 49 because I have recovery through the roof (probably too much) and I honestly didn't know what else to take at that point that wouldn't require slots. Yes, I know some of the things in here are extremely expensive, don't hold back on cost in critiquing or coming up with subsequent builds. I do note that Makos can be switched out for Kinetic combat if I were to switch to a defense build, among other changes to be made

I've tried building this toon for typed (and positional as an experiment) before, but I never come up with anything that I'm pleased with. Is there a consensus among /wp players that it is indeed better to build for +hp than def or res?

I'm not emotionally attached to this build or anything, I expect it to be changed a few times before I craft anything, so feel free to post your ideas.

Thanks ahead of time for anyone's time.

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Incoming wall of text, I apologize ahead of time.

Firstly, Nice lurking there! I lurked myself for over a year before I ever said a word on the forums. It's nothing to be ashamed about, Einstein himself was a bit of a lurker as well IRL.

Secondly, Hello everyone on the Defender forums, I'm Ryxx. My brother (Elegost) suggests I get out of our server (Victory) forums and spread out to the other sections cause I'm somewhat of an introvert in that aspect (He just loves the scrapper forums to death).

Thirdly, and to the point, I LOVE Kins. At 50, I have 3 defenders, 1 controller, and 1 corrupter. They are Kin/dark, Kin/Ice, Kin/Archery, Fire (control)/kin, and Fire (blast)/kin; with a kin/rad at 40, an earthkin at 42ish, and other various incarnations at lower levels. *points to link in sig*

-Kin/dark-
My first was Kin/dark, initially captivated at both the thought of dark pit/tentacles/fulcrum shift and dark pit/oppressive gloom, but upon reaching 50 was underwhelmed by its ability to take down mobs (especially compared to my then-awesome firekin controller). Even at damage cap, I would fire nightfall, tentacles, repeat, and run out of endurance before anything would die. I still loved the heck out of this toon; it is great for teaming in general, and a full FSd gloom dishes a ton of damage, especially since you can fire it pretty damn often with a few Siphon Speeds up. Other than a numina, I never felt the need to buy any IOs to improve it, which in hindsight might have helped its deficiencies. Eventually I got a little bored with it and wanted to try again, so when it became available I rolled a-

-Kin/ice-
I'm pretty sure that to this day, Ice storm and blizzard are still using blaster modifiers (or is it corrupters'?) for their damage, so they do amazing DOT, although only if the mobs stay in it for most of the duration. I promptly IOd this toon to the teeth, (recharge build, later backed down a little because I got WAY more recharge than necessary) and am still playing him as my main kin to this day, bringing him to almost every ITF and STF we run. I really do think Ice synergizes well with kin, as most defender nukes are pretty worthless overall (even with FS); but blizzard is amazing. Being able to eat a blue and get the rest of your end back by yourself is pretty handy. On a somewhat side note, I also happen to love /ice for defenders. I also (at 50) have emp/ice, rad/ice, cold/ice, with a dark/ice in the mid range and a storm/ice at 26. If you hadn't limited yourself to just certain secondaries, I would have suggested /ice to you, but I can understand getting tired of a specific set.

-Kin/Archery-
I'd never had an archery blaster before, so I was pretty excited when I (and thought I was being original) thought it would be pretty cool to have my own fulcrum shift+nuke more than once a minute, so I rolled up a kin/archery. I was hopeful all the way to 38, and was subsequently underwhelmed. Sadly, a fully fulcrum shifted defender Rain of arrows is still nowhere near as strong as a blaster's BU+Aim Rain of arrows. I know this for a fact because I partially played this toon alongside my brother's archery/em blaster and we put them to the test when they were at close levels to each other. This toon was the biggest letdown I ever had and I only keep it because I still use it to pocket kin around AP for my new characters on my other account occasionally.

-Kin/Rad-
I don't know why all the hate for this build, I love it to death. Originally I rolled it because it seemed to have the most aoe potential (arguably more than /ice), and I wanted to put it to the test. I have this at 40 right now and I've loved every step of the way. I can't say anything bad about this combo other than I wish neutron bomb came MUCH earlier. Irradiate is great in that you're probably right where you need to be when you fire it (right after FS) and ready to follow up with a neutron bomb afterwards, with strong single target attacks as well. I don't take the snipe on my kins (tried it, couldn't stand it) so there was no need for it there. My only beef is that the nuke is still craptacular like most defender nukes and doesn't hold a straw against blizzard, but that's no reason not to enjoy everything else about this build. I would recommend it to anyone.

-Kin/Psy-
I've never played these together myself, but I do have a FF/psy defender in mid 40s. I've also seen some of my friends seemingly enjoy their kin/psys, but I've never understood the draw. I can't stand the long rooted times for the attacks, but some people do seem to like it. I'm also not a general fan of cone attacks, so psychic scream is annoying to use to me. IMO Psychic tornado just takes way too long to fire, and the damage isn't worth it, although if you value secondary effects, /psy may be the option for you.

Kin/sonic might be a good idea; I've never tried it myself, but sleeping everything, FS, picking them off one by one seems like a viable solo tactic (although /dark can accomplish something similar), but personally, I don't like to have to deal with cone attacks on a kin.


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TL;DR: In my experience,
Kin/dark: pretty good for teaming, pretty good for soloing
Kin/ice: pretty good for soloing, great for teaming
Kin/archery: don't even think about it, you'll be really let down
Kin/rad: Ok for soloing, great for teaming

Ouch my pride.

I regularly trilog in max detail with little to no fps drop... you know it might have been just the instability of test when I was on. I WAS crashing every few minutes for a while there.

naw I still can't get in Played around on test for a while though; I know this sounds crappy of me but I really don't notice a difference in graphics except that now a lot more things are a lot darker (I've already had to turn up brightness just to see in this game) besides the shiny water, but apparently my Comp notices because I lost at least 10 fps when I switch to ultra mode.

everything is so shiny and clean! and well-polished?

I have it on my lolhami emp, as well as team teleport.

I'm just waiting for Voo to invite me to team..


**EDIT** Also, WELCOME, NEW GUY!

Friendly? Pff, you must not know Victory very well.

I LOVE this. Put me down as a possible; I'm in the process of moving to a new apartment right now (actually we have everything in the new place except for my computer/desk, and @Brin Ohmsford is on his way right now to help me finish up with that) and I can't get a guarantee that I'll have internet by that time. I love bringing my Kin/Ice to these, but I'll bring a Cold or something else to keep the team alive if we don't get enough of that. Hell, or a tank for massive herding, I'll bring whatever is needed. XP not necessary, Lolz guaranteed.

What's the date again?

I feel like I'm the last person who can't wait for i17. I mean, I want the things that are coming just like everyone else, but i17 could be the last update of all time and I would die happy.

I feel like people don't get my humor or they just don't like me.

Tl;dr