BigBoss Eyepatch

Im always reluctant when I argue anything to say "Ive got experience" as usually somebody will go "yeah course you did" Ive had some bad experience on forums in the past so apologies if Im not making sense.

I had a level 30 claws / regen stalker actually prior to deleting to free up room for my new chars. So While I may not be a Stalker expert as yourself maybe, Im definately not as clueless as most of the people who are countering my concerns would like to believe.

He does have a list of set bonuses aye. And as I say insps are used.

Like I say, I still think Invul will make a VERY formidable stalker. And on that note, Im going to wait and see. But hopefully Im just being paranoid. If stalkers get invul and lose invincibility it'll probably balance out ok.

Im not sure putting Invulnerability on a Stalker is a good idea, or Stone Armour.

For one thing, Stalkers do insane amounts of damage as is in a burst, put invulnerability on them, and you get the potential to have a vicious little one-shotting teambuster. One of the game play factors of a Stalker is hit and run tactics. Invulnerability would mean pretty much, running isn't required, and also, stone armour? Not much running going to be going on there. LMAO

That sounds epic! Clobber is pretty much the biggest gun in the War Mace set. If I bruise my target with bash first, and then hit clobber it connects easily for about 500+ damage mostly. If I put build up before hitting with clobber, that does insane damage, Im just picturing a musculature enhancement on top of that!

I didn't really build her to be a Tanking Tanker, more of a Combat Tanker, essentially, I was making a warrior goddess.

If there is another Tanker on the team, I will happily bow aside and let them be the main tank. However, saying that, she can turn her hands to a tanking role quite easily, unless its vazhilok, in which case no chance of me tanking those guys! Essentially, I made her a Tanker because there were no war maces available for scrappers back when she was constructed which was what I wanted for her theme.

I could have done a brute via Praetoria, but, I didn't want to be grappling with a rage bar, also, power sink at level 35, harsh! So essentially, she's all about inflicting pain, set bonuses to boost damage, quick recharge on build up. 6 slotted attacks (naturally anyway).

I guess, I just answered my own question too!

Last night guys, I got my other Tanker to level 50, she's now an *** kicking machine even if I say so. She's kitted out with IO sets as well, we got defence bonuses, recovery bonuses, health increase, regen boosts, damage boosts and the list goes on to name a few...

So, I also unlocked the alpha slot by running mender ramiels arc, so now I am debating, do I go for Cardiac, or Musculature... Im leaning personally to muscle, principly because well, Endurace isn't really a problem on Electric Armor Tankers thanks to power sink, you can just steal all the end you want from your enemies. However thinking about it, having the extra damage resistances from Cardiac would be nice.

I have no intention of shelving my FF Defender, simple reason is that while you may have capped defences to this that and the other, it doesn't hurt to have a little more. Not only that, there are many Controllers, Dominators, Blasters and other squishy characters that can really benefit from the massive amount of defence a forcefielder can produce because not everything is soft capped to this that and the other.

While you have the incarnate skills for sure and set bonuses, and they make a huge difference I grant but, I fiercely disagree with the notion that this makes a Forcefielder obsolete. Somewhat less valued maybe, but not obsolete.

I have an invulnerable / Electric Melee tanker and she rocks that stuff!! I would advise against not taking Jacobs ladder, its a pure energy attack, you use that against something like nictus or the CoT Daemon lords etc, it will hurt them.

Also, speaking of CoT if you find yourself in one of those narrow little corridors and you get a group coming towards you and you fire off Jacobs ladder, chances are you will hit everything in front of you. So in that respect its worth it.

Electric Melee is great due to the sheer AoE goodness if affords. Thunderstrike is just groovy to behold and as for Lightning rod, that for me, is like the creme de la creme. When you get it, you'll love it!

I like the idea of Super Reflexes on a Tanker, if you want a defence based tanker, as you don't have to look at chunks of ice or stone around you for example and you'll have defence to everything, even psychic attacks. Plus it will give higher values of defence than a brute or a scrapper. Easier to hit that 45% for most damage types.

Martial arts will be cool but with a bit of luck they will award dragons tail sooner, as waiting till 35 will be harsh, then again, you have to wait till 38 to get footstomp on Super Strength so I doubt there will be a concession on that.

I've already got 3 Tankers so doubt I'd make another. I still have a MA/SR scrapper on the way up presently. So, got my hands full with Tankers, I feel I got my own Panzer division here.

I'd certainly like some kind of metal looking techy based defence/resistance set, but, in my opinion the three that stand out for me in the tanker primaries are:

Invulnerability
Shield Defence
Willpower

Reason being they don't have the word "Armor" in them. Which may sound petty as hell, but with all the others being armours, it feels as though it doesn't, "come from within" if you see what I mean.

Last night, after putting it off as long as was superhumanly possible, I finally caved in, and I went on a Lambda. One quick teleport to Pocket D and all of a sudden there are 15 other eager supers ready to go and stick it to Marauder. The cameraderie, the neon lights, the ambiance. We're ready!

Some banter aside where I am referred to as a virgin etc... and we finally just, poof, into Lambda. We didn't speak to a contact, we just literally went whoosh. Straight there. Ok, no problem, I'm now stood in Praetoria, I got to run forward, I can't move!??! What's this!?! Some sort of evil holding powers? Some kind of invisible grip!? I check unyielding is turned on, it is, why aren't I moving!? Suddenly, the group I am looking at is defeated, and I haven't budged from the very spot I was standing on.

Alright, its supposed to be laggy, and it has been known to choke computers. I'm on a 30 meg internet connection, I have a computer which in the past has effortlessly ran COH on maximum settings ITF's 8 man teams, whatever... this is my first lambda blast you and the people who know what to do, I can't even watch them to learn, because its like looking at a powerpoint slideshow here!

FREAK OUT!!

Return to the computer, ok, lets try again. Ok, I find a heavy commander, yes!!! I got to punch him. I see myself take a hit, the screen freezes. Its a little ambush there are things coming from behind... freezes again. I can't move, can't punch, can't even type messages to my fellow heroes. Screen unfreezes. Oh, I'm dead on the floor, and there are now Seers hovering about. Where did they come from? I didn't see them.

Woe is me. Freak out part 2.

Return to the computer, wakey. Where did everybody go? I dunno. Message is go down the elevator. What elevator, where?! Somebody TP's me, I end up somewhere else, and there is a massive warwlaker stomping up behind me when I rematerialise. Oh hell, time for a Knockout blow!! Freezes... can't move. Oh crap.

Mapserver!! FREAK OUT PART 3!!!!!!!!!

Reconnect. I am now back in pocket D. Right, what the hell do I do now!? Click on LFG, ah yes, there is a button there to take me back... do I really WANT to go back!? Long pause to deliberate... I almost grudingly, reluctantly, go back. I reappear in the Lambda sector, dazed and confused. Not my character, me! I take a super leap back to the main courtyard I freeze in midair, I figured at this point, if I could rotate the camera, this'd be VERY Matrix like, but, I can't actually rotate anything. NExt thing I know I'm back on the floor. I have no idea where I landed, or what my final button pushing did to alter my destination.

Next thing, mission complete choose a reward. Ok, I didn't even get to see Marauder, much less punch him in the face. I didn't kill anything. I felt totally useless to the whole group, no strike that, worse than useless.

I'm not trying to complain just trying to voice my experience in a reasonably tongue in cheek way. But hands down, that lambda was THE WORST experience I have had with City of Heroes, since I began playing almost a year ago.

The thing I find most offputting about the incarnate system is the system is long, but getting through it is not made easy at all. Im not saying I want to just walk to complete power, but it would be nice if it was easier to get the shards and threads etc to make your stuff outside of incarnate related content.

I don't mind examplaring, will happily do it, I once examplared my 50 down to level 10 and got a shard or two helping a mate on his new character, but, it just feels too much of a slog, this is stuff you NEED, vital ESSENTIAL stuff that just doesn't seem to drop to you.

I want to do the incarnate content, I want some characters pimped out with max powers, but, others, Im not going to bother incarnating its just too much of a long road to travel down. Also, I think generally, maybe depending on server, getting a villain incarnate can be harder than a hero one, due to hero side being more popular.

Is it possible to convert Incarnate Threads into Incarnate Shards?

Will do, not at home now, in work. Mids won't work on these computers so I'll give that a go. In terms of price, well, I'm not too fussed, naturally, Im not spending billions of inf on one recipe, but I should be able to afford something reasonable.

Hi guys,

I got an Empathy / Energy Blast Defender on the up and I really wanted to get him sorted out, now in terms of slotting Empathy, I'm not too sure, so, what I'll do is I'll list the powers and the slots I was thinking of putting in them, and the IO set that takes my fancy for each of them, and if you could offer me some feedback maybe some pointers that'd be grand.


Healing Aura - 4 slots - Numina's Conv...

Heal Other - 6 slots - 5 Doctored Wounds / 1 common IO Recharge

Absorb Pain - 4 slots - Numina's Conv

Resurrect - 3 slots - Recharge common IO's

Clear Mind - 1 Slot - Reduce Endurance Cost SO or IO

Fortitude - 4 slots - Luck of the Gambler

Recovery Aura - 6 slots - Efficacy Adapter

Regeneration Aura - 5 slots - Doctored Wounds

Adrenalin Boost - 1 slot - Recharge. (Unless adding healing or Endurance based enchancements to it makes a big difference, admitedly, this power I was least sure of what to do with, or rather, had least idea what to do with)

To be fair, this occurence happened very early in the game for me. And It never happened since. I just wondered if you others got hit with this.

In terms of damage its true Tankers don't serve up the same kind of smackdown as other AT's, but having said that, a Tanker with most of their attacks 6 slotted can hit very hard. But where a tanker is most valuable is their ability to engage multiple foes.

Have you ever been in situation where you show up for a TF, and somebody else already has a tanker there, and the team leader is like, oh you'll have to change, we've already got a tank.

I remember long ago, I had my invul / SS and he was level 40, and was my highest level character, and there was an ITF forming. I showed up, chuffed to bits. Well, there happens to be a level 50 Tanker there, also Invulnerable. So naturally, I am requested to not use my Tanker. Yet, and I remember this because I scribbled it down because I was going to tell my mate another CoH player in work and I just found this bit of paper now. There were:

3 controllers
2 Scrappers
1 Blaster
2 Tankers

So, I remember I had a mini argument, and I basically said, well, you're happy to have 3 controllers, but won't allow a second tanker. I don't understand why I have to change, when going on the figures, asking a controller to change would be more prudent.

So it went back and forth, and I said, I can't do the ITF with anybody else, because this is my highest character and I dropped the team then feeling miserable and rejected. (lol awwwww.)

I see it a lot, people don't seem to want more than one Tanker, but will happily take multiple other AT's. Why is it, there is this "one Tanker only" unwritten rule? I get that DPS wise there are better to be had for sure in melee and ranged. But Tankers are not THAT bad, especially once their big nuke attacks are 6 slotted out and land after a tier 1. I've seen Tankers who readily one shot minions and two and three shotting lieutenants and they are done, are there other "support" AT's that can two shot some lieutenants?

On an 8 hero / villain team, I think having 2 tankers is not bad. I like all the AT's in the game, but for that sheer unstoppable melee feeling, there is NOTHING in CoH IMHO that compares to a tanker.