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also, while i think of it, im not clear on the details (hence this post), Master Zap (can i call him that) is going to post here to enlighten us about the differences in tech and magic salvage and sgmode and perstige gaining, so take note of where and when to wear sg colours, i would also like to point out that as a rule if u are with sg members make sure ur in colours if there are strangers about at least, as it makes us look a bit more pro
. to add to that, the only none professional thing i ever want to see is me lying on the floor dead, every1 else has no excuses, even major disruption (my landlord, think i got the name right 
) hasnt died yet and hes lvl 7.
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1) you seem a nice skilled person
2) always be very nice to Femme Fatale and their counter-part in CoV
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1) You obviously weren't paying attention... I had no idea what was going on! lol
2) I can't help myself, I'm nice to everyone... it's my downfall in life!
Oh, and as for 'the dutch accent' - I'd find it preferable than certain English accents (though I won't mention which particular regions grate on my nerves! lol)
[/ QUOTE ]im betting u hate scousers if ur manc fortunately i avoided the war when i lived in the 'pool, apart from once when i got kicked in the head, but i broke my fist on the guys face so it was ok
my mission in life is to get dreamer on TS, hell we're married, i think it's only fair
but not with u lot about. sin sounds well cool, not as arnie as the greek, but very porn, he defo has teh 1337 sk1llz1! or something.
i played recorder in like 1st year juniors too btw, wsa ace fun, i could do hot cross buns n that was about it, also have a grade 1 on keys from when i was forced into it at the age of 8, kee meaning to do the drum grades just cos i said i would 7 years ago but end up teaching more than learning now :/
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yeah so this sg chat thing, i thin k i may need to put a new tab up, i usually keep sg chat in my team tab, but lately (and belive me im happy to hear it) its been pretty busy! running out of tabs tho, iirc u can have 8 total, atm i have team, global, combat defaults then added pop ups i have a numeric with req and broad split for hami raids, a pop up with xp and rewards etc and a pop up with coalition and arena singles, o and a permanent coalition tab too, thats a fair few : / with global inc i will want my old glabal system back too (which i still have the binds for )
door and back
yeah so, global, w00ty goodness as the wife says
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debuffs damage resistance every hit, so u hit harder and harder as u go, afaik its nice damage, i played a lvl 22 sonic corruptor for a bit and it was ok dmg, hard, imo, to stack the debuff as the animations are so diabolically long
archery, lowish dmg i think (not sure, ask bridger he has 1), faster recharge than some sets and increased accuracy, there is no inherent debuff as it has the extra acc iirc.
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before i reply to En's post i will say this, energy has a decent base recharge anyway, the fact that there isnt much to slot apart from acc or recharge (no need to slot and stun really and slotting KB makes life harder), all meas that you dont really need hasten, with at least 6 attacks cycling you should be laughing, maybe 1 recharge SO in each attack if it seems to be unavailable at any point will cover it.
En is spot on right, an uber blastor build will mash a straight out elec melee build like mine, i dropped stealth as i really dont need it in PvE, i used to have it but dropped it at i5 cos of the change to perception on aggro of any mob. regardless of primary/secondary choice (and with both toons having breakfrees) i feel its fair to say that any blaster with aim and build up, stealth and fly, will beat any blaster who has no stealth, no togglable travel (tp) every time. i.e. Energon vs me. the whole thing with my build and idea was to try and get as much of the elec in as possible, not to rely on any pools, getting to 50 with onlytp and presence pools was something i was really happy with, now im dropping hasten again it seems. but its the choice i make, as ive said many times, a pvp blaster needs acro really, just to hold off the cheap 1 shot holders (fire blasters with epics ) not that this affects proper blsatrollers as they have far greater ranged hold ability.
now i know i like to stir, and so do u lot prolly, but i think that in a no break free fight, a build like energons would never beat a holding blastroller/blaptroller build, purely cos unless u slot total focus to hold for as long as something like char or shocking bolt then a 1 for 1 mez at the point the stealther destealths will mean the blastroller has enough time to un mez and kill the nrg blaster or w/e they may be. i've seen this happen a lot, but with breakfrees it never really happens, hence the 11-0 ness.
im thinking about getting my US blaster over and speccing him for a proper pvp build, and keeping my main for fun etc. doubt i will but we'll see.
also last thing. i think it was shnyet that said snipe was the best alpha ever, might have been En tho, but as i was explaining to a mate in the car the other day, if ur a melee blaster then its not true, in the time u aim+BU+snipe then run in, u lose most of ur buffs, in this time u get an extra melee attack in if u buff as u enter melee, and those melees are like 1 shot snipes without any interrupt time, so if u dont mind the 3 second animation and u have the range to lay more damage in while ur buffs are up (i.e. ur a ranged blaster) then it may be true, but for any1 with slotted melees its generally better not to open like this. ive found with my blaster, if i open with snipe i dont want to 'waste' my buffs as i know how important they are once im in melee to pretect myself, especially with ED and an ineffective snipe if it isnt buffed (hence im dropping it again i think :/)
well fun fun
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rematch soon En
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Well i would offer but i think you already have a great spokesman for elec/elec blasters that being mr plight, teamed with him the other week with my pb and well lets just say he knows how to use them powers almost as good as me but just incase hes not on im more than happy to step in.
[/ QUOTE ]1 of many legends to post here, seek him out, i think most people who are offering up their time are, im trying to keep this thread concise tho and not power post all over it.
elec, nuff said.
carry on, oh and thanks for the support with the idea
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Well i would offer but i think you already have a great spokesman for elec/elec blasters that being mr plight, teamed with him the other week with my pb and well lets just say he knows how to use them powers almost as good as me but just incase hes not on im more than happy to step in.
[/ QUOTE ]1 of many legends to post here, seek him out, i think most people who are offering up their time are, im trying to keep this thread concise tho and not power post all over it.
elec, nuff said.
carry on, oh and thanks for the support with the idea
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most of the CoV game is under 35 so shouldnt be a problem really dojo, just looking forward to getting a base up, which i hope to do soon, mind you, in beta i could go to the base without setting anything up and it gave me the option to edit, now in CoH if i go to a portal i dont even get the option to go edit it. i think im a bit thick see .
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Doin my job for me, i like this
Welcome aboard it seems, gonna pop in game to check they recruited you Duarte.
n if u are wondering, i am 22/m/notts and have a job and play drums in a band, previous MMOGS would mainly be EVE and not much else worth mentioning. i have a tendancy to talk a lot. i could tell u asl of most of the sg lot i think, but not really my place.
Looking forward to meeting you n all that, i should be on everyday for the next few months.
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just a quick update as it doesnt all fit on the MotD, can you all please remember to enable villain broadcasting in options>general on each hero/villain u play so we can talk to one another easily.
the Villain group is up also thanks to mars, as usual, shout on the *cough* arena channel if u need us and cant find any1, chances are we are on.
also please try to wear ur sg colours to earn some prestige it helps and any level can earn just as much per kill which is nice, i dont have the Aspirant rank set to 'pay rent' so im not sure if u can accrue prestige or not, but we'll soon see
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You're Welcome any time cactus, was good fun, i'm sure there is plenty of stuff to show you, we can do it again when i come out of my i5 slotting
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fair point on the AS, much more functional than hover in may ways, but not others.
when i said 0.7 i meant base. i dont have probs with the int time on heals usually and the have no interrupt SOs in them,
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Couldn't let it go could you! lol
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that there's fighting talk little lady, time for me to pwn j00 some more methinks
have to spec 1st tho, then pwn you, i5 builds doing ok, but think i6 will do better damage, just having some personal trauma about dropping certain powers.
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u wouldnt be on defiatn and looking for an SG too would you? : /
thanks for the correction there to doulos
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badger, i think im right in saying that you would be better with the second slot of flight in power boost, this affects hover speed in fights too.
i would put a heal SO in aid other, not interrupt, and i would put 3 heals and a recharge or 2 in aid self, i wouldnt personally even bother with 1 interrupt here, as an energy blaster, solo you should be able to put every mob in a spawn on their back at once, and the 0.7 interrupt of aid self or w/e it is is good enough in this situation, i would say put 1 or 2 in it tops as a blaster, but in my xp of it, you dont need any for it to save your bacon.
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[/ QUOTE ]lol nova, could i take him?
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RAWR (big green troll mode)
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thankyou mars, glad to see u are on, i knew you would be
no need to remake, but if u can quit and rejoin thatll help me a lot, u know the setup for the ranks from te old threads (idea not names). i'll be on on momday i think, but i have a gig then so not too serious til tues. mike (RL not ingame) wil be rejoining us and so will his dad, so theres 2 more
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looo there, i started off july on US, came here in feb, may bring my toons from my otehr account over at somwe point, not sure yet.
i camehere in your boots and startedd up my US SG i belonged to here, same values, now we have a good group, you would be welcome if you like the look of things, have alook at the thread entitled Order of the Cruciform Swords over here on defiant. we are also goin villain, but not permanently, we will be on both regularly i hope.
me im a chatterer, the arena channel is affectionately called Plight Chat by some, dunno why :/ big SGs to note would be paragon defenders, the contingency/the last stand, the plastic army/boot camp/academy, the guild of extreme heroes (GoEH), The Awfully Nice Chaps (TANC), Sheepy Sheepy (or something, soz mike ), Femme Fatales and Liberty Legion are usually about...and many others, sorry if i forget any.
PvP wiseimaginary is most likely to mash your head in, being ill rad n that. talin le thaed, the greek earth/storm troller, glacier- is a pain in the bum as a blaster, scrappers, well theres a lot, but sechs is night on impossible to hit, and kenshin, his regenner, is insanely hard to kill. contamination the rad rad, but hes off on his other 50s , and lots of others, beware marius and his laser beam HOs , he'll be back around soon though. o and me, but dont believe the ratings, i just go there a lot, as a rule if you come near me you die, if you dont, well, you dont.
hamidon, not having the resources we cant do what the US do, so we raid the 1st monday of the month, i think this will go up now tho, maybe to 2 i hope. Mr ? is the leader so far, Xironia is the targetter usually too, occasionally we change tank, but Mr does it mostly as ive seen. we are on 4 successful raids and counting, lag is the biggest problem usually, alongside griefers and GM pullers, we dont usually have enough ppl organised to deal with a GM like that see.
other than that, welcome back to english type places ish, i hope to meet you in the arena, i dont much like blasters, but after i spec it'll be ok i think
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its generally a good plan.
what are the thoughts on power push, i see it as a pain in the [censored] when im put on my bum : /
must haves also include aim and build up. i would say that your core attacks would be power burst/bolt (1st 2 single ranged ones) and bonesmasher and energy punch, all 3 slotted with damage. the rest of it is up to you, but i like the who power boost thing with total focus. good as the snipe is, its optional.
get aid self if i were you (om not but i did for me )
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that would be what i meant sorry
the point i tried to make without actually making it, is that there are diferent levels of survivability for different sets/playstyles, fire is one of the hardest to play without a team to support you if things go wrong or you meet one of the nightmare type bad guys... like sappers from the malta group. (pre melee slotting i had to hit these guys with pure energy attacks which they resist half of, fire can snipe em in 1 go tho )
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Right, one of the biggest things i had issues with, levelling up later especially, was not having a clue about a powers animation time or actual effectiveness in a fight. i like getting the little elec people and exemping or sking them, just so they dont lose interest as most sets are easy to misinterpret early on.
So the idea of this thread is to give people an idea of who they can contact in game to see their sets a bit later on, so if you could post a list of you main alts' names to email/tell, your intended Global handle for tells your level and your primary, secondary and epic sets, your server, and many which type of blaster you are, e.g. single target blaster/AoE team blaster/blastroller/blaptroller/blapper. you dont have to be 50 to post here, especially if you have some interesting take on a build, like you dont have a certain power that every1 thinks you need to have, or you use whirlwind to huge effect soloing mobs of +6s (jk ), just be willing to help some people lower than you get an idea of how to/not to gimp their toon for what they like the look of doing. so anyways
Plight Trawler (alts are Plight Bringer, War Trawler, Ember's Memory, Plight Baubler, Oak Dweller)
@BindW hore (but without the space of course)
50 electric blast/electrical manipulation/electrical mastery
Defiant
Blaptroller (almost all melee with a LOT of control type powers), no stamina
I'm online a fair bit and check my mains emails almost everyday, happy to show people, me in teams, duos, solo, pvp etc, jsut ask (nicely).
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all about the same imo, but there are notable differences at certain things.
fire-huge AoE, cone and single target damage, no control, dies good
ice-huge single target with much lower AoE and cone damage, fsatest animations and fast to cycle, amazing control, doesnt die much usually. a true blastroller
energy-good ranged, short ranged, AoE and cone damage, massive amounts of knockback but poor 'real' control, solos ok, good in teams as a damage dealer, noticably harder to fight +3s with than other blastrollers. doesnt need stamina particulary if you have conserve power
Assault Rifle-good damage, smashing and lethal (rarer in ranged attacks for blasters), has a few cones, good range and a fair bit of knock back, little 'real' control, but as energy, still does it well with stuns to boot. play this if you want a gun, not much else slow animations for increased accuracy-doesnt die as much as fire, prolly more than energy or ice though. lacks aim to buff acc and damage
elec-moderate AoE damage, no cones til epics at 41, single target damage is limited to 2 powers early on which dont cycle too fast, but well enough. damage typed as pure energy in the primaries so need secondaries to do varied types. 1 hold and some impressive end draining powers. makes for a good team damage dealer, can tank with an empath to help due to end drain. if /elec there is 1 more hold and drain to be had, also wont be needing stamina for this build if you want more powers. a true blaptroller. if played well, dies rarely, played badly, can seem a gimped set of powers.
my PoV there
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Ahoy there Grounded, i know we've talked about elec before
I should really post as apparently i'm the expert (or something )
ok so: 1st thing i notice is this is kinda going for the elec blaptroller build cokkie style with the SS/stealth, this tactic is now useless (not totally) as your alpha strike as in i5 and previously you could 1 shot drain mobs with this set up, now you can't, if you want to, i would suggest slotting power sink 3 drain 2 recred 1 endrec, this will mean you can still pretty much 1 shot those mobs that you needed to use SC 6 slotted on before, this will gimp your leeching, but you have stamina so it should be enough. personally i'm staying as i am, 1 shot of SC followed by power sink as an alpha, with no stealth or SS.
i dont think 2 slots in health is worth it, there are better places to put 1 extra slot (also learning aid self is far more viable).
i would try and get 1 more holdur in tesla cage, its pretty crucial for some bosses until 41
if you want stamina, go for 3 slots in it maybe (as you did), but only if you take my advice on power sink as an attack, not a buff, otherwise you dont even need it tbh. solo, you can do invince without stamina, you can do unyielding without it, in a team, you are most likely buffed, and if you have 10 secs downtime does it matter, finally in pvp, if you dont kill them in 1 bar of end, you're likely dead.
CJ i wouldnt put 3 defs in, but now in pvp with lowered acc apparently maybe its worht it if thats your thing. personally i think its not worth it, but it may well be.
acrobatics is slow to recharge, pvp blasters i know tend to slot it for a recharge or 2, consider this, but not esential.
build up, 3 recred, good, but you should have aim, im not 1 to say that you NEED certain powers, but blasters are amazing self buffers, this is why they are now the true damage kings in CoH, aim gives you yet more damage more often!
Thunderous Blast, how often do you use this? 3 recreds when you can use it on 4 minutes anyway, thats pretty often tbh, especially that you are 3 slotting hasten, tbh i wouldnt bother with the recred, most ppl say that in i4 slotting 4 dam 2 recred was optimal, most damage most often, but did they REALLY use it everytime it was up, do you? i dont
power sink, looks fine, keep it this way, or see above.
shocking grasp, well you obviously have a huge amount of damage output, i think here you are wasting control, 1 acc 3 holdur 2 recred would be my suggestion (maybe 1 recred), i dont use this in pvp as its not ranged, but in pve its needed to lock down larger mobs and stack holds on bosses pre shocking bolt, nice as the damage is, i would suggest using the hold side (also note you dont really need this post shocking bolt unless you really want to be monmaxed troller to hell)
static discharge, not a power i use, as i have other things to focus on, may i suggest the 2 recred are slotted as range increase SOs, cones are massively useful when good range, and iirc range enhs are 40% buff (i may be wrong, not sure now), you dont need this attack so often, but would be good againt larger mobs if it had range, far more effective than ball lightning, then you have both types of area blast, nice.
charged armor, 3 damres, i would even go as far as to say that more slots are worth it if you have them, but you need to get aim right great power. also, absolutely no need for an endred here, you dont need one even without stamina, its cost is next to nothing, with stamina its a wasted slot.
shocking bolt, needs 1 more acc as you have 0 on it, and i would say 1 or 2 recred, as this has the highest base duration it will be your main hold, as long and as often as possible is the way forward.
voltaic sentinel, do you really want this, do you really see it helping you? i did sometimes and not others, had it in various builds over the last 15 months or so and not others, there isnt any real room for it i think, but the extra dps for 0 end is nice, if you take it then slot it 3 dam, nothing else, with hasten the recred isnt needed, barely needed even without hasten things to replace this with could be aim, lightning clap, or working towards aid self.
so in conclusion, pretty sound build, capable of soloing up to invince no doubt, imo things to go would be SS, maybe hasten if you like with all those recreds and volt sentinel and stealth. things to get: aim, lightning clap 3 slotted for stun, 1 for acc; aid self 3 slotted for heals, maybe some recharge, but not important really; thunderstrike would be a wise investment, but its not like you need the damage. maybe some other stuff i forget too
i would also like to say that with all these attacks and the changes to hasten and stamina, you will burn huge amounts of end, power sink will see you right 95% of the time, i know this as i run on it, but with all those attacks you have a huge endcost to your single strings, maybe some of the recreds (1) should be endred, i doubt you would notice a difference in DPS with all the attacks, and it may keep you going. also on this note, with those recreds, you dont really need hasten, its really only melee only builds where you need it (NEED i mean ), rhe ranged stuff will keep you going. if you keep hasten in there, maybe slot some range or enddrn in your blast attacks, this can be quite effective, yet 1 v 1 not really needed in pve, in pvp it makes a bit of a diff, but when u think that all drain is 1/4 in pvp vs pve, an SO that does 0.25*0.33 enhanecement... cheers devs.
thats about it other than focusing more on your 2 ranged holds for holdur, but seriously now, ask yourself, when u go pvp, or solo, or withouta healer "do i have a noticeable downtime on hp?" if the answer is yes then make the jump and get aid self, its like aim, you dont realise how much of a difference it makes until you have it. i went from huge dow times without even having health to downtimes of like 30 seconds from 0 hp and 0 end, anyhting more realistic than 0 and you have like 10 second down times.
hope this helps any elec blasters out there, you're all alwyas welcome to come play with me, i love it and have about 6 in the SG
Plight , 50 Elec3 blaster