Blaze_Johnson

Hey hey! Give my friend Psionetic the Kin/Nrg/Psy defender a big gratz on dinging the big 5-0. After a mild bout of altitis followed by mid-30s blues, Psi finally made it through to 50 (with a 3am dash for the last 4 bars so his kheld would have a freespec today!)

So people, do your congratulating, for you all love those transferences and fulcrum shifts! I know I do

Gratz to you Psionetic Enjoy your Kheldians.

I just timed it, it's 7 seconds. And pretty poor. I'm copying to test now to think about respecing in the bolts instead.

This is the day after my account runs out.

Well, darn.

I would like to take part in this with my Stalker if possible... let us know when it's going down although i wont be on for rest of saturday

Solution: Crush your opponents accuracy A dark or rad friend would do nicely

Upsurge, I've been in Sirens and Warburg the last few days standing my ground - I tend to aim for other stalkers, corruptors, blasters, controllers and defenders -- I've also been trying my luck and standing my ground against various regen scrappers. I don't run away the second things go wrong, but I don't stick around if I'm going to be face down and take no-one with me.

If I was trying to AS a blaster and I got taunted by a tanker, would I attack the tanker and let the rest of the heroes jump on me? No, I'd break the taunt and then come back for more. The point of PvP is to fight and try to win. Not throw yourself at a tanker so the rest of his team can pound you - it's not a case of bravery or cowardice, it's a case of tactics or useless kamikaze strikes.

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Union or Defiant Upsurge? I know a stalker or two who would love to re-educate you on that little comment

(i should point out neither are me - never had the patience for one, yet )

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Great! Tell 'em to play more in Siren's Call, we could use more courageous adversaries.

One of my favorite "stalkers are cowards" moments came a few days ago. The heroes were outnumbered by the villains, but we were fighting anyway. There's a large group of villains down the road, moving in towards us. They outnumber us 2 to 1, we know it's a losing battle, but hey - it's fun. Maybe we'll take one of 'em down with us.

A stalker is moving ahead of the group. He's hidden, but I can see him. He's getting close to another team-mate, so I target him, and fire off taunt.

Man, is he OUTTA THERE! Super-leaping merrily on his away, he disspears screaming into the night and isn't seen again until after his six friends give us the pasting we knew they would.

That's entirely typical of the way stalkers seem to behave. They don't enter any combat situation at all unless they're sure it'll be a three move kill with no actual combat whatsoever. Even if they have the advantage of numbers. Even if they know their side will win the fight anyway.

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Why is this cowardly? What's the point of a Stalker who is forced to reveal from hide by attacking a tanker? Running from that situation isn't cowardly... not breaking the taunt aggro and trying to take on a tanker would've been moronic.

Congratulations what's next?

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taking on vahsihlok of any number with less than 4 isnt smart in my experience

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But don't you see you then have half as many Vahz... Ji, Psi and I did 75% of Positron with 3 people (4th came and went), even including a mish that was originally set for 4.

Nearly all the TFs are easier with the minimum number of people.

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If its on a warshade....wouldn't inky aspect interrupt AS? Haven't tried it though

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Tested it against Nefarious and it barely hits - nowhere near enough to stop AS.

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Great news this accoldae was rumoured to exsist agaes ago but obvioulsy wasnt until now.

What the accoldae give you??

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Max Hit Point increase (5%) and special costume part (shoulder item), I think.

I need Citadel.

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Hot Feet doesn't damage?????

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You're right of course, sorry - someone said so in the AS buff thread I read recently, and I hadn't taken HF myself before then. My mistake =)

Stalker's AS is also recieving a buff, in that various powers like Arctic Air and Hot Feet, which don't dmg, only debuff, will not interrupt AS.

Add to that our Snipes, Pets and lvl 38 secondaries... I think we'll still be fighting the good (bad) fight

Just to double check, everyone does realise that the pumpkin will still have a big orange name over its head, right? :P

The oddest tactic I have ever seen was a stalker not using hide, to bait me out so another stalker could come out and get me.

Kinda dumb when I had enough +per to see the second one hiding behind a fance

Tech Blaze and Purple Santa (Stagefright) fight for Legend's honour against Hamidon

Why they call me 'Blaze'

Star Jewel's Beach Party

I have no idea why Photobucket resized those pics

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It doesn't. It's only if you do something that directly affects a mob or another player. Trip mines, time bombs and caltrops do not break Cloaking Device.

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Fair enough, this made sense -- I don't have a /devices blaster I was judging by what someone said in team chat a few days ago =)

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Great stuff thanks for the replies guys... Looks like its SS for me then (which I'm not overly thrilled by but hey ho)

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I was told stealth came off when planting trip mines anyway

No discussion of Dark Regeneration?

I just got it and am wondering the best way to slot it. ATM thinking 2x end rdx, 2x acc

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On the Spines side it's all good - just don't pick Barb Swipe. And Confront is very missable.

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I love barb swipe and all the similar scrapper attacks like gambler's cut. at least, in the early lvls. I feel an attack chain is missing something without it. a scrapper should never be standing around waiting for somethin to charge

My suggestion, for you:

Give up on CoH, it's obviously far to empty for you Put together a company and start building your own Superhero MMO from scratch with all these wonderful wacky things in

What I don't like about PvP is needing a seperate build to be any use. I can't take my Blaster in without respecing him into a bunch of PvP appropriate powers, yet I don't really know if I want to, because he was my first and main toon, and I had those powers from the word go. If they gave us 2 builds, one for PvP and one for PvE, I'd like it a lot more.

btw... this came is called City of Heroes how can you spell that word wrong? ^^;

I think I good example of mixing flash with an otherwise plain html site is this.

Someone above me mentioned Dreamweaver as a good WYSIWYG web designer. A great suggestion, I always wish I had started with this rather than learning to code html from scratch. My codes would probably be a lot less messy if I had :P

Thanks Syn! I had a bunch of ideas bouncing around in my head from learning a) what was wrong with my Blaster and b) what makes PvP tough for my stalker, but didn't have any of the details such as 2xACC on most things, slotting aim for ToHit, slotting hurdle or the wasted Hold Dur's.

Thanks again Just the kind of insight I was looking for.

Will probably make this build tomorrow, still open for other suggestions

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i mean Europian or english time?

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Discover the "Edit" button :P

That's right, I want to try and make a PvP build, despite this monstrosity of a secondary power. Unfortunately I don't really follow PvP, or pay attention to the importance of various powers in various situations. However I did make a build in the hope that someone could help me look at it, and make some suggestions

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Exported from Ver: 1.7.6.0 of the CoH_CoV Character Builder
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Name: Blaze Johnson
Level: 50
Archetype: Blaster
Primary: Energy Blast
Secondary: Fire Manipulation
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01) --> Power Blast==> Dmg(1)Dmg(3)Dmg(5)Acc(9)
01) --> Ring of Fire==> Acc(1)
02) --> Energy Torrent==> Dmg(2)Dmg(3)Dmg(5)Acc(9)
04) --> Fire Sword==> Acc(4)Dmg(15)Dmg(15)Acc(43)
06) --> Hasten==> Rechg(6)Rechg(7)Rechg(7)Rechg(31)
08) --> Grant Invisibility==> DefBuf(8)
10) --> Power Burst==> Dmg(10)Dmg(11)Dmg(11)Acc(13)Acc(13)Rechg(21)
12) --> Hurdle==> Rechg(12)
14) --> Super Speed==> Run(14)Run(37)
16) --> Build Up==> Empty(16)Rechg(17)Rechg(17)
18) --> Invisibility==> DefBuf(18)DefBuf(19)Rechg(19)DefBuf(21)Rechg(40)
20) --> Health==> Heal(20)Heal(37)
22) --> Stamina==> EndMod(22)EndMod(23)EndMod(23)
24) --> Blazing Aura==> Acc(24)Acc(25)Acc(25)Dmg(29)
26) --> Aim==> Rechg(26)Rechg(27)Rechg(27)
28) --> Explosive Blast==> Dmg(28)Dmg(29)Dmg(31)Acc(34)
30) --> Consume==> Rechg(30)Rechg(31)Rechg(37)
32) --> Nova==> Dmg(33)Dmg(33)Acc(33)Rechg(34)Rechg(34)
35) --> Burn==> Dmg(35)Dmg(36)Dmg(36)EndRdx(36)
38) --> Hot Feet==> Slow(38)Slow(39)Slow(39)Dmg(39)Dmg(40)Rechg(40)
41) --> Char==> Hold(41)Hold(42)Hold(42)Acc(42)Acc(43)Rechg(43)
44) --> Fire Shield==> DmgRes(44)DmgRes(45)DmgRes(45)EndRdx(45)EndRdx(46)EndRdx(46)
47) --> Rise of the Phoenix==> Rechg(47)Rechg(48)Rechg(48)Heal(48)
49) --> Power Push==> Acc(49)Acc(50)Acc(50)KB_Dist(50)
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01) --> Sprint==> Empty(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Empty(1)
01) --> Defiance==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Rechg(2)Rechg(46)
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Now some explanations:

Burn: I took this so I could put it down with Hot feet when fighting stalkers.

Blazing Aura: 3 slotted for acc as a stalker protection

Grant Invis: I was under the impression regular stealth and invis can't be stacked, so I couldn't see the sense in taking stealth when I planned to take invis.

Nova: It has its uses in PvP in my opinion. Coupled with a CAB and Consume it shouldn't work much different to PvE, in theory.

Flame Mastery: Although this won't come into play until Recluse's Victory (or in the arena) - I took this because I wanted the hold and the self rez with the invincibility. I also thought of taking Force Mastery....

Power Push: I didn't really have anything left to take here, so I went with something that I thought could get me out of a sticky situation


Any help would be much appreciated, and also please no flaming any dumb mistakes I made

PS: I don't know why it says there's a Rechg on Hurdle, it was 1x Jump Increase. I guess its a bug :P

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In my non-professional opinion, Flash sites never look good. Sorry, sorry, sorry to everyone with one.

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Hmm, just a matter of taste I do like a clean, plain look done with photoshop, xhtml and css, but there are times when flash comes into its own. Take a look at the new X3 website for example, I think it's awesome