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If you only have the one porter room I'd suggest Pocket D and Cap. Pocket D can get you to PO, Shark and St.M while Cap can get ya to Mercy, PO, Shark, Nerva, St.M and Grand.

Would be nice though. Having several toons with 30+ tokens and nothing to do with them while there are plenty of people that love to make costumes constantly out there that could use them.

True. You have reason to question it and I will have try to record it. One thing I will say though, it was a scanner mish of freakshow and there were only up to 5 enemies at a time when we tried it.

In /SA, I have to say skip Brimstone Armor.

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While this is my experience too, Castle disagrees with you.

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Where? This is an honest questions -- his past posts on this subject seem to pretty much agree with what I think.

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Sarrate linked a post from Castle a few weeks back from a post he made a couple of years ago recanting his original statements on how agro worked in CoH.

Apparently damage does add to the threat scale, but only in extreme situations/amounts as it applies to overriding taunt effects (if I remember correctly).

Basically the gist of it was if a taunt is the only effect being applied (a single taunt effect with no damage or repetition such as Taunt from range) while extreme amounts of damage are being applied to the target from another source, the taunt effect can be overridden.

But the example he gave was fairly extreme and not one practically run across in the game on the norm.

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I tested just this to see. I was on a SD/DM tanker and my friend was on a BS/SD scrapper. Neither of us had taunt slotted in AAO and we tried a few scenario's.

From what we've tried, with him running AAO and attacking he could pull aggro off of me(only one at the time mind you). Even though I was taunting and attacking his greater output of dmg was keeping aggro on him. It could be different if I slotted taunt in AAO and more taunt in taunt. I just may have to try that out tommorow.

I just wish we could sell/trade costume tokens as it is...

If it's any consolation, mid's is slightly off when it comes to dmg from attacks. So I'd say a dev created version would be really nice since it would be more accurate.

Dwarf mire does only last 10seconds but it is nice. Generally it's just like you stated: tp in, mire, shift to human, mire, shift to nova while taking a hop backwards and destroy all. You can go just human/nova but dwarf's higher resists will soak up the alpha that may kill you in human form.

I do like dwarf though for the heal, extra resistance and of course mire. I'd say stick it out for a bit till you can get Eclipse then you can decide whether or not you want to drop dwarf. When you get Eclipse you can tp into the group, hit eclipse then the aformentioned combo.

Meh. I hope we would get something better than MA slots. It would be just like the vet costume tokens to me.... unused. I wish we could sell/trade those dang things because I'd be rich just from selling them since my main has 39 of them. Ok that was slightly off track but I guess I could see giving out MA slots here and there for the ones that love to create AE mishs.

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C'mon, you already know that Emp is the closest thing to a healer set in CoX, and there are people who roll pure healers. Some people just enjoy playing "green bar whack-a-mole". I can relate to that. I played a Kin for years, which is a lot like playing "Blue bar + Buff bar Whack-a-mole".

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Sure it may be the closest but it's still not a healer. It has several other powers that, for the most part, are more useful than the heals. This game hopefully will never have such restricting roles such as most MMO's. All the powersets we have available to us allows us to build our toons in a variety of ways unlike being stuck in one class.

I didn't know empathy was a healer set.... wait, there are healers in this game?

Most likely I won't make any more but I'll finish off the ones I haven't hit 50 with yet.

When it comes to nonset IO'd toons, I always put one Acc SO or one generic Acc IO. I tend to slot lvl25 generic IO's on all my toons past 22 and get by just fine. When I slot sets, I try to fit in a little bit of +Acc but only if there's nothing else I want.

But but roll with it till the inevitable lock k?

K just recently got a tanker to 41, def to 36 and a blaster to 31. Ohh and not by PL'ing them either since I dun have any 50 heroes over there.

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Have they been making finding a normal team in Atlas almost impossible? Have they been ruining a fantastic addition to the game by clogging the MA lists with pointless missions?

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Yes.

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TBH there are ALOT of pointless nonfarming missions too...

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Have they been making finding a normal team in Atlas almost impossible? Have they been ruining a fantastic addition to the game by clogging the MA lists with pointless missions?

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There really isn't a big need to find a team in Atlas since you out level that zone fairly quickly. I've been playing a good bit recently on virtue and still have been able to get on sewer teams even with the farm spam.

The /bc spam is slightly annoying and should be in a seperate channel. Saying report all farms at first then saying farm in private doesn't make sense. I like farming since it is something that allows me to enjoy the game and no I don't bc lfm or fill requests either. I do agree that noobs shouldn't farm but it's kind of hard to tell who's a noob and who isn't at first glance since there are plenty of people out there with plenty of vet badges that don't know what they are doing.

It's just gonna keep happening anyway...

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I might test how the changes feel on my fire/psy, but personally I thought Doms were fine as is (was), I think the problem came, as it usually does, with lousy players.

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This.

I never had any problems with any dom I've ever made once I learned how to play them. From the little I have tested, I am not impressed with the changes.

Water generally but that's because I tend to drink over 120oz a day. When it isn't water it's crown and cognac mixed with cherry coke.

With a decent graphics card Storm/Electric defenders are visually pleasing.

Can't forget you also get mez protection in Black Dwarf.

Here's the build with Boxing+Tough instead of OwtS+ToF...

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.401
http://www.cohplanner.com/

[u]Click this DataLink to open the build![u]

Level 50 Natural Tanker
Primary Power Set: Shield Defense
Secondary Power Set: Dark Melee
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Energy Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Deflection -- RedFtn-Def/EndRdx(A), RedFtn-Def/Rchg(11), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(11), RedFtn-Def(13), RedFtn-EndRdx(33), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(46)
Level 1: Shadow Punch -- Mako-Acc/Dmg(A), Mako-Dmg/EndRdx(3), Mako-Dmg/Rchg(3), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(5), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(5)
Level 2: Smite -- Mako-Acc/Dmg(A), Mako-Dmg/EndRdx(7), Mako-Dmg/Rchg(7), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(9), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(9)
Level 4: True Grit -- H'zdH-Heal(A), H'zdH-Heal/EndRdx(15), Mrcl-Heal(29), Mrcl-Heal/EndRdx(33)
Level 6: Active Defense -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(46)
Level 8: Against All Odds -- EndRdx-I(A)
Level 10: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(13), RechRdx-I(15)
Level 12: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 14: Super Speed -- Zephyr-Travel(A), Zephyr-Travel/EndRdx(34), Zephyr-ResKB(46)
Level 16: Siphon Life -- Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(A), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(17), Mako-Acc/Dmg(17), Mako-Dmg/Rchg(19), Theft-Heal(19), Theft-Acc/Heal(21)
Level 18: Health -- Numna-Heal/EndRdx(A), Numna-Heal(23), Numna-Heal/Rchg(25)
Level 20: Stamina -- P'Shift-EndMod(A), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(21), P'Shift-End%(23)
Level 22: Phalanx Fighting -- RedFtn-Def/EndRdx(A), RedFtn-Def/Rchg(34), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(37), RedFtn-Def(37), RedFtn-EndRdx(40)
Level 24: Taunt -- Zinger-Taunt/Rchg(A), Zinger-Taunt/Rchg/Rng(25), Zinger-Acc/Rchg(27), Zinger-Taunt/Rng(27)
Level 26: Shield Charge -- Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(42), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(42), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(42), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(43), Oblit-%Dam(50)
Level 28: Soul Drain -- Erad-Acc/Rchg(A), Erad-Dmg/Rchg(29), Erad-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(33), Erad-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(34), AdjTgt-EndRdx/Rchg(40), AdjTgt-ToHit/Rchg(43)
Level 30: Battle Agility -- RedFtn-Def/EndRdx(A), RedFtn-Def/Rchg(31), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(31), RedFtn-Def(31), RedFtn-EndRdx(43)
Level 32: Boxing -- Empty(A)
Level 35: Dark Consumption -- P'Shift-EndMod(A), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(36), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc/Rchg(36), P'Shift-Acc/Rchg(36), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(37)
Level 38: Midnight Grasp -- Mako-Acc/Dmg(A), Mako-Dmg/EndRdx(39), Mako-Dmg/Rchg(39), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(39), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(40)
Level 41: Tough -- TtmC'tng-ResDam/EndRdx(A), TtmC'tng-ResDam(45), TtmC'tng-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(45)
Level 44: Conserve Power -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(45)
Level 47: Focused Accuracy -- GSFC-ToHit(A), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg(48), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg/EndRdx(48), GSFC-Rchg/EndRdx(48), GSFC-ToHit/EndRdx(50), GSFC-Build%(50)
Level 49: Combat Jumping -- DefBuff-I(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- ULeap-Stlth(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Gauntlet

Edit: Perhaps I should take a slot from Active Defense, swap out CP for OwtS, put the slot into that, put a generic Resist IO in Deflection and slot OwtS with the +def proc and two Impervium Armors. That way, I'll pick up extra recov plus I'll be at 84% resist to smash/lethal when OwtS is up.

Yeah it's pretty tight and I don't really want to drop any other powers. Unfortunately I'm at work so I can't post it right now but I can later.