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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

And you want those debuffs for the person using Superspeed as well, correct? After all, someone running around that fast would have a much harder time aiming and ensuring a shot hit...

No?

Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze

I am still not convinced you need that magic number 45 on a Regen. 35+, get IH to 50% up-time and it should be good. A lot easier to get there with Katana or BS but should be attainable on others I think. Assuming of course that you did not gimp on other powers (Recon, DP, MoG, SM and your attacks).

Originally Posted by Werner

I don't think that's specific to Regeneration. If you want top end survivability in a secondary that doesn't include defense, then you need to add a whole lot of defense. For quite a few secondaries, that means you need Katana or Broad Sword for top end survivability.

Similarly, Super Reflexes, Shield Defense and Invulnerability want healing, and that's what Dark Melee offers, so I think Dark Melee tends to be the best choice to combine with those. Still, at least with the defensive secondaries can pick up Aid Self instead, giving you more flexibility when building your top end survivability Scrapper.

Originally Posted by Werner

I figured that Katana/Regen could be very competitive IF we could hit some goals:

• Normal soft cap with one Divine Avalanche and the 5% tail end of T4 Barrier
• Perma Hasten
• Perma Dull Pain
• Slotted Tough
• Shadow Meld
• Able to run top DPS chain during the rather frequent periods of high defense boost (Golden Dragonfly should recharge in 3.43 seconds or less)

So the idea is that you're always at the normal soft cap, and then you juggle Barrier, Moment of Glory and Shadow Meld to spend the majority of time significantly above even the new soft cap (to handle debuffs along with a second Divine Avalanche) and a good portion of time with decent resistance as well. The multiple high defense boosts can also be used to interrupt cascading defense failure.

I've failed to achieve all the goals, but it's not too far off, missing the soft cap by 4.2%, 4.8% and 1.7%, and missing perma Hasten by maybe 7 seconds. I threw it together pretty fast, so I'm sure there are still some improvements to be made. If we're going to miss the soft cap, I'd say we don't want to miss it by more than 2.5%, so that at least we're soft capped from Barrier for one minute out of two, and not too far off the rest of the time.

There are some inefficiencies in the build. It has more hit point bonuses than it needs since it has more than perma Dull Pain. It's not that they're bad, but they're fairly wasteful. They just showed up as a side effect of the sets I was slotting for other reasons. Still, maybe they can be traded in some way for things we need more.

Anyway, here it is. Can we fix it?

Originally Posted by Dante

I roleplayed through it with the Militia the other night and although it's a fun TF, the plot inconsistencies are becoming hard to work around. These days, it's easier to run our own plots than to patch up the slap dash way the Devs are treating the plot. And that makes me sad.

Originally Posted by Oliin

My secret shame .... I like Hudson Hawk. It's a horrible movie and I like it.

Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze

I guess I like playing things that are some what looked at as under performers.... The top 2 things I currently play... my Fire Armor Brute and my Regen Scrapper ... Stupid incarnate crap having me pick a few from many

Originally Posted by Venture

Codswallop. The dialog in the Sutter TF makes it clear that the action is part of the invasion portrayed in the Apex TF.

Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang

He had? >.>

But other than that, I agree. I mean you've got guys like Christian Bale, Michael Cane, and Gary Oldman as your core cast. It's practically impossible to have a poorly acted film after that.

Originally Posted by MaestroMavius

Sky High - I'm still hoping for a sequel...

The Postman

Meteor Man

Short Circuit 1 and 2

Bill and Ted 1 and 2

Bugsy Malone

The 10th Kingdom

Gremlins 2

Zapped!

Revenge of the nerds - all of them... yes even Nerds in love.

Originally Posted by Dark_Respite

No. There were people who've said it SHOULD be. (I was not one of them.)

Originally Posted by SlickRiptide

So, you're saying that Samuraiko SHOULD 86 her story?

I'm not saying you're wrong about accuracy. Only that a fanfic involving a signature character is unavoidably inaccurate. You can hand-wave almost anything if you really, really, really want to do it. The question is not whether you should or should not. The question is whether you should let the hand-waving take over the plot and undermine the story as a result.

To take the Galaxy Girl story I mentioned as an example - I finally concluded that the best way to handle the conflict that Sean's news created was to decide that the REASON Robbie's crush went unrequited was that Kelly's feelings for him were maternal and not romantic. Hand's waved. Problem solved. Get on with the story.

Originally Posted by BL00DBATH

I always found that SoW is best used when you need added recovery for a battle. For example the only thing that really bothers my wp/ss tank on the lgtf is Famine's -recovery and subsequent toggle drop. In siutations like that you are left a lot less vulnerable. Then you just watch for the end crash after the fight is well over.

Originally Posted by MunkiLord

I'm gonna say WP as well. The flexibility in what AVs and large mobs you can handle is fantastic. Regen on top of defense on top of resist(nothing too great here, but still better than nothing) on top of high hit points is stupid survivable. Add in IO sets and there aren't many AVs you couldn't take solo.

Though I don't know if I'll ever be able to beat Silver Mantis. I hate her with a passion.

Originally Posted by Mach_Four

After reading (and rereading) this thread and giving some thought and input from my experiences thus far with regen, I'm actually considering rerolling into /WP because of all the votes. I do like regen but I have found myself face first more than I like. Regen doesn't react well in a pinch. Plus I've never rolled a /WP toon so there could be potential gains. To formulate a question:

Coming from a lvl 22 Regen, and liking the set, will I be further impressed if I reroll into a /WP? Or does Regen really pick up soon?

I was thinking I'd like Regen better because I think all the clicky heals kind of keep you on your toes but then I remembered my Invuln tank and how nice "set it and forget it is" and how much it keeps your head in the fight and off the green bar.

Originally Posted by aarithon

Trying to nail some stuff on the upper end of my db/will scrapper. The 2 powers I'm unsure of are the last 2 in the set, the rez, and tier 9. SoW seems kinda weak for a tier 9, but from what i can read, there's no health crash, just an end crash. Does this drop your toggles?

Also debating the value of a self rez, I do die now and then, but seems like a bit of a waste of power selection, the thing is, I'm not sure what else i might take. I have tough/weave and combat jumping, will probably add manuevers, unsure of whether there's anything else in pools that's worth a look. Medicine for an on demand heal?

Epic pools don't seem that great. Best one i could see was soul mastery patron pool for a blast and shadowmeld perhaps.

Interested in recommendations,

thanks.

Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake

rapper chammillionaire also loved when al did "white and nerdy" and put it up on his site. I'd think any musician that grew up with weird al would appreciate what him parodying you means. "the key of awesome" also has done some clever gaga parodies.

Originally Posted by Oliin

Does anyone else find it sad that almost nowhere in this thread is a blaster brought forth as being the best DPS (except for I think Combat's post). I mean since that's pretty much all they have to offer.

Admittedly the thread's not terribly big yet, but it's kind of sad that when someone asks for best DPS the first thought isn't, "Ohhh a blaster."

Originally Posted by Quixotik

It would ruin the game for two reasons. Less re-playability, as something completely different than prior characters. And the powersets would all be weaker with about the same effects in a different wrapper.

What they need to do is make a bunch of new powersets and add a few new AT's.

Archery still needs an Arrow Manipulation Secondary which could be the same as Trick Arrow, minus the debuffs with an, Imbued Arrow power replacing Build-Up and, of course, Boost Range!

Energy Weapons (Ionic, Cosmic, Mythic) is a common, but missing, comic book powerset that could be a new Melee Set with some ranged attacks.

CoH is far from complete and is begging for some obvious new powersets and even AT's. Then they could take all that into CoH2 at a later date.

Originally Posted by Mr_Mud

Haha, 'her'?

Do you not remember the Ms. Liberty facade? Turned out to be a dude using pictures of a Canadian model to solicit male attention.

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