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Quote:Should of sent them to the thread in the Scrapper forums where 8 Scrappers completed both Apex and Tin MageOriginally Posted by Rikis
Really? I'm starting to think I really am lucky. I've run countless SFs/TFs since side switching was made available and have yet to run into anyone waiting for a specific AT or powerset to join in order to start. I did have someone comment on one of my Apexes how the TF couldn't be done without any debuffage, luckily, since I was the one leading it, I told him he was free to leave the team. In the end he didn't and when we succeeded, he admitted that he was wrong in his original doubts.
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Should be said again, the set is not slow. It gets that perception because the damage doesn't show untill the end of the animation, but it's not a slow set at all.
I love it. PBAOE, Ranged attack, and high DPS.
Repulsing Torrent is suckie, but I guess they all can't be winners
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Quote:Well, for Electric Melee, Assassin Strike is better than what would normally be in ELM's DPS chain. But it wouldn't be used as a normal part of the chain.Originally Posted by DreadShinobi
AS is not the highest melee ST dps attack. Burst damage? Yeah, but dps, no.
Tbh if you really wanted to do elec melee with strong ST dmg I would make it a brute just so you can have Gloom for your attack chain. -
Quote:I've soloed a couple of AVs on my KM/WP Stalker. However, it should be mentioned, the stalker version has higher DPS on paper, pulling off a Placate -> Assassin Strike to achieve that higher DPS however, is not easy, even with softcapped defenses, since it's interruptable and the slightest movement on your part can kill the AS.Originally Posted by SuperT
Hmm... stalker for killing AVs? Is it possible??? I'll have to hop over to the stalker boards and see what I can find. Stalkers would have higher damage than scrappers even when they are outside of hide or did you mean higher overall damage using the placate, attack, repeat method? : )
And it's not like Assassin Strike becomes a regular part of one's attack chain either.
As for Scrapper version, yes, you can build to get the DPS. Will you beable to take on EVERY AV? No. Will you still be able to take out quite a few? Yes! I'd also suggest going with Fire Mastery, as it's single target blast is better DPS than some of Electric Melee's single target attacks. -
I'm still waiting to see just shorter skirts that one sees in animes/manga.
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Quote:Sooo...normal human running around like a dog, doesn't look silly?Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
This makes no sense and follows no path of logic. How do you define "normal human being" when half the X-Men mutants look like humans but act like beasts? If "normal human beings" can fly, shoot lasers out of their eyes, turn to stone and meld with aliens, then running like a beast is just one more super power.
The reason people like me detest "swinglines" is two-fold. First of all, there is no "offscreen" in this game. Your camera angle is not limited, which allows you to look straight up, something you will have to do when scaling a building straight up - something a grappling gun should be able to do, and which is pretty much half of what Batman uses his for. Secondly, grappling thin air over open ocean or, worse still, grappling the air next to a building instead of the building itself, looks stupid. Far too stupid to tolerate being added to the game.
Running like a beast has nothing to do with it, because running like a beast is not inherently stupid.
And the one's I recall in the X-Men running around in a animal style, had animal characteristics.
But if you think Batman running around on all fours doesn't look stupid. Okay!
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Quote:Oh agreed. You can get by just fine without needing to run BF -> AV -> Repeat.Originally Posted by Eldorado
The OP is playing a DB/dark, meaning he's still not going to have a seamless BF -> AV Combo chain with "just" five LotG's. My DB/WP's chain still has a tiny hiccup with five LotG's and a Spiritual Radial boost. From a build you posted a while back, I believe you're getting your extra 20% global recharge from two purple sets -- THAT will certainly help you run that chain without any gaps!
While you and I don't see finding 5 LotG +recharges to be "that hard", some other people out there still do. Obviously, a lot of people still see getting "purples" as difficult rather than an "easily obtainable feat," so I don't think that most DB scrappers out there are running BF -> AV nonstop. (If they're hanging out in this forum, and have unlimited budgets, there's obviously a much higher chance that they are doing so.)
Without knowing the OP's budget for his build, I suspect that his original plan of BF -> AV -> BF -> Sweep will work quite nicely regardless of price.
Hell, I'd only encourage really building for that, if you're goal is to solo some AVs. If that's not the case, I'd encourage building for additional defenses over anything.
And I thought my post made it clear, that yes, you need some additional Recharge past the 5 LotG. If I didn't...well...my bad
And yeah, running any type of non-stop attack chain requires building for END use.
Even running BF -> AV -> Sweep -> Repeat will run someone out of END if they're not prepped for it.
Just quickly messing around in Mids, I was able to get BF->AV obtained with 1 purple set OR no purple sets, but I didn't do a serious go at endless END, and I also built for 37ish% Defense to Melee, as I built for it
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Quote:I'm not the only one who loves Drive?Originally Posted by Mandu
I loved Brittany Murphy in this movie.
Of course the other two movies are great ones too!
For new ones, I enjoyed 2010's Prince of Persia, A-Team, Expendables and The Losers. -
I am now awaiting to see people running around with a beast run, while looking like a normal human being
If swinglines that go offscreen is considered bad by people, I can only think normal human beings running around like an animal will be just as bad. -
Quote:Sooo...screw over the PvE builds that bought the PvP IOs with Hero Merits, sounds like a good thing?Originally Posted by mintmiki
They'll have to make a new build. That money they spent will be lost.
PVPers have been complaining about the drop rates for PVP IOs for a long time. If you increase the drop rate to make them common, then inevitably they will lose out on the money they've already spent. But overall, it benefits the whole community.
You prob. spent at least 5 billion making that one build for both PVP and PVE.
IF you separate the bonuses, and increase the drop rate on PVPs, you can IO out 2 builds (PVP AND PVE) for the price you spend on ONE build. And you made PVP more accessible to the rest of the player population. AND you solve the AFK farming problem.
I'd rather not lose the use of 3% Defense IO and my -Resist Proc IO because they went to work in PvP zones only.
/unsign (is also 4 hero merits away from second +Defense IO! so REALLY /UNSIGNED) -
Quote:What does softcapping have to do with a purple set for defense?Originally Posted by Sardan
I'd love to see a purple heal set, fear set, and endmod set. Not defense. Already too easy to softcap.
The enhancements would still be limited to enhancing the power like any other set, the only difference would be the purple set's bonuses would work when exemped to level 1.
Or do you really think a purple set (which could only be slotted into 1 power, as all purples are unique, would actually push the power into 1000% enhancement to defense? o.O -
Quote:I would kill for that emote! I just dont want to wait how many ever levels for such an emote!Originally Posted by Golden Girl
If there is some kind of medieval zone, then we must have long dresses and those wacky-but-stylish tall pointed hats
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Quote:Well, with one of the Incarnates having Excalibur, a Camelot zone seemed to be a good wild guessOriginally Posted by Golden_Avariel
This is immediately what I thought of. Who would be a more natural set of incarnates than the Round Table? There would of course be new costume pieces and emotes to go along with the new zone.
I can't imagine how a dance emote would require 2 unless it is like the slap/react emotes which don't really work well in practice. Would be cool though.
Also love the exciting costume bits being hinted at... necklaces, scabbards, costumes that "touch the ground" or any of the above... nice but I'll believe them when I see them.
Shape shifting class? Animal masterminds? Nah... An animalistic version of ninja run sounds like a more sane interpretation but I can't help but hope.
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Quote:Well that's assuming the Resistance took out the water supply, instead of them going with all those others who either didn't blow it up or stopped it to begin with.Originally Posted by Xaphan
Nah, that'd make too much sense.
I bet that everyone in Praetoria is going to start mutating into Devoured, because the Resistance decided that it was a good idea to knock out the water treatment facility... forgetting that the Will of the Earth can be spread through the water supply, as the Primal Devouring Earth attempted once. And of course the water treatment facility would be the only safeguard against that. Oops. -
Quote:Yeah. I think people are looking at the 60 years of content like they'll beable to go through it ingame. There's no promise to that, and seeing as how the game is setup, I don't see how it could.Originally Posted by Sardan
60 years of content in comic books does not trump 7 years of active MMO development. A month from now (or less) we're going to see the complaints of DCUO players that they've exhausted all the initial content. Same as what happened with CO.
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I've been on mostly melee teams that have taken BM down fast enough to recieve the badge.
So my question is, why the use of team teleport to do this? In my experience it really wasn't that hard to just jump out of the patches. -
Quote:I have 59.62% Recharge in Alabating Strike and Sweeping Strike, 79.12% Recharge in Blinding Feint and Vengeful Strike, and 57.5% Global Recharge, and this allows me to run BF -> AV Combo -> Repeat non-stop without any gaps in the chain, and I'm using a DB/WP.Originally Posted by Eldorado
Mostly for amusement, more than any top secret scrapper strategy. And because most non-SR's can't just run BF -> AV -> Repeat without a delay or without Hasten, can they? I know I couldn't, and stacked slows just made the problem worse. (I seem to recall abandoning Sweep halfway, "filling in" with Nimble Slash and something else, and then getting back to BF -> AV -> etc.)
Blinding Feint requires the most recharge to make this happen. In my many builds messing with Dual Blades with other secondaries, I've yet to need Hasten to make that attack chain possible.
Electric Armor and Super Reflexes will of course make it easier to obtain, as they both have a passive power for an additional 20% Recharge, and seeing as how I don't see it that hard to obtain 5 LotG +RCH enhancements for your build, SR could do it easily, while ELA would need a few power picks from Power Pools to obtain it.
So, I'd say no, getting BF -> AV Combo -> Repeat is an easily obtainable feat no matter the Defense Set, without the use of Hasten. -
Quote:Why would you change it up if you miss a combo?Originally Posted by Eldorado
I might be one of about three players here who advocate taking Nimble Slash -- with an asterisk, and as a situational power.
While I enjoy attempting various Crazy Scrapper Tricks with my DB/WP scrapper, like soloing pylons, I also like being able to exemplar down to low levels, which I used to do more often with my old SG. Nimble Slash and Empower are useful at level 10, for instance.
At level 50 (or as soon as I can if exemplared) I'll either run Blinding Feint and Attack Vitals nonstop (with my not-quite-seamless-yet attack chain) if I'm attacking a boss or AV, or alternate that and Sweep if I'm attacking a large group. I like having Sweep for boss juggling...er, damage mitigation, and find it adds to survival with big groups.
At later levels, Nimble Slash, Empower and Weaken are just something I'll use as filler IF I miss a combo, or IF I get seriously slowed by stacked -recharges. Five slotted Nimble Slash is better than Brawl, right?! But no, I don't use those two combos much if I can avoid them.
If you're NOT going to "ex" down frequently or do lower level TF's on a regular basis, you'll probably never notice the lack of Nimble Slash and those two low-level combos -- AND you'll have another power choice and more slots. If you just want to build a late game or a strictly level 50 Walking Cuisinart o' Doom, skipping Nimble Slash is probably the way to go.
If you ARE going to "ex" down frequently, you MIGHT want to consider taking Nimble Slash. Then again, you might also consider an alternate build for that purpose, which is something I find myself considering from time to time. Right now I'm just happy with one all-around build that does a lot of stuff well, and I don't have to spend any more time or INF making another "ex only" build.
If you're running any of the combo's, why aren't you continuing to just run the rest of the chain?
BF -> AV -> Repeat, assuming you miss on Vengeful Slice, I don't see the point on switching to a different combo, and not just hitting Sweeping Strike and then starting the chain over.
That said, if I wasn't taking the Sweep Combo, I'd suggest taking Nimble Slash over Power Slice, as you'd then beable to run the Empower combo when you're exemped level 20 or lower.
If you plan to take the Sweep Combo + Attack Vitals, I'd just go without using combos untill level 26 when you're able to use Sweeping Strike for AV. -
*throws out a wildly out there guess*
Midnighters Club leads you to Camelot! -
SOmething that should be said...
Don't worry about missing an attack in your combo chain!
I know some people hate the combo's because they feel if they miss an attack it screws up the combo.
While yes it does. It's just like missing an attack in ANY attack chain. Just keep clicking down your line of attacks and go.
Now, if you're missing enough to not get a combo off at all? Time to look at your ACC! -
Well...ewww...the script seems terrible.
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Quote:Couldn't you just delete it?Originally Posted by StarKitten
I'm pretty sure that the EULA states that once you make a toon in game, it becomes the property of NCSoft. In short, if you want to keep the character yours and your copyright, then don't make it in game.
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Quote:But I just saw him in Fort Trident!Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Emperor Marcus Cole is the one true incarnation, the savoir of his world while all his inferior counterparts have failed theirs. Accept no extra-dimensional substitutes, citizen!
Perhaps your faith in Emperor Cole has been shaken after your sacrifices necessary to do your duty defending our utopian metropolis; perhaps your curiosity has been piqued about a world in which another version permits its inhabitants the "freedom" of choice. If you turn your back on Praetoria now and travel to Paragon City, you will witness firsthand what happens when a people have free will: They selfishly choose to destroy everything good and pure, or stand by and allow others to do so, since they are incapable of the superhuman sacrifice that is Emperor Cole's burden. Only the Emperor can be trusted with the choice of destruction because we can be certain that he will use it only to protect Praetoria and defeat its enemies, wherever they are to be found.
Paragon's self-styled Statesman just stands around by a dock at the crime-ridden Independence Port, naively entreating lesser heroes to fight his battles for him. Honestly, he might as well be fishing.
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Kin Melee! -DMG! And does good damage too with added stuns and knockdown.
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Quote:It's what I was saying. Thought maybe 5% Resist ALL was a decent bonus, is multiple sets gave it, so you could stack it.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Hows about a 6th bonus thats actually useful? 5% Toxic/Psi res is pretty pathetic given how good the rest of the bonuses are. Needless to say, when I get round to actually slotting any Purples, I will only be 5 slotting them.
As it is, I've only 6 slotted one purple set, and that was the confuse set for a 5% Range Defense.