Celestyna

Originally Posted by DarthDelicious

Now I'll show you why my requests have fallen quiet lately...



I know.. it's not CoX related at all... but Dean and Sam are kind of heroes, so.. they'll do *giggles*.
Did this one A3 paper (so that's a lot to fill) with pencil (technical and B) and ink.

Originally Posted by Dz131

this is one of those ones I had no idea wtf I was doing and half followed half made up the details. I basiclly had no clue wtf I was doing that armor thing. Oh wll

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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze

You really should slot BF as an attack...

Originally Posted by Dz131

this quick one done in opencanvas. I rly like the pen tool in there so I might start using that for everything

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Originally Posted by streetlight

For me, it would depend on what sort of veteran/expansion powers you have. Ninja Run has been a godsend for my levelling builds, because I can put off movement powers. I'm even ditching them altogether in many builds. Likewise, the difference in gameplay for me before and after Sands of Mu was huge. Thanks to Sands of Mu and endurance-free Brawl, my melee builds tend to put off offensive powers and focus on defense in the early game.

In general, you want everything from the Shield set. Every power is just that good. You could probably delay Grant Cover if you didn't care much about your teammates - or even ditch it altogether if you just run solo or really don't care about value to the team.

Repulsing Torrent and Confront are forgettable in Kinetic Melee. RT has a big KB component and weakish damage. Confront is a single-target taunt and it's the kind of thing that can be nice in PVP, but not quite as useful in PVE.

Fitness pool is a must, with one or both of Swift & Hurdle, plus Health and Stamina. I also recommend Fighting for Tough & Weave (I take Boxing as prereq usually).

If you take all of Shield's powers, all but RT & Confront from Kinetic Melee and three powers each from Fitness and Fighting, then you'll have two slots left over for whatever. Get rid of Grant Cover and you could have three. I like Combat Jumping for one of those (immob protection, defense, IO mule). If you need a movement power, Super Jumping is a good choice at that point. Hasten is always helpful, but Shield isn't all that clicky, so it'd be most helpful if you were able to use it to remove KM power choices (see below).

For slotting, I always 6-slot my attacks (Brawl & Boxing/Kick excepted) and do so as quickly as possible. The impact of having an EndRedux in an attack is going to be a lot bigger than having an EndRedux in a toggle. Toggles get ED-capped for defense and/or resistance, with EndRedux thrown in as available. Stamina always gets three slots. I tend to put off slotting Health until I'm ready to install procs from the Healing sets.

The second-stage build would work off of what attacks I could get rid of in the process of optimizing my attack chain. A pure single-target build would get rid of Burst (I wouldn't, but AOEs are less than useful in PVP or Pylon/AV soloing). Pure DPS builds seem to ditch Focused Burst, due to the 2s animation. Quick Strike would be the next to go for DPS reasons, but that takes quite a bit of recharge to pull off a decent attack chain at that point. You could just fill in with Brawl or Boxing, I guess, but they stink for DPS, too.