ClawsandEffect

I agree with Jack here. Char, Fire Blast, and Fireball are about all you want from Blaze.

Ring of Fire would be useful for immobilizing a single target for a Burn patch, but that's the only use I can think of for it. Jack's slotting advice is almost exactly what I'd go with as well. (I'd lean toward the Thunderstrikes in Fire Blast)

We have another convert!!!

Fun innit?

PS: Wait til you get Head Splitter

You clearly haven't been here long enough to remember this but:

Burn didn't used to make enemies run away. Think about that for a second.

They would stay in the Burn patch and take all that damage, because Burn had no fear component. And Burn had no target cap, which was the same time that there was no agro cap or collision detection. That's what "dumpster diving" was. A Fire tank herding an entire zone into a dumpster and dropping a Burn patch, killing hundreds at once.

That tactic is one of the main reasons there is now an agro cap, and a target cap on AoEs. (Fireball was another)

They'd get the brute version. Brute SR has a slightly different power order and Evasion has a taunt component. They switched the positions of Evasion and Quickness. They probably should have put scrapper SR in that order as well, but it's too late for that now.

This is how I do it, except I reverse the order. I go: /bind F6 "teamselect 1$$powexecname Speed Boost" Double tapping the key selects the desired teammate and then fires Speed Boost (or whatever it is you bound there).

This way, you can be sure you're not double buffing someone (which doesn't work from the same caster anyway), and you will not target any pets that happen to be in range.

Pretty much this. It's an MMO. It's going to be repetitive no matter WHAT you do.

If they introduce 25 completely new and different tilesets and map layouts, it will be about 4 months before they start getting old too.

My issue with the maps isn't the repetitiveness of them, it's the fact that half of them make no friggin' sense. Seriously, have you EVER seen an office building laid out like the ones in this game? Who designed these buildings, M.C. Escher?

Or warehouses with shipping containers sitting in hallways that it would be physically impossible to move them from. What, did they build the warehouse around them?

Or the auto shop that has half a mile of hallways, and only 3 cars in the whole building.

See what I mean? It's not repetitiveness for me. If the maps actually made sense it wouldn't bother me at all that they all look the same. Office buildings don't vary a whole lot even in real life, just different colored walls and cubicles.

PumBumbler is right here.

WoW's biggest downfall in my eyes is that it practically requires you to get to the max level before you attempt to do anything. It's not a game mechanic requirement, it's a requirement of other players. If you are not at the level cap, and equipped with the best gear you can get for your class, your chances of getting invited to do something are slim.

If exemping had no penalties at all, you would probably see a similar attitude become more prevelant here.

I don't know about you, but I don't like the idea of having to solo up to 50 and get set bonuses before anyone will consider inviting me on a TF.

If set bonuses didn't disappear when you exemped, only max level enhancements would have any value at all, making it very difficult for low level characters to earn enough money to buy them.

That would lead to getting to level 50 ASAP and grinding to earn enough influence to buy enhancement sets. Do you REALLY want CoH to morph into a grindfest? That is part of why it is still around and going strong, it avoided the grindyness of previous MMOs.

Very much doubt this will happen. SR on a tank, with the higher defense numbers tanks get, will be able to softcap just with the powers in the set, no IOs required at all.

I'm basing this on how incredibly easy it is to softcap Shield Defense tank, which has 15% base defense in the toggles. If SR follows the same pattern, you will get 15% in SR toggles, and 10% from the passives. That's 25% defense completely unslotted.

I base my passive guess here on a comparison between Invuln for Tanks and Scrappers/Brutes. Tanks get 10% while Scrappers and Brutes get 7.5%. Since SR's passives are 7.5% as well, it is reasonable to assume that they would be 10% on tanks.

Slotted, tanker SR would be getting 38.75% from the toggles alone. 15.5% from the passives after slotting. That's over 54% defense from the powers within the set with just SOs. I seriously doubt the devs will give us a powerset that can do that with no outside additions.

Since Weave would not be required, nor a Steadfast Res/Def, the Fighting pool would be completely unnecessary, leaving room to take Medicine. Also, without having to slot attacks with sets that add defense, you can slot with sets that provide Psi defense. That would plug SR's two biggest holes: lack of a healing power, and lack of defense to non-positional Psi attacks. And since non-positional Psi attacks are pretty rare through most of the game, you could skip that part and have a damn near unkillable tank slotted with SOs or basic IOs.

Combined with a set like Super Strength that would get overpowered in a hurry. (Dark Melee would even avoid having to take the Medicine pool)

If SR were watered down to not be overpowered on a tank people would scream bloody murder that its not on par with Shield Defense's defense numbers. The dev's options here are A) water it down and piss a lot of people off by doing so, or B) Not give it to tanks at all and not have anyone angrier than they may already be. It makes way more sense from a business standpoint to go with option B.

Edit, my math is based on 55% enhancement of defense in all powers, which is 3 SOs worth. You can check it for yourself on a calculator if you have one laying around.

Most melee cones seem to be tagged as melee instead of AoE. Head Splitter is the same way.

They're weird, they're tagged as melee, yet take PBAoE sets because they can hit more than 1 target.

If Nemesis Veng doesn't grant AoE defense, that's good to know.

Unless you are in the middle of a story arc with them. You can finish a level 10-15 story arc at level 50 if you want. I speak from experience here, as I have done it (Julius the Troll's arc). However, once the story arc concludes they won't give you anything else, just like any other contact at that level.

Actually, they were talking about Electric Blast, so it probably stands for Short Circuit.