ClawsandEffect

Correct. In the wee hours of the morning (US time) Justice jumps up to 3rd place, and I've seen it in second a few times.

As far as the OP's question is concerned, I'm not going anywhere. I like Pinnacle too much to leave. I did move some of my seldom played characters that I didn't have the heart to delete to Virtue though.

I did that mostly to clear up some space on Pinnacle, since I just recently got my first villain 50 and wanted space for 3 VEATS, Widow, Bane, and Crab. The Widow I can use dual builds for to try both sides, but the Bane and Crab I wanted to be separate characters.

I'm also a horrible altoholic and the ability to move for free instead of deleting was greatly appreciated.

I'm going Ice/Electric/Cold. Yay for a blapper softcapped to smashing/lethal! Hibernate for if....er...when I misjudge what I'm jumping into

Not even taking Thunder Strike with him, I prefer the 1-2 of Charged Brawl/Havoc Punch. I'm also considering putting the Fortunata Hypnosis: Chance for Placate in Charged Brawl.

Still debating on whether I want Lightning Field or not. If I DO take it, it will be slotted for end drain instead of damage to help sap things after a Power Sink.

I should be able to attain enough mitigation to stay in melee pretty much all the time without too many worries. Mez will suck, but it always does for a blaster, so I'll make sure I have some breakfrees and keep an eye out for mezzers. If it's frozen it won't be mezzing you.

This is probably part of your problem. For some reason ATI cards and CoH don't get along well. No one is entirely sure why...well, at least no one that I've talked to is.

I heartily recommend something from nVidia.

My Broadsword/Dark Armor got his on eBay.

If you really want to, you can hit 20-25% resistance to everything but Psi on a Shield Defense character. Closer to 30% for a tank. With softcapped defenses that isn't too shabby. Add in the fact that AAO also debuffs enemy damage and you have effectively more resistance than would otherwise be apparent.

Shield Defense tanks can hit almost 50% resistance to Smashing and Lethal if you add Tough to the mix.

People often seem to forget that there is resistance built into Deflection and True Grit. You can usually get decent resistance numbers out of them without gimping the power if you slot it right.

I 4 slotted Boxing with Kinetic Combat for a nice 3.75% smashing/lethal defense. I have no intention of using it, but that bonus is absolutely vital to me getting to softcap.

And actually I was mistaken in an earlier statement. I DO have access to 2 PBAoEs in which to slot Obliteration, but I'm not taking either one of them. And Obliteration is a HORRIBLE set to slot in a toggle, unless you have endurance out the wazoo. Lightning Field I'm skipping because other stuff was more important to me. And Thunder Strike I'm skipping because the animation is slightly at odds with my playstyle, which involves a lot of kiting and movement.

Ripper draws a weapon with the left hand, using the exact same animation and nodes as Eviscerate.

There are only 3 powers in Spines that use the left hand, but since those 3 powers exist they cannot remove the weapon from the node on the left hand.

Every two handed animation was tweaked to allow it to be used with a shield. Really look at Bonesmasher sometime with a shield. You'll notice that the arms are seperated when they animate. On non-shield sets the hands are linked during animation.

Hurl uses just one hand, probably due to the left hand node being required for the power.

There are a lot of things that were adjusted to allow for shields, but Katana, Spines, Claws, and Dual Blades were unadjustable by their very nature.

I'll try to find the post from BaBs where he breaks down the combat stances.

As far as I'm aware, Spines and Thorns (the dominator set) are the only sets that are coded with both power effects and weapon skins. That's why they were unadjustable until they had the ability to adjust both at once. The spines sticking out of your body are a weapon skin, they had the ability to change those when weapon customization was released. However, all the projectiles are a power effect, if you changed just the weapon skin, the projectiles would still be the original spines. That's why we had to wait to customize them.

Wasn't being jerkish, was just calling it like I see it. People attempted to help you with your problem, and instead of trying any of the things suggested, you deleted the character. That is a problem with YOU, not the powerset. I really think you posted this because you wanted to complain about it, rather than because you were actually seeking help with it.


The ONLY power in the set that has a particularly high endurance cost is Dark Regeneration.

Look at the rest of the toggles in the set: Dark Embrace = .21/sec, Murky Cloud = .21/sec, Obsidian Shield = .21/sec, Cloak of Darkness = .26/sec.

Death Shroud has a .52/sec cost, which is not out of line for a damage aura. Cloak of Fear has a .52/sec cost as well, but I don't know too many people that even TAKE that piece of crap. Oppressive Gloom costs less than Combat Jumping to run.

Most resistance or defense sets have a base cost of .26 on all of their toggles, Shield Defense being an exception. Dark Armor has a lower cost on it's toggles specifically to offset the fact that it has more of them than other sets. Your problem isn't the toggles, it's Dark Regen.

So, if you take the 4 resist/defense toggles, Death Shroud, and Oppressive Gloom, as most people I have seen do, you shouldn't be having the horrible endurance problems that you seem to be having.

I'm not going to ignore you, but I'm not going to offer you advice anymore, since you never take advice that is offered.

Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go enjoy the Dark Armor that you can't seem to wrap your head around.

Claws

I fight them to the theme of "Chariots of Fire"

Seriously, my wife once played the song on her computer while I was in a KoA mission. It was amusing until she put it on repeat.

Pure selfishness, that's all it is.

In order to accept that their opinion is just that, they must first consider other people. Their opinion is inarguable truth because to them, no one else matters in the slightest.

Especially on the internet. You aren't talking to the person face to face so it's easy to tell yourself they don't matter, or even that they aren't a real person in extreme cases of disconnect.

This is just my opinion, and is therefore clearly the truth

You can't softcap a Dark/Dark to everything. Well, at least I've never seen it done before. Broadsword or Katana paired with Dark Armor can be softcapped if you rely on Parry/Divine Avalanche for the melee, but I haven't seen a non sword set do it yet.

If you get to about 30% defense to all positions with a Dark/Dark you should be in good shape though.