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*suddenly fears for the safety of Miss Hannah Minx*

The CoH Collector's Edition can be had for the low-low price of $99 on Amazon. In other words, it's for all intents and purposes unavailable.

It's always irked me the Responsibility Loyalist storyline had you killing people. Of all the factions in Praetoria, the Responsibles should have been the ones to arrest instead of kill.

As for Cole, the last hope of Loyalists would be if this isn't the real Cole, but a Well puppet. The opportunity to bring the real Cole, not the Tyrant Well puppet, back would help justify the entire Loyalist side of things.

Speaking as a soloist, I find Hand Clap to be a situational, but slot-light, handy, and thematically fun power to have. I have been saved by it many, many times. It provides mitigation, excellent mitigation, against critters that use damage types you are weak to. It is the perfect tool for covering the Rage crash (though if I were running a main Tank I think twice bout even running Rage-- but on a fast attack Tank, Rage early and often).

The two ways it provides that mitigation are stuns and knockbacks. The stun is a guranteed mag 2, plus a 50% chance of an additional mag 1 to stun Lieutenants. So you're stunning all the minions and half the Lieutenants. And the stun is a long one. 9.5 seconds base, so you can get it to 15 seconds or more with slotting. I usually put 2 Stun common IOs, or 1 stun and 1 Chance for Recharge proc depending on my build goals. Hand Clap with stun boosts from Incarnate enhancements borders on ridiculously good.

In addition to that, anything that wasn't stunned gets knocked back. The only thing it won't be doing that to is Elite Bosses/Archvillains.

And with a recharge of 30 seconds, with slotting you could be clapping every 15 seconds if you wanted to. With additional recharge bonuses, even more often. *note to self: really must try that lol*

And it's a PBAOE Taunt, too.

In summary, yes, Hand Clap is skippable and situational, but it is far better than most realize and provides superb mitigation, especially against critters that otherwise have your number. Examine your play style and reconsider if Hand Clap just might have a place in your build. Or leave it out, it's your 15. Me? I'll be Hand Clapping and grinning every time I do.

Do you hate the market? Sure, we all do! So let's roll some Alignment Merits in the level 35-39 range and sell all the recipes for 1.

To be "worth it" I need to get 67-68 million inf per roll on average. No set time frame, just until I don't feel like it anymore or get bored, or both. One roll a day unless I feel like doing more. Given prices are net. "V" indicates a vendored recipe.

ROLL THE FIRST:
Devastation: Dam/Rech (50 Recipe). V9,995
Numina's Convalescence: Heal/Rech (50 Recipe). 36,000,005
Glimpse of the Abyss: Chance for Psionic Damage (50 Recipe). V9,995
Decimation: Acc/End/Rech (40 Recipe). 522,995
Obliteration: Acc/Dam/Rech/End (50 Recipe). 49,576,505

THIS ROLL: 86,119,495
AVERAGE OF 1 ROLL: 86,119,495

COMMENTARY: 2 pieces of junk, a marginal recipe and two good ones. Above the target by 20ish million. Pretty good!

Alignment Merits > Reward Merits. You won't be buying purples and PvPIOs with Reward Merits. And they are not more work than Reward Merits.

Alignment Merits are one of the best additions to the game ever.

They are all worth getting, as the bonuses they give are universally useful. Even the lowest-HP Archetypes will see a boost in survivability* and reduction in Endurance issues. I consider the Panacea +HP proc to be the most optional given its price, but inf being no object there's no reason not to include it unless you're going for additional +HP set bonuses.

*see Arcanaville's discussions on Health/Regen and its impact on survivability

I agree PDF is better than formats that try to simulate a paper comic. PDFs are easier to read, much easier. And Chrome's native PDF handling makes it even better (LOVE that feature!).

No these are not going for 2 billion. I picked one up yesterday for 1.95 billion for a level 50 crafted. The sale went through right away, so I could have paid even less than that.

Alignment Merits are working their magic. I'm eyeing the PvP 3% Def global as a true indicator that the off-market has been put down once and for all. Right now, IIRC, that one is still a solid 2 billion on market (3% Defense is more useful than 3% Resist to most builds...to a softcapped Super Reflexes character, the 3% Resist is actually the more useful of the two as it mitigates SR's Achilles' heel: low-roll burst damage.)

Since these are globals, there's very little reason to pick them up at a level lower than 50, other than to twink a lowbie.

It would be kinda funny seeing my Martial Arts Scrapper catch enemies on fire by dragging his heel on the ground during Dragon's Tail like a match lol. But yeah, very much against his concept so if effects like that get applied, I'd hope they'd be optional. It would be kinda funny, though.

I've got some beads Zwillinger. You know what to do to get them!

If you get a copy of Mids Hero Designer here, and look at the popup for the Panacea +HP proc, you'll see there detailed the numbers you need to figure out how much equivalent regeneration it gives as well as Endurance.

You'll see the proc gives a 20% chance for +7.5% Endurance every 10 seconds if slotted into a passive power.

Ah, so Mids considers it a Heal, therefore doesn't track it. It would be useful, if in the future, they added a check box option to include effects like these (it's a Heal, but it can be considered for all practical purposes, Regeneration as well). I mean, what am I supposed to do? Use my brain?

The "burstiness" of the proc doesn't bother me. Especially since it brings extra Endurance to the party as well. At times it'll do little for me, but it'll make up for that by doing more than expected for me at times (a roughly equal number of times) as well. Overall, I'm looking for the average effect, and I'm glad I'm right about what its average effects are.

Expense isn't an issue. Plenty of Inf, and I already own the proc, so that's no problem. I'll have to pull it out of my weapons build and put it into my body build, but I've been loving my body build so I want it as my primary build for the time being.

BTW, this is on a MA/SR Scrapper. With Super Reflexes, a little Regen goes a long way.

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it!

I'm trying to figure out whether the Panacea +HP proc is worth including in my build from a regeneration perspective.

It gives a 20% chance for +64.58 HP every 10 seconds (slotted in Health). So it's average effect is approximately 1.29 HP/sec regeneration?

In the procless version of the build, I'm getting 25.82 HP/sec regen. With the proc, 25.35 + 1.29 (it looks like Mids doesn't include the average effect of the proc in its numbers) = 26.64.

Not a numbers person, so wondering if I got this right?

Dark Armor is Fiery Aura's big sister. I've been thinking about rolling a Stone/DA myself, but Stone is so very single target and I like large spawn sizes so I'm not sure. Also, even though I like DA on paper, I seem to abandon every DA character I roll.

I am looking for an excuse to use the Omega costume pieces, though (those things are hard to fit into most costumes). Seeing the Omega character wearing a santa hat in the winter event video made me extra-curious to try it out.