Daemodand

My favorite bug still exists: Super Reflexes reporting "Deflected" rather than "Dodged". Mechanically, no harm no foul, but conceptually, it's yucky.

Look at an old photograph of yourself (if you're old enough to have one from 20+ years ago). You'll inevitably say, "I thought that looked good? What was I thinking!"

P.S. Read some Silver Age comics. Those are the comics this game aspires to (even if it ends up more in the Bronze Age sometimes, it's the Silver Age it's meant to emulate).

I17 compensations:

Another round of Free Costume Change Tokens due to the disappearing-custom-power bug.

Something (I don't know what) for the disappearing market stacks/market downtime.

Something (I don't know what for this either) for the disappearing Gleemail bug.

And a commitment to never to release an Issue until it's truly ready for live (attaching I17 to the 6 year anniversary date was a mistake).

This game has had a wonderful track record for polish up to this point (prior to I17 CoH was one of the most polished MMOs on the market) and I'm sure it'll quickly regain that reputation once this is all sorted out.

Once daily for natural toon enhancement?

On average in Tactics it will go off once every 100 seconds for 5 seconds. That's +100% of base damage, so +50% enhanced. At 5% uptime (which is being a bit generous) you're seeing a 2.5% increase in your overall damage. Now subtract from that every time the thing goes off but you fail to be using an attack during that 5 second window and you're looking at less than 2.5% damage.

In Followup, that 2.5% would probably be a bit more reliable. Given Followup's recharge time you're probably looking at closer to 4% damage increase over time. On a Brute, far worse as the 4% gets buried under Fury. I'd sooner slot another Accuracy, ToHit or Recharage in Followup and get more net benefit.

Slotting it in Buildup is the worst-case scenario. You'll see it once every 3 minutes or something like that. I've got it in Buildup on my MA/SR Scrapper PvP build strictly for the +Defense. SR helps Gaussian's miserable Recharage out with it's 20% Recharge bonus in Quickness.

God, I love SR.

Uh, what were we talking about?

P.S. Oh, yes. Gaussian's Buildup proc is basically a waste of a slot unless you want the 6-set bonus, but if you must use it, use it in Followup, as that's your best-case scenario. Otherwise, using that slot nearly anywhere else is going to be of larger benefit. But hey, IY15, so use it all you like if that's your thing.

P.P.S. This proc could really benefit from increasing its chance to 10%, it's duration to 10 seconds, and a visual Buildup cue on your character when it goes off.

I should make a character called Red Bull and go around handing out wing Recipes to people.

I'm Spartacus.

I prefer the ones that give powers that generate uses rather than are time-based. On frequently played characters, the time-based stuff is worthless, but you can accumulate uses even if you play a character every day.

I like the Combat Shield, Beguile and the market teleporter powers the best.

I like the temp powers, but IMO the drop rate is a bit too generous. It could be curbed by 33% or so, just to keep the temps from becoming junk. But if that doesn't happen I won't be heartbroken, after all my lowbies love Recovery Serum. Best temp ever, especially pre-Stamina.

Superman is Natural.

I use MSSE too. I've not had any CoH performance problems with it.

I ditched AVG when it mistook CoH for a trojan.

Both have loads of survivability once you're in the mid-20s (while you're a Blood Widow you're very squishy), but the Night Widow brings vastly superior damage, and the Fort brings soft and hard controls to support a team. Both bring team buffs, naturally.

Personally, I'd go Night Widow since I make good damage dealing a priority and I prefer to solo most of the time. If you're very team focused, go Fort.

The whip justifies skipping/delaying certain powers.* It's just that good.

*Excluding the pets, of course. Be thankful they at least took the them.

Unless you are a Tru Warrir and never touch Inspirations, softcapping SR is not the optimal build choice for PvE (IMHO), especially by level 50. Maintain 2 columns of Defense Inspirations, use 1 at the start of each spawn and you can take on +0x8 difficulty, or even higher if you care to, with what amounts to a permanent supply of Defense Inspirations (they drop like rain). This lets you concentrate on other things like +Damage or HPs or Regen or any number of things. My MA/SR Scrapper has +40.5% Damage and 20ish% Regeneration, for example.

Everyone and their dog rolls Willpower. Dare to be different, dare to be death defying...Axe/SR FTW!