Dr_Brave

I had previously been on a faultline arc but then joined some friends doing AVs....Blacks Swan was down to 10% health when it crashed

Me too :-(

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Softcapped Defense far outweighs resistance. Stick with Stone.
Ditto Vermain points as well

With the Fissure +Rech Proc in Fissure, I hover around 250% recharge bonus for most of the time. That means perma-hasten and 2-3 siphon speeds. I don't think that is losing much recharge to be honest.

Slotting for damage (Purps or not) is redundant (and wasteful imho) on a fire/kin since you are going to be playing at the damage cap anyways.

Hello,

My forum account does not use the same password as it did pre-forum change.

I had to use my City of Heroes account info to get to log in (pure luck that I guessed that).

I am guessing this password change was a bug?

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Do you have to have Smoke? You can get softcapped without it and you don't really need to to-hit buff (Soft Cap Def and Transfusion do the trick).

Also, might wanna go with stone mastery. Rock Armor is great for S/L def. Look at DasBert's build (Used for soloing 50 bosses). He has posted it in about 3 other recent threads if you just browse through some of the recent ones.

I'm pretty sure that SB doesnt affect your imps anymore except for their movement so that shouldn't be why you want to keep it and you should not waste your time sb'ing them. In fact, with 50 bosses they will be killed pretty quickly and I don't even use imps anymore.

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To be honest. I have sound turned off the majority of the time I play due to outside influences :-(

I thought that happened with the 32-bit vista not recognizing 4GBs...which is why it is suggested you use 64-bit Vista?

Hi All,

I am building a new computer (parts ship today) and I just wanted to hear if anyone had any advice on making sure that I get good performance in CoH with my system set up.

Here are the basic specs:

OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit (comes with free Windows 7 upgrade)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33 GHz
Memory: 4 GB DDR2
GPU: ATI Radeon 4850 512 MB

You, my friend, are almost converted

It's also about tickets for us. We can run about 8 to 10 mobs for around 750 tickets and then reset for the rest of the 750 or so. That way we can get lots of yummy recipe rolls.

Or you could grab earth mastery and use seismic smash instead of char...which does 636 damage :-)

plus fissure with the FF +rech proc and stuns...

Don't worry, I have a Fire/Kin/Fire build on Freedom as well. But the one with earth mastery is more fun to play. (although my fire/kin/fire is pretty good too)

*facepalm*sigh*

Another day,

Another stupid, lame forum war.

Edit: Just a last note, we never, ever questioned your build in any way, shape, or form. You originated this conversation by saying that "@Bert can not farm bosses solo" period. Then continued to back up to "oh, 50 bosses are easy." and then proceeded to negate our playstyle because it wasn't yours. That was the last straw and, quite frankly, you don't have any argument against this.

I've been around awhile, seen a lot of stuff go down in CoH/V and I have seen many people like you. It will take awhile but eventually you will see what I am talking about.

For the record, we do TFs every night. Farming is just something we do in the meantime while we wait for everyone to get organized.

It wasn't about acting cross. It's about being open. The whole entire point of you coming was to show that Fire Ball isn't lolbosses...and that other builds are actually possible. We weren't going to sit there PLing your character while trying to persuade you with something you clearly weren't going to be changing your mind about. Say what you want but in the end...it was really a lost cause

Umm...no. What you wouldn't figure out is that farming 50s with auto-sk to 45 is way more profitable than 51+ so there is no reason to see how we can perform on 54s, etc.

If you had at least been open to the idea that you could be wrong. then maybe you would be on our team right now as we farm 52s :-)

FF +rech proc...
nuff said :-P

and stuns

Oh no. That's just me. :-P I suck.

I made a fire/shield build for my scrapper and he told me it sucked cause it couldnt solo boss farm :-P

You asked for it admiral.

I have half of his build and I pop 1 purple and I'm good (shelling out for the insp each run isn't much).

Great Post OP.

Great points and I am hoping things will work out like this.

No, now people wont have to spam for fillers or HAVE to make an 8 man team. Hopefully, the amount of spamming will subside.

Definitely need to go check that out again. Probably on my fire/rad

My friend went to see the midnight showing. Halfway thru the fire alarm went off and they didn't get to see the rest. :-P

I laughed. (I don't know if they got a refund)

I don't know if anyone looked at my sig (my fault I didn't mention it), but I have about 4 years worth of Ice Melee experience so I knew what I was doing when I picked it up with Stone. However, I had never had a stone tank and wanted to see advice on the two together.

For the record, I think Fire/Ice tank has been one of the most underrated builds for a long, long time.

That being said, thanks dave_p for your advice. I am already level 31 so much of the hard part is behind me. I was planning on taking TP.

Question: I was thinking of 5 slotting FA with the cheap purple sleep set (the value there is crazy) and then slotting a damage IO to keep it honest. Is this viable?

I had originally slotted Pots with tempered readiness but I guess that is overkill on mitigation, eh?

Another side note, this toon will mainly be duoing with my Kin so Run speed and Damage were on the back burner. Quite frankly, if I was really wanting to do damage, I would not have rolled a Stone/Ice anyways :-P

This guys is for pure tanking. Damage is second priority but it's always great to have.

Anyone have any Stone/Ice builds to share. I will be tinkering with mids soon but just wanted to get a head start on where to go.

Thanks in advance!

@ warriorsorrow

Your slotting perplexes me a little.
Why not six slot efficacy adapter?
You are missing out on key bonuses of 10% regen, 2.5% damage (all) and 5% recharge!

I would suggest taking slots out of speed boost (only really need end mod) and weave.

Also, I would heavily suggest putting more slots into fissure. At the very least to get the FF +rech proc. (cheap and effective)

Maybe a couple slots from rock armor, siphon power, and siphon speed to account for this.

I realize this is only your "current" build but seems there is some room for improvement.

Great idea!

To be honest, I didnt know there was an AE there either so...off to explore!