Ehina

Ehina here. French player who migrated from Euro to US servers, half for the boards, and half for a larger playerbase. Kind of a brutish scrapper, scrappers and brutes being my favorite archetypes. I'm usually more of an AoE centric player than a single target junkie : Spines/, SS/, Elec/ are my specialty. Spending most of my forum time between the brute and scrapper forums (posting more on the brute forums, because here you dont have alot much too say once Werner, Umbral and Nihilii have posted in the same thread). Total time spent on Mids + the boards being probably higher than the time actually spent in the game

Fierce defender of the AE vs all the doomsayers. Proud fan of CoX in a world of average WoWish mmos. Retired marketeer once I decided that purples arent worth all the extra money. Enemy4life of i13 PvP. Proud member of CLAWS4BRUTES (half because I wanted it, and half by solidarity with JDouble^^).

My main scrappers, all IOed out, are : Spine/invuln, claws/sr, fire/wp. All on Freedom, NA... (grrrrr let me get rid of that stupid NA after my name btw !).

Nice to have the french players here (for us, the french playing on the NA servers^^). As well as the JoL posters. This merge is definitely the best thing happening with those new boards.

Nice to have you here Celidya

Dark armor lover ? Well you can't have all the qualities (kidding^^)

(Next time he's around ask Nihilii what he thinks about MA/DA^^)

PS : very nice guide, I liked it much. Kiting is less my type of gameplay on a scrapper, but it definitely gave me some motivation for a Kat/DA toon.

I guess it's because I had long time ago an euro account, and prolly used the same name. Even if this account hasnt been used for long it kept the name and there is a conflict between those two. So my old Ehina has probably been renamed to Ehina EUR and the new to Ehina NA.

I just hope we can get an option for one username change, and I can get Ehina back for this account

It's a bit of a disappointment, I liked the old forums much too. There was an unique feel there, that you were on CoX boards and nowhere else. Here it feels like everywhere else.

Well on the other hand I'm pretty sure we'll adapt fast

Edit : wtf is that NA after my name ? How can I change this to my old forum name ?

It's very rare that a set is less good than generic IOs. So here yes, Triple Numina (Heal, Heal/End, Heal/Rech) is better than 3 heal IOs.

6x slotting True Grit is even more awesome when you can spare the slots.

I'm a bit disappointed by the MA animations, they look cool... but they don't feel like Martial Arts (karate, kung fu... etc).

Maybe with a good mix of kicks and punches it will look great anyway, we'll see when we can try it

My bet is that double xp will affect the AE.

They've done everything until now to make the AE as efficient in terms of leveling than the outdoor missions (some could argue it's even better), so I dont see them changing sides suddenly.

On the other hand SM/WP is a great combo too, and both synergize very well.

SM massive AoE knockdown gives you some time for your regen to tick, and WP quick recovery helps alot your primary which is very endurance hungry.

My SM/WP is alot of fun

Good luck whichever you try

/Fire is fun. You should try it if you have already 6 /WP.

I was a bit like you : i had only 3 lvl 50 brutes and they were all /WP. So it took me some time to get used to /Fire on my SS/Fire, but once I did it was alot of fun !

Pros for Fire :

- The damage aura is great as it grows huge with Fury.
- You have consume to fill up your endurance bar, its cooldown is a bit long however, so you should get a good frankenslotting in your attacks asap as Stone/ is very endurance hungry (even more than SS !).
- SM double knockdown with both Fault and Tremor is great for mitigation and give you some time for Healing Flames to recharge.
- A second build up with Fiery Embrace !
- And Rise of the Phoenix is aloooot of fun ! I love this power (some people don't though...).
- And ofc 90% Fire resist = the farmer's paradise on pure Fire dmg maps.

Cons :

- Fire can be a bit squishy sometime, but nothing you can't work out with IOs.
- You need to fill the KB and immob gaps (unless you think that Burn can do the job against immobs) : so take one or two KB IOs, and take CJ also. I forgot to take CJ at first when I planned my SS/Fire using AS/Fly and it was painful^^

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My vote for /Shield, but /Fire can work too if built well. Both are really fun to play (/Fire may be a bit more fun overall, but a tad squishier too).

It's better to have a good IO build though if you want to solo boss maps, otherwise you may have to rely a bit too much on inspis.

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Casting the cold debuffs slows me down more than my opponents.

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Lol, this one was funny. Seriously, how much time left before they realize this new i13 PvP needs also a serious revamp ?

It looks awesome but it's pretty useless before level 50 : then you can slot a full Coercive Persuasion x6 in it and the set bonuses are pretty awesome.

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How many times do we see new Tankers (and new players) come up here and say something along the lines of "I'm trying a Tanker out and I'm always running out of endurance. Does it get any better?"

This has been an age old problem since the early days of beta. How many subscribing customers have to get frustrated and lose the love for the game before this issue is addressed.

Specifically the L1-20 portion of levelling. This applies to almost all ATs hero and villain side, but especially to Tankers who run dry *really* quickly.

Suggested Fixed: Do away with TOs and DOs and make SOs available at L1. This would alleviate much of the frustration and tedium that is the current mode of play in the L1-20 game (imo).

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I sign.

Or/and : remove requirements for Stamina, and make it available at level 6.

Lately I've seen alot more of ppl who barely know how to play the game (on Freedom).

But also most of those ppl had no veteran badge, and it pretty much explains everything.

Maybe the AE has brought a whole new group of players to the game ? Would be definitely great for the game actually.

I wouldnt mind having knockdown in Shockwave instead of knockback

I dont see many ATs asking for a buff to their inherent that regularly.

If most of those claims are made on the defender boards it either means that the defender inherent could really use a buff or a revamp, or that defenders are crazy megalomaniacs

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I'm always happy to see power sets proliferated, so please don't take this post as a sour grapes post. With that said, is anyone a little disappointed that the most wanted sets weren't proliferated.

Here's what would've made me jump for joy:

Blasters -Dark Blast (though I admit, Rad Blast is a fine choice)

Brutes - Regeneration

Controller - Dark Miasma

Corruptor - Poison (though Trick Arrow was a fine choice too)

Defender - Poison

Dominator - Illusion

MM - Kinetics

Scrapper - Super strength or energy melee or fire epic powers

Stalker - Shields or fire melee

Tanker - Spines or energy aura

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I agree on almost everything. Perfect list.

And even then... I'm so happy to see some new proliferation I've been eagerly waiting for months that nothing can spoil my enthusiasm !

I'm pretty sure we'll get a large part of your list in the next rounds

I think it's a challenge on any AT

What bugs me the most are the Dark defenders without Darkest Night, or the Rads without RI and EF. Because when I see them in my team (I'm used to read the power choices of ppl before entering a mission), I know they won't do their job like you could expect it to be done :/

It used to be rare, sadly it's more and more frequent nowadays.

But I have also noticed a big increase of players with 0 months vet (= new players). That could be correlated, and from a more global point of view, it's definitely good for the game

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I don't think Blasters will get Dark Pit - it's possible that they could get Petrifying Gaze instead (Ice, Elec, AR, Sonic, Arch, Psi, and Rad being the precedents for having a range single-target control power in the primary).

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Anything instead of Dark Pit, and I'll see it as an improvement. Maybe they'll just give Aim instead ?

Seriously : 60 sec recharge (?) for a 9 sec stun (??) mag 2 (???)... bouh it's ugly. Even stacked with another stun power and slotted with a stun IO set, it still feels ugly to me. Might be good to slot a Stupefy sure, but I wish I could slot it in something more useful actually.

I made a Mids plan for Dark/Dark corruptor project recently and I was surprised that I only needed 4 powers from Dark/ : Dark Blast, Gloom, TT and Nightfall. Add Life Drain on a blaster, and maybe the nuke, but not alot more.

Replace Dark Pit and Torrent with Aim and Dark Obliteration and I'd call it perfect !

(And after you'd see the corruptor board asking for the same changes !^^)

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Well....for the past 4 1/2 years I have stopped into PvP about every 6 months. I usually spend about 20 minutes there and remember exactly why I never PvP, then leave for another 6 months or so.

However, I want the Day job accolade for logging out in PvP zones so I went into Recluse's Victory the other night and ended playing for a bit. I actually found a team and had a reallt fun 2 hour PvP experience. Ever since then I have been messing around in ther a little bit every day, and while there are still idiots in there...I've been having a pretty good time. Crazy I know.

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Well I guess that if you just go in the zone, mess up a few minutes and have fun it's perfect, keep it on like that, I wouldnt like to change that.

But if I play something I have always to understand the mechanics about what I'm doing. It's just my personnal opinion but for having pvped pretty hardcore in my previous MMOs the i13 PvP thing is prolly the worse I have seen until yet.

I can say it wasnt made by a PvP player for PvP players, but by a PvE dev for PvE players and it pretty fails big time when you like PvP and a true sense of competition and achievement.

The best thing that happened for casuals and PvE players with i13 PvP is that it made leave all the hardcore PvPers... so now the zone is more casual friendly, with much less competition and taunting. But it's sad at the same time. And definitely not a good thing for the game.

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And for what it's worth, I noticed this begin happeneing when the Ritki crap started. Not certain if that matters.

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Oddly, the old issue we had on Ncsoft servers before in Lineage II (read about it in my previous post) occured exactly and precisely each time they started to run test servers for the next chronicle (= issue)... Yet, they always said it had no connection and the issue wasnt on their side, and I believe they were sincere, at least they looked like. Weird ?

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Electric is a worthless armor set without a heal or something capable of making you not faceplant.

On a team you may survive, but not every team has some kind of heals or buffs that get applied to the tank. Because of this I feel all tank sets should be able to stand on their own two feet as far as survival goes and electric armor fails at that.

My only hope for the set is that it gets some kind of heal/utility power in place of Conserve Power. CP is unneeded in a primary when you have Power Sink plus potential to get CP in epic pools. Actually If they removed CP and PS and replaced them with a Drain Psyche variant plus some kind of cool utility power the set could be awesomesauce.

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I totally second that !

Having already CP in the EPP is our real hope to get something much better ! A self heal please ! (and the same for scrappers^^)

359% in Shockwave and 379% in Gloom : good luck

And for your sanity, stay away from PvP, the stupid DRs and dmg normalization made it quite absurd, I don't think you would like it^^

I like your Dark Blast more than the Corruptor's version Zero, it's really balanced and logical... and having one more real AoE power is sweet

Remove Dark Pit (60 sec rech, 9 sec mag 2 stun lol ?) for Life Drain, and you make it a dream set

Unfortunately I'm afraid they would port it directly from the Corruptor version as it is now !