Eiko-chan

Slight correction: vs. a base to-hit of 75%, the "softcap" of 45% yields a 30% chance to hit.

My Tankermind that tanked the LRSF should be evidence that Tankerminds can Tank AVs.

10. Endgame doen't really interest me that much.

I'm not sure I've seen that billboard.

I finally realised what stereotype I play. My heroes are HEROES, and my villains are VILLAINS. I don't have any characters that fit best as Rogues or Vigilantes. They are either super-good paragons of virtue or dark, dastardly, and dire epitomes of evil.

Lapin Lazuli is the absolute soul and image of heroism; even her off-time (between her day job and her heroing) is spent volunteering at shelters and soup kitchens.

Eiko-chan is a complete psychopath. She barely recognises other people as real, thinks nothing of killing hundreds or even thousands to acheive her goals, and is so callous that at age fourteen she was thrown in the Zig after her own testimony in her trial.

Monocle Smile is the Old Spice Guy, saving the world and being awesome.

Stacy Wu held on to the Malleus Mundi for almost a year, trying to research it so she could rewrite the world the way she wanted, instead of the way Scirocco wanted.

I don't play anything in-between. Maybe I need to.

The bit I get out of Manoeuvres pushes my Drones and Assault Bot over the softcap, so I wouldn't say that it's too small to matter. That last 3-4% to the softcap is huge.

No one has mentioned /Traps at all. I would think there would be some good synergy there, too; not quite as much +def as FF, but a well rounded suite of debuffs to accompany it all.

Anyone play a Ninja/Traps? How's it play?

This is why we can't have nice threads.

I decided to add up my namesake character, a level 50 Bots/Traps MM (Softcapped and verified AV soloer.) The results were pretty close to what I saw for her, though I have a few notes/caveats to add.

Fighting: 14 (Good)
Agility: 62 (Sensational)
Strength: 25* (Excellent/Good*)
Endurance: 75 (Monstrous)
Reason: 109** (Unearthly)
Intuition: 50 (Amazing)
Psyche: 35 (Fantastic)

*Strength seems a bit high; since 10 points of that comes from her having Super Jump, which I never have played as being strong leg muscles, but just some sort of genetic weirdness in her creation, a 15 seems more reasonable for her Strength. She doesn't even exercise.

** To be perfectly honest, the Reason calculation seems to discount powers just a bit too much for my taste. Both Robotics and Traps are powersets explicitly tied towards her Reason (and relatively unused anywhere else), another bonus for those seems reasonable to me (not included). Also, the Field Crafter Accolade should probably provide another bonus (on top of that for Inventor (also not included here)). After looking at the benchmarks, however, the bonus for IOs/Sets might actually be a bit too high (Eiko has every slot (93 (will be 97 when i19 hits)) slotted with IOs, as well as 8 complete sets), since a 100 here seems to indicate omniscience.

Using a modified Reason calculation of 100 (Creator) + 41 (1 per 2 IOs) + 24 (full sets) + 20 (+5 each for Inventor, Field Crafter, and having most of the powers from both Robotics and Traps (Devices would also qualify for this; maybe other powersets too)) yields a 93 Reason, which is still extremely high but not god-like.

Looking through some of those character listings, scores higher than 50 don't seem to crop up a lot; however, in Eiko's case, the ones she has that high fit reasonably with her powers as defined in game: a high Endurance reflects her faster-than-peak (represented by the base game mechanics) regeneration and the fact that she possesses "perfect" regeneration, meaning she does not scar and is theoretically ageless; a high Agility reflects her ability to avoid damage (being softcapped and a bit); and her high Reason is the very source of her powersets in game, being a genius-level prodigy inventor.

This will also be true of characters with Electric Control, Dual Pistols, or Kinetic Melee.

To be perfectly honest, I'm mostly doing option #5: not playing until i19 comes out. But that's just my usual every-three-months burnout/break from CoX and not anything apropos.

Just to add a bit more info to the pot: it's very difficult to turn over rights to your own personal intellectual property. You most certainly cannot do it by clicking a button in a video game. If you created it, it takes a lot more than clicking "Accept" on a EULA to turn over those rights to someone else.

NCSoft is really only claiming ownership of the specific iteration of your character and its information that exists in the City of Heroes video game. You can't demand they delete your character and give you a digital copy (even if such a thing were technically possible, which I doubt it is) when you leave the game, but that's really about all that clause really means.