Ether_Knight_EU

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So I'm sorry I have to disagree, you go back to I3 and so have a different perspective. The I4 nerf hit when I was too low lvl to notice it and so my persepctive is almost purely I5 and whilst I realise why you may not enjoy your regen scrapper anymore he is still a very powerful addition to any team.

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I teamed with Cap alot back in I3 and back then Regen wasn't an addition to the team it was the team. I could happily load a mission for 6-8 people and walk through it alone (yes we were hidesouly overpowered). Regen still is good, its just not God anymore.

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In my opinion Regen has had their day. i3 Regens had an almost godly aura about them. As soon as the chips were down and the team were failing you'd see the Regen scrapper raise his fist in the air accompanied by angels singing "ahhhh" around him. Then you'd see him wading into the fracas...ahh, poetry in motion! With this said, I may have enjoyed Regen better pre-nerfs. purely for having that god-like quality.

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Bah you only needed MoG for AVs. IH was where it was at. I remember one evening 8 man team getting a hammering in the first room of a mission half are dead the others are running for the door. My health is dropping and i notice i forgot to turn IH on. Flipped it on, full green bar and started mopping up.

Of course now i just lie there and wait for a rez

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3-slot your passives if you can. /SR is def-based and every little helps (even if it's only 1%). However, it's worth noting that I only took the passives later in the game - when I could slot them with SOs.

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Agreed. With the reduction in DEF due to ED taking every little bit of DEF possible is the only sane choice.

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Regen I don't, and have never, "got". Seems a bit to linear for me- either your fine or you're dead. But it works for a lot of people- different strokes for different folks.

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Which is one of the reasons i love it.

Either alive, kicking [censored] and looking great or flat on your face next to the blasters. Both regen and SR involve taking a chance. Hoping that there won't be too much incoming damage or the enemey won't get those lucky shots past your DEF. Sometimes you'll jump into a group and dnace about killing everything in your path other times you'll be asking for an awaken/rez inbetween shouts of "Stupid <insert profanity of choice> Scrapper"

Invlun and DA are more measured you can see your health dropping slowly and act accordingly.

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Bah, you're just not trying hard enough - cr*p myself all the time. Especially when I'm fighting the Devouring Earth

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Huh DE are easy for scrappers.

End Drainers (Sappers/Carnies) on the other hand are nasty scary horrible critters. No end, no shields, no health

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Fire is a great set and Healing Flames is wonderful (3x Recrd 3x Heal) what a shame none of the other Brute secondaries have such a good heal.

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Invincibility/Dull Pain, Dark Armor/Dark Regeneration, Stone Armor/Earth's Embrace these are not heals?

I think the only Brute set without a Heal is EA but they shouldn't be getting hit very often so a heal is less needed.

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My scrapper has about 9 attacks

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Your wasting slots, then, seeing as a Dark Melee Scrapper can chain three or four attacks continouslly.

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But Dime is crazy, last time we spoke about this he was slotting Soul Drain for damage and using it as an attack. I slot with recharges and use only as a buff so wouldn't consider it an attack.

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There is very few corruptors on CoV , if there where more corruptor , teams could more beter! I blame the devs for making corruptors = to defenders :P

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Our regular team is 3 corruptors and 3 brutes works very nicley been leveling quickly and normally not dying much except for those nasty Wailers!

I don't believe you Sugar will never reach 50

Team with the SG most nights, unless i'm being an anti-social git and want to solo

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Do they give an average of 20k per solo mission, at 10-15 minutes per mission? If so, I feel I may have misjudged them.

Edit: 20k might be a bit high, but it's HUGE.

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In issue 3 when i went through there with EK i would get about 1/2 a bar per mission on Invincible. Should work out more now with the stupid xp increases in issue 5. You can churn out loads of missions in there and level at a stupid rate. I always saved it for when i had an AV to clear and there were no 40+ players online.

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PS. The answer to boredom currently, is Warburg. Running the same two or three missions over and over again is still boring, but you get so much xp you don't care.

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Post 40 replace Warburg with the Shadow Shards

PB
duration: 120 secs
recharge: 200 secs

Adding Recharge SOs
1 x SO++ = 146 secs
2 x SO++= 115 secs

And with Quickness
1 x SO++ + Quickness = 128 seconds
2 x SO++ + Quickness = 104 seconds

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On the whole Dreamweaver thing. I really like the program because you can turn off the autoformatting options and it makes the text a nice colour

Seriously though, without the WYSIWYG bits, it's a nice tool.


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Without the WYSIWYG bits its a text editor Which is why i stick to Edit+/TextPad or something like that they all have the syntax highlighting (text colouring) and when you come to write scripts PHP/JS/JSP i always think you write better code if you already know the souce code of the page you are writing to.

Depends on your mentality and how you play i suppose. I'm all for diving into a large groups head first and trying to stay alive, stupid scrapper approach. I've seen others play a more cautious mop up the edge of a fight tactic which offers very little excitement IMO.

MNG rocks.

My first time i used it i was seriously disapointed because with 1 SO in it theres not much effect. Get your 3 damage in there and suddenly its going to be a different story. Pre-ED i could fire this off at even level minion and walk away knowing that it would die. Not tried it since ED, you may need smite/shadow punch to finish them off now.

Admitedly it looks a whole lot less impressive than SM but it is worth taking and slotting.

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I use Zen Garden to convert people to the ways of CSS, most of them argue that if it can be done in HTML what is the point in learning something new. That always proves the point.

Oh and great links to those 2 sites full of links (that can't be good english can it). Not seen them before but i noticed some of my favourite resources listed on there

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... or just for the sheer theatrics of it.

[/ QUOTE ]Hehe yeah i noticed the same thing EM?inv looks good when its fighting. Must be all the jumping about with Whirling Hands and Total Focus

taking Barrage so late? Its a nice fast attack great for building fury i took it straight off.

This is roughly my build, slotting is respec style so don't expect those numbers to be right and i'm only at 33 now so the last few power/slots aren't in place yet.

Barrage and Energy Punch are purly for making fury so i might change the acc in those to recharges or move them into Invincibility as ToHit Buffs, i haven't decided on that yet.

01) --> Barrage==> Acc(1) EndRdx(3) Rechg(3)
01) --> Resist Physical Damage==> DmgRes(1) DmgRes(5) DmgRes(5)
02) --> Temp Invulnerability==> EndRdx(2) DmgRes(7) DmgRes(7) DmgRes(9)
04) --> Energy Punch==> Acc(4) EndRdx(9) Rechg(11)
06) --> Dull Pain==> Rechg(6) Rechg(11) Rechg(13) Heal(13) Heal(15) Heal(15)
08) --> Whirling Hands==> Acc(8) EndRdx(17) Rechg(17) Dmg(19) Dmg(40) Dmg(40)
10) --> Hurdle==> Jump(10)
12) --> Hasten==> Rechg(12) Rechg(19)
14) --> Super Speed==> Run(14)
16) --> Unyielding==> EndRdx(16) DmgRes(21) DmgRes(21) DmgRes(23)
18) --> Health==> Heal(18) Heal(23) Heal(25)
20) --> Stamina==> EndRec(20) EndRec(25) EndRec(27)
22) --> Total Focus==> Acc(22) EndRdx(27) Rechg(29) Dmg(29) Dmg(37) Dmg(37)
24) --> Bone Smasher==> Acc(24) EndRdx(31) Rechg(31) Dmg(33) Dmg(36) Dmg(37)
26) --> Combat Jumping==> DefBuf(26)
28) --> Invincibility==> EndRdx(28) DefBuf(31) DefBuf(33) DefBuf(33)
30) --> Resist Elements==> DmgRes(30)
32) --> Energy Transfer==> Acc(32) Rechg(34) Rechg(34) Dmg(34) Dmg(36) Dmg(36)
35) --> Tough Hide==> DefBuf(35)
38) --> Unstoppable==> Rechg(38) Rechg(39) Rechg(39) DmgRes(39) DmgRes(40)
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01) --> Sprint==> EndRdx(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Rechg(1)
01) --> Fury==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Rechg(2)

Bah! Edit+ beats all hands down. Syntax highlighting and built in FTP what more could you want!

Dreamweaver, i've killed Designers after mutilating my code with this monstrosity. However the CD it comes on can be used as to put your mug of tea/coffee on while you are working. Not bad value for £230.

Finally got Mr Wiggle to 50 never thought you would after sitting with Dime on a park bench nattering away for the last 6 months.


Well done sir.

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Ouir team took down GoSY yesterday too, already done most of crimson's missions, shame mynx was only elite boss, no real challenge.

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Patch Notes, she's getting an upgrade to Hero in the next patch.

Having seen you play i'd say slotting is pointless you die anyway

This makes way more sense for a Brute powerset than tank IMO.

The main powers i used in Beta

Blazing Aura. 2xEndRed, 1xAcc, 3xDmg. Forget Burn for a brute this is one of the best powers in the set. I used to turn this on jump in and get all the mobs attention turn it off let the fury rise then turn it back on again for crazy damage. May drop one damage for a taunt enhc to get more love from the enemy.

Fire & Plasma Shield, 1xEndRed 3xDmgRes (Playing about with ED i went 5xDmgRes and didn't notice significant difference so stop at 3)

Healing Flames, 3xrecharge, 3xheal. Nice big heal, turning up often. nuff said.

Consume, 3xRecharge I didn't bother with end recovery enhc as you can get a nice boost off 3 minions and a full bar off 4. May want to add an acc if you can spare the slot but i wasn't missing enough to be too worried.

Skip Burn with Energy primary you have more than enough damage output and the fear effect of burn means theres nothing around you to hit so less fury. Also doesn't add to fury so fairly minimal benefit.

Also might be worth considering 2/3 slots on Temperature Protection if you take that.

This worked well for me in Beta.

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Which leaves SR and DA even further out in the cold, but were so used to it now we wear mittens.

[/ QUOTE ]Its ok they're giving us this just so they can nerf it in issue 7. After ED there was nothing left to break.

Yep, doing those missions now.

Had a fight with Mynx and Back Alley Brawler is next.