Fosca

I lived the 10.000 monkeys badge. Could I want until lvl 50 and go to that island in Peregrine Island crowded with monkeys? I could, but badge hunters are no known for their patience, so I went to Crey's and spent a loooong time there...
But monkeys are nothing compared with what has been done with Illusionists...

Here goes more ideas for badges:

Bronze/Silver/Gold(en) Citizen: "You have rescued 100/500/1000 Citizens from the evil blah blah blah...", rescuing threatened street citizens. That would be blue side, don't know if a related red side would be possible, but I don't think so, anyway.

Bronze/Silver/Gold(en) [I know, no imagination with badge names] Broom: You have defeated *all* enemies in 100/500/1000 missions.

Shadow Shard Exploration Badges, and/or, Shadow Shard History badge, maybe with different art like the Midnighter history one. Blue side only, so.

A Luddites and Slag Golem hunting badge would be nice, too. Red side, of course.

A Void Hunter badge would be interesting, as well. I know, kheldians would have it easier, but also empaths have healing badges easier.

Dunno about Defiant CoV or CoH population, but I do know about my SG population, and it has to be a reason apart of genocide, serial murders and Conan, for the massive numbers of people missing.

That SG badge is obtained through defeating LR but not in the TF, but in the Safeguard Bank Missions. I supose you need a full team with highest diff lvl for that, or maybe not. If the badge is obtainable also through TF, send me a message and I'll inform the people in vidiotmaps, because the only description they have is about CoV: "Badge Info: Defeat Lord Recluse at the end of the Patron Arcs 5 times to earn this badge."

I've been looking for a MoSTF badge since first day available, with no luck. And I've found messages here about preparing MoSTF too late. It's hard to be a badge-hunter.

Anyone interested in Mender Silos TF? It's a short Ouroboros TF, but you will fight all Recluse friends including himself! Anyway Phalanx and Vindicators will help us.

Send a /t to Fosca. I plan to do it today at 5 pm BST.

Fosca Dark/Dark Scrapper, very interested in it.

I'd like to join a MoSTF someday... Fosca lvl 50 MA/DA Scrapper. Add me to reserves, and please think about me for future runs

I'm interested. Fosca, lvl 50 MA/DA Scrapper.

Up to both, if possible. Toon name's Fosca, lvl 50 MA/DA Scrapper.

I'm interested in 2nd round. Name is Fosca, lvl 50 MA/DA Scrapper.

I'm interested, too.

I'm interested. I would join with Fosca, lvl 50 MA/DA Scrapper. I've been trying to join a Hami Raid since the new one was released.

Send me a /t to @Fosca, I'll be possible around. Lvl 50 MA/DA Scrapper.

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As a Defiant player almost exclusively i have to say i don't have a problem getting teams. I have a very full global list and membership of 2 specific SG biased global chat channels.

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I have a long Global list, but it's useless if just 3 people are connected. I'm in 5 global chats (Liberty Legion, Need Team, Defiant Badgers, Defiant Events and Spanish Channel). And I use them for asking for a team, a TF, a whatever.

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Finding a team of some sort is easily done, although you often have to change character to someone lower/around the teams level.

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I'm even agreeing to join Frosty mission teams in Hollow with my lvl 50...

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Find a popular, well 'used' Supergroup and you'll have no problem finding teams at all, believe me.

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Liberty Legion was a crowded SG. We had even to split in 4 SG due to the big amount of players and their alts. Now we are lucky if 5 people are connected, almost every Legionnaire is now playing LoTRO.

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I sometimes get the idea that people 'finding teams' means waiting for an invite to come in your direction, blind or otherwise. If no one is sending you an invite, get pro-active! Start asking! Invite people into your 1 man team (but send a tell first!) I've had 6-8 man teams at 2AM weekdays before. The teams are out there, but sometimes you have to look for them.

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I use global chats and Search option in the game, asking people around or below my lvl. After 1h with no luck, I disconnect, if I'm not in the soloing mood, of course. And trying to play a TF is much harder than that, months ago it was asking for people interested in Defiant Events and in 5 minutes team was built. Now you have to post it here in the forums 1 week before, just for delaying it 1 more week because not enough people was gathered. Believe me, I've tried. Have you joined any New Hami Raid, for example? I don't, and I haven't seen *ever* a message in Defiant Events/Badgers or wherever asking people to join one...

Mon-Thur 6 pm GMT+1 - 12 pm GMT +1 aprox.
Friday - Sunday I don't connect, but when I do it's anytime during the day and for hours. If I find a good team, TF, etc etc etc...

No, I play CoH. I only play CoV during events, got a badge hunter there.

I was a daily player, investing hours and hours of fun play, TFs, teaming, badge farming, xp/inf farming, sunday Hami and all that. That doesn't happen anymore. Now I connect, I see absolutely empty zones, ask for a team for 1 hour and disconnect with a bitter sadness. I'm not always in the soloing mood, you know.

>> I'd really would change more things, but it seems you are going for a determined power choice hence I am trying to suggest minimum changes to your build to respect your power choices as much as possible.-

Well, there are only some powers I'm stick to.
Attacks: TK, SK, CK, EC
DA: DE, MC, OS
Travel: Fly
"Self Preservation": Health, Stamina, Dark Regeneration, Soul Transfer
Then, and that's my way of playing, mainly solo, I have some powers that allow me to keep foes uncapable of attack me because they are KB, KUp, Hold, Stun while I defeat them: Cobra Strike, EC also, Dragon's Tail, Opressive Gloom, Petrifying Gaze, and Sands of Mu.

I'll try in test the built you suggest. But I'm seeing that, I can't take a 5th Pool, I have Fitness, Fly, Fighting and Speed; dunno how I can get also CJ.

Please don't hesitate in giving me even a completely different built, maybe be it makes me discovery a new approach.

Testing it in test server. Ugh, Fighting pool sucks my end, didn't happen this before...

Which mag has KB power?

Ok, this is the project I've done with your suggestions. I've tried to get Eagles Claw earler but it seems that lvl 32 is the earlies. And I've taken Fighting pool because I didn't know what else to do. People usually don't get Weave, is that useless? Should I take something else instead?

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1,20
http://www.honourableunited.org.uk/mhd.php

Fosca Project: Level 50 Natural Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Martial Arts
Secondary Power Set: Dark Armor
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Darkness Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Thunder Kick -- Dmg-I:50(A), Dmg-I:50(3), Dmg-I:50(3), Acc-I:50(5), EndRdx-I:50(5), RechRdx-I:50(7)
Level 1: Dark Embrace -- EndRdx-I:50(A), EndRdx-I:50(27), ResDam-I:50(29), ResDam-I:50(29), ResDam-I:50(31), S'fstPrt-ResKB:30(31)
Level 2: Storm Kick -- Dmg-I:50(A), Dmg-I:50(7), Dmg-I:50(9), Acc-I:50(9), EndRdx-I:50(11), RechRdx-I:50(11)
Level 4: Murky Cloud -- EndRdx-I:50(A), EndRdx-I:50(31), ResDam-I:50(33), ResDam-I:50(33), ResDam-I:50(33), S'fstPrt-ResKB:30(34)
Level 6: Swift -- Run-I:50(A)
Level 8: Focus Chi -- RechRdx-I:50(A), RechRdx-I:50(13), RechRdx-I:50(13)
Level 10: Air Superiority -- Acc-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(15)
Level 12: Crane kick -- Dmg-I:50(A), Dmg-I:50(15), Dmg-I:50(17), Acc-I:50(17), EndRdx-I:50(19), RechRdx-I:50(19)
Level 14: Fly -- Srng-Fly:49(A), Srng-EndRdx:50(21), Srng-EndRdx/Fly:50(21)
Level 16: Obsidian Shield -- EndRdx-I:50(A), EndRdx-I:50(23), ResDam-I:50(23), ResDam-I:50(25), ResDam-I:50(25), S'fstPrt-ResKB:30(27)
Level 18: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+:50(A)
Level 20: Stamina -- EndMod-I:50(A), EndMod-I:50(34), EndMod-I:50(34)
Level 22: Dark Regeneration -- Acc-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(42), Heal-I:50(42), HO:Golgi(42), RechRdx-I:50(43), RechRdx-I:50(43)
Level 24: Hasten -- RechRdx-I:50(A), RechRdx-I:50(36), RechRdx-I:50(36)
Level 26: Dragons Tail -- Acc-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(43), RechRdx-I:50(45), KBDist-I:50(45)
Level 28: Cobra Strike -- Acc-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(46), Dsrnt-I:50(46), Dsrnt-I:50(48)
Level 30: Kick -- Acc-I:50(A), Dmg-I:50(45)
Level 32: Eagles Claw -- Dmg-I:50(A), Dmg-I:50(36), Dmg-I:50(37), Acc-I:50(37), EndRdx-I:50(37), RechRdx-I:50(39)
Level 35: Tough -- ResDam-I:50(A)
Level 38: Oppressive Gloom -- Stpfy-Acc/Rchg:50(A), Stpfy-EndRdx/Stun:50(39), Stpfy-Acc/EndRdx:50(39), Stpfy-Stun/Rng:50(40), Stpfy-Acc/Stun/Rchg:50(40), Stpfy-KB%:50(40)
Level 41: Petrifying Gaze -- Acc-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(48), Hold-I:50(48), Hold-I:50(50)
Level 44: Dark Blast -- Acc-I:50(A), Dmg-I:50(50), Dmg-I:50(50)
Level 47: Weave -- EndRdx-I:50(A)
Level 49: Soul Transfer -- RechRdx-I:50(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Run-I:50(A)
Level 2: Rest -- RechRdx-I:50(A)
Level 1: Critical Hit



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I've done the slotting you suggested too. Please tell me your opinion about this new project

&gt;&gt;First of all, I'd drop jump kick for combat jumping. Mobility &gt; a crappy attack anywhere.

I agree, and I even tried that in some old respec, time ago. But. No JK No Acrobatics, and I soon discovered that I couldn't live without Acrobatics. Would Steadfast in 3 DA powers give me KB protection enough? What would be the % comparison between Acrobatics and 3 Steadfasts?

&gt;&gt; If you did this, you could drop the 3 powers you have from the jumping pool and get cloak of darkness, you could also get stamina earlier if you dropped the leaping pool.

I take note of Stamina earlier. I've never played without CJ, and I'm not sure what I'd lose. Is the Immobilization protection it gives enough miss it without CJ? I've read some CJ slotting guide with interesting results. Anyway, I'd have 2 more powers to choose, if I'd keep CJ and repec the other 2.
Cloak of Darkness is a useful power that I had until I hit 50, a year ago. After that I realized that I never used it again. So I repec'd it out. I did the same with Boxing-Tough, didn't feel any difference playing with or without Tough, so... out!.

&gt;&gt;Not familiarised enough with MA, on the DA side, I'd personally put another endrdx on toggles. Air Superiority and Jump Kick, I usually leave them with an Accuracy enhancement on the base slot, but that's with Focused Accuracy, I guess without Focused Accuracy or Tactics, 2 Acc in both Air Superiority and Jump Kick would be enough. For sure their recharge time is short enough to waste a rchg enhc in any of them, plus they are very low on end, besides I am not sure their dmg is worth enhancing.-

Took note of it, thx for info!

&gt;&gt;Then take the money you save on the Aegis set IOs (or money you make from flogging them) and get for example a numina's +10% recovery +20% regen or a luck of the gambler global recharge reduction.

Where should I slot Numina's or LoG?

&gt;&gt; I don't think /DA needs the set bonus's Aegis or Titanium coating gives you.

Awww, no sets for we poor DA Scrappers?

Gonna try making a built with your info and post it...

I need a respec, some changes in my powers, their enhacements and IO Sets are needed. But I'm not good at planning IO Sets or placing enhacements to get the better of each power. And MA/DA build are rare in this forum...
My build is this one:
Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1,20
http://www.honourableunited.org.uk/mhd.php

Fosca: Level 50 Natural Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Martial Arts
Secondary Power Set: Dark Armor
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fitness
Ancillary Pool: Darkness Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Thunder Kick -- Dmg-I:50(A), Dmg-I:50(3), Dmg-I:50(3), Acc-I:50(5), EndRdx-I:50(5), RechRdx-I:50(13)
Level 1: Dark Embrace -- ResDam-I:50(A), ResDam-I:50(7), ResDam-I:50(7), EndRdx-I:50(15)
Level 2: Storm Kick -- Dmg-I:50(A), Dmg-I:50(9), Dmg-I:50(9), Acc-I:50(11), EndRdx-I:50(11), RechRdx-I:50(15)
Level 4: Murky Cloud -- ResDam-I:50(A), ResDam-I:50(13), ResDam-I:50(17), EndRdx-I:50(17)
Level 6: Combat Jumping -- DefBuff-I:50(A)
Level 8: Focus Chi -- RechRdx-I:50(A), RechRdx-I:50(19), RechRdx-I:50(19)
Level 10: Air Superiority -- Dmg-I:50(A), Dmg-I:50(33), Dmg-I:50(33), Acc-I:50(34), EndRdx-I:50(34), RechRdx-I:50(34)
Level 12: Crane kick -- Dmg-I:50(A), Dmg-I:50(21), Dmg-I:50(21), Acc-I:50(23), EndRdx-I:50(23), RechRdx-I:50(25)
Level 14: Fly -- Srng-Fly:49(A), Srng-EndRdx:50(25), Srng-EndRdx/Fly:50(39)
Level 16: Obsidian Shield -- ResDam-I:50(A), ResDam-I:50(27), ResDam-I:50(29), EndRdx-I:50(29)
Level 18: Hasten -- RechRdx-I:50(A), RechRdx-I:50(31), RechRdx-I:50(31)
Level 20: Dark Regeneration -- Acc-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(27), Heal-I:50(37), RechRdx-I:50(39), RechRdx-I:50(39), HO:Golgi(40)
Level 22: Jump Kick -- Empty(A)
Level 24: Acrobatics -- EndRdx-I:50(A)
Level 26: Swift -- Run-I:50(A)
Level 28: Health -- Heal-I:50(A)
Level 30: Stamina -- EndMod-I:50(A), EndMod-I:50(31), EndMod-I:50(33)
Level 32: Dragons Tail -- Dmg-I:50(A), Dmg-I:50(45), Acc-I:50(45), Acc-I:50(46), RechRdx-I:50(46), KBDist-I:50(46)
Level 35: Eagles Claw -- Dmg-I:50(A), Dmg-I:50(36), Dmg-I:50(36), Acc-I:50(36), EndRdx-I:50(37), RechRdx-I:50(37)
Level 38: Oppressive Gloom -- Stpfy-Acc/Rchg:50(A), Stpfy-EndRdx/Stun:50(40), Stpfy-Acc/EndRdx:50(40), Stpfy-Stun/Rng:50(42), Stpfy-Acc/Stun/Rchg:50(43), Stpfy-KB%:50(43)
Level 41: Cobra Strike -- Acc-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(42), Acc-I:50(42), Dsrnt-I:50(43), Dsrnt-I:50(45)
Level 44: Soul Transfer -- RechRdx-I:50(A)
Level 47: Torrent -- Acc-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(48), KBDist-I:50(48), ToHitDeb-I:50(48)
Level 49: Petrifying Gaze -- Acc-I:50(A), Acc-I:50(50), Hold-I:50(50), Hold-I:50(50)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Run-I:50(A)
Level 2: Rest -- RechRdx-I:50(A)
Level 1: Critical Hit



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I'm happy with my main attacks, Thunder Kick, Storm Kick, Crane Kick and Eagles Claw; and I've used the most common slotting for them. I use often Dragon's Tail, and I've slotted it in different ways. I like Air Superiority, a power I had forgotten and even out of my power tray. It works fine in my attack chain, it's useful not just for flying enemies but also for knocking up enemies. But I'm not sure about how to slot it.
Main Dark Amor powers, Dark Embrace, Murky Cloud and Obsidian Shield, have the most basic slots. I've got the whole Aegis Set but I don't know if it's useful with these powers, I've seen that people uses other sets instead.
Any ideas about how to improve this MA/DA toon? Every time I sit and try to plan a respec or a set slotting I get a headache...

Only a last message to thank you everyone that joined us in our hunt, very very specially to Maximus Prime and Stego, the Dominators. Without their uninterested help it couldn't be possible. It has been fast (3h) and fun. It's a pleasure playing with people like you!

OK, day D. You can locate my through my global @Fosca. I'll try to locate you too, anyway.