Fugacity

It's just what NCSoft wants you to do.

It was released 3 days ago, and I doubt they are making as much money as they expected, which is probably why they're shutting down CoH, in the hopes that many will flock to their newest game. Don't play into their hands, don't give any more money to a company that has sold you short.

Cease all business dealings with NCSoft, and at least have a clear conscience.

I think that /Invulnerable Scrappers, leveraging the +to-hit from Invincibility, could easily reach 22%. Just a thought.

I think you should play a Trick Arrow/Dual Pistols Defender.

Have fun with that.

Anyone?

Bueller?



Bueller?

My Staff/SR Scrapper is iTrial soft-capped(59+%) to M/R/A, has decent regen/recovery, and has his attacks fully slotted. Plus he has tons of recharge, enough to perma-hasten. Granted, the build is expensive, but still probably less expensive than many soft-capped resistance sets.

The only, and I mean only time I need to be cautious is against enemies with huge +To Hit: Rularuu, Cims and Nems when they've been Vengeance'd, DE with Quartz eminators out. I think those are about the only mobs I have to fight with any caution, but then who doesn't have some trouble with those mobs? Arachnos, Malta, Longbow, etc, I handle at +4/x8 with relative ease.

I like /SR because it's fun to be the only one still standing after your team has wiped(stone tank and all) and it's up to you to finish off the enemy. Yeah, it's kinda like that.

After reaching level 50 and Alpha-slotting my Beast/Time MM I noticed that Dire Wolf's damage seems to be capped at about 70% instead of 100%. Is this WAI?

I haven't IO'd the toon yet, so I have 3 Damage SO's slotted(53, 50++, 50++), and without the Alpha slotted it shows about 64% Damage, while my other pets show 95% with 3 Damage SO's.

When I slot the t3 Musculature Core Alpha, my wolves and lions are showing 121% while my Dire Wolf only shows about 89.4% Damage. I spoke with another BM player and it seems like theirs is bugged also.

Can anyone else confirm that Dire Wolf is not enhancing damage to 100%?

Pneumatic Penguin Launcher?

They're planning to probe Uranus next.

Sure, but only if the t9 is "The Spanish Inquisition".

I'll bet no one was expecting that.

Since you're going to want Hasten anyhow(to get enough recharge for perma-PA) just go with Shadow Fall + Super Speed and you'll be fully invisible. There are very few enemies that will see through this level of invisibility that won't also see through Superior Invisibility. Stealthing with Shadow Fall + SS is better anyhow, giving you(and your close teammates/pets) unsuppressed Defense, decent Resistance to several damage types, and protection from Fear.

One of my fondest memories of CoH is from an old(late 2005-ish) TV Respec trial on Freedom server when I was leveling up my first Tanker, an Inv/SS. Back in those early days of the Respec trial, I saw about 90% of them fail. I had gotten used to lying faceplanted as the reactor blew up with a feeling of utter helplessness. But nothing ventured, nothing gained, I kept at it.

We were doing the 2nd Respec with the Freakshow, this was of course pre-rep, so the main problem with the trial was the probability of overlapping waves.

We were doing pretty good, we must have made it to about the 7th or 8th wave when suddenly our core support and squishy characters took massive AoE and faceplanted, leaving myself and a Scrapper. It wasn't too long before the Scrapper joined the fallen, and I realized it was just me against 3-4 full groups of +3 Freaks. We were about to fail...again.

I remembered the importance of the Reactor Core, and watched as it nearly hit zero, then healed it with my temp power belt until it was back to full. Taunting and Footstomping I managed to kill quite a few Freaks and keep the others off the Core, but they just...kept...coming.

Eventually there must have been about 50-60 +3 and +4 Freaks, splitting their attention between the Reactor and me. My health kept dipping near zero, and Dull Pain kept coming back in the nick of time. I would taunt and run back for my red bubble, run back to heal the Core, and attack until I was forced to run for cover again. It continued like this for about 15 minutes until I ran over to heal the Core, which was at 25% falling fast, and realized I had just run out of charges on my belt!

Like a bat out of hell I ran to the control room, hoping there was still a belt temp there...and with good fortune, there was. I clicked on it, got about half-way through and was interrupted by a Juicer...the hordes were right on my heels! I popped my remaining insps and had enough defense/sheer luck to pick up the last belt. As I got back to the Reactor, it couldn't have had more than 2% left as I healed it, my team cheering me on in chat, and I was finally able to finish the remaining Freaks(within about five minutes).

Nothing else I've ever done in this game has compared to that moment. No story or explanation can do justice to that feeling of glory, of having the weight of the world dropped on your shoulders, falling to your knee, then standing back up again just to spite gravity.

I wonder what his reaction will be when the magic mirror tells him about Snow White?

What you're really looking at is the difference between Illusion and Dark Control.

I've played Ill/Rad up to level 50, and my Dark/Rad is currently stuck in a holding pattern at level 42. Illusion is much more powerful, mainly due to Phantom Army's ability to grab and hold aggro from an entire group while you apply Rad debuffs. Haunt is nothing at all like PA. When you cast it the group's aggro does not go to the pets, it goes to you. This is a huge difference, as you have nothing but your big puppy to really take aggro, but unlike Illusion you don't get Invisibility from within the set, so you either have to use SS+Stealth Proc, or SS+Stealth, to be able to run past the group as your pet takes the alpha(and likely dies).

That said, I'm sure that if I ever get my Dark/Rad to 50 and IO the build it will be fairly strong simply because it's /Rad, but it will never be as strong as an equally IO'd Ill/Rad.