GavinRuneblade

Ok, that's what I was hoping for. Fits my play style a bit better on this guy.

No worries, I can tell it's a joke that's why I made the crack about the first round being on me =)

That is pretty much taking every power in secondary. Ice blast is fast enough that shouldn't it be possible to make a shorter chain? Specifically I want to avoid ice blast if possible. Between the two is it better to take freeze ray for the recharge over bitter freeze ray? Are the hold magnitudes the same?

I'm thinking something like Infrig->Freeze->I.Bolt->frostbreath/BIB->I.bolt->Freeze->I/Bolt->Frostbreath/BIB->I.Bolt etc.

Usually on tier 1 attacks you can get the recharge to where it is up every other attack.

What are the cookie-cutter recommendations for ancilary pools for cold/ice? I might try experimental with his second build for as a problematic character I'd like to keep to the tried and true and boringly effective as much as possible =)



Is there any numeric difference to what comes off me and what comes off each individual enemy or would it just be "one more" of the same?

It's worth noting if you plan to take your character redside with going rogue that confuse is a little bit more common due to Circle of Thorns Succubi.

but on both sides it is quite rare.

Thanks for the link, but I can't actually tell what's going on timing wise. And I'm suspecting that Nemu is right and it's my timing being off because his in-air movement is nothing like what I see when I try it.

I will back up Maestro in that it is easier with SS.

And thanks for the offer Nemu, but I have really wacked hours and while I can hit the forums from time to time, I only get online at random really late hours for very short periods of time. But I do appreciate it.

Of course, there are numerous ways using your secondary and pool powers as well. Maneuvers, various shields (FF, Thermal, etc).

I can pretty much confirm this. =) But it's not the alpha that gets me as much as being worn down over time.

I haven't posted a build because right now I sort of don't have one. I gutted him a while back to give his stuff to one of my blasters. Currently he is level 41 and has like 8 filled slots. I think his level 28 second build has some stuff in it from back when he was 28. Haven't looked at it in a looong time.

I had haste with two level 30 recharge's in it. No set bonuses except I had one blast with a couple entropic chaos and one with a few ruin. Was 80%+ frankenslotted with a few empty slots (I think three) and a few SOs that dropped (less than 6). I tend to aim for 30-40% accuracy, which is not enough vs +2/3/4 enemies but just fine for -1/0/+1. I will admit that I usually forget to click aim and power build up. Sometimes throughout an entire mission.

41 and as I mentioned, I only played set to heroic until I got too frustrated to do even that anymore. Nearly all of his levels were gained as an exp leech in PUGs keeping them shielded while tossing the occasional benumb, infrigidate and snowstorm.

Yup, I read it and as I recall in one of your other guides, I think trick arrows, you mention the line about "unless you read this and still suck, then your dad and I will go to a bar and drink and talk about where it all went wrong and how much hope we had for you" Well, the first round's on me, I read it, tried it, and still suck.

well, if they are in melee and I am at range, and the buff comes off of the enemy, can I buff the team without buffing myself? Or do I have to be in there too? The other trick I can't seem to get down is how close they have to be to each other. Seems like I'm in the middle of the group, but still only get one or two.

I'll have to test some once I get a build back together. But I used to monitor my end and I don't recall breaking 5/second very often. I had about 0.4 if I was using snowstorm, and would get up over 2 or 3. Don't recall breaking 5 except on really big teams. Solo on heroic, of course, I never ran into a spawn of more than 3. But then I didn't use it much when solo anyway.


Looks like that's a respec build. I doubt you really took aim and infrigidate that late. =) My guy's still 41 and I'd rather not go without infrigidate for the next 8 levels.

The single most common way I die is during frost breath's animation. How much do you use it with your build? I had it with the intent of putting posi in it for the recharge, and the damage is actually decent, but it's so short range and so slow. I never did get enough recharge into bitter ice blast, so was plinking away with ice bolt in between the occasional frost breath and sleet/storm. But my slotting was such that frost breath was one of my harder hitters so I would use it. Then they'd close to melee and smack me around.

And also:

both from the main thread discussing the i17 map pack.

Is THAT what keeps happening every time I try to go to the Ala Moana mall? I had been wondering.

I can only say this, people have tested it on the plant/ Carrion Creeper power and despite what it shows the properties only get sent to the powers that are the same as the set IO. So a knockdown Set IO's damage will not help the Throw Thorns sub power the creeper attacks with. Now CC is a weird power. So they might not all function that way. MM Pets are quite different from pseudo pets after all.

Here's the thing, If start to jump out and after 3 or 4 feet of movement I hit the attack, I stop going up, I stop going back. I move straight back down to the ground having only covered about 5 or 6 feet. As soon as I attack I lose all movement except downward. There's a little bit of maneuvering possible because combat jump and superjump allow in-air maneuvering, but it seems suppressed. I keep meaning to test off the top of a steel canyon skyscraper to see if I get maneuvering back before I hit the ground or if it stays suppressed until the next "jump".

I get this hitting me a lot even outside of combat with toggles. I'll be superjumping to a mission and I forget and turn on an attack aura mid-jump... plummet straight down full loss of intertia and forward momentum.

With SuperSpeed, I safely end up on the other side of my target. moving slower, but still moving AWAY not straight to the ground at his feet.

"Special_Process". Old term for anything that does a unique function not normal for it's class of ______ (insert equipment, weapon, attack, skill, etc). Very old goes back to text games (Muds and Zork-like single-player games).

In CoH it mostly means the "chance to _____" enhancements. So the Positron's Blast chance for energy damage, or Performance Shifter chance for +endurance or the Entropic Chaos chance to heal.

I'll often sell a level 50 or a minimum level of anything (gambler, etc) and then buy on off level copy for half the price.

Keep in mind the "ally" issue Necrotron mentioned. It's not just allies. It includes destructible object, hostages and literally anything that will not try to kill you. As long as they exist in the mission, each one reduces your experience.

Fight any customized level 1 boss in AE. You'll see them use many powers much higher level than they are, even tier-9s. Enemies aren't subject to level restrictions. They either have a power or they don't. It just scales to have the numbers for that level.

Thanks!

I can confirm this. And some of them are not so expensive. Dam/Mez are usually less than 1 million. Acc/Mez are a bit spendy, but cheaper than the def or resist aura IOs by an order of magnitude. I dunno on the defense Hammi Os. Never tried to buy one.

-1 x(as high as I can with that character at that level) while levelling. Once I get to 50 I play at +0x(as high as I can with that character) so the recipes aren't all vendor trash.

If I could turn off AVs in teams/TFs I would do it. If I could replace all EBs with Bosses in all missions and taskforces even when teamed I would.

More HP =/= harder. More clicks to kill =/= more fun.

As I said a few times in other posts simply doing the same thing more times does not make a fight more fun. The only difference between a -1 enemy and a +4 enemy is that instead of 3 attacks to kill him it takes 7. Instead of dealing 50 damage an attack deals 20 (note arbitrary numbers pulled out of my ar@#). Instead of hitting all the time, you hit most of the time. That's doing the same thing more times. To me, that's not more fun, it's just more grindy and annoying.

I like complex and tactical fights. I like enemies with lots of different powers and dangers. Some of my favorites are Arachnos and Rularuu and Malta. Lot of variety and lot of complexity. I find that more enemies with a lower level is far more exciting and dynamic than cranking the difficulty. I really wish there were more than two missions redside with Rularuu in it. But that's what AE is for until Going Rogue =).

And the only difference between an AV and an EB is that the mission takes 36 minutes instead of 22. Personally, I'd rather do another mission in that time. Whacking the same guy over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over... BORING.

Depends. Personally, I prefer more enemies over harder. In all games in all genre's across all the decades I've been playing games I think the number escalation is a complete cop-out on the designer's part and I just don't enjoy it. What I mean is, just giving them higher stat numbers doesn't make it "harder" to me. For me, that just makes it "more annoying". If I miss more often and/or deal less damage, it's not "harder" I just need 10 clicks to win instead of 6 or 7. That's an annoyance I can live without and it doesn't add anything to my play experience. The worst examples are the games like Final Fantasy where the numbers get higher and higher and higher until they're meaningless. Starting attacks deal 100 damage and end-gamers do millions of damage. Lame.

Make it more complex, give them more interesting powers, etc. I like lieuts and bosses more than minions not because they are tougher, but because they are more complex. They get the more interesting powers and defenses.

I have absolutely no interest in GMs and AVs because they are extraordinarily boring. Giant bags of HP and Regen with very little novel or special in their mechanics. Most of their powers are found on boss-level enemies who don't take forever and a day to putdown. And Tank-and-spank is as complicated as you need to get. Sure debuffs help, but they're not mandatory if you have enough damage.

In virtually every other game in virtually every other genre on virtually every other platform, boss fights require specific tactics. Not necessarily a specific team or powers, but tactics. Careful timing (like the Dr. Aeon clones fight where you gotta time the temp power to his self-buff), or maneuvering (like the new Protean fight where you gotta get away from him from time to time) or something.

Those two examples I like, and some of the other newer ones are very cool too, Reichsman, Winter Lord, etc. But in general, I have much more fun fighting weak enemies that have nifty powers but who die easy than just someone against whom I miss more often and deal lower damage. Same goes for cranking the enemy level up to +4. The enemy has the same powers and the same AI. All I did was debuff myself and buff him.

To me, that's just not fun. And I play to have fun. So it's not just that some of us don't fight tough enough enemies.

Also, -def means you can slot less accuracy. That gives you other options. Like the chance to hold, or chance to heal. Maybe not optimal, but might be fun, or in theme for your RP character, etc.

Also:
Cons:
- Massive DPS drop while mezzing instead of attacking

I'm totally not seeing the advantage. You have to stop attacking to use a click power. A toggle just does it's thing while you kill.

More importantly, it seems that what you're talking about is turning oppressive gloom into a weaker hand clap and moving it into the secondary. It's considered a set mule already. Why would proliferating the worst power in SS/ to /DA with reduced magnitude stun suddenly make it any less crappy?

And based on the spines click power vs aura I think it's safe to say they won't reduce the activation time. You really want to lose that much attack time over and over and over?

Even on the fear, as a click I'd never take it. Just not worth it at all to lose the attacks. But if I know I'm going to be scrapping for a while, it is worth it to toggle on once, then get a minute or so of protection. I don't see it would be worth it to click every round through my attack chain. Unless both got damage on a par with smite or something else aggressive.

re-hiding is not an issue for my dark/dark. By "not an issue" I mean she's pretty much a scrapper with the stealth pool she doesn't re-hide ever. Placate is used only to keep people from attacking, not to get crits or to hide. But it is very helpful on my spines/nin. This is from the primaries I think. Dark/ does plenty of damage, spines/ does not and thus needs the extra crits. I'm happy on dark/dark to scrap it out. on spines/ not so much. Without placate he's really not happy.