GavinRuneblade

Raptor pack is ugly, but if you're redside you can get the goldbricker pack, and that one looks pretty cool.

I've always thought it would be cooler if CoH celebrated in-game holidays and events instead of real world holidays. I think this about all MMOs, but they seem convinced that duplicating real-world holidays with virtual equivalents is more interesting.

Meh.

I feel that my dark/dark holds its own on teams. I can 1-shot lieut's reliably when hidden, and 2-shot them out of hide. It's not hard to find a boss that's not currently the focus of everyone else's attention and rip them to shreds before the group piles on. And several times after team wipes my AoE mag 30 stun self-rez has let me give the team a chance to make a dramatic comeback.

I would dearly love a bit more survival and a better AoE than shadow maul, but overall I do think the proposals to make the full spectrum Stalker -> Scrapper -> Brute -> Tank in terms of damage -> Survivability makes the most sense and implementing it would be as simple as changing the damage scalar for stalkers and giving us the full value of buildup. But meh.

I still have fun so I'll keep playing and I guess that's why nothing changes. =)

the -regen is not just -500%. It stacks. During testing against a pylon the cataphract maintained a reliable 500-2000% -regen dropping the pylon from a normal 102hp/sec to 30-somethinglow.

However, with that said, the actual damage output is pretty low. Still against a GM they'd be handy.

And you can't switch if you've attacked or been attacked within 5 minutes. Sometimes it can take over 20 minutes to switch.

Possible Cheat: Does swapping builds reset the timer? I know it resets all cooldowns.

With limited market and recipe access I'm not sure how free people will get enough money to significantly spike Hami-o prices.

However, if they are available and IOs are limited, I do expect more demand, yes. How that translates I think we will need to know a bit more about the mechanics. unless someone already does. =)

If you have the money, you can also buy them off market. Just go to the market forum and look, there are a number of threads with people looking to sell.

And several of the market regulars will be willing to act as a trusted third party to ensure no one gets cheated.

Both Dumpleberry and Fulmens have offered such services and I have used them myself. They tend to take a small cut of the price, basically the same way the market would if you bought it through the market.

I think the easiest and most interesting change would be to make it accept sniper sets and be affected by all mods.

Note: I am not in any way shape or form saying to make it a ranged attack or to use the stalker ranged attack scale. I am saying let it accept snipe sets, and let the snipe bonuses increase the range beyond 7 feet. That is all.

This would give us some very juicy set bonuses you don't find in the melee sets. It makes AS a much more interesting power. And the small range mod would make it easier to use. And you can significantly reduce the interrupt.

Would be a very interesting change I think. Something fun.

Can you turn bosses off and slaughter him as a lieutenant? I don't think he's an EB is he?

If that doesn't work, and if envenomed daggers aren't enough, then I recommend temp-power overload. Head to Siren's call and get the venom grenade, web grenade and shield. Head to bloody bay and get shivans. From the black market, get yourself a backup radio. From your supergroup base craft resist toxic and recharge bonus and anything else you think will be handy. Set the mission to -1/x0.

The venom grenade will give him -20 resist all, and the shivan will butcher his defenses. At that point the shivan and radio dude should be able totear him up. Only two immobilizees are needed to stop him fleeing (If I recall) so you can pack them on while your goons do the pounding for you.

Wow. Nice score for you. I hope that who ever bought them really, REALLY enjoys them. Like, in a NSFW kind of way.

In general (it does vary server by server and day to day):

Blueside:
Atlas park has lots of people
Peregrine Island has lots of people
Talos Island has a decent amount of people

All other zones feel like a wasteland even though they are not (except for Galaxy City, Boomtown and Perez Park, they pretty much are wastelands)

Redside:
Cap au Diablo has lots of people
Grandville has a decent amount of people
Sharkshead Island has a decent amount of people

All other zones are wastelands.

If your server uses it for iTrials, the Rikti Warzone is overrun with 50s who will ignore you unless you are starting an iTrial. If your server uses it for iTrials the Pocket D is overrun with 50s who will ignore you unless you are starting an iTrial.

If you are on Virtue, Pocket D is overrun with people you will either wish you could ignore or who you will really really enjoy.

Yes on those last two bits I am exaggerating and being a bit of a goob. That's who I am.

One other thing to keep in mind is the head sliders. You can actually make your noggin pretty large or quite small. It's not entirely insignificant a change.

Hyperstrike, I'm in tears here. That was awesome. Did you create that flowchart or someone else?

I can say that in general the strategy is:

Mez the group. Single-Mez the really dangerous individuals. AoE the group. Refresh Mez. AoE the group. Refresh Mez.

And sprinkle in single-target as needed.

But the exact specifics do vary based on your powersets.

For example, on my Plant/Ice I open with either Seeds (aoe confuse), Creepers (aoe knock and "taunt" since the creepers draw aggro), or Vines (aoe hold). Then I jump in and hit Ice sword circle, and roots (aoe immob but I have chance for hold slotted), then jump out and single-target hold whomever is still attacking me, followed with frostbreath, roots and another single-target hold. Pretty much whatever I just held is the last thing alive at this point. If there's still a group my confuse is recharged.

On my fire/fire I always open with the aoe stun. Then aoe immobilize (will have chance to hold slotted soon), and then I go into a cycle of single-target hold, blaze, single-target hold, fire blast, repeat. If I'm facing too many bosses I have chance to hold in flares and lockdown in my char so char-flares-char-flares is pretty much a guaranteed hold even against an elite boss. I can toss in my aoe hold as an emergency as needed. Sometimes, against really dangerous bosses or resistant ones (cimeroans) I'll single-target hold-aoe-hold-singletarget hold. then start my damaging attacks once he's locked down.

Now, I don't go like most doms. I have no one with permadomination and no one with significant defense. I live or die based on my mezzes alone. and 90% of the time I forget to use domination at all. I've gone two missions in a row without ever turning on domination. That's just plain bad form so don't do it =)

I'll back Neogumbercules and the others on the issues with the original target of Ion dying being a pain. However, it does have utility the others don't. It is much better than Pyro or Void at widely spread out targets. Often I can get whole spawns when only one is visible and the rest are around corners or behind pillars both of which would keep them safe from Pyronic.

Pyronic is spectacular, and equal or better to Ion under virtually all other circumstances.

Cryonic pretty much sucks. but it looks pretty and is a thematic fit for the character who has it so I keep it.

Void is solid, I love that the damage type is lightly resisted, and the -Dam is not only high enough to be noticed, but it lasts a good long time too. It has a pretty large area of effect. And if you care about the visuals, pull back your camera and watch carefully. The spiraling tentacles of dark energy are subtle and awesome.