GenesisPB_EU

Hi Guys

Before hanging up my cloak I'd just like to say thank you to everybody. My reasons for leaving are numerous, but the recent nerfs have demostrated Cryptics unwillingness to talk and listen to the players, also its time to rediscover the real world

Over the past 18 months I've had the pleasure of meeting and playing with a lot of people, so its with a sad heart I say thanks to everybody in the Voodoo Dolls, PPD, Nebula and Libery Legion SG's and everybody on Defiant Events.

Special thanks to my regular teaming buddies Meteorian, Blitz Wing, Dark Elf, Connor, Ganj Guru, Kyva and Nova. You've given me 18 solid months of harcore gaming action, Its been an awesome experience!

I'll pop in when I9 hits the servers

Gratz Connor, as Blitz said - you sure took your sweet time.. but I can see your not wasting any with your PB

[ QUOTE ]
Theres loads of different reasons to Powerlevel.

[/ QUOTE ]

You mis-understood me, I'm all for it because it removes the grind of the early levels, I meant most new players try PL'ing to get access to Kheldians - if this aspect was changed then arguments from the anti-PL "lobby" will fall flat on its face and the dirty/taboo reputation will fade.

[ QUOTE ]
I can understand people that have completed the game with various 50's Powerlevelling but not new players.

[/ QUOTE ]

They simple want access to the Kheldians - come up with a different formula to get access to them and this powerlevelling argument would largely be solved.

You want to power level, good for you - do it, love it.

[ QUOTE ]

Guys: I dont want to Power Level just so i can add a another 50 to my name. Its just that i'm sick of grinding a new toon to level 20


[/ QUOTE ]

Agreed - after grinding 2 50's and numerous toons in the 40's you get a bit sick on those early levels, theres been many heated discussions on avoiding the hollows but all I'd like to say is please tell me another reasonable option without hunt after hunt and zoning several times just to get a decent mission.

[ QUOTE ]

Afaik PLing services for money are forbidden in COH, but player-organised PL that is like any other normal playing is fine.

[/ QUOTE ]

Asking for money is out of order, its a game for fun not profit - saying that, Hami enhancements are used almost like currency on the US servers, almost every other broadcast is somebody offering them for P/L services - makes sense to me, players give up some game time to help others, in return they improve their charactors (and typically only experienced players will have these).

I've never really done it on the EU servers, but US side I've seen charactors go from level 1-22 in about 3 hours and 45-50 in a day.

I wouldn't bother with burn, its a useless PBAoE which only covers a small area - it does make foes run, but the activation time is quite long which makes it useless as a "panic button".

If you want a pbAoE for damage mitigation, take Fire Sword Circle. It will drop most minions who have previously taken damage (so if you've fired off your attack chain, this will mostly finish them off).

Hi

I'd personally recommend Fire Melee, it has some nice AoE's which blend nicely with the Arrows AoE / Cone attacks.

I used to be envious constantly seeing spine scrappers "arrests" scrolling up my screen, but no more Rain of Arrow followed up by Fire Sword Circle desimates most groups.

Laurel level 24 Arrows / Fire blaster.

Hi

Count me in, I'll bring my blaster

Cheers
@Genesis

Hi Red

Thanks alot, is there any particular time that your online?

Hi Guys

I was wondering if one of you villainous souls could find a bit of kindness to help a CoV newbie out.

Before I hang up my hero cloak, I'm looking to transfer around 4 million influence for infamy, is there anybody who can help? Perhaps if your looking to start out in CoH this would be a good oppotunity.

Any help/amount would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
@Genesis

Count me in, I'll Bring Robo Daddy along, lvl 43 Kin / Nrg defender (Last TF he needs for the accolade aswell).

@Genesis.

I'd be up for Numina, but unfortunately your running it a little to earlier, a lot of people in the UK are only just leaving work at that time (including myself )

[ QUOTE ]
I wasn't talking about taking damage, I was talking about holding aggro, because that's what the person I was replying to had problems with.

[/ QUOTE ]

Actually I was talking about drawing agro, not holding it.

[ QUOTE ]
See, another tank can just move next to those foes in a second or two, while stone needs taunt to get them.

[/ QUOTE ]

Max, forget Stone, I was merely using that as an example, the argument about taunt is applicable to all primary sets. Any Tanker not taking it is denying themselves the one and only Ranged power available to them (pre EPP), a tanker with taunt can gather and hold more agro in the same time frame so foes are much less like to overwhelm fellow team members.

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
I recently joined a PuG, the tank was a Stone/Stone without Taunt, he relied upon mudpots to generate all of his agro and the only thing he managed to keep on him was 3 or 4 minions, 10-15 other foes went straight for the rest of the team - the outcome was a team wipeout - theres no way he could run to us and draw the agro away quick enough.

So no a Tank isn't a proper Tank without taunt, its a key skill required for a Tank to apply his trade.

[/ QUOTE ]I'd say that basing your conclusion on stone armor is kinda ignorant, since stone is the worst aggro holder.

[/ QUOTE ]

Taunt is necessary to pull agro from ranged foes and distract them from squishier members of a team - hardly a situation were punchvoke is possible.

Many times I've managed to stop team mates from getting overwhelmed by foes running at them... and yes, by Taunting them, without Taunt that wouldn't have been possible.

So actually it is far from ignorant and very relevant - without it, I couldn't do my job properly. While I used the Stone tank as my example, it does apply to other Primary tank pools.

Anyway, thats just my personal opion [img]/uk/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

I recently joined a PuG, the tank was a Stone/Stone without Taunt, he relied upon mudpots to generate all of his agro and the only thing he managed to keep on him was 3 or 4 minions, 10-15 other foes went straight for the rest of the team - the outcome was a team wipeout - theres no way he could run to us and draw the agro away quick enough.

So no a Tank isn't a proper Tank without taunt, its a key skill required for a Tank to apply his trade.

A tank doesn't need it immediately far from it, a faceplanting tank is of no use to any team and should therefore concentrate on their own survival at first - but post lvl 40, theres simple no excuse for it.

This is the final build I settled on, note its not the most optimal build. Stone/EM is quite a rare combination, but its fantastic fun and has very high damage output.

Its designed with the view that this toon may be used for a lot of PvE exemplaring, so I've not taken much in the way of EPP's and took the Quality of Life powers I wanted closer to 50.

Since I've already spec'd to this build, I'm not looking for build criticisms, but please reply with possible improvements which others may use.

---------------------------------------------
Exported from Ver: 1.7.6.0 of the CoH_CoV Character Builder
---------------------------------------------
Name: Suga Daddy
Level: 50
Archetype: Tanker
Primary: Stone Armor
Secondary: Energy Melee
---------------------------------------------
01) --> Rock Armor==> DefBuf(1)DefBuf(3)DefBuf(15)EndRdx(46)
01) --> Barrage==> Acc(1)Dmg(3)Dmg(5)Dmg(9)Rechg(13)Rechg(46)
02) --> Stone Skin==> DmgRes(2)DmgRes(45)DmgRes(50)
04) --> Bone Smasher==> DefBuf(4)Dmg(5)Dmg(7)Dmg(7)Rechg(9)Rechg(15)
06) --> Earth's Embrace==> Heal(6)Rechg(37)
08) --> Rooted==> Heal(8)Heal(29)Heal(40)EndRdx(48)
10) --> Taunt==> Taunt(10)Rechg(11)Rechg(11)Rechg(13)Taunt(45)Taunt(50)
12) --> Recall Friend==> Rechg(12)
14) --> Teleport==> EndRdx(14)
16) --> Whirling Hands==> Acc(16)Dmg(17)Dmg(17)Dmg(19)Rechg(19)Rechg(31)
18) --> Swift==> Run(18)Run(31)Run(31)
20) --> Health==> Heal(20)Heal(21)Heal(21)
22) --> Stamina==> EndMod(22)EndMod(23)EndMod(23)
24) --> Mud Pots==> Taunt(24)DmgRes(25)Taunt(25)EndRdx(43)Slow(46)EndRdx(48)
26) --> Hasten==> Rechg(26)Rechg(27)Rechg(27)
28) --> Build Up==> Rechg(28)Rechg(29)Rechg(34)
30) --> Mineral Armor==> DefBuf(30)DefBuf(42)DefBuf(43)EndRdx(48)
32) --> Granite Armor==> DefBuf(32)DefBuf(33)DefBuf(33)DmgRes(33)DmgRes(34)EndRdx(34)
35) --> Energy Transfer==> Acc(35)Dmg(36)Dmg(36)Dmg(36)Rechg(37)Rechg(37)
38) --> Total Focus==> Dmg(39)Dmg(39)Dmg(39)Rechg(40)Rechg(40)
41) --> Conserve Power==> Rechg(41)Rechg(42)Rechg(42)EndRdx(43)
44) --> Combat Jumping==> DefBuf(44)DefBuf(45)
47) --> Hurdle==> Jump(47)Jump(50)
49) --> Super Jump==> Jump(49)
---------------------------------------------
01) --> Sprint==> Rechg(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Empty(1)
01) --> Gauntlet==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Empty(2)
[b]---------------------------------------------

Hi Guys,

I'm looking for a "retirement" respec for my Stone/EM tank, this build is for fun not uberness, I suffered TP as a travel power for so long, SJ is a must for this build (its the last respec until the next freespec's).

I've dropped Mineral armor in order to squeeze Hurdle in (another must to make SJ more fun), also Whirling hands since Fire Ball is a ranged AoE.

The other alternative I'm considering is taking Conserve power and focused accuracy, It'd leave a slot for me to squeeze mineral armor in. But, would this allow me to replace my accuracy enhancements with EndRedx?

---------------------------------------------
Exported from Ver: 1.7.6.0 of the CoH_CoV Character Builder
---------------------------------------------
Name: Suga Daddy
Level: 50
Archetype: Tanker
Primary: Stone Armor
Secondary: Energy Melee
---------------------------------------------
01) --> Stone Skin==> DmgRes(1)DmgRes(50)
01) --> Barrage==> Acc(1)Dmg(3)Dmg(3)Dmg(9)Rechg(11)
02) --> Earth's Embrace==> Heal(2)Rechg(43)
04) --> Rock Armor==> DefBuf(4)DefBuf(5)DefBuf(5)
06) --> Bone Smasher==> Acc(6)Dmg(7)Dmg(7)Dmg(9)Rechg(11)Rechg(15)
08) --> Rooted==> Rechg(8)Heal(15)Heal(17)
10) --> Recall Friend==> Empty(10)
12) --> Taunt==> Taunt(12)Rechg(13)Rechg(13)Rechg(42)
14) --> Teleport==> EndRdx(14)
16) --> Swift==> Run(16)Run(17)Run(31)
18) --> Health==> Heal(18)Heal(19)Heal(19)
20) --> Stamina==> EndMod(20)EndMod(21)EndMod(21)
22) --> Mud Pots==> Acc(22)Taunt(23)Taunt(23)EndRdx(34)EndRdx(37)Slow(46)
24) --> Jump Kick==> Acc(24)Dmg(25)Dmg(25)Dmg(27)Rechg(27)Rechg(40)
26) --> Hurdle==> Jump(26)Jump(43)
28) --> Hasten==> Rechg(28)Rechg(29)Rechg(29)
30) --> Build Up==> Rechg(30)Rechg(31)Rechg(31)
32) --> Granite Armor==> DefBuf(32)DefBuf(33)DefBuf(33)DmgRes(33)DmgRes(34)EndRdx(34)
35) --> Energy Transfer==> Acc(35)Dmg(36)Dmg(36)Dmg(36)Rechg(37)Rechg(37)
38) --> Total Focus==> Acc(38)Dmg(39)Dmg(39)Dmg(39)Rechg(40)Rechg(40)
41) --> Ring of Fire==> Acc(41)Rechg(42)Rechg(42)Rechg(43)
44) --> Fire Blast==> Acc(44)Dmg(45)Dmg(45)Rechg(45)Rechg(46)Rechg(46)
47) --> Fire Ball==> Acc(47)Dmg(48)Dmg(48)Dmg(48)Rechg(50)Rechg(50)
49) --> Super Jump==> Jump(49)
---------------------------------------------
01) --> Sprint==> Empty(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Empty(1)
01) --> Gauntlet==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Empty(2)
[b]---------------------------------------------


Thanks

I never thought we'd complete the last mission.

Just for anybody reading, only 1 person dropped out, but fully understandable since it was getting so late.

Must say it was great fun, but, Synapse... DO IT YOURSELF NEXT TIME!!

ok the team is filling up, but if your interested please still leave a reply. I'll add you as a reserve, or if numbers allow it, we can run a 2nd team.

Hi Guys

I'll be running the Synapse Taskforce tonight, we'll be starting at 19:30 (UK time) or shortly after.

Current team list is:

1) Robo Daddy (lvl 16 Defender)
2) Captain Sam (lvl ?? blaster)
3) Sam Biona (lvl ?? Scrapper)
4) Onslaught Alpha (lvl 17 Blaster)
5) Blitzwing (Still deciding on character)
6) Weather Master (lvl 17 Controller)
7) Chi Tarah (lvl 39 Scrapper)
8)

Anybody else interested?

If so, please leave your charactors name/at/level and your global contact handle. Or you can message me in game by sending a tell to @Genesis.

I'm a bit late, but heres my 2p's worth - it depends on your play style.

I took IH on my Claws/Regen scrapper, it seemed ok and kept me alive for a while, especially when fighting +3 or +4 minions.

But I also have a DM/ReGen scrapper where I took Tough instead of IH, and I don't regret it one bit - IH is too situational, if I need a panic button I can MoG.

Tough protects you from from Lethal/Smashing damage, which is the most common form of damage in the game, and therefor much more useful in my eyes. Many times it has taken the sting from what could have been a 2 shot death.

[ QUOTE ]
Wouldn't Peacebringer Combat Flight work at protecting knockback/down, seeing as it just makes you spin?

[/ QUOTE ]

You know what, I've never tried it, will give it a go and let you know - my one concern is its to slow and cumbersome for fast paced Melee action (especially with the knockback from Radiant).

You didn't say what level you currently are, I found each decade of levels required almost a different build - 20 to 30 equally split tri-form, in the 30's its much more human and the 40's its going to be Human and Dwarf (only just reaching this). Just a couple of comments

1) Triple slot both health and endurance.

2) Add recharges to you human attacks, especially Radiant and Incandescent - along with hasten it'll give you a superb attack chain, by the time you've fired off the chain it'll be ready to go again - each of mine is 1x accuracy, 3x damage, 2x recharge and its devastating

3) Drop Quantum Flight, it’s an endurance guzzler and you could use the slots elsewhere - I'd personally take Stealth and squeeze SS in somehow.

4) Take Dawn Strike at 32 - Its much more useful than Photon Seekers, which are slow and have very dire accuracy (That’s even if they hit anything).

5) I never bothered with Restore Essence - unless you die a lot it’s a power you'll rarely use and you could choose something much more useful.

6) I mostly agree with Jiaozy and Faultline on the Nova - Rather than the ToHits Buffs, I'd add them as accuracies to the AoE's. I would keep the attacks 3x slotted for damage, with the exception of Nova Bolt as its such a weak attack, instead I'd add 2 recharges to the AoE's.

The biggest problem with Human form is its very susceptible to knock back, which is rife in the higher levels, so you may also consider working in Acrobatics - I never did this at 34, and now at 39, its a very long slog to 44

When it comes to respec'ing, the test server really is your best friend

Oo and me..

Name: Miss Genesis
AT: Controller
Primary: Illusion
Secondary: Force Field
Ancillary: Stone Mastery