Global_DJB

Hi.

Let me prefix this by saying that any you/ye here is a general you/ye.

While I do appreciate the effort that a number of you put into these CoP runs, I really wish you all would be more upfront about what is and isn't welcome.

Tonight for example there are still repeated calls in chans for 'anyone welcome' even though teams were already quite full and there are people standing around. There are more people in waiting than space on the 3 teams yet here at 20.20 in chan ya'll are asking for more people.

I gotta say that sitting in Pocket D for 20 min and not getting a team while others sail in 20 min after recruiting starts and get straight into team really does not make me think well of the whole endeavour.

I know, I know teams need 'balance' and all that but I really wish you'd at least update your calls to be whatever you'll take ONLY. At least then the rest of us who don't fit whatever balance you decide you need on each team don't waste time standing around. Last call in chans was at 20.25, teams were filled and it kicked off at 20.26. People who had been waiting since before 8 were still left standing around DJ Zero.

Everyone isn't welcome, please please stop advertising so

*edit for bad spelling

Anyone got an i19 (or even semi recent) dark/dark build? Hitting late 30s and I'm pretty sure I could improve my build quite a bit. Ta!

I moved from US to EU when the EU launched. I know my account names and stuff are the same. I did character transfers - the whole lot. I have my shiny Passport badge. Can I get all my old toons back?

I hope, by the way, that they aren't going to open the Passport badge to everyone. To me, it's just like veteran's badges and shouldn't be something people can get. Just my two cents/pence on that though.

Hi folks.

I recently came back to the game and rolled my first Mastermind. Demons and Poison sounded liked a good fun combo and so I rolled one up. I'm at 35 now and enjoying playing it a lot... knowing what I know now I'd have gone with something as a secondary but as I said, I'm enjoying playing it

I'm currently only IO'd up. I'm looking in another window about slotting at least some basic pet sets in the mid 30s and seeing what I can get into the Poison slots. End is a HUGE issue for me. I've just respeced out everything from Demons that isn't actually Demon powers and lash and am building up Leadership and Medicine for support. So I'm going to look for some cheap sets to put in there for the run to 50.

I've taken a look back and can't find a Demons/Poison thread and I'm not sure the sets that I've seen in threads for other/Poison are always comparable. So I'd appreciate it a lot if someone had a build for me to take a look at.

Thanks in advance!

Alright, thanks again all. I'm looking through some options in Mids and pricing things up on the market (wow some prices have really gone up!). I got a purple drop earlier today so I've an good few extra million to chuck into this which is nice.

One question strikes now; can I chuck Blessing of the Zephyr: Knockback Protection into Sprints? Using the example build above, I'd rather slot Sprint for the bonus set there and simply take something - anything - else instead of SJ. No problems doubling Hover and Combat Jumping as suggested too.

Alrighty, thank you very much for that.

I had never considered Leadership for a predominantly solo toon. I'm somewhat surprised not to see Hasten in there though I suspect it's become much less of an absolute must have now compared to several years ago.

That's going to be 10 toggles? The Cardial Alpha sounds about right, along with a chunk of blues

So do the levels of IOs not make a difference? Instead of all 50s there are lots of lower levels in here (and I see this all over the place in builds now) so I'm guessing the answer is that it doesn't make a difference or that the set bonus makes up for any difference.

I'm gonna go and chuck the basics of this into a build and have a gander through the marketplace for a price idea.

Appreciate the help!

How did you get it fixed? I cannot log in. I'm given the unable to connect to login server message and cannot get any further.

I take it the server status on the website isn't to be trusted? It shows everything up but nothing shows in the game.

My main is a Kat/DA/BM. It made sense when I read about all the powers way back when but less and less as I went on. Were it a new toon I'd have given up long ago but he's my first and my main. He made the move over from the US servers a long time ago and has some nice older badges so I keep him and want to keep him up to date.

I have a feeling from having a look through the boards and just looking at other's powers in game and see some chat about IOs and stuff that this is perhaps not a very good build. I've been okay with that, it's done me well over the years but I'm looking to sort it out now.

So thank you kindly in advance for any suggestions and advice and for not laughing too much….

- Please ignore all slot placing. This was from a 50 respec and plainly isn't designed for lower level stuff. I should I suppose fix that for Ouroboros and older TFs but that's really not a priority for me now. Looking for a strong 50 and I'll play all the the lower stuff with the growing army of alts.

- I want to survive. I do pretty well on this build. I've run STF without dying, I can do a full MSR without dying (I don't know if this is normal - it didn't use to be!). I can tank reasonably well (and the dark heal certainly doesn't hurt). The IO sets were mainly picked for regen bonus. Soft caps and working things like that just hurt my head (though if anyone had a handy guide link that would be appreciated too) I'm much more likely to look at an IO set and think "oh cool if I slot 4 I get x and y and z that's what I want" at no point will I even think about working out if I'm not getting the benefit of the IOs themselves.

- I don't like SJ. I hate the jumping powers and so I skip the pool on every toon. I suppose I could take the set to get CJ and Acrobatics - KB protection would be quite nice but it feels a bit wrong. I would like to keep SS and Fly just because I like them.

- I've just done a respec to make fitness inherent and that's left me with at least an extra power choice - my attacks cycle fast enough that I don't need another. Ignore the heal other, that was really just to fill a slot and was a bit silly. That's why some things here may look even more off.

- I don't use Kick at all, having to watch the katana being drawn again annoys me A LOT. Just looking around though, is it worth slotting it (and I've seen brawl slotted in a build or two) just to get more sets in.

- I picked BM for conserve power. End was always a big issue but it's less and less now. I like Laser eyes and having a ranged attack is nice for that final runner. I put PP in with this respec, I suspect I'm overdoing it and I'm not attacked to having this as my Epic.

- The standard back when was to triple slot health and stamina, is that also overdoing it?

- I use to run this on unyielding, what should I be aiming to run at now? +3 should be fine, ideally I'd like extra enemies for more drops along the way.

- I have a fair amount of cash. I can probably throw 500 million into fixing this and I have some respecs available, I understand I also have a second and third build available and I really like the idea of testing stuff in there but not to kit out multiple builds, at least not just yet.

- If you want more comedy I'll post my Emp Def build over in the right forum sometime soon.

- Last but my no means least, what's my best Incarnate option?


Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.91
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Douro: Level 50 Magic Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Katana
Secondary Power Set: Dark Armor
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Medicine
Ancillary Pool: Body Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Sting of the Wasp

• (A) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage
• (3) Mako's Bite - Damage/Endurance
• (3) Mako's Bite - Damage/Recharge
• (5) Mako's Bite - Chance of Damage(Lethal)

Level 1: Dark Embrace

• (A) Aegis - Psionic/Status Resistance
• (5) Aegis - Resistance
• (7) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
• (7) Endurance Reduction

Level 2: Flashing Steel

• (A) Scirocco's Dervish - Chance of Damage(Lethal)
• (9) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Recharge
• (9) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage
• (11) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Endurance
• (11) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge

Level 4: Murky Cloud

• (A) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
• (13) Titanium Coating - Resistance
• (13) Titanium Coating - Endurance
• (15) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Recharge
• (15) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge

Level 6: Hasten

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
• (17) Recharge Reduction IO
• (17) Recharge Reduction IO

Level 8: Build Up

• (A) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff
• (19) Adjusted Targeting - Recharge
• (19) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Recharge

Level 10: Obsidian Shield

• (A) Aegis - Resistance
• (21) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
• (21) Aegis - Resistance/Recharge
• (23) Aegis - Endurance/Recharge
• (23) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge

Level 12: Hover

• (A) Empty

Level 14: Super Speed

• (A) Quickfoot - RunSpeed

Level 16: Dark Regeneration

• (A) Touch of the Nictus - Healing
• (25) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Healing
• (25) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Endurance/Heal/HitPoints/Regeneration
• (27) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance
• (27) Numina's Convalescence - Endurance/Recharge
• (29) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Recharge

Level 18: The Lotus Drops

• (A) Cleaving Blow - Accuracy/Damage
• (29) Cleaving Blow - Damage/Endurance
• (31) Cleaving Blow - Damage/Recharge
• (31) Cleaving Blow - Accuracy/Recharge
• (31) Undermined Defenses - Defense Debuff/Endurance
• (33) Undermined Defenses - Defense Debuff/Recharge/Endurance

Level 20: Fly

• (A) Freebird - +Stealth

Level 22: Kick

• (A) Empty

Level 24: Tough

• (A) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Recharge
• (33) Titanium Coating - Resistance
• (33) Titanium Coating - Endurance
• (34) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
• (34) Titanium Coating - Endurance/Recharge
• (34) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance

Level 26: Soaring Dragon

• (A) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage
• (36) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance
• (36) Crushing Impact - Damage/Recharge
• (36) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
• (37) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
• (37) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance/Recharge

Level 28: Weave

• (A) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance
• (37) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge
• (39) Red Fortune - Endurance/Recharge
• (39) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
• (39) Red Fortune - Defense
• (40) Red Fortune - Endurance

Level 30: Cloak of Darkness

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
• (40) Luck of the Gambler - Endurance/Recharge
• (40) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge

Level 32: Golden Dragonfly

• (A) Multi Strike - Accuracy/Damage
• (42) Multi Strike - Damage/Endurance
• (42) Multi Strike - Damage/Recharge
• (42) Multi Strike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
• (43) Multi Strike - Accuracy/Endurance
• (43) Multi Strike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge

Level 35: Divine Avalanche

• (A) Damage Increase IO
• (43) Recharge Reduction IO
• (45) Empty
• (45) Empty

Level 38: Aid Other

• (A) Empty

Level 41: Focused Accuracy

• (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance
• (45) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance
• (46) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff

Level 44: Physical Perfection

• (A) Empty
• (46) Empty

Level 47: Conserve Power

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO

Level 49: Laser Beam Eyes

• (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
• (50) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge
• (50) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance
• (50) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage

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Level 1: Brawl

• (A) Empty

Level 1: Sprint

• (A) Quickfoot - RunSpeed

Level 2: Rest

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO

Level 1: Critical Hit
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift

• (A) Empty

Level 2: Hurdle

• (A) Jumping IO

Level 2: Health

• (A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
• (46) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
• (48) Healing IO

Level 2: Stamina

• (A) Endurance Modification IO
• (48) Endurance Modification IO
• (48) Endurance Modification IO

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Set Bonus Totals:

• 10% DamageBuff(Smashing)
• 10% DamageBuff(Lethal)
• 10% DamageBuff(Fire)
• 10% DamageBuff(Cold)
• 10% DamageBuff(Energy)
• 10% DamageBuff(Negative)
• 10% DamageBuff(Toxic)
• 10% DamageBuff(Psionic)
• 2.188% Defense(Smashing)
• 2.188% Defense(Lethal)
• 10.31% Defense(Fire)
• 10.31% Defense(Cold)
• 5% Defense(Energy)
• 5% Defense(Negative)
• 4.375% Defense(Melee)
• 4.375% Defense(Ranged)
• 11.25% Defense(AoE)
• 10% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
• 32% Enhancement(Accuracy)
• 5% FlySpeed
• 165.65 HP (12.37%) HitPoints
• 5% JumpHeight
• 5% JumpSpeed
• MezResist(Held) 5.5%
• MezResist(Immobilize) 7.7%
• MezResist(Sleep) 6.05%
• MezResist(Stun) 6.05%
• 3% (0.05 End/sec) Recovery
• 44% (2.46 HP/sec) Regeneration
• 2.205% Resistance(Fire)
• 2.205% Resistance(Cold)
• 1.26% Resistance(Energy)
• 4.385% Resistance(Negative)
• 5.5% Resistance(Psionic)
• 15% RunSpeed
• 2.5% XPDebtProtection

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Set Bonuses:
Mako's Bite
(Sting of the Wasp)

• MezResist(Immobilize) 3.3%
• 20.08 HP (1.5%) HitPoints
• 3% DamageBuff(All)

Aegis
(Dark Embrace)

• 5% RunSpeed
• 3.125% Defense(Fire,Cold), 1.563% Defense(AoE)
• 3% Resistance(Psionic)

Scirocco's Dervish
(Flashing Steel)

• 10% (0.559 HP/sec) Regeneration
• 3.125% Resistance(Negative)
• 9% Enhancement(Accuracy)
• 3.125% Defense(AoE), 1.563% Defense(Fire), 1.563% Defense(Cold)

Titanium Coating
(Murky Cloud)

• MezResist(Sleep) 2.2%
• 20.08 HP (1.5%) HitPoints
• MezResist(Stun) 2.2%
• MezResist(Held) 2.75%

Adjusted Targeting
(Build Up)

• 2% DamageBuff(All)
• 1.26% Resistance(Energy,Negative)

Aegis
(Obsidian Shield)

• 5% RunSpeed
• 3.125% Defense(Fire,Cold), 1.563% Defense(AoE)
• 2.5% XPDebtProtection
• 3.125% Defense(AoE), 1.563% Defense(Fire), 1.563% Defense(Cold)

Touch of the Nictus
(Dark Regeneration)

• 25.1 HP (1.874%) HitPoints
• 9% Enhancement(Accuracy)

Numina's Convalescence
(Dark Regeneration)

• 12% (0.671 HP/sec) Regeneration
• 25.1 HP (1.874%) HitPoints

Cleaving Blow
(The Lotus Drops)

• 1% (0.017 End/sec) Recovery
• 1.25% Defense(Energy,Negative), 0.625% Defense(Ranged)
• 1% DamageBuff(All)

Undermined Defenses
(The Lotus Drops)

• 2% DamageBuff(All)

Titanium Coating
(Tough)

• MezResist(Sleep) 2.2%
• 20.08 HP (1.5%) HitPoints
• MezResist(Stun) 2.2%
• MezResist(Held) 2.75%
• 2.5% Defense(Melee), 1.25% Defense(Lethal), 1.25% Defense(Smashing)

Crushing Impact
(Soaring Dragon)

• MezResist(Immobilize) 2.2%
• 15.06 HP (1.125%) HitPoints
• 7% Enhancement(Accuracy)
• 5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
• 2.5% Resistance(Psionic)

Red Fortune
(Weave)

• MezResist(Immobilize) 2.2%
• 1.26% Resistance(Fire,Cold)
• 2% DamageBuff(All)
• 5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
• 2.5% Defense(Ranged), 1.25% Defense(Energy), 1.25% Defense(Negative)

Luck of the Gambler
(Cloak of Darkness)

• 10% (0.559 HP/sec) Regeneration
• 15.06 HP (1.125%) HitPoints

Multi Strike
(Golden Dragonfly)

• MezResist(Sleep) 1.65%
• 0.945% Resistance(Fire,Cold)
• MezResist(Stun) 1.65%
• 1.875% Defense(AoE), 0.938% Defense(Fire), 0.938% Defense(Cold)
• 1.875% Defense(Melee), 0.938% Defense(Lethal), 0.938% Defense(Smashing)

Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control
(Focused Accuracy)

• 5% JumpSpeed, 5% JumpHeight, 5% FlySpeed, 5% RunSpeed
• 25.1 HP (1.874%) HitPoints

Thunderstrike
(Laser Beam Eyes)

• 2% (0.033 End/sec) Recovery
• 2.5% Defense(Energy,Negative), 1.25% Defense(Ranged)
• 7% Enhancement(Accuracy)

Numina's Convalescence
(Health)

• 12% (0.671 HP/sec) Regeneration

Thanks for reading!!!

Finding Union to be unplayable at the moment. Constant map servers

I can't make this evening but I've heard tails of an 8 strong WS/PB AOE team hunting and levelling so fast. Would love to try it out at some stage!

I've never looked for a SG, I have one with a small group of friends.

However Union Badgehunters has helped me so many times and not just with badging. There is always something going on and always people happy to help, share mishes or whatever.

So I dunno what server you must be actually logged into, it can't be Union!

I'd really like to get into a Hami raid. Never managed to get one done.

Love to get a TF or two done over the weekend. Got a 38 scrapper I'd like to get closer to 40.

So I'm a Katana DA level 38 scapper. I've come back after a while off (and transfered from the US). Just getting a handle on this ED stuff which for me seems to have mainly affected health and stamina and I should reduce the damage in all my attacks to 3 instead of 4.

Any build advice please

While I'm here any good non RPG SG on Union?

Cheers