Hajime

Thanks for that! I know very little about IO sets and just assumed they were all ridiculously expensive, some of this sounds affordable and I will give it a shot.

Hi all,

I have a lvl 50 SS/ELA/MM brute that I would like some advice on. This is my main villain-side and I am not massive on alts so will be using her for all my red-side activity (so she needs to be well rounded and not just built for something like farming/AVs etc...)

I do not get to spend that much time playing CoX anymore so have put together a build using SOs because I don't think I have enough money to fit her out with a full set of IO sets. Feel free to give advice on IO slotting for the benefit of others or if I suddenly come into loadsa infamy

Some notes on my playstyle:

- I love jumping into mobs and spamming footstomp and ball lightning
- I love stacking Rage as much as possible (I know there is debate for and against but I like to stack)
- I hate missing, hence rage slotting and two accuracies in some powers
- I hope that between stamina, energize and power-sink I will have little/no end problems
- I hope that energize means I no longer have to take Heal Self

Could I please get some feedback on the following build? (I made a concious decision to pick powers at certain levels so I could get enough slots in powers overall, but I don't really care about when I added slots)

Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.401
http://www.cohplanner.com/

Mama Rage: Level 50 Mutation Brute
Primary Power Set: Super Strength
Secondary Power Set: Electric Armor
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Mu Mastery

Villain Profile:
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Level 1: Punch Acc(A), Acc(3), RechRdx(5), RechRdx(7), Dmg(17), Dmg(19)
Level 1: Charged Armor ResDam(A), ResDam(23), ResDam(25)
Level 2: Haymaker Acc(A), Acc(3), RechRdx(5), Dmg(7), Dmg(15), Dmg(17)
Level 4: Conductive Shield ResDam(A), ResDam(23), ResDam(25)
Level 6: Hurdle Jump(A)
Level 8: Knockout Blow Acc(A), Acc(9), RechRdx(9), Dmg(11), Dmg(11), Dmg(15)
Level 10: Static Shield ResDam(A), ResDam(27), ResDam(27)
Level 12: Hasten RechRdx(A), RechRdx(13), RechRdx(13)
Level 14: Super Speed Run(A)
Level 16: Health Heal(A), Heal(19), Heal(31)
Level 18: Rage RechRdx(A), RechRdx(31), RechRdx(31), ToHit(36), ToHit(39), ToHit(39)
Level 20: Stamina EndMod(A), EndMod(21), EndMod(21)
Level 22: Grounded ResDam(A)
Level 24: Lightning Reflexes Run(A)
Level 26: Lightning Field Acc(A), Acc(34), EndRdx(36), Dmg(36), Dmg(37), Dmg(37)
Level 28: Energize RechRdx(A), RechRdx(29), RechRdx(29)
Level 30: Boxing Acc(A)
Level 32: Foot Stomp Acc(A), RechRdx(33), RechRdx(33), Dmg(33), Dmg(34), Dmg(34)
Level 35: Power Sink RechRdx(A), RechRdx(37), RechRdx(39), EndMod(40), EndMod(40), EndMod(40)
Level 38: Power Surge RechRdx(A), RechRdx(43), RechRdx(46)
Level 41: Mu Lightning Acc(A), Acc(42), RechRdx(42), Dmg(42), Dmg(43), Dmg(43)
Level 44: Ball Lightning Acc(A), RechRdx(45), RechRdx(45), Dmg(45), Dmg(46), Dmg(46)
Level 47: Tough EndRdx(A), ResDam(48), ResDam(48), ResDam(48)
Level 49: Weave EndRdx(A), DefBuff(50), DefBuff(50), DefBuff(50)
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Level 1: Brawl Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest Empty(A)
Level 1: Fury

A big thank you for any advice/suggestions you can give.

Have a couple of semi-related questions, assuming I am going to take all other SR powers:

1. Am I better off taking the three passives from SR over boxing/tough/weave?
2. Can I hit the soft-cap without dipping into the fighting pool?

Would like to try and avoid taking fighting pool if I can help it, but if I'm going to IO out this toon I want to hit the soft-cap.

Thanks for those tips so far, I know very little about IOs at the moment, will have a play around in Mids. If anyone has advice on slotting etc please share.

At the moment I know there are certain things I would have to address in my build:

- lack of knockback/immobilisation, do I still have to rely on leaping pool here or are there an IOs sets that let me pass that?
- recharge, ideally I'll like to be able to chain throw spines, ripper and spine burst, I have hasten but if I can go without that then would consider it.
- been reading about hitting the defense soft-cap, is this possible with da?

Many thanks again.

Hey,

I've been playing CoH on and off for a long time, but my last break was over a year. I mainly play trollers but have two scrappers a claws/sr at lvl 30 and a spines/da at lvl 27.

I dusted off my scrapper earlier today and thought I'd hit the forums to see what the latest take on spines/da, is this still an awesome combo or have any changes within the last year 'broken' it?

Many thanks for any info.

Is there any way I can create the binds in text files and then use a macro to execute them? If not then ill map them to other keys or pick up a usb numpad.

Thanks.

Man I wish these awesome binds could be done using macros I play on a laptop so no numpad.