HelinCarnate

Picking nits here. The name changed, what the power does changed (never had +regen before or a heal) the end cost, recharge, duration and just about everything else changed. The only thing that stayed the same is the cast time. In addition the Conserve Power power itself remained unchanged and can still be taken on scrappers or tanks with the body mastery pool.

Yes they indeed did replace a power.

Going to have to say yes and no. On my main, I have one build for farming and high end content. I use only my tier 9 attack (footstomp) and patron powers in an attack chain. However if I were to take that same build down to level 25 it would still be pretty durable, but a pain in the hindquarters to use. With only jab slotted with stun duration purples and KO blow for attacks I would do a whole lot of sitting around waiting.

Now granted I have invested a several times more funds to my farming build compared to my "leveling" build, but it is still alot more fun to mal/exemp down and have an attack chain instead of just 1 or 2 attacks.

On my other toons, if I do have a second build it would be for solo vs team play. Dropping targeted heals and shields on a thermal, in favor of more attacks for example. And both sets would be able to be used at any level.

SS/ something brute with Mu patron pool.

Or any brute for that matter. Mu has 2 AOE attacks and a cone.

You could even really mess with people and have your "AoE" toon Energy Melee if you felt like it.

Have to agree with Candlestick. Rage is what makes SS great. You get +80% damage to everything. While FCS does to slightly more damage vs FS with rage, many people forget to factor in the bonus damage to patron AOE attacks like Ball lightning and Elec Fences when they compare sets.

Also there is that extra 5' range on FS that many seem to dismiss as well.

Don't need HOs for mind link. IOs will work as well to enhance recharge. Just need seperate sets of Def/Recharge and you are set.

When I need the very best there is; when I have to absolutely positively kill every mo-fo in the room, I accept no substitutes. My SS/WP brute.

Have to disagree with you on that one. Some say oppressive gloom is great for /Dark scrappers. I had it and didn't like it and never missed it. On the same maps with the same mobs with the same sized spawns, my health bar went down faster with it on than with it off. Could be because I had a high defense build and normally would fight several mobs at once. Mobs were still not hitting me either way but I was taking damage from them being stunned as well.

Now there are some powers that just plain should not be skipped but you will never get a 100% agreement on what those powers are.

True, but if you are lvl 40 and don't have TT manuvers yet, you have issues. You are either ignorant or stupid. The former can be fixed but you just cant fix stupid.

Ok, time to watch my rep go in the tank. I'm in the minority here to a point. I would kick somoene for not having ceartain powers at higher levels.

Examples are:
Any bubbler without bubbles.
A kin without FS. No SB is ok in my book but it would be nice to have.
Any scrapper, tank, brute or stalker that did not take mez protection.
Any MM without pets.
Any Defender with only one attack.
Any VEAT that did not take TT:Manuvers.

Now with that being said, let me qualify my position a bit. Bubblers without bubbles I would ask them if they have a second build better suited for teams, if not, bye bye after the mission.

In addition, I would not kick a newer player with only a few vet badges for those reasons. I would try to educate them on better options. However if they have 3 years + of vet badges, to me this tells me they either purchased the account from someone else, are borrowing the account from somone else, or they do not know how to play the game even with 3 years of practice. And I just don't want to have to deal with any of those types of people. Even if you have never played a certain AT or played very little, after 3+ years of being on teams with others, you should be able to pick up what is needed to be successful.

Sometimes I will do an "accidental" misstell on purpose. Just out of the blue for no good reason Ill say stuff in coalition chat like "OMG I know what you mean. (X coalition member name) can do great things with his tounge."


Oops MT.

No thank you. The accepting the fortune thing is annoying enough. I do not wish to get a pop up every time someone casts a buff on me. What would happen is that most everyone would set it up to auto accept the buffs anyway and every time they did a CC they would have to go in and change their settings. Sorry, just easier to move the CC to studio B than it would be to make this change.

/unsigned

Now I could go for an option where you could turn off all buff visuals. That way only the judges would have to change their settings and would help some with ancient computers with no graphics cards.

My 1st 50 was a Claw/Regen scrapper. I went from that to my 2nd 50 - Spine/Dark scrapper. Quite a bit of a shock for a while. But I stuck with it. This was back in the days before IOs. I did a couple respecs with trying out ToF and OG and decided to skip them both. I also had accrobatics to prevent KB. I really did not have any endurance issues. All attacks had an end redux in them and the higher end toggles had 2 end redux.

Sure I would still run out of end in a hurry, but I also killed just about everything quite fast so it evened out. If I needed to catch up on my blue bar I could run to the next spawn, use ripper for mitigation and let my damage toggles do the rest. This was on the highest difficulty at the time and I still ended up hearding spawns together so I would not be wasting my aoe potential.

Once IOs came out it was even easier once I had numina slotted.

Yes, overall DA uses a bit more endurance compared to other sets but it is nothing that is unplayable. All just depends on your playstyle. Maybe it is because I acutally use all inspirations frequently and not just when the poo hits the fan, who knows.