Larac

Just a QR before I have mine:

Hear hear.

I've been her 4yrs and apart from build discussion, there is nothing on these boards I want to get into.

I tell new plays we meet in game or get to join to sign up to our coalition forums and stear well clear of these ones.

6 slotted flurry?
dirty dirty dirty. /jk

You could loose 3-5% def for mele & aoe without noticing in almost all situations, including against AV's.

For my DM/SR I've just copied werner's build for av soloing, it makes a nicish team build but you have to pick your targets etc as having no mele cone or aoe's your pure single target. How ever you can dance around most AV's, GM etc without taking a scratch.
Oh and 1 sec off perma-hasten. But it's not exactly cheep, (I need 2 lotg's and the hetacomb proc to complete.

I'm respec'ing my 2nd build into a softcapped more natural build tonight, if it works I'll post it up.

Or werner's build:

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.401
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Level 50 Magic Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Dark Melee
Secondary Power Set: Super Reflexes
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Speed
Ancillary Pool: Body Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Smite <ul type="square">[*] (A) Hecatomb - Damage[*] (3) Hecatomb - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge[*] (3) Hecatomb - Accuracy/Recharge[*] (5) Hecatomb - Damage/Endurance[*] (5) Hecatomb - Chance of Damage(Negative)[*] (7) Endurance Reduction IO[/list]Level 1: Focused Fighting <ul type="square">[*] (A) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance[*] (7) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge[*] (9) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge[*] (9) Red Fortune - Defense[*] (11) Red Fortune - Endurance[*] (11) Kismet - Accuracy +6%[/list]Level 2: Focused Senses <ul type="square">[*] (A) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance[*] (13) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge[*] (13) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge[*] (15) Red Fortune - Defense[*] (15) Red Fortune - Endurance[/list]Level 4: Agile <ul type="square">[*] (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed[*] (17) Luck of the Gambler - Defense[*] (19) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge[/list]Level 6: Swift <ul type="square">[*] (A) Run Speed IO[/list]Level 8: Siphon Life <ul type="square">[*] (A) HamiO:Nucleolus Exposure[*] (17) HamiO:Golgi Exposure[*] (19) Hecatomb - Damage/Recharge[*] (21) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance[*] (21) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Recharge[*] (23) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance/Recharge[/list]Level 10: Practiced Brawler <ul type="square">[*] (A) Endurance Reduction IO[/list]Level 12: Kick <ul type="square">[*] (A) Empty[/list]Level 14: Health <ul type="square">[*] (A) Regenerative Tissue - +Regeneration[*] (23) Miracle - +Recovery[*] (25) Miracle - Heal[*] (25) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery[*] (27) Numina's Convalescence - Heal[*] (27) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Recharge[/list]Level 16: Dodge <ul type="square">[*] (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed[*] (29) Luck of the Gambler - Defense[*] (31) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge[/list]Level 18: Tough <ul type="square">[*] (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%[*] (31) Titanium Coating - Resistance[*] (31) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance[*] (33) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge[/list]Level 20: Stamina <ul type="square">[*] (A) Performance Shifter - EndMod[*] (29) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge[*] (33) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy[*] (33) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge[*] (34) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End[/list]Level 22: Weave <ul type="square">[*] (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed[*] (34) Luck of the Gambler - Defense[*] (36) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance[/list]Level 24: Maneuvers <ul type="square">[*] (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed[*] (36) Luck of the Gambler - Defense[*] (36) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance[*] (37) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge[/list]Level 26: Tactics <ul type="square">[*] (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff[*] (37) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge[*] (37) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance[*] (39) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Recharge/Endurance[*] (39) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance[*] (39) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up[/list]Level 28: Lucky <ul type="square">[*] (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed[*] (40) Luck of the Gambler - Defense[*] (40) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge[/list]Level 30: Soul Drain <ul type="square">[*] (A) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge[*] (40) Armageddon - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge[*] (42) Armageddon - Accuracy/Recharge[*] (42) Armageddon - Damage/Endurance[*] (42) Armageddon - Chance for Fire Damage[/list]Level 32: Midnight Grasp <ul type="square">[*] (A) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance/Recharge[*] (34) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge[*] (43) Mako's Bite - Damage/Endurance[*] (43) Mako's Bite - Damage/Recharge[*] (43) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge[*] (45) Mako's Bite - Chance of Damage(Lethal)[/list]Level 35: Evasion <ul type="square">[*] (A) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance[*] (45) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge[*] (46) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge[*] (46) Red Fortune - Defense[*] (46) Red Fortune - Endurance[/list]Level 38: Hasten <ul type="square">[*] (A) Recharge Reduction IO[*] (48) Recharge Reduction IO[*] (48) Recharge Reduction IO[/list]Level 41: Conserve Power <ul type="square">[*] (A) Recharge Reduction IO[*] (48) Recharge Reduction IO[/list]Level 44: Laser Beam Eyes <ul type="square">[*] (A) Apocalypse - Damage/Recharge[*] (45) Apocalypse - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge[*] (50) Apocalypse - Accuracy/Recharge[*] (50) Apocalypse - Damage/Endurance[*] (50) Apocalypse - Chance of Damage(Negative)[/list]Level 47: Quickness <ul type="square">[*] (A) Run Speed IO[/list]Level 49: Dark Consumption <ul type="square">[*] (A) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge[/list]------------
Level 1: Brawl <ul type="square">[*] (A) Empty[/list]Level 1: Sprint <ul type="square">[*] (A) Run Speed IO[/list]Level 2: Rest <ul type="square">[*] (A) Empty[/list]Level 1: Critical Hit
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[u]Set Bonus Totals:[u]<ul type="square">[*]18% DamageBuff(Smashing)[*]18% DamageBuff(Lethal)[*]18% DamageBuff(Fire)[*]18% DamageBuff(Cold)[*]18% DamageBuff(Energy)[*]18% DamageBuff(Negative)[*]18% DamageBuff(Toxic)[*]18% DamageBuff(Psionic)[*]4.25% Defense(Smashing)[*]4.25% Defense(Lethal)[*]4.25% Defense(Fire)[*]4.25% Defense(Cold)[*]4.25% Defense(Energy)[*]4.25% Defense(Negative)[*]3% Defense(Psionic)[*]5.5% Defense(Melee)[*]5.5% Defense(Ranged)[*]5.5% Defense(AoE)[*]39% Enhancement(Accuracy)[*]82.5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)[*]10% FlySpeed[*]256 HP (19.1%) HitPoints[*]10% JumpHeight[*]10% JumpSpeed[*]MezResist(Immobilize) 12.1%[*]MezResist(Sleep) 2.2%[*]15.5% (0.26 End/sec) Recovery[*]90% (5.03 HP/sec) Regeneration[*]8.82% Resistance(Fire)[*]8.82% Resistance(Cold)[*]10% RunSpeed[/list]

Dual builds FTW.

My DM/SR expensive soling build sucks for team play as no travel power, 3 mele attacks all ST and nothing remotely team friendly.

Hey guys, my WP/SS tank is an hour or two from lvl50 and I want to respec into a final build.

I will use the tank for TFs and freak farming. So either a build for both or a cheep farming build and a money no object TF build.

I already have most of the uniques (numina, regen tissue, kismet, steadfast +def) and a fair number of purples.

The issue I have when working with mids is I very quickly hit the cap on bonus's so some out of the box thinking would more than welcome.

DM/Shield is easy to softcap, but it suffers from having much less resistance to def-debuffs, so agains a lot of things you softcap will fall away quite rapidly.

Thanks for the big up TRT, I have taken a grad total of 2 AV's with Dagar (DM/DA/BM). Battle-Maiden and Black Scorpion. I had to use empowerment buffs to do it along with a bucket of insps.

My DM/SR is going to be my AV basher when I have the inf for the full build.

I would go for DM over all the rest due to it having a heal as part of the attack chain. If you have enough +recharge (ie perma-hasten) you can go Smite -&gt; siphon Life -&gt; midnight grasp, rinse repete.

All the others will have to use aid self when they get hit (and it will be a when). This can still be iterupted even with the best slotting. Some av's have auto hits or un-typed attacks which can sometimes get through.

Claws and Fire will have higher base dps, but DM can keep a constant stream of attacks up.

claws/sr is the most common AV soloer going.
If you want a challenge, make DB/SR. Entirely workable and a bit unusual.

All of these will need a bucket of IOs though

Hi mate.

PM'd you.

Found it:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....=3#Post12987520

With MA coming soon you'll be able to add a fair bit of difficulty.

Oh and btw what exactly is the RWZ challenge?

There's a huge post about this in the soloing pylons post on the US boards.

I think there is also one purely to do with DPS calcs

I'll find a link.

I have been thinking of dropping Foc Acc and taking tictacs instead. But I already have 4 power pools so would have to loose CJ.

You can try WP with an supidly expensive build, but a cheap stone tank will survive plenty well enough. The anvantage with WP is you can move....

Having said that, there is a place for INV.

For DM/SR win see: http://uk.youtube.com/WernerCoH

It is like cheating.

I plan on using an adjusted Sergei build from Werner for my DM/SR which only has 3 mele attacks and LBE. Just waiting to get the rest of the required IOs.

I might try dual Building Dagar to try and get a second build with 35+% defence to see if it's workable.

Sounds like it's worth having to me.

13mths to go....

At a rough guess a bucket-o-inf....

Having said that, using titanium coating instead of impervium would reduce the cost by 150-200mil

Although studying that build more, how does the attck chain play nightmarer? I assume you have to used the ranged attacks in mele?
I've got 1 more pure attack, 33% global recharge and hasten. I still get the ocasional gap in my attack chain.

Oh and good job on the thread necro

Here's an update on what I'm running now. But big changing coming next week or two. Mainly the addition of 11 purples.

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

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Level 50 Magic Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Dark Melee
Secondary Power Set: Dark Armor
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Body Mastery

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I would be interested in the heal farm over night.

Dagar has the required gladiators.

You can get hold of me @Dagar or via Justa Girl as BK is on a lot more than me.

Hope it works out for you.

Give me a shout in game and maybe we ca sort a coalition for you.

If you splash the INF you can softcap a SR brute reasonably easily without gimping the build.
If you are on a tight budget you may have to make sacrifices.

Welcome back Mr Marvellous.

I don't miss much. The odd person here or there but then it's easy enough to find a new group to hang with.

Oh and new players....

[ QUOTE ]
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On the topic of obscure IO icons, what does a rock with a rainbow over it have to do with Ragnarok ?

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Presumably the Bifrost Bridge, joining Midgard and Asgard, which will be destroyed at Ragnorok.

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way way too sensible.

I thought it looked like some kind of giant multicolored banana stuck in coffee icecream.....

Can you not buy a key off of the plaync site and let him know it? or will they only let you apply it to the account of the person who buys it?

I bought one once from gamersloot.net for a mate who was skint. They emailed it to me about 3hrs later. Although their site is now showing certificate errors so I would treat with caution.

Dagar took me 2 years and about 1300hrs, but he was started back when /DA was blinding difficult to work with at low levels. Must be coming up to 2500hrs now.
Larac was 800hrs
Dagar Blonstaff took me 130hrs
Rian my was about 65hrs
Micky Serendipity my WP/SS tank in on course to take just over 60hrs too.

What sort of time did the pylon take you?

I can do the DPS to take one on my DM/DA, but like most AVs being rez based I can't take them without purple insps.