Maximilliean

Oh that is outstanding. I told my boss it was a mental health day.

Wow you had a lvl 40 Mastermind back before issue 1? That's amazing considering it City of Villians came out between issues 6 and 7. Could you possibly tell me what issue Masterminds, or villians in general for that matter, got Empathy for a secondary??

You are a Slinky.

Considering he confessed his plan to take friday off so he can "pack" and play "some" CoH during dbl xp weekend. I can't believe someone would take friday off just for dbl xp.

*fills out vacation request form*
What??? I have very important umm......things to do on friday.

with a stick

That is so true.

I also suggest going with AR instead of archery. It is insane what an AR/Traps can do on a team. All the cones and AoEs means lots of orange numbers. Once you get to the epic pools it just gets more fun after you add the web envelope.

I would also suggest Concealment, super speed, stealth IO combo. It lets you ghost through missions and plan how you want to handle the mobs. It also , in most cases, will let you "toe bomb" them as well.

I also suggest the medicine pool, not really for the stimulate or aid other, but the aid self. After you drop your "toe bomb" the ones that survive will tend to be really pissed at you.

Another fun tactic I like to use is the corner pull into a mine field. Setup a couple of trip mines (usually 2 or 3) right off the point of a corner. Depending on the mob I might throw down a PGT, mortar, and/or caltrops. Then step around the corner and fire into the group, I have been using M30 for this since its a waste when you end up pulling one guy. Followed by quickly ducking back behimnd the corner. The big explosion followed by bodies flopping all over the place usually means success. Then its just mopping up the rest. You can also use a "toe bomb" to start this. Run to the edge of the group or middle if you have a clear path back to your mine field corner while using Super Speed and Concealment. Drop your land mine and start running for your corner. Normally you will have a couple of seconds between dropping the land mine and the mob actually setting it off. If it was close enough you should have time to make it back to the corner before they trip the toe bomb and chase you down....right into your mine field.


Its not always the easiest combo to play but it damn sure is alot of fun.

Pojo the Clown(Lvl45 AR/Traps/Mace Corrupter)

Ok Theres a couple of things I want to point out with your build that I would want to change.

1. According to Mids with all your toggles running your spending 2.63 endurance per second and with stamina and set your regaining 2.63 endurance per second. Which means you will end up burning right through your endurance once you start attacking and the 90 seconds between the time you run out and it takes for consume to recharge will seem like an eternity. You need to reslot for more endurance reduction on the toogles, be very selective to the ones you run, or drop a couple completely.

2. I would drop the fighting pool. There are better ways to spend slots for these. A couple of suggestions, hasten (will help recharge your powers faster, but means you will burn through end faster) and Super Speed (SS + stealth IO = invisible to most MoBs until you damage them.) Medicine pool is a good one too. Aid self with 2 heal SOs is roughly 1/3 your life, with 2 SO recharges its ready about every 11 secs.

3. You may want to consider dropping blazing aura and/or Hot Feet. Both of them have a nasty way of drawing agro away from the tank and on to you. Of course all of the AOE damage will have the same effect but it would be easier for you to let the tank grab the agro then run in and drop your AOEs, hopefully killing everything in the process.

4. I would drop Ice Mastery for Fire mastery because well I have an ice tank and to be honest hoarfrost is more of a buff then a heal. If thats why you took it the Medicine pool would be better. Snow Storm is a cool (no pun intended) but its a rather large end drain and if you keep hot feet it's over kill on the slow. Why fire mastery? Bonfire drop it at your feet if your surrounded/in trouble, block doorways, trap mobs in a corner. Using it properly and tanks will love you. Char, sweet fast activating hold. Fire Shield, Reisitance shield the way I look at it is defence is nice they might miss you but it really hurt when they hit... and you will get hit. Rise of the Pheonix, self rez because well your a blaster you will die and because you are an AOE blaster you will die and finally because your a Fire Manipulation blaster you will die.

That's all I can think of at the moment I will try to work up my own build and post it for people to offer thei suggestions later. I hadn't thought of this combo before but it looks hot and totally rad (ok I admit it that one was intended).

From South Jersey - live in Virginia now.