PhroX

Scrapper focus or brute focus?

I don't do those things either. Nothing to do with thinking I need tanks or healers. I don't do them cos they're boring and charging in madly is way more fun. And given how easy the majority of CoH's content is, I'd argue that those people who bother with things like pulling are the n00bs*


*yes, there are odd times when it's useful. But the majority of the time, when someone says "lets pull", it seems to me to be because they come from other games where the thought of a team fighting 20+ mobs without dying is anathema, and are just wasting time.

Not worth it. Slow sets don't have great bonuses, and are short on recharge. Save the slots.

Personally, I say it's very much an optional power. Assuming 3 rech in TP and 2 in FS (a sensible amount), it'll knock off about 12 and 6 seconds respectively. Nice, but not essential. And of course, the more +rech set bonuses you add, the less the bonus from hasten becomes (+rech has diminishing returns due to the mechanics of it)

My general feeling is that it's OK, but again, not essential on a D3. While taking out a troublesome minion or LT can be great, once you've dropped your other controls and debuffs on them, not much is troublesome. If you've got another hold somewhere it's nice for the easy stacking on bosses, but alone, it's not a priority power.

It's funny, but I almost feel the opposite on DN. At high levels, you steamroll most stuff so DN is only really worth using against AVs/GMs, while at low levels "normal" fights tend to last longer (as people don't have their full set of powers and they aren't slotted), so you've got time to get DN up and take full advantage of it. Hence why I say take it at least pre-level 10. Having it for, say, Posi, is brilliant.

Yeah, if you're using SOs/common IOs, then 1+tactics is fine unless you've got the difficulty turned right up. The only power I might go for more on is TG, simple cos you really really don't want it to miss.

Generally though, once you get to, say, level 30, it's probably worth looking at least to frankenslot with set IOs, as the total enhancement values are better, in which case I tend to go for 40-50% Acc with Tactics.

Yeah, it only affects the speed modification. Swift has a lower speed increase, so the enhancement gives you less.

Swift has +0.1
Hover has +0.5 (with an unenhaceable -1.01 debuff - so it slows you down, but adding enhancements increases speed relatively quickly)
Fly has +1.0

If you're right over the tanker, then you'll hit the mobs in contact with him. Best though just to land in the middle of a bunch and fire it off. Indeed, while flight is great for travel, I'd tend to say that, even with hover, it's not great for in combat use.

SF is good, but at low levels, if I want to "stealth", I just run past stuff, and the def and res, while useful, aren't massive. Definitely a good power, but not one I'd postpone anything else for.

Regarding HT, well, I've never found the rez side that useful - I'd prefer to stop people dieing in the first place, and if they do, well, that's what wakies are for - and while the debuff/control is great, it's on too long a recharge to be more than situational so, again, it's not something I'd postpone other powers for.

Yeah, snipes are a matter of taste, but even if you want it, I'd say there are other more important powers to get first.

It's nice in theory, in practice though HT's recharge is too long to make this combo anything other than a "panic button" (barring insane IOing), and taking two powers just for the odd "oh crap" moments ain't my style. Outside of the stacking, do you really need to stun minions when you can already fear and debuff them to hell? DP can be a good power, just not on a Dark/Dark.

Yeah, it is narrower, but it's still nice not to have to run backwards and forwards

Don't forget that each sonic attack has -res, and that the defender's debuff numbers are higher there too. 5% each might not be much, but you can probably keep at least 3 debuffs on the enemy at once, which, combined with the other stronger debuffs, is better than scourge. That's not to say that the corr would be bad, just that the def is even better.

Frankly, the total damage of a power is irrelevant. What matters is the damage per activation time. And snipes don't hold up well. That's not to say fire doesn't have some great powers though. Blaze is probably the best ST attack in the game, and it's AoE capabilities are nearly unmatched for a blast set.

Personally, I'd say that for pure AV/GM soloing, go for a Rad/Son defender. For a more general great all round character, go for a Fire/Rad corr.

I can't see any reason why, with a few temp powers and a pile of inspirations, you couldn't do an all-blaster STF. In fact, I'd be amazed if someone hasn't already done one.

Yeah, that would be silly. You can't really do a "simple" set of animations with the current animation times. Ah well...

I don't mind some movement, but the spinning around annoys me. I never got the obsession with Equilibrium. To me, the epitome of dual pistols is Chow Yun Fat in John Woo films (A Better Tomorrow etc). And while there is a lot of movement in those films, it's not so much "on the spot" in the way the current DP animations are. Unfortunately, there's not really any other way to have movement in game, leaping to the side guns blazing doesn't work with the way CoH does powers.

Oh, and don't get me started on Bullet Rain aka Attack of the Killer Bees....

My problem is that it look stupid. I want to shoot people, not dance...

On a non-Mo, that's the exact reason why you should kill him first IMO. Ambushes are way more fun if they arrive when you're already fighting

My answer is still the same. You can do anything with anything, so I'd invite whoever was the first to respond to my requests, and I'd tell them to bring whatever they want to play as. I don't look for "DPS" or "tank".

Might as well make one of the generics the PShifter EndMod. Gives you a small set bonus (movement speed perhaps?) Not great, but it's better than nothing

Interestingly, at least back when I played (circa Kunark through to when WoW came out) the "holy trinity" in EQ wasn't Tank/Healer/DPS. It was Warrior/Cleric/Enchanter (crowd control). Those were the classes you "needed" (as the game evolved, it became less class specific, but the crowd control role was perceived as being far more necessary than some random damagers). The remaining three slots were filled with whatever DPS characters you could find.

/smack



+3 isn't nearly enough.

Indeed. Redside it's always "need kin"

Actually, on a team, Stalkers have excellent sustained single target DPS thanks to their crit rate (~30% with 7 teammates IIRC), which makes them great against AVs/Heroes. Their weakness - barring Electric Melee and Spines - is their AoE damage.

Pretty much my thoughts. I can live with it being restricted, but I'd prefer it to be completely open.