Psara

If you're using those attack chains, you have bigger problems.

Those attacks can be fired from range, and have shorter recharges (barring SOTW.) But if you want to be an energy blapper, why aren't you using Bone smasher(9.0) and total focus(9.889,) which has 100% mag3 disorient?

I've never outdone a blaster... I suppose I'm supposed to be playing broadsword?

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I agree that blasters completely suck for soloing, but there are ATs(scrappers, stalkers, brutes) that are pretty outclassed on teams.

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With all due respect, are you serious?

Scrappers can do more, safer in teams than most blasters. I'm not talking aoe builds because most blasters sets don't do it particularly well. And brutes! Brutes are quite awesome on teams. Hell that's where they REALLY shine. Teammates can get them to their damage cap which puts their damage ahead of scrappers and can be buffed to tank caps.

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I play both, and yes, I'm serious.

Brutes? Sure, I can be an aggro magnet. Sort of. But kill anything? That's pretty laughable, is a situation where the rest of the team is actually taking away from my fury. Put more than two brutes on a team, and one of them is going to be grumpy.

And you seem to be generalising scrappers here... No, they can't do more ON AVERAGE. Sure, Spines/Dark can obliterate mobs faster than a fire blaster, but have you tried Katana, or bob-forbid, claws?? Not all blasters are these damage machines you make them out to be. Having played scrappers up, I know how useless I feel with a blaster on the team >_<

I agree that blasters completely suck for soloing, but there are ATs(scrappers, stalkers, brutes) that are pretty outclassed on teams.

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Indeed, I am ignoring your point, for it's obvious intentions.

Ohms, you're knowledgable and undoubtedly a good player, but you like to complain a lot.

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It's easy when there's a lot to complain about.

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Meh, I feel just as good on my blaster as on my other toons.

I may have COMPLETELY different abilities, but I see them as balanced.

Indeed, I am ignoring your point, for it's obvious intentions.

Ohms, you're knowledgable and undoubtedly a good player, but you like to complain a lot.

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Because they called it the name they use for coding? Boo hoo let's all cry.

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That whooshing sound you hear is Alisson missing the point... again.

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Oh no, I see the point. You, however, seem to have missed mine of:

You're fine, STOP WHINING.

Because they called it the name they use for coding? Boo hoo let's all cry.

You know how silly that is, right?

Cough cough traps cough?

I think the point was just to have both(all tree, really) under one name...

Do you guys seriously think they don't know what the devices set is?

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Perhaps this is a stupid question, but has anyone been able to use non standard characters in their Toon Name ?

Cheers

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you can use _, -, @ and .

nothing else. and only one of those.

This is probably on here, but although the original skirt has patterns back as an option, they still don't show up.

jay is sexy!
ian is the new hotness!
/em shameless pandering!

or, actually...
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Here is example 1: The skirts on the female are missing all their textures. Jay is sexy. (Screenshot of skirt missing textures)

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That

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... beating us in CoH Soccer!!

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O. M. G.

I hope it never gets to be that pathetic.
Sadly, I know it might ... if that ever happens.

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The really sad thing is that PlayNC is making a soccer MMO.

So... The dark sounds are unbearable, but you don't mind the "HUH!!!!!!!!!!" every three seconds when you jump?

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Scrappers should in no way even come close to Blaster damage output.

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Here's the thing: on average, they don't. Can a scrapper keep it up for awhile? Yeah, of course. Can a blaster do twice the damage in a quarter the time? Yep.

Oh, and mez protection:
1) My regen actually gets mezzed pretty regularly.
2) Play on a team? 5/8 of defenders and 5/7 of controllers can give you mez protection.

The whole point is that although a solo scrapper>a solo defender, a blaster teamed with a controller, tanker, or defender can do more than a scrapper in that situation. Like you say, your huge damage ability comes at a price. Just try to make up for your weaknesses.

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Nice try. Unfortunately those of us who've been around awhile know better. Sustainable Damage > Burst Damage. Do Scrappers have nukes? No. Do they need them? Not when they have a defensive capacity a helluva lot stronger than anything Blasters have, coupled with an offensive capacity that shouldn't even be anywhere near that of a Blaster... but is Hell, Scrappers had an offensive capacity that capped out at 500% while Blasters were, until very recently, capped at 400%.

Don't even get me started on the Scrapper inherent that spikes their damage yet does not require them to first get their [censored]es kicked in order for it to kick in.

Long and short of it is this. Blasters paid for their offensive capacity by giving up their defensive capacity. Scrappers didn't pay for a damned thing. Not only should their offensive capacity not surpass that of Blasters. It shouldn't even come close. Period.

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Oops, sorry I'm late on this:

Have you played a scrapper? I mean recently, not I3 regen. Survivability is a joke. Better than blasters? Of course! By a larger margin than blasters can outdamage scrappers? Of course not! They're pretty well balanced, scrappers having an edge solo, and blasters having the edge on teams. Now, can some scrappers do more than some blasters? Of course! Comparing a Dark Melee/Dark Armor to an energy/fire is just silly. How about we compare claws/inv to fire/ice instead

As for defiance Vs critical hits... I'll trade any day. Criticals are an average of 8% of the time, and often come on a low damage attack. It's the lottery, whereas defiance is your tax rebate. If you win the lottery, you get a LOT of money! But, chances are against it. Your tax rebate sucks, but it's there.

People thing scrappers can out-damage blasters? I guess if you slot rest and super-speed, a scrapper could win

Say you could easily dispense with 3 +4 bosses (which is a rather outrageous claim)

Not all regens could.

Yeah, the edge is nice, but we're a little past it, now.

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HISSSSS!

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I take it that translates to "If any of those happen, I'll kill you!!!!!!!!!!!neo!!"?

Hmmm

Okay, my "new regen" predicions:

Fast healing: 20% enhanceable, 20% unenhanceable regen boost
Reconstruction: 5% heal, 240 second recharge, 3 second interrupt period
Quick recovery: .2 End/second recovery boost
Dull Pain: 10% Max HP boost, 1000 second recharge
Integration: Mag 1 Imobalize resist, 50% unenhanceable regen boost, same end cost
Resilience: 1% lethal resist
Instant healing: 200% regen boost, 30 second duration, 4000 second recharge
Revive: Revives with 15% Hp, No end, no debt protection, 2000 second recharge
MoG: 75% resist/defense buff to all(except: Smashing, Lethal, Energy, Neg. Energy, Cold, Fire, Toxic, Psionic, any untyped,) crashes to 1Hp, no attacks may be used, no regen, 180 second crash after durration of no regen, 300 second duration, 12000 second recharge

Predictions for claws tweaks:

Swipe: Lowered damae
Strike: Increased recharge, same animation as slash
Slash: Removed defense debuff
Spin: Double recharge, double end cost
Followup: Same recharge as buildup
Focus: No longer ranged, half damage(supposed to also have energy damage, but this portion "mysteriously" goes missing
Eviscerate: Decreased arc to 10 degrees, double recharge
Schockwave: Half damage(same "bug" as focus,) double end, has very strong taunt effect

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I don't know who to feel more sorry for: the people who never played an old Regen or the people who did.

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Definitely the old school regens. No one (except maybe the Invuls) understands. They don't realize how hard you had to work to get to 28, the steps you had to take to make IH end efficient. And they never experienced the payoff.

Ah the payoff....what did they do to you baby...

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Well first they made it a near wothless click power.
But, no, no!! That wasn't enough! We still had a little regen!
Then they put in ED, and took that away, too.

You know, one day, I had, like, 4 emps put RA on me. Theyn I used IH. For a minute, it was glorious! For a minute, I attained... I3 regen. Of course, it *was* only a minute, so I still died.

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I don't know who to feel more sorry for: the people who never played an old Regen or the people who did.

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Oh definitely the people who never did! A regen scrapper was so much fun to play 1-50! Sure the early levels were rough, but man it was fun. Haven't enjoyed the game that much before or since.

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Ugh, I think those who did. The new kids don't know how fun it was :/

*sits down by the fire*

You mean regen used to have "Health regeneration?" Wowwwwww

*looks all stary-eyed*

clearly, statesman nerfed calendars.