Robert_B

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Ma killed my family and my dog- don't know if I should writre a Country Western song about love , betrayal and loss or go all Punisher and hunt it down.

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If there was no beer involved, you can't write a country song about it. On the other hand, if MA killed your family, your dog, drank all your beer, and your truck broke down, THEN it would make a perfect country song.

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NOPE, sorry it has to be

1) a Pick-up truck (rusted)
2) has an 8-track in it

THEN you can write a country song.

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Duo Fire/Kins are a waste. Combine a Fire/Kin with a Fire/Rad for the win. Think about it

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Well, thing is I find for dual boxing like I do, having the same sets/powers/RECHARGE TIMES makes things easier, but as I said before I am going all /rad (Kin is TOO CLICKY) and a fire and a plant. Or I'll just stick to my Plant/Rad's as Fire seems to be more melee distance and Plant is all ranged, I just wanted the Imps cause I dunno if Fly Trap is any good or if Fire and Plant have any real syngery

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What is your duo going to be doing specifically? Why do you need the fighting pool and grant invis? And what are the defense numbers? Because then turning around and using a resist based shield is kind of defeating the purpose isn't it? Why not go earth or ice where you can stack your defense with your shields?

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My fault, I should have looked at the type (def/res) that the sheild gave, was just going fire/fire/fire/fire/fire MRUHAHAHAHAHA


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Edit- And OP I'm not trying to beat up on you or anything, I promise. I'm more curious about what it is you are trying to accomplish and expressing just one perspective on the discussion, so please don't take it that I'm trying to pick on you.

Just my perspective.

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Well actually, I am NOW thinking of switching my team to a fire/rad and plant/rad, I wasn't looking for a "farm" build, rather a team I can FINALLY take to 50.

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You don't "need" stamina but you'll want it. If you don't take it what three powers do you need more than it? Fire/Kin easily fits stamina in a build without any kind of "gimping" whatsoever.

The Cult of the Blue Bar has spoken.

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Something like this I Think. Again please keep in mind that with my Duo I will have Perma SB.

I am considering getting Stimulant, But I think with ID and the heal I should have that covered.

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Level 48 Science Controller
Primary Power Set: Fire Control
Secondary Power Set: Kinetics
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Concealment
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Fire Mastery

Hero Profile:
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Level 1: Transfusion -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Fire Cages -- Empty(A)
Level 4: Siphon Power -- Empty(A)
Level 6: Air Superiority -- Empty(A)
Level 8: Hot Feet -- Empty(A)
Level 10: Siphon Speed -- Empty(A)
Level 12: Flashfire -- Empty(A)
Level 14: Fly -- Empty(A)
Level 16: Increase Density -- Empty(A)
Level 18: Cinders -- Empty(A)
Level 20: Speed Boost -- Empty(A)
Level 22: Boxing -- Empty(A)
Level 24: Tough -- Empty(A)
Level 26: Weave -- Empty(A)
Level 28: Grant Invisibility -- Empty(A)
Level 30: Maneuvers -- Empty(A)
Level 32: Fire Imps -- Empty(A)
Level 35: Transference -- Empty(A)
Level 38: Fulcrum Shift -- Empty(A)
Level 41: Tactics -- Empty(A)
Level 44: Fire Ball -- Empty(A)
Level 47: Fire Shield -- Empty(A)
Level 49: Vengeance -- Empty(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Containment



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Going to have to disagree with others. If you can rely on having SB up all the time, then you absolutely do not need stamina. Slot SB for end mod if you find you need it, though even without that it's still providing more recovery than stamina will. Once you get to transference you'll have so few endurance problems anyway, and those extra power picks will be handy. You can stack leadership for example, or take stimulant for the broader mez protection than ID.

Air sup will provide you with some extra ST damage that is likely to help through the early levels, particularly for bosses or other tough targets. Once you get into the higher levels you are likely to find that running two fire/kins will require an insane amount of activity and you will likely forget about using the attack in favor of keeping all the buffs and controls going and letting hot feet and imps deal most of the damage.

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ah Excellent, I was hoping it might MIGHT be possible, I was thinking about the leadership pool, at least assault that is. also, I kinda like the stealth power (or should I just get smoke?) as well.

Yes I only quoted the ONE reply that said it would be possible LOL, only seeing what I want to see much.....

I picked up Air Sup, I am sure I will either drop it (to get hover at some point) but for now it's fun . and it benefits from containment too, nice Boss killer.

Question is, can all the updates that will need to be done (ie all the new powers and such) be released as a general update so that everyone will have the same one (yes, this is my way of asking someone else to do the updates so I only need apply them)

Hey All,

Running a Fire/Kin Duo (both will have the same powers) and I am wondering, since I will be able to SB myself, do I really need Stamina at all? keep in Mind I'll be able to hit Transference alot since I'll have 2 of them.

Ideas?

Also,

I prefer Hover/Fly to anything else, and since I am in Melee range all the time would Air Sup. be useful at all?

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Beers and a sniper rifle and i'm happy.


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QFT


Oh how I miss those days of LAN parties playing Medal of Honor, Battlefield 2, Call of Duty, Unreal, Counterstrike, and whatever else we could get our hands on until the sun came up the next morning. If I still had the BF2 set I'd install and join you. Good times.

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For me, it was the original Everquest, my buddy and I bought telephones that had headphones and mic's so we could talk to each other, started playing Friday night, stopped when we realized that it was Sunday

That was like the worst fight I've seen (Lesner vs. Mir), it reminds me (pardon my Canadian) of watching a NHL team play the trap, sure they win and they don't allow the opponent much, but its boring as hell.

I blame the condom manufacture that you have kids?

So, until I get the AoE Hold, I'll just avoid them

Hey All,

I play a duo of Plat/Rad trollers, for the most part it's fun but I do get frustrated when I can't lock down (hold) something and they are able to smash away at me.

What I mean is this, I usually toss strangler at the "boss" in a mission, now that's 2x at the same time, yet some foes are not held at all, I'm not doing AV's, just normal bosses at the 2nd (for now) difficulty level.

I would have thought what amounts to a mag 8 hold would do the trick but on some bosses (think Arachno's or however you spell it) it doesn't work, and since I really rely on locking down enemy toons to avoid damage it's really not helpful

Given that (my toons are only 18 atm) and tossing a RI to floor the ToHit, what else can I do?

Edit: sorry got the math wrong, 2x Strangler is Mag 6 but still, mag 6 not enough LOL?

I blame you for not saying balls.

Well, I would move the toon as has been suggested but since I have no 50's well, it's hard to feel sorry for you.

/em Bitter.

You drink enough that XFUNK's Avatar starts to look pretty normal.

Happy 4th to my American friends!

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Thank you all for the responses!

Taking this all under consdieration, and checking with my duo partner, I went with Plant/Kinetics. I got him to level 9 today pretty easily, and it was lotsa fun too!

Thanks again for the input!


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When you can both (if your partner went Kin/ or /Kin) SB each other it's amazing.

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What Zloth said, and I'll add: There's another thread discussing using PingPlotter Freeware and the server's addresses. Do a search for PingPlotter, you'll find it. Use that to ping the servers and you'll probably find that your upsettitude is not to be directed at NCSoft, but at some quirky lil ISP's backbone server you're being forced to jump through. Perhaps trying a different, west (or east, depending) server would alleviate the issue... at which time you'll verify it's the route to the server, not the server itself, that's the cause.


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Do you have a list of the ip's for CoH servers (US)? or a quick way to find out (or both)?

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This has got to be the biggest waste of developer time ever. I would rather have them fix bugs and address longstanding problems. I don't really see the thrill in changing the color of the same power animation, yawn.

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Party Pooper!!!


If they just fix the chat bug I'd be happy

Thanks for the IO ideas guys, I'll head off to WW later

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*fights... to avoid.... another... Foc acc... debate...* *breaths*
Without my personal opinion, you need either assult or manuvers to get tactics. Those powers are useful but scrappers get less out of them then say a defender would. Tactics, however dosent have a to hit debuff res. So even though you will be able to see everything and can't be blinded, your tohit can still drop and you will still be slicing at air as if you didn't have it on. Foc acc takes a lot of endurance, about 3 toggles worth, your team won't get the to hit buff like they would with tactics. You only need to hit 41 to get it. It has res to tohit debuffs. So you can pretty much stand in the middle of that Storm shammon's hurricaine and slice up anything you want as long as you can deal with the endurance (conserve power)

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Well, what I could do, is my Perma duo is a Scraper with a Sonic/Sonic fender, so I could get Tactics on her (she has assault already) and get FA on my toon, I'll have QR and Stamina by then anyways.

What about BF? how should I slot it?

Actually on another note, how do you slot BF? I have 3 acc and 3 rechage, should I drop a ACC for a toHit?

So when I get debuffed (i'm thinking more of the Banished actually) what's my option, other then to wait till they drop their AoE debuff? and should I get Tactics (I said assault before) and FA?

Ok, I'm almost level 30, and I'm using the level 30 SO's, I find that against some things (debuffers) that I miss a Ton, really screws up the combos, so I'm slotting for 96% acc in my attacks (I'm not going the IO route till 35), so that doesn't leave me too much room for dammage or EndRedux.

How much is enough? and should I consider taking Assault or FA later on?

I'm playing on the 2nd hardest level BTW to get the most spawns.

Any idea what I should shoot for ACC wise? can I get it over 100% (in this case I mean the % above the default acc) with IO's and is there any point?

I blame you that I don't have a beer hat, and I WANT ONE.