Rooks

Yup tis indeed unionites lol good shout. And is that an MMOart pic in one of the shots of your sig? Your name reminds me of somewhere and I think it's their gallery, they're always great pics, it's the one with the nemi staff innit?

Wait for i16 and go archery ftw!

The aoes combined with the -res would be ace, though of course that would be far more suited to team play, unless you popped a bazillion purps and went off herding.

I personally also find sonic to be a good set for duos and small teams, as anyone attacking the same target as a sonic blaster will be doing massive damage, though I'm pretty sure plenty of sonic/rads are mainly soloists so I don't see why it shouldn't transfer to cold (apart from the toggles being faster recharging than sleet and heat loss).

That said, if survivability is what you want, dark is definately the way to go, major -tohit (I think it would be possible to keep 2 or 3 enemies on pretty low tohit all together while you wear them down but I have no personal experience with dark), not to mention the self heal which lets you skip the medicine pool.


I think on balance for solo I would probably pick dark, mainly because dark blast is such a rare set and finding it a good partner set (stack slows with -tohit for 'nevar hit meh', with -res to help you along in the damage bit) gives you a good excuse to roll it and shock people with your weird and wonderful fx and animations. The rare times you do team with people they will cack themselves, drawing on the most likely conclusion that powers customization has come out early, rather than the ridiculous notion that you're actually using dark blast.

but I digress. Show the world the wonders of dark blast! Also it wasn't too bad in 1v1 pvp last time I checked; that said it was i12 so things may well have completely changed in that respect.

I have one at 50 (finished in dxp) and yeah it's great on boss farms and suchlike, the main difference to its direct competitors (fire blast and rad blast) is that all the decent aoes (lol m30 grenade) are conical and not targeted AoE, so you have to take that extra time to line up, but I think at the damage cap (easily done on farms) you more than make up for it with the flaming/leaden death that results from the end of your pea shooter*. Be sure to have a brute or two in your team btw or lots of res buffs, as an unleashed AR toon is quite agro hungry. Also tip for using Full Auto: back right up, the cone on it is only 10 degrees but the range is 80, so you can still hit lotsa stuff you just have to use most of the range on it. Oh and I almost forgot: Ignite. This is the power that makes AR better than its peers in my opinion, get yourself a domi in the team (or a decently slotted webnade if you can take the dip in survivability that comes from the lame scorpion shield that you have tot take with it) and you can seriously melt the things that get caught in it. It's just a shame I waited until they nerfed the recharge on it before I made my AR/Kin, bring back 3 second base recharge :P

By the by, does anyone else think it's quite lame that the agro cap is like 17 or 19 or whatever it is, but target cap for cones is only 10?



*until you get a Vanguard Rifle, thas a propa BOOMSTICK (tho atm the muzzle flashes are bugged and come out of your shoulder lol)

no u

Cause he's not super powered lol.

Evereh!

yeah I got stopped by the censor lol, edited it so you can see what I meant :P

I second this motion, on the condition that his title is "D**che"

O hi ^.^

oh and for anyone who wants to speak like us:
srs bzns
amirite?

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tbh

Basically they sit above your kicks and over your k*cks.

tbh.... baseball is waaaaayyyyyy more fun to watch than cricket.

World series > ashes every single time. and I couldn't name more than like 2 NBL teams.

They both kinda suck, but baseball sucks the least.

Also a great way to suck in people to do the new low level content, by forcing said new ATs to start in the new zone, or give those who want to an excuse to give it a go, if they haven't any plans for new toons of existing ATs/Powersets.


Adding new ATs with no prior alignment would be a stroke of genius, forcing the player to make a decision about how they want their toon to grow up.

I look forward to starting a new toon in praetoria/whatever, without actually deciding on an alignment, and then seeing where the character takes me. That would just be the best.

That'd be a great icing on the cake imop. I think we've earned some more ATs what with our dilligent sub paying and such-like for so long *bats eyelids*

Well tbh it would be weirder if it wasn't the same font lol.

I love how much faith you have. But I think any holding of breath would lead to considerable backfire

I'm normally quite receptive to your shameless spinning GG, but PvP being [censored] these days isn't the kind of thing you can just winkie away :<

I was just rebutting anyone accusing CoV of being lightweight lol, or suggesting that anything that isn't bigger than it will be unsatisfactory in a paid expansion.

If it wasn't for CoV I'd have prolly quit CoH by now tbh.

5 new ATs, 9 new powersets (I think:cold, therm, plant, thorn, zombies, bots, ninjas, mercs, poison)

A shedload of new content, simple zone based repeat mission introduction, plenty of QoL (so much has changed in that respect since launch I can't attribute any specifics to CoV but I'm pretty sure it was a fair chunk), not to mention 6 new (pretty large) zones full of contacts and a few GM hunts, a large number of new badges, new enemy groups (lb, wyvern, legacy chain), not to mention zonal pvp and the opportunity to make 'bad guys' :>

I enjoy it anyway

EDIT: 10 powersets* lol traps.

Eye of the Magus is no picnic if you don't plan on farming to be fair, at least you can go afk on damage farms lol

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People don't go about advertising heterosexual pride through cities flashing their wares and so on and so I don't get it with homosexuals who do that.

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What about Mardi Gras? lawl

is it wrong that 5pm is like mid-morning for me?

Mine would probably be changing the Rage fx on my SS/DA, so that with all my toggles on I'm not bright and shadowy at the same time (mind [censored]), meh, I might keep it. We'll see how Dark-Rage™ looks.


Also, in response to the thread title, Crossfade ftw - anthem of i16 tbh (google it ye).

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Conceptually, I've always far preferred Resistance over Defense. Superman doesn't dodge that bullt you know, he ignores the thing and lets it bounce off!

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Wouldn't work for Batman tho would it?

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That's why he's a defense type.

Besides which, Defense really isn't portrayed well in the game. When was the last time you say a def based char actually dodging incoming attacks? The bleeding things STILL hit, you just get a "MISS" appear in this air, or take less damage than usual...

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Nah that's CO lol, in CoX everything except for AoE powers actually miss you if they 'miss'

It's kinda hard to express distaste on a forum without posting :3