Santorican

Originally Posted by Amy_Amp

There's at least one build in the build's thread. I just have a low level one. My only comment is Kin's animations really don't go well with /sd. One paper it should be decent with the stacking of +dmg buffs and -dmg debuffs. PS and SC don't play as well since PS needs to be built up and SC is pure burst damage. I just think Kin works better elsewhere despite the on paper synergy.

Originally Posted by Another_Fan

Get clarion, diamagnetic, spiritual t4 core, build for s/l defense you should be ok against everything but avs close in. Use rain of fire to apply the interface in 4 ticks everything in a spawn will be at -20 to hit

Or play a scrapper and pump up your damage to the point where it dwarfs a blasters

Originally Posted by Grae Knight

Anyone have a current BS/Inv build they can post? I have just returned after an extended break and really need to respec mine. I have billions of inf. to play with so IO sets are not an issue. Thanks for any help!

Originally Posted by Syntax42

See this thread:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=192252

Originally Posted by Steelclaw

I've posted my rules before but since it's been a while I'll give the general outline... in list form since that's my language of choice...

* Every character has its own spreadsheet... the tournament has a spreadsheet... the rules have a spreadsheet... my traderbots have a spreadsheet... currently I have exactly 53 spreadsheets all having to do with my CoH tournament.

* Each server is a team consisting of all heroes or all villains. Each server has a Super Group so those teams can share resources. My traderbots each donated 1 billion influence apiece to transfer to 2,000,000 prestige per server to get the bases up and running. All further improvements to the bases are up to the individual teams.

* Teams start with one captain each. New characters can not be added to the team until all existing members are at least 30th level.

* All team members are funded by my traderbots. I basically play the market with one TB until they have maxed out the 2 billion influence cap and then create another one. Currently my TBs have around 11 or so billion collectively.

* There are extensive rules regarding enhancements (IO's only 15th level and up), recipes (can not buy set enhancements can only use drops of 30th level or higher) and many other things.

* Each player goes one at a time with a guaranteed one hour play time which can be increased through a special "bonus spin" when their turn begins. I also have bonus spins for enhancement bonuses and other things you can buy via influence.

* All Events (winter, halloween, etc) have their own special rules and regulations.

* Slotting, missions run, defeats, level, badges and the like are all forced into a series of equations to come up with three measureables: Reputation, Power and Team Work. These are measured against one another on a separate spreadsheet to determine who is the "best" in each category.

I could actually keep going until I've more than doubled the number of bullet points I've listed above, but you get the general idea. I lose interest in simple systems rather quickly, so I have created a means by which I can over-complicate practically any game to an extreme and maintain the fun in playing it.

As far as an issues to restarts ratio... well... I started playing around Issue 10. So as of Issue 20 I will have restarted my tournament and all my characters around 4 times. So about every 2 and a half issues seems to be my average.

Yeah... I'm never getting a character to 50.

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

Blowing up those reactors would quite literally spell the end of Praetoria.

Originally Posted by Gearsinger

If you were in charge of design for CoH2, what fundamental changes would you make to the way the game works?

I don't particularly like the way mezzing works in this game. I believe it should be incredibly rare, but also very scary when it does happen.

In my opinion, minions shouldn't be able to wrest control away from players. It should take a big bad to lock a player down; Ghost Widow, for instance. On the other hand, no one should be immune to mezzes. I would get rid of Break Frees and mez-immunity toggles, while allowing more resilient archetypes to have some mez resistance to shake it off sooner.

I would design certain encounters wherein it is lore appropriate for an enemy to have that kind of power. There would be a unique wind-up animation to give players a few seconds to pop inspirations to try to weather the hold, or for a tank to taunt to make sure the enemy doesn't go after his squishies while he's helpless.

It's not a suggestion, since it's obviously too late to change such a fundamental thing, but it's nice to dream.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

I think for Positron, she's like the daily strike target.

Originally Posted by IanTheM1

http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/new...rs_letter.html

NEW ZONE???? NEW ZONE????? NEW ZOOOOOONE????????

Originally Posted by Combat

Here's my current set up:

To explain some of my build choices, I must say that this build is meant primarily for killing tough targets. Running the math, I believe I have sustainable endurance without Dark Consumption, increasing DPS. Smite is maxed with procs, to further increase DPS. I believe DPS increases survivability, because as time goes down so does the ability of certain AVs (GW, cough cough) to use insta-kill abilites. Siphon Life is slotted to maximize healing and damage, and Hasten is just under perma (I run around with empowerment buffs all the time though, so it is basically perma). OWtS allows me to become virtually a Granite tank, especially combined with a T4 Rebirth. My hope is that with Incarnate abilities I will be able to solo TFs like the STF, LRSF, ITF, LGTF, etc.