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  1. Santorican
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by mauk2 View Post
    SD is a positional defense set that gets most of its defense from two toggles. It has a click mez resist power that's very easy to perma, a very good aggro aura that's also a powerful damage boost, a very broken AOE teleport attack thats on the nerf block, and several utility powers, the most useful being a minor resist/health boost and a small overall defense buff.


    In a nutshell, SD is broken.

    Don't play FOTM. May I recommend willpower, super reflexes, or invuln? All perform VERY well these days.

    Any other questions?
    Two things:

    1: Shield Charge is broken, not the entire set.

    2: Just because its FOTM doesn't mean that you shouldn't play it. Play what you like.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SPiNE View Post
    I see, that makes sense. I've already tried all other Tank primaries though, was just looking forward to Shield Defense.

    So what you're saying is that Shield Defense is broken for those who can afford to IO it out the a**. How are the Dev's planning on fixing this issue? The majority of players don't have that much influence to push the set's defense to its soft cap. If the defense is going to get nerfed, the set may become useless, since less than 20% defense is practically useless. As for Shield Charge, I'm happy if it does the same damage as Lightning Rod :]
    Castle made mention that the only power being changed in Shield Defense is Shield Charge. Nothing about its defensive powers were mentioned. However yes Shield can do amazing things with a lot of influence invested into it, but that is not to say that you have to. With a decent amount of influence Shield can be very sturdy.
  2. Santorican
    Someone should ask Castle to port SS to scrappers on test just to see what the outcome would be. It wouldn't go live but to shut you guys up about this broken/not broken argument lol
  3. Santorican
    It is possible but you'd have to fight a very weak AV and or have a lot of time on your hands lol
  4. Santorican
    I don't care about comics and thematics and doodoo like that! Jeeze people for crying out loud tankers get dual blades, how freaking tankish is that? It isn't! So there boom blew up any logical nerd raging arguement about scrappers not getting super strength. I just want my SS/Shield scrapper so I can punch someone so hard that their head pops off!
  5. Santorican
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gaidin View Post
    jerkface.
    Arena farming FTW!
  6. Santorican
    I say replace prestige with influence like it should have been from the beginning.
  7. Santorican
    I have to ask this, why the change now? What finally clicked with someone to say "By golly I think this might work!" Was it like I woke up this morning and I think I'm going to have the markets merged or was it an eventual arm breaking snap from the collective that finally gave way?
  8. Santorican
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gaidin View Post
    I got mine for 1 bil 111 thousand. If you're more patient than I, I saw in the log that it was going for as low as ~750 mil.
    You know how much I got mine for? 300 million, because I went PvP shopping crazy when the drop rates were higher
  9. Santorican
    You'd have a greater chance of getting the markets merged than killing an AV with a Spines/Dark.
  10. Santorican
    Yes you can slot Enzyme Exposures into ANY defensive power and it will enhance your defense by 33% rather than 20%. It has also been stated by Positron that this is now an accepted feature of Hami-Os. It will also enhance your DDR is certain powers.
  11. Santorican
    I was going to build an exemplar build for my dark/shield and now is the time to do it lol. I'm not sure what will come of the market merger whether it be good or bad, but I'd rather not find out the hard way when I'm trying to get my enhancements.
  12. Santorican
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by saltyhero13 View Post
    Its a clip from Supergirl!
    I'm sure
  13. Santorican
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gaidin View Post
    I finally got time to tool around with your build. I haven't even had time to actually play the game this week.

    So, I tried building from the ground up and was able to get another 10% recharge and keep softcap, but the recovery was borked, so I tossed that idea. I got a build that had 5% more recharge and awesome recovery, but was .9% from softcap of ranged/aoe, so I tossed that one too.

    I can't seem to find a way to make it better for recharge without screwing the build in one way or another. Ironically, while looking at yours my brain found a better way to slot Smite and MG in my build based on something I tried in yours, so thanks for that! heh.
    Yeah I've tried rebuilding it a few dozen times and can't really find any where to change anything . You're welcome? lol

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gaidin View Post
    This issue I see is that with his global recharge, he can't run the MG>Smite>SL>Smite chain. This becomes even more problematic if you swap the slotting in MG and Smite as MG's recharge drop even more below the needed 234.2%.

    I would leave the Mako set in Smite and replace the Clouded Senses proc in MG with a Recharge IO. He could then run the chain.

    Unless you plan on running FA, I agree with Ferne - I'd replace the End Redux in Grant Cover with the Kismet unique. This will significantly improve your Accuracy.

    I'd also replace the Resist IO in OwtS with an End Mod since he uses it for End recovery in place of CP.

    Finally, I'd remove the slot from Kick. 1.5% damage buff is nothing. Move this slot over to AD and put a fourth Membrane in. This will get you above 95% DDR(97.9%). Is it always necessary? No, but situationally it will help you far more than 1.5% dam buff.

    Build with suggessted changes:

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    That my friends is why you should never give advice and have only but a few hours of sleep under your belt

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gaidin View Post
    Yes, you could eliminate the Kismet unique if Tactics is always running - that's what I plan on for my revised build.

    The Panacea is a very nice investment. 20% chance for a 4.82% heal and 20% chance for 7.5% end. If you look in your combat log, it should show when it fires and heals you or gives an infusion of End.
    It is a nice investment if you have a few billion laying around lol...
  14. Santorican
    Salty I've been looking at your avatar for about 5 mins now lol
  15. Santorican
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Avatea View Post
    NCsoft and Paragon Studios are proud to announce that players will have the opportunity to walk the line between good and evil (or cross it), on 17th August 2010 with the release of City of Heroes Going Rogue™. City of Heroes Going Rogue is the second paid expansion in the City of Heroes® franchise. For the first time in any super-powered MMORPG, the moral choices players make will affect their characters' game play experiences. Heroes can fall from grace to become villains, while villains can redeem themselves to become Heroes. In addition, players can now access the alternate universe of Praetoria where they can enjoy new missions, zones, costume sets, fight new villain groups, and play with new power sets including Demon Summoning, Dual Pistols, Electric Control and Kinetic Melee.

    "I was proud when we launched City of Heroes® back in 2004 and even prouder when we unveiled the City of Villains® expansion in 2005, but Going Rogue is by far the best work that this team has ever done. Paragon Studios has distinguished itself as a premier studio committed to excellence with every issue and we've raised the bar on this expansion. I'm so honored to be a part of this team and I believe that our players will be absolutely amazed when they see what we've done." - Melissa Bianco, Lead Designer of City of Heroes.

    City of Heroes Going Rogue will be available as an expansion-only, or as part of the City of Heroes Going Rogue Complete Collection, which includes both City of Heroes® and City of Villains®. Both versions of City of Heroes Going Rogue will be available from the NCsoft store.
    You think someone would have learned about release dates with I17 and the plethora of bugs it had. I hope this is a realistic date and not one that will be rushed and pushed passed qa standards and published with a metric ton of bugs.
  16. Santorican
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by je_saist View Post
    Maybe the devs should make a sticky of power-sets that won't be proliferated and stick Super-Strength at the top.

    Wait... the devs explicitly said no to Archtype / Power-Set post-character-creation changes and we STILL get players trying to figure out how to sell an Archtype / Power-Set post-character-creation change as a respec...

    Soo... devs outright saying NO probably won't stop this dead horse either. Maybe we should give it a name or something. ZombineStrength? SuperZombth?
    The developers never mentioned that Scrappers would never get Super Strength
  17. Santorican
    Here is a quick and dirty build I made for a katana/regen

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  18. Santorican
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Wiggz View Post
    I'm just saying. I've been playing here from the beginning and have leveled literally hundreds of characters into their 30's, but only have a couple of level 50 characters. I don't suffer from altitis because I'm desperately trying to find the 'uber-build', I do it because I'm inspired by different looks, different backstory ideas and different power set combos. I absolutely love the variety of this game, and suspect there would be even more of it if the dev's weren't bound by some kind of covenant to ensure 'balance' in all things.

    Facts are facts. Someone will always be stronger, faster, more capable... people didn't love Wolverine or Spider-man or Batman or The Flash because they were so 'balanced' against one another and the foes they fought. Entire teams would get together to conquer a threat Superman could level with one punch. Superman and Geen Arrow were on the same team - the SAME TEAM - and they seemed to make it work okay. That's the way the world works, in comics and in real life.

    As far as the gaming world works, there will always be the min/maxers, the hardcore players willing to spend exhaustive amounts of time and influence perfecting or even exploiting aspects of the game. Let them. They make up by far the smallest percentage of players so who cares if, in their little circle, their IO's out build is 'teh uber'? The benefits to the game to constantly scaling back characters to 'balance them' and disappointing more casual gamers (the larger number by far) who never had any intent to exploit anything seem to be a case of diminishing returns. In my opinion the dev's time would be much, much better spent looking into individual powers so bad that no one ever takes them, and replacing them with options that will make the power sets even more diverse (Temperature Protection, I'm looking at you buddy).

    Anyway, my two cents. If a power can pass the design and play-testing phase, then the only time to really look at it is when new complimentary powers sets or new, easily available IO enhancements become available. Data-mine a bit to find out what powers nobody ever takes and improve upon those, give players more options, rather than taking options away that they've already worked hard to earn.
    If you want to play a fun not so balanced super hero game, I'd suggest trying out Champions. I've played it before and its a fun game, fast paced fighting, and nice graphics and costume creator. The mechanics weren't my favorite so I stayed here, but you should try it out.
  19. Santorican
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DSorrow View Post
    As others have said, this topic is discussed just about once every week.



    I think this is a quite funny argument. If SS would be overpowered on Scrappers, then it is also overpowered on Brutes and Tankers.
    Thats funny you should say that because everyone seems to think the opposite of that. I think most people who say it isn't op on Tankers or Brutes are saying that because they don't want SS nuked like it will be once scrappers and stalkers get it.
  20. Santorican
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dr_Occult View Post
    So...

    Returning player, going to make my level 41 Spines/Dark my MA farm/ebil marketing character. What build should I be using for this? I have no problem using generic IOs then overwriting them as I build sets.
    I'd say aim for around 25% melee defense and as much recharge and recovery as you can get. Slotting for passive regeneration would mostly be wasteful due to having Dark Regeneration.
  21. Santorican
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Andferne View Post
    I'm not sure if I want SS for my Scrapper. I just got a SS/SD Tanker to 50 and almost have him fully slotted out (save last few purples I need) and he eats through End like there's no tomorrow.
    MMM endurance it tastes so sweet.
  22. Santorican
    I made just a few quick changes to your build.

    You lost just 11 hp but I gave you more regen and I changed the slotting in Siphon Life to arguably the best slotting for it and I changed the slotting in Smite and Midnight Grasp because Smite recharges quicker and gives you a higher chance for your procs to fire off.

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  23. Santorican
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Umbra_NA View Post
    Time for Scrappers to get Super Strength.



    My opinions:

    Only one reason not to immediately port SS over to Scrappers is the potential that it would be overpowered.

    Doesn't matter.

    Why?

    I really don't think a signifigant percentage of the players would notice or care is SS Scrappers were strong.



    Has anyone run the numbers to compare what a SS scrapper would be like for damage compared to energy melle?
    Its been 5 years and this horse is still being beaten to death. Not to mention this topic was just discussed a few thread pages back.
  24. Santorican
    I don't see why you can't play your regeneration without hasten? If you're having fun without the need for Hasten I don't see why you NEED to take it. This is a game after all and you decide how you have fun.
  25. Santorican

    Fire/Shield PVP

    POST-ACTION

    I'd suggest posting this in the PvP section. I have no idea how to build a shield scrapper for PvP other than saying get as much defense, to hit, +hp, +regen, and + recovery as you can