Santorican

Originally Posted by Xanatos

Take:

Electric Melee:
Havoc Punch
Assassin's Shock
Build Up
Placate
Thunderstrike

Willpower:
Everything except the rez & the T9

Powerpools:
Speed (Hasten, Superspeed)
Leaping (Combat Jumping, Superjump)
Leadership (Assault, Tactics)
Concealment (Stealth, Invis, Phase)

Epic:
Leviathan (Spirit Shark, Spirik Shark jaws,)
or
Soul Mastery (Dark Blast, Shadow Meld)

Leviathan is preferred as you have no ranged attacks on an Elec/. Some people like taking Hibernate. I dislike it due to the slow activation time & its inability to combat delayed damage.

Numbers to aim for:
~20% Damage Bonus (30% with assault)
~50-60% Recharge
2.5 EndRec
1.8 EndUse
1606 HP (you should cap this with HPT alone.)
As high as you can over the JumpSpeed/Speed cap.

Slot your main attacks (Assassin's Shock / Thunderstrike / the two shark powers) with the following setup:

3 Nucleus HOs / 3 damage procs.

Or if you need +dam set bonuses:

4 devastation/4 mako + 2 damage procs.

Originally Posted by Fury Flechette

It's shield charge >>>>>>>> everything else

My rough ranking of everything else:

lightning rod
spin
fire sword circle
fire ball (from APP)
sweep combo from dual blades
throw spines
thunderstrike

Originally Posted by Shiver_NA

So I just hit 50 after not playing COH in a VERY long time. I made a Elec/SD and I would like a little input as to where I should farm up the kind of influence im going to need to fully IO this sucker. Any suggestions would be awesome!

Originally Posted by NightshadeLegree

Mostly a question for the altaholics I suppose.

I've recently rolled a lot of new alts, and amongst them I've been trying various powers I've never used. Stone Melee and Stone Armor I can finally face since Power Customisation now allows me to change the visuals I really disliked, and the same will be true of Spines. I've found Gravity more enjoyable than expected (though I still dislike Propel) and Trick Arrow is a lot more fun than it seemed on the power select screen. There's only two powersets I'm still hesitating over.

Sonic Blast. For no better reason than I hate the sound effects.

Empathy. Even on characters who team I like to know that they can solo, and Empathy is a horrible set for soloing.

So, is there any powerset that you just won't play?

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Amen!

Originally Posted by Amy_Amp

All I hear is DP sucks for damage. Well, what the hell is it good for since it's a blast set?

Originally Posted by Louis_Cipher

This thread happens every on the verge of every major expansion by the way. Guess you guys just have not gotten the message the last 20 times or so.

I could name like 100 toons in super hero lore that are SS guys, none of which I would call a scrapper. I can think of 100s of toons in superhero lore which are martail artists...none of which I would call a tanker or a brute. Hmmm but you say SS fits scrapper. Umm no. The scrapper hand to hand mellee set is MA. Love it, live it, embrace it.

Enjoy
Cipher

Originally Posted by Player99

well yeah, but it's still nice to have the info down for those who want it.

Originally Posted by JJDrakken

http://www.youtube.com/user/MuziekVi.../2/axDpsLPhYSg

-runs away-


JJ

Originally Posted by Desmodos

I think of them more as entourage, though invariably ones always trying to steal kills or aggro from me.

Originally Posted by Vitality

I don't see why either.

Make Rage a build-up type power.

Lower the radius of Footstomp from 15' to 10' and lower the chance of knockback from 80% to 75%.

Get rid of the hold on Knockout Blow.

Originally Posted by AmazingMOO

A sign of the times overheard in Victory Badges -- I listened in on a couple players tonight who were discussing what dire straits the 'City of' franchise is in. Despite being after 12:00 AM EST in a channel long ago broken by the 'full channel bug', about 10 other players joined the conversation.

Topics brought up:

- AE killed the game.
- PVP changes killed the game.
- Free server transfers killed the game, especially for PVPers (except in RV).
- Hami raids used to happen every week. Now they're non-existant. Ergo, the game is dying.
- Atlas Park is no longer laggy. Ergo, the game is mumble mumble.
- When the game started, everyone was outside street-sweeping. Now they're not. Ergo murmble mumble mumble.
- Too many taskforce teams make it difficult for other people to get teams. (Not quite sure I understand this one.)
- CoH should be free to play, with a cash shop for microtransactions.
- Microtransactions suck and are mumble.
- Dual pistols look great! Maybe the game will revive with Going Rogue.
- Servers should be merged.
- Free server transfers are a prelude to the servers being merged.
- Existing servers should be merged down into just four: Virture, Freedom, Justice, and Victory.
- A new server should be created solely for PVP.
- A certain other superhero game and a space game suck really bad.

So put on yer doom hats, because NCSoft is in mumble DEEP TROUBLE mumble mumble.

Originally Posted by UnicyclePeon

I know its unpopular, but I just don't want to take the Fire epic. It'd be cool, but I actually want to take most of my primary and secondary, AND I want super speed, stamina, Tough, Weave and Combat Jumping.

So there isnt any room for the fire epic at all unless I drop Grant Cover and Fire Breath and maybe one other attacks from the primary.

So I'm just planning on Fire/SD/(none). I know I'm crazy. I still expect elation.

Lewis

Originally Posted by organica

3. Waiting for the tank to attack first sucks.

Originally Posted by Primal_Dark

1. When I run ahead of my team and jump into a suicidal situation, everyone understands.

2. Shield Charge, enough said.

3. Blasters don't have mez resist

4. Brutes are evil

5. Someone needs to use the +4/8 setting

Originally Posted by StratoNexus

Fire/MM or Fire/Elec.