Saulkoth

Thanks for all the input, i played both to lvl 10 and i like the claws better, the spines are just hideous.It would be better if the spines looked more like a porcupine, straight and thin.

Spines or Claws/Regen? i PVE mainly solo, i like them both but not sure which one is best.
I'm leaning more towards claws but no idea why,any views on the pros and cons will be wellcome.

Does having air superiority with katana/broardsword slow your chain down, being as you have to put weapon away to use it?

The popular choice is ss/inv i have one and he doesn't die rage and dull pain together is so awesome.

Sorry i should of mentioned that before,
i'm a lvl 35 DM/REGEN,
i got all powers but,siphon life,confront,dark consumption,resilience,revive,i might spec out midnight grasp,
all though it's a good power it's not that useful by the time the animation does it's thing i could of hit him/her/it a few times.
I also have air superiority,combat jumping,super jump,teleport foe,swift,health,stamina.
I've heard tough and weave are good, i have no problems with end at all so i could easily take them, i like the idea of stealth and invisibility but not sure, any thoughts would be wellcomed many thanks.
ps:what about the leadership pool? i mainly solo but do team up sometimes.

I've run out of decent powers to choose are there any others worth taking ie: stealth,tough,weave,or any from the leadership pool, i rarely team.

I am so bored of scrappers so gonna roll a tank, but know sweet FA about them, but i got a SS/INV brute which i love,
so what power sets should i go for, i'll be doing solo and groups, i've teamed up with an ice/inv tank and i just love his ice patch ( or whatever it's called ).
I'm leaning towards ice/ice just coz it's cool. )
any advice would be great many thanks.

Thanks, makes sence really BS is very slow at recharging.

Is hasten a must for broadsword/regen??

I too am an altaholic been playing for 2 years and only got a lvl 24 DM/REGEN scrapper ( 1 year on the us server ) but i am sticking with this one because it's the one i enjoy playing the most, it's the feel of fists on mobs faces that clicks with me, the only advice i and everyone else can offer is try them all and play the one that gives YOU the most fun, thats all there is to it.

Yes or No?
i've heard conflicting opinions on quills for and against taking it has anyone got a figures they can throw my way to help me decide whether to take them or not.
Many thanks.

Is it worth taking it for an attack power or not?
MA only get two attacks at the start and the next is a few lvl's away.
Are there any powers not worth taking? never played MA before so i got no idea, many thanks.

I'm gonna give dark armor a try are there any powers to avoid at all costs?
prob go energy as primary.
Many thanks.

I wanna make a scrapper but can't decide on the secondry i used to have a dm/regen scrapper and i got a inv/ss brute and i like both secondrys but haven't tried out the inv on a scrapper yet, is it worth taking instead of regen? i feel regens are a bit squishy.
Many thanks.

Look on the bright side COH wasn't built in a day.

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several things about cov and this is from about 6 months of playing almost EVERY day.
1 the lack of more than 5 general areas, ok know this is gonna take time to build up and yes we getting grandville as another main area but even so you look at the variaty and number of places in coh in comparrison to cov and well erm... also what's with the gloomy atmosphere all the time, when was last time you say a sun set etc in say nerva, etc, heard from a fair few players, cov always looks dirty dull etc, ok from playing on test servers and grandville least one ares dif, but well you can sorta see peeps point on this, and when say sun rise/set etc, try going talos coh way sometime and just wait and watch you'll see exactly what i mean

2 cov is TOO EASY it's stupidly easy to solo on relentless, hell i've taken my stone stone brute up against purples and reds plenty of times and still do, k on some AV's you do need to team realy but others and most missions erm nope

which leads to 3
lack of teams, yes some team on regualr basis specialy good sg's and that's how it should be but drop in teams, sometimes you can be ther for ages on broadcast doing LFT and still not find any which again goes back to how easy it is to solo

4 Maaster Mind AT soloing is stupidly over powered, it's too damn easy to solo specialy high lvl as in effect you got a 6 man team in a mission set for 1

5 Master mind players, no disrespect to the good ones, but some well they kinda need to learn NOT to block small doorways with their pets so the rest of teams when you on can ACTUALY GET THROUGH, i've lost traack of the amount of times i've had to force my way ( and thats a very very slow pace indead) through a masterminds pets jsut to get into a fight to point where i'm seriously considering not playing along side ANY master mind players i haven't teamed with before, wouldn't be so bad if players were able to force their way through a lot more easily but way it is now sometimes a team wipe out can occure cause the brutes and stalkers cant get through fast enough, and as for setup times DONT even get me started on that it's a pain in the (well, you know) only thing in cox that takes longer setup time wise is a dev blaster setting up a small mine field lol and yes know with issue 7 some of the setup time has been reduced, wether it's enough erm well i'll be waiting to see :/

6 a lot of the cov maps are just same as the old coh maps, just reused, only ones even really dif is one of the first snake missions, can't remember which but at least the graphics are a bit better on the cave textures but end of day a LOT of the maps jsut rehash's of the old coh maps, and experianced players of coh can take an educated guess as to where to find the boss, grab the item, find the "kidnap victim" etc etc BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
speaking of maps THE OE MAPS I DESPISE LIKE HELL personaly and think i speak for most of the cov players here is the anarc- maps aka lag maps fr hell, HAVE suggested via petition of making the walls SOLID instead of mesh, cause when there is a lot going on during a mission lots of aoes attackes etc, doesn't matter WHAT system you got you get stuttering during the game play hell friend of mine has 2GB ddr 400 dual channel, duel sli linked nvidia 6800GTX (excuse me but isn't cov more optimised towards nvidia cards?) and a AMD X2 4200+ among other things and EVEN he gets the really bad slow down that most other players get as well, TRY REDUCING THE DETAIL ON THE MAPS FOR GOD SAKE

7 the constant bloody sg spamming in mercy on broadcast
ok it's not always the same person several mins in a row doing though that's been known to happen, and ask most experianced cov players and they'll tell you one thing that drives em nuts about mercy is the constant sg spamming WHY can't cryptic introduce a screen where SGs that ARE recruting wether new or existing can flag themselfs, and when players new or returning come into mercy they get a dialog box explaining breifly what SGs are and if the players decideds they are looking for a sg that it presents them with a list of SGs that are recruiting, amybe have it so that it auto invites if they select SG but DONT include the rankings in the top 100, that way at least some of the smaller and/or newer SGs get the chance to get new players into their SGs

sorry this posts so long but well thought it was time to put this up on the forums, bear in mind most of this is my persoanl opinions but chunks of it are things i've listened to other players complain about suggest etc, hoping that this thread brings more things out, that way amybe cryptic get a better feel for what upsets annoys players, maybe some new ideas on things, ot things that peeps might not have petitioned :?
so please DO NOT 1 flame me for this and 2 DO NOT attack me or other players that post in responce to it, end of day we all have our optinions and each persons entitled to them and it'll be interesting to see the responces

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I totally agree with you 100% if it weren't for the cool costumes i'd go back to COH tomorrow.I'm kicking myself for deleting my lvl 38 scrapper.

It would be great if you can get a stalker with recall friend , you can bypass a lot and cut down the mish time, i did it with one and we did the mish in 45 mins, especially in the final part you can jump from the start to where the tree is,( letting the stalker scout on to find tree) then tp everyone.
Finished in less than an hour.

You could allways get teleport foe, from the power pool set, a handy little power anyway.

Martial Arts is the only scrapper set i have not taken, done all the rest, so i've just started a MA/REGEN and wanted to know what MA power is not worth taking, as i've no idea what any of them are,
your expert advice would be wellcome.
many thanks

Is it worth taking resist elements,energies? i mean do we ever come across anything that dishes out that kind of nastyness..
Mind you there isn't much else to choose from once you've taken all the major ones(rpd, ti, dull pain, unyielding, invincibility, tough hide, unstoppable) plus all the SS ones, except taunt,hurl, hand clap.
Any thoughts would be wellcome.

I have a question(i tried looking in forum for a sensible answer)what do you actually get back from a SG?....the reason i ask is when in SG mode i lose 161 infamy per kill and 4500 infamy from end of mish, thats a lot of infamy to lose, near on 10k a mission, i'm lvl 32 and would like to equip fully with S/O's but will never afford it at this rate, so all this prestige i'm earning the SG what can i get from it.??? SO enhancements maybe, don't think so.

SS/INV all the way, took stamina at 20, never looked back, lvl 31 now, RPD/TI/UNYEILDING/INVINCIBILTY, JAB/PUNCH/ HAYMAKER/KNOCKOUT BLOW/ no end probs at all never have to rest, and rarely use inspirations, i even took on an arch vilain on my own she was a few lvl's below me and my health never moved and my end rarely went below 1/2 way, SS/INV is awesome. THE BEST

Well i am old 46

For mash get SMASH ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

seeing that makes me feel old

Stamina is a must, my ss/inv has got it 3 sloted with SO end recovery, which gives me 95.6%i keep on my TI and unyielding on all the time plus my 4 attack powers(jab,punch,haymaker,knockout blow) and i can do a hole mish without resting or using blue or green inspirations.