Schismatrix

Getting Scrapper crits on a power is still not Scourge. Awesome, yes, but still not Scourge.

You can activate any power or macro while logging out as long as you don't click them rapidly. You can can change targets, buff, debuff, self destruct, fire off attacks at enemies already in range, trigger macros, click on doors or other interactive objects and just about anything that involves clicking on something on the screen; anything except commands/macros that make the character move from where they're standing. You can, however, toggle off flight powers and drop out of the sky while the logout timer is counting down if you want. Just remember that clicking things rapidly will cancel the timer.

i'm pretty sure the Warburg Hyper Phase power can be acquired at any level once you're able to enter Warburg, but you can only get it five times.

There's a fair number of questionable power picks besides Time Bomb, but honestly if that build was a building i'd be tempted to tear it down and put up a new one in its place. The overall slotting is puzzling. It's not exactly Frankenslotted, but it isn't really slotted for set bonuses either.

i'd suggest building for soft-capping of ranged and AoE defense first and then whatever else depending on preferences.

And when GR comes out you'll finally be able to make own of your own.

i agree with Teeth about Time Bomb and Trip Mine. Trip Mine is fantastic and Time Bomb left me room for an extra power selection. Did an ITF earlier with my Traps/Dark and it was awesome during the AV fights to lay a field of Trip Mines around myself in between laying traps and blasting the AVs. The patrols/ambushes that came too close to my Defender really regretted it.

As i recall, no. Once you get him as a contact you can run it at any level and it exemps you down.

Ah, my mistake. i've only run it a couple times and there wasn't a lot of time to spend reading the briefings and clues, so i got it a bit muddled.

Well... umm... then... they did... err... i got nothin'. (Especially since the "juiced" Freedom Phalanx was the easy one to beat.)

It'd be more accurate to say "you should run out to a grocery store and buy/beg/borrow/steal the same soup i did before commenting on how i want soup to work in game."

Hey, at least he finally posted the sidebar text so that the rest of us actually know what he's talking about. It's shocking, but not everyone who plays an MMO subscribes to every gaming magazine on the planet.

Anyone want to run one this evening?
Whether i can attend or not depends on whether i feel good enough to go to a friend's party, but it would be fun for anyone who is on tonight. (Head colds are annoying. Lots of snow today as well, but that's not an issue.)

That's actually pretty accurate. As i recall, the Future Freedom Phalanx in the final battle is supposed to be all juiced up on Synthetic Hamidon Enhancements, so there is a good reason in that particular instance for them being so much more powerful than normal.

The endurance drain protection in Insulation Shield can occasionally be a lifesaver as well. Back when the strategy on some servers was for assault teams to distract the blues and greens by attacking the blues while the melee teams took down the yellows both Insulation Shield and O2 Boost were good for reducing the pain from blue blasts, and O2 Boost also helped against the stuns.
i still occasionally flatline on endurance from blue blast effects.

i think he means pursuit in PvE. In PvP teleport is still effectively worthless since there's currently no way to suppress teleport's range without suppressing the range on all powers, so it's simply disabled whenever you attack or get attacked.

Also, i have a few characters who use the Teleport and Hover combo. Hover's endurance consumption is trivial, and not worth slotting for in my opinion, but since i tend to use Hover in combat i generally three-slot it for flight speed in addition to any other procs i fit into it.
My typical slotting in Teleport is 1 range and 1 endurance.

Clarification: Hover is nearly useless in PvP as an escape power, but it is an excellent alpha strike power.

Eh, i'm going to go with je saist on this one. i may not agree with her(?) all the time, but in this case i'd rank your statements at -.3 on a scale of 1 to 10.

To continue the threadjack, there's a significant difference between the hemp originally used for things like rope, cloth, etcetera and hemp that's been bred for THC content.

Back on topic:
i don't find the PvP portion of the sidebar that the OP posted to be anything new in terms of insight into WoW or CoH PvP. We already have rewards that can only be earned through PvP or by going into PvP zones, and even badges that are earned by PvP victories. i haven't played WoW, so i'm just going by what i've seen posted by people who have, but i have the impression that gameplay in WoW is not nearly as fast-paced and maneuverable as CoH, which made the original CoH PvP a turn off for some since a practiced team using damage spiking could defeat the vast majority of players before they could react or the target would outrun their attackers. The new PvP system in CoH greatly reduced both issues, but makes game play and powers in PvP quite different from PvE.

My personal opinion is that the changes were a bit too drastic and sweeping, that i actually liked the old system more overall despite not being an avid fan of PvP, and it's also true that most of the PvP playerbase hated the changes when the new systems were implemented. i would've preferred more modest alterations to PvP gameplay with things like diminishing returns, heal decay and travel suppression being less severe initially and increased as necessary, but i understand why the Devs felt it was necessary to hit hard initially, and then to ease off it seemed to be needed: one big "nerf" with later incremental "buffs" is accepted more easily than gradually ramping up the "nerfs". (Note that i said "more easily" not "easily".)

You can farm a hell of a lot more purples at -1 than +4. Con level doesn't affect drop chances, and anything at least minion rank at level 47 and up can drop a purple, so 49 enemies are a lot more useful for farming purples than 54.

Trivia: Originally purples were stated as dropping only from minions, but as far as i know it never really worked that way.

an electromagnetic pulse to wipe out all its backups?
Of course this would inflict even greater disruption and devastation than the creature itself, but there are those who have gazed into its eyes and feel the price is worth it.

Not sure how that would work since it based on a per spawn basis and each of these bubblers starts in a different spawn. It would probably require a different sort of code added to the AI that checks for friendly critters in the same area using the same power. Probably not practical to do, but this my opinion without direct knowledge of how the AI is coded. Obviously it works on the applied buffs, but getting critters to run toggles is already a bit tricky from what i recall.

That and ignoring the at least half dozen posters in the following discussion who could in fact defeat the guy in question. Of course being a QR they probably only read the OP and then posted blissfully ignorant of all those who succeeded in doing what the OP couldn't.

The Westley "wut" could just be an expression of incredulity that they posted something so obviously clueless.
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