Scirion

After having spent the last several hours of double XP trying new builds in Mids instead... (Thanks guys!)

Arctic Air (Dominator/Ice Control) applies the -50% Recharge debuff to yourself if it is toggled on. (It took me and two other people quite some time to figure out where 50% of my recharge was going...)

Might of the Tanker proc applies something like -13.77% (I forget the exact number) Resistance if toggled on.

Otherwise, it's working great! I look forward to spending even more time alt-tabbed out of the game testing new builds. >.>

Wow, you totally missed my point. Problem not solved. >.>

Can we get more denominations (if that would be the correct term) of Paragon Points to buy in the store? Right now, we have:

400 - $5
1,200 (plus bonus, making it 1,320 total) - $15
4,000 (4,600) - $50
8,000 (9,600) - $100


To make it easier for "impulse buyers" (like me) who are also on a budget (like me) to spend money (while not spending more money than we have), I would like to suggest adding another option between 400/1,200 and 1,200/4,000 with the proper pricing options.

For example, right now, I would like to buy 5 character slots. 5 slots is 1,600 points. I have no desire to drop $50 (and I shouldn't be spending $50 on this right now, either) for 4,000 points right now. Which means I will have to buy 1,200, followed by buying another 400 to give me enough points. A nice alternative would be say, 2,600 points for something like $25 (whatever the appropriate price point would be). This would give me enough to buy my slots, and have a handful of points leftover to use on either the upcoming powersets, or more Super Packs.


What say you, devs?

*casts Howling Twilight, bringing the dead thread back to life*

>.>

Just thought I'd mention, I've recently started playing my TW Brute I started back when TW released, and... I'm actually noticing the same thing consistently. There's some sort of odd "lag" between the visual effect and actual damage effect on Whirling Smash. And ONLY on the one power. I haven't noticed (with any sort of consistency, like I have with Whirling Smash) it on any of the other powers. It doesn't happen every time I use it, but it does happen alot.

Is it known if there is a fix in the work for the UI (particularly power trays and any monitored combat attributes) having been completely broken since the last update?

Or should I just /bug it every time I log in to a character I haven't played since the last update? >.>

First off, I'd like to mention that as someone who divides time roughly equally between testing builds in Mids and actually playing the game, I greatly appreciate the effort you all put into developing Mids and keeping it updated. Sure, it'd be great if we had a new release of Mids at the same time as updates for the game, but... It's free. It'll get here when it gets here. I can wait.

If I wasn't underpaid (or underemployed, however you want to look at it), I would most definitely donate to the cause but sadly, it can't be done right now.

And since I'm here... (I probably should have created an account on the Titan forums and mentioned it long ago, but I'm an expert procrastinator)


Does this mean damage calculations (specifically, Critical Hits for Scrappers and Stalkers) and stacking from Defensive Sweep/Power Siphon (Titan Weapons/Kinetic melee, respectively) will be properly calculated with the next release?

Just thought I'd ask. >.>

Thanks for the help, I appreciate it! I'll probably keep the Lockdown in it, but I might swap out the End/Hold for the purple proc, for a little bit of extra damage.

I really only play melee-types, and the rare Blaster, so I apologize if this is a stupid question, but... Here goes.

Is Volcanic Gasses affected by Domination? I was on a EHTF tonight, and maybe I just missed it, but it didn't appear to have any effect. It certainly didn't pop up "Domination", like Immobilizes did. Is VG immune to Domination because it's a pseudopet, or am I just missing something?

If VG does ignore Domination (IE: I'm not imagining things), does this mean that the Lockdown proc would also be a futile use of a slot?

Since I'm asking questions, does this also mean that Mids is correctly showing that 5-slotting Unbreakable Constraint has no effect? >.>

So, I've basically given up on trying to track the Paragon Points in the store. I don't remember what all I've bought using points, and thus cannot confirm how many points I *should* have simply by using the Microtransaction listing in my billing summary. In any case, I really don't care about that enough to submit a ticket for something I *might* be missing, or might not. However, to the best of my memory, I've used 4 free Server Transfer Tokens since the launch of Freedom. I currently have a balance of zero transfer tokens. I can live with that, too. I really only play on Virtue, and thus, I only transfer characters when it's something I've lost interest in, but for one reason or another, can't bring myself to delete it.

That said, what annoys me is the Reward Tokens. According to this quote that I believe originally came from Zwillinger:

You said no PvP's, so I took that to strictly mean zero, even if there are better options in the "lesser" (and relatively affordable) PvP sets like Fury of the Gladiator, etc. With that in mind, this is not *exactly* what I would do in your position, but it's close, I think.

It is also likely far from "the best" but hey, we can't all be superstars.
Don't forget to turn on Incarnates for Agility, Degenerative, and Ageless. Alternatively, take Rebirth for added +Regen, but at the cost of less uptime on IH/MoG, and also putting you a hair short of perma-hasten. (4.4s, to be exact)

Quick rundown:
46.4% Melee Defense with a single DA.
60 HP/s passive Regen, 151 HP/s with IH up.
32% S/L Resistance
2,306 HP - Freedoom Phalanx accolade will put you at the cap. Rednames get the accolades for free, right? >.>
MoG every 59 seconds, IH every 152.
Golden Dragonfly hits for 390 every 2.8 seconds. Not sure how that factors into "the best" attack chain, but it's gotta come in handy, right?
And more endurance than you'll ever need, of course

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.953
http://www.cohplanner.com/

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Level 50 Magic Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Katana
Secondary Power Set: Regeneration
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Speed
Ancillary Pool: Blaze Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Sting of the Wasp -- T'Death-Acc/Dmg(A), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx(3), T'Death-Dmg/Rchg(13), T'Death-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(34), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(39), T'Death-Dam%(39)
Level 1: Fast Healing -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Numna-Heal(5), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(13)
Level 2: Flashing Steel -- Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(3), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(15), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(34), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(39), Oblit-%Dam(40)
Level 4: Quick Recovery -- P'Shift-EndMod(A), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(5), P'Shift-End%(15)
Level 6: Reconstruction -- Dct'dW-Heal(A), Dct'dW-Rchg(9), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(17), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(34), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx(40)
Level 8: Divine Avalanche -- C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(A), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(9), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(17), LkGmblr-Rchg+(36), LkGmblr-Def/Rchg(40)
Level 10: Dull Pain -- Dct'dW-Heal(A), Dct'dW-Rchg(11), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(11), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(36), Dct'dW-EndRdx/Rchg(36)
Level 12: Build Up -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 14: Boxing -- Empty(A)
Level 16: Integration -- Mrcl-Rcvry+(A), Mrcl-Heal(27), Mrcl-Heal/EndRdx(27), RgnTis-Regen+(37)
Level 18: The Lotus Drops -- Armgdn-Dmg(A), Armgdn-Dmg/Rchg(19), Armgdn-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(19), Armgdn-Acc/Rchg(37), Armgdn-Dmg/EndRdx(42), AnWeak-Acc/Rchg/EndRdx(42)
Level 20: Resilience -- TtmC'tng-ResDam(A), TtmC'tng-ResDam/EndRdx(21), TtmC'tng-ResDam/Rchg(21), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(37)
Level 22: Tough -- TtmC'tng-ResDam(A), TtmC'tng-ResDam/EndRdx(23), TtmC'tng-ResDam/Rchg(23)
Level 24: Weave -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(25), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(25)
Level 26: Soaring Dragon -- Hectmb-Dmg(A), Hectmb-Dmg/Rchg(31), Hectmb-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(31), Hectmb-Acc/Rchg(42), Hectmb-Dmg/EndRdx(43), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(45)
Level 28: Instant Healing -- Numna-Heal/Rchg(A), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(29), Mrcl-Heal/Rchg(29)
Level 30: Hover -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(31), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(33)
Level 32: Golden Dragonfly -- Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(33), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(33), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(43), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(43), Oblit-%Dam(45)
Level 35: Revive -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 38: Moment of Glory -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def/Rchg(45), TtmC'tng-ResDam/Rchg(46)
Level 41: Char -- UbrkCons-Hold(A), UbrkCons-Hold/Rchg(46), UbrkCons-Acc/Hold/Rchg(46), UbrkCons-Acc/Rchg(48), UbrkCons-EndRdx/Hold(48)
Level 44: Fire Blast -- Dev'n-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(A), Dev'n-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(48)
Level 47: Fire Ball -- Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(A), Posi-Acc/Dmg(50), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(50)
Level 49: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(50)
Level 50: Agility Partial Core Revamp
Level 50: Degenerative Total Radial Conversion
Level 50: Ageless Radial Epiphany
Level 0: Freedom Phalanx Reserve
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Critical Hit
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Swift -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Health -- Numna-Heal(A), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(7)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- Efficacy-EndMod(A), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(7)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 4: Ninja Run

I have never experienced a situation where Holds/Stuns/Etc physically prevented a Break Free from firing. I've been held by Ghost Widow (Mag 100) and Sequestered (Mag 1,000 if I recall correctly), and Break Frees will fire in both situations. They don't work, because of the high magnitude, but they still fire. To that end, enough Gunslingers can stack enough holds on you to hold through Rooted, and possibly Granite on top of it, if you get hit enough. I've had the same thing happen on my Shield tank, though he was running at +4/x8. >.>

I approve of this idea.

Lately, I've been feeling (for lack of a better term) "burned out" on CoH. All of my current characters (12 50's, another 15 characters between 1-40, all on Virtue, the only REAL server. ) have been boring me, for one reason or another, and all of the lowbies are... Well... Boring, for various reasons. Now, part of this is probably my fault for refusing to roll "Flavor of the Month" characters (The few characters that I already had well on their way to 50 before they became FotM don't count), and also thriving on finding ways to make AT/Powerset combinations other people seem to think "suck" work. And work very well.

<I had a really long, rambling post here, but put this in instead>
Long story short... I have a tendency to roll supposedly "sub-par" builds, and (obviously) avoid the "FotM" builds (TW/Elec Brutes, Claws/Elec Brutes, Fire/Kin Controllers, etc). I refuse to buy KinCombats, Hami-O's (except Centrioles for a certain Blaster), and a few others, for no logical reason. Call it OCD, I dunno. Most of my builds are what I would term "semi-high-end" (between 2-6B, buying crafted IO's off the market because I'm lazy like that), but I'm looking to go all out (stopping just short of the 2B inf PvP procs and the like) and "purple out" this project. The problem with this idea is... I can't come up with a single build in my "comfort zone" of melee types that would give me a significant return on my investment that I couldn't do nearly as well in my normal budget.

So... Somewhat hesitantly, I'm looking mainly towards Controllers and Dominators, but anything other than Masterminds are a possibility (I'm rolling a MM whenever Beast Mastery shows up, and that will be my token MM. I hate them.). However, I've hit a snag. Apparently, I totally suck at building anything in Mids that isn't a Tank/Scrapper/Stalker, so I come to you, friendly forum-goers, for suggestions/assistance. So far, the best candidate I've come up with... Is something I already have:


Ice/Earth Dominator - I already have one in it's 30's, and it would benefit significantly from the increased recovery/recharge of using several (specifically, 5) purple sets. However, despite building entirely for recovery/recharge (I ended up with something like 12% defense across the board from what basically amount to LotG mules in reality), I just barely hit perma-Hasten, and perma-dom only with Hasten up. I can only come up with one explanation. I'm Doing It Wrong(TM). With T3 Cardiac Core, recovery would be... Manageable? An alternate build took Mu Mastery for Power Sink, but I'd really like to avoid going back to full Villain just for the epic pools, since I literally *just* got it full Hero (I totally forgot to run the arc before switching).

Also considering a Mind/Dark Dominator when i22 hits (a look at a test build using Mind/Psi in Mids looked plausible), but... I'm not sure on that one.

<wow, that really ended up being just as rambling. Oh well>

All that said... Anyone have any suggestions (within the mentioned criteria) to cure my urge to spend way too much inf on something for way too little return? lol

Suggest. Criticize. Outright make fun of me. I really don't care.

I would like to point out that... Removing the aggro cap from Tanks does not instantly equal farming. If my Tank can survive herding the entire last map full of Cimerorans on an ITF, I see no reason to not be able to.

1 Acc, 2 Rech. Same for Siphon Speed.

Your preference may vary, but I have Granite slotted with 3 Aegis, an LotG +Recharge, a Gift of the Ancients Def/Run Speed, and a common Resistance IO. I have Rooted slotted with 3 Numinas/3 Regenerative Tissue, including the procs from both sets. I don't rely on Earth's Embrace much, so it has 3 Doctored Wounds (Rech, Heal/Rech, and Heal/End/Rech), plus a Numina's Heal/Rech. But, a bit of a disclaimer, I highly doubt anyone would actually suggest using my build. In fact, people might actually recommend NOT using it.

Yes, it's that unconventional. At least, I think it is. >.>

I have an idea here... Why not replace IH with RttC, and turn RttC into a +Res instead of +Regen, thus keeping in the respective themes of Willpower and Regeneration? Just a thought.

I warned you. I can't do math.

Uh oh. We're introducing math now. You're confusing me. >.>

I get the number of... 16.79, if I have this right.

I came to this conclusion by doing...

10/5.89(total activation time for my chain)/1(one AH proc in Ablating)*4+10

Is that correct?

Edit: On a related note... Is there any way to factor in the damage from Attack Vitals? If my math is right, (which is probably isn't, but we'll just pretend it is), Ablating>Weaken>Repeat does slightly more damage (specifically,13.23 total) per cast time than Ablating>Attack Vitals>Repeat, but I'm assuming Mids can't account for the bonus DoT from Attack Vitals... I'm assuming (and we all know what happens when you assume) that the faster total cast time for Attack Vitals (5.89 compared to 6.96 for Weaken) plus the DoT would actually result in significantly higher damage... But I'm also terrible at math, so I could be wrong. :/


Also, figured I'd reply to this one as well since I'm here: