Scotsmania

Accents in music are, for the most part, concentrated upon to make sure that they shine through and are noticed, rare though they may be. However, have a listen to songs that are sung in their own language or the music is intentionally designed to imitate the sound and you will notice a huge huge difference. Have listen to some music sang to in Gaelic, or even Celtic songs sang in English.

The common language we all now use and the influence of of the greats in the past is all that is to blame. We don't sound American nor British when we sing but rather sing like we're singing in the English language.

Edit - Im listening to some good old fashioned Gaelic just now and it is far more beautiful than anything that is offered in popular culture. The "Pop" has lost the beautiful and mesmerising component of song and music. What im listening to just now never fails to tilt my head, bring a tear to my eye or rouse me in agreement or rue with what is, was or could have been.

Here's a song i was listening to near the time of writing :http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S45O629G the rest aren't in English so would be less understood.

Does Fulcrum affect the Creepers? My 'lil Plant/Kin is only 33 atm but i cant say i've noticed siphon power making any difference to their damage. If it doesn't then would someone mind explaining briefly where the farming damage comes from on this combo?

Thanks, +0/x8 it is then. The inf from the mobs seems to be a drop in the ocean compared to the inf from the drops so far.

When i used to farm it was before all this new fangled mission level/mob spawn settings that we have now so i just want to double check if i should be making it quicker by lowering the mobs levels.

Yesterday i was doing it with the mobs set at +2/8 but was wondering whether the drop rates would be the same at even con or -1/x8? It's on an IO'd out elec/shield scrapper so the level doesn't bother it, but if they were lower i'd imagine it would go much quicker.

First off, thank you for taking the time to study the various builds and for sharing what you learned here on the forum. Secondly, i come cap in hand to you and the other knowledgeable folks around here with regards to the elec/shield sets.

I'm still trying to get my head around building via sets as during the two years that i played they weren't in the game and in my few brief returns since, the knowledge garnered from them could be summed up with "Ooo + end recovery IO's!" and the same when i saw the Regen ones, for some reason i sold everything else thinking the inf would benefit me at the time... it didn't as i never renewed my sub on any of the occasions, even though i spent some time farming on a fire/kin . So this is a whole new ball game to me.

I've been following the moderate build whilst levelling this toon but am looking for some advice on getting better recharge than it gives. The toon is now 45, so will be needing a respec tomorrow or the next day when it hits 47 and can look at getting the most out of what i have (1.2bil + an unlikely 100mil bid on another LotG rchg). The jist of it is that i have no problem soloing +2/x8 (it just takes far too long due to waiting for powers to recharge) as is, nor even tanking for teams now thanks to buffs, so i want more recharge for my inf than defence. I need some more yes, but a few % could easily be sacrificed from the soft cap to recharge for my needs or how i feel the toon already plays.

Current build is :

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.704
http://www.cohplanner.com/

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Level 46 Natural Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Electrical Melee
Secondary Power Set: Shield Defense
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Blaze Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Havoc Punch -- T'Death-Acc/Dmg(A), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx(3), T'Death-Dmg/Rchg(3), T'Death-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(7), T'Death-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(13), T'Death-Dam%(19)
Level 1: Deflection -- EndRdx(A), DefBuff-I(5), DefBuff-I(5), DefBuff(25), ResDam(25), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(27)
Level 2: Battle Agility -- EndRdx(A), DefBuff(17), DefBuff(17), DefBuff(27)
Level 4: True Grit -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Heal(15), Heal(15)
Level 6: Combat Jumping -- Ksmt-ToHit+(A), LkGmblr-Rchg+(7)
Level 8: Thunder Strike -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(9), Dmg-I(9), Dmg-I(11), Dmg-I(11), RechRdx(13)
Level 10: Active Defense -- RechRdx(A), RechRdx(40)
Level 12: Hurdle -- Jump(A)
Level 14: Health -- Mrcl-Rcvry+(A), RgnTis-Regen+(34), Mrcl-Heal(42)
Level 16: Against All Odds -- EndRdx(A)
Level 18: Chain Induction -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(19), Dmg-I(23), Dmg-I(29), Dmg(29), RechRdx(39)
Level 20: Stamina -- P'Shift-End%(A), EndMod-I(21), EndMod-I(21), EndMod-I(23)
Level 22: Phalanx Fighting -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 24: Boxing -- Acc(A)
Level 26: Tough -- Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(A), Aegis-EndRdx/Rchg(40), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(40)
Level 28: Weave -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), DefBuff(43), DefBuff(43), DefBuff(43)
Level 30: Build Up -- GSFC-ToHit(A), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg(31), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg/EndRdx(31), GSFC-Rchg/EndRdx(31), GSFC-ToHit/EndRdx(34), GSFC-Build%(34)
Level 32: Lightning Rod -- Acc-I(A), Dmg(33), Dmg(33), Dmg(33), RechRdx(37), RechRdx(37)
Level 35: Shield Charge -- Acc(A), Dmg(36), Dmg(36), Dmg(36), RechRdx(37), RechRdx(42)
Level 38: Super Jump -- Zephyr-Travel(A), Zephyr-Travel/EndRdx(39), Zephyr-ResKB(39)
Level 41: Char -- BasGaze-Acc/Hold(A), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(42)
Level 44: Fire Blast -- Decim-Acc/Dmg(A), Decim-Dmg/Rchg(45), Decim-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(45), Decim-Dmg/EndRdx(45)
Level 47: [Empty]
Level 49: [Empty]
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Critical Hit
Level 6: Ninja Run

The reason i'm giving the build that it currently has is simply so that any of you who feel like giving advice know which enhancements i already have and which numbers i'm starting to feel comfortable with.

One other point is that i'd be fine with dropping super jump, it's nice to be a bit faster yeah but with ninja run and the perma jump pack it's not really necessary. I just cant see where i could get the same defense for so little slots.

I honestly don't see why people think it's so poor performing at low levels, i'm playing elec/sd at the moment as my first main toon after having not played since about 2 years after the game came out (apart from 2 very short spells), i rolled an fm/sd to 31 just before i rolled this one but find elec more fun. I've have been having a blast on it since level 1 up to it's current level of 40. The only IO's it has are 2 x LotG recharge, a steadfast +3% def and a few basic lvl 35 IO's, the rest are SO's, i haven't felt particularly squishy compared to my old scrappers that made it fine to 50 before IO's were in the game.

All in all, so far i'd say i've been even more impressed with this one than i ever was with any of them, although my favourite one previously was kat/sr, and since around 32 i've found myself having to tank quite often for teams and being able to do it effectively. I doubt very much i'd have been able to solo +1 & 2/x8 as easily has this toon has allowed me to.

Perhaps it's just the power set combo i settled on but the amount of fun that is to be had from elec/sd and to a lesser extent (for me) fm/sd more than makes up for any feeling of squishiness people may have in lower levels.

I don't know why i just tried again, but i did, and for some reason it worked this time with my CC

This is really starting to annoy me, it's as though NCSoft simply does not want my money. I've had the 24 hour lockout between buying booster packs in the past, which whilst annoying i could live with. But this, this is just plain ridiculous.

I tried to buy the Mac edition during maintenance yesterday and it came back with an error. Fine you'd think, just try after maintenance, so i did... to find i'd been locked out and getting the usual message that you get when you need to try again 24 hours later. So i just tried again and am still locked out, there is 5 times the amount needed in my paypal account so funds aren't the issue. I even just tried it with my credit card only to be hit with "An error has occurred", again there is way more on my CC than needed for the purchase.

Is there a way round this, or do they just not want our money? I'd be fine if i was locked out for having bought something in the past 24hrs but i haven't been able to buy a damn thing.

The launcher works fine for me, servers are down for another 40 minutes as The_Coming_Storm says though.

I had no idea you could make savings this way, i'd wrongly assumed that the codes for the full editions would be used to create a new account, i learn something new every day

Just so i don't keep trying and end up with NCSoft throwing that daily limit on my account, is it normal to get an error when paying during server maintenance?

Edit - it was the maintenance that gave the error, now it's over it's giving me the usual message when you get locked out for 24hrs. Ah well, no Valkyrie set for me today.

Thanks for all the info Hyperstrike, it helped enlighten me to what everything does.

Now we just need to get them to give some sort of fix to allow AA + AO at the same time without taking a huge hit on ATI cards, I can max everything out in ultra mode @ 1600x1200 but any combination of those two drops FPS to the 20-30 range just standing still in Steel. I ended up just turning off AO and using AA x8 as jaggies annoy the heck outta me.

I probably shouldn't have put "old" players in the title, i'm one of those that type as i think and well, i was thinking about auld players at the time


I'd love to play alongside any of you, auld players or not, hell i feel like a newbie with all this new fangled stuff in the game

We're out on the lash tonight, or at least starting on it before we head out, but i'd love to team with some of you over the weekend. I've a bunch of toons hero side on virtue in various levels up to 50, current one 32 but playing on villain side atm on a 22 MM.