SlyGuyMcFly

Defence crash? Not a problem. Damage crash? Hella annoying. End crash? Sometimes deadly.

Rage in a nutshell.

He seems to have that effect on people.

Me, I'm so, so very stoked for this issue. We may not be getting any extra content, but being able to finally roll a spine/ scrapper? Being able to fight large mobs solo? not having to worry about SKs and Exemping? Hells yeah baby.

Best of luck and get well soon Posi!

Yeah, kinda. Specifically, I can't seem to find it.

I am so glad they changed that accolade. Stupid PvP requirements...

Wow. I didn't know CounterStrike Junkies had the patience for marketeering.

To the OP: I'm honestly not sure it would have that much effect on pricing. It's not like most people bother looking at supply and demand of what they want. Or the last 5, for that matter.

Short answer: Scrapper.

Slightly longer answer: Some tanks, mostly FA/somethings are good soloers. Any scrapper makes a good soloer.

I like idea 1 tremendously. It would probably be hard(ish?) to implement, but damn if it wouldn't be cool.

Idea 2 is not so great. A GM spawning is kinda nice as you can take it our if you want to or just ignore the bugger and go about on your business. Rikti bombs falling all over the zone? Zombie invasions + fog? Way too disruptive to normal gameplay for my tastes.

A capital idea, my good sir.

/signed

I seem to remember reading a discussion in one of the Pylon soloing threads a while back (read: between 6 and 18 months) about how the theoretical DPS given arcanatime was not exactly matching the observed DPS as calculated by the defeat times of various Pylons. What I don't remember was if the discussion yielded anything other than "this is wierd, but we have no idea what it might be".

Hmm... say I can only afford about 40-60% global recharge on my claws/ brute. Best chain?

I've never rolled a earth troller because I didn´t like the thematic options for secondaries all that much. But in i16 I'll be able to make an earth/cold with multicoloured crystals in all his powers. Should be a fun combo giving godly amounts of safety to the team. And some nice debuffs to boot.

Thanks for the replies folks, I'll be skipping Elude, but keeping Quickness. 20% recharge for one power and no extra slots? Yes please!

I'd really like to get some definitive numbers on ST attack chains but I might end up asking that in the Scrapper forum, as they seem do that kind of stuff a lot.

I'm thinking Rad/Fire too. All damage, all AoE, all IN UR FACE! Probably a pain to solo but in teams... oh baby. I've always wondered what an AoE blapper is like, besides often dead. Force Mastery for PFF would seem like the way to go with this one.

I'm thinking claws/sr too. The reason being that /SR benefits tremendously from the sort of low-budget IO builds that I can afford.

Something I was wondering about Brute claws is this: Follow Up, yeah or nay? Because Brutes get much less benefit fom the dam buff when compared to scrappers and I was thinking that perhaps one would be better off getting rid of it and using a higher DPA attack instead (or tightening one's attack chain). Has anyone crunched the numbers on this?

I have a suspicion that if you can perma double-stack it it's worth it, but not so worth it without. My crunch-fu is too weak to actually test that, though.

I figured it would be like that. Thanks for all the quick replies.

Quick question: If I take to different +stealth IOs and slot them, do the effects stack, giving me invisibility, or can I only benefit from one? Specifically, I was thinking about putting one in CJ and the other in Sprint.

So yeah. What it says on the thread title. What do I skip, considering that I'm cool with going without travel, and really, really like 1kCuts?

On a related note, what the better attack chains for DB Stalkers? Hopefully there's one out there that doesn't require a load of power picks OR insane recharge to pull off. I've been looking at Mids and haven't found it yet.

If someone happened to have a non-purple build on Mids I'd like to see it, too.

Maybe I'm wierd/wrong, but I use the Sweep combo for the AoE. 1kCuts is big by meelee cone standards, and does nice damage*. The 50% added damage on Typhoon's Edge turns it into the second most damaging PbAoE Scrappers get. The KD is nice, but I tend to see the AoE damage as the main point.


*Yeah, crappy activation time, I know. OTOH, it's nice and big, and has a 10 target cap, if CoH isn't lying to me.