Streethawk

That's not the power, but player error.

Yeah, since my schedule has been a bit wacky too, my elec/elec dom is still in Praetoria too. But my Elec/SR scr is climbing the ladder pretty quick and gonna start his villainous desecent as soon as I get Posi TF out of the way.

Look out Synapse.. here comes Hyperfist! Time to go... HYPER!

I was thinking about running an all melee STF or LGTF actually, though not that AT quantity specific.

And yeah, the point of most all scrapper/tank/brute TFs/SFs is to just stab, punch, bludgeon and kick everything till it's dead. Death is just a minor delay in more of the same.

While I get your point about overanalyzing and looking at something so hard can sometimes take away from the "fun" of actually just running it. But with no analyzing and just random attacking, this can take away from the fun too. Look at the heap of failed Cathedral of Pain trials recently with people thinking they can just throw nukes and pets at things and succeed.

From my own personal experience of running the Rikti Raids (though this is not equal by no means to the organization and direction of people for Hami and/or CoPs), "mastery of people" is required more than anything else. I can see how his wording is taken as some form of elitism or just plain bullying... it still isn't any less true. A simple lack of communication and getting the Mob to do what's best for all can turn any raid or multi-team endeavor from a Wham-Bam-Thank You Maam into an truly ugly cluster****. And I'm by no mean an elitest; at least not that I'm aware. I'm not that good of a player, first of all. Nor do I try to exclude people willing to listen and learn or that can input constructive criticism and offer up help. But get that many people to try to work together without becoming like the mindless mobs of Rome unleashed does take "mastery of people"; or at least an understanding and ability to direct and/or motivate them to act in harmony. Throw a raid a curveball like half the raiders wiping for whatever reason, and things can get ugly fast. Once you've seen one raid leader and those individuals who back them up handle that... you quickly see how one raid can fall apart in dismal failure, and how others pull themselves up, dust themselves off, and launch back into the fray with another win under their belt.

Just my thought, and probably the longest one I've posted on the CoH forums in my over 5 years of playing.

I blame Cai for using long words like "epidemic" and "braggadocio".
*cuts off his visitation rights to the kittens*
<_<

Which supergroup and bin was that again? >_>
*hides transdimensional portal lockpick* <_<

Well once you hit "soft-cap", anything more is just overkill and will be marginal versus accuracy... least that's the theory behind soft-capping. I go a little bit above the standard 45% soft-cap to counteract on defense debuff. For instance, on my db/sr I'm at about 53% positional defenses and I'm pretty much untouchable, so Elude is a waste for me. Least in my opinion. There are other camps of thought though in regards to defense soft-capping and taking/not taking Elude.

Well both in regards to the OPs and in regards to your stalker, it is easy to reach "soft-cap" with the Super Reflexes set (either scr, sta or bru) even with use of Weave. My issue with doing it without Weave is a I don't like simply acheiving soft-cap when there's so many mobs like to debuff defense. I like to go a little above and beyond.

Plus there's the perspective of doing a doing concept toon. I usually tend to play a toon more if it's a concept I create from the beginning and I really flesh it out including bio and level progression that fits within the CoH mythos/universe. But the question always is.. how much are you willing to sacrifice for a concept? If your concept is a "natural" fighter, then I'm almost always willing to skip the travel power. Makes it a pain for going zone to zone, especially on a tf/sf. But like I said, how much are you willing to sacrifice to maintain both your min/maxing and concept for certain easiness of mobility and such.

Maybe posting what build you currently have might help us where we can "trim the fat" to drop Weave and pick up Physical Perfection for you.

Hmm, I'll try to go Vigan with my tank by Thursday. Mon and Wed nights are so hard for me to get on unless I plan ahead for it. If not, my scr is already wandering around the Isles and back you up.

I can answer that question... Rikti Rumble (Mothership Raid) is every Sunday at 9pm EST. I'll start running double runs I think unless someone else steps up to run the 2nd one after mine. This should help everyone to keep stocked up on V-merits for HVAs for both Hami raids and CoP.

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