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You're right. The recharge is pretty much only for the Oil Slick Arrow. This is THE power in the set! Especially with pretty much auto igniting thanks to the pets (The slow still works when the patch burns).

Your problem with the Flash Arrow.... didn't thought of that because this never happened to me. It works pretty well on all my archers. And yes, the tohit is small, didn't I mentioned it? But it was "important" only if you stay the def route, because every little bit of -tohit helps your def like any +def set bonus!

I forgot one thing: For pet survival, try to slot all 4 bonus auras for pets in your build. Its not that much, but it will help.

I like both sets, I have both sets, but not at the same toon....
But maybe I'm still able to help you, because I think I see your Problem:

You go the "Def cap everything" route which is pretty popular right now, and usually, its a good idea for most toons, it isn't for all. Neither your primary nor your secondary give you any def powers you can base your build on. You need to go completely with pools and boni for this. And reviewing your build, you did a good job with it. But you didn't reach the cap, and with the last 5% as important as the other 40%, it isn't really reliable imo. And you pretty much ignore the tools TA gives you completely this way.
So my advice is try another (2nd) build:

- Get some resistance. PPP/APP Pools, Fighting Pools Tough. You should getroundabout 65% s/l resistance easily this way. And resitance doesn't care about def caps AND this should be enough to take some hits with BD.

- Your arrows, USE THEM!
"I'm spamming every debuff I have....Oil Slick, Glue Arrow, Acid and Disruption Arrow, EMP arrow"
Well, EMP arrow is good, but thanks to its recharge and even more his recovery debuff on yourself, I never considered it a "bread and butter" power in the set.
Oil Slick Arrow isn't really a debuff.... I prefer to think of it as "DoT Nuke", with bonus debuffs and usually I slot it this way or recharge. The slow effect comes from your Glue Arrow, it recharges faster, slows better and together they pretty much set the mob in "Baywatch Mode".
Flash Arrow is pretty often skipped or labeled a "bad power". It isn't! Well the tohit debuff isnt too high but if you stay with slotting for def: Every bit will help!" and -tohit is +def. And even if not, the -perception is gold! Usually a /TA doesnt stay in the mob, and mobs who can't see you, can't attack you. Same goes for the ranged first strikes from your pets

My "arrow spam pattern" usually is: Flash Arrow - Glue Arrow - Disruption Arrow (At this point my pets get the attack command) - Oil Slick Arrow. After that I usally just start shooting Acid Arrows and Poison Gas Arrows at hard targets and maybe a new Flash and Disruption Arrow, but usually one earch is enough until the mob dies.

- Assign targets manually. Pets are dumb, and waste their attacks. You're the MasterMind! Act like one!
Assign a central first target for AoE goodness! This way you usually "off the hook" and don't get any mob-attention.
TA has suboptimal damage mitigation but when it comes to really weaken a mob so it easily melt down in front of your pet army, its just awesome.


Sorry I couldn't help you to actually improve your original tactic, but maybe my alternative will do. Imo going Def with these sets is kind of a dead end.
But both CAN do fine. My /TA MM even works a reliable, cheap and really fun ticket farmer. And does as well in normal game. So I'm sure you can make your toon at least "work".

I can't see the problem with it, in fact I think its a great idea.
No need for a complete new powerset (which is always great, if), just giving TA animations matching with BR, DP and AR spawns a lot of new concepts as well as for defenders, corruptor and even MMs (Bow? I'm shooting trick bullets from my multi-function-swiss-pocketgun! )
Conceptwise it would offer an alternative to traps for natural origin characters.

Hey there.

Seems I am the newest member of the EERC.

Being a CoH player since Oct'07 (so I am the newb here compared to the others )

Running mostly (and so far almost exclusively) at Zukunft

Leader (and atm the only active member) of the Justice Crusaders

I initiated a pretty long running series of MoSTFs, open4all with the goal to get as much players the badge as we could. And I guess we were pretty successful.

Also, a loooooooong time ago I started a giant monster hunting tour at Zukunft, also open4all.... Repeated it several times
This can be done pretty spontaneous (2-3 Vets for lead are enough) and was always pretty popular especially among new players.

How about something like this at Defiant/Union? Since EERC targets especially new players, this can be kind of a nice experience for new guys: large party, fast and successful fights against impressive mobs and an guided tour around the city.

I didn't post a build on purpose. I don't like copying complete builds or getting mine tweaked out by others, but I like peeking in other builds for the "oooh! that's clever" effect and developing my own based on all the ideas I have and the ones I get.
So feel free to post your own mind/ and/or /elek builds here.^^

Powers:
I want fly for my travelpower. Concept reasons.

From the primary and secondary pools I thought about taking pretty much every power, but I am not really sold on "Zapp" and "Levitate".

For the PPP I plan to take Makos, must have there is the "Water Sprout". ^^

For other pools I am open to suggestions.

Goals:
Soloing isn't that relevant, but I would like to send AVs to a nap or punching their friends in a TF.
For everything else I would like to take the part of a supporter (mob control) with max. damage contributing (what's possible after the other goals, of course).
And I don't need a AV-Solo-Killer and I don't want to invest billions.^^

Hi there,

I crawled through this forum, and there's nothing about this particular combination.
After dozens of other Doms I tried this is the first one that survived to a level past 10. ....but I am pretty new to Doms, so any input, build ideas or suggestions?
Share your wisdom, oh wise veterans of this archetype!


Thank you.

What enemy group that you fought caused the most trouble?

But anyway, its strange. The lowest attack should deal more damage even unslotted....

And your attack chain is a bit unfortunate. The eagle's claw as finisher? You know you waste a huge load of damage plus a high chance for a stun plus a additional (ridiculous hig) critchance for your next attack with using it this way?

Tunderkick could be skipped (especially since the cobra strike deals a huge load of damage and can be used for damage in first place.), its only use was for the mentioned last hp from a mob but your attacks recharges fast enough that you can easily spend a crane kick or a storm kick to do that.

And where's the crippling axe kick? Sure it animates pretty long (feeled, in fact the animationtime is even 0,07s shorter than for crane kick or cobra strike.) , but the damage is more than considerable. Take it, asap.^^
Oh and it does some neat little debuffs, too.

So.... try that and let us know if your experiences with MA improved.


I would do some tests in game, but its too late now (here in Europe, of course :P). But I'll see what I can do tomorrow.

So far, I'm not.
And a lot of people, too I guess.

Martial Arts is a great set, and I really can't see why you are that disappointed with the damage. I made a MA/Regen Scrapper a long time ago and he was fun from level 1 and he is to this very day. With the i19 changes even more. There aren't any real useless powers and whats the deal with only one AoE? Martial Arts is single damage (which makes sense with the concept).

And for single damage, MA is pretty nice, hitting hard, being accurate and provides some nice little side effects.

And in my opinion the Dragons Tail is one of the better AoE, the damage isn't superior but I've never considered it to be. DT is best used as a kind of soft control (the Knockdown), mobs lying down can't attack. As the first attack or as the second in a mob (after Eagles Claw, if you enjoy seeing alot of "criticals" in the air^^)

But if you want to fight multiple targets at once, try the Chackie Chan way:
Trigger the tab-key.