TehFiri

Generally speaking most nice builds, unless they are straight damage (read: psi/em) wont have/need a boat load (and maybe none at all) of PvP IOs in them. Even then ppl usually only put them in for HP buffs because they are so pricey and stick with that.

So going off your list here are a few suggestions you could consider making:

Son/Therm Corr - Has some good buffs and an ok team mate heal as well as an aoe self heal. It also has Heat Exhaust which is a great debuff as well as melt armor (-res debuff). Sonic is a great synergy with this since its 2 t1/2 attacks are some decent damage as well as added -res. Shout is a great heavy hitter finisher (very nice with scourge kicking in). Also has a nice little stun. Alternativly you could do a rad/ instead and it would play very similar, just -def instead.

Mind/Therm Troller - Same idea as above for therm stuff. Mind is a great troller primary. It has psi damage as well. Psi damage is still a very good choice of damage type to have. It also has a great hold and knockup power (slotted correctly can do a mag 41 knock before DR - ends up being able to knock ppl with less then 30ish KB protection if I remember right). This also has a non-repeling TK (telekinesis), unlike the defender version which repels.

Son/Cold Corr (Cold/Son Def) - There are some great -recharge powers in cold as well as -def/-dam and a monster debuff that does -regen/-end/-dam/-special. The special debuffs your status protection/resist by a lot. Also has a +recovery power which is always nice to have. There are some buffs as well, but sadly not many ppl spec it for team buffing (in all reality not many ppl plan for playing it with a team). Has 2 +def buffs (S/L/melee and range/aoe/NE/E) that also give a small res to c/f. There is also a +HP teammate buff (If i remember right the only one in the game) that can easily HP cap your teammates. Pair this with a son for the added -res and its a done deal. At this point I would say it would be better to do a corr rather then a def just because corrs get slightly better damage and scourge.

Psi/Em Blaster - Bread and butter damage here. This will be FoTM for a while until damage gets changed just for the simple fact that 1 psi blaster can setup a mini spike by themselves because of how the delayed damage shows up when you attack. As a blaster you can spend anywhere from 1 to prolly 20 bill. I think I have that cheap build (might have to dig to page 2 or 3) that rikti asked for that psyrene posted up. I think it only cost about 1.5 bill at the buyitnoa price even. Its a solid build for what you pay for and unless I start playing mine a lot more I highly doubt I will upgrade to more expensive one. Really the only thing you get is a little more damage cause of procs, better end recov, and recharge. Don't get me wrong, it does make a difference, but for your avg joe it won't matter to much. Played well on a team, 2 of these, or even 1 and some support/added damage, are pretty lethal

Mind,Earth,Grav/Fire Dom - Pick your primary. Whatever floats your boat. They all play slightly different but in the end is just how fast you can spam flares/blaze/flares/fire blast. Great damage output if left unchecked. This would by far be the most expensive toon to even play at a manageable level (for a build worth your time playing easily over 4 bill). A lot of what the blaster has going for it, so does this. Biggest difference is that a dom can somewhat disrupt and control the pace of a fight with its mez's. Refer to Mind/ portion of the Mind/Therm Troller.

SS/Invuln Brute - Classic taunt bot that can smack someone upside the head pretty nasty in pinch. Remember kids, Taunt is your friend. Overall its still kinda a 1 hit wonder with KO Blow, but the stacked rage, rock throwing, and the fairly recent option of tanker epics you can still spit out some decent range damage if your built for it. This plays great in teams if you use all your tools (taunt more pls), though solo its not so mean but still a bit of a pain.

KM/Regen Scrapper - Currently the damage is broken on KM for scrappers so they can hit someone and take 700 HP. If you like FoTMs, roll em while its hot and run around and try to 3 shot ppl. Expect to see a fix for this in i35. Overall Regen or SR is your pretty standard FiteKlub toon. I highly suggest NOT ever rolling one of these. It ends up making ppl so closed minded about PvP in general and I dont want you to join the rest of the noob scrapper fite klubbing mass(s) (Im not really sure how many are left of these but it cant be the majority of PvPers that are left just yet...)

Sharks/Sharks Stalker - As much as noob stalkers are hated for spamming sharks and that is all, there is no denying the fact that a smart player on a stalker that can pull off an AS can be a very real threat. If they can actually function in a team, thats like 100x better then the average stalker youll find in RV at any given time. Oh did and there is sharks.


Overall thats kinda the basics as far as toons go. I didnt cover healing much (emps/pains), though they re very viable with a team. They wont spit out much damage (unless you spec them for damage but if you do you would be greatly hurting their healing/buffing ability so you might as well just roll a therm or rad). I didnt cover some of the less played combos, but it doesnt make them any less viable (Im talking about different sorts of disruption and debuffs, not whether or not your energy blaster will be better then a psi blaster. It wont, get over it). Some ppl like to play disruption and that is all they have fun on. It is a totally separate play stlye. Anyway I think this book is done. Any other questions, feel free to ask.

Yes, this is a straight up buff to Acro.

This change wouldn't stop knockback powers from being an issue, anymore then it already is. This would only free up 'needed' slots. Its like when everyone was taking the fitness pool for stamina. Stamina wasnt really NEEDED some could argue, but 90% of people took it because it made their whole playing experience that much better. This isn't much different. If you don't have the knockback protection in your build, your going to be flopping around. When you flop around in PvP, you die a lot. Thats counter productive to a positive playing experience.

As far as the route to go Hover and Fly, those power selection you lose half of your mobility. Generally speaking, CoH/V is very fast paced. Taking SJ/SS is what the majority of players, in this case, take for travel powers. Hover just isn't practical to take in this case. What are you gonna do? Put Hover on a foot pedal so you can get lucky and turn it on right before you get knocked back? Besides that not even working, it isn't practical.

How is playing an energy blast relevant here? Are you implying that the knockback from energy blast is greater then power thrust or force bolt? Because if it is (this would be a great surprise too, since that would be a ninja buff), then people would build to protect for that mag knockback. But it isn't, it is already covered by getting 41ish.

As far as getting this much protection in a build, I think you should reread the OP.

Lets all just hope this isn't some PR sidestep on the issue like it looks like.

Are you new? If you are I suggest reading through the stickies on the requested changes and you can sorta see how the timeline of things went... and then made everything die...

If you arn't new... I'm sorry, but you really are lost.

5 dolla i PL u long time

and im not really here.. just lurking and crying on the inside cause of the ssk....