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but is cof more useful in pvp than opressive gloom? Have you tried both?

disorients from op gloom would stack with disorients from my stone melee attacks so im taking op gloom for that reason alone but for pvp i might also take cof if oppressive gloom is useless.

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I never bothered with Oppressive Gloom as its a pain in the [censored] in PvE, enemies would wander off all over the place, often at sound barrier threatening speeds. OG also breaks the Fear effect, which makes it pretty pointless to have both running. /DA is fairly slot intensive as it is, so I only picked up one of the PBAoE's.

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Had to use a full tray of inspirations and was about two seconds away from death when finally managed to make it back to the villain base.

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Yeah I had loads of fun chasing people, its just when they get back to base and stay there. I think a drone got me in the end.

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Two Masterminds were doing this the other day, and one of them was most wanted. I kept divebombing the base just to annoy them, got half their health off before the Drone finished me

Scent of Brimstone is the Arcane Sirens Salvage.

I don't mind people running off, but It ticks me off when they head to the safe zones and drone hug. Why bother coming into PvP if thats all your going to do?

Off the top of my head I slot CoF 1 Acc, 1 End, 2 Fear, 2 To Hit Debuff. Have to login to check...

Exported from version 1.5C of CoH Planner
http://joechott.com/coh

Archetype: Scrapper
Primary Powers - Ranged : Broad Sword
Secondary Powers - Support : Regeneration

01 : Fast Healing hel(01) hel(37) hel(39)
01 : Hack dam(01) dam(3) dam(3) acc(5) acc(5) recred(7)
02 : Slice dam(02) dam(7) dam(9) acc(9) acc(11) recred(11)
04 : Quick Recovery endrec(04) endrec(13) endrec(13)
06 : Hasten recred(06) recred(15) recred(15)
08 : Build Up recred(08) recred(40) recred(43)
10 : Dull Pain recred(10) recred(17) recred(17) hel(19) hel(19) hel(21)
12 : Reconstruction hel(12) hel(21) hel(23) recred(23) recred(25)
14 : Super Speed runspd(14)
16 : Integration hel(16) hel(37) hel(37) endred(46)
18 : Hurdle jmp(18)
20 : Health hel(20) hel(40) hel(40)
22 : Stamina endrec(22) endrec(25) endrec(27)
24 : Assault endred(24)
26 : Disembowel dam(26) dam(27) dam(29) acc(29) acc(31) recred(31)
28 : Instant Healing recred(28) recred(31) recred(34) hel(36) hel(36) hel(36)
30 : Tactics endred(30)
32 : Head Splitter dam(32) dam(33) dam(33) acc(33) acc(34) recred(34)
35 : Resilience damres(35)
38 : Whirlwind endred(38) endred(39) endred(39)
41 : Focused Accuracy thtbuf(41) thtbuf(42) thtbuf(42) endred(42) endred(43) endred(43)
44 : Laser Beam Eyes dam(44) dam(45) dam(45) acc(45) acc(46) recred(46)
47 : Hover fltspd(47) fltspd(48) fltspd(48) endred(48)
49 : Moment of Glory recred(49) recred(50) recred(50) defbuf(50)

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01 : Brawl enhancement(01)
01 : Sprint enhancement(01)
02 : Rest enhancement(02)


This is a fairly rough draft of what I'm aiming for with my latest project, currently perched at 29 and trying to get Tactics for tomorrow night. The aim of this build is to get in, deliver the high damage attacks, and then get out again, which is why I've accuracied myself up to the eyeballs. If I'm targetting a squishy, I don't want to see any misses.

One thing I noticed when popping this all down was that theres gaps in there where I have very little to actually slot, so I threw the odd End reducer in just for good luck, kind of a legacy to playing a DM/DA to 50! I'd be interested to see if people think I can invest them elsewhere.

Oh, and I took Laser Beam Eyes because otherwise Hobo would whine at me.

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Well the Scrapper, Blaster and Defender are accounted for but you can have a tanker. His name is Supreme and he's extremely fancy.

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Apparently he's like BA Barracus fighting Galactus. You chump.

Absolutely, thats one of my pet gripes about the zone. You have to leave it to sell all your Enhancements too, which is a right royal pain.

Aren't inspirations 50 influence/infamy each? I don't think anyone will be going bankrupt very fast...

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Notice who got 0 kills... calls himself a Scrapper...

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Midniokt Aornt? Yeah, I hate that guy, should have had me on the team instead.

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I think a dev mentioned something about boosting the nukes soon-ish though...

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Is that Soon as in next week, or Soon as in Gobal Chat?

The only criticism I'd have is over your slotting of Tactics. The base for Scrappers is insignificantly low IMHO, I'd drop the TOHITBUFF slots and put them in your two ranged attacks.

Oh, and apparently the third recharge in Reconstruction gives you only 1 or 2 seconds quicker recharge. Might be better spent elsewhere.

Otherwise, nice build.

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Instead of attacking people for saying Stalkers are overpowered, attack the reason that they think it.

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Considering that's what I was doing, right until people continuously and repeatedly [censored] about Stalkers being over-powered despite several people including myself pointing out their weaknesses, counters and the fact Devs are working on one-hit kills, that statement is pretty damn irrelevant.

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And now your telling them to get out of the PvP zones, so its not irrelevant. If it was worth saying once, its worth saying again. I don't go into the Player Guides forum, see that someones still putting more than three of one enhancement type in a power, and start telling them to get out of PvE. It doesn't help anyone.

Quite a lot of people don't know about the incoming nerf. Why would they? Doesn't tell you about it ingame. Not everyone reads every thread ever written about Stalkers before coming on here to complain. Doesn't make their problems any less relevant.

What is continually failing to be adressed in posts like this is the inherent gulfs between PvE and PvP. Until someone on the devs side really looks into it, your going to have people complaing about Stalkers. All that you can do until then is repeat yourself.

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I really don't agree. Maybe you have only teamed with bad empaths, I don't know.

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As my sig says, I have a L50 empath, and that I have played for over 700 hours, So I'd imagine i know empathy set fairly well.

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Is your level 50 a bad Empath though

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If that's the case, they should take the damn NPC's advice and stay the hell away from the PvP zones.

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I would think that you'd want more people to come into PvP, seeing as the zone are hardly thriving right now. The "Get the hell out of PvP" argument isn't really going to encourage any toe dippers to spec into a PvP build, is it?

The problem as I see it is that in no point do you need +Perception powers in PvE. You don't need to move about all the time to stop yourself being hit. You do in PvP zones, and players failing to do this reinforces the view that Stalkers are "teh ubar". I mean, I'm doing exactly what I'd do in PvE, and I'm getting oneshotted everytime. I can't be doing anything wrong!

A similar thing occurs with Blasters in PvP. Your average PvE Blaster is scrapper fodder, one who knows a bit about PvP is chasing the scrappers around the zone. The trick is educating players while keeping the game fun. Aggressive attitudes don't do that.

Instead of attacking people for saying Stalkers are overpowered, attack the reason that they think it.

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If you have an uber-PvP build, you won't be very good in PvE (storm defenders and controllers, SR scrappers).

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Since when has SR been uber in PvP???

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Sorry if Im mistaken but what sort of scrapper was in winning team of the S4 final again?

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And that means what? The French teams Tank got a shed load of kills, all Tanks are now uber in PvP by your logic???

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If you have an uber-PvP build, you won't be very good in PvE (storm defenders and controllers, SR scrappers).

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Since when has SR been uber in PvP???

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Because the game at no point tells them that they need +Perception in PvP, or to keep moving to avoid Assassin Strikes. These are things you quickly discover after repeatedly being oneshotted, and that puts people off of PvP.

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Game gives you enough warning to stay the [censored] out of PvP zones if you don't want to come into conflict with other players, though.

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Thats not the point I made at all. But thanks for using a tired old excuse to win an imaginary argument!

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Why do some people think that every 2-bit build should be able to cope with every situation and every AT in PvP?

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Because the game at no point tells them that they need +Perception in PvP, or to keep moving to avoid Assassin Strikes. These are things you quickly discover after repeatedly being oneshotted, and that puts people off of PvP.

Yes, they are bad. I don't mean bad like the kids do.

Notice who got the blame for our loss

Oh, and you lot cheated at British Bulldog afterwards. For shame!!!

Yes. They are, however, [censored].

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Ooo, I'll probably send Jersey for the Scrapapocalypse since I should really be spending less time in pansy real life distractions and more time playing games again! Incidentally, my cat is officailly twice the size of a regular cat. It's sort of a super cat if you will assuming the ability to crumble under its own weight is a superpower.

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Jersey, you need to get all your alts in Scrapapocalypse to help the "Give Me A Big Throne Room" fund.

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They can beat people even with their hands tied? Nerf them, I say!

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No, I can. No nerfing will ever balance me, I'm far too imbalanced.

Wait, that doesn't sound right...

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The first page of 'Can Rad/Rad's pvp' or something simillar.

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Found it, posted in it, did not activate the Fake Cat Bomb.