bigandhairy

Title says it all really, got a spine/regen and thinking about dropping armageddon change for fire damage and obliteration chance for smashing into quills on latest build and wondering what the view was on this.

Assuming I'm not bothered about the cost of the purp proc, is it worth the extra slot it in the general consensus? The obliteration proc is pretty much going in regardless for the set bonus recharge as the acc/recharge is worthless on current build so not too bothered about that but I'm unsure on the extra slot for the purp proc.

Any opinions?

Thanks in advance.

Yeah, I'll join the club, good pointer for some decent arcs to try.

So, in the spirit of the club, I've had a run through Spawning Chaos.


Played through on lvl 31 mind/psi dom slotted almost exclusively for team control. 2 deaths (both on fusionette with her mezz/confuse resists)

Mission 1

Ghost to baddie, slap him down. Very simple and simplistic mission, possibly could have done with a couple of minor objectives to flesh it out a bit but that's nit picking. Might suggest increasing map size slightly as it was tiny. Not much more to say.

Mission 2

Liked the theme, made sense thematically. Again, quick and simple for ghost / mezzer but possibly could have done with feeling a bit more chaotic (maybe an ambush or two?). Map size spot on, quick and easy mission to get through.

Mission 3

Probably my least fave mission in the set (although I really liked the set so not grumbling) - and not just because fusionette killed me twice Took a bit of hunting round for ally and also for the spawned bosses, would suggest some kind of dialogue to announce themselves as running on larger mob settings was a pain finding them in such a wide area when lots of mobs about. Also, the tank boss couldn't keep up (scouting with SS) which meant either waiting for ages on his support or taking bosses without him (I went for the latter) which made him a tad wasted really. Maybe worth spawning the enemy bosses at the start and making the ally rescue optional? Realise this stops folk potentially seeing some of the text but they'd still have option of finding him if required (on a defender for example). Saves having to scout map twice if you don't want to. However, the general premise was good, it felt in tune with the story and I didn't miss the extra damage of the ally so not much to moan about.

Mission 4

Slight aside - you're missing a space at start of third paragraph on the mission intro. Liked this mission, once again felt suitably chaotic. Was slightly confused by the destructible computer terminals that don't seem to do anything (?) but felt that was in keeping with the general chaotic freakiness of the arc so didn't jar. Didn't like the fact that I couldn't place the bombs until the terminal was down, meant backtracking a couple of floors when I'd spotted the glowie on the way up but that's personal preference. Generally a good mission and blowing the place up felt totally in line with the theme.

Mission 5

Great final mission. Sadly Lockdown spawned behind the ballista making him less than useful however that didn't matter as the EB was perma confused anyway and the damage from the first tank boss (organiser) helped me take him down quick enough. Nice touch adding in Longbow coming to stop the event and rounded out a good mix of enemy groups for the arc. Mission felt suitably chaotic throughout and choosing the map from the original arc's final mission tied it up well. Last glowie gave a suitable end to the arc and just felt right to me.

Conclusion

Thought that the premise was well thought out and well written throughout. Mission contact was excellent with some good (and at times that rarest of things, funny) dialogue and the clues, chat between mobs, etc was of a high standard with good ideas. Missions were about the right length, maps were of a sensible size and mix of enemy groups kept it interesting. Please get rid of the purple text on the mission intros though, it's a nightmare to read

Final souvenier was a good summary of the arc except that it references a mission that has either been changed or wasn't at all what I thought I was doing - talks about rescuing Doctor Zapster in the souvenier. Personal nit pick preference also - prefer it when folk put the arc ID on the souvenier as I'm lazy when finding them again.

Overall I'd say a five star (certainly in comparison to a lot of other missions I've played) and have marked it so. Realise that's a personal opinion and I've put quite a few nitpicks down but each to their own, I thought it was very enjoyable and of a high standard therefore it's a five star in my book. Others will have different opinions no doubt but to me I don't see any of the above points as flaws that would stop my enjoyment. Given the support you're optionally given as well, it should be easy enough to do on any AT which is also important.


I'll throw an arc into the mix when I've finished writing it, in the middle of tidying it up just now. I like the idea of a MA club, it's easier to fit into my lifestyle than a book club is! Good idea to set up, hope it continues to catch on.

Howdy, would appreciate any feedback / comments on the following build. Currently toon is 31 and excellent fun so planning out his lvl 50 build. Should probably point out that I've gone for comfortable permadom using hasten and just scraping the S/L softcap. I'm relying on the hefty +acc global bonuses quite a bit and am likely to go down the Recharge alpha route (although not sold on that yet, just feel it's likely to be most useful).

It's my first real go at a dominator so any feedback would be welcome. Thanks in advance.

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Hypno Goat: Level 50 Magic Dominator
Primary Power Set: Mind Control
Secondary Power Set: Psionic Assault
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Concealment
Ancillary Pool: Ice Mastery

Villain Profile:
Level 1: Mesmerize

• (A) Lethargic Repose - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 50
• (48) Lethargic Repose - Accuracy/Sleep/Recharge: Level 50
• (50) Lethargic Repose - Accuracy/Sleep: Level 50

Level 1: Psionic Dart

• (A) Devastation - Chance of Hold: Level 50

Level 2: Dominate

• (A) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge/Hold: Level 30
• (3) Basilisk's Gaze - Recharge/Hold: Level 30
• (9) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Hold: Level 30
• (9) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 30
• (13) Lockdown - Recharge/Hold: Level 50
• (31) Lockdown - Endurance/Recharge/Hold: Level 50

Level 4: Mind Probe

• (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage: Level 35
• (5) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance: Level 35
• (7) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge: Level 35
• (13) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 35

Level 6: Confuse

• (A) Perplex - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 50
• (11) Perplex - Accuracy/Confused/Recharge: Level 50
• (11) Perplex - Recharge/Confused: Level 50
• (15) Perplex - Endurance/Confused: Level 50
• (31) Malaise's Illusions - Accuracy/Confused/Recharge: Level 50

Level 8: Hasten

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50
• (25) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50
• (27) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50

Level 10: Mental Blast

• (A) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage: Level 40
• (15) Decimation - Damage/Endurance: Level 40
• (17) Decimation - Damage/Recharge: Level 40
• (17) Decimation - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge: Level 40
• (48) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge: Level 40

Level 12: Mass Hypnosis

• (A) Fortunata Hypnosis - Chance for Placate: Level 50
• (21) Fortunata Hypnosis - Sleep/Recharge: Level 50
• (23) Fortunata Hypnosis - Accuracy/Sleep/Recharge: Level 50
• (23) Fortunata Hypnosis - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 50
• (25) Fortunata Hypnosis - Sleep/Endurance: Level 50

Level 14: Super Speed

• (A) Winter's Gift - Slow Resistance (20%): Level 50

Level 16: Combat Jumping

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed: Level 50

Level 18: Psychic Scream

• (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage: Level 50
• (19) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (19) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range: Level 50
• (33) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (34) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge: Level 50

Level 20: Total Domination

• (A) Unbreakable Constraint - Accuracy/Hold/Recharge: Level 50
• (21) Unbreakable Constraint - Chance for Smashing Damage: Level 50
• (36) Unbreakable Constraint - Hold/Recharge: Level 50
• (36) Unbreakable Constraint - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 50
• (36) Unbreakable Constraint - Endurance/Hold: Level 50

Level 22: Drain Psyche

• (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal: Level 50
• (27) Doctored Wounds - Recharge: Level 50
• (29) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge: Level 50
• (29) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge: Level 50
• (42) Endurance Modification IO: Level 50
• (45) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge: Level 50

Level 24: Maneuvers

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed: Level 50

Level 26: Terrify

• (A) Glimpse of the Abyss - Endurance/Fear: Level 50
• (37) Glimpse of the Abyss - Fear/Range: Level 50
• (46) Glimpse of the Abyss - Accuracy/Endurance: Level 50
• (46) Glimpse of the Abyss - Accuracy/Fear/Recharge: Level 50
• (46) Glimpse of the Abyss - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 50

Level 28: Subdue

• (A) Enfeebled Operation - Endurance/Immobilize: Level 50
• (31) Enfeebled Operation - Immobilize/Range: Level 50
• (34) Enfeebled Operation - Accuracy/Immobilize/Recharge: Level 50
• (39) Enfeebled Operation - Accuracy/Immobilize: Level 50

Level 30: Telekinetic Thrust

• (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage: Level 35
• (37) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance: Level 35
• (40) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge: Level 35
• (43) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 35

Level 32: Mass Confusion

• (A) Coercive Persuasion - Confused/Recharge: Level 50
• (33) Coercive Persuasion - Accuracy/Confused/Recharge: Level 50
• (33) Coercive Persuasion - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 50
• (34) Coercive Persuasion - Contagious Confusion: Level 50
• (37) Coercive Persuasion - Confused/Endurance: Level 50

Level 35: Assault

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 50

Level 38: Psychic Shockwave

• (A) Obliteration - Damage: Level 50
• (39) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 50
• (39) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge: Level 50
• (40) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 50
• (40) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge: Level 50
• (50) Obliteration - Chance for Smashing Damage: Level 50

Level 41: Sleet

• (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage: Level 50
• (42) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (42) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge: Level 50
• (43) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range: Level 50
• (43) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 50

Level 44: Frozen Armor

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed: Level 50
• (45) Luck of the Gambler - Defense: Level 50
• (45) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%: Level 30
• (48) Steadfast Protection - Knockback Protection: Level 30
• (50) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance: Level 50

Level 47: Stealth

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed: Level 50

Level 49: Telekinesis

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 50

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Level 1: Brawl

• (A) Empty

Level 1: Domination
Level 1: Sprint

• (A) Empty

Level 2: Rest

• (A) Empty

Level 2: Swift

• (A) Run Speed IO: Level 50

Level 2: Health

• (A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery: Level 50
• (3) Miracle - +Recovery: Level 40

Level 2: Hurdle

• (A) Jumping IO: Level 50

Level 2: Stamina

• (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End: Level 50
• (5) Performance Shifter - EndMod: Level 50
• (7) Endurance Modification IO: Level 50

Level 4: Ninja Run
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Set Bonus Totals:

• 10% DamageBuff(Smashing)
• 10% DamageBuff(Lethal)
• 10% DamageBuff(Fire)
• 10% DamageBuff(Cold)
• 10% DamageBuff(Energy)
• 10% DamageBuff(Negative)
• 10% DamageBuff(Toxic)
• 10% DamageBuff(Psionic)
• 14.88% Defense(Smashing)
• 14.88% Defense(Lethal)
• 3% Defense(Fire)
• 3% Defense(Cold)
• 7.375% Defense(Energy)
• 7.375% Defense(Negative)
• 3% Defense(Psionic)
• 11.75% Defense(Melee)
• 5.188% Defense(Ranged)
• 3% Defense(AoE)
• 2.25% Max End
• 4% Enhancement(Heal)
• 2.75% Enhancement(Terrorized)
• 3% Enhancement(Immobilize)
• 102.5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
• 4% Enhancement(Sleep)
• 71% Enhancement(Accuracy)
• 5.5% Enhancement(Confused)
• 5% FlySpeed
• 72.49 HP (7.127%) HitPoints
• 5% JumpHeight
• 5% JumpSpeed
• Knockback (Mag -4)
• Knockup (Mag -4)
• MezResist(Immobilize) 8.25%
• MezResist(Stun) 2.2%
• MezResist(Terrorized) 2.2%
• 20.5% (0.342 End/sec) Recovery
• 16% (0.679 HP/sec) Regeneration
• 20% ResEffect(FlySpeed)
• 20% ResEffect(RechargeTime)
• 20% ResEffect(RunSpeed)
• 9.45% Resistance(Fire)
• 9.45% Resistance(Cold)
• 1.875% Resistance(Negative)
• 5% RunSpeed

Was wondering if anyone had any pointers on the build below. On 41 now and looking at the lvl 50 build.

For ref, I've built with the following in mind -

Not bothered about exemping
Not bothered about ST damage
Can survive a reasonable amount of aggro through soft cap def and serious knock-up but not overly bothered about tanking for long periods or STF / LRSF type tanking
Huge amounts of AOE
AOE immob just for a filler really although may come in handy (very) occasionally
Got a little range for pulling through the vet temps so no need for ranged.
Reasonable amounts of regen and recovery (aoe should be providing enough insps to combine for emergency purposes)
No purples / PvP IO
Feel the extra def from CJ / Man to get to soft cap levels permanenly is more beneficial than One with the Shield occasionally
Realise there's a wasted 3% damage buff but I can live with that
Planning on going down recharge/healing alpha route

Having said that, this is the build, would be grateful for any feedback -

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Elec SD Brute: Level 50 Science Brute
Primary Power Set: Electrical Melee
Secondary Power Set: Shield Defense
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Mu Mastery

Villain Profile:
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Level 1: Havoc Punch Mako-Acc/Dmg(A), Mako-Dmg/EndRdx(3), Mako-Dmg/Rchg(3), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(5), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(5), Mako-Dam%(46)
Level 1: Deflection LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(7), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(7)
Level 2: Jacobs Ladder Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(9), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(11), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(11), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(13), Oblit-%Dam(46)
Level 4: Battle Agility LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(13), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(15)
Level 6: Hasten RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(17)
Level 8: Thunder Strike Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(25), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(27), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(27), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(29), Oblit-%Dam(50)
Level 10: Active Defense RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(15)
Level 12: True Grit S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(A), Heal-I(17), Heal-I(37)
Level 14: Super Jump Jump-I(A)
Level 16: Against All Odds EndRdx-I(A)
Level 18: Chain Induction Mako-Acc/Dmg(A), Mako-Dmg/EndRdx(29), Mako-Dmg/Rchg(31), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(31), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(31), Mako-Dam%(43)
Level 20: Phalanx Fighting LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 22: Build Up RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(33)
Level 24: Boxing Mako-Acc/Dmg(A), Mako-Dmg/EndRdx(33), Mako-Dmg/Rchg(33), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(34), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(34), Mako-Dam%(34)
Level 26: Tough Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(A), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(36), Aegis-EndRdx/Rchg(36), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(36), Aegis-ResDam(43)
Level 28: Weave LkGmblr-Def(A), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(37), LkGmblr-Rchg+(37)
Level 30: Combat Jumping LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 32: Lightning Rod Sciroc-Acc/Dmg(A), Sciroc-Dmg/EndRdx(39), Sciroc-Dmg/Rchg(39), Sciroc-Acc/Rchg(39), Sciroc-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(40), RechRdx-I(40)
Level 35: Shield Charge Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(40), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(42), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(42), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(42), Oblit-%Dam(43)
Level 38: Maneuvers EndRdx-I(A)
Level 41: Electrifying Fences Acc-I(A)
Level 44: Ball Lightning Posi-Acc/Dmg(A), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(45), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(45), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(45), Posi-Dmg/Rng(46), RechRdx-I(50)
Level 47: Taunt Mocking-Taunt(A), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg(48), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg/Rng(48), Mocking-Acc/Rchg(48), Mocking-Rchg(50)
Level 49: Grant Cover DefBuff-I(A)
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Level 1: Brawl Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint Run-I(A)
Level 2: Rest IntRdx-I(A)
Level 1: Fury
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift Run-I(A)
Level 2: Hurdle Jump-I(A)
Level 2: Health Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(9), Numna-Heal(19), Mrcl-Rcvry+(19), RgnTis-Regen+(21), Mrcl-Heal(21)
Level 2: Stamina P'Shift-End%(A), P'Shift-EndMod(23), EndMod-I(23), EndMod-I(25)



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Thanks in advance

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, the extra 12% regen was indeed the kind of obvious flaw feedback I was looking for.

In terms of other feedback, to be fair I probably should have pointed out in the original post but I am well aware of the general theme of any /regen going for recharge. I have in fact respec'd out of a recharge heavy build as I was more interested in a heavy base regen / def build than constantly clicking heals.

"I apologize for my rudeness. Seemed that the OP thought that this was the be all, end all best build (built for war)."

That's a pretty big assumption to make - nowhere did I suggest anything along those lines. "Built for War" is because I was sharing it with @Warengine who was also looking at a heavy base regen build. I had mentioned that I'd managed to get pretty much soft cap def 40%(ish) of the time with 760% base regen and around 15% base def the rest of the time without purples and he had asked to see the build. Hence the post.

For ref, with the alpha slot for recharge/healing, I'm finding the build really good fun to play and certainly more survivable than the build I came out of (169% global recharge bonuses). Also covered the cost of the build and made a reasonable amount of inf selling on my main +recharge IO's as a bonus. Lack of def debuff resistance however does bite into the def quickly on large mob sizes with def debuffs.

And btw, please don't "make bullet points of problems, because there were a lot" - I've respec'd now, find it fun and would probably disagree with you as I'm not going for min/max build, I'm going for something fun to play.

As an example, even though I'm now locked in to the slots, I know I could without changing slotting put a +recharge LOTG into Shadow Meld but I'm happier with the extra 2% def than 7.5% recharge, etc. I'm also happier to save myself around 200M inf doing so :P

Build to show friend - if anyone's got any comments in obvious flaws, happy for feedback. Going non purple.

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.91
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Level 50 Technology Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Spines
Secondary Power Set: Regeneration
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Soul Mastery

Hero Profile:
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Level 1: Lunge P'ngS'Fest-Acc/Dmg(A), P'ngS'Fest-Dmg/EndRdx(25), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(46), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(46), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(50)
Level 1: Fast Healing Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Numna-Heal(3), RgnTis-Regen+(3), Heal-I(5), Heal-I(5)
Level 2: Spine Burst Sciroc-Acc/Dmg(A), Sciroc-Dmg/Rchg(15), Sciroc-Dmg/EndRdx(17), Sciroc-Acc/Rchg(17), Sciroc-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(31)
Level 4: Reconstruction Numna-Heal/Rchg(A), Numna-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(11), Dct'dW-Rchg(15), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(46)
Level 6: Fly Frbd-Fly(A), Frbd-Stlth(13)
Level 8: Quick Recovery EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(9)
Level 10: Dull Pain Numna-Heal/Rchg(A), Numna-Heal(13), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(21), Dct'dW-Rchg(43)
Level 12: Build Up RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(34), AdjTgt-ToHit/Rchg(34)
Level 14: Impale Thundr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(A), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(19), Thundr-Dmg/Rchg(21), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(37)
Level 16: Integration Heal-I(A), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(23), Numna-Heal(23)
Level 18: Quills Sciroc-Dmg/EndRdx(A), Sciroc-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(19), M'Strk-Dmg/EndRdx(34), M'Strk-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(37)
Level 20: Combat Jumping LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 22: Hasten RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(33), RechRdx-I(33)
Level 24: Boxing P'ngS'Fest-Acc/Dmg(A), P'ngS'Fest-Dmg/EndRdx(25), Rope-Acc/EndRdx(27), Rope-Acc/Rchg(29)
Level 26: Ripper Sciroc-Acc/Dmg(A), Sciroc-Dmg/EndRdx(27), Sciroc-Dmg/Rchg(40), Sciroc-Acc/Rchg(43), Sciroc-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(43)
Level 28: Instant Healing Numna-Heal(A), Numna-Heal/Rchg(29), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(42), Dct'dW-Rchg(42)
Level 30: Tough RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam(31), RctvArm-EndRdx(31), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(33)
Level 32: Throw Spines Posi-Acc/Dmg(A), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(37), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(39), Posi-Dam%(40), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(40)
Level 35: Weave S'dpty-Def/EndRdx(A), S'dpty-Def(36), LkGmblr-Rchg+(36), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(36)
Level 38: Moment of Glory RechRdx-I(A), S'dpty-Def/Rchg(39), S'dpty-EndRdx/Rchg(39)
Level 41: Moonbeam Mantic-Acc/ActRdx/Rng(A), Mantic-Acc/Dmg(42)
Level 44: Shadow Meld S'dpty-Def/Rchg(A), S'dpty-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(45), DefBuff-I(45), RechRdx-I(45)
Level 47: Summon Widow SvgnRt-Acc/Dmg(A), SvgnRt-Dmg/EndRdx(48), SvgnRt-Acc/EndRdx(48), SvgnRt-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(48), SvgnRt-Acc(50), SvgnRt-PetResDam(50)
Level 49: Revive RechRdx-I(A)
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Level 1: Brawl Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest IntRdx-I(A)
Level 1: Critical Hit
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift Flight-I(A)
Level 2: Hurdle Jump-I(A)
Level 2: Health Heal-I(A), Heal-I(7), Heal-I(7)
Level 2: Stamina EndMod-I(A), P'Shift-End%(9), P'Shift-EndMod(11)



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Hope that worked.

Looking at the changes to epics for scrappers (finally) and wondered if anyone had an opinion on the two options I see for my Spine/Regen.

Either a) go for physical perfection and try dropping fitness pool to free up power or b) go blaze for melt armour as aoe debuff on an aoe machine has got to be a good thing.

Any opinions? Not bothered by dropping 1st power in fitness btw.

Well that's a hell of a lot of replies

Just a few points I'd make -

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I tended to find 4 star arcs w/higher numbers (30-50) to be worlds better than 5 star arcs w/10 votes, for example

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Yup, agree with you Xem, trying to give other arcs a chance that have less run throughs though.

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Also, SFMA is not an indicative of quality.

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In my opinion it damn well should be to an extent. If you're claiming your arc is story focused, you've gone to the bother of marking it as such, etc then you should at least have gotten most of they typo's out and tested it a bit. It doesn't feel very story focused to have (for example) an objective saying "Destroy 4 x" which then completes when you kill one x or where the contact says "Hi target" to you as the very first thing you see - unbelievably immersion breaking and easy to pick up from rudimentary testing - surely refine your arc before using the tag makes sense.


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the author tries to make a Story Focused Mission Arc. If he succeeds or not is is another thing. There is no guarantee that you will like arcs, even ones with a lot of votes.

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Yep, fine with that. Don't mind a story / arc I'm not fond of, it's the broken ones I've got an issue with.

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Low ID means an arc was in beta. Which means it has been around longer, which hopefully means author had time to both make a decent story and throughly test it.

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Although picked up later in the thread, this just isn't true for two reasons -

1) A large proportion of beta arcs have lain untouched since beta including the ones that had to be stripped down after the 10% size bloat when I14 went live which caused lots of bugs.

2) Saving an arc locally, unpublishing and republishing an arc gives it a new ID. The reason I know this is because I did it. The arc in my sig was around in beta, has been refined by over 40 playthroughs over the time since beta and has had numerous bugs identified and removed however you won't be able to tell that by arc ID. The reason I've unpublished and republished the arc is simple - it's now in what I consider to be polished enough state to be judged from a clean slate as a finished product rather than a changing arc under constant refinement which is why I've now added the SFMA tag to it. I also didn't realise it would be looked down at for having a high ID number

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My advice at the moment would be to use the City Of Guides missions as a reasonable list to play.

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Yes, I wholeheartedly agree - have been working my way through them and there's quite a few gems on there.

Wading through the piles of farm/broken arcs, I've been searching through the arcs marked SFMA hoping to get some nice, well written arcs.

In reality, what I've found is that seven out of the seven I've played with 8 - 9 playthroughs at 5 stars are just shoddy with a total lack of testing/refining - lots of typos, plain wrongly labelled objectives, random maps that don't accomodate the number of objectives and thus simply don't work and have to be restarted till a map that can accomodate is randomly picked, Extreme/Extreme MM/Kin or Ill/Mind mobs for the hell of it, etc. Have stayed away so far from the ones with 30+ playthroughs as I'm trying to be nice and play the ones that haven't been seen as much.

Most of the SFMA tags are Long / Very Long so it's pretty time consuming playing through lemons. Creative story telling from the user base is what MA should be about, not the gratuitous farming that's taking place and I hoped this tag would be the way of cutting through the majority of farm/test arcs. I can take bad story telling but I'm disheartened by just plain broken arcs with no testing.

So, the question is, have I just been desperately unlucky and picked the 7 lemons where someone's got half a dozen of their mates to 5 star it or is that the findings of anyone else that's using the SFMA tag? And if I am unlucky, any recommendations of some decent arcs in the category?

TIA

Col, have pm'd you ingame but putting post also for the sake of completeness. Following comments of testers, I've taken down and republished 79300 as 92781 (Praetorian Earth Invasion).

Could you change in your list to replace 79300 with 92871 please. Looking forward to the review, all been very indepth and objective so far

TIA

I suspect it's broken because the spawn is set as "back" and you've probably got a few "Any" position patrols spawning on the map. When they spawn at the back, it seems to take up the space accomodatable for ambushes and patrols from the map selection screen and doesn't spawn the boss.

Took me a while to figure this out myself on my own arc - had 3 spawns in the final room including an ambush from one of those spawns which took up the 4 available "back" positions. Worked fine sometimes, failed to create a spawn at other times making arc unfinishable. Once I went through the patrols and set them for the middle rather than back, not had any problems at all with it.

Might not be what's causing your problem but would suggest looking at it - took me a while to figure out that's what the problem was. Since by their nature patrols move from their starting position, wasn't obvious to me at first.

Sounds like your going to be very busy but if you get time, I'd like some feedback on the following serious arc if possible -

79300
Heroic morality
4 missions:-
Mission 1 - EB no allies
Mission 2 - glowie pickup
Mission 3 - EB with numina ally
Mission 4 - 5 EB's but 3 buff/debuff EB allies

Soloable easy enough from the testing I've done so far.

TIA

Goal is general meatshield build aiming for soft cap def where it matters and (importantly) a reasonably cheap build.

Got a perma-DP Inv/Stone and very rarely need to have it up perma and that's with much lower def so not too concerned about the lack of +recharge tbh.

Have got the following build and looking for some advice on any changes. Highlights is capped res to S/L coupled with 38% def to S/L (which doesn't worry me due to my stupidly high res), 44% def to N/E and 46% def to Fire/Cold (all with only one enemy in aura). Typed defense pretty decent also for help with psi damage.

However I'm sure it can be improved - any suggestions?

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Wee Rab: Level 50 Magic Tanker
Primary Power Set: Invulnerability
Secondary Power Set: Dark Melee
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Speed

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Temp Invulnerability -- Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(A), Aegis-ResDam(3), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(3), TtmC'tng-ResDam/EndRdx(5)
Level 1: Shadow Punch -- Cloud-ToHitDeb(A), Cloud-Acc/ToHitDeb(23), Cloud-Acc/Rchg(31), Cloud-ToHitDeb/EndRdx/Rchg(31), Cloud-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(33), Cloud-%Dam(33)
Level 2: Dull Pain -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(5), Heal-I(7), Heal-I(7), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(9)
Level 4: Resist Physical Damage -- S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(A)
Level 6: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 8: Unyielding -- Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(A), Aegis-ResDam(9), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(11), TtmC'tng-ResDam/EndRdx(11)
Level 10: Taunt -- Mocking-Taunt(A), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg(13), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg/Rng(13), Mocking-Taunt/Rng(15), Mocking-Rchg(15), Mocking-Acc/Rchg(50)
Level 12: Combat Jumping -- DefBuff-I(A), Zephyr-Travel(42), DefBuff-I(48), Zephyr-Travel/EndRdx(50)
Level 14: Super Jump -- Jump-I(A)
Level 16: Health -- Heal-I(A), Heal-I(17), Heal-I(17), Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(19), Mrcl-Rcvry+(19)
Level 18: Invincibility -- RedFtn-EndRdx(A), RedFtn-Def(21), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(21), RedFtn-Def/Rchg(23), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx(46)
Level 20: Stamina -- EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(25), P'Shift-End%(25), P'Shift-EndMod(27)
Level 22: Siphon Life -- P'ngS'Fest-Acc/Dmg(A), P'ngS'Fest-Dmg/EndRdx(27), P'ngS'Fest-Dmg/Rchg(29), Nictus-Acc/Heal(29), Nictus-Heal(31), Nictus-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(48)
Level 24: Boxing -- P'ngS'Fest-Acc/Dmg(A), P'ngS'Fest-Dmg/EndRdx(37), P'ngS'Fest-Dmg/Rchg(37), Rope-Acc/EndRdx(39), Rope-EndRdx/Stun(39)
Level 26: Tough Hide -- DefBuff-I(A), DefBuff-I(33), DefBuff-I(34)
Level 28: Tough -- Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(A), Aegis-ResDam(34), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(34), TtmC'tng-ResDam/EndRdx(36)
Level 30: Weave -- RedFtn-Def(A), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx(36), RedFtn-EndRdx(36), DefBuff-I(37)
Level 32: Unstoppable -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 35: Soul Drain -- Erad-Acc/Rchg(A), Erad-Dmg(40), Erad-Dmg/Rchg(42), Erad-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(43), Erad-%Dam(43), Erad-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(48)
Level 38: Dark Consumption -- Mocking-Taunt/Rng(A), Mocking-Taunt(39), Erad-Dmg/Rchg(40), Erad-Acc/Rchg(40), Erad-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(43), Erad-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(50)
Level 41: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(42)
Level 44: Midnight Grasp -- Mocking-Acc/Rchg(A), Mocking-Rchg(45), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg(45), Mocking-Taunt(45), Dmg-I(46), Dmg-I(46)
Level 47: Resist Elements -- ResDam-I(A)
Level 49: Resist Energies -- ResDam-I(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Gauntlet
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TIA

Thanks all those who participated in the TF's, I've got a shiny new TF Commander accolade and both posi and synapse done in a combined time of under 5.5 hours - not bad at all.

Special thanks to Fog of the Senses who tortured himself by doing both and to Sargatanas who provided hilarity in his ability to spend more time dc'd than on the TF

Thanks all.

Hmm, thx.

Got 76.25% global recharge from bonuses on my ill/stormie with a couple of FF Recharges on top which gives me down time of between 9 and 5 seconds depending on how often the procs fire and I just can't see where I can squeeze further recharge in without gimping the build. A cheeky wee purple fear set with recharge would help but I just can't see it in I13

I'm looking at my ill/rad instead now to see what IO global recharge I need to aim for on that. Cheers for the info.

Indeed - hope you get better soon, flu is unpleasant. You truly have shown your true colours as a hero by going to work ill though

Anyroad, updated looks like this -

1) Big Rab - Inv/Stone Tank
2) Ultimate Solution - AR/Dev Blaster
3) Doc Anton Freeze - Emp/Ice Def
4) @Clawed - Dark/Dark Def
5) Fog of Senses - Ill/Storm Troller
6) @Bogs - Claws/Regen Scrapper
7) Cybertronic Fury - MA/Regen Scrapper
8/Reserve) @Nightmarer - random toon

See you all at 8 by posi

Assuming hasten auto-fires 3 slotted with lvl 50 recharge IO's and there's 3 lvl 50 recharge IO's in PA itself, can anyone tell me what is the global recharge required for perma-PA?

TIA

According to the "Show Detailed Info", this is supposed to be AoE with a small range (8.2ft, 5 max targets) but I've completely failed to hit anything other than the targetted mob with it no matter how tightly knit the mobs are. Granted I've not slotted it up yet but even against greys it only seems to hit one mob.

Is this right? It's on a Inv/Dark build and Inv/anything is a tight build so for a single target fear it's just not worth it but I'm feeling like I'm missing what should be a defining power in the /Dark set.

Does anyone get any usage out of it except a Dark/Dark?

Wondered what happened to you Wilf - was gutted you disappeared on final mission.

Still, we gave you 20 mins and still managed TF in 3:15 so thanks everyone who joined, was fun.

So updated looks like -

1) Big Rab - Inv/Stone Tank
2) Ultimate Solution - AR/Dev Blaster
3) Doc Anton Freeze - Emp/Ice Def
4) @Clawed - Dark/Dark Def
5) Fog of Senses - Ill/Storm Troller
6) @Bogs - Claws/Regen Scrapper
7)
8)

With Terremoto Express on reserve if folk are late turning up/Defcon can make it early.

Any more interest?

Updated list -

1) Big Rab (Inv/Stone tank)
2) Mrs Sparrow (Fire/Rad Troller)
3) Bog Monster (BS/WP scrapper)
4) Leos (Nrg/Nrg Blaster)
5)
6)
7)
8)

Well, it's definately going ahead cause I've got at least 3 now

Any others more than welcome to join. So far -

1) Big Rab (Inv/Stone tank)
2) Mrs Sparrow (Fire/Rad troller)
3) Bog Monster (?/? scrapper)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)

Anyone else want to join? It's a nightmare of a badge to get for TF Commander and I'm intending on bashing through this at a fair old rate.

Ideally (but not necessary), would like it if anyone joining could bring some fresh shivans with them - purely for aoe damage to speed up TF please.

Nice one.

So far, it's as follows -

1) Big Rab - Inv/Stone Tank
2) Ultimate Solution - AR/Dev Blaster
3) @Uther Dracus - Emp(?)/? Def
4) @Clawed - Dark/Dark Def
5)
6)
7)
8)

Happy to change out for a blaster Uther depending on which you'd rather play and what other members come on board.

....and this is the other badge I need for TF Commander.

TF is 15 - 20, any AT welcome!

1) Big Rab - Inv/Stone Tank

And as per other thread, please remember that clocks go back this weekend