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i have a 46 bane with a crapload of accolades that are closed to being done (i pve'd it with a bunch of badgers in justice before moving it to freedom in i12);
[i am so embarrassed.]
anyways. replace pulverize with shatter armor cause my mid's is borked.
i was bored (again), so i came up with this. the only big trade off is the fact that it doesn't have assault nor placate.
1720 hp, a bit of DoT potential, and the ability to see stalkers after popping a yellow or getting a cm/em is potentially interesting; especially with going rogue around the corner and kb's in freedom becoming so popular (not like i'm gonna be anything but teh fat kid if i actually finish this toon).
Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.601
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Level 50 Natural Arachnos Soldier
Primary Power Set: Bane Spider Soldier
Secondary Power Set: Bane Spider Training
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Concealment
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Mace Mastery
Set Bonus Totals:- 19.5% DamageBuff(Smashing)
- 19.5% DamageBuff(Lethal)
- 19.5% DamageBuff(Fire)
- 19.5% DamageBuff(Cold)
- 19.5% DamageBuff(Energy)
- 19.5% DamageBuff(Negative)
- 19.5% DamageBuff(Toxic)
- 19.5% DamageBuff(Psionic)
- 4.25% Defense(Smashing)
- 4.25% Defense(Lethal)
- 4.25% Defense(Fire)
- 4.25% Defense(Cold)
- 8.94% Defense(Energy)
- 8.94% Defense(Negative)
- 3% Defense(Psionic)
- 5.5% Defense(Melee)
- 14.9% Defense(Ranged)
- 5.5% Defense(AoE)
- 18% Enhancement(Accuracy)
- 57.5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
- 5% Enhancement(Immobilize)
- 10% FlySpeed
- 220.9 HP (20.6%) HitPoints
- 14% JumpHeight
- 14% JumpSpeed
- Knockback (Mag -43)
- Knockup (Mag -43)
- MezResist(Held) 3.3%
- MezResist(Immobilize) 8.8%
- MezResist(Repel) 1000% (10% chance, in PvP)
- MezResist(Sleep) 2.2%
- 9% (0.16 End/sec) Recovery
- 38% (2.04 HP/sec) Regeneration
- 1.26% Resistance(Fire)
- 1.26% Resistance(Cold)
- 1.26% Resistance(Energy)
- 1.26% Resistance(Negative)
- 3% Resistance(Psionic)
- 10% RunSpeed
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the io drop rate for npcs is higher in pvp zones.
people are rarely attracted by this. -
Quote:back in i12 there used to be a really bad claws/regen (surprise?) that i would kill every single morning over and over as he tried to farm pillboxes. it was sort of like a morning routine; wake up, log in fire/cold, brush teeth, make him get emo and log, then head to school... he'd send me the most awesome hate tells ever.Originally Posted by Not_Epsilon
Trust me, we have enough hate tells from pvping and fighting back.
Ive had one guy on freedom ask me why I wasn't smothered as a child, but, then again, they are almost universally scrappers and the occasional tank.
im starting to think that was castle.
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Quote:ok then next time i'll say a CoH 50, because back then, it would have taken me 5 hours to get to 50 in CoX, while i played about 70 hours of CO lolpve.Originally Posted by positive101
hmm, that's still off, but okay.
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Quote:i was making a CoH comparison in accordance to time spent playing.Originally Posted by positive101
Nah they stopped doing this a while ago.
And barrier you never even got to 35, more like 20 tops and that takes a day.
And why would you reroll? They give a full free respec like every week they screw something up.
I'd enjoy playing CO if they had an actual arena system, the random mess they have now is so beta. -
Quote:truf.Originally Posted by ConFlict
While earth ea sounds good, in practice its actually pretty craptacular. Mind ea is good but imo fire ea is better. And for as good as fire ea is its still pretty rare.
con has seen how raged i got when playing an earth/ea.
animation times are soooooo long for both powersets. you need to a quick animating primary to leverage /ea's craptacular animation times.
also, not being able to debuff your target because earth -kb's it = miss. miss. miss. unless you build for acc (smashing defense is pretty high all around RV, this is not the case with fire or psi, where the main powersets that protect against those work through resistance). -
if i were just starting this game, my toon choices would be:
1. fire/em blaster: beast AoE so you can level fast, since you don't have a pl-ing toon; with very high pvp potential after you hit 50.
2. mind/nrg or mind/fire dom: i've been messing around on my mind/fire and i've come to realize how insanely powerful the combination is, post dom-buffs.
3. unusual... you like control, so i say consider an ill/cold troller (target disruption + healer griefing) or a fire/cold corr (emp griefing + dmg)... both are relatively rare, but very useful if you're interested in running disruption in a kb. i seriously back the fire/cold here, as it's one of those toons you can really grow on; you'll simply disrupting, but as your ability to lock a target while benump recharges increases, you'll start getting in on spikes and being a pretty good asset to your team.
do not roll a regen scrapper. it will give you downs syndrome if you don't hang out with the right crowd. running around on a regen scrapper is like having a big sign on top of your head stating "i am potentially retarded, would you like to be my retarded tru warrir friend?". -
Quote:remember how you felt when they nerfed your ice/cold in i13?Originally Posted by EnD_Reitanna
CO pvp looks like i13 but worse :S
CO is like if you leveled your toon all the way to 35 with all PVE, and then the devs nerf your ice blast, but then about two days later after you used your respec, the devs decided to nerf your /cold secondary even more.
OK so you reroll.
You rerolled a toon into a fire/fire, got it to 35 and 2 weeks after, the same cycle repeated itself.
Three times in a row.
Screw CO. -
Quote:Originally Posted by End_User
Of course you would go for the Dom just like we went for the Corruptor, it's just ironic. The difference is that BADDO had a tude, quit out of the match and brought in his arena ranked IOed out 50 to fight an SOed 40 and his noob friend because he was upset. Instead of saying gf or nj and continuing on and having fun with friends in a casual match like we did prior to him losing.
The teams were pretty damn even considering and yeah I lost the 1v1 no biggie.
Was good fun until people have poor attitudes.
He ended on a positive because... I was being positive the entire time. Jedi mind tricks there.
Yes you win and lose but being a baddo among friends and VG mates is stupid.
It's unfortunate if you think that I'm the baddo. I leveled these guys, had some fun matches, won/lost and was cool about it all and no QQ quit outs. It's just unfortunate because it would have been cool to have all 5 of us make a team and PvP more but one bad attitude can wreck it.
ok another fact list:
1. baddo is a measure of skill, not attitude, stop misusing the term, noub.
2. if someone's attitude is actually affecting how much fun you have in this game, maybe you should reconsider pvping in this game at all. this is a game, if you're actually getting emotional over anything that happens here, you should consider seeking professional help. say this outloud and see how it sounds: "i am angry because some dude i don't know typed something mean about how i play a video game (i play city of heroes, a small mmorpg, like World of Warcraft but about a tenth the size) and it showed up on my screen."
anyways check out those pvp games where inter-faction talk is not allowed, maybe you'll find your fit there. -
Quote:1. im a horrible player.Originally Posted by End_User
I like you Barrier and hear that you are pretty decent, would you help teach me the arean boy ways?
2. im a horrible person.
3. you won't learn anything from me.
4. downs can't be cured. -
Quote:the average time it takes to produce a worthwhile set of drops is long in comparison with the time it takes to produce the net profit (the worth of those drops in inf) through market operations.Originally Posted by Ghost_Ripper
Why is it wasted effort? You can't play the market w/out having goods to sell on the market. Yes you can buy low and sell high; however, if you have the product yourself, you can sell high no matter what. Also, supplies for purples were so decimated from AE that buying low now is still rather high, at least higher than it was pre AE. I agree majority of farming is primarily for PL'ing toons. I'd have disagree that farming for money and drops is worthless, especially now in today's market (no pun intended) unless you can give compeling reasons to my opening question, why it's worthless or a waste, I'll be farming.
this is especially true with the stockpiles of liquid cash that most pvp-ers amassed through the days of free 50s. at the beginning of i13, i had 5 fully purpled toons from playing since i6 (mind/fire, fire/elec dom, fire/sonic corr, and a fire/psi dom), that number has since doubled with minimal effort, my playtime having become about a quarter of what it used to be (because of the pvp the ladder having been killed, and a new habit: having read 43 books since may, etc, etc).
as your liquid cash increases, so does your rate of infamy production assuming you distribute that cash adequately among various toons... so past a certain point (as low as about 200 mill), you star generating cash faster by spending 15 mins setting up bids every night as compared to spending 2 hours farming every week. -
Quote:fixt.Originally Posted by SonicBang
Only thing that should kill a bad regen is a debuffer.
pretty sure silit had zero problems fighting my fire/cold (he won 1-0). -
Quote:yeah, but you really don't need to farm too hard redside anymore.Originally Posted by Ghost_Ripper
Not anymore after the nerf to RED side Mentals.
Just saying
first off, you can use a fire/kin now, and tailor it to whatever you're fighting (in the next few weeks, i'll be doing something sorta tricky with mine to make my specific farm a bit easier). and that fire/kin is gonna be only be pl-ing toons... and the reality is this: most of us (pvp people), don't have many toons left to level. we had free 50s for 2 issues and most of us didn't delete what we leveled. making money through farming is a dumb idea when you have the market.
i haven't partaken in a concerted effort to hit 50 since.. wow. i can't remember. two dxp weekends ago? right now, i'm using a fire/kin to get a dm/nin stalker to 50 and i've been at it for 3 weeks because i ADD out after one run.
the fact is, farming isn't really that much of a necessity as it was in before i13-i15. most pvp-ers have our AE babies, and pvp has been reduced to a damage spam (so the distinction in playstyle among toons have been nearly eliminated in many cases (my earth/ea dom got stripped because i could do the same thing with my ice/psi dom while also destroying regens with little effort); if you are farming for money now or even drops, you're wasting your time. -
1. no.
2. stop crying.
3. your usage of the word "baddo" is flaky at best.
4. git wrek liek neutron in h-bomb -
plant primary is definitely the best pve set from 1-50.
as a secondary:
fire
elec
earth
psi
basically, since the dom buff, all secondaries with the exception of /ice are pretty good.
if you ever plan on pvping though, i would go with either a mind/elec, fire/elec, mind/nrg or fire/nrg. -
Quote:me, topdoc, and some dude from VR were those exceptions.Originally Posted by macskull
A while back (like, before the Family nerf in early 2008 I think it was), some people in the market forum did some speed tests of common redside farm builds, and it was discovered that except in very rare cases, Brutes outperformed Dominators in terms of kill speed and inf gathering (which are directly related, really). Why? Brutes have Fury, and Brutes are more easily able to handle harder targets which give more XP (think bosses, especially Nemesis bosses). Unfortunately I don't think that same kind of test was ever done heroside, and it certainly hasn't been repeated since the first time it was run (factoring in sets like Shields). In terms of "enhance-and-go" performance, a Fire/Kin can be a bargain-basement farmer: my Fire/Kin/Fire does respectably on common SOs, but it doesn't hold a candle to my purpled Fire/Kin/Stone. As far as inf gain heroside goes I'd probably give a nod to some flavor of Scrapper, usually Spines or Elec paired with Fire or Shields, and Blaze mastery for good measure.
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Quote:git wrek liek bush by shoeOriginally Posted by macskull
The reason you don't see more is because Fire, Psi, and Sonic are better.
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DR was a really bad VG on freedom.
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Quote:Originally Posted by EnD_Reitanna
devs can kiss my precious part
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Quote:this translates to burst effects vs. dps effects of powers should be looked at. dps should be adjusted upwards.Originally Posted by CYCI0N3
One last thing...ice blasters have been NERFED beyond the point of return right now
i would HIGHLY reccomend giving them a good damage bonus anything can beat a ice blaster...only because they can't slow and there damage is beyond bad...please consider bringing back all slows and at the same time buffing ice blast all around blaster and corruptor! -
Quote:i disagree. you're asking for this because your experience in a team setting. in a pvp setting where damage is 90% of the game, blasters have an edge over every squishy class, and in that 9/10 combos, that includes damage-focused squishies such as stalkers and doms.Originally Posted by CYCI0N3
Boost Damage on Blasters
Change Defiance
if you want more damage in kickballs ask for unresisted debuffing on defenders (vigiliance fix as a potential catalyst) and a reworking of scourge on corruptors as to actually have an effect on debuffs.
i agree with these. with the failure of the anti-spike code, these two things should have been removed.Quote:Originally Posted by CYCI0N3
No more Heal Decay
No more Travel Suppresion
Mez sucks already. I dont see the point of doing this unless you are interested in the kb aspect of break frees.Quote:Originally Posted by CYCI0N3
Enhance effect of break frees
i believe stalkers are working great this point. less stealth on stalkers is something akin to asking for forts and banes to be further nerfed, specially when going rogue is right around the corner.Quote:Originally Posted by CYCI0N3
Boost damage on stalkers but then less Stealth (meaning can see with cap close to cap perception.)
Deminishing Returns should NOT deminish something as simple as popping 4 reds..
finally, as stated before, asking for a damage increase in anything at this point doesn't make much sense; the key is in buffing debuffs and allowing the DR ceiling to be loosened to the point of making buffs on squishies actually matter. -
sonic/em.
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Quote:you haven't met mage's ice/cold controller then.Originally Posted by Legend_Light
I doubt any controller will do well in a PvP setting
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i deleted my level 44 sonic/sonic defender after 3 issues of being useless in PVP.
i have a fully purpled, io'd, and accoladed fire/sonic corruptor in freedom which i refuse to strip out of a sense of nostalgia for my first real pvp toon. -
Quote:downs syndrome.Originally Posted by macskull
Why would you take TP Foe and waste a power pool when you have Wormhole, which is an AoE TP Foe, with a sick stun attached, already in your primary?