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I've opened about 125 packs and still no Black Wolf. I wasn't completely set on it, but at this point I feel like I'm in too deep on these packs that I must have it. Damn you, Paragon.

Definitely not crab spiders. I'm always told they have terrible single target damage.

I threw the proc in to Heavy Burst and the other 5 in to Burst. I had Burst slotted with Devastation but the SoA AT gives me a recharge bonus... which allows me to remove Posi Blast from Suppression and Frankenslot it with Centrioles for the range I've always wanted on it. I never did it in the past because the recharge loss would've taken me out of perma-hasten/pets. Now, I have my 2 cones on rapid recharge and approximately 75 foot range. I'm liking the way this is all turning out.

I just did a fresh install of CoH using the launcher and it only took about 15 minutes total.

TT:Leadership and Tactics are pretty overkill, IMO. I would consider dropping Tactics for Combat Jumping or maybe the other armor if you don't want to deal with CJ. Could also consider the taunt in Presence pool to help out your pets.

I can accept the answer that porting over old weapon models might take additional work which there isn't time for (although I don't like it!). However, Steampunk and Celestial rifles both are available to Soldiers so they must be doing something different now. Can we please just have all new weapons proliferate to all the sets that should be able to use them especially now that we're forking over additional money aside from subscription costs?

Also, I won't accept thematic reasons as a valid excuse as that was thrown out of the window when sniper rifles turned into flamethrowers and grenade launchers.

The newer rifles, steampunk and celestial, are available to SoA so they must be how is that explained? It would be appreciated of from this point forward they made all new models proliferated to all appropriate sets.

My tip would be to grab Geas/Force of Nature accolade for endurance emergencies. It's affected by recharge effects so with a high recharge build it can be up fairly often. I run an end heavy crab spider so I end up using it quite a bit.

I doubt +Range is the first thing that comes to mind when most people consider mitigation, but I would definitely consider it *A* form of mitigation. Having played a perma-Boost Range blaster in the past I can definitely appreciate using range as a form of defense. I realize that "zomg soft-cap" is what this game has turned in to, but being able to take out enemies before they can come in to range and even attack is nice also.

Assault. Always assault.

As you mentioned, to hit isn't too terribly important as most people get that all figured out on their own. Damage boost, however, is always in demand. You're not only helping me, but also all my pets. Spiders are badasses on their own, but their biggest strength to me is 'power in numbers'.

I used to be in an all spider supergroup and with everyone running double assault and double maneuvers the level of domination was insaaane.

I sit at 37.5 or so ranged defense. It's not cap but it's close enough to avoid most hits. Any hits I take are mitigated through my 50 RES and serum. One defense insp caps me if things get hairy. If things get really hairy I have accolade powers to fall back on.

Sitting at cap is nice but I'd be giving up a good amount of offense to get there.

I posted my build here in the SoA forums a couple of days ago. Go take a look.

Here's some screens from a pylon fight and a 54 Diabolique EB (forgot to bump up my difficulty to make an AV).

Pylon -http://i.imgur.com/iw9Bh.jpg
As you can see on the pylon, the -HP is pretty consistent of about 1000 per proc, roughly around 3-3.3% per proc. I'm not sure why the numbers vary if however. Well, maybe when the next proc fires it calculates off the current lowered max HP. Not sure.

Diablique 54 EB - http://i.imgur.com/pj5UU.jpg
Kinda more of the same here, but the proc values seem to be much more varied. If it's supposed to be a set percentage than the variance in the values here doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Only other thing I could think of is that the normal of the value of the proc is 45-60 for this NPC and it's being applied 6 times here... or it's just not displaying correctly.

I have seen combat numbers show a stack of procs from the same player just double the value on a single line as shown in this pylon screenshot... http://i.imgur.com/hWLE7.jpg ... the first spiderling is applying the proc twice while the second only landed it once. Still, we're hitting at about 4 procs total here. Using the logic on this screen, it almost does in fact seem like the proc is landing roughly 6 times on the Diabolique fight, despite what we're being led to believe about the 4 stack max.

Would really be interested in putting together a team of 'Degenerates' and doing some further testing on this.

Thanks, folks. Was aware of the standard 4 proc stack max, but since -Max HP is kind of a new thing I wasn't sure if it was being treated any differently.