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This sounds fun. I've never ran a STF. I hear they can be a pain. I have a few questions

How many merits?

Can a toon on this team be without IO sets and still manage to not suck on this TF? (Not that i would ever do that)

On virtue is there a specific time and date that a person forms this team up?

What's the estimated time given a team wipe or two?

I have a question. Has anyone successfully capped the defense on a Kat/WP build? Or got the resistance to a "decent for scrappers" state?

Whats up guys. I come here to ask other than running radio mishes and doing the occasional TF, what do you guys tend to do on CoX to keep the fun factor alive? I've been on CoX for about 3 years on and off. I'm wondering if I'm missing some cool content. For the average player they are probably missing out on alot of fun arcs/activities in CoH. The activities aren't exactly put out there in plain site.

Ok, I love tanks and I have a few....on the virtue server and one on Freedom. I have altitis so I only have 1 lvl 50 tank and a few other lowbies. I play scrappers and tanks mainly.

I kinda wanna knock the dust off of my lvl 50 Inv/DM tank. Have any of you guys just transferred you tanks to the champion server just for tanker tuesdays and the tons of presents it brings? I'm on the fence about whether I want to just create a new tank or transfer one of the tanks I already have.

I also have been on Virtue for as long as I can remember. Has anyone tried to make a Tanker Tuesday a permanent event on other servers? I would kinda like to get this started on virtue, but I'm not sure if I could stay the course. Is there a set event leader on Champion for this? Or is it just a set place where all the tanks meet for the crash and bash?

Thanks for the inputs guys. I don't play the market that well to have bottomless pockets. I'm playing the DM/SD right now. He's almost 45, but with the funds not at my disposal that might not be my best route. None of you like the Kat/WP? The thing that sucks about DM is the lack of AoE support, but with Soul drain the Shield charge is great. Working on getting the recharge up as often as possible. But what should I focus on with the DM/SR as far as set bonuses go?

I was on a team the other day and the Tank was a bit timid, so I said what the hell....I can handle it. So I jumped in and soul drain and shield charge. Waxed the boss up after and lived. The team leader told me to not do that again, that is the tanks job. C'mon he was waiting and then just herding to a corner. It was like 2 minutes in between mobs. Yeah enough time for my shield charge and soul drain to recharge...but c'mon. I quit the team soon after and apologized to the team leader and said the style of play just wasn't for me.

Hey all. So i have a few questions about some builds that I might be able to solo an AV with. My questions are where should I focus my set bonuses if that makes any sense to you.

Lvl 50 Dm/SR
Lvl 50 Kat/WP
Lvl 44 DM/SD
Lvl 40 DB/SR

yes of course the last two aren't up to 50 yet, but the questions still apply. Also, I hear bad things about dual blades going up against AVs. Do you think it's doable?

Yup, I meant soul drain. Sorry.

Although Fluffy is good at shooting of Pet gaze, he often is in a corner somewhere working on one baddy. I like when he shoot off tenab tentacle and hits like 5 baddies with it. So I take pet gaze and tesla to I can get a sure fire immob.

And you make the though of getting that OG and SD and all the dark sets so nice. I may even respec out of AIM so I can save a power. Since I have hasten on auto, I have to click AIM and sometimes i just plain old forget about AIM. I do have it slotted with adjusted targeting so the gain from that it nice. But I can through those into soul drain.

Thanks Biospark for the info. So, yeah I think you made me change my decision on WHEN to respec. I currently have aim, but once I get dark consumption then aim would be highly droppable. I didn't think about that before. I am VERY familiar with alot of the dark scrapper/tank sets so yeah, I may go the Dark mastery route. The draining of enemies sounds enticing as well though. Something for me to think about in the near future. And why would you drop Pet gaze? That's part of my bread and butter. LOL! Render baddies helpless for a little while then they can't hit me as well, tar patch, go in for a soul drain, then I can short circuit and LB them. I think by that time they'd be almost dead, but this is theoretically speaking and depends on the faction Im fighting.

EDIT: Oh Pet gaze is the single target. I would say it's skippable, but sometimes a boss need some holding and pet gaze+tesla cage can do it. But yeah, It is skippable.

Hello all. I have my dark/elec defender up to lvl 39 (havent trained from 38 to 39 YET) Im wondering in the electric secondary what powers would you advise I NOT take. I'm thinking of doing a respec soon. I haven't taken Zapp, and I took short circuit late. I'm kind of regretting taking it to a certain extent to. I sometime go into a mob and let it off, but not much. As far as travel powers I went super speed so I can couple it with shadow fall for that invisibility. Oh, I also too the voltaic sentinel. I like him around for a little added DPS. My play style is teaming, but I'd like to solo a bit too. I've tested the waters a little bit with soloing. Not bad. If I can squeeze some more increased damage out of set bonuses I should be ok. Oh, no Thunderous blast for me. For a defender nuke it would be meh and for a meh attack I damn sure wouldn't like to be drained of end. What are your takes. I had this convo a while ago with some folks on this forum, but that was back when I was like 20.

Man, I try to tell folks about the fearsome stare. Some PuGs said it was meh, but I tried it solo.....NOT MEH! Instilled like 3/4 of the 8 man mob. I don't have both ST holds yet. (Tesla cage and Pet gaze) When I do then yes, I'll be holding some bosses.

Thanks for all the insight guys. I really appreciate it.

Also, Phire thanks. Disregard that other thread of mine. Just seemed like a gang up thread.

Interesting take on that Dark/Elec build Local_Man. I like the details.

Siiiiigh. This thread has taken a turn for the worst. As they often do in these forums. I should've known.

I think some of you have mistaken this thread as a whine fest. I don't like to do that whole thing. When I posted the thread of course I know there would be some opposition to a degree. BUT you can't say that you play on a team and you never once thought to yourself, "Man, I was doing my thing back there an no one noticed." I'm not saying I should be the one getting all the praises and parades and stuff, but sometimes when THEY (not you because you would NEVER do that) single out one person on the team for a kudos it's like....didn't that scrapper just AoE the hell out of that mob? Didn't that blaster do some serious blastage? And I was talking in particular about Dark/. I was pointing out how underrated it was. If you thought I wanted a pity party then save it. In general I wanted basically say "Dark Miasma is a beast? Why don't more people notice?" I hate it when you have a few party poopers who misinterpret some statements and turn it around to be something it really wasn't.

Hey biospark, wouldn't slotting out the twighlight with Touch of Nictus cut down on the speed of the power and maybe even the healing potency?

Well Strato, I am rolling a Dark/elec. As much as I'd like to solo, I am under the impression and understanding that this wont happen. I'll leave that to my scrapper toons. I would however like to do a better job of attacking and whittling down baddies. I'd like to all not get mezzed as much. LOL! I was facing some bad maltas and I was stunned for what seemed like an eternity while I was in hover.

I just want to be the best Dark/elec I can be in general. LOL!

Hey all. I was wondering, generally defenders are going to solo much unless they have a beastly defender AT and build. So, what should defenders be trying to slot for when looking for set bonuses? I know this may be based on what AT combo you are going with, but I figured I'd ask anyways.

Defenders don't have much damage, but they can increase a teams damage potential

Defenders don't have many Hit points, but they can do their best to make sure a teams points don't reach red.

Defenders don't have the best defense, but they can have some good debuffs or some form of mitigation. They can give defense to teammates, but most of the time they are left naked so to speak. Correct me if I am wrong.

I know recharge is an important thing to consider. Depending on the AT accuracy is key as well. Endurance is a must.

So I know I am forgetting some facts, but what might you guys and gals generally go for when planning out set bonuses? Keep in mind I am new to defending as I normally scrap and tank.

Whoa whoa for those of you who think I am playing the I need sympathy role. I'm just saying in comparison to the other defender sets Dark miasma get easily overlooked and some people throw the praises at the one ff defender and not the beastly slotted scrap or the dark defender. I come from a long list of thankless toons who are beasts. Just so happens I rolled a dark defender which I am proud of by the way. I know my worth. Last night we we fighting some annoying Malta and someone made the comment "that went rather fast". I knew why but I didn't jump in and say "oh oh that was all me dude!". Lol.

Hello all. Since CoH came out on Mac I have been playing it rather successfully with minimum problems until today. I click the CoH icon and the connection window pops up, only to fail and say "Assertion Failed" along with a english explanation, but not anything I can comprehend because it is that programming jargon. Have any of you experienced this? And did you come up with a solution to it besides reloading CoH?