joebartender

I wonder which defensive toggles you would choose to ever forgo on a /SR, /FA, /WP, /Nin, or /EA?

In /SR all you have to fall back on is Def, by turning off any of your toggles your losing your def debuff resistance and def debuff is plentiful across a multitude of factions.

In /FA turing off either toggle means dropping part of your mez protection.

In /WP you can if fighting foes with only smashing and lethal damage forgo Heightened Senses and when facing foes with only pure elemental damage turn off Mind Over Body. The situation in which you face only pure damage of one type or another outside of AE is very seldom. Your other two toggles, RttC and Indomitable Will should never be turned off in combat period.

/NIN is much the same as /SR if you turn off either of your toggles your choosing to give up 1/3 or 2/3 of your defense to save a small bit of EPS.


/EA goes down that same road as /SR and /Nin with DDR and your main toggles. You could try not running your mez shield but that isn't normally a good idea. You could forgo the stealth/def toggle and if your soft capped without it that might not be a bad idea but the stealth toggle is the only one in the set that you wouldn't want to run full time period.

For certain at times for a mission or two in the game you may run into a faction that makes one toggle or the other unneeded. For the vast majority of the game your going to run into a wide mix of damage in every spawn.

You tend to see this wide spread of damage types often enough that making a choice to attempt to save end by toggle management hurts you more than it could possibly help.






In /FA by dropping either of your

Appears fixed in the 21.5 patch from the notes

/Willpower really has no need for recharge of any sort but you are going to tend to lean toward spiritual alpha for the +healing aspect.

/Shield builds tend to focus on +def before all else and the end usage is high enough that many take the Cardiac alpha branch.

Forcefield/ Defenders have 0 need of recharge or +heal so that opens up the alpha most likely moving down the Nerve tree but your secondary choice is going to want at least some +recharge to run an optimal attack chain.

Bots/Traps MM's can solo AV's from the mid 20's on with SO's. Sure the more Recharge the better with traps but with that level of performance on SO's you can really build them out just about any way you wish.

I am sure there are others that partially or totally fit your request but those are my off the top of the head responses.

Of those you listed I would favor the Rad. With /Traps your going to want to be in close to toe bomb and get the most from your traps. Rad gives you a PbAoe and a Taoe to use while your mixing it up inside.

Managing the KB of energy in a way to not waste the effect of your traps can be an exercise in frustration.

Psi's main advantage the range on the attacks is wasted on /Traps since you do your best work in tight. If you wanted to be a lay out traps and pull kind of player than it might work alright but I have never met a team that wants that kind of trapper around.

Most would say to skip it. Once you have perma Dull Pain and you can soft cap def with one in range of Invincible the situations in which Unstoppable are useful dwindles fairly quickly.

With that being said if you like the power and enjoy having it as a oh Pancake button then take it as a one slot wonder and call it a day.

After you come to Primal at level 20 you are a hero or villain and wouldn't be locked out of the toon for that reason.

You could however end up locked out if you haven't purchased a Mastermind unlock or aquired enough Paragon Rewards Tokens to have Masterminds unlocked even as a premium player

From a Ustream chat they have new items weekly laid out and ready to roll until May.

I used the three I was granted when i21 went live.

My normal rate is one purple on the Demon farm with my SS/FA brute. I was right at 3 per hour with windfall active.



I normally hit 18-22 recipes a run on the Demon farm I was getting high 30's low 40's with windfall active.

Since purples are about the only drops that are worth selling it was a nice increase but it didn't push my inf/min close to what I could get ticket farming so I won't be buying any others.

That's a huge YMMV set up. Clicky secondary plus weapon set primary means massive redraw. While it can be a ST monster if redraw bothers you in the slightest avoid this mess at all cost.

If you have somehow been blessed by the heavens with the patience to not want to stick a boot through your monitor every time you have to see the darkness cursed redraw animation then by all means continue to enjoy it.

You would have 30% defense.

The game applies your highest applicable defense against the attack.

Against an even level minion with no tohit buff applied to them that would mean you have a 20% chance of getting hit by the attack in your example.

It is impossible to reduce any foes tohit chance to lower than 5%. Some foes like AV's that have a higher base acc mod can only be reduced down to ~7.5% before taking into account level difference.

More good info here for you: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Attack_Mechanics

Both /FA and /ELA have End Drain resist. I don't think it is possible to end drain an Elec that took Grounded and stays on the ground. /Fa now receives end drain protection for 2 minutes with each application of Consume.

/ELA does have psi resist also but not nearly as much as you can get from DA .

The rest looks spot on to me.

I always felt DA got short changed on it's Damage Aura. Every other damage aura has a secondary effect. Fire gets more damage and Elec helps with sapping but Dark just does the same damage as Elec with no bonus.

1st thing: Your event your rules. Hard to really argue with that.

2nd thing: I'm with Microcosm on this one. Either all incarnate powers should be ok or none should be ok.

Last thing: Good luck with your event and I hope you and your group of friends have fun.

Positron responded to this on the Issue 21/Freedom launch Ustream Marathon during the 1st segment.

To paraphrase his response: So you have a set with the attacks being throws. Now picture two players trying to use this set at the same time.

It is a continual stream of animations that are being played out without the person being thrown actually in your grasp. It in effect looks ridiculous for much of the time.

Personally I wouldn't mind a set with as much KD as Axe has but without the god awful Lethal damage but I am pretty content as long as I have one fairly quickly recharging KD power and almost every melee set has one of those to use, if not I can take Air Sup.

Because for many of us the game starts at 50 when you can min/max out a build and do the kind of things that are fun for us like solo'ing AV's, GM's and TF's? For others the game starts when they can get into end game raids.

I don't have anything against those that like the slog to 50 but once you have been down each path of the content 2 or 3 times it gets old.

We have MARTy in place now if your not tripping MARTy you are not leveling to fast per the dev team. They recently removed exp from rezzders in AE to further slow down PL'es without having to resort to the ban hammer. If your not actively using an Exploit such as MM pets giving boss xp, monkies giving boss xp, Cruise Missiles to kill masses of bosses, level 1 AV's with build up and snipes so that you can never get attacked and any other old exploit that was in the game and has now been fixed then I wouldn't worry bout it.



From personal testing I was unable to set off MARTy with 2 other friends all using SS/FA farm builds that could pre rez xp nerf each get a toon 1-50 in 3 hours. 3 Brutes, Large cave map, each working a different choke point to triple kill speed and we never once set MARTy off. I at this point have concluded that MARTy really is only in game to catch real exploits and that the devs have given us a rather large leash with regard to what they consider "aggressive" gameplay

You can talk to him at 35 to start the patron arcs. I was assured by Synapse in Beta that all doors for patron missions taken by characters under level 40 would spawn in Level correct zones.

There isn't one single foe between the ferry and the door to the Tower in Grandville. Just run a straight line, hop onto the raised platform that LR's statue is on and continue straight ahead.

Farsight has 120 second duration and 240 second base recharge. Frankenslotting with 4 def/recharge IO's gives max def and gets the recharge down to 3 seconds from perma. 1 LotG +7.5 will make the power perma or casting while hasten is up will always get Farsight back in time to refresh. Even with some moderate recharge debuffing it won't really be an issue.

You do however need to remember to recast every 90 seconds to 2 minutes depending on your recharge like you mentioned and that can be a negative for some folks

Anyone with a Traps/anything, Rad/anything,or Cold/anything defender would likely beg to differ. Time/ will soon join that list as people start to get a hang for the set and see how nice the layerd debuffs are against AV's.

As for Tankers, you only need a bit over 100dps to kill an AV. Toss in an envenomed dagger temp power and you don't even need that much dps. It may take a bit of time for a tanker to whittle down the AV but no incarnate powers are needed as long as you have a decent attack chain.

We had a whole thread on this a way back http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=265173

Long story short. Claws is better on a brute. By so little as to not matter.

Which enemies in Praetoria?

PPD for instance tend to have resistnace to S/L/E from 10% up to 20%

You would need to go down the list here and see who else resists E and how much http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Praeto...rored_Factions

The low levels can go by in 1-2 hours if you hit up the lfg and get on a Death From Below Trial. That might be the most painless way to get done with the pre SO levels that doesn't involve CEBR'ing your way through them.

If you are just a dedicated solo'ist then Claws paired with just bout anything is nice. You get your bread and butter AOE at level 6 in Spin. It's almost criminal how much fun that is on a brute as you have fury to fuel the damage even at low levels. There is something addictive about dropping most of a spawn in one shot at level 6.

If your more worried about being able to stand up to a wide array of content solo and on a budget then anything /WP is a nice choice as /WP is great out of the box and very viable on SO's.

Putting that together Claws/WP is a great choice but it truly is mix and match with brutes, they all solo like a beast at the low levels and most combos don't ever really slow down. Some peak higher than others but not a one is a dog.

It was a scrapper complaining that it was making buffs not work. The buffs in question were likely: AAO, Invincibility and RttC. That being said if the OP was tossing bonfire under the squishies then this shouldn't have been an issue.

To the OP as long as your not trying to actively slow down the team I really don't see an issue with it. I do think that if you are not looking for max speed, max kill/min ratio then your are most likely better off forming your own teams and telling people that you plan at moving at a measured pace as the steamroll as fast as possible team is in my experience the most common team out there.

Why on Earth would you have deleted the 50's you had?

Go to your old home servers forum and post a I'm back thread. See if any of your old mates are out and about in the game. They more than likely have a toon or 3 that can help level you up fairly quickly.

As to the fastest way to level it has and always will be farming. Non exploit farming can get you to 50 in a day.

Since you haven't played in a few years your better off playing a new toon up and getting back into the swing of things.

If you take that route then joining your servers global chat chans and seeking out TF's will blow thru levels at a really nice pace.