holy moly thats gota b the fastest response i eva got erm he called botchyfiddle and ill b on soon as servers r up suppose 2 be 3 wasnt it?
When hasten was worth having I was able to lay upto 4 sets of trops at a time, I only did once to experiment and it took 15 minutes to kill some level 30s but it was great watching them run like a baywatch slow mo (only with less bounce) unable to fire off attacks while I just threw down a few more nasty spikes... but now I have the joy of trip mines to go with them!!!
Set up a shed load of mines (3 dam 3 rec red) infront of a door, lay trops inside the door, snipe mob, hide, watch with glee as the Paragon Prtector bounces through the door, lands on the caltrops and proceeds to kill himself by blood loss from the feet. Some people go to the beach to skim stones, I go to creys folly to skim paragon protectors!
will keep an eye out for botchyfiddle then!
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Set up a shed load of mines (3 dam 3 rec red) infront of a door, lay trops inside the door, snipe mob, hide, watch with glee as the Paragon Prtector bounces through the door, lands on the caltrops and proceeds to kill himself by blood loss from the feet. Some people go to the beach to skim stones, I go to creys folly to skim paragon protectors!
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all i can say to that is 
i prefer the personal touch with PP's myself, knock them down to low health then just as they go for Moment of glory Aim + Blaze and wallop 
unless i miss time it of course and then i'm the one going wallop, onto the floor
The best thing I find with the whole MoG thing is to get powers that keep doing damage to them, so for me that would be flamethrower, caltrops, full auto, burst, ignite, anything, they can't MoG whilst taking damage...
When you're testing later try bouncing them on mines... it will open your mind to a whole world of fun and tactics that you could never have believed existed, plus mines still one shot most =minions... look me up online when I've done my respec, if your on union that is, and I'll show you how to kill people without ever firing a weapon at them or even being able to see them... the joy of devices
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Send a tell to any of the following in game:
Doulos
Frozen Rogue
Scapegoat
Halo
Genergy
Disco King Jr
Amazing Shnyet
I think most of us will be on tonight, whats your guys name and I'll make a point of adding you to friends to invite you.
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Nice, I find out about the sniper thing through a post on the forums and now I find I have been demoted by a post on the forums... well at least you are consistent Doulos 
lol.. i can see grumponaut comin out soon
well i was really losing heart with the whole devices set larely, but the replies here have opened my mind up to a number of attractive possiblilties
i always used to use mines as a nice surprise for mobs when hoversniping. set up mines, lay down some trops and hover above and snipe one mob in a group, then watch as the rest of the group run into melee range
i think the reason i've never really seen the fun in these powers is i was a bit down on slotting them.
Oh and i'm on union Doulos feel free to search me out i will likely need some tips for getting the best out of my rejigged devices.
Hence ED my friend, you now have to slot them. In my new build I have vast slotting on them.
3 Slows on trops
3 damage 3 accuracy on turret
3 damage 3 rec red on mines
3 to hit buff on Drone
1 end red on cloak
3 disorientate 3 rec red on taser (can stun a boss with ease)
2 immob duration on web grenades
I don't use time bomb... to hard to get in the right place, and the I don't use smoke grenade as I didn't have room
Other power pools are
Assault Rifle
Concealment
Teleport
Leadership
Flight
I call the build a hunter build as it s designed to be used primarily in PvP for stalking bad guys and taking them down, but will also be very effective in PvE
PS I'm SORRY AERO PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!!
<in a Monty burns stylee> Excellent! i feel a nicely diverse well slotted devices build coming on.
only 45 minutes till hometime and then i can get planning (and servers permitting testing)
i'll post some details when i can
www.joechott.com/coh
download a planner and do it now its out of date but hell, you can just remember not to put more than 3 SOs in nything!
havi it already downloaded at home and had sepnt last night working through some builds. Unofrtunately the corporate behemoth i work for would send in the hired goons to work me over with a two by four if i tried to download it to their machines.
i was working with the ED slotting in mind last night although i've just realised that with the I6 end drop in powers a toggle heavy build is still goint to be viable. Huzzah 
ooh my boss has left for the day, may be time to beat a hasty and sneaky early retreat i feel 
2 words: Memory stick
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2 words. Memory stick
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many words. cheapskate corporate behemoth that outfitted my department with pc's from the jumkpile (true story honestly) therefore predating USB ports and apparently powered by overtired hamsters 
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2 words. Memory stick
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many words. cheapskate corporate behemoth that outfitted my department with pc's from the jumkpile (true story honestly) therefore predating USB ports and apparently powered by overtired hamsters
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1 word. Palmtop 
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1 word. Palmtop
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how true, hmm i wonder if i can convince it to work on my windows smartphone. worth a go i suppose
Right well, having played around on hero planner. this is what ive come up with. let me know what you think.
Exported from version 1.5B of CoH Planner
http://joechott.com/coh
Archetype: Blaster
Primary Powers - Ranged : Fire Blast
Secondary Powers - Support : Devices
01 : Web Grenade immdur(01)
01 : Flares dam(01) dam(3) dam(5) recred(15) recred(15) endred(25)
02 : Fireblast dam(02) dam(3) dam(5) recred(17) recred(17) endred(25)
04 : Caltrops slw(04) slw(9) slw(9) recred(40) recred(40)
06 : Fireball dam(06) dam(7) dam(7) recred(19) recred(19) endred(33)
08 : Combat Jumping endred(08)
10 : Targeting Drone thtbuf(10) thtbuf(11) thtbuf(11) endred(31)
12 : Fire Breath dam(12) dam(13) dam(13) recred(21) recred(21) endred(34)
14 : Super Jump jmp(14)
16 : Smoke Grenade thtdbf(16) thtdbf(23) thtdbf(23)
18 : Aim recred(18)
20 : Cloaking Device endred(20)
22 : Aid Other hel(22) hel(40)
24 : Aid Self hel(24) hel(39) hel(39)
26 : Blaze dam(26) dam(27) dam(27) recred(31) recred(31) endred(36)
28 : Blazing Bolt dam(28) dam(29) dam(29) recred(33) recred(33) endred(36)
30 : Assault endred(30)
32 : Trip Mine dam(32) dam(34) dam(34) recred(37) recred(37) endred(37)
35 : Inferno dam(35) dam(36) dam(39)
38 : Acrobatics endred(38)
41 : Char hlddur(41)
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01 : Brawl enhancement(01)
01 : Sprint enhancement(01)
02 : Rest enhancement(02)
/ninja edit, as my toon still hasn't been copied to test i'm just gonna think about this or maybe go for it on live
Looks good, only comment is on the drone. This is a toggle light build, I can only see you running CJ, Acro an TD at the same time, not sure if you need an endred on TD I would put that as a rec red on either a heal or aim
Think I saw you in IP last night...
Reporting back after the first night in the field.
and all ican say is
Did some missions teamed with the SG, against 42 and 43's. this was a bit of a struggle with a few plants but to be fair no worse than usual.
Set up a nice trap at one point, large field of mines and trops, pulled a group of Crey onto it and they were flying everywhere
Soloing is more tactical than before due to the lighter damage and the reduction in accuracy (which is a sklight concern as my slotting on TD hasn't changed)
End usage is higher than previous, but this just means that a tray of inspirations is needed rather than before when i used to hardly touch them.
So all in all this seems to be a bit of a winner, certainly made the game much more interesting and tactical.
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Indeed you did Sir, unfortunately i didn't spot your broadcast message till i'd hit Talos and i think my tell might of got lost in your chat window.
My thanks to you and your fellow rangers for the advice and see you on the Streets
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you won't be able to perma trop which is kinda fun. I've killed mobs with that!!! Make them run over trops for a few meters in an enclosed corridor... most amusing!!!
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now that is a great image
hmm okay then caltrops with 3 slow it is, although i'll replace your web greande idea with Char from fire mastery epic pool (seeing as i've just picked it up
single target hold + DoT on a field of trops for extra DoT woo! i tell you woo!