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Definitely. For maybe 20% of a "High End" Build you can put together a good build that lets you do a whole lot of things you can't do on SOs. There is definitely a steep curve between a decent IO build and the most expensive in terms of price per added performance. I have 7 level 50's, only one has a Price is no object type build with 6 purple sets, etc. But the others do fine.

the farming is actually good IMO since it provides lots of recipes for the markets.

The trick is to not have a "wants" category much larger than your "income" category. For example if you are on the lower end income scale you are not going to be able to afford to do "full purple" builds for 50 toons. But really if you play casually bouncing between Radios and Task Forces (make sure to hit the Weeklys!) you can probably afford 1 big budget build without too much time invested. ========= Which really renders the "income inequality" part moot. Its already much more fair that live when most causals couldn't afford the high end builds at all.

This combines like two of my favorite thread types. Knockback flame war *and* Pretending like COH is a game in Alpha/Beta and not an established game. So I want to /jranger the original suggestion. But stick around for the flying popcorn.

You'll want guassians in build up with low enough slotted recharge to proc 90%+ of the time you hit it. I think <70% is the breakpoint, but a lot of us just 1 slot build up with the proc and call it good. If you really need to use it like you have it, then get tactics instead of FA, and put it there. It does fire a lot in tactics since its based on buffing teammates when used like that. It will almost never trigger in FA. Plus FA is an end hungry mostly useless power that exemps at level 36 in this case ...

Always hated Q As my tastes have moved away from space fantasy I hated him even more.

Without harder content this probably doesn't matter anyway. If you have a mostly SO build all T9s are useful. If you have a Decent IO build most of them are redundant, but its not like you need them.

It does look better animation wise. But hard to compete with claws.

You could give them some variation on a Blaster's sustain power to replace one Power It works for Blasters in Melee

Defense is superior to resist for Blasters due to the Status Protection Issue. With Defense if it works the mezz doesn't land. Your Toggles stay up, life is good. With Resist all the mezzes hit you. Your Toggles suppress ... life is ungood. This is why I always got Mace APP for Scorpion Shield on Blasters.

They are still in the rag tag fugitive fleet trying to escape the cylons All the rest of that was some weird fan fic or something.

For EA I'd suggest Resist to all but PSI instead of Defense. Reduce its crash and duration. For Electric id suggest Defense instead of Resist... For SR how about a bonus to hp, resist, regen and recovery? Fire and Dark should be allowed to use their Rezzes as nukes while alive.

Some are "fine". Some are pointless. +45 def to SR or EA or Nin? For why? A self rez nuke for Fire, that only works if you die? SRs T9 is double stupid on Tankers since they are soft capped in the 20s on just SOs

My suggestion would be switch to Mace mastery to pick up Scorpion shield, then grab tough to hold the def uniques and get weave. Defense just seems superior with the whole status protection issue. Power boost might help more than vengeance. Since you'd get +def and +heal in energize.

Also Manticore. I mean extra Manticore. That guy needs beat up more.

I'd say SR's taunt aura could get a slow/-rech component, but that's already EA's and Ice's gimmick But it would make sense in that, moves so fast makes people around them look slow, sense.

Claws builds put up pretty strong ST dps numbers and it has good AOE. So not sure low damage is really a thing. For General content a set and forget secondary is nice, like WP or SR. But for Farming something like Bio or Fire is likely better.

Another one for Gail's list.

Yeah. I don't like COT either ... Mainly because I hate going to Oingo Boingo.

Sorry GM Widower was typing that before you posted.

I am not sure I understand the pretend character who died in a video game can't be brought back in the time travel loops because ... The pretend character gets his powers from another pretend character that is over 3000 years old that had some characterization that offends modern audiences even though those attributes are never discussed in COX .. And .. Because that character was the author avatar of a hated game designer ... ... arguement. ______ Sorry but Zeus is sufficiently Flanderized and derivative at this point that his (its?) Characterization is meaningless. I mean there's a planet named after him ... Statesman isn't actually Zeus in game anyway. Getting the powers of =/= being that person (thing?) Statesman isn't the game designer everyone loves to hate either. He is just a comic book style video game character. AND ... to top it off the Original poster wants him back in a Strike Force so they can beat him up anyway.

Good to know the plan seems to have worked for the moment.

It would be really cool if it was just a slider. And you could decide how visible you were on the screen. Or an IO that changed the transparency value. It seems transparency and stealth radius are different things?

I actually think Level based chronology is dumb in MMOs Its not like everyone started on the same day and reached max level on the same day. So every player is an alternate timeline? It works good on single player games. And those MMOs that are actually single player games ( basically most of them now)

You understand that not everyone has the same level of visual acuity, right? Also Hide is like invisibility, not stealth. So people with eye strain just shouldn't play stalkers. I play on a 32 inch screen and I have trouble. I use Energy Glow on /EA to see my stalker.