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    Dear Farma

    in General Discussion

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    My advice?  Don't take anyone's advice.  These forums are filled with goons who would see you waste your time killing cranium rats for every fucking character, because they erroneously believe your time is as worthless as theirs and can't fathom why someone would want to skip the tedium that somehow still amuses them after 20 years.

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    Battle Axe / Shield Defense / Energy Mastery

    in Brute

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    20 hours ago, nihilii said:


    It does roughly same base DPA as Chop, at range, can hit multiples, comes with 80% KD, can slot AoE procs (arma, fury).

     

    If you have lightning fast reflexes and manage ideal mob setups at all times, or mostly care about ST DPS, there can be a point to stick to super high recharge Swoop -> Gash -> Chop (or throw in a snipe or gloom in there) for slightly more DPS. I have seen such builds advocated.

    Personally I'm faaaar from perfect, so the many advantages of Cleave outside of pure DPA come into play. It's worth it as a ST attack which makes any extra target hit free damage. It lets me hit instantly rather than take half a second to step into melee range for the next autotabbed target. It fills up a pure Axe chain of Cleave -> Swoop -> Gash -> Chop that is loose on recharge requirements and will fit down to lvl 21 as exemplar. It also makes a perma AoE rotation out of Cleave -> Pendulum -> Axe Cyclone, if that's what I need instead. It gives me solid mitigation.

    All in all I value this optionality immensely. A pure ST attack would have to be at ET levels of DPA to overshine that. YMMV, but I think anyone who hasn't done so should try the power then decide.


    Cleave is also a good mule for set bonuses that come out of MAoE enhancements; you can shore up your AoE def with Dervish, Melee def with Avalanche or Obliteration, or a little melee/aoe with Multi-Strike.  It's also pretty good for clipping runners that sneak out of mobs, or filling out an attack chain if you're getting pounded with Cryo Rifles or other slows. 

     

    Cleave: it's what's for dinner. 

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    Who is a Mastermind?

    in General Discussion

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    8 hours ago, Snarky said:

    From “The Tick” is The Monarch.  Quite a few villains in many iterations of Batman were MMs. Giving Batman plenty of goons to dance with.  In fact so many villains of lower power dramas could be considered MMs. On the high end Lex Luthor and Kingpin. Both smart and powerful but preferring to work through flunkies.  Why not?

     

    It's The Terror that's a mastermind from the Tick, though I prefer the incarnation from the Patrick Warburton series.

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    Question for Experienced Players: Force Feedback Change for +Recharge

    in General Discussion

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    I wouldn't bother with FF+Rech UNLESS you can slot it into three attacks/summons that you use in combat. FF+Rech doesn't stack magnitude-wise, but it stacks duration-wise; my Grav/Storm is slotted with three of them (Gale/Tornado/and Fissure) and I spend more time with the bonus than without, makes for a lot more mayhem. 

     

    If you DO wind up slotting a bunch of FF+Rech procs, be sure to address your endurance recovery (be it through slotting, procs, Incarnate stuff or Accolades) or else you'll be chewing through your blue bar like a fiend.

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    Is the in-game economy weird and broken?

    in General Discussion

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    5 hours ago, jkwak said:

    The economy is absolutely broken because people screw with it intentionally since I think 2021, it seems there are people who have nothing better to do than fire farming and buying stuff at 3 to 10 times the actual value, with the influx in new and returning players this year since the announced deal with NC Soft it has only gotten worse because because now there are people who don't know those prices are manipulated and willingly place bids in those price ranges as soon as the can afford it.

     

     

     

    There's a simple fix for that - brains and patience.   If you're after a recipe that's 'been selling' at 5M, bid 3M and wait a few days.  Aside from a few evergreen recipes/enhancements that rarely get posted at a discount, chances are good you'll get what you were after at a fraction of the MSRP.  

    Keep in mind, 99/100 is a fraction, as is 1258/100.  

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    Dual Pistols - Corruptor vs Defender, is there really a difference in the end?

    in Archetypes

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    I always land on the side of Corruptor because of the way combat works in teams, and with Corruptors in particular.

     

    Put it this way... you're on a full team going up against 54s.  You've got your usual mix of Blasters and Scrappers, and you're the Defender.  Maybe you start combat with a buff or debuff; your teammates are starting with their best available attack, usually their alpha.  By the time your superior buff/debuff numbers kick in, the hardest-hitting powers have already been fired off; your buffs are amping Flares and Chop or whatever.  There's a difference between a 10% damage buff on Flares and a 10% damage buff on Blaze.  Blaze has already been fired off, so now what?

     

    Same scenario on a Corruptor... you dont bother attacking until Scourge is in play, so you spend a few moments chunking out buffs/debuffs. These don't hit as well as the Defender version, but really, who is disappointed that Flares only got a 7.5% damage buff, especially when you DO start attacking, you're chunking out at LEAST Brute-level damage at range.

     

    Fights end quicker with Corruptors than with Defenders.  Quicker fights means faster mission clears.  Faster missing clears mean more missions.  More missions means more progression. 

     

    Corruptor Uber Alles.

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    How do you make ice control good?

    in Controller

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    21 hours ago, Onlyasandwich said:

    Storm is always a good solo enabler, as it brings lots of damage and extra mitigation to the package.

     

    TA is strong for similar reasons.

    Ice/TA was always a strong pairing, but now that HC has buffed both sets, it's just ridiculous.  With the fear and the confuse and the slow and the DoT, it just turns enemy AI into jelly.  I love it.

     

    Ice/Traps is also a bit of a fun one.

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    Run, Jump, or Fly?

    in General Discussion

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    Superjump is the travel power I most enjoy actually using, but for practical reasons my ranged characters usually go via Flight and my melee characters usually move via Speed of Sound/Jaunt.

     

    Every once in a while I get an oddball build that can run both SJ and SoS, and I'm just a kid farting in the tub.

    I dont think the character I want to play exists in COH

    in General Discussion

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    What you're looking for is either a Grav/Storm slotted with KB/KD where relevant, FF+Rech on at least three attacks, Clarion, and the Atlas Medallion, or a Fire/FF stacked the same way but with Ageless.

     

    Either one settles around 330% recharge in combat, which on a Grav/Storm means 3 or 4 Lightning Storms out in a kill zone that you can just WH everything into, AoE Immob, stack stun, Gale the survivors for an FF+Rech bump, Tornado to stack FF+Rech, WH is recharged, one storm is dying, chunk out another then go get more chum from the map.  It's a machine.

     

    Fire/FF is a little more direct - Smoke, Bonfire, Repulsion Bomb, head into the mob with your Imps at 59% Def (All), Hotfeet slowing everyone in your immediate area, ST hold your bosses every 1.4s, Bonfire's back up, everything is dead.  It's a sexy machine.

     

    If i could record 4k without it pixellating into a mosaic, I'd show you what I mean.  But either one, set up as described, does what you're talking about.

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    The servers are running so bad you cannot play the game?

    in Help & Support

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    Not saying any of this happened, but, don't discount the effect of sudden changes in weather on communication infrastructure between your location and the servers.

     

    Heavy snow can bring lines down, people can slide off into junction boxes, heavy frost can cause fiber optic to fog or splinter, a whole host of things.  If your usual route from Point A at your desktop to Point Z at the server farm includes hops off an affected node, the new route may not be as efficient and will introduce some drag. 

     

    Plus, in bad weather, schools close and people work from home, adding extra traffic on top of the sluggish routes.

     

    People don't think it be like it is, but it do.

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    What's the best way to get a character Portrait?

    in General Discussion

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    4 minutes ago, biostem said:

    I like hyperbole too, but I think you're a bit off-base.  If a topic is worth discussing, it's worth creating a fresh thread for.  People can always point back to the older threads if they are worth referencing.

     

    Oh, like Discord.  My mistake, we should probably start a new thread for every thought that pops into our skulls.  Or would that be forum spam?

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    JJDrakken's Random Builds

    in Archetypes

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    4 hours ago, JJDrakken said:

     

    This last "Batch" for the year.  I'll still take requests. But I probably won't be tooling around in Mid's till after Holidays.

    Happy Holidays!  When you get back, any chance you could gin up a Storm/Storm Corruptor with Speed of Sound?  

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