Raikao

I'm interested in this. Gauss Proc in Shifting tides on MM only procs it for the MM right? Or does it work on the henchmen? Cause then I'd be slotting that instantly as well.

Villain: The Origin of Power (Ashley McKnight). 5 missions (1 door): talk to NPC; talk to NPC; talk to NPC; talk to NPC; 10 glowies, 1 boss. This mission is in the 20-24 list on the server, but awards level 1-14 badges. This is not true. Just did that one and got the lvl 20-24 badges. And the missions listed by BrandX I can't even find in the list. Does anyone have a working missions list?

Did this through the normal contact just this week, no issues. I'm almost sure I got the badge during the mission. You click the altar and then kill the demons that come at you, even the one guy who's at the bottom of the cave and can't get to you. That was annoying but all I can remember about it. Maybe you have to go to him and talk to him after though. Have you tried again? Did it work?

Ok as a mostly MM main, him saying Bots/Traps isn't good based on playing a Traps defender because levelling a /bots MM takes too long? When beta server exists and even then. I did not know his sheer power level. Thanks for the context.

Where to even start with this. Well for one thing, others might be low health because they're not Sentinels, Scrappers or Brutes. The fact you over-slot defensive powers and toggles on defensive archetypes, might explain why you're lasting so much longer. It also means you do almost no damage, if your early slots all go into defenses. Some issues with your approach are: - 3 resist/defense SOs, which hits diminishing returns already and makes no sense. 2 would be enough and even that does not make sense for every power. Slotting 2 Defense SOs in a power that gives 2% defense isn't going to make you invincible somehow. - slotting 2 endurance SOs in toggles is also wasted, when you have no endurance reductions in attacks you spam constantly. It depends on archetype and the power. But if you take a new attack, the first thing you should slot is some Damage or Endurance Reduction or Accuracy (I think you get a buff at early levels to accuracy though, but once you start missing attacks you really should put in 1 accuracy SO and maybe a Kismet:6%Accuracy in a defensive power. What I'm saying here is that you need to add 1-2 slots to it to make it work well. If you dumpster all your slots into Combat-Jumping or another defensive toggle instead (3 resists and 2 endurance reductions means 5 slots total), then your damage will suffer. Do we need min-maxed builds for this old-ass almost dead MMO? No, but this is still just wrong advice to give new players. This isn't in the Guides section so maybe you where just giving a personal anecdote, which is fine. As I said I don't think we need to gatekeep a rather casual super hero/villain power fantasy game. But at least give "decent advice" to new players. Do they have to make money through the auction house and put in set-IOs everywhere at level 15? Nah, but at least the few decent SOs they put it should not be wasted to hit diminishing returns on defensive gains and reducing the endurance costs of a 0.15 endurance per second toggle, at the expense of doing more meaningful things with those precious slots. So how do I know all this: I play this game. I often level solo. I don't struggle when I do. I don't need TF groups to carry me because my own damage is so bad it takes 5 minutes to kill a Boss Skull. One thing I will point out in a positive way: Your advice on engaging long range on ranged archetypes is correct, by the time the mob reaches you he'll be almost dead and most mobs are more scary in melee.

To add to this: I was doing TFs on Reunion 440+ days ago. I see people call out for TFs now as well. I personally would highly recommend for EU players to play on Reunion, better ping and we can run even more things regularly :)

I was going to post "mine" but it's missing 2 skills when loading in and I'm pretty sure it's almost the same as the one linked by Octogoat. So I'd just recommend using that one and maybe adding Placate somewhere, since that got buffed and is now AoE, 5 targets and imho really useful. If I get around to fixing it I'll post it here as well. But building Stalkers is pretty straight forward.

I always found it useful when solo and usually took it. Those buffs are crazy good. Being able to stop runners and make 5 targets just stand around while you kill their friends is amazing.

So doing damage is enough to keep aggro on myself, since with Bodyguard I'm way sturdier than a single minion. I'll keep that in mind for my reworks of some of my builds to make them exemplar down better. Makes me want to take Whitecap earlier on /marine as well. I did struggle with mobs going after minions more than me when all I had is Corruption and Lash. Less so on /Time but that's probably because of the constant AoE -ToHit Aura drawing aggro pretty well. On lower levels that is.

If that ever happens you can also store some of it by sending Emails to @Raikao I just came back to the game and sadly, past me did not leave me with untold riches. So I blame my old self while not taking responsibility for it.

It's twice as funny when SHODAN says it.

So there is something I have not considered yet. You talk about loosing aggro (and probably that the "can't" stand up to the extra single target damage - I assume a typo there). And thinking about it, those are the times I get in trouble, but how do you actually keep the AV/Elite Bruiser Boss from just one-shotting a drone? Because that does happen to me.

I like Group Fly, but it has it's issue. Imho just pick whichever. Also there are other ways to socket some things. like Pulse Rifle Blast. But as is I enjoy playing it.

Thanks I will have a look at yours. I already blatantly stole his build to tinker around with :P And yes in hindsight, especially on a Robots MM using two rifle attacks, I could have taken something else than Longbow, but then again it is a big mech so it fits the theme. I think Banished Pantheon Core is the best one? With Radial being BiS for fire farmers since it can't die?

CoH was ahead of it's time. To this day the way emotes and keybinds work is just amazing. Sorry but in what other MMO can I make rotating keybinds where every press of the button loads in a different .txt file so I say different things as an emote when using my skills? Oh and I can put down a jukebox while my minions dance with one macro. I can go into teleport mode, where the graphics settings get changed, the HUD disappears and then switch back to normal mode pressing one button, once it's all setup. Most MMOs especially back when CoH came out didn't even have basic mob A.I. They just aggroed and ran at you.