Sailboat
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My Archery/TacArrow Blaster slotted up Stunning Shot. Also two single-target Holds and an AoE Hold. He's currently 46. Maybe I am doing it wrong?
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I realize I won't persuade anyone against their own experience, but I was going to promote Rain of Arrows on an Archery/TA Blaster...until I saw someone say they didn't even take it. *boggle*
If you're remembering from live, note that Homecoming cut the animation time for RoA (I believe from 4 seconds to 2). But if you use it as an opener, foes move much less...especially if you queue up Glue Arrow, ESD Arrow, or Explosive Arrow (with kb -> kd slotted). Enemies are alerted, start shooting, and are knocked down and wounded just before the big nuke lands. Coupled with Aim and Upshot (or whatever Tac Arrow's Build Up equivalent is) this wipes out tons of things.
It doesn't take much recharge to have that combo every other spawn. ESD plus Ice Arrow on the boss holds the next spawn for your normal AoEs (Fistful, Explosive and one from your Ancillary) and then the nuke sequence is ready again for the next.
Upshot has a +recharge boost that helps this sequence. It's awesome.
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21 hours ago, Outrider_01 said:
Doubtful you would get very high in levels, would be a waste of time to delete your character should you actually make it higher. Better off just starting with a new character and change the name to keep it on the back burner.
Otherwise seems like a waste of time and effort.
The Iron Eagles had several 50s, including some Blasters, believe it or not.
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One side effect of hardcore was a certain reluctance to buy expensive sets, since they could be "lost" if you died.
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We used to do that in the old Iron Eagles hardcore SG. At the player's option, the character could be kicked out of the SG and played as a regular non-hardcore character after "death" although not with the hardcore teams any more. Of course it was an honor system -- if you got whacked solo, I guess you could have pretended it didn't happen and no one would be the wiser. But we were a tough-minded bunch.
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3 hours ago, Eran Rist said:
Electrical Potentia
That sounds like a great name for the set, positive (heh) and better describing the buffing aspects of the set.
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1 hour ago, Galaxy Brain said:
It was bottom tier before this change while MA was a solid mid tier. I'll have to te run it.
Bottom tier for AoE or bottom tier period? I've seen a lot of talk about Dark/Shield being great.
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Yeah, Dark Melee is already regarded as a strong set. Buffing its AoE by a lot (Shadow Maul) and then a hell of a lot (Dark Consumption) would seem to be leaving other puny sets in the dust. How will Martial Arts rank against this behemoth?
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38 minutes ago, Robotech_Master said:
Broadcast isn't server-wide, the way Help and LFG are, and General will be.
Oh. Didn't realize that -- I'd have called a zone-only channel "Zone," myself.
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Broadcast channel wasn't sufficient to keep spam out of Help and LFG? What do people use Broadcast for?
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4 hours ago, Jimmy said:
Also Speed of Sound doesn't have Super Speed's stealth component, so there is a distinction there.
Hrm...the dawn of super-herding?
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Snow Storm is a serviceable debuff, and it's auto-hit, useful against things that resist holds or stuns, brings down flyers. But it's not vital.
Freezing Rain, on the other hand, is routinely mentioned in rankings of the best debuffs in the game. It's an absolute keeper for any Storm.
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A Sudden Acceleration kb->kd proc in Hurricane will remove the knockback, but not the repel, and when things are knocked down repel will toss them a little bit. Still, it removes much of the unpredictable scatter from 'Cane. If you invest in to-hit debuff, Hurricane becomes a fairly effective debuff for team use and and an absolutely dominant tool for soloing. It might take a bit to defeat foes since you're a Defender, but my Storm Defender is effectively fearless against anything but AVs (and their EB forms, which seem to retain the debuff resistance of full AVs).
It's a particularly amusing tool against Cimerorans, who cumulatively debuff defense into the negative, and would maim a lot of defense-based builds, but they still can't hit through Hurricane's debuff.
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Late to the party, but what about a toggle like Quills?
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Not much of a market guy.
I typically want Attuned stuff normally as I like exemping down. In the pre-attunement days, I would use lower-than-50 IOs and not be quite as uber just so the set bonuses would exemp down a bit.
I understand on Homecoming that you can buy Attuned items that were put up for sale as NOT attuned.
I see recommendations to more-or-less "sell an unattuned IO back to yourself" to get it attuned.
I had an IO, not Attuned, that's showing "last 5" sales at 1,000,000 as Attuned. I bid 1.5 million...nothing for a few minutes. Reset the bid for 900,000, let it sit for a few minutes, nothing.
So I put in my IO, assuming either:
1) I will buy it for 900,000 as attuned, or
2) someone else will buy it for higher than my bid
and that either should occur fairly quickly.
Instead, someone else buys it for 135,000 and my 900,000 bid goes unfilled.
Am I misunderstanding?
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How did I miss this? I tried to organize several all-Storm ITFs back before shutdown. Never got 8 Stormies though. Will this be happening again?
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1 hour ago, SeraphimKensai said:
I answered this question on Reddit the other day, but here goes again:
If they do that, the prices of every IO on there servers will go up, as they only seed salvage and not recipes. By not having recipe holders, this forces people to either vendor or sell their recipes or crafted enhancement on the market which helps keep the market stabilized due to adequate supply.
Yeah. I used to want base storage for recipes too, but I've come around to this way of thinking. The original Devs weren't perfect, but it wasn't an oversight that we have limited recipe retention -- it seems clear they intended there to be a lot of turnover in our recipes.
I'm not much of a market guru, but it seems like there's already a lot of recipe slots on your characters and their market interfaces -- my 50s have around 80 slots themselves plus the market storage slots have got to be 30 or beyond (I forget exactly). So that's 100-120+ per character, and most of us have several characters (possible understatement). It seems like if you're still not selling, crafting or using them at that point, it's bordering on hoarding. And I used to play Diablo II for years, so believe me, I know hoarding!
My recommendation is to save the really critical or expensive ones if you want, and for the rest, treat the market as long-term storage -- put recipes in there now for cash, use the cash later to get them back out. In the meantime you'll have acquired a lot more cash and recipes.
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This was, however, just fixed in the February 18 patch. I'd link but my phone isn't cooperating right now.
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IMHO Broadsword's Parry stacks nicely with Shield's positional defenses. But it's a tougher question now that the Tanker buffs make AoEs more attractive. War Mace does very nice AoE now, and (as much as I love Battle Axe) is probably the strongest choice of the three mechanically.
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Never mind whether people do or do not use COH's knockback well...this thread is evidence that more than one person does not read Homecoming's code of conduct.
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Just last night realized you can bootstrap yourself into Ouroboros to get the "Trusted with the Secret" badge (and thus access to the Ouro teleport power) using your base pylon.
- Take the base pylon to Echo of Galaxy City
- Travel power to the train station in EoGC
- Pick "Ouroboros 15-50" off the train destination list.
- Get the badge atop the arch and now you can port to Ouro at will (although there's a cooldown).
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Beast run on animal-themed characters. Looks great on American Pit Bull.
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Welcome! Your avatar looks good.
Sealdy summed it up nicely. There have been a few other significant changes to how characters play that you might want to scan the details on:
Tanker buffs (including minor Brute changes)
...as well as some new IO sets.
Net takeaway from the above: snipes are much more useful and harder-hitting, Dominators and Tankers are improved, Brutes are slightly less potent in the extreme corner cases (mostly soloing) but their performance on teams is improved measurably.
Edited to add:
Bases no longer cost prestige; you should be able to build base items without a supergroup or earning any prestige (which doesn't exist any more).
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26 minutes ago, KelvinKole said:
Each stack of blood frenzy consumed increases the damage. 5 stacks is max damage. IF you activate it at 5 stacks, it ALSO increases the radius a great deal
Ah...I've been looking for increased damage % in the monitoring window for HAVING stacks...and not seeing any. But it's CONSUMING stacks that does the +damage? That would explain a lot.
What Combo(s) Surprised You?
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Seeing a lot of Staff users mentioned here. I made a Staff/Radiation Scrapper. I chose Scrapper because I wanted to see Staff at its optimal damage level, yeah, I know the resistance secondary would be better on a Brute. She recolored /Rad into water (the little bubbles help), picked the trident Staff weapon, and goes by the name "The Atlantean Princess," so I guess there's a princess theme going in this thread as well. 🙂
Staff's good cones and PBAoE are really solid for fighting groups. I defeat 5-10 Council goons in just about the same time as I would one. So far (29, using common IOs and not fully slotted) the Rad armor keeps her alive long enough to chew everything down before she dies...if I time my heal and my absorb right, I can heal back to full just before flattening everyone with an AoE. Timing that is kind of a mini-game.