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    /rad powers question

    in Corruptor

    Posted · Edited by Android Nim

    repeat offenders have an SG....FFoF...faithful fans of fallout. Run all rad/? or ?/rad toons.  Super fun. deliberately soaking the alpha with a squishy then 'splode him and mutate him to do it on the next mob. one of the most fun mechanics in the game if your team has the right attitude.

     

    edit: oh hey psy!

    Best toon to pair with an ice/ice blaster?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Android Nim

    no one suggested an ice tanker?  hoovers up aggro to keep the blaster safe, always soaking the alpha, taunt to pull anything off her.

     

    Ice/Ice tanks are super fun. Slot EA with end mod and you're also a sapper. Baddies can't kill the blaster with no end. 

     

    I also made an ultimate aggro hoover with ice/spines (made the spines look like ice...mostly).

     

    Ice/Spines is a bit of a unicorn but it soaks up aggro like it's a hot dog eating contest. 

    Ice/Fire Tank need Help w. build

    in Tanker

    Posted

    On 6/2/2020 at 5:48 AM, Hjarki said:

    Getting defense from an AE 'drain'-style ability is very unreliable. Given that Ice can get Incarnate-level S/L/E/N defenses without it, the value for the purpose of defense has never been high on my list. In terms of the end return, that really depends on your overall endurance structure. But, again, the AE drain methodology is problematic - normally your biggest end problems come during protracted single target fights rather than intermittent AE fights.

     

    I think you guys are missing out on the sapper aspect of EA. My icer can take a mob down to about 1/4 of their endo immediately....and it fills my bar and stacks more def. It's an amazing power in my builds.

     

    Your mileage may vary

    Thinking of Starting a Less Popular Defender

    in Defender

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    20 hours ago, SeraphimKensai said:

    My incarnate poison/rad defender completely wrecks mobs, is basically a tank that debuffs everything, is only weak to Mez, so it requires Clarion.

     

    I honestly use only Envenom/Weakness, a proc'd out Poison Trap and Venomous Gas from poison. Otherwise I've used the experimentation pool to add some attacks let me corrosive vial and get to adrenal booster.

     

    Rad Blast wise the attacks are fairly thematic, neutron bomb is the weak link because the animation time is so slow, but between irradiate, neutron bomb you can seriously cripple some more defense and proc out to utilize up to 3 -resistance procs (as long as the -res is from a different source it stacks so annihilation and Achilles will stack, but 2 Achilles won't) and then clean up with atomic blast.

     

    Mine is built to be softcapped to several defensive types, but with all the debuffs you'll be taking minimal amount of damage anyways.

     

    Like most sets it really takes a life of it's own when incarnate/IO'd.

    Cool....ty....Sounds like you don't have to take many powers from the set to get the good stuff....wondering if i'm missing opportunities as a troller secondary...fire/poison maybe

    Thinking of Starting a Less Popular Defender

    in Defender

    Posted

    On 4/23/2020 at 6:41 AM, SeraphimKensai said:

    If you are insistent upon empathy (it's actually a great set in PvP, pve not so much), look at sonic or rad blast to have some debuffs.

     

    That said some of the best defender powerset combos I've experimented with on HC....

    Poison/Rad (the secondary can be swapped to a few choices like fire, sonic, ice, dark)

    Kin/Sonic (make you and your team hit for more damage than the damage caps)

    Time/Dark - defense caps a team, has a couple heals, and more debuffs.

    tell me about poison/rad....i have one in the low 20's and I"m not feeling it....but i want to 🙂

    Ice/?

    in Tanker

    Posted

    My main "back in the day" was an ice/fire tanker

     

    Just got around to rolling a new ice tanker.

     

    Going ice/spines for maximum aggro (you can change the spines to look kind of like gnarly icicles too)

     

    Really fun so far. 

     

     

    Fellow Ice Blasters, how good is Shiver?

    in Blaster

    Posted

    No damage, no hard CC.

     

    Pretty much a trash tier power that would be best replaced by just doing damage to a target.

    Let me guess...you either play exclusively on roflstomp teams or have forgotten how it was to play at lower levels w/o soft capped defenses. Shiver is great mitigation available whenever you want. It pretty much makes you and a squishy team without reliable hard control immune to melee. It  increases recharge time of enemies by 3 times or more. Not even close to being trash. With your mindset; Ice is a wasted power set as the damage it does offer is (significantly) weaker than any other that isn't Devices or Tactical Arrow BECAUSE of great mitigating powers like Shiver.

     

    lol.  You are mighty defensive there over a pretty terrible power.

     

    It is trash on steam roll teams.  It is trash at low levels.  It is trash with or without defense in your build.

     

    This is what a build looks like w/o defense.  Just go 3 shot a boss before you spend 2.5 seconds animating a power with zero damage and no real lockdown.

     

    Without defense, the less damage you expose yourself to the better.  Shiver still lets the mobs run through their suite of powers, it just slightly slows the time before you can use them a second time.  Enough damage lets you do the same thing, with the benefit of having a dead mob.

     

    checked your video...any chance you can share a link to those binds you're running so you get the countdown on the power button?  that is tight.

    I don't get why this is so much better than CO

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Your "Post" such as it is, sounds like a kid at the park watching the older kids play frisbee. The kid doesn't understand why the older kids like frisbee, but tossing around a piece of plastic must be stupid because we have Xbox, PS4 and internet porn!!!!

     

    So let's start with insults: souless ae farming

     

    How people play an MMO is none of your business as long as it does not impact you. If they want to fast track to the high end, so be it.

     

    I also might point out that CO is literally no better. Soon as you are high enough level to join the Group Queue that's it. Nobody is out there doing any of the static content or missions.

     

    Graphics: Big whoop.

     

    If Graphics meant anything why is RuneScape the second most popular MMO out there with over a million people actively playing?

     

    Combat: "more action based combat where you can actually move around while using your powers instead of being physically locked in place"

     

    Get out of the newbie zone and we'll revisit this question.

     

    Travel Power: travel powers in CO are actually just travel powers instead of being mixed with stat based powers to take away from the fun of simply picking a travel power

     

    I think the only thing CO has over CoH is Super speed can climb buildings. Otherwise, same deal in both games. As for being able to upgrade your travel powers being a "Negative" are you kidding me?

     

    Free Form vs Coh: heroes are different and custom in CO (freeform) while in CoH/V when you chose a class and a powerset chances are tons of other people are exactly the same as you.

     

    I'll chalk this up to your admitted ignorance of both CoH and CO's Endgame. 

     

    There are those out there chasing the "One True Build" that is the epitome of DPS and Efficiency, etc, etc. In which case, in either game, you are going to see the same builds doing the same things. Because not all power sets are built the same and it's a constant dance between the devs and the player base.

     

    As for Free form, come on man. What they offer the "Free to play" or as I like to call them "Poverty players" is garbage. Could ya make it work... sure. Is good... Nope.

     

    So once ya go Free Form you are going to do like everybody else. You are going to hit the forums and youtube and spin up the same thing as everybody else so you can get along as opposed to being some kind of half breed tank/healer that can do neither very well.

     

    Final thoughts.

     

    Ultimately the thing you don't "Get" that continues to Drive CoH's popularity is

     

    Community

     

    You were a kid when this game was around. I don't expect you to understand what CoH meant to us. I also don't really get your post since as you said. " Because I was around 10 years old when I played CoH/V" and "I haven't played Champions Online very seriously" why are here promoting a game you don't really care about over a game you don't really know?

     

    So... yeah you sound like a troll.

     

    W.

     

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