Eva Destruction

Blappers are absolutely a thing, and with the new Sustain abilities, plus the availability of ATOs and Winter IOs, and Incarnate abilities, they are a thing that doesn't have to live in constant fear of faceplanting. They're the new Scrappers, but with nukes.

Just hide from searches. They can't blind invite you if they don't know you exist. Although I've only gotten I think one blind invite ever in all my time on Homecoming, even before I started hiding from searches, so I don't know where you're getting several an hour.

I have this same issue with people who want to actually use the base I tore down and am rebuilding. What I did was move all the storage to the 10x2 rooms that fill in the top of the plot, plunk down the 24x24 room, filled it all in, then created a few "rooms" in the 24x24 room and build an "it ain't pretty but everything works" functioning base there. Then, once the above-the-base build is ready for use, I can just move the entry portal and storage up there.

You can't just say that and not post pics. I am also working on a space station but it's taking forever since I am hellbent on making it Not Square.

If servers are consolidated, some people will lose their names. And what happens to SGs and their bases? If you want a more populated server, you have effectively infinite transfers. Move to Torchbearer or Exclesior.

Because they're not bringing the second-least of everything. Blaster damage still on par with, if not greater than, all other ATs for general PvE, barring maybe a few FOTM Scrapper and Brute builds. You bring a Blaster to kill everything, you always did, the i24 changes just mean that the emp might still be bored.

Maybe on paper, and if the blappers aren't Fire or /Fire. But in the reality, the Blapper can solo on x8 which means they get a ton of inspiration drops, which they can convert into reds and chug, because they don't need to save space for purples or even a lot of greens. On a team, they can run off by themselves or maybe with a Scrapper and take full advantage of all their damage instead of wasting it on things that the rest of the team has half-killed already. By that logic, why invite anything that isn't an FoTM powerset with a top-end build?

I did this too, but my friends keep forgetting to add it to their tabs on their alts. The coalition channel is automatically there.

Make a second build with hover. It will make your base-building life so much easier.

I don't miss having to wait a million years to buy IOs lower than level 50. I miss even less having to wait a million billion years trying to buy them redside. And I most certainly don't miss the years of the devs ignoring villain players' pleas for a market merge.

Debt is such a joke now that if you nuke your way through a map and die once or twice you're still way ahead of the ATs that slowly slap their enemies to death with a wet noodle in complete safety.

Ah, I see it now, thanks. You have to mouse over the AOE def.

Hmm, Dark Armor then maybe. It would fit the concept and I don't have one yet. But Pines says you only get 1.9% def from Hide, including to AoE, which I assume is what you get when you're not hidden. Is this wrong, or is the softcapped AoE def only while hidden?

I hadn't even noticed the lack of Build Up in the Scrapper and Brute versions, I just want to hit things with a stick. It looks like I'm making my first Stalker then. Form of the Body seems like the one you'd be using most often at higher levels anyway, since you can get recharge and end mitigation from IOs. I'm kinda leaning toward Super Reflexes because I think it goes well thematically with flashy animations, and everything and its uncle has def debuffs in the newer content.

Alone in the Darque is Efficience Expert Pither's arc, yes, but it isn't what gives the Efficiency Expert badge. You have to do all his timed missions for that.

I'm not aware of any Praetorian-only badges that can't be earned by Primals through Ouroboros. If you're referring to the Escapist badge, for leaving Praetoria, it can be earned through Ouroboros, although you might have to wait until 50. Afaik, the only permanently missable badge is Efficiency Expert, since the timed missions required are all one-offs and not part of an arc and don't seem to be available through Ouro.

I have an idea for a Staff Fighting character, and I'm thinking of making him a Stalker since I have several Scrappers and Brutes already and no Stalkers. Is Staff Fighting halfway decent on a Stalker? Or would it work better on a Scrapper or Brute? And if yes Stalker, are there any secondaries that synergize particularly well with it? I would prefer a "natural" secondary, but it's not absolutely required.

Marchand's arcs are available in Ouro. They're in the level 50 range, so if you're not 50 yet, that's why you're not seeing it.

I attune all my sets because I exemp a lot. I buy them as soon as I can slot them. Procs and such, I buy at the minimum level because it doesn't matter, and the recipe and salvage is sometimes cheaper than the crafted IO. Anything that's not part of a set, I boost. I buy attuned lower-tier sets to put in powers that will eventually have purples, then either unslot them or respec them out at 50 and put them in base storage, so either my SG-mates can use them or they'll be available for another alt.

Look, we're Blasters, we have ONE JOB, and it's killing things, and by gosh we're gonna do it. Either split up or suggest turning up the difficulty if your team is steamrolling everything so fast you feel superfluous.

Yes, they had a higher faceplanting risk. The reason they had many times the faceplanting rate was because people didn't account for that and tried to play them like Scrappers. Now they've been buffed to the point where you can play them like Scrappers, everybody is doing so and calling Blasters "finally soloable."

This is utter BS. Blasters could solo before i24. You had to be a bit more careful, the margin for error was smaller, but they could solo, and much faster than some ATs. "Can't solo like a Scrapper or Brute can" doesn't mean "can't solo."

It pans around like in an action movie and looks really cool. Because what else are you going to do during that long animation?

All my experience with AR/Fire comes from live, so it's hella outdated; no insta-snipes, no sustains, no ATOs or Winter sets, but with that in mind: Combat Jump is extremely useful, since you have a short,narrow cone in Buckshot, a short wide cone in Flamethrower, and a long narrow cone in Full Auto. And then there's Burn. So you want to be mobile. Tough/Weave are probably necessary if you want to build some defense. You could probably justify Mace Mastery thematically if you want to take Scorpion Shield and go for S/L/E defense rather than positional. If you want to stick with Fire or Munitions, I'd pick Fire. The only real advantage to Munitions was the no redraw when paired with AR, but now that AR has a no-redraw option, it's purely a thematic choice. Full Auto is terrible Single-target DPS. Assault Rifle is terrible at single-target DPS. So yes, if you can fit insta-snipe in, I'd do it; it will make your single-target DPS less terrible. Range enhancements in Flamethrower and Buckshot are nice, if you have the slots to spare, Flamethrower especially. Damage for Alpha probably, since it's easy to get a lot of recharge from purples and ATOs. I wouldn't suggest leading off with Full Auto either; use Flamethrower first, and watch your enemies burn while you gun them down. Or put a KB-to-KD proc in M30 and lead off with that, so they will fall down and can't hurt you while you are setting them on fire. And don't forget to spin the camera during Full Auto's animation, this is crucial to playing AR properly.

Well those people who want to compete should go play those games then. CoH was never a game for people who want to compete. There was no PvP at all at launch, and even after it was implemented it was never very popular; in fact, there was, and still is, a significant portion of the playerbase that refuses to ever participate in PvP, some of whom refuse to even enter PvP zones to do the PvE content there. The same goes for player-created PvE competitions; a very small portion of the playerbase participates.