Spaghetti Betty

If we find we're in a bind, we just use Gadget Affinity.

Hmm, just PI Radios? Probably a proc'd out Rad/Dark Tank. Resist everything, and Soul Drain + Ground Zero = dead mob every time. You can pick up Focused Accuracy so you never have to worry about being blinded by Arachnos or -Tohit from CoT.

He sits in in his chair as he drinks his morning coffee. He opens up his favorite forum to see that, yet again, his thumbs down count has risen. The blood in his veins recirculates. His muscles swell. A new power rises over him as he mutters to himself, "Oh yeah, it's Marbin' time."

I'm back. I took some time to go over the potential candidates one more time to see what I could do. Did some testing against 54 incarnate Cims. As suspected, survivability does not matter against them unless it's Tanker/Brute levels of durability or Defender/Corr levels of massive buffs. That's fantastic, because I'm probably ever going to be running content this hard on a team anyway, but what I have performed very successfully, minus the faceplant or two. So here is what I eventually settled on: It is essentially @Nemu's build, but with some tweaks to satisfy my own gripes. Adjustments made to round out slow resistance to 100% (it matters, ok?), Super Jump, and a few more points of KB protection at the cost of some damage and Psi defense. I'm not too worried about losing some -Res procs, mostly because they don't stack on a team, and Bane already brings so much from attacks. I was still flattening mobs regardless. Proc'd out Arctic Breath is a little ridiculous. Its reach is kinda goofy, and the narrow arc doesn't bother me at all since I'm used to Full Auto on my AR blaster anyway. All in all, I had a lot of fun collabing on this with everyone. Many thanks. I actually look forward to bringing this to teams in the future.

Ok, I'll give that a shot. I wasn't sure if CT: Offensive was vital to keeping acc high vs Cims. Once I get some time to do some real testing in Brainstorm I'll report back.

Ok, I'm back. I did a little more brainstorming in Mids. I wasn't aware of the fact "hit by foe" and "damaged" aren't considered the same thing when it comes to Cloaking Device. Right now I have 2 candidates for a final build. I ended up using @Nemu's as a framework. Fold Space is great, but I already have a good handful of toons that use it. Anyways, here they are: I just can't go without a travel power, so something had to go, or this toon would've been doomed to be played rarely. Maneuvers was my best bet. Some procs had to go so I could climb my way back to soft cap while still retaining my capped slow res and global recharge. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it, but I did get curious and wanted to see what it would look like if I decided to forgo Arctic Breath to save myself the lost power pick in School of Sharks, and this is what I did instead... Dropping Arctic Breath allows me to pick Maneuvers back up for way better defense numbers. The other empty spot went to Poisonous Ray. My thought process was the extra Ranged attack means I don't have to lose DPS if I have to back out of melee/my target manages to get away from me. I'm sure there's something else that could go there, but I want to at least test the dmg output of it before I completely dismiss it.

Huh. Thought I had combat triggered when I opened that.

Thanks for all the feedback, guys. That's understandable. I was rolling more towards safety than anything, but I'll consider what you laid out. So far the only thing making me feel sour towards your build is no travel power. This was a super rough draft. I just wanted to get the powers I thought would be most beneficial onto the thing so I had something to brainstorm with. I didn't consider this. Thanks. I'm gonna have to study yours a bit more to see how you got your defense numbers so high. Very interesting. I picked it for pretty much every reason you said. It's the only power pick resembling a """nuke""" and comes with nasty debuffs. The end cost really hurts though. Was one of the reasons I was considering Cardiac, on top of extra resistance. I'll mull over all the points made and come back with another draft soon.

In preparation for the upcoming hard mode ITF, I was asked if it was possible I bring either a Bane Spider or a melee-focused Widow to satisfy prerequisites for a themed run. I have neither, but what I do have is a chunk of experience running a Bane, as I had one for quite a while on Live, so that's what I chose. That was a long time ago, and things have changed since then. Here's my first real crack at it: Basically, this is the culmination of me throwing lotsa spaghetti a couple of ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks. Capped slow RES (basically a must have for all of my toons these days), some AoE (I understand this is a really weak spot for Banes), and a (hopefully) consistent ST rotation of Shatter -> Poison Ray -> Pulverize. If I were to use this build going forward, I'm torn on whether I should go Agility Core or Cardiac Core. Is there anyone that can give me a pass on this? Thanks in advance.

Nope, I want it to be Random Bullshit Affinity.

Since Spaghetti Betty's look is inspired mostly by Street Fighter, I had the idea to use the extra costume slots as palette swaps. Now you too can be mad that the other guy chose your color. "Default Outfit" "DLC" Whoever suggested adding bunny ears to this, I took you up on that. Please respond so I can credit you.

Can pseudopets trigger the rez?

I'm here mostly for the combat and customization. I'm not really a fan of Superhero stuff, but CoH remains one of the best dungeon crawler RPGs I've ever played, even through all these years. What content I do doesn't necessarily matter, but my availability constricts me to soloing or small-investment team activities. That being said, it's hard to not appreciate how the lore of the game has been implemented after being a part of it for so long.

Sure, as long as it's after 12 AM CST. My schedule is weird.

Do those gourds come in extra small? Asking for a friend.

I must confess, I sit every time I play as well. Standing at my desk the entire time I'm logged in would be uncomfortable.

Agree. AM's affects are pretty mid-tier. It could at least not also take forever to come back. Also the only buff in the whole set, not counting being rezzed by Mutation.

I'm really simple. My favorite mission is Stop Rikti Assault from Levantera. It uses the huge Cap Au Diable factory map and it's one of my favorite maps to play on.

Nice

Yay!

I am a special child that has drawn the ire of none. I have made one person sad though. I apologize.

And risk being in the same hell as @PeregrineFalcon? No thanks.

Oh, that was you? We were on a radio team the other night. My Ice/Sav Tank is pretty fun. I don't think I've ever had End issues on that toon. And since Ice/ is pretty self sufficient, you get a lot of room for creativity while slotting. Just mulling over some other ideas, Shield/Sav sounds pretty cool for the double TP nuke. SR/Sav would excel also, but that's true for SR/anything.

Well I'd be a little sour about that. I use that map for a particularly challenging encounter in one of my arcs.