Azrath

Sorry, looks like we needed an editing pass.

I'm in it for the accolades. :)

Defense is all about reducing the odds of being hit. I know this seems pretty obvious, but it implies that an understanding of the attack mechanics are needed. Every attack in City of Heros carries two 'tags' on it: Vector (How it's delivered) and Type (What it does) Fire Blast, for example, would be (ranged)(fire). A council grenade launcher might be (AoE)(Lethal). Super Reflexes is about positional defense; so it only cares about Vectors. In effect, you've reduced 'What do I need to defend against?" to three things: Ranged, Melee, and AoE. Against an undefended target; enemies have a base hit chance of 50%. Which means they also have a 50% chance of missing; and generating misses is Super Reflexes' goal. For easy math, just add your Defense number to 50; and that's the likelyhood that an even-level, unbuffed mob will miss you with any given attack. Except that, of course, no Defense is perfect and untouchable player characters would be broken. Because of this, there's an accuracy floor that will look at you and say "Nuh-uh." Regardless of Defenses, buffs, debuffs, the weather or the price of tea in china, there is always a 5% chance to hit. (5%= 1/20. So in D&D terms, a Natural 20 always hits). There is also a Streakbreaker that will take pity both on players and thug alike and force a hit. Because the computer's a cheating bastard. (Players also benefit from it, to be clear.) So what does this mean for Super Reflexes? Well, if you can get your three Vector Defense numbers up to 45%, you will be as untouchable as the game mechanics allow for against all normal content. You can stand in front of Archvillians or giant monsters and they will miss time and again. Until they hit you and crush you like a bug because you've got no other mitigation. ^_^ Incidentally, the 'soft cap' for Defense rises to 59% in Incarnate content, just because stuff in there is higher level / buffed. TL;DR: /SR is Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich simple. You only need three things. Bread (Melee Defense), Peanut Butter (Ranged Defense), and Jelly (AoE Defense) to have a perfectly enjoyable sandwich. Just don't eat too much.

Above your Power Tray there's a button to pop up your Powers window that lists everything in your power sets,pools and so on. At the top of that you'll find a button labeled 'Combat Attributes' In the Combat Attributes window, right-click on things you want to track and hit 'Monitor' to add them as a UI element that stays up full time. (Positional Defense for /SR, for instance). IIRC you can have up to ten tracked at a time. You can also sort them by right-clicking and moving up/down the list.

The wheel is still turning; the hamster is on a coffee break.

Well, it does recommend burning a respec at 6 to move slots out of the basic blasts that we now get to keep using when shifted. Update: Ran a Synapse last night on Excelsior! and about midway through I'm pulling stunts with hotkeys across all three forms (dwarf-step, taunt, mire, human mire, nova AoE, back to human for Stygian circle) My team are doing well, but I'm up to my armpits in brass, there's purple flying everywhere, things are dying en masse and all that does is feed the beast for the next wave. I've never micromanaged harder or felt so rewarded for finger-strain. I just wish the Battle Cry box was long enough for: "I'm a shape-shiftin', void-steppin', soul-suckin', fluffy-wranglin' double mire-stacking UNSTOPPABLE MFing WARSHADE!"

You'll have to try it and tell us. For SCIENCE! ...or whatever Origin you choose. :)

I only did Smurfsquids in elder days. I found this guide from here because I was bored and queued. I read it and laughed my ass off. Then I read it again and scratched my chin. Now I keep it open while I'm playing my face-stomping, soul-ripping, unstoppable MFing Warshade. I know what my first 50's going to be. :D

I only ever played smurfsquids back in the day, so I thought it'd be fun to try out a MFing Warshade after reading a certain very amusing guide linked in another thread. Made a kickass costume, picked a great name, joined in and dove straight into the sewers on an awesome team. By the time we emerged in Skyway I was ready to mug Minx and get more tentacles than you can shake a Japanese Schoolgirl at. I was a little surprised to see that when I flipped into Dark Nova; not only was Ebon Eye not greyed out; it actually had a spot in the default squid power tray that loaded up. Before I could give it a try and eye-fry something in hentai mode; I lost connection and haven't been able to get back in. Did Novas get buffed to get eye-beam access and I just never noticed?

I don't get the need to designate a server as PvP/PvE. If you don't want to PvP; stay out of the PvP zones? It's not like some random Mastermind is going to teleport into City Hall with an army of ninjas and take over. "I'm gonna need more minions."

Since the server shutdown; I've lost... everything. I lost a job I loved. I lost my house and everything I owned in a wildfire. I lost my father. When I first heard that Atlas Park theme; saw the sky and streets full of all those heroes; it hit me right in the gut. Something from better times came back. I cannot thank you enough. Words fail me and I'm low on kleenex. All I can say is: "LFG"

As an example: Torchbearer Status: Full (Queue 2700; estimated wait time 3 hours) Excelsior! Status: Heavy Load Third Server Status: Light Load (25% bonus XP in effect)

Cap in WW2? Pistol + Shield. Black Widow during the battle of New York? Dual pistol + Reflexes. Falcon? Dual pistol + reflexes or willpower. Iron Man, War Machine, and Rescue? Oh, you better believe they're in here. Spider Man (if you squint really hard) is an Ice (slow, immobilize, hold) + SR who spec'ed into the Fighting Pool. Black Panther's little sister? Energy / WP. Corruptors can keep Hawkeye though.

I was going through the 'oh god what do I make first?' phase and found the Sentinel without even knowing it was a thing. It's my favorite archetype already. My main is probably going to end up being the Dual Pistol / Super Reflexes combo that was my first to level 10. I'm in love.