Jacke

I'm starting to work on new builds for my Dark Armor Toons. The changes for Cloak of Fear and Soul Transfer I can figure from their CoD2 entries. But this one I'm wondering about for all Dark Armor builds for several ATs (Scrapper, Tanker, Sentinel, Brute, Stalker): -- Dark Regeneration versus Obscure Sustenance ? This one is more complex. One feedback I've heard is that a build should take Obscure Sustenance while Levelling but for a final L50 build take Dark Regeneration. The reasoning is that the +Recovery buffs from OS helps Levelling builds but the greater healing of DR helps in final builds. But DR needs to hit mobs to Heal while OS doesn't. OS also provides Regen and Debuff Resistance for ToHit and Regen. Apparently, there's currently a bug in Sentinel's DR that it currently can't take Accurate Healing IOs, which will hopefully get fixed soon. So, questions: Does the above apply for all ATs? How workable or unworkable each is for Levelling and L50 builds for Scrappers? Same for Tankers. Same for Sentinels. Same for Brutes. Same for Stalkers.

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Those are the traditional Issue 0 Contacts in Atlas Park,1 for each of the 5 Origins (Magic, Mutant, Natural, Science, Technology), which determines the Mob Gangs the Toon is sent against. A Toon can get 5 of them every 5 Levels. Above the first group, L1 to L5, there are more than 1 per Origin, with usually 3 possible that the Toon connects to 1 of them for each Origin. The Contacts I'm talking about are the ones added much later, a group of 4 each in Atlas Park and Mercy Island. Of each 4, can do the missions of 3 of them during Leveling. The 4th needs to be done by Flashback. Here's them listed as from the 2 Zones: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Atlas_Park Level 1-7 Matthew Habashy └► Officer Fields └► Aaron Thiery └►Sondra Costel └► Aaron Thiery https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Mercy_Island Level 1-7 Operative Kuzmin (Mercy: -1219, 243, -88) └►Fire Wire (Mercy: -2726, 239, 139) └►Doctor Weber ((Mercy: -1037, 238, 525) └►Lt. Harris (Darwin's Landing: -533, 98, -1295)

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There are 4 Contacts each in Atlas Park and in Mercy Island for those Arcs that were added. You can only do 3 of them from each as there's 2 options in the middle of the runs of 3. Do the missed one via the Pillar of Ice and Flame and you get a Badge for both Hero and Villain starting zones.

I'm planning to have just 1 Energy Blast Toon. An Energy Blast/Atomic Manipulation Blaster. The Secondary has a fast casting Immob that has strong KB Resistance, so it'll turn Knockback into Knockdown, so at least the ST attacks won't need a KB>KD IO. I looked through all the Blaster Secondaries in CoD2 for those with KB Resistance on the target and the faster Cast times. As for Energy Manipulation, I have a long time Toon I need to someday play more often, a Sonic Attack/Energy Manipulation Blapper.

What @Luminara said. For Blue-side, every 5 Levels, there's 5 Traditional Contacts, 1 for each Origin (Magic, Mutant, Natural, Science, Technology), who mostly have missions and an arc or two sending the Hero against a particular mob group or two. For each Origin, there's about 3 to 4 for each 5 Levels that gets selected when your Toon gets high enough. There's also extra Contacts, some mostly added in after the early game Traditional Contacts. And the Police Radio for its missions and the Safeguard missions. Red-side, you have the Paper missions which then lead to the Mayhem mission and then to the Red-side Contacts. Again, some added in more recently. Gold-side, there's 4 Factions (Resistance Wardens and Crusaders, Loyalist Responsibility and Power) and about 4 to 5 Contacts per Faction. With a few added in and more in First Ward and Night Ward. This page lists most categories of Contact: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Category:Contacts_By_Level I have a Blue+Red-side Completist, a Shield/Rad Melee Tanker. Also run 2 Gold-side Completist, a copy of my main, AR/Devices Blaster, and a Kinetic Melee/Ninjitsu Scrapper.

I agree. I've got 6 Trays in a Stack on the lower-right of my UI. And I use my Commands Popmenu so I don't need common Click Powers in the Trays. And those Trays are already packed by L50. Adding even 1 more Power that I'd need to Click or Toggle on would be a pain. I've heard that the current Incarnate Powers won't get new ones added until Toons have to face much stronger opponents. I do think that the current Incarnate Powers need some sort of rebalance, especially in the details of the crafting. But even that is a major undertaking. I would think that would be done before adding new Incarnate Powers.

@Snarky, I also run Completist Toons. Others in RO like @Bombur run them too, a lot. If the Level Range says "40 to 45", you should assume you have to unlock before L45. Maybe the contact works at L45, but often they don't. Gotta play defensively as a Completist. At least Wes Schnabel has been fixed.

Doesn't matter. It's all Vib Coding with A.I. support to maximize R.O.I.

Buckshot is among the best Cone Attacks in the game. I've not played Assault Rifle on a Corruptor, but I have on a Blaster (my main is an AR/Devices Blaster), Defender, and Sentinel. Buckshot is a fast casting Cone Attack that early on with the Blaster I used as a simple chain: Burst - Slug - Burst - Buckshot, rotating around the sequence as needed. Well, damn. That's kind of brutal. Any idea what's the best AT to run Seismic on if you're going to only roll one? And what Powerset to best pair with it?

Also, despite the name on the recipe and the enhancement, the Preventive Medicine Special is a Global that provides a Proc. It should be L20 or Attuned so it will work down to L17 Exemplared. The Power doesn't need to be used for the Special to have a chance to trigger the Proc based upon on the HP/MaxHP of the Toon.

I'm guessing the player in question has found another use of a 2nd Account Toon, probably a L50. I do a lot of things with 2nd Account Toons, but that's way too excessive for me. What does a L1 need with Accolade Passive Boosts? Mine are too busy at L1 going through Outbreak, Breakout, or the Praetorian Tutorial.

I don't always argue with you. Easily half the time or more I agree with you. In this case, it's a typo. You just need to write up a single Post in that Topic using the text you have used above. I don't know if a GM is able to or will split out a single Post from this Topic and move it to that Topic, which is where typos are supposed to be reported. I always consider the Homecoming Staff as overworked. Anything we can do to help, we should.

That sounds like a text typo in a mission. Which you file in this pinned post in the Bug Report Forum.

I'm not quite sure of the details here. But if it's a Compass direction going wrong, that's something to do with the Beacons which isn't right (I've seen that in Mercy Island). What's more likely, if it's a popup saying "Cap au Diable" when it actually should say "Grandville", that's a typo of some sort in the mission. Which should be reported as a typo with the Contact and Mission. I've done Pither's missions on one Toon. Next time I do them, I'll be on the lookout for that glitch.

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With Escorting NPCs (ugh): Turn off all sources of stealth (and if you have the Base Buff Grant Invisibility, delete that Temp Power). This helps so much it's not funny. You can get well ahead of the NPC(s) and they'll still find you. Turn off all +Run Speed Powers, including Sprint, as you'll still move faster than the NPC(s) even with them off. As @Psyonico mentions, running backward and looking at the minimap to guide your way is a good way to keep an eye on the NPC(s). Clicking on the NPC(s) to target them, especially with Range turned on, also helps. If enemy show up, from any direction, use what Powers you have to (including stealth Powers that have other effects) to defeat them. Then pick up the NPS(s) again and start from the top. Get to the Exit point, wait for the NPC(s) to catch up and exit. If that ends the Mission, hurrah! Else do whatever else needs to be done.

Here we see the @Snarky Memorial Statue in Perez Parak. Whoops! Looks like Snarky must have had the "good" blood before posing. 😺

I think all the continued existence of KB proves is that there's only so much Power Devs attention to go 'round. There's only a few of them and they can't do everything every Page release.

I've seen other factors that don't show up in Combat Attributes still affect things in Combat. Sometimes, the final value in Combat Attributes is accurate, sometimes not, Would have to test such a Pet and check the Combat Logs to see what the actual final ToHit vales were in a situation where the relative Level difference between Pet and target are known, as well as anything that benefits the Pet like Leadership Auras (which are only disallowed in a few cases like Trip Mine). I've done this before for other Toons, but I don't have any Earth Control, Grav Control, Pyrotechnic Control, or Symphony Toons. I'll try asking in other places to see if I can find out more.

My condolences. I still feel the pain of those gone even decades later. I also remember the joy of having them in my life.

As virtually all builds that improve survivability without sacrificing that much damage are very tight (especially the limit of 4 Power Pools), many of my Toons only use Inherent and S.T.A.R.T. Powers for travel. Sprint or one of the Prestige Sprints (I like Prestige Power Surge with a L15 Celerity Stealth Proc). Athletic Run (rarely Ninja Run, not yet Beast Run) for running and jumping. These 2 Powers (and the similar ones) are Temp Powers (some without a duration) that work in any Zone or Map except PvP Zones. Void Skiff (rarely Flying Carpet, not yet Rocket Board) for flying without interacting or attacking others. Holiday Rocket Pack for 5 hours (I have fond memories of the Winter Event 30-day Holiday Rocket Pack) for flying and fighting. For PvP zones, I get the Arena Temp Travel Powers (vendors in each PvP Zone too) to get the Badges up on high.

That's where this macro can help: /macro FX "++noparticles" I use it whenever I can't see things well due to effects. But also have to use it again to turn particles back on. Else I can't see SG Portals or Teleport Portals of the Vanguard type, likely other things as well. At least it's not the other Police.

I'd not done a deep dive into Singularity, so I just did to see what its non-autohit attacks were. Crush: Base Accuracy 1.2 https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=pets.singularity.crush&at=minion_controllerpets Lift: Base Accuracy 1.0 https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=pets.singularity.lift&at=minion_controllerpets Gravity Distortion: Base Accuracy 1.2 https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=pets.singularity.lift&at=minion_controllerpets And was about to give my Rules of Thumb for most Pets (and MM Henchment when I looked at its Resistances: https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=pets.singularity.resistance&at=minion_controllerpets 2nd to last effect: -25% ToHit Strength (self only) for 10.25s (Per-Caster stacking, Replaces, Ignores Enhancements and Boosts, Ignores Resistances) Well damn, first time I've seen that on a Pet. Someone in the past really really hated Singularity. My advice to getting Singularity's final ToHit somewhere near 95% (hopefully): The vast majority of Pets (including all MM Henchmen) do not receive the benefit of the Caster's Global Buffs, including Level Shifts, Global ToHit, and Global Accuracy. MRB is mistaken about this. It's such a large and fundamental bug it's effectively unfixable. Need to use some guides to avoid needing to calculate a lot. Slot the Singularity Cast Power with ED-capped Accuracy (~94% or more). Normally if important Pet attacks are under Base Accuracy 1.2: Just need Tactics with only the Base Slot (even on a MM) OR -Def debuff on the target. But a Grav Controller wants BOTH and wants to add Slots to Tactics. Have the Grav Controller take Tactics, give it an Extra Slot or Two, and enhance its ToHit, hopefully close to its ED-cap for Controllers, 16% If have -Def debuffs, use it on the target. Hope the Team also has more Tactics and -Def debuffs.