Duck-Smokes-Quack

Could you share you build for Emma Strange? (Ill/Dark troller) Would be very keen to see considering its one of your "top 10 most fun toons"

One of the last things I did before taking an extended break from the game was to build a Dark/Ice tanker. It wasn't long after the Tanker changes and I remember looking on paper and thinking that Dark/Ice seemed almost too good to be true I was a complete novice on both sets and threw together a build. I tried it in game and was dissapointed ... Endurance was a MAJOR issue and killing bosses in game took far too long, so I shelved it and the game for a number of years Coming back I wanted another crack at him and felt he got a bad rap. I just updated the build in mids (I realsie now you can take tankers secondary T2 early meaning I can take Ice Sword where previously I took Frozen Fists and didnt even have it on my bars) I just tried a solo mission and the end problem seems much better? Maybe some changes have hapened who knows, but bosses still take a long time to kill, I wonder if the build is too focused on defence and not enough on offence My attach chain is something like: Frozen Aura, Freezing Touch, Frost, Gloom and then slam whatever is up but those 4 seem to sustain me (Ice Sword might be worth using over Frozen Fists now? not sure) What would you guys do to this build? I'm not attached to any powers in particular so rip it to shreds if it offends you *Mids is borked atm so cant add Incarnates but I used Cardiac for obvious reasons - thristy combo https://api.midsreborn.com/legacy/download?uc=1641&c=717&a=1434&f=HEX&dc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or if that doesnt work maybe this? 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What are in your opinion the best dominator assault sets? Maybe like a top 5? and why (assuming some of them have reasons beyond pure DPA/DPS?)

Far from solved! (if it even cant be solved) I guess theres everyones favorite, and then the attempt to give the"objectivly best answer" if such a thing exists I just love hearing everyones thoughs tbh! I've never rolled a stalker for example and love the sound of Ice/Stone youve mentioned But someone else made refferece to the devs changing Ice/ for Controllers/Doms which i didnt know and now need to look up!

I can sort of see why - Ice/ is a stop tier blast set, and on corrupter Bilzzard must synergise extremly well with Scourge? /Cold is also an excellent set overall - benumb, sleet and heatloss really carry the entire powerset In all honesty I would probably have guessed the same if someone asked me this question but was wondering if im undervaluing the other Ice powersets or overlooking something on a particular AT

Any AT, any powerset be it ranged, melee, defensive, support, controll ... Which AT / Powerset does Ice the best? I've always thematically loved Ice, but never really seem to love Ice anything on CoH. I think my fav toon was an Ice/Ice blaster - i also played around with an /Ice Melee tanker after the AoE changes, but ive given up on more Ice toons than I can count What do you guys think?

Eagles Claw has a built in + crit chance already. Coupled with the long(er) recharge time this seems the perfect place to put the proc for you. In ST im assuming you will use EC>CAK and then in AoE you can do EC>DT (and then DT will crit almost everything almost evertime - its beautiful) Storm kick is one of MA's best powers. Its DPA is pretty damn cometative, Its on a whole other level from Kick. It absolutley is worth slotting and using. The best MA attack ST chain used to be CAK>SK>CS>SK. Now on Homecoming and with the EC buff shortly before shutdown maybe EC comes into the chain EC>CAF>SK>CS maybe? Im not 100% but i am 100% sure that the best ST attack chain will include SK. There is no way in hell using DT in ST is optimal, infact its a DPS loss.

This is where my current build is (basically the same) But with a very minor change to Cobra Strike slotting to acheieve a kind of gimmicky But interesting resist to Recharge and Run speed The build is VERY high recharge, and kind of works against the common "proc everything" vibes of most builds. I can comfortably run CAK>SK>CS>SK in ST (i can actually run CAK>CS>SK - which is truly insane, but only when conserve power is up becuase my word does my end bar drop like a stone doing that) In AoE I run EC>DT>1-2 filer ST attacks then back to basically recycling EC/DT Honestly for raw damage output on this build I think Its close to as good as it gets. Im trying to scrape the last bit of performance from it but it might be a fools errand MA-SR V2.0- Scrapper (Martial Arts - Super Reflexes).mbd

Hmmmmm well this is certainly unconventional. At a glance this build seems kind of ... insane tbh! Not at the range softcap for defence Skipped the AoE defence toggle [Evasion] entierly ... this build will go squish very, VERY quickly You Scrapper Critical Strikes proc is in an AoE attack You havent slotteed Storm Kick one of the power MA/ has to offer Our builds clearly have *very* different philosophies. I have made some very minor changes to your build to leave it basically the same but MUCH more survivable and playable Evasion replaces Elude Evasion loses a slot and gives it to Focused Senses Hover has to stay on when fighting (i personally find this impossible on a melee character and so would drop Hover for Combat Jumping with the same single slot for a much improved experience in maps) Your build is now virtually unchanged and infinatly more surivable Hope you enjoy 🙂 Kung-Fu Thrax FIXED (MA.SR).mbd

Hi all, Recently got back into CoH again after a few years away. No matter how many alts I roll and enjoy, I cant let go of my old main from live (MA/SR scrapper) and always end up playing and tweaking his build. Performance is important to me, I like to be able to dish some serious damage, whilst keeping a theme (speedster) I've previously had Aid Self in the build .. but honestly I rarely if ever used it. So i've gone with assault and tactics now insted to try and eek out some more performance. ST attack chain - CAK > SK > CS > SK (repeat) - extremely high recharge neeed to run this chain. Honestly not even sure this build needs Hasten with the sheer amout of recharge in it, but I didn't know what else to pick and its something I've picked almost as habbit for years AoE attack chain - EC > DT > filler (repeat) - the buffed Eagles Claw into Dragons Tails mechanic is so nice to help MA/ previously almost none existant AoE -Res proc in both ST & AoE attack chain seems nice (Force Feedback proc in DT seems redudant due to naturally high recharge) 40% S/L res at full HP not bad for /SR Due to the high speed attack chain this build actually churns through endurance at a surprising rate that isnt obvious at a glance perhaps in Mids. Thats kind of why I went with Energy Mastery, but upon closer inspection is Physical Perfection even really doing anything for me? The heal proces and +regen are nice for /SR but maybe there are better options? I toyed with Mu mastery, Zapp seems good. Good DPA and maybe worth throwing into a ST chain on cooldown? Ball lightning seems a fair bit weaker with bad DPA - but could help bolster MA/ AoE options? I'm not sure really, ive look at this build for so long I no longer see a path to improvement. Maybe its just time for me to move onto a new toon and become obsessed. But for now can anyone see any mistakes? or just generally offer some advise on what you would do to improve/change this build? Thanks! MA-SR - Scrapper (Martial Arts - Super Reflexes).mbd

Title. (Also posted in Tanker forum) Main thinking is that Dark Melee better on Tanker due to increased AoE and Gloom in ST chain? Sheild better on Scrapper due to Sheild Charge pseudo pet interaction? Im leaning towards Tanker - or is the scrapper damage THAT much better? (plus /Shield has a scrapper taunt aura so why even bother with tank?)

As I understand it the following is true, Tank has seen significant buffs to Dark Melee, greatly increasing AoE caps and range on lots of powers? Sheild is better on Scrappers due to the pseudo pet interaction with the targeted PBAOE? Which AT do you think better maximizes this interesting combo?

Did you ever update the build with the Dark Melee buffs? It kind of seems like Tank might be to optimal combo now for Sheild and Dark Melee

Ice/ is interesting, its AoE is tragic ... apart from the fact the Nuke is INSANE I really wonder where a high recharge Ice/ with nuke on like a 20second CD or something would stack up in AoE terms