MoonSheep

finally some high quality advice in a build thread, i completely agree as a tank you’ll usually be playing with others, therefore consider which powersets are complimented the most by the types of buffs you’ll receive during HM and endgame content if you like to play at that level if you prefer sub lvl 40 content like me, you can put your foot slightly further on the defence pedal either way, i’d say make sure you’re considering how to attract and maintain aggro for the team you wish to support

i have an elec/earth dom i play on test and it’s really good - decent damage and the PBAoE end drain toggle encourages you to be with the mobs. the end drain is quite effective too

agreeing with poison/fire, the damage is genuinely really good. going for psi mastery and putting 4 damage procs in dominate is also a winner

instead of nerfs, how about an x16 option for WSTs, spicy

that is so funny

are you no do the die, why no do the try?

if you’re not dying, you’re not living

i was also gonna go for, if your alt dies, you die IRL - ancient gladiator competition x esport stadium event

base raids used to be a ton of fun though. i was fortunate to be part of an active base raiding SG back on live edit: and pre-IO sirens call. man that place would be heaving, people would make alts just for the zone

aw man, the accordion react is the one i want. adds a european pizzazz to reading the forum

what about a pvp zone where if you die your character is automatically deleted

i’m being sincere, lets have an anarchy month

all zones turn into PvP at random times without warning* fixed that for you

i completely agree, especially “the journey” is one of the best bits of CoH along with the friends and community you make along the way

people announcing their song choice every 3 minutes to invite conversation is a lot better than the LFG chat being spammed every 30 seconds with “sitter LF farm” MMO’s have community and social interactions mate

people definitely need to be on their A Game, however if team members are at a different location on the map as they’re working on those objectives, e.g freeing sybils, it’s sensible for someone in the team to be going ahead to incan everyone to the next objectives. people need to work together to get the best speed run times

the ITF is popular as it has an enemy group with mostly non-mez, simple damage types. all mobs are close together and there’s a lot of them to plough through a lot of the TF is in spacious, open world maps too. the objectives are also simple and easy to understand Aeon as a TF is best experienced on medium difficulty in my view regarding your point on being left behind during speedruns - that’s a failure of the team, not of you. i have incan on my speed run alts and always bring everyone to the main objective. on iTrial speed runs, i’ll work with the team leads to ensure there’s always 1 person with incan ready to use, so we can move the league around where needed

challenge accepted

i’m really unsure which would have higher damage. i think the burst damage aspect from stalkers is also a bit outdated, having quick AS makes it part of a high damage attack chain for sustained ST damage output. controllable crits through the chance to hide proc also adds a fun dimension perma hoarfrost on either will be nice. will i miss not having icicles on the stalker? will have to find out

i made an elec/shield stalker for this same reason. i think my choice is between scrapper and stalker at the moment, both good versions of the combination will make both on test and see which i prefer

the data is really hard to align with perception - i want to make an ice/ice *something* soon and my brain won’t accept that the tank would also be a suitable option for good damage tanks are such a good AT thesedays, i agree with you that people are unaware however. i see a lot of outdated trends promoted

overall however, if you want to clear content - often the primary objective of seeking higher dps, then tanks are the best choice if one was wanting a melee pvp AT then yes, tanks would not be the optimal choice

brutes tend to have lower damage than tanks and scrappers in the current version of the game, they’re often the worst choice if you’re looking for a high damage melee AT a player did some comprehensive testing of brutes, scrappers and tanks recently. tanks are the highest DPS choice for melee players

surely any alt goldside will be a solo ambition? 😛 dom or corr would also work well solo if you want some additional challenge - blaster could be fun too if you enjoy the glass cannon playstyle

i’ve played my kin/sonic defender a crazy amount as it’s one of my 3 alts i play on HC since 2019 - it does speedruns (9min ITF), hard mode Aeon TFs etc.. it has a build of mostly SOs and a few cheap IO sets 🤷‍♂️ kin is such a forgiving set to play as your primary is 90% of your contribution. my advice as someone who plays a kin defender *a lot* is to genuinely not worry and just get on with it radiation would be an AMAZING secondary for kin. the huge amount of -defence irradiate gives will support your team so much at the lower levels, combined with speed boost hope you enjoy it, definitely don’t overthink it!