MoonSheep

i love this - i badged my new alt up to around 90 badges at lvl 15. in my opinion, having a healthy badge collection through the level range is a display of actually playing and understanding the character i also enjoy silently judging people who have a lvl 50 with almost no badges

@EnjoyTheJourney this thread seems to have taken a very strange path.. perhaps check out fire, energy or earth on test and see whether it feels more impactful. there’s always slight differences between sets but for the most part once you’re in a team and buffed up it’s likely to be unnoticeable. i enjoy mind/fire for the unbeatable ST damage but it’s a bit weaker on the AoE front

@Voltak unfortunately, just because you like something doesn’t make it better than it is it’s great that you have a passion for a particular set and seem to really enjoy playing it, but that passion doesn’t make the set any better than it actually is for other players who may be looking for things different to you, such as higher damage

on mids did you put moonbeam into quicksnipe mode? has lower damage regardless, are you comfortable with the damage of dark assault for actual gameplay? i wouldn’t worry about the numbers too heavily

you won’t lose any sleep if you skip TK i’d recommend picking the ST sleep and slotting it for damage, it’s very helpful for foes that pop a power which give capped +res to everything but psi resident mind/energy dom @Mezmera can guide you on the energy assault side of things

i’ve been playing an ice/shield scrapper for a few weeks and have found the build doesn’t really require tough/weave, seems to be strong enough without it - especially with the small P2W buff very bizarre that the above build doesn’t seem to include Frost, it’s one of the 3 main powers. without using frost, one mayaswel play a different powerset

i main a mind/fire dom and in my (probably outspoken) opinion, focus on playing a dom and not trying to force the build into some weird “S/L softcap” scrapper hybrid which still falls flat on its face instantly during mob interactions, mez the enemies which cast the most debuffs or hit the hardest rather than simply running in and wailing at everything without rhyme or reason. shutting down the foe types that deal the most harm really changes the dynamic of battles but it needs some thought the majority of people on CoX should stick to playing scrappers/brutes/tanks. playing a dom as a dom is a very rewarding experience and makes you realise how powerful they are when you switch to something else

good to hear your defender experiences - until recently i had only made 2 characters on homecoming since 2019, one of them being a kin/sonic defender which seems to tick everybox for the style of play i enjoy like you i often get incredibly excited about a character then kill it off at a similar level keep the style of play varied and level more slowly can make it more enjoyable is what i’ve found with my first alt in 18-20 months

think the post title needs amending slightly to align with your wish

my main is a mins/fire and therefore i’d recommend the combination. having all of your powers as ranged has some great advantages, immense damage too

@Mezmera

i also remember when the STF was new, building a team you near enough had to get a cold and a sonic along with a few shivans or you weren’t going to pass shows how much more powerful characters are thesedays that you can jump into the 4 AVs without much of a thought

that’s a good point really - i don’t have any melee powers, nice to observe the destruction from a distance 🙂

i run almost all my TFs on enemies buffed, i find it encourages a classic CoH experience where each AT has a defined role to play i also have veng on both my alts and it ensures i get to use it regularly 🤗

have you looked into brute/scrapper/tank archetypes? it may fit your style of play rather than trying to make a defender into a defensive combat class not having any accuracy in either siphon power or FS is unadvisable, they’re two of your most important powers and you’ll want them to hit everytime a kin/sonic is one of the 2 alts i play since returning in 2019, it has no defence built in and it survives fine. pop a purple if trouble crops up

Brother Mezmera, I pray that you will see the light and will be received with open arms to the glory of Sleet. people overhype and place too much emphasis on procs, you may get one or two enemies hit with a short lived -res debuff but it’s nothing in comparison to Sleet which will continue to hit new enemies who enter the fray and deal some nice -def (which you can also slot for a -res proc) Romans 10.1 As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in Sleet will never be put to shame. 🙏

run it on enemies buffed +4/x8, gets people working as a team in a very noticeable way. very hard to wander off without the team as death quickly follows

yaaas preach 🙏 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of Sleet, knowing that in Sleet your labor is not in vain 🌨️

i think so, the power analyser shows no defense or resistance buffs. i run the TF quite often on enemies buffed as a nightly hobby, amassed 8000+ merits at the moment from it and haven't really noticed a difference in squishiness compared with regular vs enemies buffed. they sting a lot more but seem to lay down just as happily there was a recent fix however which restored some shield powers for the cimeroran enemy type which has resulted in them being tougher more generally

enemies buffed gives +50% acc and +50 dmg, however as far as i’m aware it doesn’t buff def or res

ah i see, to help people know what’s currently running and therefore whether it‘s worth trying to build an event?

unbreakable constraint chance for smashing damage is the purple proc you’re thinking of

ascendancy is a good set, i put it in dominate and it procs often, not fussed about any damage bonuses as i have attacks for that purpose the other dom ATO is not that great in my view and i haven’t used it you could slot ascendancy enough to get your +rech set bonus and then throw in a damage IO for +42% DMG

i’m more optimistic 😄

what on earth are you doing in the larger group events? they’re usually quite pleasant/fun from my experience