Mr. Vee

It's very nice getting those PvP ios from low content. TF runs have netted me several of the low procs that were cost prohibitive on live. The insane fantasy builds I made for fun during the hiatus are now not so insane, well assist from how many there are.

Ah, i was looking at dps, didn't notice dp/an. I stand by spin though since it doesn't require lining up. and concealment as anything but a set mule on a scrapper, just no.

:O Don't skip spin, ever. It's amazing. And swipe is the top dps in the set. I wouldn't take leadership or medicine pool either, but personal preference. And I'd take soul mastery for Shadow Meld, which on a high recharge build is going to add a ton to your survival.

Did i25 up the rates? Cuz purples feel just as streaky as always to me. PVP IOs seem to drop way more regularly for me than purple.

Old positron (rule of 3) and sister psyche TFs (something something Clamor) in ouro are very good merit/minute solo once you have them down (they came back to me quick from running so much on live). Solo even drops the AV in Sis to EB. And since you're concerned with badges anyway there are lots of merits to be had from the exploration badges @5 merits/zone.

Generally recharge, recharge, recharge. Beyond that we'd need to know if you have specific intentions for it.

Ran the first respec trial last night and taking the breaks out of the spawns has turned one of the most boring bits of CoH into one of the most fun. An absolute blast to run now. Double merits and notice were just icing.

I hardly think ae is to blame for salvage costs. But you should have been able to sell your dropped salvage for similar prices to afford the human blood samples. Or, run one ae arc for tickets and some random salvage rolls should net you two quickly.

Charged and havok the AOE refers to the taunt. Jacob's is a cone but a particularly lame one iirc.

If you're upset by things being free and want to feel like you earned them, go look up the old prestige costs of things and keep track of your influence earning. Then only add things you'd have earned access to as you go. There's no reason to make the rest of us give up a great qol change.

I'm on mobile so can't see helencarnate's build but the main things that stand out to me other than maneuvers is the lack of burn, which is the top power in fiery aura and impale, which is pretty good DPS. You can't just rely on auras and the one AOE at lower levels. That said, it'll be a late bloomer even with build fixes.

I only have a theoretical build I made waiting in queue before actually getting to play. I can tell just by eyeballing it now that it needs a complete redo.

Low level task forces, I run them a ton for merits. I run old positron, old sister psyche, occasionally synapse, silver mantis. Ideally I'd speed them with an io'd character but I've already started with the psi/rad on SOs. He's gonna be a beast for that when finished if his performance so far is any indication.

Sprint = where your stealth io goes :D

The cone isn't wide, but its range is longer than most. So if you take a step back you can hit more enemies. I'm digging my psi/rad scrap. It's only 28 but it's already shaping up to be my low tf character.

It's a fun power if you have room but it's by no means a must have. I'll be basically using it as a purple set mule but it's always fun to make a vaz blow up their buddies.

This post should be part of the tutorial. Or the LFG channel motd.

That may not be your most endurance efficient strategy. I remember seeing where someone ran the numbers and found that adding a damage actually did more for endurance than an end red. Can't remember where, probably buried in the old forums. Also back on live a theft of essence + endurance proc in the heal helped a ton. Not sure if the changes to procs per minute would have made that not the case or not.

I'm still pretty low but loving water/time. Double patch drop with time's aura is just great.