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1 hour ago, tidge said:
I say Blapper, because so much of the DPS potential from a Water/NRG is in the secondary Melee attacks:
- Energy Punch (melee, or pick Power Thrust)
- Power Thrust (melee, or pick Energy Punch)
- Build Up (More +Damage than Tidal Forces, I'd take both but only one of them early)
- Bone Smasher (melee)
- Energize (the sustain)
- Stun (melee)
- Power Boost (click self boost, don't overlook that a significant fraction of 'extra effects' are the stuns in the NRG melee attacks)
- Boost Range (click self boost, I suspect this was the power that made NRG look appealing to "range only")
- Total Focus (melee)
I've played a variety of Blasters as Blappers, and also as Ranged-only. I have a few Ranged-only that went very light into the secondary. My cautious advice comes from a place of my recognition Water Blast is a great Ranged set (although I think Water Jet is still inferior!), but IMO relying only on the primary for ranged damage (with this combo) has issues:
- A huge amount of potential DPS is being left on the table
- The options for slotting different types of enhancement sets is going to be quite limited without taking secondary attacks... and if you take and slot them, they should be used!
- The control (stuns) from the NRG secondary are all melee, as opposed to other secondaries that offer ranged controls
- The NRG secondary doesn't offer any thing like a PBAoE should the player get surrounded by more than a couple enemy critters
This is not me trying to yuck in anyone's yum: I can imagine a circumstance where a player wants to play a Blaster, and also wants to find a secondary where they can skip most of the secondary powers (I've done it!), maybe to focus more on the primary, maybe to slip in a LOT of power pool powers, or whatever. When I made the choice to make a Blaster that avoided (as much as possible) the melee attacks in a secondary, I found that a nearly identical version of the character played as a Sentinel performed 'better' than the Blaster variant. The AoE was worse, but the Sentinel doesn't care what the enemies try to do to him and he can stand his ground.
I have an WATER/NRG blaster and it is one of my favorite characters. I wasn't saying never use melee attacks or range only. I was saying it can play great from far away, as opposed to Blapper which to me means staying in or near melee range. Water is so good you can stay at long range all day and always have a decent attack ready. I skipped NRG Punch, BoneSmasher, and Stun. I mostly use the other two attacks, power thrust and Total Focus for crowd control, and I don't need them that often.
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People are saying Blapper, but Water/ NRG is also great at range. Water works great from range, and NRG can add a lot of it. Blappers arent for everyone.
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6 minutes ago, Erratic1 said:
Not for those with high Endurance Drain Resistance.
I suppose that's true. Which is why so many have suggested electric armor, which is a good choice, but SR is good too for different reasons.
To the OP, I say, try 'em both!
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I say go for Super Reflexes Tank. They are hard to hit and hard to debuff their ability to not be hit. Sappers can be a problem for any and everyone, but they are less so for my SR Tanker. I love my savage/ SR, but nearly all the Tanker Melee options go well with Super reflexes.
A well built tank can solo tons of different AV. They have great mezz protection. They also get layered protection on top of their best-in-class defense. As their HP drops their Damage resistance raises.
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Brand new character today!
The family decided on an ironic way to kill Salvador "The Ham" Massimo, a bothersome enforcer for a rival syndicate. Unfortunately for the family the poison they put into his ham sandwich managed to activate a latent mutant healing factor. Salvador's revenge was swift and bloody. After the bodies were counted Sal found himself filling the vacuum, becoming a Don himself.
Like a virus he is attacking the family, and anyone else who lives on the wrong side of the law and brutally forcing them to join his organization. No one can stop him, he is unkillable. He leaves them with one choice, join or be butchered and cooked alive only to end as the meet in "ham" sandwich that is destined to be fed to victim's family and friends. Who can stop the Hammy Don!?
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I Earn Man!
Born the son of a wealthy government arms contractor CEO and now the CEO himself after he inherited the company from his father. He was tired of all his "lazy workers" who wouldn't stop complaining about not having living wages, decent benefits, or the ability to work from home. They should just work harder and become a CEO themselves!
He decided his workers, and all of the lazy, over-entitled poor people of the world needed a super hero to show what it means to earn your living through hard work. He built a special armor suit, from his father's designs, but with a special few adjustments. The suit has the standard powers of flight and durable armor, but it also gives him the power of super volume and radio transmission so everyone can hear his wise words on how he earned his fortune and how everyone just needs to stop being so lazy and entitled. Even people who don't want to want to hear it, they are the ones who need it the most! Finally, his suit grants him the power to knockdown anyone who would dare to argue against him and his perfectly correct world view. (Sonic / Energy Defender).
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On 2/25/2023 at 9:43 PM, Malinkadink said:
Build up proc from soulbound goes into soldiers not commando, you also definitely want to have achilles heel in soldiers and spec ops, though i put one into commando as well. Here is my merc/time. Because of the heavy defense nature of FF you can probably drop the two 5% def auras for pets and put in procs instead. With clarion + power boost you can get 34% def from the bubbles + 12% from dispersion then tac upgrade and maneuvers will get them to their softcaps. Serum is also overslotted you only want 2 slots for recharge. With time i was able to make serum perma. With the changes to mercs serum had its cooldown reduced enough to make it permanently available with enough recharge and its totally worth it.
Also not sure why you went into fighting pool unless you're planning to tank and want the extra resistance from tough, but if you're getting weave too then you may as well drop the m30 grenade and get cross punch and proc it out as its significantly better and will give you more + recharge. I picked up the m30 grenade and burst as each ability will add a 3.33% damage buff to pets for 30 seconds so you can cast 1 grenade into a group, then spam burst which also takes an Achilles heel for more -res
Thank you for response and sharing your build.
I take fighting pool on most of my characters. I play mostly solo so survival is always one of my top build goals. I chose m30 over cross punch because of the 3.33% damage buff.
I've gotten contradicting advice on Serum. Since the changes have you tried serum both with and without slotting for resistance?
Also, what's the reasoning for soulbound into soliders over commandos? I don't know much about their attack chains.
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Just double checking, are you saying that you suggest dropping all 3 pets' accuracy to add achilles to all 3?
Some other questions for anyone willing to answer:
1. How end heavy is Forcefield + merc attacks/ serum? I'm currently at a surplus of around 1.2 %/ sec, but it would drop to 1 if swap in Achilles on all 3 pets (not just soldiers).
2. I 6 slotted M30 and 2 slotted force bomb. I wanted them for mitigation, but mostly to deal with boredom. I 6 slotted M30 because I figured I would be more likely to use it to get the focused fire bonus, but with that considered how would you slot these two power with only 6 slots to share between the powers (plus the free 1 slot that comes with each power)
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StrikerFox, Thanks! That's really useful.
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3 hours ago, Xandyr said:
I always try to slot an Achilles' Heel: Chance for -Res in Soldiers. They have so many powers that can trigger it, you're almost guaranteed to always have the -20% Resist on your target.
Great insight! Thank you.
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I have not played Mercs or Force fields on homecoming. I played both during commercial release, and was underwhelmed. I haven't started leveling yet, so I really don't know anything about play style or any gotchas with the classes. I figure I might want an attack or two just because forcefields in boring otherwise. Does having 3 direct attacks actually make sense with focused fire? Is slotting serum for resist or recovery worth it?
Here is an early draft. Please tell me what you all think:
This Villain build was built using Mids Reborn 3.4.7
https://github.com/LoadedCamel/MidsRebornClick this DataLink to open the build!
Ionic Snake: Level 50 Technology Mastermind
Primary Power Set: Mercenaries
Secondary Power Set: Force Field
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Speed
Ancillary Pool: Mace MasteryVillain Profile:
Level 1: Soldiers- (A) Sovereign Right - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (3) Sovereign Right - Damage/Endurance
- (3) Blood Mandate - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (5) Blood Mandate - Accuracy/Damage
- (5) Edict of the Master - Defense Bonus
- (7) Sovereign Right - Resistance Bonus
Level 1: Repulsion Bolt
- (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage
- (9) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
Level 2: Deflection Shield
- (A) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Endurance
- (11) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Increased Run Speed
- (21) Reactive Defenses - Defense
- (21) Reactive Defenses - Scaling Resist Damage
Level 4: Insulation Shield
- (A) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Increased Run Speed
- (17) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Endurance
- (31) Reactive Defenses - Defense/Endurance
- (31) Reactive Defenses - Defense/Endurance/RechargeTime
Level 6: Equip Mercenary
- (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
- (7) Gladiator's Armor - TP Protection +3% Def (All)
- (9) Resist Damage IO
Level 8: Super Jump
- (A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
Level 10: Maneuvers
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Endurance/Recharge
- (42) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
- (42) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
- (43) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge
- (43) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
Level 12: Spec Ops
- (A) Call to Arms - Accuracy/Damage
- (13) Overwhelming Force - Damage/Chance for Knockdown/Knockback to Knockdown
- (13) Blood Mandate - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (15) Blood Mandate - Accuracy/Damage
- (15) Expedient Reinforcement - Resist Bonus Aura for Pets
- (17) Call to Arms - Defense Bonus Aura for Pets
Level 14: Boxing
- (A) Empty
Level 16: Assault
- (A) Endurance Reduction IO
- (34) Endurance Reduction IO
Level 18: Serum
- (A) Gladiator's Armor - Recharge/Resist
- (19) Gladiator's Armor - Resistance/Rech/End
- (19) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (29) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (36) Preemptive Optimization - EndMod/Recharge
- (43) Preemptive Optimization - EndMod/Endurance/Recharge
Level 20: Dispersion Bubble
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
- (31) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
- (33) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
- (33) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge
- (33) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
Level 22: Commando
- (A) Superior Command of the Mastermind - Recharge/Pet +AoE Defense Aura
- (23) Soulbound Allegiance - Chance for Build Up
- (23) Blood Mandate - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (25) Blood Mandate - Accuracy/Damage
- (25) Superior Mark of Supremacy - Endurance/Pet +Resist +Regen
- (27) Superior Mark of Supremacy - Accuracy/Damage
Level 24: Tactics
- (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up
- (45) Endurance Reduction IO
- (45) Endurance Reduction IO
Level 26: Tactical Upgrade
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
- (27) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
- (29) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
- (36) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
- (36) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge
Level 28: Repulsion Field
- (A) Endurance Reduction IO
- (34) Endurance Reduction IO
- (40) Sudden Acceleration - Knockback to Knockdown
Level 30: Damping Bubble
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 32: M30 Grenade
- (A) Force Feedback - Chance for +Recharge
- (34) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)
- (39) Bombardment - Chance for Fire Damage
- (39) Javelin Volley - Chance of Damage(Lethal)
- (40) Explosive Strike - Chance for Smashing Damage
- (42) Sudden Acceleration - Knockback to Knockdown
Level 35: Force Bomb
- (A) Sudden Acceleration - Knockback to Knockdown
- (40) Force Feedback - Chance for +Recharge
Level 38: Hasten
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (47) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 41: Scorpion Shield
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
- (46) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
- (46) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
- (46) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
- (47) Luck of the Gambler - Endurance/Recharge
Level 44: Power Boost
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 47: Tough
- (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance
- (48) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance
- (50) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime
Level 49: Weave
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
- (49) Luck of the Gambler - Endurance/Recharge
- (49) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
- (50) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
- (50) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
Level 1: Supremacy
Level 1: Brawl
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On 1/19/2022 at 4:18 PM, Glacier Peak said:
I'd like to hear other players perspectives. For me, being defeated causes me to do two things, select a resurrection option (self-rez insp, temp, p2w power, or RotF, Revive, ask teammate for rez insp or rez power, select my base resurrection, select the hospital, or in-mission hospital for some) and receive a certain amount of debt after... Level 10 I believe?
The former is trivial and the latter is insignificant to me. I may experience a slight delay in my efforts during solo play by returning to the battle or the team may or may not have to wait for me to get back in to the action. Debt itself seems insignificant to me because, well, it's just gone so quickly I never really notice it. (Not like the old legacy days where I would've deleted a character and started over when faced with *levels* not bars of debt).
Anyway, what's the impact to you upon being defeated?
If I'm playing an expensive, well-researched build and don't reasonably expect defeat:
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19 minutes ago, UltraAlt said:
wow.
I guess you are playing an entirely different game than I am playing.
I play the same game, differently, and often for different reasons.
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Overpowered regen: soloing multiple Giant monsters in peregrine island as a claws/regen scrapper. Crowds would gather, tanks joined in and died, but nothing could take down that scrapper. I guess I see why it was nerfed.
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2 minutes ago, UltraAlt said:
But will you admit that A LOT of door sitting goes on?
And since so much of that goes on, how is that "fun"?
I run farms often and allow door sitters. I’m not sure fun is the primary reason for doing it. Of course some fun can be had chatting because door sitters don’t need to pay attention to combat, though that doesn’t always happen.
Instead of fun, I would say door sitting creates accomplishment or at least relief. to some, getting to 50 is busy work that’s required to enable what they actually want to do, like filling out the waiver and watching the training video before going paragliding.
One could argue that getting to 50 by door sitting is not a real accomplishment, at least not compared to leveling the old fashioned way. However, regardless of the truth of that, the character select screen for door sitters’ level 50s still says level 50.
Other people collect 50s, some have 100s of them. For them, fun is probably low priority, high priority is minting another 50 or in some cases fully incarnated and IOd 50. If one’s goal is to collect 50s then doorsitting makes a lot of sense compared to playing content the old fashioned way.
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2 minutes ago, Bionic_Flea said:
I'd like to see that too. The only thing I can offer is 2 year old data.
Fire Brutes were so prevalent that they broke it out as a category. About 30k fire brutes (or about 2.5% of total characters made) accounted for 32% of total hours played!
Yeah, I thought those threads were cool. I was hoping for raw data then too. I haven’t reviewed it in a long time, I should reread. Assuming accuracy, that 32% indicates farming is keeping people playing, or at least it was two years ago. Of course that doesn’t clearly explain if the player was afk farming or power leveling another character(s) or afk powerleveling another character(s).
I guess it’s the data scientist in me that wants to drill down deeper and discover trends and really understand the truth of the matter. Is there a way to discover from the data who is afk farming? If so how many hours of active gameplay stem from afk farming? How much influence? So many insights just waiting to be discovered!
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I’m seeing arguments about whether people who powerlevel 1-50 play a lot. Most arguments are based on personal preference, anecdotes, and arguments stemming from those preferences and anecdotes. I wonder what kind of statistics are available to get actual data.
- How many characters level to 50 primarily in AE missions?
- How many leveled In less than x hour played?
- For those characters, how many played other content after getting to 50?
- How many players, after leveling to 50 in AE, did it again? How many times?
- Same for non AE?
- What percentage of total content played is played inside architect?
- What percentage of total influenced generated comes from AE?
Devs, can we get access to the raw data (tableau, grafana, etc) to do our own analysis to get the bottom of some of the arguments on the forums?
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Lots of assumptions on what they want.
Devs, please just spell out for us, as if we were all 5 year olds, what your vision of the future for this game is.
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I saw in the beta patch notes that Mercs had some bug fixes. Unfortunately, I am totally unable to play COH right now. What difference do these changes make for Mercs?
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What is the overall vision the team has for the game? Like to what ends are these changes being made? To get new players? To get current players to play more? Is there an overall encompassing vision/ future state? Or do different devs have their own silos and they just work on things they are passionate about? I think understanding the overall vision/ future state, even in vague terms might help us to offer more constructive feedback.
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On 3/30/2022 at 7:26 AM, The Caretaker said:
I think Clowns are pretty high up the list for me.
I assume you’re just referring to Mercs. They make a lot of us laugh... and cry.
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9 hours ago, RiskyKisses said:
Hey all.
Is there any way to have 2 click powers that will activate on a character? In my instance, I want Haste and Ageless Core Epiphany to automatically go off so that they are out of sight, out of mind.
Thanks
Not using the auto fire mechanic, like with the little circle around the power. However, you can bind one or both of those powers to the directional keys or mouse clicks. This way every time you move or click the mouse the game will try to use the power. If the power is not ready then nothing happens, if it is ready then it will fire.
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Looks like a pretty good build! You're gonna be great if you run it- lots of damage- though you will likely have to use transference a lot. If you're looking for places to eek some improvements, I would suggest not worrying about Range defense. Fire/Kins are top shelf in melee range. Between, flashfire, cinders, hot feet, fissure, and bonfire you can survive via control even with poor defense, but getting sm/l to cap will also go a long way. I see you have them capped with incarnates. Hot feet is pbaoe and fissure is close range. They beg for you to get into the fray. I'd recommend a knockback to knockdown in fissure too.
If you decided to not worry about range you can get back several slots or switch sets, possibly to eek out a little more resistance, for example, swap out 6 lockdown in cinders for the +2 hold lockdown and 5 superior overpowering presence, and drop earth's embrace to 5 slots and improve the recharge on fulcrum shift for easier/longer double stacking. I'd also recommend Assault Radial embodiment (Chance for double strike) for Hybrid.
Overall, though I think I'm mostly just talking about preference. Nice build!
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@Armaaz I tried to view, but your version of mids is newer that mine, and it doesn't seem available from the mids site or through the update feature. How did you get to 3.3.1?
Help with a Mids Build for a Water/Energy Blaster
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Posted · Edited by zenijos10
My definition of a blapper is a blaster who fights primarily within melee range. This means they have probably focused more on survivability then the average blaster OR have an extreme amount of PBAOE damage (best defense is good offense) or both. For me a blapper doesn't even really have to use melee attacks, at least in theory, though melee attacks certainly help to scrap at melee range. Its an attitude thing: "I'm gonna get right up in your face and destroy you, then before your body hits the ground I'll be off to the next group of foes to do the same."