Without_Pause

Groups have looked for 'healers' since day 1 and people continue to promote themselves as such. While no, it doesn't have to be a specific powerset, it very often is, or at least a short list of ones. I don't need so much def against things which are dead. Cold, among other things, gets me there quicker. I have thought about making a FF character a number of times, but in the end, I can't justify it. No powerset has gotten more screwed over in terms of end game builds than FF.

Not mentioned I don't think, but on live and here on HC I had a crafter character who unlocked crafting badges so I could get the badge to craft level 25 IOs without a recipe and at a discounted cost. You can then outfit any character with level 25 Common IOs once they hit 22, and keep adding IOs as needed all the way to 50. All of my builds on live used Common IOs. That character played the market and had over 2 billion and started to give my other characters money as needed. The character I use for that now "only" has 500 mill, but is funding various IOs sets for builds, and already slotted out a cheaper build for themselves. I also took a decent break from Homecoming, so I could easily be at the 2+ billion mark if I wanted to be. Easiest way to have currency is to get a character to 50, and keep playing them. Common level 50 recipes can go for 100K+ via a vendor.

Street Justice is just smooth for me. Even better on a Stalker, but it has a nice combination of ST and AOE attacks with mitigation and no real long animation times. If not for already having a Claws/wp character, I could easily see playing a ton on a SJ/wp build.

Dual boxed last night and got a purple on each character. Seems to be working fine.

Stalker swaps out a ST attack for AS and thus doesn't lose out like a number of stalker sets do with losing AoE, so it translates quite well outside of Hemo's slower damage being rather anti-stalker philosophy.

I played so many Kins back in the day I got sick of them. I never skipped SP or got rid of it via a respec. A Kin leaving battle? WTF? SP has range on it. You can pull just fine standing where you are at. The only time my Kins left battle was to move onto the next mob. In terms of moving around, that's what Siphon Speed is for. Hell, I move around on my melee characters as much if not more depending on the situation. And yes, a Kin/sonic was one of the few Kins I got to 50 and played afterwards. I'm not here to claim it is the best combo. From a defender standpoint, I would argue Kin/rad takes that, but it is quite good and one of the few Kin builds I rerolled coming back. I didn't keep it, but that's more with me being done with Kin versus it being subpar.

News at 11. Players of a superhero game complain about the game making them feel too much like (checks notes) superheroes. How dare they. How. Dare. They. Not every game needs to be Dark Souls or rouge like. Some games can be nice, light, and fun romps. Some can be family friendly enough to where parents will let their kids play and maybe even with them. Yes, a nice light romp the whole family can enjoy. That to me what CoH has been about. There have always been the min-maxers. There's content for them. An end game where you finally completed a character was always going to happen. Want to keep playing them? Great. You can. Want to move onto something else be it a new character or even game? Great. You can also do that. The biggest need right now is Incarnate content. That's it.

StJ can put up numbers. It certainly can for stalkers.

I wonder if Rad's own secondary trigger is overwriting the crit text or adds to it so it might get lost in all of the text. Been ages since I played my Rad/shield so I can't recall.

https://www.newegg.com/cyberpowerpc-gamer-ultra-2054-gaming-entertainment/p/N82E16883229194?Item=N82E16883229194 What can I push this too for RAM, and how easy would it be to switch in a SSD drive as my old hard drive died on it? Mostly reviving this to run Linux on and hopefully CoH. I can run it on other computers, but those have Intel which can be an issue with certain maps. I'm fine if this only is used for Linux though.

I like the sound of the set, but the eye beam attack still isn't one I like. The original version just grates on me.

Savage with /ea or /sr would be my picks for a faster scrapper since Claws isn't an option. /ea has a smoother curve for end issues. I would use more resist based builds for brutes and tanks.

Earth/storm just utterly and completely wrecks things. You can be on a team which goes after multiple mobs. You can be the star on a Prevent 30 Fir Blog from escaping or whatever they are called mission.

I didn't mind my StJ brute for as long as I had them. My primary experience though is via a stalker. Add in ATOs and it is my 2nd favorite set.

Rage fixes has made the set worse in the eyes of many.

I have one character already redside and can easily move another there as they were kind of already in between. The con is I somewhat recently moved and I'm still in the long process of setting things up so my playtime is minimal.

O.o. Slot it up for damage and the heal factor is small. The heal aspect certainly doesn't make fights 2-3 times longer. I've soloed +4 on common IOs and pre-50.

I went Rad/bio as a change from the standard fire farmer.

Due to the current state of SS, I would be tempted to go Savage even if thematically, SS works better.

Play at a lower level than your character currently is.

I vastly exempt down due to TFs. I don't really worry too much about how the build deals with it as I figure common IOs with a build having more slots than usual for that level range will be fine.

A complete code rewrite. The original devs said the code base was a mess, which is really something for the devs themselves to admit to. A complete rebuild from the ground up should make the code base vastly easier to deal with moving forward thus saving time and dev sanity. It would shore up just how poorly this game runs on Intel. I have zero issues in far more modern games. The game in caves and sewers can be a series of screenshots. I don't want to get a PC simply for CoH but some days...

1. End drain works best with more than one player doing it, and/or have -recovery(see Poison). End drain by itself via a single character is underwhelming. End drain on minions and LTs is fine. It's anything higher where issues start to arise. 2. Elec's damage is on the lower side. As Yomo mentions, any damage increase via debuff or buff really would also be true for any other set. I haven't looked at IOs for it, but adding some procs could help, but again, it would also do that for some other sets. 3. It's okay. P.S. Partly because I paired it with Kin, I found Elec/kin controller a far superior version as the defender version was my main on Live. I didn't recreate it here though. I went controller and then axed that at 41 although I might reroll at some point. /elec is simply a lower-mid set although again, I used it as my main so I enjoyed it enough.

I don't have a single character outside of one which even solos at x8. Same for just about anything above +0. If I'm soloing, it is likely through something I want to get quickly done versus doing a build stress test. I'm not here to see if a build can pull off doing +4/x8 through any and everything I can. Outside of fire farming, that just takes too long. Since this is a defender based topic, adding in more Leadership powers can be deemed more useful.

I'm intentionally trying to only have two of a set at 50 for the sake of variety. I had a Claws/ea scrapper going, but canned it after I just accepted I knew what it would be like in the end with having an /ea stalker at 50 as well. If I ever had to start over from the ground up, that might be Without Pause 3.0.