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The analogy is terrible since the Scrapper would have hardly any controls and certainly not at the level of a Dom. I've seen my Fort have less issues with end draining hordes of Mu than a melee character with some level of end drain protection simply because you can't end drain if you can't attack. I've been soloing a few controllers recently and there are number of mobs which offer zero or very little incoming damage, and yes, Grav is in that list. The main issue is the Dom/Controller getting mezzed or how fast they can mez a boss, but that is easily taken care of without Def/Res based IOs. This says nothing about the fact that the Dom/Controller could do damage at range versus a Scrapper needing to be in melee.

What an odd take to think Indom being such a low pop server means NC Soft was right to kill a game making money. Considering CO still exists I think there still was space for CoH even back in the day.

Which would be a nil impact on melee characters and a far bigger one on squishy characters forcing those characters into more teaming situations. I can't say I'm for that really. I need far bigger data points as I clearly find teams which go against this, but I get on a lot of melee heavy teams these days. With the population going downward, I expect more of the same.

While there is some truth in that, the population was there and by all accounts the game was making profit. It might not have been enough profit to make them happy, but it certainly wasn't tanking. I also don't know of rogue servers ever really becoming legit or being run by the people who took it over in an official way. I just highly doubt there are any games with a rogue server who stumble upon a fan base that big. Lets be honest, CoH is an after thought in the land of today's gaming where most of its player base doesn't even realize a rogue server even exists. It hardly makes NC Soft right.

Maybe just list Healing as low or even list it as Healing/Regen so it could be bumped up a bit more.

I see red side happening fairly often on Excel, but that's my home server.

I looked at the Tucked In option. Honestly, there needs to be a full length option.

I know where the boots are, but they are hit and miss for me. I have tried them, but rarely keep them. I have looked at Tucked In on occasion, but never have kept with it which is likely why I forget to look there.

I can't get past CS's animation, so you'll be shocked to hear I rolled a Claws/ice this weekend as I have never used Claws with a damage aura, and my only experience with Ice was on a Tank back on live which I liked even with common IOs. He was in the 30s, so it was worth a redo. I've rolled a small horde of characters recently so no clue when having feedback on builds or anything for some time. Claws started out blue, but I honestly am going to rotate the colors for a number of looks and go from there. Min FX on the armor.

A mash-up of mostly previously posted ideas into a new look. It got a couple tells on the Elec/ea Controller I had, but I switched it to EA/elec Defender to get the better support numbers and I want to like Elec Control more than I actually do. I'm just surprised I got the name Refresh on Excel. 50/50 on leaving as is or changing it around. It is pretty basic although that isn't a bad thing. This is more of a complaint about the lack of full sets in some sets which are overall really good, see Elemental Order, versus how much I like the overall design. There is no bottom option from what I can tell for Elemental Order. I run into this issue all the time. I like the bottom, see above, but it feels like I just kind of caved and went basic versus finding something which really popped. I'm sure I'll do that later. I did try CYBRDGRN's look a little bit in that I added the gloves and shoulders, but it felt bulky on the character, so I switched back. Love the bow though. I have at least 3 different looks stored right now. I know at least one added in some gold I might rep a lot. TA/ice aka Winter's Bow for those wondering.

I don't really consider heals as being regen or maybe I just missed all of the players telling Emps "Thanks for the regen." Regen is debuffed by -regen. Heals can be debuffed in essence by -recharge.

Me being me, I'll object to saying Psionic is beginner friendly as well, I'm a well known critic of the current state of Insight. The obvious sub for me is StJ. Yes, I know it has combos, but whatever. It is still the best overall primary for Stalkers and it plays smooth. Ice melee is the best overall Stalker primary if you want to go on the defensive side of things and is the best version of Ice melee in the game. Any of the secondaries listed I'm fine with although I have less experience with Invul, but it has a single click so that's pretty user friendly. What little I did do of Invul as a Stalker I did like. Also, I loathe long animations so my Em/ea Scrapper is currently stuck at 37 because I find TF's animation not fitting to my style. It will as a set absolutely hit like a truck though to where I've lost count for how many times I overkill things. Is Em stupid good? Yes. I just prefer other sets. I also do prefer it on other ATs for the added AoE. Again, a Stalker will get three attacks which will absolutely move health bars so I understand why people love it. Dark/sr will be a classic combo and Dark/shield will be great as well. I'll just point out that since Stalker's version of Dark doesn't get Dark Consumption, Dark/ea can be a nice alternative option as I find I use Energize a bit for the reduction in end cost compared to just a flat out heal.

I like some of the builds I have posted, and even now I feel like adding in that the build is a WIP.

Only seen it happen once during the week(Indom). Mildly annoying as I have only a couple characters on said server so I want to invest in them, ie get badges.

Certain recipes are hard to come by right now and pricing can go higher than what I have ever bought things for here on HC. I wonder if it is part of the new characters being leveled at such a rate and lower population offering an even lower supply. Oddly enough some of the converted IOs are just sitting there even on weekends.

If it only had the DPA to make it worth taking.

Saturday morning gaming pounded out a Synapse. Mike had to leave early as he had real life interference. We had a team of 5 to start so the four of us finished it in so not record breaking time. Babbage did not spawn. I dinged 22. Getting close to having the Merits I need for the build. Now I just need the market to play nice.

If when I get off my butt, I might put on thread in the server forum for it, but just reminding people of 10am Saturday morning for some blue side teams.

I would rather have Maneuvers than Super Speed unless theme is dictating you have SS.

Tell a Sapper it is useless.

You are missing Farsight and Power Boost to start. To add, I have one at 32, but shelved as I play other things. I only have common IO slotting, so that will get fixed the next time I want to give it a push. It is one of the few builds I have shelved which hasn't gotten deleted simply because on paper I see no reason for it not to be one of the best Controllers despite my lack of seeing them played.

I had a character with a t-shirt with a chess piece on it, blue jeans, and a backwards cap. The character was named Outsmart. They were a Mind/dark dom. The character got rerolled, but I can see using that look elsewhere. I sort of have with previous characters. If you want to keep it "natural" as possible, there are a number of natural power sets which would work. I mean, a Mind/traps Controller who is a former or wanna be Fool Us(TV show) contestant who goes around using his mental and physical tricks to be a hero in Paragon,

Have you factored in Incarnates for recharge? My Claws/ea has much lower recharge without Incarnates, but that's Claws so they don't need much. It is more about getting the recharge down for clicks in the secondary. To add, I'm at like 215% recharge with Incarnates although I could have added more in.

Counter point, if you have two accounts you might mistakenly start emailing out bundles of currency out to your characters only to realize you sent them to the wrong account. "Wait, who did I just email 100 mill to?"

Speaking of KB, I finally got around to playing Grav and noticed a bit of a quirk. Take a controller's hold and main AoE mez. You would to a default 6-slot both of those with the ATOs. Except, for Grav, it can be beneficial to slot KB to KD in Wormhole thus skipping on out on 6-slotting it. Sure, you could put it in the AoE Hold, but that has a much longer recharge so less times it would proc. Only certain secondaries offer an additional mez in which to 6-slot. Even if you 6-slot Wormhole anyway, a number of debuffs can be location based, and thus you could likely Wormhole targets outside of your debuffs. I mean, it is rather odd for a Grav controller to pick a spot for a mob to go to only for that mob to not really go there. Obvious statement, Wormhole's cast time is "Who play tested this power and gave the okay?" bad.