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Phase Shift and powers like it are oddball CoH. It is a normal power and to use it you must be free from mez. Although if immob you can hit it. In phase shift only others also phase shifted can attack you. Very very very rare. I cannot recall this ever happening. It is the ultimate “get out of jail free” card however. Enemies that see through stealth (rikti, rularuu, nemesis, etc) will see a stealther and flatten it. But a phase shift (while still visible) will ignore their attacks. Until your 30 sec timer runs out. It is best used in this mode to barrel through really tough maps as fast as possible. Keep in mind at the end of 30 secs you may have agro. Be ready to come out swinging… or in the case of my elec Blaster maybe Nuke and use ANOTHER type of invulnerability power lol.

With a melee toon it depends largely on what native (if any) defense it has. Then there are oddballs like resistance armor sets. Little to no defense and no defense debuff resistance. On a Dark Armor i build for near perfect resistance and ignore defenses. Then use non suppressed stealth, fear aura, stun aura to create a “faux defense”. The strategy for what to build is as varied as the player and AT/Primary/Secondary. Some Blappers build S/L defenses. For the same reason melee does. A lot of attacks in CoH have a S/L component and therefore will check vs this. My Fire/Fire Blaster did not ignore defenses but did not prioritize them in the build. Instead building for MORE upfront damage. When stuff is dead your defense is near perfect. Also, his combat Rez makes that playstyle highly forgiving.

Yeah. Fire Corr. I have not used rad but take a look at Dark. Very powerful on Corr. Three Fire/Dark Corr would be vicious

yeah, i finally did see that (1st time today!0 and i was on a team getting Ghost Widow badge lol. 785 badges at level 30, and i have not started Invention or Flashback yet!

horses? huh, i guess that makes more sense. I thought they said.... uh, nvm.

I have been waitinf for Jurassik to spawn all day. nothing. I have the event logs last 8 hours. nothing.

the typed defenses stack with positional defense???

Both. An attack is (usually) typed 2 ways. By positional and damage type. AoE, Ranged, Melee. Fire, Toxic, Dark etc. The game looks at both and gives the character the better of the two. Then calculates the hit. So with my little 52% ranged def Blaster (45% is “softcap”) there is a 95% chance of a miss from normal enemies. He is never in melee and AoE almost always has a shorter range than ranged attacks. If he hangs in the 60-100 ft ranged area he is pretty covered. Even though he has crap “damage type” defenses. A common tactic for Tanks and Brutes (non farm) is to softcap Smash/Lethal SL since a LOT of damage has a SL component…and therefore is checked versus their high SL defense.

On that Fire^3 (the build I posted yesterday) I carry 2-4 break frees, depending on content being run. A strategy i have is always having about 100 medium to large insp stored in AH. Then in 5-10 bids another 10-20 med purple, 10 break free, 30-60 reds bought. this allows me to hit my auction macro AH /macro AH AH to create. In-between missions I use this to replenish my tray Here is my Elect Temp Blaster. THis plays at range. All at range. Enemies are much less fierce at range. It has 52%+ ranged defense. Heck, it has 75% S/L resist! It has THREE 3!!! powers to become invulnerable or nearly so. Force of Nature, Personal Force Field, and my favorite, Phase Shift. Phase Shift will allow you to zip through the worst 4 star map with impunity. Be fast, the 30 sec clock is running. Blaster - Electrical Blast - Temporal Manipulation tank 4.0.mxd

Blaster (Fire Blast - Fire Manipulation) 2024 v 1.51.mbd

i play "similar" to this quite a lot. although i abuse start. but it is not a huge difference on a 1-10 character. I do not enjoy the new arcs. For petty reasons really. i find it maddening that whoever programmed all the NPCs in both arcs have them hopping around like grade school kids needing to pee. It destroys any semblance of immersion that might have been there.

MPCDAPO. Or… Manually Applied Delayed Detonation Ordinance Grenade. MADDOG. More accurate Manually Applied Detonation Controlled Anti Personnel. MADCAP

looks at the title. looks at the sentence. looks at the title. seriously though, I do not think you are trying to say you want a regular street joe to fight armies from another dimension led by someone that makes incarnates look like minions. Maybe you do. Honestly, 40-50 content is above 'what street level heroes" do. and probably 30+ but definitely 40+ you are starting to face shadow shard threats, and all sorts of madness. both red and blue, Look at the TF/SF by level range. See the themes they are dealing with. you leave street level behind 25-30 red fighting a god. blue you are still fighting "real world' during mant 30-35. after that? no. Numina is taking you down a rabbit hole that ends in incarnate land. I too love street level battles. But that is a different world than what this game has evolved to. I love the look of street justice, Never take it because combo sets have no place in 50 content, imo. It is beautiful pre 30, looks great. sure it plays great. try building a combo in a 1 star LGTF. let me know how that goes. Meaning is personal. Spiderman in one of the last movies refused to join the Avengers. Wanted to be a neighborhood hero. (kept the nano suit...) Maybe the solution is to find meaning playing and and/or leading lower level content on "frozen" (stopped experience) characters. You can play in the gritty world where the biggest threat is a mad scientist trying to use zombie armies to blow up a dam.

There is no heading “new TFs” in HC wiki. You can look at Doc Buzzsaw, who has the missions red and i am not sure who offers the blue version of that added missions. Those were added by HC. The Aeon SF is new. Many added difficulties on existing TF/SF. The new Striga arcs just added that you can read about in the issue 27 patch (announcements) just dropped a few weeks ago. Honestly looking ar all the historical patches in announcements would be a good time investment. Lot of new powers, tweaks on powers, game changes, new content etc. those would be the definitive “what is new” and are set up to be easily read if you find the glossy brochure Page X issue Y posts.

Yes

While I personally hate the idea I think that it is wonderfully creative and would be great for CoH. After all, my reaction is a recoiling from drama and uncomfortableness. Perfect for storytelling

When you snipe someone 159-200 feet away, if they live, they will have agro on you…

The only “pure” cold group is the christmas event snow men. Also i think the xmas AVs. But many groups, demons, scientists, and others have cold “units”

The floo in st mart. Or shark. There are a few in nerva but finding them is more trouble

I value your commitment to a higher level of storytelling and discourse. In my opinion you will not find it here. If I won the 1 billion dollar lottery this weekend, bought the game from the 3-5 people owning various right s to it, hired a staff to recreate everything in a new engine, and the best writers in the world.... I do not think the project would meet your desires. Here me out. You (in my opinion) seek perfection presented to you. Or very highest bestest quality. But the nature of storytelling and magic in human art has always been the simplest thing. If a story, a drawing, a sculpture has meaning to a human, and illicits a feeling, then that is art. The greater magnitude of the feels to the greater number of people/cultures, the better the art. But it is in the interpretation, the interaction, the understanding, the belief, the ownership of the concepts that the magic happens. It is what is inside the persons mind as much or MORE than the story/painting/sculpture/song. You see dreck and garbage. I see a playpen to at least create some of my ideas. The guy down the street sees a way to socialize. Another person is fascinated by Nemesis. Has little Nemesis figurines. Sure, some art is better than others. There are many flaws with the storytelling and mechanics. But, some of us find enjoyment. You find irritation and flaws. My belief is you would find these flaws unless it perfectly aligned with your belief and views. just my 2 inf. Oh, and since you are leaving, can I haz yur stuf?

they still suffer from political drama and overcomplicated mission mechanics that do not always work

they would need to rebalance it. Unfortunately it is pretty obvious this is a melee attack reskinned, with an odd (and surprisingly flexible) delay mechanism. Which, and I cannot say this enough, makes NO SENSE in the completely ranged Devices set. Then to call it "Remote" just goes to further screw up the thing. Melee Bomb would have been far more accurate.

They are definitely arrested. Arrest; a stoppage or sudden cessation of motion