WindDemon21

You should REALLY not need all those end procs if you make an ice armor build right. Energy absorption will give you full end on like 4 enemies and even against a single target you're better off than other sets. You only two slotted that power which is gravely undervaluing it. Put an end mod and end/rech at the very least and you'll notice you dont need those procs.

There were fires in the Maria Jenkins lab mish full of black swan enemies that would seem perfect for this.

Yeah but why go to a guide just to tell you to go to another guide... just include it and then this would be the one stop shop for the accolades.

Thanks for being one of the only places i could find that actually helps find the Siege mission. And unless I'm missing something, I have vidiotmaps, but it doesn't tell you WHAT Zone to go in for each accolade. Would be nice if you broke it down to which zones for each accolade for the exploration/history badges rather than just aimlessly going in to each zone and looking for that tiny dark print on each map.

Nope that's not it cause I'm always 100% mutation and have gotten both. And it's SUPER annoying having to go in when it's already annoying having to go to the detective in the first place. They could just copy and paste the "call contact" code to the detectives and be done with it. If there was some other issue where this wouldn't work that's one thing but I know this annoys a lot more people than just me.

Actually yeah having it able to turn them off (thus not having to talk to the detective in the first place) would also be a much better option really. Please do this.

Exactly they should always have them, even if you have to do their bank mission first to get it. But it's especially bad for the pi one cause you're stuck with that one forever. And in my experience it's the jump pack that'll take your jump to the top and drop you dead if that 1hp wasn't there lol.

In relation to the other ATs that do get the defense bonus to compensate for things MA lacks like aoe damage and/or a more useful damage type. Lots of other sets also do great ST damage just as well as MA and have more aoe and/or other goodies. This was meant to be a change to help set MA apart, it's really odd it was never ported to scrappers/stalkers to begin with. Without it, outside of concept really I would see no reason to choose MA over any other melee set. (outside over very niche very specific builds like my ma/da scrap i had on live to stack stuns). The defense boost was meant to help the set out for that.

Only you can't for so many things. Sure you can get weave/maneuvers ios etc, but so can any other set in the game, and a lot of times it may not be enough or what you want without devoting most of the entire build to building defense. Once you add those powers and 3% ones to the build, to get that, even to positional, which its much worse for typed, that means you have to devote 6 powers or more to equal that 7.5% defense, some like Makos bite and ToD that take a power 6 slotted as well to do it. With storm kick having that defense bonus, it would open the build up a lot for slots, powers, and other bonuses like recharge bonuses and procs allowing you to push the build further than a worthless 5% more crit on just the one power. Heck according to that even, since I'm sure nobody here has even considered using assault, being able to skip weave (and actually get more defense that it does too) and picking up assault would do more for your damage on the build than that 5% crit on one power would do. It would actually do more for just that power alone than the 5% crit does and is more consistent.

5% more crit on one power is not worth the loss of a 7.5% global defense buff. Also, brutes get the defense, AND use of boosting fury when they use the power, and tanks still get aggro with gauntlet from it. There is no reason that scraps and stalkers shouldn't have the defense buff as well, just like all the other +defense powers in melee attack sets are on all ATs. Honestly if you're that worried, remove the 5% more crit it does, nobody is going to miss it versus the global 7.5% defense boost. To the others, a lot of the conversation geared towards "ma doesn't need it to softcap with ninjitsu" and were totally missing the point of the post. The point is that the defense helped update MA to be more useful and fill a niche since it lacks other things like aoe, I was just using ninjitsu as an example (mostly because i want to pair it with ma for a ninja theme, and the issue being that it would have to be a scrap or stalker, and loses the benefit of the defense currently) of how that defense boost would help, by not needing to slot as many defense boosting IO bonuses.

I really don't get how the game determines which detective contacts you get. I've tested which spot in your list you create the toon from. I've tried how many you have when you create it, IE if it's an odd or even number when you make the character, that doesn't matter. Name and AT don't matter either. I made the same character, in the same spot, deleted one to make it the same "number" of toons when i created it, and one time it was mclord for PI, and another it was Selnum under the exact same conditions. So it would seem random, but then I literally remade a controller of mine 4 times to try to get Mclord, and every time it was still stupid Selnum, so that is way too consistent to be random... All this would be alleviated if they would just freaking give detectives a call button like other contacts get...

Still valid and needs an update to add a call button to detectives.

I did also forget about stealth, but generally I would never enter that in to the discussion but in the build I was suggesting, while you can do without thunder kick I would miss it, but wanted shuriken too for theme and ranged, and gives a good range bonus as well. I actually made from what I was describing a pretty sweet build that's close to the 53% actually, does use a full pvp set in tough, but for all around 52% it could lose that defense bonus and put a couple slots elsewhere, even if wanting to spend more money to 6 slot 2 single target attacks with the scrapper ATOs for the crit boosters and get some more defense in the process, but ranged is most important cause that's where most defense debuff happens. If anything per this discussion though I did get fairly happy with this build enough to probably still do it, but again, that defense bonus exists on the set, it's just stupid that scraps and stalkers don't get it which they should, but this is part of what's great about the game is discussing this stuff lol. Anywhere here's the build I was kinda suggesting (love crane for style points, but given that storm kick doesn't give the defense which I hope they rectify, i'd probably drop crane kick for thunder kick for dps http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/download.php?uc=1465&c=663&a=1326&f=HEX&dc=78DA85945B6F12511485CFC050EE058AB42005A6AD6D69919BEDBB31568D5A4C933EF888533A9631040833ADC537FF821A2FD17AFB01BE78FB4BDE7AF116A32FB899BD8A0D3C38817CCC3AFBACBD66670EA5ED25DFAB0BB74F0B69F86C4D358CF26AA5A5369B5ACB55DA3455536FD4055DC192AA5CD1EB375465D5D4D49A597592183F2C2D97B49AA6E54A6ACBD4D55AF94CCB3462BDB525EDBA5637B45C77BB6E1A9BC2B7D268D472CB9ADAD4EB1B7EEBE6BCBE5135E92E70B8B4AEB58CAADE0C59F717EB5BBAA1AFE935DD6C87CF35F54AEE2A6D6ED4CB25D530B5563B4A59A6E97BBF1BCABA3AB2B84628CA62688DE9A9307DEBCC131AD3314794AC3D3611942CCD1601935CF3C08912F295FA7C87E13BD1E73B44BE76F8DAE12BC35786AF936A1CA871A0C6851A176A1E516F277A3BD1DBF39FDE2EF2755B893BC29D616D944CBCDC4BF2A247F1B29D9F93D6FCDC43F83B740937390458B105EED8ACAAE05DF01EF331ED0A215908C946906CA42FD9149279C837CC7B1CE10FDCFDD847F01373F433F88539B3CBB453BF083F812352646D7C115C406D81399B074F3165DA3B86498F61D2514C218A493FA19A18B2C5B6583B7E13DC6626DBE02D6611D3F5D273C5D95F8EFFE09EC99FC8F08B99FD0D76832464F190FA25B89F9480CF3CB8436B29CC3685D92A98AD82D92A98ED0C661BA23D9398CFE41EF79ADA070F98F9AFE03766F13B53C87C82BA6FC0749EFD24D2D298477A87B5B9A7E033F03972BF005F326DB43783FC99D7AC9D7C03BE05DF31B3EF997ECA9FC31B9A93E9C72CE57433FFF88428205F6182EBC7E5DE69A74FF7AD4DC9BDB3DC991F582D0C28C501656140591C5096079415B9F7FF20243E3F413AFDAC74763DB42A6135CBD9F78F6A97F819F78E6A69AE3BF8A74992827F30F02FAF71E4F9 And if I don't mind spending money on the scrapper ATOs and overwhelming force for crane kick making it do knockdown for DPS: http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/download.php?uc=1465&c=686&a=1372&f=HEX&dc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

Just pointing out as well, that whoever also said that they had 53% to all THREE positional defenses, which to do that yes you would need to use winter/ATO sets if possible. Also just a quick help, on that build since you're using the preventative medicine proc anyway, you'll get better bonuses moving that slot to the ninja heal and doing all preventative medicine for the bonuses over doctored wounds. I'd gather you have that cause DW is cheaper which I often use, but at that rate the absorb proc isn't that great on it's own that I'd really bother with anywho outside of using it for that 6th Prev Medicine bonus, but most Prev-medicines you can get at 2 mil within a day, DW is 750k-1mil each so it's not much different for the much better bonuses you get from Prev medicine.

Well slotwise i guess i should have mentioned wanting to do it as a non-hasten build. Which also they should at least look at those click mez protections to reduce their base recharge to be naturally perma IMO. I've also made hundreds of builds for people, often specializing in cheaper builds, but for myself sometimes there are things that I want, like for this one specifically to not have hasten, but have all the attacks, though none i have ever done would go as high as 1.5 bil i don't even know how that's possible unless you're talking about live or REALLY bad at AH lol. But ergo my previous statements about slotting, and guess another big thing i should have mentioned cause it impacts slotting is fitting exploding shuriken in there as well. Pushing *base* builds is easy but that's my key point here, you have to put almost all of your focus on that to do it, there isn't much wiggle room. However if storm kick had the defense bonus that it should rightfully have, this would leave a lot more wiggle room in the build for this.

Purples to offset the loss of acc/rech bonuses you'd get otherwise like from crushing impact etc, I know that they don't have defense bonuses. Was mostly relating to the ATOs and Winter sets. The sets that give most of the defense bonuses, since MA only has one aoe attack, will be makos, and touch of death, neither of which have any acc/rech/end bonuses. If storm kick gave that defense bonus, which it rightfully should for scrappers and stalkers, it would free the build up that much more to use crushing impact instead (which only really needs 5 slots btw, instead of 6 slots for mako/ToD, which takes away from things like 7.5% max hp, +resist IOs etc), and would give better survivability earlier on as well before you get all those IOs, especially since you don't get any aoe/mitigation to a mob and not just ST until 26 >_>.

It would in no way overpower MA to grant that defense bonus on scrappers and stalkers as well, since clearly tanks and brutes can get it and they are even better with their defensive capabilities.

I've often thought that storm kick should be a cone so much, that I honestly thought that was a change to the power and that it was a cone now XD. It really makes sense that it would be a cone, like when a fighter in a movie does a roundhouse that kicks like 3 enemies in the face with one motion etc. But the issue is that if tanks and brutes have it, its an addition that was needed for the set and should be available to scrappers as well. I like the stylishness of MA, but until I thought that MA got that defense bonus I would never have considered rolling another MA toon again for how lacking the aoe is, and the animations for even the single target feel kinda slow for that being it's specialty, and being one of the most resisted damage types in the game.

Sets are also not supposed to be balanced around 600 million influence builds either, which to get that much defense you would have to be using multiple purple, winter, and ATO sets.

It's only aoe dragons tail only has an 8ft radius. Of course the set is decent to single target cause it specializes in that more but even at that it's still only smashing damage which is one of the most resisted in the game. When compared to *most* sets it is on the bottom tier easily as most content is focused around having aoe damage as it is. I'm not saying I dont like MA. It's very stylish and I want to love it, but it should have the defense bonus on scraps and stalkers as well and it wouldn't break anything on the set. Honestly dragons tail should be earlier in the set as well at least swapped with CAK. For how low the set is for aoe it should at least get it sooner. But back to the main issue it should have the defense bonus on those two classes as well and it would easily not break the set (and 5% extra crit chance is definitely not worth the tradeoff of losing that global defense bonus, and it would give a lot more flexibility in builds for MA as well.)

Yes this was on a tanker. On a side note that's absurd if the other ATs dont have that. Stupid crap like that is why I hated the devs that I would hope the new devs would put more effort to correcting these type of mess ups from the old devs.

You need to play it then, cause it does. It has a 5 target splash damage in a small radius around the enemy you hit with it. It may have been bugged on the mission I was on, or some other factor, or they had a new patch fixing that part of it cause it seems to be working for the splash damage now. The bonus buff however is still broken and needs fixed asap.

I posted a bug report for it, and supposedly it only gives the defense bonus to tanks and brutes? Which it even scales the value down to 7.5% for brutes which should clearly be given to scrappers and stalkers as well. MA overall is pretty lacking in general, it's aoe is one of the worst in the melee classes, and it's damage type is one of the most resisted in the game. There is no reason that scrappers and stalkers shouldn't get the defense bonus from it as well. Someone mentioned that it has a higher crit chance, but checking the power 5% more chance to crit is WAYYY not worth it to lose that 7.5% defense bonus to all damage. Please update this power correctly to provide the defense bonus for scrappers and stalkers. I would gladly lose that 5% extra crit chance. (which btw brutes still gain fury off of the power, AND get that defense boost, and tanks get the defense boost, and also gauntlet from it as well, so saying that it gets extra crit for it is kinda absurd either way, and no, i want to pair it as a scrapper with ninja for a ninja theme, so i'm not rolling as a brute, and that defense bonus that it should rightfully have is pretty crucial to the build)

The lasting buff form sky splitter for the recovery, regen, and to hit values has been broken for a while now. I think someone said they tried to patch it the other day to fix it, but it's still broken, and now the power isn't even doing it's aoe damage either now.

That's specific to "ai" psuedo pets. patch-pets like burn etc still benefit though. Additionally though i'll point out every chance I get that they need to remove the fear component in tornado. Even with the kb-kd IO in it, it makes the power basically useless outside of AVs unless you have an aoe immobilize to prevent them from running halway accross the map into multiple other mobs.