Augury

"Scrappers, because if they're not conning purple, you're doing it wrong."

Okay, thanks everyone. Mind you I will be mostly soloing this character, so if aid self is more helpful when solo, I'd like to know. >_>

Hmm, hero builder lists it as 10 end cost, that doesn't sound like it's right if the cost is minimal.

Just wondering if energy transfer makes aid self pretty much required. I'm planning out an inv/em and the taking damage to use it thing without a reliable heal scares me. Dull pain cycles slooooow and I have a tendency to use HP boosters to boost my max HP rather than heal myself.

So. Yeah. Necesary, or not really? I can fit aid self in pretty comfortably although it would require skipping Conserve Power. But then I'm hoping with an end reducer in all my attacks (and two in total focus) as well as all my toggles and stamina, I should be fine endurance wise.

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My eyes!
*looks for a way to destroy online Leet translator... *

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0, freddled gruntbuggly...
thy mircurtations are to me...as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
groop, i implore thee -- my foonting turlingdromes.
and hooptitiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or i will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if i don't.

I've decided my new reformed freak character called Fr34k3tt3 is a bit of a softy underneath the spikes and metal and energy surging through her body, so without further ado, her love poem:


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4nd n31th3r d0 y0u


*takes a bow, gets bludgeoned and dragged offstage*

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Uh excuse me for being pedantic but it says snarktastic but there is a dinsinct lack of Snarks

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Unfortunately snarktastic is a commentary on my personality, which contains fair amounts of snark.

These look really great. Definately shows you know exactly what you're doing.

PopCap games huh? Were you at all involved with Bejeweled? A friend of mine got totally obsessed with that one.

Pixel art is relaxing, when I'm in the mood to. When I'm not and I have to force it and I wind up pushing the same pixel back and forth 50 times in a frame of animation before throwing my hands up in disgust and loudly exclaiming (as if to convince myself) "nobody will notice anyway!" its rather less relaxing.

And thanks for the offer, I will most definately be taking you up on it.

Well Aid Self on any scrapper being bad is definately something I agree with, I think it's a really great power to boost survivability on an /SR scrapper, a set which has no self heals and no damage resistance, so when the random number generator is against you at some point, you have little choice but to die fighting or run if there's no healer.

Plus with /SRs defense it getting interrupted is basically not an issue.

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plus your giving up another power to take it that you probably won't be using much.

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As someone who's duoed with a claws/invuln a LOT I can say that Stimulant is not a wasted power at all! Maybe in bigger teams if you're lucky enough to have a defender around with a mez resistance bubble, but I've found Stimulant is infinately useful to help get mezzes off of squishies who need it so they don't... well, go squish.

Wow, that's a big compliment to my pixel art, that you think I work for a mobile phone game company.

But nope, never have. Though I've considered it in the past and another pixel artist that was moved across the atlantic and housed by a mobile phone game company to work for them fulltime has said I could easily get a job if I wanted to.

Really I'm just concerned about working with comissions and deadlines, and as this same pixel artist said the stress is rather high. It's an exhausting job with long hours. But I've always kept it in the back of my mind though, if I needed the money, since if you're good it does pay quite well.

Actually a friend and me are looking to be self-employed as it were and make a partially web and partially client based game. There'll be lots of pixel art for me to do in it.

Thanks for the compliments everyone. Glad you like my art. And yeah, Swissy, pixel art is definately my strong suit.

Oh, if anyone feels so inclined, maybe you could leave a comment on the actual gallery, it feels so empty! ;_; You don't even have to register.

Hum, don't post here much, but having gotten the okay from Bridger to post my gallery with art that isn't actually much related to CoX, here it is!

Snarktastic! the gallery


I'm posting this here since I do quite a bit of art, but never really get a chance to show this community any of it since it's not really related to CoH. Now that I can just link the gallery that has everything I can finally show my art, since I don't have to make tons of OT posts whenever I create something.

Hope you enjoy. ^^;

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EDIT: Heehee, and I just realized you can use Detonator + Vengeance to stack another 25 def on it, even unslotted.

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Powers that require a defeated player will not work on pets or henchmen.

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Awwwww!

So I was futzing with a thugs/traps MM build today. And I saw something interesting when slotting for def:

Enforcer maneuvers: 13.23 *2 = 26.46
Forcefield generator: 15.68
Maneuvers: 5.49

Total = 47.63, which breaks the soft defense cap for your minions.

Is this right? Seems a bit high to me.

EDIT: Heehee, and I just realized you can use Detonator + Vengeance to stack another 25 def on it, even unslotted.

More DA defense also means it's easier to drop Dodge and thus free up a power choice. Which is exactly what I did.

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I strikes me that as an MM it's possible to team really really badly. My plan is to point out how MMs interact with the various archetypes, along with some general advice. Now is there room for such a guide do you think?

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If you do, I have a helpful bit of advice for brutes teaming with MMs, as a brute who duoed with an MM nigh constantly.

If you want reliable aggro around a mastermind as a brute, you should be taking taunt or some PBAoE aura that has a built in taunt effect. The only other way is for the MM to play beneath their potential, which is hardly fair.

Just had to say that after hearing quite a few brutes complain about MMs "stealing their aggro" and finding out most if not all of them didn't have any taunt powers.

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DA is most definately an attack with a +def secondary effect. I'm not entirely sure how slotting DA for def rather than damage results in better DPS...

As always it is personal opinion but this is a prime example of how the lack of 'official' information about the game mechanics from the devs results in wasted slots.

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Well in my case I'm 3 slotting it so one application will get me to the soft cap, since I don't want to have to rely on two applications which are far harder to keep stacked.

Then again I also stuck a damage SO in there.

Thanks for the reply.

I'll see if I can do some number crunching soon about moving about a couple end reduxes. Though, really I think it'll be pretty slight a difference. Still, you are right.

I took health because I don't attach much importance to land speed if hurdle already takes me well over flight speed. With quickness I should go about at sprint speed (without sprint) which is fast enough for me. More might even annoy me.

As far as Elude goes, does it really NEED to be slotted? O_o I was under the impression that even unenhanced elude put you at the soft defense cap. So running toggles (no problem since your endurance regain doubles its base?) on top of that should make you basically impervious in PVE?

Mind you this is my first real def based character so I might be operating on some false assumptions here. ^^;

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- Your team will be annoyed to hell and they will most likely not prefer you as a team mate.

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Not very nice people then.

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Indeed, because my flying character, according to my hero planner, travels slower. Would hate to think how they treat fliers.

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You probably have decided this for yourself but for the love of god please get super jump. For the following reasons :

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While I appreciate the advice (no lie!) this is going to stay. Really I've had street debt with superspeed when SKing, and when not SKing I shouldn't be dying anyhow. Plus I've already played one character with combat jump, sprint and hurdle to a decent level and found it was actually faster than travel on my character with flight. Between jump jet pack and raptor packs it's usually just fine to travel.

Shuriken are mostly thematic. I didn't know what else to take, really, at that level, and exploding shuriken is another AoE as well, so that interested me.

Just posting this so if I screwed up anywhere people can wtfpwn me with criticism. And yes, no travel power. (hurdle + CJ + sprint does me fine and is faster than fly!)

Oh and I don't PVP.


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Level: 50
Archetype: Scrapper
Primary: Katana
Secondary: Super Reflexes
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01) --> Sting of the Wasp==> Acc(1) Acc(3) Dmg(3) Dmg(5) Dmg(40)
01) --> Focused Fighting==> DefBuf(1) DefBuf(5) DefBuf(7) EndRdx(7)
02) --> Flashing Steel==> Acc(2) Acc(9) Dmg(9) Dmg(11) Dmg(40) EndRdx(43)
04) --> Focused Senses==> DefBuf(4) DefBuf(11) DefBuf(13) EndRdx(13)
06) --> Build Up==> Rechg(6) Rechg(15) Rechg(15)
08) --> Divine Avalanche==> Acc(8) Acc(17) Dmg(17) DefBuf(19) DefBuf(37) DefBuf(39)
10) --> Combat Jumping==> DefBuf(10) DefBuf(33) DefBuf(33) Jump(46)
12) --> Hurdle==> Jump(12) Jump(46)
14) --> Practiced Brawler==> Rechg(14) Rechg(19)
16) --> Stimulant==> IntRdx(16)
18) --> Aid Self==> IntRdx(18) IntRdx(21) Heal(21) Heal(23) Heal(23) Rechg(25)
20) --> Health==> Heal(20) Heal(40) Heal(42)
22) --> Stamina==> EndMod(22) EndMod(25) EndMod(27)
24) --> Quickness==> Run(24)
26) --> Soaring Dragon==> Acc(26) Acc(27) Dmg(29) Dmg(29) Dmg(42) EndRdx(45)
28) --> Lucky==> DefBuf(28) DefBuf(31) DefBuf(31)
30) --> The Lotus Drops==> Acc(30) Acc(31) Dmg(33) Dmg(37) Dmg(37) EndRdx(42)
32) --> Golden Dragonfly==> Acc(32) Acc(34) Dmg(34) Dmg(34) Dmg(43) EndRdx(43)
35) --> Evasion==> DefBuf(35) DefBuf(36) DefBuf(36) EndRdx(36)
38) --> Elude==> Rechg(38) Rechg(39) Rechg(39)
41) --> Caltrops==> Rechg(41)
44) --> Shuriken==> Acc(44) Acc(45) Dmg(45) Dmg(46) Dmg(50)
47) --> Exploding Shurken==> Acc(47) Dmg(48) Dmg(48) Dmg(48) EndRdx(50) Rechg(50)
49) --> Agile==> DefBuf(49)
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01) --> Sprint==> Jump(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Empty(1)
01) --> Critical Hit==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Empty(2)
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So what if you're a grav/?

Hmm, well, things will have to go ahead sometime next month, heh. I'm still at Augury's right now, and can't really co-ordinate something like this on the computer I'm using.

Besides, a lot of people are currently on holiday or the like, so the turnout wouldn't be very impressive.

/EDIT - On another note, I need to learn to log out when Augury gives me links, or she should start using the damn villainous board setting so I don't end up in her account, using her cookies.

Since Syra seems to have forgotten this thread I'll poke her for you lot about it.