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I havent felt the need to go out and level or get incarnate xp as Im waiting for Staff Fighting. :/

Dont say that! We havent found out April release is totally out have we?!

People have fear of spiders too.

True, but I think that has to do more with the general lack of +Resist bonuses. Something they could do is make the +3% Resist IO a +6% Resist IO. I still think if it was that much people would start wanting it more often.

But making more sets in general that grant decent +Resist ALL bonuses (likely in the 6th slot) I think would go along way in having people go alternate routes for builds besides +DEF set bonuses.

I of course admit, I could be wrong.

But part of that suggestion was from a team perspective as well. This change would help keep the lines between damage and survival (admittedly Brutes sometimes take the win in damage and survival due to things like Gloom...which btw Im not asking to be removed...though I did try really hard in GR to get Scrappers Gloom instead of Dark Blast ) more imo. A little overlap however is a good thing imo! It makes for nice differences in power combos.

Having a DB/WP at 50, I also know it doesnt take much +RCH bonuses to obtain the Blinding Fient -> Attack Vitals Combo -> Repeat for great ST DPS.

that's due to bad writing/lousy writing, and possibly players requests that "Wait! I want to be better than this and this signature NPC"

When without those signature NPCs this game would be boring. You still want those big names to go up against and slapping AV status on any random enemy isn't the same as one with even a bit of thought out background.

What the writing staff could start doing is writing it out and making them work! Showing them succeed.

Many ways to do this as well.

1) Heroes working along side (not for) the signature heroes and accomplishing a goal. The same with the villains.

2) Creating succeed or fail missions. Missions that when defeated keep you down baring certain powers...rez powers/awakens...and if one clicks Hospital, they can't reneter the mission.

3) Like #2 but improving the jail cells! If you get stuck in a jail cell you can't escape! However you can be broken out! And if the whole team is captured, kicked from mission and mission failure!

Personally, I think these would be awesome additions to CoH, but of course, I'm sure many would disagree.

Hover + Confront

A tactic that was effective back then as it is today.

It's just a tactic many don't care to use for various reasons...one of which seems to have been "That doesn't make me feel tough"

But then, failing the STF was so much better

I've been wanting to get fly into my build, maybe that's the way to do it! I might feel a bit dirty for awhile if I do tho. >_>;;

This is true, one of the reasons I was always saying the defense bonuses should of been straight +defense for AT IOs, as builds can vary the defense types. It could of at the very least gave the same amount of Melee defense as it does S/L defense.

To the OP, my suggestion was just basing it off you saying you're going for S/L defense. ToD and Oblit give the same amount of S/L Defense (less the the Scrapper ATO set), but Oblit has the +RCH bonus.

Another option if you're not in need of the +RCH bonus from the Scrapper ATO set, is to split the ATO set into 3's.

Replace the Kinetic Combat's (if you're level 50 and have the set catalyzed) and use three ToD or Mako's to fill in the enhancement values (maybe add another proc to the attacks) to obtain 1.5% +HP!

If you're maxed on the 1.5% +HP set bonuses (which I doubt sense you'd be replacing Kinetic Combats), use Crushing Impacts for the 1.12% +HP.

Doing that increases your S/L Defense from +7.5% to +10% and icreases your your +HP from +3% to +9%.

That's win win!

Quick thought on slotting...

SS: ACC/DMG, ACC/DMG/RCH, DMG/END/RCH & Mako's Bite: ACC/END/RCH, ACC/DMG/END/RCH, Proc

SS Remaining Three ATOs & Mako's Bite: ACC/DMG, ACC/DMG/END/RCH, Proc

Good enhancement values and you just added damage procs to the attacks that likely lacked them.

Is it an item that has seen testing in Beta or a suprise item not seen by players? As you say it's your favorite market offering, but outside of Staff Fighting, what was on beta that I saw was lacking in every way

Replace the ToD Set

Lacks added regen, like you say lacks the Smashing Resist, and gawd if it's DDR isn't to low and it's mez resist is an annoying clikie. :/

But yes, I've thought about using it in the place of what I want, but I always felt the low DDR didnt help with survival. Not wanting SR levels of DDR, but I felt NIN's for what it offered was to low.

Then strictly redside players would complain about the event being made co-op

While I'm not sure a high end build would be made purely of HOs (Im 99% sure they wouldn't), I could see people going after IOs and using them, and more of them, with the return of their original enhancement values.

Often times I have powers that I use regularly that have 1-2 slots that no set bonus is worth putting into the build.

Sure, I may look for such a set bonus, but in the grand scheme of things, not detrimental to the build. But added enhancement values! YES!

I already use some multi-aspect IOs to fill in some enhancement short comings, rolling back the original change to HOs would make them worth going after and putting into quite a few of those 5th and/or 6th slots!

That can wait untill after Staff Fighting is released and some awesome melee defense sets are made!

Hopefully more players do as you're doing. That way we avoid the "I bought this and I hate it!" posts.

Having tried it out on test myself, I found it meets my requirements...

1) Look awesome! The only thing lacking is an energy rod style staff!

2) Put out enough DPS to solo AVs (with a build built for it of course).

It met my checks