Carnifax

You'll be getting most of the Fitness pool anyway, Health fits right into a WP build, playing to it's strengths. So getting Stamina somewhere in the 30s isn't much of a stretch.

I'm currently playing a Dark Melee / WP and will be getting Health around level 30. Even though I've currently got Dark Consumption once I hit 35ish I may then respec Stamina in instead of it. Dark Melee is a nice combo for WP, you've a self-heal which is now one of your most damaging attacks. The lack of useful AOE is annoying though. I find myself picking on bosses and letting his minions cluster around me to fuel my +HP and power my Dark self-buffs (Dark Consumption and Soul Drain).

WAR is awful for the Christmas Tree effect, where you get tonnes of missions when you enter a new "hub". Some guys give you 3 or 4 quests alone.

Of course they did come up with PQs as well so I'll forgive them slightly.

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anyone heard about on-topic?

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No but once I was eating chips and one of the chips looked like Bono.

Sunglasses and all.

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The thing is the devs have changed weapons from a strait forward power to a costume part and to my vue if there gonna release a custom weapon for powers set they should do it for the others. Especially when the costume set there releasing would work very well with custom weapons.

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So you're saying "Rather than give us that nice new shiney, go back and make 6 other versions or we'll give out"?

Erm, do you secretly not want another custom weapon model of any sort ever again?

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wizard staff mace


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It better have a knob on the end.

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ill be a human/squid only no tanking at all (dont care what people say - im no tanker)


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I know you said you're not a Tanker but there are 2 other reasons to get Lobster

1) Mez Protection. If you get mezzed you can click lobster to break out of it. You need to stay in Lobster form until the mez goes away though.

2) Double Mire BOOM. Sunless Mire -> Lobster -> Mire -> Human form followed by Nuke or Unchain Essence is lovely

Other than that what Crick said.

Gravity Well is your single hardest hitting attack since it got buffed, it does great damage. 6 slot it (I went mostly with 3 Acc/Hold/Recharges, 2 Dam/Recharge and a Dam), love it.

Grav Emittiin is an excellent cone mez, at least 4 slots worth. It gives you plenty of time to do Eclipse -> Sunless Mire -> Squiddy Death From Above on a spawn.

You don't really need 6 slots in Stygian Circle, I have End Mod, End and a recharge in there and that's plenty.

Shield Charges damage for a scrapper is about 130% of a standard AOE from what I can see (based on Spin as it's the easiest to see the total damage)

The reason is because the Tank, Brute and Scrapper versions all do the same damage (because the damage bit actually comes from a common summoned invisible "pet"). So for the AT who's got the highest base damage it probably isn't as impressive as it is for Tanks.

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Try using Soul Drain then Shield Charge in the middle of a large spawn


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Pssst, he's a Broadsword/Shieldy.

But in a large Spawn Build-up + Against All Odds (scrappers do get more benefit from this compared to Tanks) + Shield Charge should work well too.

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The only time I'd see my Ill/Storm in melee is to affect enemies with -tohit +repel in a dead end or effect AVs with -range. Sands of Mu may get a look in but there is not much reason to be there.

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Absolutely.

Why *IS* your Illusion/Storm heading into melee at all? Most of your powers are ranged. The only reasons I can think of are what Shannon said, or maybe to pull off a Seismic Smash. It's not like a Fire/Rad or a Kin, where you benefit from being close up. Illusion/Storm has no real reason to be there.

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i constantly head into melee and unless i do something stupid i survive with insps and aid self

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Are you IOed up a bit though?

I know Carni can quite often get swiftly stunned and 2 hitted by nasty mobs (anything with NRG melee).

Of course you did use the "do nothing stupid" clause which probably rules me out

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This, if you really want to build a scraptroller type of controller. If on the other hand you want a pure ranged controller hurricane gives you some insane mitigation from melee opponents.

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How's a Scraptroller going to survive in melee without a nice ToHit debuff though, that'd be my main worry. Illusion doesn't have the nice hard often-up AOE control of say Fire. Spectral Terror is a great power and does have an (unenhancable) ToHit debuff but things can hit you back when you hit them. Storm lacks a self-heal for when things hit you and has a habit of making things scatter (so they'll eventually run out of Spectrals range). Firing off Aid Self in melee is tricky.

Not saying it's impossible to play a Illusion/Storm scraptroller but it'll be a toughie unless you IO up your melee defense or something.

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Note: Fissure is actually "Seismic Smash"


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Ooops, just caught this. Then you really want Fissure too if you're going Earth. Ok damage and some nice soft/unreliable control.

Psi is right, Earth is great for a scraptroller, my Fire/Rad uses it. But Hurricane makes it hard for you to be a scraptroller.

2 toggles before stamina is difficult, especially pre-SOs. You end up gasping a lot. Maybe move Steamy Mist into the 20s and get Stamina earlier. Ill/Storm is horrible for End.

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And if this hole is found then people claiming it to be a bug are false since the develepors woudnt accidentally add a hole which leads to Peregrine Island.


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Errr, what? That line makes no sense to me, Surely the only way any (sane) developer could add a hole that allows villains into a hero zone is via an accidental bug?

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I know this ain't a good drawing but lets see this as a beginning


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Jeez, if this is bad I can't wait to see good

Excellent work with all of the ones I've seen so far. Not a bad one amongst them.

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Nah, it just sucks how Scotland, Wales and Ireland all get days off on saints days, and England doesn't. Im quite patriotic, so I think it's a crying shame, dontcha know?

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Absolutely. I'd write to the Mail about it if I were you.

Delia Smith's birthday is 18th June, btw. Sounds like a decent midsummer day to me...

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My daughter shares her birthday with the Dark Queen of Egg Boiling?

Ok. I'm a bit scared now. *cue Omen music*

Blind is way undeslotted. You need Holds in there or you'll be having troubles with any boss really. Phantasm has 1 damage too many.

Hurl Boulder isn't the best really, Seismic Smash is a much better power IMO (not listed in Sucker Punchs builder because it's out of date), even if you have to get into melee to pull it off. I think Cold Mastery is a better option for a Ill/Storm : Hibernate (to heal and recover that precious End), Defense Shields, new high damaging Cone attack in Frost Breath & Ice Storm. Freezing Rain -> Ice Storm -> Frost Breath is a sick combo.

Once you get Hibernate you can basically get rid of Aid Self and replace Aid Other with the superior O2 Boost (O2 is great vs End draining enemies like Sappers and the LGTF Famine Rider). Hibernate is especially nice for you since you've so many pets and droppables which will continue to work away while you Hib up to heal and recover End.

Welcome back Dr Rock and the Rockettes.

(soz, that makes ye sound like a cheesy early 70s band)

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My suggestion, lower the activation times for sonic blasters.

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I'd agree that the 3rd single target blast, Shout, needs a quicker animation time, at the moment it's a bit slow. The others seem fine to me though.

Shouts animation needs to be fixed across the board though, not just for Blasters.

AAAAAH. The eyes. The horrible, cute eyes (except Coins which look evil).

Great work Psy, love the style used for them.

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So its a primary dependant on the secondary for damage output?


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It's a primary which sacrifices some of its own damage for extra damage in the secondary.

Combined with Frankenfury I actually think it's quite a neat mechanism, my Sonic/Elec is quite fun to play as a "Charge up and unleash" Blapper.

One trick I used over the weekend on a Custom Group story to lock the level range to 25-30 was to use another Custom Group with suitable levels of standard minions as the main enemy (I used Spectral Demons & Nerva Spectral Demons and called it Spirits as it suited the mission) and then using Patrols & Boss Objectives of the Custom Enemy to "Eat up" most of the Spectral spawns (I kept two of the Spirit spawns in for variety).

Initially I had used battles instead but they were over too quickly so all I ended up seeing half-defeated groups standing around. I might add one or two front-loaded battles in again for flavour but found Patrols were more useful (nice too because they can easily stumble across you as you're fighting a boss).

The lack of ability to set the Team Size when testing (as well as a lack of God Mode and Invis Mode settings) is really hurting testing the Custom Enemies too, very hard to know if they are well balanced for mid to large teams.

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That does not get you an 'empty map for RPing' unless someone goes in and clears all the static mobs you can't avoid having. All that does is state which kinds of triggered spawns there are. If you don't want them, you just don't create them. Unless I missed the 'don't create any static mobs' option somewhere.

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Hmm, from reading that thread I think it does, it creates exactly the same sort of "map is empty until trigger is pulled" map you get on the Nocturena Dam ambush mish, which is entirely empty of everything until the glowie is pressed.

Then all the patrols and the static mobs pop into place.

Just on the "empty map for RPing" thing there is this quote from PohSyb which might be of use to you guys.

Just remember to tell everyone not to touch the glowie button of doom.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showf...=#Post13208597

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Can I make a mission that doesn't spawn anything until you trigger some kind of event, like the trap for Nocturne in the Faultline Dam, and if so, how do I achieve that? I don't seem to have any control over regular spawns, other than saying what enemy group they are.


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There are two main spawn types in most missions. One is used for ambush, boss, patrol or destroy object details, the other is used for battle, rescue, escort, ally, or defend object details. (Some maps have additional spawntypes that are not overrideable by the MA).

Lets pretend you picked a map with 15 of the first type and 15 of the second type. If you wanted it to be empty until your trap is hatched, you could add a patrol detail with quantity 15 and and a battle detail with quantity 15. Next, add a collection detail and have both the patrol and battle trigger on completion of the collection.


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This states that Stoney has had Hurl Boulder removed... I am curious about this. I have a low level Earth troller, and not got Stoney yet, but in game it clearly shows he still has Hurl boulder when you inspect his power at the trainer... Can someone confirm... is this just not been changed in game to reflect it. Basically... does he still have Hurl Boulder or not?

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Hmmm. Brain fart on my part, City of Data seems to indicate he still has it too. I know he was given Seismic Smash instead of another power a while back and his AI was improved so I assumed it was the ranged power they removed to encourage him to get into melee but it looks like I was wrong, they must have done something else to make him melee-happy. Soz!

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Fething Pats day.
Honestly, the whole world celebrates it. Why? Cos its a great excuse to get drunk..
No one remembers St Georges Day. Not even the English, and hes our fething patron saint! /despair

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That's your own fault for 800 years of imperialism


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I'm not certain Techbot was directly responsible for that. Probably heavily implicated in it, though.

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Are you sure? I'm pretty sure I remember being told of the great Techbot invasion of the 1400s in history class. I believe they were after our supplies of lugnuts and oil.

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Mu Vestment

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Only ever had this drop ONCE for me Rarest drop ingame imo! Makes this damz sad

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Go hunt. Kil Zombies.

(DA is a great place to get em).

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Fething Pats day.
Honestly, the whole world celebrates it. Why? Cos its a great excuse to get drunk..
No one remembers St Georges Day. Not even the English, and hes our fething patron saint! /despair

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That's your own fault for 800 years of imperialism

Everyone loves the lovable *** who mightn't be good for much but is great craic. And now that the Celtic Tiger has expired we can go back to being twee bog men who love a jar and sing seanos at the drop of a cloth cap.

*breaks out his Darby O'Gill costume*