ClawsandEffect

Don't get hung up on defense in PvP. Unless you are playing a set that has powers giving Elusivity, defense is basically worthless in PvP.

Why? Everyone with a decent PvP build has accuracy and To-hit out the wazoo. It is a safe assumption that anyone you fight will be able to punch through any defense you have.

For a PvP scrapper build you want 3 things:

High HP, either at the cap, or very close to it.
Resistance.
A way to heal yourself. (though very high regen rates can work somewhat)

Out of the possibilities you listed there, I would go with Fire/Regen. Make sure you have perma-DP capability and a bunch of recharge. Go with either Blaze Mastery for theme or Leviathan Mastery for Hibernate. (a /Regen with Hibernate is basically impossible to kill)

Whatever APP you have, make sure it has a mez power in it. You want some way of shutting off an offensive toggle, or any Rad you run across will make short work of you. You also want TWO travel powers, SJ and SS. Mostly because everyone else with have them, and you'll never catch anyone to kill them if you don't too.

This.

Any set that has KB protection built into it almost always has KB resistance as well.

At 10,000% resistance, You could be hit with every KB power in the game at once and it would reduce the magnitude of all that down below where 10 points of KB protection would stop it.

Thought that might be the case, which is why I mentioned it in my reply.

Your wording was a little confusing though. If you had replaced the word "Have" with "Do" at the tail end of the sentence I quoted, your meaning would have been more clear.

Blast: Dual Pistols. Cool looking if you like gun-fu, but the damage is pretty low.

Manipulation: As much as I love it, I have to agree Devices is the worst one. Not by a whole lot though.

Control: For me, it's Ice. My wife says Mind.

Buff/Debuff: Trick Arrow.

Defense Sets: Stone Armor. Other sets can attain equal survivability, without the drawbacks of Granite.

Melee: Energy Melee or Ice Melee.

Pets: Ninjas or Mercenaries.

Really? You never said that?

So someone else must have typed this:

When you say someone is unintelligent, you are politely saying they are stupid.

"Those who build properly should never be ostracized because other people did it wrong" I think that speaks for itself.

Dude, you can say whatever you like, and defend what you said all you like. But don't act like you never said it when someone calls you on it.

I can be just as harsh as anyone else on these forums, but when I say something I stand by it and defend it if need be. I've never tried to say that I never said something, especially when what I said was less than 2 pages prior to my denial.

You're Super Strength if I recall correctly?

A second build might be what you need.

Hurl and Fossilize from Stone Mastery are pretty decent ranged attacks for a tank. If you can somehow ground a ranged attacker long enough to joust them with KO Blow you could get a couple kills that way too.

Also, if you're dealing with attackers that fly, Air Superiority is what you need. I believe between Fossilize and Air Suuperiority you should be able to ground a flyer quite handily and pummel them into the dirt.

You can also use a Jet Pack and put your opponent on follow. It's pretty hard to dodge someone who is following your every move exactly.

Melee generally doesn't fare well against ranged attackers, but there are things you can do to even the odds a little bit.

Unfortunately, my computer is down right now, so I won't be able to join the fun

And I bet you're wrong.

Buying influence from RMTers is an activity that I would not suspect very many of the posters in this thread of doing. If any at all.

If you meant that most of the people reading that know someone who has, you are probably correct in that.

But if you truly meant that most people have bought influence, I would wager you are mistaken in that.

So, if I choose to build a character differently from how you would build it.....

.....I'm doing it wrong and am therefore an unintelligent builder?

I'm having difficulty expressing how I feel about that sentiment. "Get stuffed" comes pretty close though.

So, get stuffed.

I'm perfectly capable of building my characters to any build goal or metric I see fit. If you think that makes me "wrong", well you're entitled to your opinion on that.

Just as I'm entitled to the opinion that your opinion makes you an idiot.

Take care, champ.

Probably the best way to describe why CoH has succeeded I've seen yet. CoH isn't a huge game. We don't have 11 million players. We don't have TV commercials running during what the developers think are the kind of shows our player base would watch.

What we DO have is an intensely loyal playerbase. Look at the number of forum posters here with a registration date of 2006 or earlier. And a lot of those posters have a large post count. That means those people have been here for a long time. Most other MMOs don't have that kind of longevity out of their players. They get a couple years out of them and the raid-grind burnout sets in and they move on.

Here, you see stories on the forums of people who kept their subscription active, even when they had no intention of playing at all for months at a time. Why did they do that? Because they wanted to do their part to make sure the game was still here when they wanted to come back to it. You can't buy that kind of loyalty to a game.

In spite of our occasional complaints about how things are done, most of us have to admit that the devs have done something right with this game. Even the most disagreeable posters have to admit it, because they are still here despite all their complaints. Part of it stems from the fact that OUR devs will pop on themselves and explain why something was changed. A lot of other games will have seemingly random nerfs happening with no explanation whatsoever.

Our devs also listen to us. That's exceptionally rare in an MMO. I've seen player suggestions actually put into the game. That's pretty rare in an MMO. Our devs are more like the guy behind the counter at Starbucks than they are the faceless CEO. And they play the game too, so they have an interest in making sure the game is fun.

There are a lot of contributing factors. Even for the occasional jerkwad on the forums (sometimes it's me), ours are some of the friendliest forums you'll ever find for a video game. I perused the forums for a certain game developed by Big Snowstorm and was wondering why anyone in their right mind would ever come there to ask a question. "Lrn2ply" is considered the height of wittiness over there, as though the people saying it are blissfully unaware that by asking questions the people they're berating are TRYING to "lrn2ply". To those douchecanoes I say: "lrn2use VOWELS"

All in all, our playerbase is a little more mature than most MMOs. And I don't necessarily mean that they are older. Just that our players, for the most part, don't act like petulent children on a regular basis. And the ones who DO behave like children here are the exception, rather than the rule.

But costumes are one of the things in the Paragon Market that the devs know are pretty safe to charge for.

We're been happily paying a little extra for new costume pieces for a long time now, via super boosters prior to the market. As long as the prices don't get much higher than they are now, we'll remain happy with it. $5 for a costume set is reasonable, when you consider that the Super Boosters were $10 a pop.

There really aren't any pay to win arguments that can be made for costume pieces being purchasable. They do need to release a few new textures and pieces for free too though.

This.

Becoming a Hero again doesn't grant a reward.

Remaining a Hero after your next alignment mission will give you 50 merits.

Every Alignmement mission after that will give you a Hero Merit.

The only time a Hero alignment mission grants Merits of any kind is if you were a Hero to begin with. If you were a Rogue and switched to Hero it gives you none.

Without. Definitely without.

It sounds like the guy's last name is Smith, and Piston is a nickname he acquired somewhere along the line.

I'm sure I'd end up bouncing on and off the list too, depending on what mood I'm in when I post.

I'm feeling moderately belligerant today, so I might be on it more than not.

3 words:

Perma Light Form.

Status protection, and your resistance to everything is at its cap of 85%.

As an added bonus, getting to that point also enables you to have the PB's Dull Pain clone perma as well, which means your HP will be capped at 2409, just like a scrapper.

I know, it takes IOs to do it, but not a bunch of purples and stuff. It's actually pretty reasonable cost-wise.

Not liking them is a matter of preference, I'm just pointing out that half of the things you don't like about them are solvable with little to moderate effort. The damage scalar and too many powers we're stuck with though.