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Okay, here's what I did:
Put 3 Superior Scrapper's Strike in Dragon's Tail and Crippling Axe Kick. I left the Eradications in Dragon's Tail and put 3 Pounding Slugfest in CAK.
Swapped a couple of the Reactive Armors with Aegis.
Put a Kismet +Acc in Combat Jumping.
Put 5 Hecatombs in Thunder Kick (The Kinetic Combat that was in there is now unnecessary)
Turned Accolades on and swapped the Alpha slot with Spiritual.
End result:
Your recharge is the same, accuracy is better.
S/L/E/N are now all soft-capped, and F/C is at 41.9%.
You have 2265 Max HP. Swapping to Spiritual also bumped up your Regen to 695% with one in range of RttC.
I did a few other things, which I'm sure you'll notice.
I don't think I can get it much better than I did here. Annoyed that I couldn't soft-cap Fire and Cold as well, but it's damn close. The only thing you lost that I can see is about 2% resistance to S/L.
Oh, and your recovery is now at 5.15 from 4.12 (+End from accolades I think, because I didn't do anything special with it)
Here's the build:
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The Mighty Pi (Build 2): Level 50 Magic Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Martial Arts
Secondary Power Set: Willpower
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Speed
Ancillary Pool: Body Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Thunder Kick -- Hectmb-Dmg(A), Hectmb-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(3), Hectmb-Acc/Rchg(3), Hectmb-Dmg/EndRdx(5), Hectmb-Dam%(5)
Level 1: High Pain Tolerance -- Aegis-ResDam(A), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(7), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(7), Numna-Heal/Rchg(9), Numna-Heal(9), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(11)
Level 2: Cobra Strike -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(11), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(13), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(13), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(15), Mako-Acc/Dmg(15)
Level 4: Fast Healing -- Numna-Heal(A), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(17), RgnTis-Regen+(17)
Level 6: Mind Over Body -- RctvArm-ResDam(A), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(23), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(23), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(25), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(25)
Level 8: Storm Kick -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(27), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(27), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(29), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(29), Mako-Acc/Dmg(31)
Level 10: Indomitable Will -- LkGmblr-Def(A), LkGmblr-Rchg+(31)
Level 12: Crane Kick -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(31), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(33), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(33), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(33), Mako-Acc/Dmg(34)
Level 14: Combat Jumping -- Ksmt-ToHit+(A), LkGmblr-Rchg+(34)
Level 16: Rise to the Challenge -- HO:Golgi(A), HO:Golgi(34), HO:Golgi(36)
Level 18: Crippling Axe Kick -- SScrappersS-Acc/Dmg(A), SScrappersS-Dmg/Rchg(36), SScrappersS-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(36), P'ngS'Fest-Acc/Dmg(37), P'ngS'Fest-Dmg/EndRdx(37), P'ngS'Fest-Dmg/Rchg(37)
Level 20: Quick Recovery -- P'Shift-End%(A), P'Shift-EndMod(39), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(39)
Level 22: Super Jump -- Winter-ResSlow(A)
Level 24: Boxing -- Empty(A)
Level 26: Dragon's Tail -- Erad-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(A), Erad-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(39), Erad-%Dam(40), SScrappersS-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(40), SScrappersS-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(40), SScrappersS-Rchg/+Crit(42)
Level 28: Tough -- Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(A), Aegis-ResDam(42), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(42), GA-3defTpProc(43)
Level 30: Heightened Senses -- LkGmblr-Def(A), LkGmblr-Rchg+(43), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(45)
Level 32: Weave -- LkGmblr-Def(A), LkGmblr-Rchg+(43)
Level 35: Eagles Claw -- C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg(A), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx(45), C'ngImp-Dmg/Rchg(45), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(46), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(46)
Level 38: Conserve Power -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 41: Maneuvers -- LkGmblr-Def(A), LkGmblr-Rchg+(46)
Level 44: Spring Attack -- Erad-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(A), Erad-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(48), Erad-%Dam(48), C'ngBlow-Acc/Dmg(48), C'ngBlow-Dmg/Rchg(50), C'ngBlow-Acc/Rchg(50)
Level 47: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(50)
Level 49: Physical Perfection -- P'Shift-End%(A)
Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Critical Hit
Level 1: Prestige Power Dash -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Prestige Power Slide -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Prestige Power Quick -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Prestige Power Rush -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Prestige Power Surge -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Run-I(A)
Level 2: Rest -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 4: Swift -- Run-I(A)
Level 4: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Numna-Heal(19), Mrcl-Rcvry+(19)
Level 4: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 4: Stamina -- P'Shift-End%(A), P'Shift-EndMod(21), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(21)
Level 50: Agility Core Paragon
Level 0: Freedom Phalanx Reserve
Level 0: Portal Jockey
Level 0: Task Force Commander
Level 0: The Atlas Medallion
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Quote:For your build, I would put half of it into Dragon's Tail, with the other half of the power being slotted with Eradication.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
I'll take a serious look at splitting the Scrapper's Strike setup as well. Not sure if I will. Any suggestions for BEST power choice for the proc?
It doesn't really matter where you put the other half of the set, but I would slot the rest of whichever power you choose with Smashing Haymaker ( or whichever set it is that gives you 1.25% E/N defense for 3 of them.) If you haven't discovered it on your own: You MUST put the set into one of your primary powers, pool powers won't take them. (Secondary powers will work too if they deal damage, but that's not relevant to your case here)
You can then move a set of Kinetic Combat to Boxing if you can scrounge up 3 spare slots. That's what I did with my main and I managed to soft-cap S/L on a Claws/Regen scrapper, while not giving up my perma-DP and ~750% passive regen.
I would also consider slotting Spiritual Alpha instead as well. The extra recharge will help your attack chain, and the healing will help ALL of your regeneration/Max HP powers.
(I think I can improve your second build a little bit, I'll play around with it tonight and see if I can) -
Also, as far as losing rights to trademarked characters goes. No one was saying that there is a chance in hell Marvel was going to lose the rights to Captain America or Iron Man, they are too iconic and they have both appeared too recently to possibly fit the non use rul in trademark law.
However, there are literally hundreds of lesser Marvel characters that have not appeared in any media in more than 5 years. 5 years is the cut-off point for the non-use clause in trademark laws to take effect. It is quite literally a "use it or lose" it deal. If you hold a trademark and do not use it for anything for a certain length of time, it is possible that anyone who uses it other than you will be awarded the rights to it.
A character like Trapster (AKA Paste Pot Pete), an almost forgotten Marvel B-List villain is a good example. He has not made an appearance in any Marvel publication in at least 15 years. The trademark rights to that character could very easily fall into the "non use" crack in trademark law.
Marvel wasn't the slightest bit worried about its flagship characters, no judge on Earth is going to award the rights to Spider-Man to a video game company because someone made a copy of him.
But they had a valid reason to be concerned about losing some of its B and C listers that haven't been used in a while. And all they had to do to protect them was file a lawsuit. Whether they won or lost the suit itself, the act of filing it counts as defending their trademarks, and it would be a LOT harder for a third party to win the rights from them. -
Quote:This character better be using the pool cueOriginally Posted by 4_Thirty_5
* Masse (After Staff Fighting release)
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Quote:Actually, I think it was intentional, because of the word it produces.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Also, I am SO using the term "automagically." I know it's just a typo, but the word it produces is actually very cool
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If you split the Superior Scrapper's Strike between 2 powers you can get an additional 5% S/L defense and 3% Max HP.
You can't get those kind of numbers outside a purple set, and there is no such defense bonus in any purple set.
I'll play with it when I get home and see what I can do. Even though I don't have a high level WP scrapper, I somehow know the set very well. -
A tank can hit the Incarnate soft-cap on virtually every set available to them.
Only Shield, SR, and Invuln can do the same on the brute side without gimping the rest of their build to do it.
A Shield, SR, or Invuln tank will hit the Incarnate soft-cap almost by accident.
The difference in base values makes more of a difference than a lot of people would have you believe.
Example: I have a Dark Armor tank build that hits 90% resistance to Smashing, Lethal, Negative Energy, and Psionic damage. A brute flat out cannot do the same unless it uses Barrier. The tank on the other hand, can choose any Destiny it wants because the resistance is already capped. -
Well, doing the hero TFs in level range is usually a good start. They will also provide badges you need for other Accolades (Tank Buster from Sister Psyche, Gearsmasher from Positron or Synapse).
And you can start working on the first TF sooner than everything but the exploration badges required for the others. -
Quote:It wouldn't happen quite THAT fast.Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
There is no reason to make the entire game FREE... otherwise...within a few months there would be ... no game.
It would require at least a year's worth of Paragon giving crappy profit reports NCSoft.
But your basic point is valid. If the devs gave everything away for nothing, the game would cease to exist much sooner than it will with the current business model.
I for one, am fairly satisfied with the VIP/Premium/Free setup. If anything, I think there should be a few more things that are VIP exclusive and Freebies should have a way to communicate easier (coming in i23 from what I understand). -
Quote:Don't forget that for accounts old enough to have a global it was also MUCH harder to level a character, and they may have left when the level cap was still 40.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
If they're inactive so long that they *don't have a global,* then anything under 35 is freed up - and don't forget, for accounts *that* old, they'd also have a maximum of 8 characters on a server
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Quote:Exactly this.Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
If Marvel won, then DC would have been fine. If Marvel had lost, then the courts basically would have been ruling that NCSoft wasn't at fault for what their users did, even if it meant making copyrighted characters. If they settled, there would likely be some sort of agreement that protected copyright holders (which is exactly what happened).
Basically, either Marvel or DC had to sue, but both of them didn't. Marvel just got their first. DC would have been stupid to sue until the outcome of that trial/settlement had been known, because otherwise they'd just be wasting money. If the lawsuit had continued, and Marvel lost, DC would have likely sued anyways, even knowing they would have also likely lost, because they would have had to have been appearing to defend their copyrights.
DC was waiting to see how the Marvel suit turned out before taking action. -
My wife got: White Lie
And I created her counterpart: Black Truth -
Quote:I have to agree with this.Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
I played the game for years before IO's came out.
I probably played for 3 months thinking that Steel was high level.
Free players have a ton of content and things to do and can play for a long time. If you ruin the game for them by convincing them that leveling as fast as you can and playing in godmode is what is fun, then you have ruined the game for them - not F2P.
And this is patently false.Quote:Simply allowing free players or just premiums players the ability to use IOs wount hurt in any way, but only improve it for everyone
The more things the devs give away for free, the less incentive there is to give them any money at all. Contrary to what some people seem to believe, games require money to remain active.
Currently, a free player who wants to use IOs has to spend something on the game. Even if it's just the $2 for the license. Give them that for free and suddenly you have a whole lot of people who would have spent $2 spending nothing at all. Give them Incarnate access for free, and an even larger part of the playerbase has no reason to spend any money.
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Quote:Really?Originally Posted by PoisonHeart
it doesnt necessaraly "encourage" you to go VIP as it well forces you to, yes its free 2 play but you have to pay 2 win, theres nothing really good about playing free if your not having fun.
They came to your house and put a gun to your head?
And it's not a free to play game. It never was, and it was never marketed as one.
It's a subscription game that happens to have a free play option.
Tell me....how much do you get for free at say....a movie theater? How many video games does Walmart give you without charging?
How much do you get for $0 in ANY type of entertainment other than online gaming?
The above attitude just baffles me. How the hell can someone feel justified about complaining that they aren't given enough stuff for absolutely $0 out of their pocket?
You weren't forced to resubscribe. You chose to do so of your own volition. Being forced to would imply that you had no choice in the matter. But you had 3 choices: Subscribe, play for free, and go play something else instead. You chose to subscribe. -
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wish I could return to the CoH before freedom And you get MORE for it than you did before.Quote:Originally Posted by Sparkly Soldier
But you can, by subscribing as a VIP. It's the same price as before.
You get 400 free points per month to spend on whatever. You get a free server transfer (which would have cost you $10 if you weren't subscribed). You get free access to Going Rogue and the SSAs ($35 and $70 respectively)
Between JUST the free points and the server transfer, if you are paying in blocks of a year...the devs are actually paying YOU to play the game. That's because the stuff you get for free would cost you more than the price of your subscription if you decided to play for free.
So, if you're one of the people whining that you don't get enough for FREE: Just......shut up. You're being an idiot.
I direct you to as recently as 9 months ago.
What did you get from Paragon Studios for free then?
That's right....you got NOTHING. No pay = no play.
But, you can now play the game without spending a single red cent on it..which you could never do before.
And that's not enough?!?!?
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Quote:Because I hate them.
Why aren't you playing a Mastermind
'Nuff said.
I can't stand the playstyle, and I hate being a buff bot to stupid teams. And a Mastermind's pets are a REALLY stupid team. -
I forgot the name I was most amazed I got.
On Pinnacle: Hothead -
You can soft-cap S/L without gimping yourself, so I imagine you could hit 32.5% to all 4 as well.
Without gimping yourself that is. -
Quote:When they figure out how to not have Quills build fury with each tick.
When will brutes get spines?
It's kind of an issue. Secondary powers don't build fury, and all damage auras currently available to brutes are in secondaries. I don't know if they can adjust that on a per power basis, but Quills building fury would be a little broken.
It's similar to how Quills is the only damage aura scrappers get that will land critical hits.
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Also:
Enhancement settings > Set Relative Levels > +5.
There is a setting in the top bar of the program that will let you set the relative levels of all your slotted enhancements at once. You should be able to find it yourself. The setting you want is "Enhancement Relative Levels" -
Quote:I beg to differ.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Again, you CANNOT re-create Marvel IP with any specificity using this game engine (aside from our pal The Hulk).
I have personally used the character creator to copy Gambit, Captain America, Deadpool, Ghost Rider, Thor, The Hulk, the Thing, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Cyclops, Rogue, and several other characters that aren't coming to mind right now with probably 80% accuracy, and closer to 95% on some of them.
They weren't perfect, and the only one I ever logged into the game was Captain America (I named the character EULA Violation as a joke, and deleted him an hour or so later), but every last one of them was close enough to be blatant trademark infringement.
If you really want, I could post screenshots proving how close you can come to trademarked characters. But I would rather not, as doing so would probably be a violation itself. -
Quote:Here is the relevant passage from Wikipedia. I could have used the passage from the Columbia School of Law instead, but this one is much easier to understand. I bolded the relevant parts of that.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
this gets trotted out every time, and it's still frivolous.
Marvel sued because they're litigious j-holes, not because they were afraid some guy with a generic red & blue costume named SPYDAR-MAAAAAN was going to jack their IP.
NC took adequate steps to prevent genuine infringement by simply not including costume options allowing direct copies (again, excepting the Hulk). I don't remember if the name filter was in place at launch or not, but it neatly resolves the problem of direct copy names.
Marvel was being a bully because they have a corporate owner with legal staff on salary and thought they were going to make their own MMO.
It illustrates that NCSoft WAS guilty of trademark infringement, even though they were not intentionally doing so.Quote:If a trademark has been registered, then it is much easier for the trademark owner to demonstrate its trademark rights and to enforce these rights through an infringement action. Unauthorized use of a registered trademark need not be intentional in order for infringement to occur, although damages in an infringement lawsuit will generally be greater if there was an intention to deceive.
For trademarks which are considered to be well known, infringing use may occur where the use occurs in relation to products or services which are not the same as or similar to the products or services in relation to which the owner's mark is registered. A growing area of law relating to the enforcement of trademark rights is secondary liability, which allows for the imputation of liability to one who has not acted directly to infringe a trademark but whose legal responsibility may arise under the doctrines of either contributory or vicarious liability.
The same article also covers losing trademark rights through non-use of said trademark. What that means is, if Marvel had NOT sued NCSoft, the rights to any characters which had not appeared in any publication or movie/TV show within the last 5 years would have been in jeopardy if someone had created that character within the game.
Here's the full article if you want to read it for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark
It says essentially the same thing as law school textbooks, but it's in plain English instead of legal jargon. -
Quote:Same here.Originally Posted by Agent White
I tend to craft a common from shards, then a T2 from thread stuff, then a T3 from shards.
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Quote:No, actually it wasn't.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
It was absolutely frivolous.
By the wording of NCSoft's EULA, any character created within the game is their property, with all associated rights.
Now, it is worded like that so players cannot get upset if one of their characters is used in a screenshot promoting the game.
Marvel's stance on that is that, by the wording of the EULA stating that a created character is NCSoft's property, anytime someone creates a character that is trademarked by Marvel (or anyone else), they (NCSoft) are claiming ownership of said character.
The way trademark law works, if Marvel had NOT pursued litigation, there is a very real (but also very remote) possibility that they could lose the trademark rights to the character in question.
So the lawsuit wasn't frivolous, Marvel really had no choice in the matter if they wanted to protect their trademarks. -
I got Sound Logic on Pinnacle. He's a Sonic/Mental Blaster.
Umbra Sentinel is my DA/Staff Tanker, also on Pinnacle.
Arc Nemesis is my Electric/Energy Stalker.
I have Living Conductor and Power Conductor (Electric/WP Brute and SS/Electric Brute respectively)
Patriot Steel, my Street Justice/Shield scrapper. (Yes, he's a Captain America homage)