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  1. DSorrow
    Let's see... I'll assume 95% damage enhanced for both of them. Did some quick calculations and I'd say you need about 24% Fury in order to match it with that kind of +Damage on the tank.

    I'll verify it on paper, though.

    X: random attack's base damage scale
    F: fury

    Tank damage = brute damage
    X * (1 + 0.95 + 0.29 + 0.8) * 0.8 = X * (1 + 0.95 + 0.8 + 0.02 * F) * 0.75
    3.04 * 0.8 = (2.75 + 0.02 * F) * 0.75
    3.04 * 1.067 = 2.75 + 0.02 * F
    F = (3.04 * 1.067 - 2.75) / 0.02
    F = 24.684, round it up to 25% Fury.

    Note: numbers deviate slightly from GuyPerfect's calculations because I assumed you had damage enhanced to the ED cap.
  2. DSorrow
    I'd still prefer Carp Melee. Preferably with dual carps.
  3. DSorrow
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SPiNE View Post
    You can do it! Just BELIEVE!!
    I tried and failed
  4. DSorrow
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by PhroX View Post
    Do they seriously think the game plays significantly differently with purples?
    Then there's always the thing that you often end up with better builds if you use uncommon and rare sets intelligently rather than just pour purple IOs into your build in order to make it teh ubah.

    Oh, and it doesn't cost even nearly as much that way.
  5. DSorrow
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SPiNE View Post
    Hey guys, I've been making so many different alts ever since I came back to CoH about a month ago that I pretty much filled up 2 empty servers already. I've made some pretty fun toons but it still doesn't feel like I've made one that I really wanted to play. It's time I ask for some input from the community, please help!

    Please post the most enjoyable toon that you've ever played. I know it's hard to narrow it down to one, but please do. I don't want your top 2, I don't want your top one from each archetype, I don't want your favorite villain and your favorite hero, just post one and I will make whichever one that sounds good to me.

    Also, there is no "it depends on what your style of play is, each archetype and powersets function differently." I can play anything and fill in any role on a team. I may PvE or PvP or solo or team as well, it really doesn't matter. Just post your favorite :]

    Thanks!
    But that's just impossible! How am I supposed to be able to choose from my ~15 characters I liked enough to use hundreds of millions of inluence (and that's for each of them) to IO them out!?
  6. DSorrow
    I'm not sure what of the following doesn't quite add up, so I'd like someone to help point out to me what's wrong with this:

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    I want ultra-rare items to be available for everyone at a low price, so that everyone could buy them instantly should they want them.
  7. DSorrow

    crit Chance in PvP

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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Umbral View Post
    The standard chance to crit against players is 5%. Some powers have higher chances to crit (Storm Kick has a 10% chance, Eviscerate has a 15% chance). Where Scrappers are concerned, you have the same chance to crit against players as you do against minions.
    Oh, I would've expected the same crit chance that we have against higher ranking enemies, considering most players pose a higher threat than a minion.
  8. DSorrow
    Quote:
    Combat Jumping - endurance efficient, allows a proc in shockwave
    I'm not sure why you're using the Javelin Volley proc instead of the one in Posiblast. First of all, the Javelin proc will cost loads more than the Posi and will have worse availability, and second it uses a worse damage type (Lethal vs. Energy) meaning it'll be resisted more often resulting in lesser overall damage output.
  9. DSorrow
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect View Post
    Combat Jumping.

    You'll get more mileage out of it than Stealth.

    Stealth A) slows down your movement, and B) suppresses half of it's defense in combat.

    Combat Jumping actually speeds your movement up and doesn't suppress anything.

    Both will allow you to slot a LotG, so you should take Combat Jumping because it has most of the advantages of Stealth, with none of the drawbacks.
    And there's also the possibility to slot CJ with the Jump Set: Stealth IO, making it better than or as good as Stealth in every single way.
  10. DSorrow
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tangler View Post
    Try slapping in 2-3 range IOs in your Frostbreath. I find that that bit much more range/area coverage changes it from a "meh too positional" power into a "ohsnap look at all those orange numbers" power.
    Damage/Range HOs (Centriole I think?) would be even better, and they don't even cost that much.
  11. DSorrow
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by UberGuy View Post
    I mostly save it for rainy days, where I define a rainy day as a day where I decide I want something really expensive right damn now. Then I spend a bunch of it, and eventually go back earning it again.
    Pretty much this.
  12. DSorrow
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Havoc_X View Post
    Cute. Very childish, but cute. Seems like you are the one that needs to grow up, or at least pull your head out.
    Rather than concentrate on personal insults and fighting, I'd like you to answer the following questions you have conveniently skipped, and still claim that the market is broken.

    1) How exactly is the market broken? Is it broken because the player who doesn't want to put time into understanding the system, can't make it work for him, and those who do, can?

    2) How would price caps help this? Would they make item availability better? Lower all prices to [insert price cap here]?
  13. DSorrow

    spines/elec

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    That's some good advice Claws.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect View Post

    You could put Enfeebled Operation in Impale (I wouldn't, slot it for damage instead)
    You could actually go around this in a way, something close to frankenslotting. If you slot Impale like this (lvl 50 recipes):

    Enfeebled Operation: Accuracy/Recharge
    Enfeebled Operation: Endurance/Immobilize
    Enfeebled Operation: Accuracy/Endurance
    Enfeebled Operation: Accuracy/Immobilize/Recharge
    Invention: Damage
    Invention: Damage

    You'll get 70% Accuracy, 83% Damage along with 50%'ish End/Rech and some Immob duration to boot. And you also snag that tasty 2.5% S/L bonus, plus some NE resistance which Elec lacks.
  14. DSorrow
    Personally, I'd choose Stone Melee out of the secondary options you gave. Mostly because Stone adds to Elec's mitigation via knockdowns (Fault really makes a difference), and because Elec helps with Stone's endurance costs and Recharge.

    As for what's skippable, out of Elec the only thing I'd actually skip is Power Surge (mainly because I don't like the crash) and maybe even Grounded, but it provides a good chunk of NE resistance.

    I don't have the time currently to line out an entire build with IO sets (focusing on S/L Defense, which should work for you), but these are the powers I'd pick.

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  15. DSorrow
    Here's what I used on my Fire/kin before retiring it. Cheap and effective.

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  16. DSorrow
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by TrueMetal View Post
    Use your imagination and pretend that's the way it works.
    I don't think that's really a good idea anymore with the power customization we already have on other sets. It would be like saying "well, imagine it's green" to someone playing a theoretical set which used the same animations as legacy Fire Blast, but couldn't be colour customized.
  17. DSorrow

    crit Chance in PvP

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    I'm fairly sure it is 10%.
  18. DSorrow
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect View Post
    The problem is, in asking to be unique in appearance you are asking the animation team to do literally years of work.

    Every animation that is made for the game has to be made 6 times: male standing, female standing, huge standing, male flying, female flying, huge flying. If you want 5 options for your power animation that increases it to 30 animations. For ONE power. Now add the other 8 powers and you have 270 animations for one powerset alone. But of course they can't do just one powerset...they have to do them ALL, or people will complain that "this powerset got new animations, why didn't mine?!"

    What you're asking for would basically prevent the animation department from working on any NEW powersets for several years at least. You could have exactly what you want....if you don't mind waiting until 2013 and getting nothing new until then.

    It's not that the devs don't want to give us more options, it's that doing so is a crap-ton of work for them to do.
    Add to that, each of the new animations would have to take exactly the same time as the old ones making things even more complicated. I don't even want to think of how long it would take to do that...
  19. DSorrow
    What if the OP wants to have a character who doesn't turn invisible, but rather blends into crowds to allow "stealth"? I would like to have this ability, because the lack of it is one of the reasons I pretty much never play characters with stealth or invisibility.
  20. DSorrow

    Ss/ela

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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by OneWhoBinds View Post
    I guess we just look at things differently.

    For me, I only worry about Recharge if I find myself with pauses in my attack chain. If I don't have an attack available in combat, something is wrong. Once I hit that point? Anything more is gravy and often wasted.

    As for Energize... I don't treat Energize as a buff I want to keep up. It is a panic button. Something to hit when I'm in trouble. If I find I have to hit it every spawn - or more - then again, something is wrong. Either I'm taking on too much at once, or I've screwed up something in my build. If everything is going right, I should almost never have to fire Energize.

    So yeah, maybe I'm not taking on +4/+8 with AVs active. But if that's you're goal, then you probably already know what you need to survive it..
    I'd go on to point out that it's a different thing having enough attacks to always have one available, and to have enough recharge so that a good attack is always available. Sure, you can easily run a gapless attack chain on something like Dark Melee, filling in with Shadow Punch and Shadow Maul, but you'd do much better if you just cranked out the recharge and only actually used Smite, Siphon Life and Midnight Grasp.

    As for Energize? I'm not actually sure how to treat that. My DB/Elec is only level 34 at the moment and doesn't have the recharge to run it perma for the -End/+Regen, so I'm mostly using it as a heal with added benefits. My planned build doesn't concentrate on recharge much, because Energize would be about the only thing to actually benefit from it.

    I'd never consider being able to solo +4/x8 a goal. This is mostly because I don't enjoy soloing that as much as I do +0/x8. I feel much more powerful mowing down weaker enemies FAST than I do mowing down powerful enemies at a decent pace. But as someone else pointed out, we roll up powerful builds in order to play on higher difficulty settings, so if spamming Energize is what enables us to do it, contrary to how you feel, all's well.
  21. DSorrow

    Heal for SD?

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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Warkupo View Post
    Why not Aid Self? Then you'd have it all~
    Because that wouldn't let him be overpowered beyond what we can imagine. Taking Aid Self would require him to skip two powers he could take if Heal or +Regen was included in Active Defense.
  22. DSorrow
    I'd pick Katana/Willpower. It's a great combination on SOs only due to great mitigation, good single target damage, decent AoE and massive endurance/health recovery.
  23. DSorrow

    spines/elec

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    You could post up the build you've been working on so it would be easier to help you.
  24. DSorrow

    Scrapper help

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    Dislike /SD because SC is getting balanced so that it isn't OP? To be honest, it'll need a load of nerfing to make it a bad power. I'm expecting them to take SC back to the level it was before the buff, so it'll still be a powerful AoE. Plus, you also have Lightning Rod if you pick ElM.

    I'd put my vote on Elec/SD/Pyre, mostly because mine can mow down huge spawns fast.
  25. DSorrow
    Usually we'd expect you to post up a build first, and then go on to improve that. But because you're new I'll just point you to Fury_Flechette's thread.

    EDIT: Darn you Death Badger :P