Daemodand

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If you want to be hard to kill, go with the Scrapper. If you want to get kills, go with the Blaster. In PvP range is king and melee will always be disadvantaged in that regard.

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You don't have to have been conducting any scientific inquiry or involved with any experiments for it to be Science origin. Walking down the street and getting splashed with toxic waste from a passing truck would be Science origin.

I mostly play Villains and spend way more time redside, but my signature character Daemodand ended up being a Hero.

Here's mine, chatting up the ladies between repair jobs as usual!

My Issue with the way Apex looked in the MArc I played was he was way too short and squat looking. His sister, too.

P.S. Everyone make more Apex MArcs, please!

P.P.S. Arc ID 246642 if anyone wants to take a look at my version of Issue 12 Apex. Not anything worth playing, it's just to look at the contact. That's a pretty cute ID number I got, too.

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Apex would be a MA/SR Scrapper, wouldn't he?

It would be cool if you could set the level of custom enemies, so you could make him level 15.

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Well, after all these years I would think he's level 50 by now. Not a bad idea though! And by the end of Issue 12, he has War Witch's sword (disenchanted and turned to iron). That's why he has a sword at the end methinks. I could just make him MA in one mission, and BS the next lol.

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I am currently polishing the finishing touches on a translation of the the first story arc "Undead in the Big City" intended for characters 1-20. I should finish with it this weekend and post in a new thread when it's ready.

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PM me when it's ready please! I'm an Apex h00r!

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He started as MA/SR, then when his leveling duo partner quit he rerolled as BS/SR.

Also, as for that arc, he's good but his gloves, boots and shoulderpads were off (banded, flared, black IMO)

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That's awesome, he rerolled lol. I just got done spending about an hour perfecting my own version of the Issue 12 Apex in the costume creator, and I got him about as spot on as possible.

Man, I need to write a MArc.

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Electric is much more Endurance efficient than Energy. And if you ask me VS is very cute.

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Do you have to summon VS every minute for 26 endurance? Not very efficient, if you ask me.

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Reread my post and see your fail.

Electric is much more Endurance efficient than Energy. And if you ask me VS is very cute.

Of course Energy is very smashy. Very fun.

Personally, I play both. You should too.

Go with the Blaster if you want to actually get through missions in a timely manner. You'll be defeated more often, but you'll move through enemies so fast that won't slow you down in the long run. Once the Blaster gets his APP, it's no contest.

Defenders don't even get an Inherent solo. It's no contest at all.

I found it, and found their Apex to be wanting. It's a work in progress though so I didn't rate it, but rather just sent some drunken Apex loving adivce.

P.S. I love that you can filter out works in progress. I want to play arcs that are ready for prime time, you know?

The thing is, Defense is much easier to get around than Resistance is. Defense is very sexy, I'll grant you that. But Resistance has a reliability that goes far beyond Defense.

Defense is negated by high Accuracy and ToHit. It is also completely bypassed on occasion by the Streak Breaker. Use some Yellows, Defense is essentially gone for a minute at a time. None of this is true with Resistance. There is no Inspiration you can use to bypass Resistance 100%. Resistance doesn't care about the Streak Breaker. It doesn't care about Accuracy or ToHit. Reds effectively reduce it slightly, but never really bypass it completely, not like Yellows and Defense.

Also, every mob and their mother has -Defense in this game. -Resist is much more rare.

So you see, high Defense is much more balanced out than high Resistance. This is most likely why Resistance is so much harder to come by than Defense in set bonuses.

P.S. Defense does have it's perks, of course. It's sexy. When you are missed you negate 100% of the damage from that attack. It acts as a second layer of ghetto mez/debuff protection (if the mez/debuff doesn't hit you, it can't affect you). Also, it's sexy.

I was just reading some of the really cool Blue King CoH comics and admiring the coolness of Apex (he and Foreshadow are my two bromances ) and wonder if he's available in MA?

If not, he looks pretty easy to put together using the costume creator, but an official version would be great.

Which reminds me...*runs off to run a MArc search on "Apex" in MA*

Funny thing about German, as an English speaker you can occasionally understand a few words the German speaker is saying. I understand the two languages are actually pretty closely related.

There are servers other than Virtue with lots of new friends for you to make.

I agree. Give the Super Tailor to everyone and give the booster pack purchasers one of the many suggestions made by several players as a replacement.

In PvP Scrappers should be renamed to Quippers.

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(Use Taunt in PvP on your melees. It's the one thing you've got going for you lol).

IMO: solo, it's OK because everything is attacking you anyway. Teamed, use it at your own risk. It's a real suicide button in the early levels. I imagine more than a few players have quit Doms due to constantly dying in those early levels after throwing out AOE Immobilizes. Once you're an experienced Dom player who knows what your're doing, AOEIs can be leveraged in effective and interesting ways. But as a general rule, especially for those new to Doms, skip them.

P.S. Single target Immobilizes are better in Archvillain fights. And in PvP.

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After you get Wormhole and Singy, it's all gravy and it becomes one of the best control sets in the game.

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Erm, no.

After Wormhole and Singy, the set is merely adequate. It is surpassed in every way by all the other sets.

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I disagree. The set is very good in the late game.

For a while now my SR characters report "Deflected" instead of "Dodged". Any others notice this? I've bugged it in game and written up a bug note in the I15 Misc bugs section.

I want my "Dodged" back.

If they just append the player's global as a subtitle to the name, this all goes away. Everyone could have any name they wanted (virtually, within the confines of ethics and the law). It would look something like:

Daemodand (character name, larger text, eye attracting color)
@Daemodand (global, underneath the character name, smaller text, subdued color)


Problem solved.

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The only positive thing is that I know that when I buy a Booster pack it helps for the development costs so that all players may enjoy other content. However, I think that limiting all the very cool emotes and costume pieces to Booster packs will create a have and have-nots segregation for players that is not conducive to the community. Everyone should be able to enjoy high-collars, labcoats and slick Valkyrie armor.

Frankly, I think it hurts the community when these pieces are not available to the general player. New costume pieces create excitement; limiting them just creates resentment.

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Very well said. More and more, I feel like I'm playing one of those free-to-play-with-microtransactions MMOs instead of the AAA sub-based MMO I signed up for. The I15 costume pieces compared to the booster pack stuff is a real joke.

Someday I WILL buy that thing.

LOL. Um, don't take Propel on a Dom. Just, don't.

If you want the Dom damage king, go with Fire/Fire. Fire/Energy would be OK, too.

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Take Power Push.

Slot it well.

Love it, caress it, tell it you care.

It won't let you down, I guarantee it.

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Good advice, sir! Very good advice indeed!

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Are Defs and Blasters gonna get a similar change?

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If they want to be amazing, they can roll Doms. If they want to continue to suck, they can stay where they are.

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Note the damage boost is ONLY in PvE

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In PvP you'll be slotting it for KB anyway so no harm no foul. But yeah, still bug it.

I myself am loving Earth/Energy.