EvilGeko

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Because I'm doing +1/x8. I get bored to tears when I can't hit consistently.

My Fire/Shield doesn't have a heal. I just built in as much regen as I could and I carry a few greens at all times. I'm not one of these people who avoid inspirations. The way I see it, I could waste two powers on Aid Self to get a power that my soft-capped Scrapper will need maybe once every five missions and against AVs. Inspirations do that job much cheaper.

I don't agree with the poster who says that heals are overrated. They aren't, but then, they aren't always essential either.

However, that really doesn't explain why heal sets don't have capstone bonuses of say 40-50% regen. Or why the 20-40 and 30-50 melee damage rare sets (Touch of Death and Mako's Bite) both have defense as their capstone.

Agreed. But then a Scrapper at 75% resists still can't do things that a soft-capped SR can do. (not arguing with you, just stating why I think that the devs have it wrong.)

Again, let's say Numina's had a capstone of 50% regen instead of it's current 3.75% resists; and Doc Wounds had a capstone of 35% regen. How is SR an SR scrapper really going to take advantage (i.e. get more than 1-2 of those bonuses) of that while still making their way to the softcap?

/signed

Freakshow are easy from the time they start appearing at level 20 until level 50 where they're almost free exp. I've fought them with all ATs and I've never gotten a Freak mission and said, "Ugh..." I have with other villain groups in that range.

By contrast to WoW, SOE announces their expansions and has them out within 6-8 months later. Basically every year.

Our only comparator was CoV which had an extremely short beta period. Going Rogue I'm guessing is this winter, be that December 2009 or Jan-Feb 2010.

This. It's the strongest Scrapper I have and still the newest. Not even IOed out well yet. It's magnificent.

Absent defense debuffers, I'm doing exactly that. Walking into groups set for 8 and crushing them with my Widow. And this is not with an absurd IO investment.

My Huntsman/Bane is a bit squisher true enough. But VEATs truly are epic. I think a lot of people don't quite 'get' VEATs at low level, but both branches are always stronger than other villain ATs IMO at equivalent levels.

CT: D and Foresight cap out at 75% scaling resists. (37.5% each)

The Kheldian arcs are some of the worst and most tedious content I've played in this game. I prefer the standard hero content.

By contrast the SoA arcs are crisp, to the point, and magnificent in what your character accomplishes.

Where do you get that interpretation? The story I played through has you as an extremely talented and powerful member of Arachnos who challenges the authority of the Rogue Isles' immortal despot, shows him/herself to be Lord Recluse's superior and eventually succeeds in a task (defeating Statesman) that has eluded the despot for decades.

That sounds pretty epic to me. YMMV.

You mean playing the host to a sentient energy parasite and getting caught up in their internal struggles? Sounds tedious. Plays tedious.


See what I did there? It was the converse of your OP. I accentuated the good points of VEATs and focused on the negatives of HEATs. IMO, both are pretty epic in different ways. Yes, HEATs have a pretty tragic backstory and while their story leave a bit to be desired, it's OK.

The VEATs, from story to powers, own. Just my opinion.

Fortunatas, NWs and Crabs are tank-mages in every sense of the word. They are substantially stronger than any Corrupter, Stalker or Dominator I've seen. Some MMs are on their level, but not all.

Forts, for example, have high ranged damage, high melee damage, control, defenses, buffs, debuffs & top end mez protection.

What Corruptor, Dom or Stalker has all that?

Why would they do something so silly?

You don't have to be a farmer to earn IO set recipes.

Nevertheless, I don't have a problem with giving merits for more activities.

Folks, especially ones who like CoV more, tend to remark how much the devs "learned from the mistakes of CoH".

My suspicion, just from what we've heard about Going Rogue is that they've learned from the mistakes they made with CoV. I'm guessing that Emperor Cole (Tyrant's) Praetoria is probably a paradise (on the surface). Assuredly, he's still a villain, but probably a much more complex one than the cartoonish villain of Lord Recluse.

Agreed, but there is a middle ground between "waiting ain't playing" and "not having everything handed to you on a silver platter.

Personally, I don't see ANY travel in this game as "lengthy." Even the longest trip in this game (which would probably be from Galaxy City to either the Hive or the Storm Palace) won't take any more than 5 minutes. Peregrine to Perez is a snap.

But to each his own.

To be honest, my defenders barely use their APPs. I suppose I would if I took Power Build Up like everyone else. But other than that, they're pretty bleh. The only ATs I really look forward to getting APPs with are Controllers.

LBE & Dark Blast do more damage than almost all Scrapper T1 attacks. Animation time is longer, but they also do exotic damage which pushes them well over when fighting mobs with protection to Sm, Le.

I disagree. I see no "functional hole" closed by my Defender's APP. Nor my Blaster. Hell, my Controllers just get better, but then they were already pretty good.

I don't disagree with that, but let's be honest. Let's say that Tanker Pyre Mastery was:

Thermal Shield
Plasma Shield
Fire Blast
Thaw
Power of the Phoenix

That most certainly WOULD give the Tanker who took it another meaningful role in the group. But no one would take the pool, because they would cry that it does nothing for them. Witness the outcry over one power in Shield.

Focused Accuracy was taken because it was one of the best powers in the game, PvE and PvP. LBE is, was and always will be useful. Just because everyone wants to take Tough/Weave so they can solo AVs doesn't make the power useless.

I could.

I disagree with all points made here.

The Scrapper AT, who has only had three epic choices SINCE BEFORE VILLAINS EXISTED, is getting ONE new pool. Every villain has had four choices since 2006. How you can see your complaint as reasonable is beyond me.

I disagree. Scrappers and Tankers need next to no help as ATs. The APPs add a bit of flavor utility and some ranged attacks. For two ATs who can stand against Giant Monsters, AVs, etc. and not flinch, this doesn't strike me as particularly unfair.

No, like most areas, SoA have a 1.0 Health mod. Which they share with Corruptors, Defenders, Controllers, and Dominators.

Masterminds have slightly less; Stalkers and Blasters have a 1.2 mod IIRC; I don't remember what the meleers mod number is, but Scrappers are at 1338, Brutes at 1499 and Tankers at about 1800 I think.

I guess that's part of it for me. I don't mind a story, but I don't want it spoon fed to me. I like filling in the gaps.

One of the things I like about the supposedly "weaker" CoH storyline is that you have to learn about the different villain groups in a lot of different ways. From history plaques, multiple story arcs which only give you a bit of the story, etc.

I think that's why I like VEATs so much. They're story arc really is a pallette, if you consider it in context with other things we know about the world it makes a ton of sense. No it's not all self-contained and thank goodness for that. I neither desire nor require having it all laid out in front of me.

Add that to the fact that VEATs are solid performers without the gimmicks that the CoV ATs (and the HEATs) require, and you have an AT that I adore.