EvilGeko

Actually, they balance around averages which includes both SO builds and tricked out IO builds.

Actually, by 30 my Widow was pretty kickass, YMMV.

I recently did the 20-25 arc with my PB, some stupid story about the Council (the most plain and uninteresting villain group in the game) and their internal strife regarding Nictus. And I was bored to tears. I'm sorry, you may like that crap, but I don't. I don't think I'm reading anything into the VEAT arcs other than what's there.

It's clear that you're trying to insinuate yourself into the Destined Ones program for your own reasons. I like that. I don't care about the stupid "Hive Mind." That's a pretty ridiculous explanation for Banes, an example of the general dreck that is Grandville missions and I rejoiced that the VEAT arcs ignored that nonsense.

Hyperbole; every mission IMO is the equivalent of a comic book. From the time the contact sends you off to the end of the mission would fill most modern comics.

Goodness, that would have sucked. Know why? Because then we would have to have, at least at the beginning, a good little member of Arachnos. It would be another stupid villain arc where our character doesn't think for him/her self and just does as they're told for their pay.

I like that the VEAT arcs have us as an independent operator and would hate if they were anything like the HEAT arcs (which suck! )

Oops! Correction, I'm think she might have been the first for me too. And considering I remember Countess Crey and Nemesis, Giovanna couldn't have been the first.

I don't think there are any mez protection powers in PvP anymore. Trade off for the greatly shortened durations.

I wouldn't say ungodly. Probably around 200-300 million inf. No purples. Mostly I just focused on Kinetic Combat (to cap Sm, Le defense) and capping Energy Defense. At the end I would up with Fire/Cold/Neg in the 30s and that's worked out well for me.

DM itself doesn't need any help.

If you don't believe me, I'm not going to bother to show you, but it can be done. Energy can be fun, but you have to take the time to learn the set. You should be able to do a CoT mission with SOs, and with IOs this set can soar.

That's the rub. It's extremely cheap for my Widow. I don't think I've spent more than 50 million on her for soft-capped defense and extreme DPS. Now I play a lot of TFs so I was able to earn some stuff via merits that would have cost a lot, but this isn't some purpled out build.

Saying "doing it with SOs" is meaningless. That game is gone. Peacebringers can't do some of this stuff at all. Warshades may be able to solo an AV. If I can stomach the time building it out, I might try it. The VEATs do it with uncommon sets.

I do see what people see in Warshades. But it's really just a lot of flash. Ultimately, VEATs do it with less mess.

What do you learn? Banes + Forts are psychic. Banes look inward towards each other; Forts look outward towards the future.

That's it.

The VEAT storyline tells you a lot more about how Fortunatas think, it actually shows you how one might wind up a Fortunata. The VEAT arcs put a lot of color around the Destined one storyline. The VEAT storyline gives us a glimpse into what folks who didn't show up on Kalinda's "Destined One" list think about it and want to do about it.

You didn't like them. That's cool, this is a matter of preference. But the fact that they're short doesn't mean they don't have a good story. It's one of the better ones in CoV IMO. Well, except for the last mission. I'll agree with you that's rather gratuitous. But beating up Statesman is fun.

I really don't see what your beef is with them. The story doesn't drag on with tedious exposition. Sorry.



Well, I don't know if you feel soloing AVs and 8 man spawns in the RWZ "fine" at soloing, but that's what I do.

Fixed no?

I wonder if Parry/DA will ever make it to Tankers/Brutes? Seriously, I could see that getting switched out for something else for those ATs.

My first three characters are sisters, inherited their father's ability to fly and since Issue 14 often encounter each other in game (they always did in the off hours anyway, how do you know what they're doing when we're not logged in ).

Reason # 4876 that Widow > Soldiers.

IMO, that 'advantage' of redside is also it's greatest drawback. Because the story 9 times out of 10 is the contact's story. You're just their hired thug. By contrast, the contacts most times in CoH aren't the point. YOU ARE. You're saving the day.

With 5 characters so far either at 50 or in the 40s, I still haven't bothered to finish all the Grandville content I find it so terrible. Especially, the devs' attempt at 'evil' Westin Phipps. Gah... It hurts thinking about it.

I'd run "To Save a Soul" five times for any of those terrible arcs. Efficiency Expert Pither is OK, if only because it's all short.


I'm probably am biased when I say, that what I like about the VEAT arcs is how they expose the shallowness and absurdity of the "Destined One" plot. The VEATs to me are ultra-cool. They see all this nonsense their boss is up to for the farce that it is. The only thing that would make it better is if the VEATs could instigate an insurrection.

You got to the critical issue. Most of the 'villains' of CoV are hired thugs and nothing more. The VEATs know this is all BS. And they say to hell with it, I'll show this *&%# who's a "Destined One."

As for the HEATs, it all ends well, but the arcs leading up to it are so much filler. I despaired in the 20s when there were much more entertaining arcs like the Freakalympics to do.

Yes, probably. But if IH went to 1000 seconds in exchange for this, that wouldn't be so bad. The only thing really needed for most tanking is to be able to take a Sm, Le hit. So giving Regen a Sm, Le resist toggle would fix that.

It might make Regen a bit too good for SO level balance, but top performance balance wouldn't change much I wouldn't think.

Not surprisingly, I disagree. While I generally think most Red side content is stupid, I thought the VEAT arcs were much more entertaining than the HEAT arcs.

HEATs plain out suck until the 20s. Then they're tolerable solo, and actually pretty good in teams. But they never ever give you that epic feeling like VEATs do IMO.

This is all that needs to be said.

Or resilience would become a toggle with:

Scale 3.0 to Sm, Le; Scale 3.5 Toxic; taunt aura (but not for Scrappers )
.32 end/sec

With the soft-capped kids running around, this isn't completely a crazy thought no?

I hate the character. Don't have any hard feelings toward the developer.

EDIT:

Just to further explore my hatred. I keep having the following dream.

Positron is fighting Lord Recluse. Lord Recluse has taken Statesman's Cape and his badge of leadership of the Freedom Phalanx. Lord Recluse (voiced by Leonard Nimoy) is choking Positron and taunting him. Then Positron manages to wrest the cape and badge off Lord Recluse.

He rolls over and stands. Statesman's Badge which holds a single drop of water from the Well of the Furies, opens as Positron holds it up. The drop falls into Positron's mouth.

Then from somewhere off camera, Stan Bush starts singing "The Touch". Positron transforms gaining the powers of an Incarnate to add to his own. Statesman is heard calling from heaven, "Arise Positron Prime!" Positron throws Lord Recluse out of the window from the top of his tower in Grandville. Positron uses the power given him by the badge to start a chain reaction that will destroy Grandville.

He then meets up with the rest of the Phalanx. Back Alley Brawler says, "I knew you had potential." Positron now wearing the badge of leadership orders the Freedom Phalanx and Vindicators to escape Grandville. He breaks through another window and the others escape through that opening.

Later, Positron is giving a speech celebrating victory and the end of the war with the Rogue Isles.

I don't think he disagreed. If your SR is working out for you, I don't think anyone here is going to down you. This is a game man and if you're having fun then you're having fun.

We uberize our characters because we enjoy doing so. I for one, and I know most of the Scrapper regulars agree, are very much live and let live about what you want to do.

So long as you're killin' and do a Leeroy Jenkins once in awhile, you're a good scrapper with me!

My last three 50s dinged 50, burned their merits and the poorest wound up with 150M left over (of course, she did have a LoTG, Miracle, and Numina's slotted that didn't go on the market).

I've basically stopped trying to make money on the market because it isn't worth the trouble. I run TFs not because I like to grind, but because they're fun so I wind up with enough crap to sell that I have everything I want.

Vanden and I suggest this every few months. Yours isn't bad, but it follows the Brute format, not the Scrapper format. I would do Bow Mastery like this:

Entangling Arrow (41 - Utility/Control)
Ice Arrow (41 - Utility/Control)
Aimed Shot (44 - STBlast or Buff/Debuff)
Glue Arrow (44 - STBlast/or Buff/Debuff)
Fistful of Arrows (47 - Cone/AoE)

They are bad, and they kill variety. This is something Geko never understood, but thankfully Castle does. Outliers on the underperform side rarely get played and Outliers on the overperform side get played in excess. Thus limiting variety.

Pretty much all sets should end out in (very roughly) the same place when played by the same player. This is where Scrappers pretty much are with respect to primaries now. Most of the sets do very well, but in different ways so they all get played.

1) No problem. Trivial in fact. The DPS of a NW is a thing of beauty.

2) IOs are your friend. All that DPS comes at a price, but you can make it so that you can sustain it. It's not cheap.

3) Once you softcap, it's going to be hard for the mobs to hit you enough, but mobs that have Radiant Infection and the like will tear you apart.

4) No. I had to take several tries at Indigo just for this reason. She would commonly get lucky and get that Headsplitter off and if I had even one HP gone already, it would take the rest.

What is your basis for that statement?

This? Hmm.... With the exception of Illusion and Fire, Controllers/Dominators typically get ONE pet. Masterminds get six. All of whom do damage.

Now, while I can see comparing a Controller pet to a T1 MM pet, I don't see how you could suggest that the power level of these pets justify their lack of err...direction. Usually, each of the MMs pets have as many or more powers than the control set pets. Masterminds, like controllers, have buff/debuff as a secondary and can increase the base damage/to-hit of their pets with their inherent Supremacy. Many of the MM T2 pets have defender like buffs/debuffs. Others have significant powers from other ATs, like criticals, Fury, etc. Finally, some MM pets are controllers in their own right.


IMO, both Controllers and Masterminds are overpowered. There's no justification for having control of pets limited to MMs other than the devs wanted to keep the ATs "unique". Dominators probably could have control of their pets and still not be up to the level of either AT. And I'm still waiting for someone to tell me why the AT cares if its 'unique' or not.