EvilGeko

Quite right. Beam might work, but I don't have it and am not going to spend the 800 points on it.

Don't hear much about */Ice. I would guess Energy/Ice would be truly atrocious synergy, but too safe for my tastes. I'm looking for weak in offense and defense.

Interesting thought. Your reasoning regarding Psi Blast is sound. So I'm going to go with that as a primary. Electric is a bit too good in my experience. Maybe Psi/Dark. A melee PBAoE instead of Build Up really screws with Psi's range style.

I could. But if I have to spend $20 per character anyway, why should I have to subject myself to villain side.

What she said. Teaming is very easy in this game. Just got to be willing to lead.

Not laziness (although I am lazy) in this case. I would be willing to grind all the content out in one day. But my playtime is very episodic right now. I'll have four hours to play and then won't play for a week.

Yes, I am willing to pay 1600 points for this per character. I don't use it on all characters. Basically I want them to throw in the arc completion for the cost of two alignment change tokens.

Either than or just remove the stupid restrictions on alignment changing so I can grind it out in one day.

What he said.

Yes. A player Incarnate cannot be, but an NPC Incarnate or Immortal (there are some immortal characters that have not been identified specifically as Incarnates) can be of any level.

Question to the OP. Let's say Twinshot were an Incarnate and several thousand years old. Could she call you "kiddo" then? And would the game have any obligation to inform you of that fact right out of the tutorial?

There are several characters in CoH who are significantly older than they appear: Lady Grey, Dark Watcher, Lord Recluse, Hero One. You seem to have made the same assumption that you ascribe to the game. Twinshot looks younger. Her Praetorian counterpart certainly looks like a kid too. But like we eventually find out with Calvin Scott, Tyrant, and others, there may be more under the surface.

EDIT: I have this habit of calling small children 'sir' and 'ma'am' or using Mr. or Ms. and their last name. Many kids get a kick out of an adult addressing them this way and I can often get a giggle. Am I defining their age? It's not like Twinshot said you were 36 years old. She just used a term of endearment. Don't take it personally. She's kind of a PITA.

I wonder how you're going to obtain those? Super Pack II I'm thinking, but it's a bad precedent to set to have each new set of Super Pack's up the ante.

Thunderclap is an example of that most pernicious and despicable form of control...PBAoE knockback...*shiver* Scrappers gain nothing from using that power. Scattering the NPCs to the winds instead of keeping them packed up for killing does more harm than good.

I don't want Stalkers nerfed. The team crits should stay. I just want Scrappers to have something fun too.

Yes. Base RTTC is 100% for the first foe and 25% for each additional. For an unslotted total with ten enemies of 325%. Please note, I could not remember off hand whether the first enemy gives 100% + the 25% scaling bonus.

325*1.95=633.75

Now, RTTC has a decent to-hit debuff, but it's beyond my math skills to determine a model to account for that. Or for Recon's toxic resists.

I find all the arguments dismissing Hide and Placate disingenuous. I'm just stating that I don't find the 134 Health difference to be nearly as meaningful as folks make it out to be.

For example. People bring up the regeneration boost provided by those 134 points. Well, let's consider a reasonable amount of regen buff. Say 400%. That's exactly 1 full HP bar per minute.

That means that over the course of a minute a Scrapper regens from 134-400 more health than a Stalker. Over a minute. That means at best, the health difference is worth a green respite of healing. Remember that's at the cap.

And it presumes that the Stalker has no other tools, LIKE HIDE AND PLACATE, to help.

That doesn't follow. If there are not many health buffs, then the base amount is a better predictor of an average surivivability gap, no?

Again, I've NEVER IGNORED IT. I've put it in perspective. I've just asked the other side not to ignore Hide and Placate. And almost without exception people have minimized the effect of those two powers on survivability.

I said expected damage, not damage. If you have a 50% chance of taking 100 damage, you may expect that over time, you will get hit half the time (50%) and missed half the time (50%). The average damage you will take is 50 damage.

If you have a 47.5% chance of taking 100 damage, you may expect that you will get hit 47.5% of the time and missed 52.5% of the time. Making your average damage 47.5 in that instance.

But see, I'm not making it the "end all, be all". I'm saying it needs to be considered. It is, in fact, you all who are stating that 134 Health is the end all, be all. Folks have stated in absolute terms that Stalkers are ALWAYS less survivable than Scrappers. You can find that statement multiple times in this thread. That statement is false. It's not sorta false, it's not arguably false. It's false. Hide and Placate are PART of the reason for that, but not the only one.

Agreed. However, for most Scrappers this is only Build Up and its 10 second window. If they were to port over Super Strength in all its broken glory then we would see a set where that was a powerful benefit. Right now, it works the best for Shield Scrappers and I will not deny that those Scrappers are among the most damaging characters in the game.


Placate always replaces Confront. Which is a clear winner in the Stalker's favor. Only one cone (Repulsing Torrent) is sacrificed to AS. And that was Castle's way of making the Stalker set equal in AoE to the others by making a cone that no one would want. Newer sets don't lose any AoE, which over time will create a situation where Stalkers are as good or better than Scrappers in AoE, better in single-target, and equivalent in survivability.

Reconstruction is a benefit to Stalker Willpower.

Saturated to ten targets RTTC gives 633% Regen. That's heals a bit more than 1.5 of your max health in one minute. That's assuming you can keep ten targets around you for the whole minute.

Reconstruction with SOs returns 50% health every 30 seconds. And it benefits from additional recharge. Get it to 20 second recharge (which my Stalker and Scrapper does) and it heals just about as much as a fully saturated RTTC and you don't have to have keep any NPCs around you. And Recon can heal through burst damage. And Reconstruction provides toxic resists as well as its healing.

That has not been my experience at all.

You annoy yourself. If you wished to not be annoyed you simply had to ignore this post. Instead, you have contributed to the post. I thank you for contributing to the post. But you must know that you have only yourself to blame for how you're feeling.