Fury Flechette

About an 8 or a 9 if you play well. Speed boost and the huge kinetic heals/endurance buffs are amazing. However, I've run into many bad fire/kins who are used to AE farming environment and don't understand how to use their powers outside of that environment. I'd rate their contribution as a -5. And amazing as a fire/kin is in a farm environment, there are many other controller combinations that are as good or better outside of it.

At the beginning part of your career while you'll do decent damage (compared to other controllers), your build (even if you skip hot feet) will be an endurance nightmare. I'm not kidding when I tell you that you'll be packing 1-2 breakfrees and the rest blue chicklets until you reach level 32, where your imps can shoulder some of your damage burden.

Fire/kin players who got PL'ed to 50 will never know this, since they get to play with all their tools in place.

Ratings:

Pre-stamina: 3
Post-stamina: 4
Post-imps: 6
Post-transference: 8
Post-epic blasts: 10

See above. Short answer: yes.

Fire cages, foot feet and your epic attack fire ball have huge radius and can encompass a large number of targets. That's awesome late in your career, kinda horrible early on because it attracts so much aggro.

It's not the best. It's a very potent and good combination and the "best" would be dependent on how you evaluate it. I'd rate it the best in terms of late game damage, but there are other builds that exceed it in other categories (ill/emp - "best" support, earth/ta - "best" AoE control, ice/cold/primal - "best" mitigation). Of course, what I consider "best" is entirely subjective and purely my opinion.

Here's my take on it.

If you're farming, fighting pool is great. If you're not, it's meh. The worst thing about being a /kin is missing and having tactics (leadership) on a build is valuable to yourself and for the rest of the team.

Fighting pool is taken on a lot of fire/kin builds so they can cap smashing/lethal defense. At the cap, it's worth it. Somewhere below the cap, I'd rather have tactics and be able to hit my heal when I need it.

I have dual builds.

The first build is a fire/kin/fire with fitness/leaping/speed/leadership. This is the build I take on TFs and when I team. It has the important buffs (speed boost, increase density). This is also the build I'd recommend when you're leveling up since it has higher accuracy.

The second build is a farming fire/kin/stone with fitness/leaping (only CJ)/speed (only hasten)/fighting. This build is purpled up the wazoo largely because the build benefits from not only the +rech the purple sets provide but also (as important IMO), the recovery and global accuracy. The build doesn't have speed boost and I'd never take this build out of a farm. The first build is more effective on TFs and far cheaper to boot.

As for pool power recommendations, assuming you're team oriented and not farming:

Speed - for hasten. Hasten is a no brainer for kins because it stacks with siphon speed allowing you to bring up buffs and AoE controls far faster.

Leadership - Manuevers (only slightly worse than Weave in defense and a great place for a LoTG/Recharge) and Tactics (allowing you to hit stuff!)

Leaping - for CJ. Being immobilized is awful, awful for a kin. CJ provides protection against that and stacks with hurdle and to a lesser degree, swift to provide great combat manueverability.

Cool thanks! Hope you enjoy them. I think you got a great deal.

Aye. Agreed with the above. Also, builds will vary based on player preferences. I have one that's built for farming and running TFs hence I emphasize +recharge over regen and recovery, and have the blaze epic. If I was building an AV soloer I'd either have the medicine pool or take body mastery for physical perfection to increase regen/recovery. I'd also have a much different single target attack chain than what my current build uses.

The definition of "ultimate" will change based on your character goals.

What happened to the character you leveled to 50 in order to unlock the WS?

Fire melee scrappers are amazing farmers, but it's clear you've never played one that's well kitted out.

Completely agree with the above.

Pretty much opinion as well too. The event was WAY too long. Among the problems this caused:

* Some SFs/TFs became very difficult affairs due to the constant disruptions the zone events caused. Numina TF with all it's hunt mission was virtually impossible except for the extremely patient.

* Lag. Even for people with good rigs.

* Negative effect on non-ToT teaming, at least when the event first came on.

My personal opinion: this event should be 7 days tops.

Ooh, so worth it.

Raw stats on a level 13 character with a DO in Swift.

Running speed with Swift: 18.97 mph
Running speed with Swift + Sprint: 27.44 mph
Running speed with Swift + Sprint + Ninja Running: 43.17 mph (yes, they stack)

I tried to use Ninja Running on a newly created level 1, but it appears you need to be at least some level above level 4 and 13. I suspect it opens up at level 6. It was available on my level 13.

The running style is interesting as your character runs with one arm across her chest, the other arm extended behind her. When she jumps across any obstacle (fences, garbage cans), she flips in midair.

This power alone is worth it since it really does enable you to forgo travel powers altogether if you have this and say the GvE jump pack.

If I'm not mistaken, 43.17 is close to the speed of unslotted super speed.

I think this is it too. I have a spines/regen and mobs running away rarely happens.

^^ This

Pretty much agree with this. Also, if you go for a soft capped s/l defense build, even hibernate is unnecessary. I've tanked everything with my ice/ss and I've been pleasantly surprised how sturdy my ice tanker is.

One other thing: don't skip chilling embrace! Not only is it a great taunt aura but it provides great mitigation, greatly reducing incoming fire.

This is partly incorrect. Players have a base tohit of 50% in PvP. But the second is partly right, most PvP builds do have gobs of +tohit and +acc, so defense is still mostly useless.

Also, Katana would be one of my last choices for a PvP scrapper primary. PvP attack damage is *roughly* calculated from animation time. The very thing that makes Katana great in PvE (fast animating attacks) make it a poor choice for PvP.

I don't see anybody in that thread praising buying a recipe directly. Everybody is in favor of random rolls. Are you thinking of a different thread? Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by direct purchase?