Hammerfall

A word of advice here, I dont think salvage-crafted control items are very useful until your base begins to run out of energy. The salvage items have better energy->control ratio and can be useful in this aspect, but produce less control than the buyable basic things (I dont know what the arcane equivalent of database is).

So if you dont have energy problems yet, just buy the basic control room add-ons.

Of course, if you want just visuals its different, I like the death star projection of the holo display myself

How can you overslot taunt? hehe

On topic, Only attack I have ever put taunt enhancement on was whirling mace, currently none. Bash doesnt count cause I dont use it..

I take this moment to say that I have 1 end redux in each of my toggles and 2 in fly, plus one end redux in all my main attacks plus stamina. I'm perfectly fine with endurance-management. (I don't have fighting pool, though)

Putting an end reduxer in your toggles, particularly unyielding and temp invulnerability early on makes life considerably easier and more fun With my low-lvl tank attempts I have favored 1 end reduxer over resistance enhancements even.

Grats!

Grats Earth!!

Any base that has prestige to buy the 1,5 mil generator isnt a start-up base anymore, imo...

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Last time for the old plan, Venture

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I remember people talking about "last time in old style" for like three attempts now lol..

Answering in general here:

Yes, I have to say I don't consider myself to be prone to cliques, for a long time I frequented the very low-end lvl-range (1-15) with my numerous alts and tried to give a good impression and small advice to every new player I met. I still think most veteran players are just being too paranoid..

I do have noticed a tendency in my coalition-mates to avoid inviting strangers - I have to start a campaign against that really.. I'm normally fine with inviting strangers but when I ask my friends in team "a Mr X is asking for team" then the answer is normally "no". As I said, we should concentrate on improving this on our respective supergroups..

Sure we will run into bad cases eventually, but we just have to shrug them off or even /ignore, instead of just retreating to the safety of coalition-only team all the time. If you have to turn your back on somebody, dont turn your back on all new players..

Personally I don't see a decline in community overall..yet.
But I see a tendency of underestimating the value of individual effort. I believe one person can make 7 others happier in a team with his/her efforts, just as one person can ruin a team.
Every one of us can work to improve the community by being friendly and open, so lets all work together here like real heroes!

PS. The fact that we are having a discussion on this level, should tell something about the quality and depth of COX community..

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Without any effective control Ninja Blade is less effective for scrapping and harder to master for a new stalker.

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Might be, but I like my ninja blade/ninjitsu stalker although she is just 11. No problems whatsoever in soloing

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It depends. Fly needs 3 slots in it anyway for it to have any kind of decent speed but if you intend to use Air Superiority in your attack chain it needs 1/2 Acc and 3 Damage SOs in it.

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Im pretty sure that fly caps out with 3 speeds, I can't recall for sure but it might have been just 2 in some cases or at least you get real close to the cap. Currently I have 2 end red and 2 flight speed in my own fly.

Even though I have air sup, I have never added slots to it..

Grats Archy!

Holding Avs can be easy depending on team composition, but Ive never seen them 'perma-held' to this date. At best, they are held like 50% of the time. Then again, I havent played high enough controllers myself. (if its controller-dominated teams were talking about)

Infernal isnt all that hard to beat, don't have to fight both him and the portal at the same time. Can pull infernal outta the room so the portal will stop spawning.

If they lowered the prices then rent would automatically drop as well..

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I did try it and one break free made it really [censored] :P. I geuss it would be ok against soemone with no break freees and no hold protection

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Same would theoretically apply to all holds, not just TK. Break frees and hold suppression are always there. But TK also has the repel element.

Ill be hardpressed to be able to be there (RL issues) but if I can Ill come.

Yes, Im also up for adding slots to taunt, although to this day I have never had more than 3 total, usually 2 duration and 1 recharge sounds ok. I may be getting 4 slots in my upcoming respec.

Iirc the there is no difference between arcane and tech power/control. Ie. You can use tech generator to power up arcane items and vice versa.

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Telepads for quick access to trial zones, upgrades for the hospital to increase starting HP and end, mission computer for the Coalition missions (when those go in), the Tree of Life/Autodoc Inspiration store (that you can also SELL inspirations to), and of course whatever cool things go in with I7...

So yeah, non-raiding SG's pretty much need a workshop, too.

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Some of the above have to be unlocked with SG badges first. (I can't recall correctly) Especially the healing badge so far has been proven nearly impossible to unlock for us. There are about 12-15 semiactive members but the amount needed to heal is too big or the badge is bugged.(wouldn't surprise me in the slightest). No progress at all last 2 months. I have to admit empaths arent very common in our SG right now.

Telepads are by far the most useful and easiest to get salvage item for any supergroup.

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I'd be a godsend to be able to check some of the basics before you place it (or before you can afford it) to save a lot of hassle..

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When salvage items are in your personal items tray, you can rightclick them and select info. (thats after they have been built though). For normally bought items they can be rightclicked from the editing menu even when you can't afford them.

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another hospital question...

is the sg healing badge still bugged? its been stuck at 50% for ever.

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we have been stuck to less than that for two months..

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to make a tank/brute cry like a girl find a good blaster unless its stone

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To make a tank/brute of any type cry run in with autobrawl on. Had 5 squishies in Sirens brawl a stone tank to death in a remarbably short amount of time before

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Why does it work with stone tanks? Ok I admit the mental image of this is quite disconcerting.. Instead of crying I'd propably click unstop and whack at least one squishy... Its not like tank toggles are any good in PvP anyway.

This reminds me of the thing with /slap keybind. Whack-whackka-whacka-whack!

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Well, jump kick is a crappy power anyways, but air superiority offers great damage mitigation, so in later levels it's used mainly when it's more important to keep one thread out of the fight instead of dealing maximum damage.

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Well afaik all pool power attacks make weapons go away, and I believe air superiority to be much better than jump kick because the animation is so long and bad in jump kick. Somebody said that jump kick tends to knockdown things that are not supposed to be knocked down, but I have no real evidence about this. Id do remember bouncing paladin with my measly low lvl scrappers jump kick, though.

In PvP I consider air sup to be better than jump kick, but Im not a PvP expert .

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Why level up, or down, to 40? Why not 50.

it's not as much fun when as a level 50 char when you get exemped 10 levels lower.

Strikes me that this huge 3 team SG TF could have been geared more towards an end game for lvl 50's and hence everybody gets sk'd to 50 rather than 40.

just my 2 infs worth.

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We are still living at a time when villains are limited to 40. Things may change come I7.

Hey, there may be several real life issues your friends are involved with, not much else is needed for chats to go quiet. Especially if the amount of people you know is small. I have had this happen to me on several occasions but eventually chats have opened again and we have had quality time together.

It helps that we have our own forum for the coalition to use where we can post info when we arent online much or something is bugging us. Like me, month ago bathroom in my apartment went under repair and I have moved away from my home and hence being offline most of the past month (and frequenting the boards as a result ).

In our coalition we try to keep each other informed about how things are in real life so misunderstandings can be avoided.

Its propably a statistical fact that coalitions will sometimes go pretty quiet for days, who knows what has happened. It is pretty paranoid to think that its because of *you*. I know, Im a paranoid person.

Just give it some time and try to organise play sessions where you can ask your friends how things are.

PS. The community as a *whole* is an altogether different matter. I know that the defiant big photgraphic session some time ago didnt go quite so smoothly as in stories. I wasnt there personally but I know several of our coalition members got seriously [censored] about it. Some people are more sensitive than others, thats a fact. So I hope everybody remembers that and can make compromises in what they say aloud..

PPS. For global friends, it might be a good idea to create your very own global channel, invite your friends to it which you could then use as means of communication. Its much much better than communicating by tells, I tell you. Not so difficult to start a conversation.

Heyy, lets start another thread on the same heated subject. Ooops, it may be against some guideline or something.

Anyway, whether somebody is primarily a healer or primarily a buffer is up to their preference. There is nothing wrong or right in either case. Empath along with other ATs can be built to suit different tastes.

The main reason we get these heated discussions is when people start preaching that there is only one way to use an AT and it is my way blah blah. I dislike people who preach this way.

Plus the fact that several empath's seem to have neuroses of being called a 'healer'. You guys and gals need to get over it. Your buffs are appreciated nonetheless by those people who know better. Thank you.