Lycanus

Caltrops here instead.
Replace with "Thrust Kick" - Minor Damage, Heavy KB
Cobra Strike here
Sweep: Cone Knockdown, use storm kick animation Crippling Axe Kick
You want more mitigation in a blaster secondary and less damage. Pretty much all the blaster secondaries should do one of two things:

A) self-buff

B) help you get OUT of melee

the replacements above take out the pure-damage attacks and replaces them with theme appropriate mitigation style attacks

I like that. Too bad there's no way to remove the rooted effect and make it the only AT capable of true Run and Gun. But then, that would be WAY too powerful.

the problem with that is that it is that +15% recharge and +15% damage each have roughly the same amount of effect on damage output

so the recharge and damage bonuses would need to be at about the same level to apply the same effect.

also, by weaker than scrapper, I meant base, not max. Everything but Tankers, Brutes and Kheldians have about 75% max resistance.

Do not discount range as a mitigation style. I was thinking that melee would be heavier damage attacks than ranged on average.

I'm not sure of the bonuses, I've thought about Regen and Resist bonuses, Recharge and Damage (obviously), also To Hit.

The thing I know is that the AT should have is that they get one buff while staying at range and another buff while staying close up.

and better able to survive the brink given their defense abilities.

I tend to start low just in case I get accused of power-mongering.

how about a 75% recharge
-7.5% per enemy in melee range (max 10)
+7.5% damage per enemy in melee range (max 10)

that would give a semi constant buff of right about 75% dps compared to Scrapper's occasional buff and Brute's fury build up

agreed, that is the issue and it is a difficult one

the purpose of this AT would be damage dealing for the most part, however, it would have generally less base damage than most

however, I just had a thought about the stance powers I gave above and removing those in favor of making that an inherent in some way


"Stance"

Base +15% recharge
-1.5% recharge per enemy in melee (Max 10 enemies)
+1.5% to damage per enemy in melee (Max 10 enemies)

This would make the skirmisher deal more damage per hit while in melee, but attack more frequently while at range.

Actually, we routinely up the difficulty as soon as it becomes available because we're looking for trouble.

Granted the team with Emp/ defender has broken up due to losses to school, but we still meet in other teams, usually playing anywhere from +2 x6 to +4 x8 (on mostly four member teams) and rarely have troubles.

The only thing that's given us trouble so far is MoSTF, and even that, we've done every mission without death, just not all on the same go through. And the deaths we've had have always been something...unlikely.

We tend to find the game rather easy combat wise.

And you've got to get practiced at controlling where Fluffy is to make best use of him, up to and including resummoning.

Heck, even a properly specced Trick Arrow can make sick puppies out of a lot of foes, granted, you almost have to sacrifice your personal attacks, but that's why we have two builds now.


But yeah, I play a Dark/Elec and twilight is spammed constantly.

Defenders are not healers, at least most aren't.

Darks are debuffers, the job of a dark is to turn the enemy into a wimp.

Pulling up Mara, I have:

Twilight Grasp: -6.25% to hit, -12.5% damage, (Those two stats alone account for a combined 23.43% reduction of accumulated damage) -50% regeneration, 391 heal

I only have a 4.24s recharge, but even then I can reliably hit 3 stacks, more if I have a recharge effect on me from a team mate.

At 3 stacks, we're looking at -18.75% to hit and -37.5% damage....a total reduction of accumulated damage of 60.94%.

IE, just with Twilight, Mara can reduce an AV to doing only 40% of his/her usual damage.

Throw in the other effects I usually have out:

Shadowfall: 5% defense to all, 27.65% resistance to energy, negative and psionic damage

the defense alone reduces the incoming damage to people in your shadows by 10%.

If the enemy is energy, negative or psionic, then I'm reducing incoming damage by: 34.89%

Combined with the Twilight Grasp above, assuming max stack of 3:

That's 23.75% reduction to to-hit (combined in tohit debuff and defense buff) and 37.5% reduction of all damage with 65.15% of E/N/P damage. (combined in dam debuff and resist buff)

Darkest Night: -27.7% to hit, -37.5% damage. That alone should be having the enemy reduced by 72.125% of normal ability.

With the other three abilities, I'm looking at:

42.45% to hit debuff
5% defense buff
75% damage debuff
26.75% E/N/P Resist buff

Most enemies at this point have only a 5% chance to hit.

Fearsome Stare adds another -18.75% to hit (we're way past a common foe's soft-cap limit), with the added benefit of REALLY slowing down incoming attacks.

If I can convince Fluffy to stand near the opponent, then his Chill of the Night (PBAoE aura) reduces to hit by another -30%

Fluffy's Twilight Grasp will reduce damage by another 10% and to-hit by another 5% (while healing 461.27 hp and this recharges over 10 seconds, so he can stack twice for a total of -10% to hit and -20% damage.

Fluffy's Darkest Night adds another -30% damage and -15% to hit

And his tenetacles reduce to hit by another -5%


Looking at the totals now:

61.5% to-hit debuff alone
121.5% to-hit debuff with Fluffy
5% buff all defense

even the most bloody accurate AV is struggling to hit barns at this point

75% damage debuff alone
125% damage debuff with Fluffy
27.65% E/N/P resist

not sure what the damage minimum is, but pretty much any baddy has hit it at this point

From Mara: 390.9 HP heal every 4.24 seconds with 1.71 accuracy bonus
From Fluffy: 461.27 HP heal every 10 seconds with 3.46 accuracy bonus

And this is IGNORING the affects on the enemy's defenses:

You're looking at a total -250% regeneration debuff. -750% regeneration debuff if you use Howling as a debuff vs AVs instead of holding it off (necessary vs some)

And also a -30% resistance to the enemy

Then there's all the vastly underestimated soft controls:

Fears, Stuns, Immobilizes (though that's controlled by Fluffy)

I also have Elec as my attack and almost every single attack is slotted with a chance for disorient. But we're not talking about Elec, so I won't get into that.

Nemesis regularly recruits from other militaristic criminal groups, I'm sure there are Nemesis plots going in practically all the villain groups like the Raiders, the Council and so on

Indeed, you are able to get a good simple look going (despite my liking of the superhero concept, I tend to despise the flashy costumes and prefer to dress my characters in street clothes) my "main" (such as it is given my lack of playing in forever) is a pretty simple costume:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9QKsxYCdlY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBZip...eature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp923...eature=channel

The character, Heigou (black dog), essentially a tank.

The wolves she summons look rather freakish though...even aside from their ability to shape-shift (the last vid shows that, I happened to be Frapping at the time I discovered that facet)...and I'm not sure her current build is strong enough to pick up a car or not...oh well

Well, if you notice from the pics of actual characters I have played, I mostly use human faces with animal/bestial pieces because, yes, those generally provide more expression. However, I was gratified to find that I could do some minimal manipulation of facial features with the snake head, specifically, I was able to almost completely close the jaw for the dinosaur pic, only that last bit at the front wouldn't close.

And yes...I agree with your estimation of CO's chosen style of character...they look like they tried to copy WoW instead of come up with their own style. I did refer to it as "tails by Leifield"

Even more irritating, it has almost no relation at all to the art style used for almost two decades by HERO system games. I have real troubles connecting the CO universe with the characters in the Champions game that I've basically grown up with. (Champs was my very first RP that I actually owned)

sort of why I presented an alternate form tunnelling as a seperate pool

Tunnelling +Run Speed, +Stealth, -Jump, Affects only Self

if there were a way to make it so it didn't turn off Stone Armor's root and granite forms then, at the very least, it would present a second viable move option for stone tanks

the way I'm thinking of it wouldn't require the engine to do anything it isn't currently doing.

the way I'd do tunnelling would simply make the player's avatar invisible (sort of like what happens when you use self-destruct) and have the effect aura be rocky crumble rather than orange light. There'd probably be a starting and ending animation (the Red Caps diving into the ground and then jumping out comes to mind) but the actual physical point would remain the same. And you wouldn't be able to tunnel into places you couldn't run into, but we're already dealing with that discrepancy with teleport and phase shift which should let go through walls but don't