MaXimillion_Zero

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You get invited to teams and is expected to be the main tank with your dwarf even though there are one already (because your better at it)

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Signed!
(actually... on occasion, we *ARE* better at it)

[/ QUOTE ]Not after AoE caps came in you aren't

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when one is fighting +5s one needs to lower one's reputation

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as to the medicine pool i'm not sure i've ever taken that so therefore i think i'll give that a go and still stick hasten in there.

[/ QUOTE ]You won't be dissapointed

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Arent your 2 favourite pools Medecin and Speed MaX?

[/ QUOTE ]No, fitness is #1

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as to the medicine pool i'm not sure i've ever taken that so therefore i think i'll give that a go and still stick hasten in there.

[/ QUOTE ]You won't be dissapointed

Well, seeing as I do do quite a bit of builds for other people, I usually ask for preference concerning travel power, stamina (if char wit other +END powers), and any powers the set might have that some players don't like (Taunt, ToF, Follow up, to name a few). I then try to build the best possible character within those set boundaries.

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Axe has knockback/up/down, the damage on axe also aint to go un noticed i find some of the attacks quite powerful.But yeah i kinda see what you mean

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Yeah it seems to have a couple of highish attacks and +5% acc on some attacks but its still outpowered by SS/EM/Fire/Stone.

[/ QUOTE ]SS and EM perhaps, but fire? In ST damage? Highly doubt it, axe is still very nice damage, I'd estimate the 3rd best ST after SS and EM.

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1) First of all, is Ice/Psi a good choice of primary and secondary for the purposes I explained above?


[/ QUOTE ]Can't see anything wrong with it

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2) Stamina. After reading the forums a bit, I noticed that some people agree that with Drain Psyche, I won't need Stamina. It could be true, but I'm certainly getting Arctic Air and slotting it with 3 endredx. Is DP enough or do I still need Stamina?


[/ QUOTE ]I'd still get stamina

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3) Chain of attacks. I'm planning to take Psionic Dart, Mind Probe, Subdue, Psionic Lance and Psychic Shockwave. I heard Mental Blast is really bad because of its activation time and Telekinetic Thrust seemed useless to me. Also, I'm taking Hasten.


[/ QUOTE ]Those, combined with your ST hold, should be good.

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4) Psychic Scream. Since I can get Shiver from my primary, do I need PS as well? Shiver seems to be a lot better and, used with AA and Chilling Embrace and other powers, enough to debuff my opponents with -recharge and -spd.


[/ QUOTE ]PS does damage, shiver doesn't.

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5) Travel power. Planning to take Leaping in order to have CJ and Acrobatics. Super Speed after lvl 40, probably at lvl 49.


[/ QUOTE ]Personally not a fan of acro, all villains I build nowdays either get SS (For hasten, and use temp powers for vertical travel), or fly (For air sup). But all travel choices work fine ^^

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6) Aid Self. Worth it? I think so, but I'd like to hear your experiences with it.


[/ QUOTE ]Definitely a worthy power.

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7) Patron. Mako fits my concept and Water Spout and Shark Skin seem to be very useful. Any thoughts?


[/ QUOTE ]I'd never build dom with any patron other than scirocco, power sink is just that good.

Kill them before they kill you.

Also, teaming with spport characters is good, and if you really want survivability you might want to pick up aid self.

Ninjitsu is DEF based, which is good for a stalker, since if you don't get hit you'll re-hide easier.

If one wants to play spines primary effectively, without needing to rely on support, regen is the best choice due to the extra endurance, and the very high survivability.

You can take elemental or S/L shield off with certain foes, as well as mez one. Also, if incoming damage is low, OG and CoF are not needed, and neither is CoD.

Regen > All

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Personally i've found ice secondary to be excellent for blapping. It has so much control you are very safe in melee. More of a blaptroller, but both ice sword and frozen fists do decent damage.

[/ QUOTE ]See, but decent damage is not what blapping is about, it's about HUGE damage

Wouldn't be putting ToHit's in invincibility, the boost is pretty small AFAIK. Might want to consider taunts there instead.

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And and... because the 75% boost in damage isn't as flashy as in the lower levels (as it is off the base damage, not total damage), maybe a scaling damage boost? Starting from 75% boost from level 1 and increasing as you level?

[/ QUOTE ]Or a lower boost, but to base damage instead of a damage buff?

Seeing as you want hand clap and taunt, not really the way I'd build one, but should work decently:

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Exported from Ver: 1.7.6.0 of the CoH_CoV Character Builder
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Name:
Level: 50
Archetype: Brute
Primary: Super Strength
Secondary: Invulnerability
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01) --> Jab==> Acc(1)
01) --> Resist Physical Damage==> DmgRes(1)DmgRes(46)
02) --> Haymaker==> Acc(2)Rechg(3)EndRdx(3)Dmg(40)Dmg(40)Dmg(43)
04) --> Temp Invulnerability==> EndRdx(4)DmgRes(5)DmgRes(5)DmgRes(9)
06) --> Dull Pain==> Rechg(6)Rechg(7)Rechg(7)Heal(11)Heal(11)Heal(19)
08) --> Air Superiority==> Acc(8)EndRdx(9)
10) --> Hurdle==> Jump(10)
12) --> Knockout Blow==> Acc(12)Rechg(13)EndRdx(13)Dmg(23)Dmg(39)Dmg(40)
14) --> Fly==> Fly(14)Fly(15)Fly(15)
16) --> Unyielding==> EndRdx(16)DmgRes(17)DmgRes(17)DmgRes(19)
18) --> Health==> Heal(18)
20) --> Stamina==> EndMod(20)EndMod(21)EndMod(21)
22) --> Punch==> Acc(22)EndRdx(23)
24) --> Rage==> Rechg(24)Rechg(25)Rechg(25)TH_Buf(27)TH_Buf(27)
26) --> Aid Other==> Heal(26)
28) --> Invincibility==> EndRdx(28)DefBuf(29)DefBuf(29)DefBuf(31)
30) --> Aid Self==> Heal(30)Heal(31)Heal(31)Rechg(34)IntRdx(37)EndRdx(39)
32) --> Foot Stomp==> Acc(32)Rechg(33)EndRdx(33)Dmg(33)Dmg(34)Dmg(34)
35) --> Hand Clap==> Acc(35)DisDur(36)DisDur(36)DisDur(36)Rechg(37)Rechg(37)
38) --> Taunt==> Rechg(38)Taunt(39)
41) --> Mace Blast==> Acc(41)Rechg(42)EndRdx(42)Dmg(42)Dmg(43)Dmg(43)
44) --> Disruptor Blast==> Acc(44)Rechg(45)Rechg(45)DmgRes(45)Dmg(46)Dmg(46)
47) --> Unstoppable==> Rechg(47)Rechg(48)Rechg(48)DmgRes(48)DmgRes(50)
49) --> Hasten==> Rechg(49)Rechg(50)Rechg(50)
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Drop REl, REn and Hurl, pick up Aid other, Aid self and Invincibility (Get invincibility ASAP, it's your main defensive power)

DC has looong recharge, stamina is still a must, unless you're regen.

OK, tested with spines scrapper, so comparing to spines powers.

Both do around the same damage (exploding is a bit higher), ½ of impale damage, 3/4 of lunge damage, slightly higher than throw spines or spine burst.
Shurinken has base recharge of 3-4 seconds, exploding is around 30 secs.
Both have same range, slightly lower than impale.

Hmmm... I guess I have nothing better to do this morning... *Goes to test to respec his scrap into weapon mastery*

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I'm sure I read somewhere that a SR scrapper, running hasten and quickness would need 20 Speed boosts to make hasten perma.

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Hasten was perma with 6 SO's, which was around 200% recharge buff. AFAIK, both siphon speed are either 20, or 25%, so combined with 3 RechRdx in hasten you'd need 4 or 5 siphons/speed boosts to make hasten perma.

I'd say SB and 3 siphon speeds should bring it pretty close to perma, and 2*SB definitely should make it perma.

Recharge.

Both defensive and follow.

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Combustions pretty useless, or it was when i had it

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Yeah justs grabs aggro with very little payback and with fire ball, fire breath, and fire sword circle you're not lacking in the AoE department, take fire sword instead.

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I thought Combustion was a melee version of fireball? My choice of power to lose would be fire breath as it is a cone so you will probably hit less mobs with fire breath than combustion.

[/ QUOTE ]Just get ALL the AoE's, like a true fire blaster

Although if I was to drop one, combustion would be the one to go.