Moonlighter

There also seems to be the "OMG I am debuffed" run code, which kicks in for Katana, Broadsword, and other sets with inherit debuffs. I don't seem as many runners on my MA as my Katana where everything runs as soon as it gets the -Def debuff.

Tip missions let you cherry pick the hardest IOs to get outside PvP and Purples. So the +Recharge LotG IOs are easier to get since you should be getting 1.5 Hero Merits per day if you play a lot. That's maybe 8-10 days for all 5 while getting salvage in missions. After that you can buy expensive recipes and sell them to start building cash reserves.

With no taunt aura you'll have to kill on the alpha strike or everything will run all over the map.

That's fair, which is why I tried to keep the same powers in the build I posted. I totally respec a desire to avoid the tri-corder of doom.

Off the top of my head, the problematic ones that are part of the accolade:

Infernal, Black Swan, Diabolique

There's also Baphomet... I won't count the Envoy of Shadows or Ghost Widow because they are such a pain to solo for most secondaries.

Capped S/L is very good, but it still has holes to many groups. At high settings against many factions with Fire/Cold, Negative and Psi. Circle of Thorns, Carnies, even Vampyres stacked in a 8/+2 group of council can cause issues.

On top of that capping S/L in Electric uses up most of your melee attacks and replaces other sets that give you needed recharge. It is not a trivial exercise to S/L cap electric. Elec needs recharge for it's mitigation as well.

Because they are up such a small percentage of time and cause a crash that takes you out of the fight.


Hey, maybe you're right. With incarnate powers and lore pets I will give you the point that Electric with it's tier 9 is potent, and characters have such a high damage output that they can probably take out the AV during the uptime or close to it. I tend to discuss sets minus the tier 9 since at pre-incarnate damage outputs they don't tend to run long enough for stupid scrapper tricks like AV hunting and the old Rikti challenge. I guess it's a new world where the DPS is so high these are much more useful.

I am well aware of the advantages of S/L capping, and do it myself on not only scrappers but other ATs. In the AV arcs you still run into plenty of AVs that will hurt Elec.

I guess we are counting tier 9's now that incarnate powers let you take out an AV in the up time?

With only three toggles and CJ you probably won't need Conserve Power. Freeing both Elude and Conserve Power would let you get Aid Self, or dip into the Leadership pool. Another option is to dump CJ in favor of Hover, freeing another pool at the cost of extra endurance usage. But I tried to do the build without changing powers or power order.

Fixed.

(plus 10)

Except:

~ You can choose the order of your combo building powers, and drop bad ones once you get enough recharge.

~ One miss doesn't screw up your combo.

~ You can mix and match combo builders with finishers, hitting the AoE finisher for minions or single target finishers for DPS.

Dual Blades doesn't allow for any of that.

Are the combo points on the player character to avoid one of the big design flaws WoW made with rogues? Or are they on the target?

All the F2P games I subscribe to (which granted is only 3 not including CoH) have all those included. To be clear, I am talking about the case where people are paying subscriptions. The only caveat is some of the games have core functionality that has to be earned in game (like Warshades, Capes and Auras) that can be unlocked prematurely with MTX.

For boosters, I can see from the screenshots whether I will like the costumes or not. Sure, there is a chance I won't like the mini-powers but I know what I am getting into with the costumes. Now, I love the mini-travel powers. Ninja Run is probably in my top ten for game additions.

For content, I will probably enjoy playing through it once. If it is great content, I will get a lot of replay value yes. But I will enjoy even less enjoyable content the first time if only as an exploratory exercise. And honestly, once I don't trust the devs to produce content I will enjoy at least once then I will move onto other games.

New sets are a completely different beast. They only have value if I will enjoy a character with that set. When they are essentially free or part of a content pack which I will buy anyway there is nothing lost if I buy them. If I pay for them explicitly I have no way of checking out their awesomeness unless I use the test server. Actually a test server with the level to 50 option available would work for that purpose.

I think one problem I have is that all the other F2P games I play basically include all core functionality in the subscription price. Micro transactions can purchase cosmetics, or temporary buffs and powers but I am not shut of out content or mechanics if I maintain a subscription. I understand CoH answers this by giving a stipend. Using that stipend for core functionality just seems wrong to me. But my expectation of value has been set by the F2P games that came before CoH.

I don't want to overstate the issue. I am not raging or threatening to quit. But I have to admit when I heard that I would, as a subscriber, have to pay for new powersets I had a negative reactive to it.

Just face the facts that your logic and mathematics paled in comparison to the god of reason and maths that was BunnyAnomaly.

Focused Accuracy is valuable because of the high amounts of ToHit Debuff resistance it gives you, which Tactics doesn't. You can click FA on when you suck a large ToHit Debuff (CoT Spectrals, carnie Dark Servants, etc.) You can use it on demand in which case you kill the offending enemy and then click it off. In this case End isn't generally an issue.

Some people have been floating builds that are one small purple from Trial soft cap, and I think that's why higher defense has been creeping into builds.

You realize that Power Boost gives a significant boost to all defense powers?

I haven't heard of any Pylon changes.

I think you are thinking Shield Defense? Super Reflex scrappers, with Gaussian's and Steadfast +3% Defense, will cap with Combat Reflexes and Weave, assuming good defense slotting in all your defense powers.