Nihilii

As you like rules, you might want to remember one of the first rules of conversation is to use socially accepted definitions for words. If you make up your own definitions and use them, you might want to mention it ; otherwise, it's safe to assume you're using the same language as everyone else.

As a foreigner, speaking english is already hard enough for me to have people making up their own, different definitions for words on purpose, so you'll excuse me if I won't bother reading your posts from now on, as I lack the mindreading skills that allowed you to discern the devs' intended design.

Switching your stance from "ATs who can solo AVs without insps/temps are an exception" to "show me every build option can solo most AVs with SOs" is a very, very, VERY big leap to make from one post to another. I doubt anyone would discuss the latter, but at best it's barely related to your previous claim.

If you include temps (even self only), the answer is "yes" for every AT and every powerset combination.

I've yet to see a build that couldn't solo at least one AV given enough temps and insps.

With enough temps, you could probably sit back and watch them kill the AV.

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Maybe nobody likes teaming with you.

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I can't speak for Tyger42, but I'm inclined to agree with his comment. When I lead PuGs, people come and go. The team keeps going all the time, from the point it started to the point it ends - players are just replaced with other players.

Most players I recruit hardly stay for more than a hour, and most of them seem to be happy to be in the team, often giving thanks to everyone when they leave. Unless there's a massive hypocrisy conspiracy in CoH, I think it's safe to believe many (or at least, enough that I can always get a PuG going) folks enjoy teaming with me.

I also think it doesn't hurt anybody to just type "gotta go" before you leave a team. It takes about three seconds, and lets the leader know you didn't just DC / hit the Quit button accidentally.

You can do it with 3 players. One team should be fine.

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Well, it was closer than I thought. 238 DPS vs. 215 DPS. Still, that's more than a few DPS behind in my book.

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I don't believe that number is right. Running that chain, with a hecatomb proc in BF, an arma proc in SS, both -res procs, I was always around 190 DPS on both my db/inv and db/wp. I still have trouble figuring out how -res works, but my ingame speed (fighting pylons without stopping more than 1s in the whole fight) didn't show my characters over 200 DPS, ever. Adding one normal damage proc in each attack might give you about 2 or 2.5 more DPS per proc, but at this point you'd need much more global recharge and it'd probably be best to go for the high recharge chain.

Have you considered Attack Vitals' higher miss rate (as 3 attacks have to go off in a row) ?

Quoting myself from another thread, because I'm lazy like that.

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It's worth noting Aliana_Blue did better than me, on his/her DM/inv, taking out 7 AVs at once. Even better is, unlike mine, their build didn't use purples and they took on (in my opinion) harder AVs than I did.

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I firmly believe it'd be theorically possible for DM/Inv to take on 8 different devmade AVs at once.

This sounds like a great idea, and I don't see any downside to it.

Decent "all around" scrapper is indeed how I'd call DB/WP.

... and it turns out it bores me. I think I'm going to reroll as a tanker. Can I still hang around here ?

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everything you mentioned are examples of things that were either A: poorly implemented or B: just lame.

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Most of the things you mentioned in your OP are stuff I'd consider lame. I'm not saying it is, I'm sure plenty of folks would like that stuff, but it's boring and uninteresting to me.

On the other hand, what you refer to as "grind" is what I'm having fun with.

It depends what kind of mob.

If you're aiming for lieutenants of any kind, mitigation won't be a problem and it's best to aim for as much offensive output as possible. For that purpose, I'd go with Fire/Shield, Spines/Fire or Spines/Dark.

If you'd like to take on packs of level 52+ bosses, you'll want good mitigation to get it done efficiently ; go Fire/Invul or Spines/Invul.

Well, I don't play consoles so I don't know what Xbox live is. My negative experience comes from Fallout 3 and Dawn of War 2.

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Even with this though, they'd have to have a minimum team size on at least dr. quaterfield though. No way around that one.

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They could always change the multiple glowies objectives.

"Through Windows Live". Hmm.

I'll wait to see how it works exactly before cheering.

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When he reached 50 I also hit upon a costume I liked and a new name and theme. I changed everything about him visually. Concept goes a long way with me.

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I'm in the same boat. Despite never roleplaying, I've found characters I can't get into can suddenly become very fun with a costume and theme change, without any build change.

Frankly, I'd prefer they just lower the TF requirements and be done with it. I like soloing Positron at level 14, not at level 50, and it's annoying to be punished because of the stupidity of some other folks who would ignore a big red flashing neon sign telling them "THIS IS HARD IF YOU'RE SOLO !".

Of course, if it was the only alternative, I'd rather have this suggestion implemented than nothing.

Cool stuff.

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Speaking of sharing, mind explaining how /inv can withstand 6 AV attacking?

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My old thread contains everything about my old character, builds, videos, tactics. If you're interested in that, check it out.

It's worth noting Aliana_Blue did better than me, on his/her DM/inv, taking out 7 AVs at once. Even better is, unlike mine, their build didn't use purples and they took on (in my opinion) harder AVs than I did.

Worse than a ban, you've just opened the gates for people to use Official Werner Quotes.

Next time someone posts such a thread, I'll reply with this :

In the immortal words of Werner, "Hahahahaha, LOLWHUT? It's so AWESOME! LRN2Play??? ".

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I still don't see what people are complaining about, it does the most DPS behind claws on scrappers according to bill's chart.

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Assuming you use the chains he used, with common IOs, no hasten, no set bonuses. This doesn't fit any of my characters post level 27.

With my own numbers (doing it on a build per build basis, considering everything), I can't get EM over 200 DPS no matter how much recharge I cram into it, while losing the equivalent of 200-300% regen because of ET -hp. Meanwhile, there's other primaries with better DPS and no negative effect ; they'll also look better (granted, that's subjective, but BS, ET and TF feel really sluggish to me) and animate faster (less overkill on teams). Sometimes they'll have real AoEs, too.

You'd have to play a second account and follow me 24/7 on a buffbot to get me to even try EM.

Your new avatar fits well with this thread, BrokenPrey. Well, at least it's how I feel.

This is like a trainwreck. I can't look away. I can't bring myself to post something constructive and helpful, either.

So we've got one topic about SR supposedly underplayed, one other topic about Shield supposedly weak... What gives ? Is this a preview of Going Rogue, with the Praetorian version of Shield and SR being as weak and unpopular as it's strong and liked in our world ?

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It generates so much agro in PVE that its almost useless.

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Are you complaining about aggro ?

... Are you a scrapper ?