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Yay, level 50 content. Bzerr! Zow! Vvvvt! [that's Lore] VvvChoom! [Pyronic Judgement]

Saltier, please.

Yeah, man. When are we gonna get bottoms-with-skin Disco and Makup5 for the Huge body type!

It would be a pleasure to be on a non-mutinous BAF.

I'll bring Trixi Chalk, a kat/wp who needs her some Cimerorans.

I'm planning on bringing a soldier of arachnos rather than Saltier.

How do you abbreviate that? SoA? Just Arachnos or just Soldier? Arach?

Edited:

Nevermind previous statement about not making it. Kid is sick/exhausted so I'll be home tonight.

I'm thinkin' Saltier on this.

Though with Praetorians loving their ranged energy damage, I'm tempted to bring a kat/wp or MA/inv. But sign me up for Salty.

I'll be there with Toro. But if we have too many tanks, I might switch to my Arachnos soldier. I'm planning on trying to run Assault and TT:Assault at the same time, and with venom grenade...woot. If I do bring her, I'd like to be on a team where we group all the spiney scrappers, and more HEATs.

But...She's (a) still rogue and (2) only 24. Not sure if double xp weekend will help of make me throw my hands up in disgust at the horrid pugs I'd inevitably be on, leaving the game forever, or a few hours.

Edited to add: And some day, I'd like to be on a team with all khelds, or maybe just all EATs or something. I don't see a reason to make special events for theme teams when we have enough alts between us to pull of nearly anything.

I think I might like this decision. Jogging through dangerous higher-than-me levels early game is irritating. Heck, jogging around is irritating.

Both are nice. I'd scoot my Weave and other defensive stuff down.

Oh, man. I've been running the low level Ouro flashbacks and my totally kickass, perma-with-6-sec-overlap-hasten fire blaster was sloow and not the key player on a team I usually [feel that] I am.

When doing some of these with my ice tank, and seeing my S/L drop to 25, it was time to do somethinking.

I found this really good article about SoA Huntsmen that dwells on the subject of exemplar builds quite a bit. http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=248244

Here is my rather hasty, irritated build I whipped out. Rule of Fives reached but not exceeded on 6.25 and 5% rech. No purples [duh].

This will be a medium cheap second build, and probably harder to find the sets at 22 than anything else. I'm not messing with my main build.

Where can you improve this goofy thing?

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.942
http://www.cohplanner.com/

Click this DataLink to open the build!

Saltier Flashback Minimum: Level 50 Science Blaster
Primary Power Set: Fire Blast
Secondary Power Set: Ice Manipulation
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Concealment
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Flame Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Flares -- Entrpc-Acc/Dmg:22(A), Entrpc-Dmg/EndRdx:22(3), Entrpc-Dmg/Rchg:22(3), Entrpc-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:22(5), Entrpc-Heal%:22(5), Dmg-I:50(7)
Level 1: Chilblain -- TmpRdns-Acc/Slow:22(A), TmpRdns-Dmg/Slow:22(7), TmpRdns-Acc/EndRdx:22(9), TmpRdns-EndRdx/Rchg/Slow:22(9), TmpRdns-Rng/Slow:22(11)
Level 2: Fire Blast -- Entrpc-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:22(A), Entrpc-Acc/Dmg:22(13), Entrpc-Dmg/EndRdx:22(13), Entrpc-Dmg/Rchg:22(15), Entrpc-Heal%:22(15)
Level 4: Fire Ball -- Posi-Acc/Dmg:22(A), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx:22(17), Posi-Dmg/Rchg:22(19), Posi-Dmg/Rng:22(19), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:22(21), RechRdx-I:50(21)
Level 6: Hover -- Zephyr-Travel:22(A), Zephyr-ResKB:22(23), LkGmblr-Rchg+:25(23), Ksmt-ToHit+:22(25), Frbd-Stlth:22(25), Frbd-Fly:22(27)
Level 8: Stealth -- LkGmblr-Rchg+:25(A), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx:25(27), RedFtn-Def/Rchg:25(40), RedFtn-EndRdx/Rchg:25(42), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx/Rchg:25(43), RedFtn-Def:25(43)
Level 10: Rain of Fire -- Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:22(A), Posi-Acc/Dmg:22(29), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx:22(29), Posi-Dmg/Rchg:22(31), Posi-Dmg/Rng:22(31)
Level 12: Aim -- AdjTgt-Rchg:22(A), AdjTgt-ToHit:22(33), AdjTgt-ToHit/Rchg:22(33), AdjTgt-ToHit/EndRdx:22(33), AdjTgt-EndRdx/Rchg:22(42), RechRdx-I:50(42)
Level 14: Fire Breath -- Posi-Dmg/Rng:22(A), Posi-Acc/Dmg:22(34), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx:22(34), Posi-Dmg/Rchg:22(34), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:22(36), Range-I:50(36)
Level 16: Build Up -- AdjTgt-ToHit:22(A), AdjTgt-ToHit/Rchg:22(36), AdjTgt-ToHit/EndRdx:22(37), AdjTgt-EndRdx/Rchg:22(40), AdjTgt-Rchg:22(40), RechRdx-I:50(45)
Level 18: Blaze -- HO:Centri(A), HO:Centri(37), Entrpc-Acc/Dmg:22(37), Entrpc-Dmg/Rchg:22(39), Range-I:50(39), RechRdx-I:50(39)
Level 20: Hasten -- RechRdx-I:50(A), RechRdx-I:50(43), RechRdx-I:50(45)
Level 22: Grant Invisibility -- LkGmblr-Rchg+:25(A), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx:25(45), RedFtn-EndRdx/Rchg:25(46), RedFtn-Def/Rchg:25(46), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx/Rchg:25(46), RedFtn-Def:25(48)
Level 24: Invisibility -- LkGmblr-Rchg+:25(A), RedFtn-Def:25(48), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx:25(48), RedFtn-Def/Rchg:25(50), RedFtn-EndRdx/Rchg:25(50), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx/Rchg:25(50)
Level 26: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Rchg+:25(A)
Level 28: Fly -- Winter-ResSlow:22(A)
Level 30: Shiver -- Acc-I:50(A)
Level 32: Inferno -- Dmg-I:50(A)
Level 35: Blazing Bolt -- Range-I:50(A)
Level 38: Phase Shift -- RechRdx-I:50(A)
Level 41: Bonfire -- RechRdx-I:50(A)
Level 44: Fire Shield -- EndRdx-I:50(A)
Level 47: Rise of the Phoenix -- RechRdx-I:50(A)
Level 49: Char -- Acc-I:50(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Defiance
Level 1: Sprint -- Run-I:50(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Swift -- Flight-I:50(A)
Level 2: Health -- Mrcl-Rcvry+:22(A), Heal-I:50(11)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Jump-I:50(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- P'Shift-End%:22(A), EndMod-I:50(17), EndMod-I:50(31)
Level 4: Ninja Run
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Set Bonus Totals:

• 10% DamageBuff(Smashing)
• 10% DamageBuff(Lethal)
• 10% DamageBuff(Fire)
• 10% DamageBuff(Cold)
• 10% DamageBuff(Energy)
• 10% DamageBuff(Negative)
• 10% DamageBuff(Toxic)
• 10% DamageBuff(Psionic)
• 0.63% Defense(Energy)
• 0.63% Defense(Negative)
• 1.25% Defense(Ranged)
• 5.4% Max End
• 45% Enhancement(Accuracy)
• 97.5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
• 1.5% Enhancement(JumpHeight)
• 1.5% Enhancement(FlySpeed)
• 1.5% Enhancement(RunSpeed)
• 1.5% Enhancement(JumpSpeed)
• Knockback (Mag -4)
• Knockup (Mag -4)
• MezResist(Confused) 5.5%
• MezResist(Immobilize) 6.6%
• 9% (0.15 End/sec) Recovery
• 38% (1.91 HP/sec) Regeneration
• 20% ResEffect(FlySpeed)
• 20% ResEffect(RechargeTime)
• 20% ResEffect(RunSpeed)
• 8.5% Resistance(Fire)
• 8.5% Resistance(Cold)
• 2.52% Resistance(Energy)
• 2.52% Resistance(Negative)

Just found this thread and it's helped me a lot.

Bumping this and suggesting it be added to the FAQ post.

I was on Goldberg [midnight spike]'s team. Man, that Yari [Meg] spammin' the taunt, stealing all my guys.

Though that's fine, as my sets didn't work at that level and I was running around with 26% S/L. And I forgot the AV with the flamethrower. Sheesh. And the Mu, man. And me dcing twice or was it three times. I gotta get this pigg crash issue taken care of. Last time I "fixed" it I was running in N64 mode. FSAA and Ambient Occlusion were the deal then. But with the last upgrade, like when we went i20, I'm Crashy Crash-Crash from Crashville, Crashabama.

Had fun. At one point I got disoriented and "off my game," but, yet again, it was my camera being too close.

I should have my widow above 25 by next week if we're doing more Hero Ouro flashbacks. If the low level's going to squishify my tank.

Don't worry about not being a master of all IOs, 7. I will not post the builds my first two 50s had. The first I ran only SOs and DOs, even above 25, yeah, and actually left lots of slots unslotted. I didn't know about IOs.

The second one, my kat/wp, I slotted horribly, not frankenslotting properly, but putting in drops I'd gotten. I still have my ill/storm slotted in a very embarrasing manner [which is the reason you never see me play her in the Freedom Hoarde stuff.]

Another thing I'll add, I don't care about damage buff bonuses. Some 2% doodad doesn't compare to putting recharge in there.

And as for the suggestions where you should go S/L and not FCEN, my gal is indestructable unless the Cimerorans/Shaman's debuff her into negative values. And while fire doesn't show up much, and ice never. It does some, and in pure form, just ask my ice tank.

That all said, kat/wp has many ways to slot it. Even if you're slotted totally wrong you'd still be able to eat Council for lunch.

I have a personal SG with just my main marketer in. Yep, I'm one of the ebil marketers, but really, once you get a few billion, it's really easy to keep that much or build more very casually.

My honest opinion is your build costs too much and builds toward healing, which RttC takes care of in spades. But, kat/wp is not a picky AT.

If you want someone to rip it a new one, post it in the scrapper section. They will not pull any punches. I wonder if the brilliant but abusive...crap, I cant' remember his name. Well, there was a guy who was really good, but just plain rude. But he knew his stuff.

You are definitely indestructible, that's for sure.

I'd sell the purples. Put Perf Shifter procs in QR and Stam, and then forget building toward endurance reduction. We kat/wp swim in endurance.

[That said, I did respec into some mild endurance issues, but I threw some shards, back when you could get the drops easier, into Cardiac. Yes, I know, cardiac on a /wp is a tragedy, but heck, it all balances out.]

I just don't believe in purples...unless they're the confusion proc.

Wow, were those all drops?

I was doing tips with Sevenpenny last night and he mentioned that he wished he could show us his main's build. He hasn't used mids in ages, he indicated, so here's how to post your as-built.

Download both Mids and the Titan network monitor thing.
[can't put links in as I'm at work and everything is blocked]

• Start up Titan Sentinel.
• Start up City of Heroes and log into the desired toon.
• In Titan Sentinel, Utilities, then export for forum post. This will created a datachunk you could post in the forums immediately, but let's look at it in Mids first.
• Start up Mids.
• Import/Export...import it.
• Import/Export, Short Forum Export, and I just click the only post datachunk.
• Paste into the forum.

See, like here's Saltier's asbuilt currently.

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And, yep, with my Core Total Spiritual running, I have a four second Hasten overlap. She also has T3 radial interface [the one with the 75% DoT], Clockwork Core T3, Pyronic T3 Judgement, and the heal T3, which I forget I have. RofP is my heal/end recovery power.

Any my kat/wp, since that's what we were actually talking about, and I didn't freak out on rech or anything since kat/wp is so robust anyhow.

[I don't actually have one after her last respec, which was lame as I thought getting caltrops would be nice, but with RttC it sucks.]

This is old, but keeps theme well.

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Edited to add: Yes, I know there's a better way to do the Cleaving/Erad so you get good numbers on three of the things. This is pre-respec where I fixed a lot of stuff.