Rooks

I dunno, in the wake of i7 and the nerf of toggle dropping, I'm beginning to believe we may actually see some proper Blasters on the streets of Paragon. I know it sounds silly but...

As a whole, Martial Arts is similiar to the Broadsword Scrapper primary, in that its main attacks have a high Brawl Index (BS has a slightly higher BI on most things iirc), but it also has a very effective + damaging Knockback power (in the form of Crane Kick) and stuns in the form of Cobra Strike + Ealges Claw. The brawl index of an unslotted Martial Artist is noticably higher than that of an unslotted Spiney.

This, combined with the fact that there are never any draw times on the count of the use of the hero/villain's bare hands, makes this an effective power set to use, especially in conjunction with powers that would normally make you need to redraw your weapon (powers like Aid Self, Air Superiority, etc).

MA ftw

Oooh gratzes, ele/ele for the win!!

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...wierd watching granite get back up again hehe

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You're right about that... they do the same acrobatic animation only in Überslow motion, so the Granite Tank/Brute actually does fly

In short.....yup

Although back on Union, the Villains started a thread about reclaiming Sirens, and this weekend there were at least 20 villains all in the hotspots, I tell ya, it made the unbalanced between Hero + Villan PvP soo much more enjoyable for the good guys.... it was finally a challenge rather than being repeatedly drone-TPed (instead we were mob TPed ), and considering the ratio of heroes/villains (4-1 at one point, I'm sure ) we did pretty well for ourselves even if I do say so myself


Of course now they are gone...and the heroes of Union have already reclaimed the reclaimation of SC

Ah....good times

Lol what is it with people and ridiculously late Aid Selfs? :S

Surely if you can survive so much of the game without it there isn't much point...especially seeing as how early you can get it (mine got it at lvl 24, as I said before ), its like being an MM and only getting the 2nd tier pets at level 47 (when i7 comes out, those of you who wish to pick flaws in my logic...I know you're out there '/em paranoid' ) to a certain extent.


Meh....

Tempted to bring my Super Jesus-esque scrapper to the fold.....


Count me in

I'm thinking of making a Ninja MM called "I" (or some sort of variant), and calling his minions 'Look', 'Foreward', 'To', 'Killing', 'You' and 'Soon'

Long way from Bloody Bay.... wouldn't such radiation have to have a paragon city rail pass to get to SC? I hear they are an incredible effort to get..... damn that radiation

*is still dead from his cliché and therefore cannot respond*

You forgot his nefbat


*dies of cliché*

*brain running too slow to understand*



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....hamunah huh?

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My main on Union

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He doesn't look gimped enough....I wanna feel the gimpedness

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I like the idea of the mace but I'm not keen on the model.

Generalissimo_2 I'm surprised to see that you soloed for 75 percent of the time. I soloed a lot when i first played the game but try to avoid it now. Is your approach common?

Doc

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It's only common amongst the anti-social
I'm not really anti-social, I just tend to enjoy soloing more and build all my characters to be able to solo e.g. Illusion/Kinetics controller soloed about 75% of the time on my way to 50, two scrappers soloed almost exclusively to the low 30's and then teamed a little more in the mid-30's, my latest project a Forcefield defender soloed almost all the way to lvl 18 so far. I do enjoy teaming occasionally and am quite capable of adding good value to a team with my tanker, controller and spines scrapper but soloing is more my thing.

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ZOMG lonex0r!

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Mace is generally considered unpopular for tanks...

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ZOMG bash him!







Mace ftw!

Nice power setup for the build, Rooks like

However, what I would do is postpone the Autos instead of the Epics then work Aid self into your build (I for one have it on my Claws/SR iirc @lvl 24 or summit), as it's such a missive boost to a defense based scrapper's survivability.

The double acc slotting I like, and generally the end redux/recharge added slots I agree with, however I for one have my Slash slotted 3 Acc, one Damage (just for fun ) and 2 Defense Debuffs. This adds to the likelihood of powers like Follow Up hitting foes, and is a great help if you are fighting defense based enemies in PvP, or allows you to hit non def based things almost all the time, however whether or not you choose to utilise the -Defense element of Slash, or use it as another attack in your chain, is up to you.

One of these days I may put up my own Claws/SR build for the forumites to use as flame material

Although Vigilant is only lvl 39 atm, I intend quite the uber future for him considering how much he pwns now + how much the buffs affect him in i7 (both to Claws and defense)

EDIT: Oh, also you might like to add some ranges to Focus and Shockwave, as it really helps in PvP (lots o' ppl try to run from teh Vig ), but if this matters less to you than the slots you would sacrifise for them, don't bother.

Oooh, ooh, me me!

Toon Name: Rooks
Global Name: @Rooks (funny that )
Archetype: Tanker
Powersets:Stone/Stone

OR

Toon Name: Vigilant
Global Name: @Rooks
Archetype: Scrapper
Powersets:Claws/Super Reflexes (Yes, THATS RIGHT )

I'll probably bring Viggie tbh.

Nice post Upsurge

Tanking, for me at least, is a tale of 'beat stuff up till it gets [censored] + tries to hit you back', taunt the stuff what doesn't hit you, then run around beating things which turn away'™
(provided you are ofc tank enough to take it )

Camara movement is also necessary imo to help make sure everyone is poking you, even if there's a troller running PA, better safe than sorry. I supplement this tactic by keeping an eye on the magic green bars on the left, incase someone out of my Line of Sight is getting ganked.
If all is well, I keep those around me [censored] off by hitting them more, most of the time attacking the same target as the scrapper/blapper, incase they steal my beloved agro , although obviously if you have a taunt aura this will be less important.

This is of course a tanking tactic for when you are so amazingly good ata taking damage that any number of mobs that you will encounter in most teamed missions will make you laugh so loud you become winded and regret you laughed, thus regretting you are so [censored] good



Oh, and I also rely on my RoXXor build

*plays Burn Burn by the Lostprophets in background*

Well ya just have to... Burn ftw

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I would challenge for the 'PvE god' title. Wanna duel for it?

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Chives' logic ftw!!!!

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Kuji-In Rin only takes 2 recharge SO's to be perma'd.

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...I stand corrected

Not in PvP though.... suppression ftw

I find that Clickies are better, but sometimes more annoying as they interrupt your attack chain ('specially if you're a weapon scrapper), while toggles do not, I think but I'm not sure that the end cost of a clicky is less than the end drained from having a toggle on for the same amount of time, though.

Also a point about toggle mez protections is that they almost always have secondary effects to the base mez protection (+regen on Integration, +resistance on Unyielding, all the Übah things Rooted does ), except for the EA one, which just has res to more stuff iirc.

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What I dont understand is the sitdown near galaxy girl and chat bit

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Even Heroes have downtime

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C'ept for /Regens ofc

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I have myself been trying to revive the fire/fire tank I've persuaded a mate to roll a fire/emp troller and have herded, 17 at a time, ourselves to 31


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Me ftw

EDIT: woo, 100 posts

Good thing I be a /dark brute with rez to phear and decent NE rez

woooo!