khaine_star

I just realised that my original post to this thread got eaten.



Oh well I will say it again.

Gratz on 50.

and thanks for all the assistance you have rendered.

Grats on the big 5 0 Macs.

Its nice to know that theres a top defender ready to pull my short backside out when I decide to do a kamikaze run against hammi

I shall add you next time I am on. My global handle is @khainestar.

Shockers... I thought you had left. Not seen you in a long time.

Where you hiding now?

Not yet I have put a post in general to find out if I am the first person to miss there own 50 ding.

Thank you, thank you

/em takeabow

It would have been nice if I was online when I dinged too.

I left a bit of xp about 2k so I could ding later. I left a timed mission going though. When I logged in the timed mission had failed and gave me 2,122 xp. So I dinged as I logged on.

As usual I am stood at the back teasing the badguys

well that is what he said he was going to do

Grats matey

When you use the base to rez you get put at the standard teleport point for that area. It used to drop you at the enterance of the mission. According to a GM I have spoke to this is WAI. Makes an infirmary sort of pointless.

My stone/axe tanker felt rubbish until DO's most of the time I didn't bother turning the armours on. When you hit DO's though you will notice a big jump in survivability. Then when you hit SO's you become a force to be reconned with. As for battleaxe stick with it. I suggest getting swoop, beheader, whirling axe, cleave and pendulum. (got to get the first one) With those powers I kept a +3 boss bouncing on his back and was in no danger at all. The knockdowns are very nice for damage avoidance.

I played on heroic until I got fully SO slotted powers. Now I play on rugged and have no reservations about running into +2/+3 bosses.

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Well a stalker has more tricks than just AS, belive me the tank goes down if the stalker wishes. Hell if a stalker puffs 10 reds(cant be bothered to find the cap. but Im sure 10 will take you there) and build up he can 1 hit kill a stone tank in granite.

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Thats what the stalker thought when he tried it against my tanker. Then he missed.. I was laughing so hard I almost forgot to kick his backside.

Statesman has been quoted as saying that small single person bases or appartments are going to be added later.

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Kill em' all.

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Pretty much sums it up. Would they give you the same courtesy? Would they be worried that they might get you debt? Probably not. I have been tp foed the second the timer ran out when entering. I have been ganked by a stalker and sent to a hospital that was camped by several villains. I have been repeatedly sniped by a hero who was hiding in the villains hospital.

No quarter given, no quarter asked. Kill 'em all, let god sort it out.

I originally tried to promote the usefulness of the base hospital. The fact that for a reduction in hp and end ment that you didn't have a huge trip ahead of you. Now they are pretty much useless. You res with 25% hp and end and still have a trip to get back to the mission.

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it dropped me in the same location as the teleporter does.

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Is it me or does the teleporter drop you in some odd places too?

You should just tinker mac. Theres nothing that can't be altered back and it doesn't waste pres. Although I must admit it would be nice to have a way of editing the base then hitting a big undo button to change it back when you find that those drapes just don't go with the carpet.

During beta I had this bind

"powexec_name Assassins Blade$$tell $target, Ever had your stomach around your ears? no? well this will be a first for you"

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Nerfing a whole AT just to make PvP seem fairer is totally silly.

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That didn't stop them nerfing all the AT's in CoH.

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All you really need is one person on your team with + perception I would say a devices blaster is the best for that and have them as the stalker look out.

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I certainly can't see them with my drone running. They can see me with my stealth on though.

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But what happens when the Stalker teams up with other villains especially other stalkers??

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Somehow that doesn't bother me. They teamed up they are using tactics. I don't mind if it takes a little more thought, and more powers than you get at level 6 to take me out. If you want to draw comparisions between solo stalkers and teamed stalkers, what about the team I was in. 4 blasters, 1 empath. The empath used grant invis on us all then we gang sniped a brute. He hit the floor faster than he could say "wt..". Team tactics aren't the major annoyance. It's when a solo stalker can one shot people from the cover of complete invis.

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And I still think if you need to go to all that prep, including rolling a specialist Stalker Hunter and getting into a team that is well practised and has all the right specific team players in place..... just to take down a stalker...

Well there's a balance issue.

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Well said. There's no other AT that you have to take a special build against or fill your tray with insps for. I am counting controllers in there too as you only need a breakfree if you get held. You need to constantly use insps to spot a stalker.

All the keep moving advice is rubbish. I demonstrated this while in beta. I got someone to superspeed past me. As they passed me my AS started and they got flattened. He certainly wasn't standing still and he got walloped by my AS. It's just a matter of timing. As for poping insperations to spot a stalker thats rubbish advice too. All the advice seems to point to. If you want to see a stalker you either have to take a power pool, team with someone with a power pool or constantly pop insperations. If I follow all the advice I have been given on stopping stalker one shot me I would have very few attacks, an insps box big enough to cover the entire screen and eye strain.

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Speaking for my lvl 35 fire/thermal i've take most of the secondrys except plasma shield as its res V some lesser common damage types.

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Thats answered one question. I was wondering if the plasma shield was more use at a higher level. My dark/thermal is only 16 so far and has 3 attacks, 2 heals, rez and 1 shield.

The guy that aggroed everything and then moaned about getting killed made me grin. It reminded me of the stone tanker that only used brimstone armour as the others didn't look very good. I juse laughed as he charged into a load of clockwork. (he had rock, crystal, stone skin and brinstone. No rooted or EE. He kept complaining that the stone armour set didn't have any mez protection)

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I love it when people think my Master Mind is a easy kill there is nothing more statisfying than handing some chump his [censored].

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I would love to see the look on some of the people faces when my horde appears out of the shadows and hands them there backside on a plate. Watch them tremble in fear while my horde remains protected by my powers.

/em muahahaha

Of course it all goes wrong when a blaster spots you first and wipes you out in 2 hits.

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You are now unable to solo Heroic missions?

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My tanker is now boring to solo. The only armour worth taking in the entire set is granite. Which reduces my damage output and removes any threat. It takes ages to get to an enemy and if they run I have to stand there waiting for them to return. Any mission I don't need GA for I don't need any armour for. To my mind it makes most of the stone armour powers pointless after level 32. Before level 32, well good luck and how's the debt going?

My Necro/Dark build has group fly. It is useful for the odd moments that your pets won't use stairs or you have several floors to go up and can't be bothered finding the stairs. However something I didn't realise until it was pointed out to me. It still has a -ACC. So you maybe able to chase the fliers. You just can't hit them. I will be dropping it in a respec. Much more usefull powers to be had.

oo good idea. I shall re-orginise my spreadsheet.

I am currently building a new list. From things I have seen on the forums, things in game, and any additions added here. Should be ready soon

Nope the only thing you lose is your prestige. But the sg you leave keeps it.

I was being sarcastic about the post saying that everything in the base editor was unfinished. Hard to do sarcasm in type though.

You can't place anything at all in doorways. However if you place a choke point security room then raise the door way at either end then lower the floor in the chokepoint you can string the bridges between them. Of course it would be better if you could put just one down the middle instead of 1 to either side of the middle but thats life. If you put a flamethrower down in the pit you have created it looks very cool when someone raids the base and runs over it.