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The only reason I would ever consider a Scrapper (outside of PvP, where Brutes serve little purpose other than a tauntbot for a team because Fury doesn't work well in a PvP environment) over a Brute is an Elec/Shield. Why? Shield Charge and Lightning Rod have a higher base damage and Against All Odds gives more damage bonus per enemy in range because of AT modifiers. Almost any other situation, I'd rather have a Brute.
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About the only thing that annoys me these days is being the spike target in a kickball after I've been hit with Glue Arrow, Benumb, and Heat Loss.
Oh, and Gale. The fact that it's applying double the knockback it should be is odd. -
Temp Protection gives you another place to slot one, as would Stealth and Grant Invis. Yes, you'll want Temp Protection (extra slow resist - between that, the Winter's Gift IO, and all the inherent PvP debuff resists getting thrown around, you can hit 70-90% slow resistance before DR pretty easily). You'll probably want Phase as well, just because it will make people absolutely hate you.
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Defense on a squishy is largely worthless in the first place, as it will be nigh impossible to get past 20% with DR on.
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Were there any changes made to this incarnation, or is it the same as the updated version tested last week?
EDIT: Nevermind, just saw the patch notes.
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I fully support this idea.
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Merging the markets is the single best thing (short of upping the drop rate) that can be done for the availability and affordability of IOs, and they've essentially thrown that idea out the window because of an inf disparity between sides that would, ironically, be most quickly resolved by merging the markets.
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Psoma says "Hi and <3's," HP.
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I don't care if they review drop rates, I just want them to give us a number so we can at least check ourselves. A double-check on their part would be nice too, but I think the drop rate's probably where it's supposed to be.
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You have the wrong forums again, CO is that way --->
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Would try and get this going again in a 2v2 format, but I don't think we'd even have enough population to drive something like that.
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I view the CoP as a textbook example of why I'm always very skeptical of changes that are only "temporary" in this game. The problem with "temporary" fixes is they're often left alone so long that they effectively become permanent, and if they're eventually revisited there's usually an uproar when a long-standing functionality gets changed (see: pet recharge change in I14, TF/SF difficulty slider in I16, and so on).
Apparently there are plans to bring back base raiding sometime around Going Rogue, so that might mean the CoP trial will make a re-appearance, but I'm not holding my breath. -
Quote:Slotting in the toggles gets DRd a bit, and I'm reasonably certain stacked debuffs should DR against an opponent, but they don't DR by a whole lot (for example, the Rad/Ice Defender I was dueling against last night dropped my tohit from 75% to just above 50% with RI running).Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Just what the thread title says.
I know DR starts hittng you when you get the same thing from more than one source. So, in that case, do Rad's toggles have full power because it's all coming from one power?
Wondering because last night in RV my Rad/Sonic was absolutely untouchable against ranged attackers (I'm softcapped to ranged in PvE, so around 18% in PvP)
The way I have Radiation Infection slotted, it's debuffing to-hit by 48.68%. If that is not being hit by DR then it's a pretty substantial debuff.
The toon in question is awesome as a duelist, but if he fights more than one mezzer he gets in trouble quickly. Even though the mezzes don't last long, if even one lands he loses his debuff toggles. Planning on using him in tournaments and whatnot, as I'm happy with his performance 1v1.
Also, as a side question. Is an Ice/Rad corruptor still halfway decent in PvP or did the animation time thing kill their performance? I have a slot open on my home server and I'd like a ranged villain to play around with in RV. Or would I be better off reversing my defender and making a Sonic/Rad?
As for the Ice/Rad... yeah, Ice Blast is bad now. Not terrible, just bad. You'd probably be better off with a Son/Rad because there's literally no reason to roll a Defender for PvP these days except TK and maybe Psi Blast, which isn't nearly the draw it once was. -
Quote:CytosOriginally Posted by Santorican
Thats a good build if you plan on never going to any other zone to PvP, but I need more flexibility. It is a nice build though, it gives me ideas for mine. How should I slot Targeting Drone?
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I think it has. Maybe it's back-end work they're doing to get the markets ready for a merge? >.>
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What? I haven't given away any trade secrets yet >.>
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Quote:Stalkers share the same HP base and caps as Blasters - about 1205 base and 1606 cap. A Willpower Stalker with HPT 3-slotted for heal will have right around 1570 HP, without any investment in IO sets or accolades. It's fairly easy to get a Blaster up to the cap between IOs and accolades, or at least within 50-100 points - I see no reason why a Stalker couldn't do the same.Originally Posted by beyeajus74018
is it possible to cap hp with the accolades like BIB and HPT? Maybe with some set bonuses too? What would the average stalker's HP be when capped anyway?
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Everyone remembers Black Khaos, right? Old Justice player who transferred to Freedom after he "owned that server." Ran into him on his Grav/Therm today...
Preceding this, a bunch of crap-talking in RV from Chido's regin and Diacon (a Grav/Therm). I keep asking Chido for a duel, which he of course refuses, and Diacon tells me to duel him instead, so I agree.
Quote:EDIT: Thanks to Definitive for a good match after that, looking forward to a rematch.[Tell] -->Diacon.: you coming?
[Tell] Diacon.: its lised
[Tell] Diacon.: why yu quit?
[Tell] -->Diacon.: because i told you to turn off the temp powers
[Tell] Diacon.: nem staff is part of my poers i earened em
[Tell] -->Diacon.: too bad
[Tell] Diacon.: i wanna use em.. cry more *****
[Tell] Diacon.: you can beta me here anyway
[Tell] -->Diacon.: re-list it then
[Tell] Diacon.: shoo shoo..you are useless
[Tell] -->Diacon.: bahahahaha... you practically beg me to arena you and then you decide not to? rofl.
[Tell] Diacon.: lol .. beg you.....you were scared ********
[Tell] -->Diacon.: lol.
[Tell] -->Diacon.: there, i re-listd it for you
[Tell] -->Diacon.: i even turned on temps for you!
(The first match, he'd listed with the zone rules, and non-arena temps enabled. I re-listed with the standard arena rules, which he refused - so I told him I'd do a match with his rules if he'd do a match with my rules.)
[Tell] Diacon.: i said same as;in the zone..real pvp
[Tell] Diacon.: lol travel suppression..OMG..another ***** *** corr
[Tell] -->Diacon.: alright, we'll try it with your rules and then we'll try it with mine, deal?
[Tell] Diacon.: ok
[Tell] -->Diacon.: listed
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In the match:
[Broadcast] Diacon.: i didnt have time to buff
[Broadcast] Boogedy Schwa: so buff?
[Broadcast] Boogedy Schwa: .... lol @ shivan
[Broadcast] Boogedy Schwa: didn't know you wanted a gladiator match, my bad dude
[Broadcast] Boogedy Schwa: i forgot to fraps this
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Match after about a minute and a half of him "buffing," during which time he summons a Shivan, he finally throws an attack, and ends up dead before he's even close to bottoming out on end. He quits the match immediately after dying.
[Tell] -->Diacon.: gg man
[Broadcast] Definitive: yea that was quick
[Tell] -->Diacon.: my rules now?
[Tell] Diacon.: nah
[Tell] -->Diacon.: thought so, thanks for the ***-whuppin though
[Tell] -->Diacon.: good to know you have the skill to back up your huge mouth
[Tell] -->Diacon.: (lol)
[Tell] Diacon.: lol you are so good you THERM you..
[Tell] -->Diacon.: says the therm, gg
[Tell] Diacon.: lol go to the fridge and grab a treat
[Tell] -->Diacon.: if i remember right you weren't out of end, AND you had a shivan on me, AND your grav pet, and you still barely dented me
[Tell] Diacon.: troller who been around since forever ..you new Aim+Melt Armor +Heat Exauset...lol gj
[Tell] -->Diacon.: next time, put your money where your mouth is or don't talk **** to someone who can hand your *** to you, k?
[Tell] Diacon.: lol you cant beat me
[Tell] Diacon.: you know yu cant
[Tell] -->Diacon.: check the scoreboard, i believe i just did
[Tell] -->Diacon.: quitting out after 2 minutes takes skill, though, i give you that
[Tell] Diacon.: im a troller please
[Tell] -->Diacon.: i care why?
[Tell] Diacon.: you just another of the many many therms..your a nobody with a gimp build
[Tell] -->Diacon.: you talk ****, you ask for a match, i give you a match... shouldn't have asked if you didn't want it
[Tell] Diacon.: this aint even my ovo build\
[Tell] Diacon.: i just switched ober from buffer.. needd 15 mins to switch back.. buf i gave it a shot
[Tell] Diacon.: yur weak
[Tell] -->Diacon.: k, i'll be back in 10, doing another match
[Tell] -->Diacon.: making excuses after getting your *** handed to you doesn't help your case either, but... brb
When I come out of the match, he's not online (of course).
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Quote:The only thing DR would affect is the amount of +recharge the proc gives you (it should be 100%, it'll likely be much less in PvP with DR on). Gotta remember the proc will only have a chance to fire if you use the attack it's slotted in, and if the proc fires it triggers a 10-second suppression period in which the proc can't fire again. Confusing, yes.Originally Posted by Sin_Cross
hi guys i have questions about procs in pvp with DR (lets say RV zone for example) DR is automatically turn on when u enter the zone. Now i have a proc that gives me +recharge (Force Feedback IO set) and when i fight someone in pvp it only pops up once during the whole fight and even after i never seem to be able to get it to come back again. Is it because of DR in pvp? I know i have a 10% chance of activating it every time an attack lands but it still only seems to trigger only once every fight during a duel. Is DR behind the fact that it won't retrigger it self again after it comes on the first time? Please help me out thanks.
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Damage procs are useful for two reasons:
1. Damage procs add extra damage to your attacks, and they're especially useful in attacks with a fast recharge because they'll fire more often over time that way, simply because you're using fast-recharge attacks more often (for example, two damage procs in Flares would be better than two damage procs in Blaze). Simply put, it means you're dealing more damage which means you'll be getting kills faster.
2. The damage dealt by the procs is, for the most part, unresisted. There are a few exceptions to this rule (the non-smashing damage purple procs, the Touch of Lady Grey proc, and I think the Touch of Death proc) but in a world where most squishies are sporting 40% or more resistance to all types of damage, the damage from procs can really add up.
For example, my Rad/Therm Corruptor has 4 procs in Neutrino Bolt (2 Nucleolus Hami-O's, Apocalypse damage proc, Shield Breaker proc, Touch of Lady Grey proc, and Achilles Heel -res proc, with plans to put a Gladiator's Javelin proc in at some point). This means almost every time I fire that attack, which is quite often, at least one of the procs will fire off, and once I get a target into Scourge range, Scourge combined with the proc damage can really make a target hurt.
In the case of a Fire/MM Blaster I'd probably stick the Apocalypse proc and the Gladiator's Javelin proc into Flares (the other 4 slots would be Devastations, try and get the hold proc from that set in there as well since that's just nasty), another Gladiator's Javelin into Fire Blast if you have the slots or inf, and leave Blaze as-is. Could try a Trap of the Hunter proc in Subdual as well. -
Quote:It's not that the XP per mob is higher than outside the MA, it's that you have the ability to tailor an enemy group to your character's specific strengths (for example, a fire damage-dealing character might pick enemies weak to fire damage), as well as the ability to add buffing "helper" NPCs.Originally Posted by Rinkoz
Really? If u meant you power leveled in a ae outdoor area quickly i'd like to know how you did that, according to my info there isn't anything in ae that will give u better exp then a regular mission, so its been extremely slow in there for me, as said before the auto sk thing is what really killed it for me and many others.
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Quote:I'll respect that you have a different viewpoint on this than I do, though I'll admit I will probably never understand why. Just giving someone a block of code and telling them to copy and paste it into Mids isn't quite the same as giving away all your trade secrets - the person you're showing the build to has to get all the enhancements for that build, and on top of that no two people are going to farm exactly the same way, so I'm not sure if the "person asking for my build is lazy" argument floats. If they were also asking you for inf to build the character, that might be a different story...Originally Posted by Psion1
I disagree Mac, both in principal and in market practicality, but thats just my opinion. Some share it, some dont. But you definitely wont see me rewarding some newb lazy a$$ with a build he has done nothing for or to contribute towards. You, in many instances, at least post up your builds and ask for opinions. There are many that do not.
I share builds. I have a couple up on the Blaster forums right now. But some builds, I will never post, simply because I know no one on the server has anything like it, and I enjoy having a better build (yes, some of those happen to be PvP builds). But even in pvE, I guess I enjoy the competitive part of having a better build than the same AT's on the server. Often enough, it shows in mishes and TF's, or in farms.
I make my own builds almost 100% of the time, but I will often compare those builds with friends' builds because I know they'll find ways to do things I haven't thought of, or they'll come up with a build that is roughly comparable to mine but costs significantly less. Crossing my own builds with theirs helps me when I'm planning builds in the future. Generally I'll only say "help me!" if I'm really not sure where to take a build (like an Elec/Shield or SS/Shield, in which cases I just couldn't get the stats I wanted) and will often combine builds that are suggested to me, or I'll offer a build for critique and say "hey, here's my build but I didn't quite get this the way I wanted it, anyone have any ideas?" For example, there's a thread in the PvP section about a Dom of mine that I couldn't get right without ridiculously expensive PvP IOs, but the builds suggested there significantly helped.
Sure, everything's slow compared to the "free 50" era that I14 and I15 were. However, you can tailor spawn size now, and with the MA you can tailor enemy groups to your own specific strengths. XP gain's not as fast as it was before I16, or even I14 for that matter, but you can still go 1-50 in 30 hours or so (I'm sure there are ways of doing it faster, but I'm not currently aware of anything and the devs do a good job of patching up loopholes as they arise).Quote:Originally Posted by Rinkoz
I had no idea people still farmed in CoX since the bridge nerf, ae nerf and strangely reduced rewards system resulting in a very bad market to build farming toons, wow good to hear they still do very slowly.
Farming for drops is easier than it's ever been - XP's just a bit slower, but there's still some "power" in "powerleveling." -
Quote:That argument only makes sense in a case where players and builds are in direct competition with each other - in this game, just about the only situation where that's the case is PvP. In the PvE game, no one is competing directly against another player. I share my builds because I expect that people are smart enough to customize whatever I throw together based on their own needs, or someone else will comment on my build and say "you could change this and you'd end up with this," in which case both the person asking for a build and myself benefit. There's literally no downside to sharing builds.Originally Posted by Psion1
And just FYI- theres a reason why a lot of us arent going to hand you a Mids build on here, or post our specific respective builds we use on our toons.
I know there are some that love builds handed to them *cough* , but a lot of us have worked very hard on very unorthodox builds that are min/maxed to the brink of existence, and there are many, many reasons (Not going to list them all) why we're not handing out builds like candy.
Id rather make suggestions and help a person to learn how to slot their toons better, and go the route of teaching a man to fish, etc., etc., that kind of stuff.
I post builds every now and then, and I exchange builds a lot over PM's, but I dont think its fair for some of us to work hours on perfecting a build where we want it to have someone grab it as a handout for free. A lot of it also depends on the person too. -
Quote:The GeForce 6150SE is an integrated chip, which means not only is its graphics performance relatively poor to begin with, but it's also sharing memory with the rest of your system, effectively cutting down on the amount of actual RAM your system is able to utilize. I'm fairly certain that none of the integrated graphics solutions currently out there will be able to handle ultra mode with any great success.Originally Posted by Shadowclone
Thank you all. Now for specific graphic card it is a....NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE Graphics.
Its what came with the comp.
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I would wait until next spring before you go for any upgrades. We'll know more about the specific hardware requirements for Going Rogue, there will be new stuff out, and today's top-end hardware will have come down in price.