Great Builds CoV- 5 years as an Altaholic

Yes, a warning. Being called an idiot for asking a question.
I don't need answers to any questions I have about this game that badly.
It's only a game.
A very good game mind you

Hello Zhadu,

I have read each of your posts in each of the 5 hero AT forums.
First off, you will get no criticism from me, but I had a feeling what kind of responses were coming your way

Have you read ?

ENANTIODROMOS' GUIDE TO SELECTING
THE CONTROLLER THAT'S RIGHT FOR YOU

Perhaps this was more like what you were attempting, but did not go into quite the extensive and elaborate breakdown that Enantiodromos did.

For what its worth, I presonally believe EVERY combination has synergy, but requires you to play and experiment with all the tools to find what works for you and what the "strength" of the combination was meant to be. This is not to say that every combination will mesh with every individual. Quite the opposite, each player has their own "style" that once married to a powerset combination that "fits" them, makes you wonder why anyone would not use that combo. And in reverse, there will be combinations you may try that make you just shake your head and walk away from before figuring out why they let that combo even exist (Rad/Energy defender anyone ?)

Good Luck with all your toons. And thanks for sharing your insight on some of your favorite combinations.

To the OP,

I enjoyed your post in this forum, and the ones you put in the others. You really had no need to apologize to anyone. Also, I think your post was taken much, MUCH too literally. One set can be the "best" to you and not be the "best" to others. Numbers aren't everything. I respect those player that are number crunchers, and I know that is part of what makes this game fun for them. However, I feel like it has gone too far here.

I'm not anywhere near as much of a CoX veteran as most of the people on this forum, but, still, I'm a little embarassed for the reaction that you received for this post. While I don't post all that much, I read these forums a lot, and I feel like these posts that say words like "us" and "we" are representative of everyone on the forum. Please, please, PLEASE do not think that everyone here is like that.

I'm glad you play for the fun of it; sometimes I feel like I'm the only one.

Ax

All the expected forum drama aside, (OP, don't take it too seriously, the forum regulars regularly tear into each other with much more aggession and fervor then they applied to you in this thread).... I happen to agree with the OP's take on spines/electric.

That's been my new toon of late. I picked that combo thinking, "ok.. this is gonna suck but I wanna see what I can make of it." I've found that energize is indeed a very nice power as it gives the set exactly what it's lacking. I've found that endurance is very very managable, although it's not because of electric's endurance powers... it's because spines is very easy on the endurance bar. I hadn't expected to be able to run an attack chain non-stop with both toggles on 100% of the time at level 20, but I did quite easily, and for damage output, that damage chain + toggle damage put me right in line with the other scrapper sets. It's really not until you get into high-recharge chains in the end game that spines falls behind in single target damage.

I do admit, as Umbral pointed out, that /fire may give me the same playstyle with a better heal... the reason I went with /electic was for the tier 9 power. I've generally always ignored tier 9s, but I figured while I'm doing something new, I might as well take a tier 9, too. I may still re-roll as /fire as the self-rez power is a toy I've always wanted to play with, too.... plus when I look at my end build I'm not really utilizing the tier 9 like I wanted.

That said, I do have another motive in this build. I've always maintained (as may forum regulars do) that any/any scrapper can solo AV's. Conventional wisdom may indicate that, if there's an exception to that, spines/electric (or spines/fire) might be it.... so once I hit 50, I'm going to solo a pylon and some AVs and run a few variations of the RWZ challenge just to show it can be done.

edited: (did i really say "regulars regularly" ?)