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And here's the build.quote:PowerHouse http://powerhouse.nullware.com/ Edit: Whoops. Broke tables, and quote isn't edit.
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I'd drop reconstruction circuits, you cant do anything but block with it on, you could probably replace it with overdrive for when you're at range and maintaining things. It'll give you 2 more adv you could put wherever.
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HukHukHuk posted:I'd drop reconstruction circuits, you cant do anything but block with it on, you could probably replace it with overdrive for when you're at range and maintaining things. It'll give you 2 more adv you could put wherever. I got it for a heal. It's either this or bountiful chi resurgence, I like healing while blocking, though.
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I've actually been doing a few general guides on how to get up to speed with Freeform designs. Probably the one that will interest you more is the guide to Superstats and Specialization Trees since that's the newest and likely most mystifying change to character creation to date. There's also a Freeform Guide, but most of the stuff in there is general advice rather than specifics on powersets. I think I might rewrite some of those power guides as well.BenRGamer posted:And here's the build. Seems solid. There's a few things I'm seeing -Invulnerability's a great passive, but you're going to want to Rank 3 it. It's a passive ability that's always active, so you're going to want to get the most out of it you can. -Huk noticed this, but Reconstruction Circuits only works very well for Power Armor style characters, as they are the only ones that can keep attacking while it's active. Since you're built around blades and guns, A fire-and-forget heal such as Bounficul Chi Resurgence or Conviction would suit you better. -Finally, since extremely high offense, on its own, doesn't do much, I'd swap out either the Guardian or Warden tree with Vindicator - it's really a great companion to either of those two, as it can boost your defense based off of your offense score - and consequentially make an offense-defense feedback loop. This also comes alongside some other general defnense-down effects, and a very high severity buff to your criticals.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Yeah, my Munitions heavy character went from meh to death incarnate after that patch.
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Bluhman posted:-Huk noticed this, but Reconstruction Circuits only works very well for Power Armor style characters, as they are the only ones that can keep attacking while it's active. Since you're built around blades and guns, A fire-and-forget heal such as Bounficul Chi Resurgence or Conviction would suit you better. Okay, I'll change out Reconstruction Circuits for Bountiful Chi Resurgence. As for the offense, I was trying to stack it absurdly high to go with the Combat Training Dexterity Specialization, more offense gets me better crit chance. Would I be hitting the cap at that point or something? I'll go take a look at Vindicator.
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OneEightHundred posted:I'm still not sure I understand what's so great about it, it gets hosed up badly by enemies with flat damage reduction (hi Viper-X) and otherwise seems just average compared to elec/fire/infernal. Not as badly as you might think - Two Gun Mojo ignores some defense, and pretty much does enough damage on its own to completely invalidate Viper X's armor. The big edges it's got on projector sets is that it's quite a bit more efficient (can set aside something like Rec or End for Con or Pre), and quite a bit more mobile. BenRGamer posted:Okay, I'll change out Reconstruction Circuits for Bountiful Chi Resurgence. As for the offense, I was trying to stack it absurdly high to go with the Combat Training Dexterity Specialization, more offense gets me better crit chance. Would I be hitting the cap at that point or something? I'll go take a look at Vindicator. I've never really noticed the benefit of Combat Training. If you can get a crit chance of around 40 percent or so, you'll likely be set. I mainly advised going for Vindicator since the defense stat is actually very good to have. High defense can actually make you very hard to kill, especially if factored alongside high dodge and avoidance.
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Bluhman posted:I've never really noticed the benefit of Combat Training. If you can get a crit chance of around 40 percent or so, you'll likely be set. Well, I'm gonna be keeping Guardian for the Ruthless bonus to Crit Severity. As it stands, at level 14, my crit chance is hovering around ~30% Edit: Now that I think about it, even though I'm not 'maining' munitions, would it be worth it to pick up Killer Instinct? DMW45 fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Sep 22, 2013 |
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Vindicator's bonus is 15% severity for 3 points, that and the 20% offense to defense are both on the first row of that specialization for 5 points.
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OneEightHundred posted:I'm still not sure I understand what's so great about it, it gets hosed up badly by enemies with flat damage reduction (hi Viper-X) and otherwise seems just average compared to elec/fire/infernal. For that character, it's kind of a combination of extremely good single-target damage from Two Gun Mojo and also the way Lead Tempest and Quarry's dodge/avoidance and Bountiful Chi Resurgence/Reiki dovetail together to make you extremely tough while still delivering a ton of AOE damage. Also holy poo poo Lead Tempest has a huge radius. Tempest doesn't do the highest area DPS, not by a long shot, but you do very good damage without having to stop to defend except in pretty rare cases. Great for things like Harmon Labs where you have to chew through a million mooks to get to the end. I have other characters that do higher area DPS but none so far that are even half as robust while doing it.
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HukHukHuk posted:I'd drop reconstruction circuits, you cant do anything but block with it on, you could probably replace it with overdrive for when you're at range and maintaining things. It'll give you 2 more adv you could put wherever. More on this as far as power armor things go: Power Armor as the unique 'toggled systems' mechanic (or whatever they called it) that lets you activate multiple powers at the same time. This ONLY works for powers with that toggle. While you can run Repulsor Beams and Eye Beams at the same time, you cannot fire your eye beams while also using something like Two Gun Mojo. And even powers in the PA tree that don't have that toggle interaction cannot be used while running toggle powers. Which is a shame, really, but understandable.
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Quick question, how useful is the Laser Knight advantage on Energy Shield? Is it worth the hit to damage?
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It falls in a place in the damage calculation that ends up making it not even noticeable. Take it.
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Can someone give me some general advice for making a tank? Or point me to some? I'd like to make a pretty survivable Heavy Weapons tank but I definitely for sure for character reasons need to have at least one of the chain powers. I thought about going with supernatural and playing with the poison mechanics but then I'd still be taking the less-effective powers in a set and also I wouldn't get to swing around a giant mace or grow swole with Enrage+Growth.
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Iron Cyclone's a fine choice for tanking - advantage draws targets in and builds enrage, and it can be fitted with challenging strikes. Heavy Weapons itself is actually a great tanking set, since it bases itself almost entirely around a debuff that reduces enemy speed and attack power, which makes keeping allies alive a bit more easy for you. That all said, the best move for tanking in the set is likely Brimstone, which hits in a full sphere around you for some pretty good damage (discounting the dual-damage types; that only serves to make it annoyingly suboptimal for DPS guys), and knocks all targets down instantly. Strength primary's a must. Knock resistance, enrage scaling, and superb defense if you pair it with constitution. Depending on how hardy you want to be, you might want to stat constitution even more heavily than strength. quote:PowerHouse http://powerhouse.nullware.com/
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You could use the chain that pulls dudes to you. Invulnerability is great for absorbing rapid fire attacks, Defiance helps with big blows, either one is great. Regeneration is also fine as well. Enrage would be fine for a form if you have a few knocks and is part of the AT Behemoth tank. e;f;b.
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Sep 25, 2013 02:31
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Bluhman, you're the best.
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Anyone know if/when they're going to add the passive that was supposed to come out with the new laser sword powers? I remember hearing it got held back because it was bugged somehow but nothing since.
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Some kind of patch installed:quote:Release notes for September 26, 2013.
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222 mb patch  For god's sake Cryptic get a new pic to show on the patcher 
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I asked in the channel last night but nobody seemed very clear on things, so I'm asking here: Is it possible to go gold for a single month, make characters with restricted archetypes, then stop paying and continue playing with them? Or does it lock them until you purchase the archetypes when you drop back to silver?
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I'm fairly sure that when the conversion happens, you get automatically "retrained" and forced to pick an archetype that you are granted with Silver.
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Yeah, annoyingly if your subscription lapses any gold/freeform character becomes locked and you're forced to either delete them or change them to a silver/archetype character. It's one of the more obnoxious parts of their F2P scheme and the archetype system in general.
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Don't delete them or waste time converting them, just leave at least one character at permanent silver archtype status so you can still play a little even when you don't want to be subbed. That said, they really do need to address this issue in a better way that actually works for everyone, Cryptic included.
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Flesh Forge posted:Costumes: This is kind of lame, and makes me worry that they'll eventually fix the parts that allow for really cool costumes (Nighthawk Hood and Ancient Armor that allows floating hands, and Irradiates Jacket with see-through holes) quote:Wolf Bubble 02 is available again. quote:The following costume materials now have to use a pattern: Dual Claw (Leather, Metal), Spartan Lions (Leather, Metal), Armor Chiton (Metal), Cybernetic plugs (Metal), Armor pointed (Metal), Nephilim Large (Metal), Spartan Lion helmet (Metal), Zombie partial mask (Leather), Long Glove Zombie (Leather), Mandibles gigantic (Leather), Pulp Aviator pants (Metal Leather), Nephilim Large (Leather), Ninja Headband (Leather, Metal), Steampunk Mustache (Pointy), (Leather, Metal), Steampunk Mustache (Bushy), (Leather, Metal), Armor Nephilim male (Metal), Heavy Mecha Shoulders (Leather), Alien Organic 2 (Leather, Metal), Armor Cybernetic (Cloth), Skirt Webbed (Metal), Small Demon Wings (Metal), Alien Organic Tall (Leather), Chiton Crests (Metal), Armor Blaster (Cloth, Metal), Cape Webbed (Metal), Armor Nephilim Blade left (Cloth), Armor Nephilim Blade right (Leather, Metal), Elbow Disk right (Metal), Steampunk Goggles (Leather, Metal), Steampunk Goggles 2 (Leather, Metal, Cloth), Small Wings (Leather), Square Plate (Leather, Metal), Armor Patched Plate (Cloth), Steampunk Electro Gauntlet (Leather), Prong 01 (Leather), Long Boot Fur Lined (Leather), Armor Blaster (Leather, Metal Spartan Sandal left (Metal, Leather) quote:Travel powers that use Roll Mode (e.g. hyper ball, snowball roll) will no longer make your weapons invisible. A pretty awesome patch in general, and makes me hope that they keep it running and they fix/balance some of the more terrible bugs, as well as fix up some more of the older costume parts with wonky textures/patterns/materials.
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Neurolimal posted:Not sure what this means since I'm currently on vacation and can't look them up, if it means more patterns though then hell yes. I could be wrong but I think this means those pieces used to allow you to pick 'none' as the pattern and thus have just a solid colour. They no longer allow that, instead requiring you to choose a pattern.
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Brave New World posted:Don't delete them or waste time converting them, just leave at least one character at permanent silver archtype status so you can still play a little even when you don't want to be subbed. That said, they really do need to address this issue in a better way that actually works for everyone, Cryptic included.
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OneEightHundred posted:The freeform slots in the store are about the best way to address it, they're just extremely expensive. I got one of those for half off on sale sometime last year and I'm still not convinced it was actually worth it. Of course, I've been subscribed since not long after that so the value I place on it may be less than if I wasn't subscribed.
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I've been playing DCUO for my superhero fix but the toxic community over there makes me want to stick forks in my eyeballs trying to get anything done at the 'endgame'. If I haven't played this since before the F2P change, how annoyed am I going to be at the archetype limitations? Hell, if they've added enough content since I might even sub again. e: Especially if CO has the same feature STO did where I can buy funbux or pay for a subscription with steam wallet funds. That is a really drat convenient feature.
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Uhm, I just created a character to return to this thing for fun but after creating said character the game said the character wasn't allowed or something (I do not remember the exact words) and it flushed me back to the log in page. I tried getting in with one of my old characters though and it went fine. Are there... anything at all that could explain such a (admitedly vaguely described) thing ?
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Flesh Forge posted:Speaking of sales: 20% off sale in the C-store Well gently caress me. I just spent all my spacebucks yesterday.
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raocow posted:Uhm, I just created a character to return to this thing for fun but after creating said character the game said the character wasn't allowed or something (I do not remember the exact words) and it flushed me back to the log in page. I tried getting in with one of my old characters though and it went fine. Are there... anything at all that could explain such a (admitedly vaguely described) thing ? Sometimes when creating a character the costume editor won't make the character, you can tell when this will happen by the fact that costume packs you don't own will appear unlocked for you; this means save whatever costume you have so far and retry making a character. You might be able to get around this by just not using any of the supposed-to-be locked costume pieces, but I personally haven't messed with it too much. WarLocke posted:I've been playing DCUO for my superhero fix but the toxic community over there makes me want to stick forks in my eyeballs trying to get anything done at the 'endgame'. Depends on what annoys you about archetypes; if you're worried about being worse than a freeform character then you don't have too much to worry about, because Archetypes get a -very- good buff on diminishing returns that keeps them functional alongside munchkinned super minmaxed heroes. If you're worried about variety then you might be in a little more trouble, as individual archetype prices are pretty obnoxious (they should be about 200-300 zen at most, instead of what they are). Do note that you can unlock both the Viking Warrior costume set and the Heavy Weapons archetype through this. I don't think you can pay for stuff through steam, however there's a large amount of time cards and boxed sets for dirt cheap. The boxed set also comes with $5 worth of Zen on top of the monthly zen stipend. Neurolimal fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Sep 28, 2013 |
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Neurolimal posted:I don't think you can pay for stuff through steam, however there's a large amount of time cards and boxed sets for dirt cheap. The boxed set also comes with $5 worth of Zen on top of the monthly zen stipend. Oh wow, that's some good pricing, although I already have a retail code on my account and I don't want to wait until Monday for the time cards to get here. Bleh. I've always wanted to make a little alien dude on the hoverdisk with a pet army. call him 'Morbu the Bounty Hunter' or something with an entourage of different types of drones and Attack Toys (he ran out of drone casings and found a crate full of teddy bears, ok) and a space (sonic) pistol. From what I'm reading with the new Commander role thing it should be quite viable.
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WarLocke posted:I've always wanted to make a little alien dude on the hoverdisk with a pet army. call him 'Morbu the Bounty Hunter' or something with an entourage of different types of drones and Attack Toys (he ran out of drone casings and found a crate full of teddy bears, ok) and a space (sonic) pistol. From what I'm reading with the new Commander role thing it should be quite viable. This is very very doable; The hoverdisk travel power is available for free to gold members, there's a few alien heads and eye accessories, there's a sonic on-hit buff as well as a laser rifle that causes random debuffs, and pets have been really really really good since the Specializations patch (There's also three robot pet powers as well, Munitions Droids (2), Support Drones (2), and Attack Toys (Lots). The Retro Sci-Fi Set is also one of the best sets you can get in terms of part variety & flexibility, and would fit well with an alien character. And yeah, the Commander specialization tree is very, very, very good for pets; just about every choice is worthwhile, although there is one that becomes a must-have if you roll with Dexterity (the one that increases pet crit chance when you land a critical hit). Neurolimal fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Sep 28, 2013 |
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Oh man that reto sci-fi stuff is great! I'm thinking a big-forehead green martian dude with that bubble helmet. Make him tiny except for a huge head...  Now if only Steam would install this thing faster. Still 600mb to go and then who knows how much patching at the launcher. 
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That's a funny coincidence 'cause I have a freeform Gadgeteer that uses a Hoverboard. I guess those elements just work well together conceptually to a lot of people.
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