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LordSaturn posted:that said being able to reload your end and then toggle into Everything Crits Toxic is still just generally very good What does this?
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"bio. sorry I meant "procs" not "crits"
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Jun 16, 2021 05:53
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Radiation Armor is also super good. Proc bombing out Rad Therapy is an A++++ tech piece
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Jun 17, 2021 13:30
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My best toon already has Rad Armor and I agree it is top tier stuff. I wanna try something different on the scrapper, tho.
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Jun 17, 2021 16:35
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Awhile back there was an electric armor scrapper who was power leveling lowbies in peregrine. He was tearing poo poo up left and right whenever I was invited. Seemed like a fun set.
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I enjoyed my Titan Weapons/Ninjitsu scrapper. Ninjitsu is pretty easy to cap positional defenses on (ranged, melee, aoe), comes with stealth, and has self heal and self endurance recharge buttons. Also I thought being a ninja with a big fuckin weapon was silly and extremely anime.
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Diephoon posted:I enjoyed my Titan Weapons/Ninjitsu scrapper. Ninjitsu is pretty easy to cap positional defenses on (ranged, melee, aoe), comes with stealth, and has self heal and self endurance recharge buttons. Also I thought being a ninja with a big fuckin weapon was silly and extremely anime. That sounds rad actually
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Jun 17, 2021 22:12
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What's the cooldown on changing costumes via slash command, and what's he cooldown on changing "stances" for Bio Armor? Got some fun lil macro ideas and different physical forms to swap to.
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Jun 17, 2021 22:26
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Crasical posted:That sounds rad actually No it's...TW/Ninjitsu. 
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Jun 18, 2021 00:23
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what is the most populated server?
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Jun 18, 2021 04:42
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Homecoming - Excelsior.
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Gynovore posted:In short, NCsoft is not a sane or rational company and should not be expected to act rationally. Remember when NCSoft tried to fire Richard Garriot, and he sued because they claimed he had left the company voluntarily so they cold deny him stock options, but it turned out that he couldn't have signed the resignation documents because he was in outer space at the time? Good times.
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Jun 18, 2021 18:52
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Toph Bei Fong posted:Remember when NCSoft tried to fire Richard Garriot, and he sued because they claimed he had left the company voluntarily so they cold deny him stock options, but it turned out that he couldn't have signed the resignation documents because he was in outer space at the time? And then Garriott sued for $13 mil, but the judge gave him $15M, and then NCSoft appealed, and the judge bumped it up to $17M. That must have bought him a lot of Campbell's soup.
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Diephoon posted:Homecoming - Excelsior. Thanks! Still super lost. Leveling a tw invulnerable scrapper and it’s pretty fun. The momentum system is kind of confusing and I’m still not quite sure why sometimes my skills take 2 minutes to swing but I’ll get it eventually probably Also attuned enhancements sure are expensive
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Jun 19, 2021 00:45
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momentum is a 5-second buff you get after one of your TW attacks connects. as long as momentum is up, you get the fast animations for your TW attacks, instead of the slow ones. nothing refreshes momentum except the set's Build Up variant, which adds 10 seconds to your current momentum, including if it was at 0. so outside of the buildup, you're essentially looking at having to do a long animation, followed by a flurry of short animations, then another long animation, every five seconds or so two of the TW attacks have no "long" variant - they only work while momentum is on invuln is kind of bad, iirc, you may get stuck in the endurance doldrums around 35, but that's fixable
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Jun 19, 2021 00:57
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LordSaturn posted:momentum is a 5-second buff you get after one of your TW attacks connects. as long as momentum is up, you get the fast animations for your TW attacks, instead of the slow ones. nothing refreshes momentum except the set's Build Up variant, which adds 10 seconds to your current momentum, including if it was at 0. Oh  didn’t know. What is better than invuln?
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Jun 19, 2021 01:25
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Tabletops posted:Oh Willpower is Invlun but better, in general.
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Jun 19, 2021 01:28
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I am enjoying my animal/rad mastermind. Irradiate them, fling bees and birds at them, tear them apart. It's great chaos.
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Willpower is the best "I can't decide but want to try a new primary" armor set. It's not gonna dazzle anyone but it'll handle just about anything.
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Willpower is great cause it does a little bit of everything and is visually unintrusive. Probably my favorite brute secondary.
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That being said, like Invuln isn't like so bad you should never take it. Just keep in mind that like LordSaturn said, it gets really rough in the 25ish to 35 zone but it comes out decent enough in the end. I think only if your intention is to only ever solo that you're better off 100% taking willpower.
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Yeah, Invuln is still the best "I don't care about smashing/lethal damage" set in my opinion. Every now and then, it truly shines.
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Invul is also great at 50 due to awesome resists, tough hide/invincibility getting you in range to soft cap defenses to everything, AND permanent dull pain for higher max hp with minimal investment. I'd argue any day of the week it actually has a higher performance ceiling than willpower, but yes it would be rough on end while levelling while WP would be easy street because of quick recovery.
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Invuln is fine but I need that quick recovery since I like to run leadership toggles -- Even if they're not the best power pool to take as a brute, I like the thematics
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these problems should be pretty solvable with some low-end enhancement sets. honestly learning what enhancements you need and how to get them at a reasonable price is way worse than coming up with the influence, ime the basic theory is that slotting five of the six parts of Crushing Impact, a set which can be had in Attuned form for relatively cheap, can give you as much accuracy and damage as three reds and three yellows, PLUS a bunch of recharge speed and endurance reduction on top; doing this on all your main attack powers (there are similar sets for AoE attacks and the like) will reduce your endurance consumption in combat substantially. just slotting endurance reduction in your toggles and blues in your Stamina is sometimes not enough to function properly in the 30s, but that plus cheap sets in your attacks can suddenly make your character work right again
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elec/titan on a tank has been pretty good so far. Elec has recharge boost and endurance management tools, which TW likes, and it hardcaps you to electrical damage. You can pick up a lot of res bonus to smashing/lethal via IOS, and it's possible to cap Smashing/Lethal/Fire/Ice/Psionics if you want to be real tanky. Plus, as a tank, you get the big cones on all of TW's AOE
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Tabletops posted:Oh You really don't need to be super optimal to have fun with this game, if you're having fun playing the character then keep at it. Re: Endurance issues- you can mitigate a lot of them by slotting specific enhancements into your health and stamina passives. I'm just going to quote myself here. Diephoon posted:I somehow managed to play on Homecoming for months and months without knowing about endurance enhancers that you slot into health for passive boosts. Panacea: +Hit Points/Endurance, Numina's Convalescence: +Regeneration/Recovery, and Miracle: +Recovery go into pretty much every character I make now and can be slotted at level 10, 20, and 30 along with Performance Shifter: Chance for +End in Stamina at level 21. If this is your first character on homecoming though it's unlikely you have the resources to get these enhancements. I'd be happy to hook you up with some and/or a small pile of influence if you like, assuming you're playing on Homecoming - Excelsior. I'd like to reiterate that the most important thing in this game imo is being invested in your character. I don't remember how many characters I made before I settled on my Arachnos Soldier as my first main. Once I got him to end game just playing the game made me millions of influence which I could then use to enhance up any future characters I became interested in building. I played COH as a kid but I don't think I ever got much higher than the 20s since I didn't really understand what was going on back then. If you like it and you're having fun with it, then stick with it. You can make a million more characters later if you want to. Diephoon fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Jun 20, 2021 |
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Diephoon posted:I'd like to reiterate that the most important thing in this game imo is being invested in your character. The one and only ironclad rule of CoX. Teams smooth out every supposed "weakness" of any individual power set. Even middling/mediocre teams. If you have a character concept that satisfies/amuses/entertains you and makes you look forward to logging in, that's what will carry you through this game in the long haul.
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Diephoon posted:You really don't need to be super optimal to have fun with this game, if you're having fun playing the character then keep at it. yeah... trying to find something i really gel with has been hard. I started playing an arachnos widow using this build https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/11319-best-of-both-blood-widower-fortunado-build/ (no idea if it's still good or not since it was in 2019) it's been OK. I just got to 28 and am doing my lvl 24 respec to fortuna. I'm not really sure i'm going to like it though? I spent like 30 mil on enhancements and am having trouble convincing myself to slot them Think part of the problem is I like having strong aoe and the guide said it did but I’m looking now and there’s only like 2 aoe skills Tabletops fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Jun 20, 2021 |
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It should also be stressed that all content in the game can be done with any AT and any power set combination. It isn't like if you're X archetype with Y and Z "underpowered" power sets, you can't do certain content. Like, no, you're not going to be doing super-fast speed runs where you gather the entire map of enemies and smash them as an Invuln/War Mace Tanker, but you can still do whatever the mission/task force/trial in question is.
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My corruptors usually throw anywhere up to half a dozen respawns at a mission, and that's fine. Nthing the advice to just find a concept you like, not a powerful build. My favorite right now is Lord Bongwater, Water/Poison corr with his water colored in absolutely disgusting green and black. His backstory involves drinking Superadine-infused bong water, I snuck him into Faultline and Boomtown to read plaques to get him the "Just Said No to Superadine" title, and he RPs like he's right out of a drug PSA. I love him.
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Tabletops posted:(no idea if it's still good or not since it was in 2019) the nice thing about the glacial pace of development is that the game hasn't substantially changed since 2019 so that build is probably still fine LordSaturn posted:invuln is kind of bad, iirc also just wanted to emphasize that when I say "kind of bad" I mean that very literally. it's not that strong, it may have endurance issues with a big endurance suck set like TW, etc. the only, like, do-not-play-this tier bad set I'm aware of is Regen?
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The only character I ever absolutely bounced off of because of the powersets was a War Mace / Super Reflexes Scrapper. War Mace + the SR toggles chewed through endurance insanely fast and SR has no powers to recoup or generate extra Endurance. Great fighter, but the empty blue bar after every single fight got old fast. I'm sure a level 50 build + Incarnates could've smoothed it out, but I just rerolled as War Mace / Energy Aura and I liked it way better.
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Bird Law posted:but I just rerolled as War Mace / Energy Aura and I liked it way better. Strong AND pretty?!
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LordSaturn posted:the nice thing about the glacial pace of development is that the game hasn't substantially changed since 2019 so that build is probably still fine Even then, like-- Regen isn't completely unplayable as long as you know what you're getting into. I'd still caution anyone new or who isn't interested in getting into the weeds of how the game works against it for sure. Just a "you might not have fun with this, perhaps something else might work with your concept?" usenet celeb 1992 posted:The one and only ironclad rule of CoX. this this this this this
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Abroham Lincoln posted:Strong AND pretty?! 
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Bird Law posted:The only character I ever absolutely bounced off of because of the powersets was a War Mace / Super Reflexes Scrapper. War Mace + the SR toggles chewed through endurance insanely fast and SR has no powers to recoup or generate extra Endurance. Great fighter, but the empty blue bar after every single fight got old fast. I'm sure a level 50 build + Incarnates could've smoothed it out, but I just rerolled as War Mace / Energy Aura and I liked it way better. Invul has a PSI hole and it's a bit hard on your END bar, but overall it's a good set. As for Regen, the problem is twofold: 1) It's too clicky, and 2) Willpower gives you heal/regen that's approx 60% of what Regen gives you, and on top of that it has defense and resist and tohit debuff, and it's less clicky.
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there are just a few sets that are still tuned for launch content, or CoV launch at best. regen is one of those
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Gynovore posted:Invul has a PSI hole and it's a bit hard on your END bar, but overall it's a good set. As for Regen, the problem is twofold: 1) It's too clicky, and 2) Willpower gives you heal/regen that's approx 60% of what Regen gives you, and on top of that it has defense and resist and tohit debuff, and it's less clicky. I find that even the most end hungry builds do fine as long as you go for the ageless incarnate ability.
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