John Murdoch posted:

Changing Instant Healing to a timed toggle would be a step in the right direction IMO.

Maybe strip out the dumb "half of Integration's regen is unenhanceable" thing.

Maybe get crazy and toss in some kind of low %-based regen tick to Resilience.

hup posted:

Would Electric Armor go well with Titan Weapons? I can’t decide on scrapper, brute, or tank, either

Gynovore posted:

Claws: Not bad but not great.This is so wrong. So..so wrong. Claws is about the 3rd highest ST DPS in the game for melee. *The* highest AOE for melee

Dark Melee: Great single target damage, pairs well with defense sets. Almost no AoE.

Dual Blades: Fun to watch, but the combo system is kinda dumb. Damage is pretty good. The damage is only beat by TW.

Electric Melee: Dps isn't great, and draining end from mobs really doesn't have an impact. The teleport attack is fun.

Fire Melee: Meh.

Kinetic Melee: Dps is ok, not great. Feels like it was designed with only a few low budget 70's chopsocky movies as a reference. Worth mentioning that it debuffs damage, which is about the only debuff that AVs don't innately resist.

Martial Arts: pretty good, not amazing.

Psionic Melee: Meh. has some weird choices, like a single target confuse with no damage.

Radiation Melee: Pretty good. One of the few melee sets with a passive damage ability.

Savage Melee: Eh. Feels like Claws with a coat of paint.Dots don't crit. Best on a brute

Spines: Pretty good if you like AoEs. Another passive damage aura. Anything Boss HP or higher and this set stops dead.

Street Justice: Decent damage, fun to play.

Super Strength: Pretty good. I've lost track of whether Rage is good this week. Rage is hosed. Right now, it's just Strength. Not Super Strength. It's on WS18's priority list to un-gently caress.

Titan Weapons: OH GOD YES YES YES Only if you figure out how to play it. poo poo ain't easy but it's extremely rewarding.


Anything not listed I haven't played much.

clone on the phone posted:

So what’s the Titan Weapon secret you need to figure out?

Abroham Lincoln posted:

I still think Kinetic Melee has some serious Real rear end Potential with the second wave of ATO sets. On a Stalker you're looking at pretty insane synergy with the Assassin's Strike proccing Hide for a guaranteed follow up crit, the tier 9 recharging Build Up on a crit, and the second Stalker proc recharging Build Up in whatever other power you wanna throw that in.

Put a Gaussian's proc in Build Up and reap the rewards of that double Build Up life.

You could do something similar for a Scrapper as well, keeping Power Siphon and the stacking damage buff going constantly, but I dunno if that makes up for the loss of Assassin's Strike.

Mr. Maggy posted:

elec/shield stalker is loving hilarious

clone on the phone posted:

I'm wanting to make a TW/Fire character but can't decide between scrapper or brute. Does TW favor one more than the other or should I just toss a coin?

clone on the phone posted:

What about the TW part?

e: Actually while I'm asking, how are sword / mace / axe? I need some kind of martial weapon for the theme i'm going with.

ClassH posted:

Yea this isn't true. Mace is one of the hardest hitting sets in the game. Axe didn't get the same love so its middle to lower pack. If you need parry for defense there are quite a few sets that have that.
A few pages back Tommy posted a quick review of melee sets for scrapper and brutes.
Stalkers are a bit different since Assassins strike replaces some attacks so some sets move up or down.

head58 posted:

Inzombiac posted:

I can't decide what to pair a katana brute with!!!

Claws/Bio is dope as gently caress but I want to make a robot samurai next.

PUPPY PUZZLE posted:

elec or energy!!

SwissArmyDruid posted:

Uh, long and short of what he showed me was:

* Do not pick any of Nimble Slash, Placate, Vengeful Slice, or 1K Cuts
* Assassin's Mark goes into Power Slice
* Stalker's Guile goes into assassinate move.
* 6-slot build-up with five from the uncommon set, and the Gaussian proc for double build-up.
* Take Moonbeam to use with Build Up. Slotted thus, you should always have instant snipes.
* Do the other usual melee defense/resistance slotting stuff.
* +5 all purples and non-set IOs, catalyze non-purple sets.

MechaCrash posted:

The Snipe change is one I mostly like, but it has an incredibly minor nerf to Beam Rifle in it.

One of the major things of Beam Rifle is "inflict Disintegrate on a target, and your other attacks hurt that target more, you can spread Disintegration via various attacks." The snipe used to have a 100% chance to spread it if it you slowcast it, 55% if you fastcast it. I don't think it's going to be possible to get a guaranteed spread now unless there's two of you: one to inflict it, and another hanging back and slowcasting the Snipe out of combat for the guaranteed spread.

The other attacks still have a chance to spread, of course, and it's just one attack, but still.

spectralent posted:

Wait; what happened to Rage?

Kheldarn posted:

Someone is saying that the Rage change is fine, and you just need to use a Purple Inspiration to compensate for the Def Debuff. When someone else asked if that was the case, why not balance all sets around Inspirations, they refused to answer, and are now acting like the pubbie they are, replying with memes and, "I didn't answer not because I can't, but because I don't want to.".

pubbies.txt

Glazius posted:

Can't bring incarnates, Dr. Q is 44 so they don't have Incarnate powers.

Merilan posted:

If you want heavy AoE on a melee character, Spines and Claws are both great for it. Most standard sets will have one good AoE attack (usually a point-blank AoE), but those sets in particular have multiple.

Warcabbit posted:

Nah, I totally want to give it to everyone. I just can't.

Crasical: see the end of the video. Technically, we have player powers, they just don't have animations, so right now combat looks like two people standing next to each other till one of them no longer has a red bar. Then one wanders off. We're currently working our tails off on fixing that.

Tsurupettan posted:

I think that would take some insane reworking of the game to do something like that. Nothing has changed in that regard.

LordSaturn posted:

aside from things already mentioned, they added some new support sets. but that doesn't sound like the Tommy part of the game, does it

Heathen posted:

Log on you dumb butts.

Diephoon posted:

I was gonna say something suggesting you chill out, but now i want to make an ice themed doctor named Chill Pill. Thank you for the inspiration. (There's no chance this name hasn't been taken)

e: rip

TwoDice posted:

I haven't played this game in forever, what's a good place to start? Are masterminds still decent solo?

Abroham Lincoln posted:

but also players are typically offensive powerhouses to the point where it doesn't matter much

Random Axis posted:

I did the content on both sides and made a macro to toggle xp on and off. Just paste

/macro XP "option_toggle noxp"

into your chat window and it makes a gray button labeled XP. Pressing it turns your XP on and off.

Nonexistence posted:

Also it's a T9 that plant gets basically a better version of by like lvl 12

brainSnakes posted:

As someone who likes to minmax in rpgs and pursue a combination of fun build I enjoy, then making it as powerful as I possibly can, this conversation about the endgame of CoH is relevant to my interests.

I think the most important consideration I have to add to the discussion so far is that I came up with an even better name for my machine / nature fusion character and it wasn't taken on my server yet - Root Directory

brainSnakes posted:

I was dragging my feet on this because you guys play on Indomitable according to the op, right? My friend who convinced me to pick the game up had me roll on a different server. I know you can easily swap between them, but I just checked and my cool new name IS unfortunately already taken on that one. Which clearly means I have to roll a second character, darn the luck. ...Okay look I just want an excuse to experiment with character concepts some more because that's the most fun part of this game, leave my flimsy rear end logic alone.

If I was going to to make a new nerd with the guiding principle of 'I want to go all in on being a debuffer / force multiplier for my team', what are some cool archetypes and primaries to consider building around? This 8 word post has immediately got me eyeballing the controller / corrupter / dominator sets, so thanks for that.

edit for vvvv: yeah, I know. But I don't want to come up with a new name, I'm still patting myself on the back for the current one. And since I get how dumb that is, I'll see if I can come up with a better name that works on both servers instead of being a prima donna about this. I do still like the idea of making a 2nd character, though.

Okay, just transferred over to indomitable and changed my character's name to Seed Phrase
The op link to Kuhullan’s Clown Basket is saying it's an invalid invite when I click it. is that one defunct?

Flesh Forge posted:

heads up, the set of changes in beta just advanced to release candidate 2 (i.e. really close to release)

Abroham Lincoln posted:

Nothing dramatic, no. The biggest powers changes are some nice tweaks to VEATs, a new control/assault set that people seem pretty "eh" on, and some bigger changes to everyone's epic pools. There's a few new additions, but Sents already had more than most so they mostly get housekeeping changes.

Gynovore posted:

Yeah, they get their own Leadership powers that are more END- efficient, plus there's nothing stopping you from taking pool Leadership as well.

Ironslave posted:

I have difficulty imagining a stronger character build than a properly-IOd Crabstermind. Ludicrous buffs, good damage output, high resistances, a ton of pets to both distract and chew through enemies.