Official WD City of Heroes Thread

**Carbonado** · December 29th, 2004, 02:11 PM

Had a good time last night. Been a while since a bunch of us teamed. Gratz to Stalemate for FINALLY getting to 34. Any idea when y'all might want to do the Respec? I'm up for it again. Also, I wonder if the guys at NCSoft are gonna wait until they officially push out issue 3 to offer the comp respec.... hhhhhmmmmm. Should be able to be on tonight. Later!

**ilovetheusers** · December 29th, 2004, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by Carbonado

Had a good time last night. Been a while since a bunch of us teamed. Gratz to Stalemate for FINALLY getting to 34. Any idea when y'all might want to do the Respec? I'm up for it again. Also, I wonder if the guys at NCSoft are gonna wait until they officially push out issue 3 to offer the comp respec.... hhhhhmmmmm. Should be able to be on tonight. Later!

I've heard the comp respec and the patch push will be early january. I'm up for the respec whenever. I am free tonight after 8-9 and tomorrow night after 9.

**Carbonado** · December 29th, 2004, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by ilovetheusers

I've heard the comp respec and the patch push will be early january. I'm up for the respec whenever. I am free tonight after 8-9 and tomorrow night after 9.

I up for either night. I should be on by 9 each night.

**Great Gazoo** · December 29th, 2004, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by Carbonado

I up for either night. I should be on by 9 each night.

Thursday night I could join you guys. Problem Child just dinged 34 so I could help out with either Gazoo or PC. Tonight I have to work till midnight est.

**ilovetheusers** · December 29th, 2004, 07:57 PM

I forgot about tomorrow night, I'm committed to doing something. It's tonight or next week for me.

**Stalemate** · December 29th, 2004, 08:10 PM

I'm on in 15 minutes.

**Stalemate** · December 30th, 2004, 12:22 AM

Respec mission done this evening with 5 people - only one squishy died.

Aumakua (FF/Fire controller)
Buzzerbeater (elec. blaster)
Dr. Strangelove (Grav./Kin. controller - friend of PoW)
Carbonado (MA/Inv. scrapper)
Stalemate v.6 (Inv./EM tanker)

I now have 6-7 copies of Stalemate to test out the new Invulnerability "features"

Thanks for the teaming up tonight guys.

**Stalemate** · December 30th, 2004, 12:26 AM

Hey GG.

I see you're on tonight.

Reading up on the entire thread?

**GrandDad** · December 30th, 2004, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by a d e p t

Respec mission done this evening with 5 people - only one squishy died.

Aumakua (FF/Fire controller)
Buzzerbeater (elec. blaster)
Dr. Strangelove (Grav./Kin. controller - friend of PoW)
Carbonado (MA/Inv. scrapper)
Stalemate v.6 (Inv./EM tanker)

I now have 6-7 copies of Stalemate to test out the new Invulnerability "features"

Thanks for the teaming up tonight guys.

Oh we don't wanna hear all this , COH is dead .

**ilovetheusers** · December 30th, 2004, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by a d e p t

Respec mission done this evening with 5 people - only one squishy died.

I now have 6-7 copies of Stalemate to test out the new Invulnerability "features"

Thanks for the teaming up tonight guys.

I did the same. Here's the thing though: What I posted before works really well. My END is an issue but as soon as I hit lvl 37 I'm slotting leadership and hitting it with end reducers. After that smoke is getting 6 slotted for the additional 15% negative to hit.

BTW - I am on from 4-6 today.

**Stalemate** · December 30th, 2004, 01:52 PM

7 builds so far... 3 have made the cut for the Training Room.

Had to min/max, but the new Invincibility numbers are throwing me for a spin... as in, no one is really sure what they are officially it seems.

Build 1:
Archetype: Tanker
Primary Powers - Defense : Invulnerability
Secondary Powers - Melee : Energy Melee
Slot[01] Level 1 (Starting Primary) : Temp Invulnerability /DamRes,DamRes,DamRes
Slot[02] Level 1 (Starting Secondary) : Barrage /Dmg
Slot[03] Level 2 : Energy Punch(T) /Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg
Slot[04] Level 4 : Resist Physical Damage /DamRes
Slot[05] Level 6 : Hasten /Rchg,Rchg,Rchg
Slot[06] Level 8 : Unyielding Stance /DamRes,DamRes,DamRes,DamRes,DamRes,EndRdx
Slot[07] Level 10 : Combat Jumping /DefBuf
Slot[08] Level 12 : Bone Smasher /Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg
Slot[09] Level 14 : Super Jump /Jump
Slot[10] Level 16 : Swift /Run
Slot[11] Level 18 : Invincibility /HitBuf,HitBuf,HitBuf,HitBuf
Slot[12] Level 20 : Health /Heal
Slot[13] Level 22 : Stamina /EndRec,EndRec,EndRec,EndRec,EndRec,EndRec
Slot[14] Level 24 : Whirling Hands /Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg
Slot[15] Level 26 : Tough Hide /DefBuf,DefBuf,DefBuf,DefBuf,DefBuf,DefBuf
Slot[16] Level 28 : Taunt /Taunt
Slot[17] Level 30 : Resist Elements /DamRes
Slot[18] Level 32 : Resist Energies /DamRes,DamRes
Slot[19] Level 35 : Energy Transfer /Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg
Slot[20] Level 38 : Total Focus /Dmg

Resists with Passives + TI + UY: S/L=107%, El=64% and En=68%
Defenses are based on Combat Jump, Hasten, Tough Hide 6-slotted and (if Inv at 10% per foe still holds) Invulnerability - in a mob of 4 foes: 61.5%

This is very close to what I currently have on live, and what I found to be most enjoyable while still challenging. In reality, on live this toon has less damage resistance and defense as I do not run permaUnstopppable and do not have Temporary Invulnerability.

I've placed 4 HitBuffs on Invincibility to counter the lessened accuracy bonus isntead of the current 3 I have on live.

**Carbonado** · December 30th, 2004, 03:08 PM

Good team up last night. Once again, fun to have just about the whole gang there. Since I don't really have time to test out my toons on the test server I think I'm just gonna wait for Issue 3 to come out and let the chips fall where they may. I'll then use the bonus respec we get to tailor my guy appropiately. Who knows, maybe old Carb will just be fine and dandy the way he is.

Last day as my current job so went out to lunch and got liquored up. Feeling good!

**ilovetheusers** · December 30th, 2004, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by Carbonado

Good team up last night. Once again, fun to have just about the whole gang there. Since I don't really have time to test out my toons on the test server I think I'm just gonna wait for Issue 3 to come out and let the chips fall where they may. I'll then use the bonus respec we get to tailor my guy appropiately. Who knows, maybe old Carb will just be find and dandy the way he is.

Last day as my current job so went out to lunch and got liquored up. Feeling good!

With the damage that you do now I think you're good.

**Stalemate** · January 1st, 2005, 05:45 PM

Here's my favourite build for Issue 3.

Testing it this evening as Stalemate v.12 in the Training Room.

Archetype: Tanker – Issue 3 Stalemate “I”

Primary Powers - Defense : Invulnerability

Secondary Powers - Melee : Energy Melee

Level 1 (Starting Primary) : Temp Invulnerability /DamRes,DamRes,DamRes
Level 1 (Starting Secondary) : Barrage /Dmg

Level 2 : Energy Punch(T) /Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg

Level 4 : Resist Physical Damage /DamRes

Level 6 : Combat Jumping /DefBuf

Level 8 : Unyielding /DamRes,DamRes,DamRes,DamRes,EndRdx

Level 10 : Bone Smasher /Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg

Level 12 : Swift /Run

Level 14 : Super Jump /Jump

Level 16 : Health /Heal

Level 18 : Invincibility /HitBuf,HitBuf,DefBuf,HitBuf,DefBuf,EndRdx

Level 20 : Stamina /EndRec,EndRec,EndRec,EndRec,EndRec,EndRec

Level 22 : Whirling Hands /Dmg,Dmg,Dmg

Level 24 : Dull Pain(Inv) /Rchg,Rchg,Rchg,Heal

Level 26 : Resist Elements /DamRes,DamRes

Level 28 : Resist Energies /DamRes,DamRes

Level 30 : Taunt /Taunt

Level 32 : Tough Hide /DefBuf,DefBuf,DefBuf,DefBuf,DefBuf,DefBuf

Level 35 : Energy Transfer /Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg,Dmg

Level 38 : Total Focus /Dmg

RESISTS