So the alt I’m most worried about in I5 is Velvet, given that she’s an Invuln tanker. Ironically, I recently (a few months back, right before they started announcing I5 changes) respecced her into something that much less toggly, much more auto. Irritatingly, what I’m taking her back to is something very close to what I had previously.
Really, though, the main difference is that rather than having RPD fully slotted, I’m tossing more slots into TI.
I realize that I’ve also been a bit spoiled with Velvet, based on her running with P-siren and getting all the bubbly goodness for protection. Since that’s now correspondingly less, I need to be a bit more careful with stuff.
Here’s what I’m currently looking at (written to 44, though I’m only at 28 so far):
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***Dave Does the Game
Took my tanker to Croatoa last night and he was quickly killed by a red con and four orange cons.(and I had bubbles from a def on my team!) Thankfully, I was on a mish so only took 1/2 debt. In the past I could go have a cup of coffee and those cons would not have hurt me. I have not respec’d so my resistance is at about 70 or so %. In thinking about my respec, it looks like I will not get as many pool powers as i want, as you have discovered…Also, I am getting a funny feeling that invincibility is next to useless..Gonna give my lvl 25 blaster a try and see how he is.
For what it’s worth, I think it’s a really good looking build.
My thought on Hasten is… well… the ONLY reason Hype took it was to speed up the recharge on Burn, and I’m reaping side-benefits in that some of my other favorite attacks (freezing touch, Taunt) are cycling faster)… but I’d still really rather I didn’t have it. Personally, I’d dump it, move ResEn one step sooner and get ResEl… lots of fire stuff in Oranbega. I don’t see the point of getting it when…
Well, looking at your slots, you’ve got yourself set up to be Perma-Dull Pain WITHOUT Hasten. You’re ALSO set up to be Perma-Hasten. You can’t have them both be perma, because you can only set up ONE power to auto-fire, so it looks to me like you’re setting yourself up to have wasted at least two slots on DP that you don’t need with Hasten going… probably more, cuz you won’t remember to click it every two minutes all the time.
Dunno, I just can’t see getting it — if DP is your auto-repeat, and you have, as you say, plenty of attacks always at the ready… what do you need it for?
Not being facetious. I’m asking. 🙂
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On Health — here’s what it does: No matter who you are, it takes 4 minutes, just standing around, to regen all your hit points from 1 up to Max. This obviously means that Tankers are healing more HP/tick, since they have to go FURTHER to get from 1 to Max.
Health simply reduces that 4 minute time (240 seconds), which, thinking backward, makes your HPs -healed-per-tick go up. If I remember right, six-slotted Health gets the time down to ~110 seconds.
So. Let’s say your a Tank with 1000 hit points (which would be… I dunno. Somewhere around level 20? 25? Whatever. A level 50 blaster :))
HP recovered per second without Health: 4.
HP recovered per second with Health, maxed: 9
Doesn’t seem like much, but with S/L capped, you’re only taking about 7-point dings per hit from most anything coming at you. Health with NO slotting at all should basically stay ahead of that, and aggressively slotted Health, plus Perma Dull Pain (see: raising your max HPs with DP actually raised your HP-healed-per-second!) you’re stay ahead of most of the nasty non-S/L stuff.
Hell, I’ve almost talked myself into slotting Health more on Hype 🙂
I’ve just about talked myself out of Hasten (as you note, I have DP as Perma on this). OTOH, with Hasten, I could save 4 slots or so on DP and Rage — but not have either one auto.
But that’s not enough to warrent Hasten, so …
Health — yeah. It’s subtle, but useful.
Last night was the AV Diablolique…
Oofda!
It did not help that both controllers were -5 levels and their holds were inconsistant….but -5 level ex is sooo, sooo sweet. was able to get two bubbles worth of ex from that mission alone (with 3 one shot’d deaths in the middle). you know it’s a good fight when the only thing left in your tray is a Breakfree.
Puck is stronger under i5 then she was before, and I am very happy about that.
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Got Zazi up to 33…still playing around with rebuilds and I think I will wait until CoH planner updates before I commit to anything. Stealth still works for SR, and she can still stealth missions since SR doesn’t scream “Bite Me” like some of the defenses.
Stealth came in handy last night because Zazi was tracking a L41 Malta ambush that someone had left in Talos. I was able to follow closely without them seeing her so that Hype could take them out.
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Ciunas got rebuilt without Stealth, which was replaced with hover for a more enjoyable Teleporting experence. She also got to 20th and the free new costume. Yay!
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i5 seems to be freeling with some of the intel video cards. The big problem was flashing walls in door missions…Walls….whole map…walls…whole map everytime you moved your curser. It was giving me a big headache after a while. This was solved (in two trips because I had a blond moment and grabbed the PCI-E box instead of the PCI one) by getting the Nvidia graphics card that was recomended.
So….now I have Margie level grapics happiness. 🙂
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Lastly…
Lots of new baddie changes which freaked me out a bit.
One that I really noticed, was that for the Vazh, Reapers and Morts have Manuever. It was really freaky with fighting them with Ciunas and pondering why the Zombies all had little purple shields floating around them.
Hmmm. Another fine reason to take down Morts and Reapers fast and first, regardless of the vomit.
No CoH since last Thursday. Hopefully tonight (though I may end up with a big work conference call this evening, bleah).
By the way….
Thanks for adding more fuel to the Psi-Clone/Panik Rumore last night. 🙂
Rumor? What rumor?
Inquiring minds want to know…
Oh…*laughs*
Pizzaz decided that Psi-Clone and Panik were an item.
She then told Puck….who then shared this with Nora and Erin.
Lately though, Psi-Clone was heard to be flirting with Lady Photon…So many good rumors, so little time. 🙂
Heh.
I like it, I like it!
But I thought Psi-Clone and Amorpha were a pair? Or is that purely a business relationship?
Psi-clone says, “What? No! I mean, no, Panik and I are simply colleagues. We often compare notes on our respective use of our power sets. I admire his dedication to the cause of Paragon, and, well, he seems like a nice fellow — in a, um, nice fellow sort of way.
“And Amorpha is a trusted business colleague, and , I hope, a comrade in arms. My work would be tremendously more difficult without her, and I hope that my contribution to her professional career has been similarly rewarding.
“As for Lady Photon — um, I find her perfectly charming in an intriguing fashion, but any interest I have in her beyond that would both require spending more time with her than the few brief moments I’ve had, and be ungentlemanly to speculate upon in any case. So there.”
That is, that’s what he’d say if one actually asked him about such things.
Uh huh. Sure. Riiiiiiight.
(Oh, and I changed my nickname from NoelleFrost to ktbuffy. Since I’m not hiding my true internet identity anymore. I’m free! Free, I tell you!)