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edited December 2012 in Champions Online Discussion
Another Massively Article.
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  • nephtnepht Posts: 6,898 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    someguywhoplaysgames wrote: »
    Another Massively Article.

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  • rianfrostrianfrost Posts: 578 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    ok, as a non-min maxer, is he right about the energy builder? i do then to rank it a bit, for a baseline damage boost. is this a bad idea?
  • fudgemonstafudgemonsta Posts: 1,532 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Well, if you use it often then sure. When you rank it up it also boosts the amount of energy you get, but in general try to avoid using it.
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  • itsbrou#5396 itsbrou
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    edited December 2012
    You'd rank your energy builder if you didn't want to put rec or end in your build's budget or constrain to the behavior patterns of energy unlocks.
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  • nextnametakennextnametaken Posts: 2,216 Arc User
    edited December 2012
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  • kallethenkallethen Posts: 1,576 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    A very good article that gives a some good advice for a new player, either new to MMOs or a refugee from CoH.
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  • lordgrimmwoodlordgrimmwood Posts: 38 Arc User
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  • ashensnowashensnow Posts: 2,048 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Pretty decent article in my opinion. I don't agree with everything the author said, but any points of disagreement are purely matters of opinion. Overall the article seemed accurate and well targeted.
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  • holloweaverholloweaver Posts: 588 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    rianfrost wrote: »
    ok, as a non-min maxer, is he right about the energy builder? i do then to rank it a bit, for a baseline damage boost. is this a bad idea?

    Yes, it is.
    An energy builder does too low damages no matter its rank.
    Ranking it can help to depend less on it as it'll provide more energy per hit.
  • lordgrimmwoodlordgrimmwood Posts: 38 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    It was a good article, but the author did forget to mention that some of the energy builders have special advantages that work very nicely, i.e. electric bolts with the ionic infusion advantage which has a greater chance of adding negative ions to the target, which in turn can provide greater damage from your other electric attacks.
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  • rianfrostrianfrost Posts: 578 Arc User
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  • haleakalahaleakala Posts: 449 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    rianfrost wrote: »
    ok, as a non-min maxer, is he right about the energy builder? i do then to rank it a bit, for a baseline damage boost. is this a bad idea?

    My goal is to use my energy builder as little as possible. Damage gained from ranks is a percentage of the first rank's base damage for your level. 20% of not much is still not much, so don't rank it for damage. The energy gained from ranking it up can be easily gained in other ways (Statting some Rec; using a toggle; using an energy unlock).

    Rank/advantage points are not overly abundant. I tend to put them on powers I will use all the time. My goal in all freeform builds is to use the builder as little as possible, so I never rank it.

    I might be more inclined to rank my builder if I were playing an Archetype. Most AT's don't have energy unlocks, have fewer powers than FF, and have powers I wouldn't bother using (redundant attacks). So, I would have fewer powers to rank up, and might not miss those spent on the builder.
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  • selpheaselphea Posts: 1,229 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Radiance/Revitalize and Wrist Bolter/AA/Kickback builds might have reason to rank up their energy builders I suppose :o
  • hyperstrikecohhyperstrikecoh Posts: 470 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Honestly?

    I just chuck my energy builder on auto.
    This way I can beat down on an enemy and have few to no gaps in my attacks due to end insufficiency.

    Granted, I'm still fairly lowbie, and my grasp of the game is rather like...greased teflon at the moment.
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  • kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,078 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Yeah, having it on auto seems to work well for me too.
  • pion01pion01 Posts: 758 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    ashensnow wrote: »
    Pretty decent article in my opinion. I don't agree with everything the author said, but any points of disagreement are purely matters of opinion. Overall the article seemed accurate and well targeted.

    Mostly agreed. There was some stuff that was less than accurate, or marginally irrelevant, but overall very well done for a newcomer.

    I also don't think it was overly flattering and generally fair about CO and it's limitations as well as it's boons, for a newcomer.
    lordgrimmwood wrote: »
    It was a good article, but the author did forget to mention that some of the energy builders have special advantages that work very nicely, i.e. electric bolts with the ionic infusion advantage which has a greater chance of adding negative ions to the target, which in turn can provide greater damage from your other electric attacks.

    It's still not worth it, as most of those secondary effects or advantages can be attained in much easier, more reliable and more fun ways than using your energy builder.

    The only real reason I've found to rank an EB is if you like it and want to, in which case by Jove you do that thing you want to do!! Because some of the EBs look fracking awesome ranked and we should be the hero we damn well want to be!!!!!! Still useless tho.
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