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The Gimp My Build Challenge!
deadman20
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This had to be done sooner or later, so here it is:
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Players must create a build and character to utilize it as well as make it to 40 with said build and character. The rules for this challenge are as follows:
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1. Characters cannot wear any equipment or utilize any device items/boosts. (Mission Devices are OK, as they are required to progress.)
2. Character builds must not contain any: Slotted Passive, Toggled Form, Block Replacers, Active Offenses, Active Defenses, Abilities tagged as a Pet/Summon (Sigils are OK!), or the ability Rebirth.
3. Characters may not team up with other characters that are not participating in the challenge, Alerts are a big no-no unless all players are taking part in the challenge.
4. Characters must have "#GimpMyBuild" in addition to a link to this thread in their background/bio/story/description. Optionally, the tag can go into the Character's Social Status as well.
5. Should a Gimped character make it to 40, notify me for a check and your name will go down in this thread in glory unending!
Bonus: Character does not use Advantage Points.
Bonus: Character does not have Superstats or Talent Points. (Innate does not count against this)
Bonus: Character does not use the Specialization Trees.
Bonus: Character is in the official Gimp SG known as "The Gimps".
Bonus: Character begins the game from the Tutorial.
Bonus: Character does not use Witchcraft's Double Experience Weekend Buff.
Bonus: Character participates in 5-man lairs or alerts with other Gimps.
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In order of Lv40 notification/awareness:
1: FYIAD@Kaiserin - (2 out of 7 Bonus Score)
2: Knightstick@Roughbear - (2 out of 7 Bonus Score)
There it is everyone, go nuts!
The "Gimp My Build" challenge!
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Players must create a build and character to utilize it as well as make it to 40 with said build and character. The rules for this challenge are as follows:
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1. Characters cannot wear any equipment or utilize any device items/boosts. (Mission Devices are OK, as they are required to progress.)
2. Character builds must not contain any: Slotted Passive, Toggled Form, Block Replacers, Active Offenses, Active Defenses, Abilities tagged as a Pet/Summon (Sigils are OK!), or the ability Rebirth.
3. Characters may not team up with other characters that are not participating in the challenge, Alerts are a big no-no unless all players are taking part in the challenge.
4. Characters must have "#GimpMyBuild" in addition to a link to this thread in their background/bio/story/description. Optionally, the tag can go into the Character's Social Status as well.
5. Should a Gimped character make it to 40, notify me for a check and your name will go down in this thread in glory unending!
Bonus: Character does not use Advantage Points.
Bonus: Character does not have Superstats or Talent Points. (Innate does not count against this)
Bonus: Character does not use the Specialization Trees.
Bonus: Character is in the official Gimp SG known as "The Gimps".
Bonus: Character begins the game from the Tutorial.
Bonus: Character does not use Witchcraft's Double Experience Weekend Buff.
Bonus: Character participates in 5-man lairs or alerts with other Gimps.
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List of Lv40 Gimps!
In order of Lv40 notification/awareness:
1: FYIAD@Kaiserin - (2 out of 7 Bonus Score)
2: Knightstick@Roughbear - (2 out of 7 Bonus Score)
Congratulations!
--There it is everyone, go nuts!
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I'm totally in.
If yes I could join on an AT.
<evil grin>
lets see someone try 2gm, strafing run, epidemic and survive the aggro.
heres one with Night warrior passive and no gear at 30
and heres a grimoire at 30 with no gear. amazing how little you get form just AOPM
It was a pain in the rear with Spec trees to do both. basically most of my buffs, heals came from them.
off/def all came from them.
**** you can see on both I had to stack the device bar with heals.
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The only way ATs will count is if you take off the passive, turn off the toggled forms, and remove any and all of the above mentioned from your Power Tray. Must play that way forever, so sell your gear while you're at it. I also say you should have an entirely new character dedicated to this, as you have to go through the game from 1 to 40 in this fashion without any help from Non-Gimp Players. :rolleyes:
Remember though, your best power as a Gimp is, in fact, teaming up with other Gimps. Come join "The Gimps" SuperGroup and show those villains that even the weakest of heroes are there to stop them! :cool:
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I am thinking of taking the "no specs", no "advantage points", and "no talents" bonuses.
Somehow, I think a character made that way can still be successful in Champs, especially on normal difficulty.
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I think it'd be more so / just as much to do with the energy issues you'd get especially from SR which is very energy hungry as a burst. Without any gear your energy these powers will be a lot more meh, the aggro doesn't matter so much.
I'm gonna give this go on super hard elite mode and get owned 24/7, sounds like fun.
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STR doesn't matter too much as a PSS because of the lack of gear but yeah if you are going melee most likely it is still best to use even without gear.
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I'll make a toon called "The Incredible Miserable" and add 14 DoTs.
Call Maverick if you need a DPS help, or Combat Medic if you need a healer.
I am known for having extremely good or extremely bad luck with drops.
Why do I get the feeling this is just a ploy to make all the leveling zones look active on the chance that new people try the game during christmas vacation....
What aggro? Considering the nature of the challenge, anything you're hitting with those attacks will already be aggro'd to you... not like you'll be doing Grabs.
My super cool CC build and how to use it.
No, you can do alerts as long as all five people in the alerts are Gimps. So basically they need to do a premade group for them.
Okay. You deleted the wrong part of the quote tho u3u
My super cool CC build and how to use it.
Support is almost certainly the best unless you get no energy problems at all and use no CC which isn't likely on a build such as this. Stat wise you are right as well, I'm currently going con primary with str and either end or rec seconday if I feel the need, it's not like the energy would hurt to have. I'm not using any specs though.
My main power I'm building around is bullet beatdown.
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Yeah, I realized that after I posted, but I'm to lazy to fix my posts sometimes.
My Gimp is support. Uses Ego Sleep even, makes things a lot easier on himself.
1. Deadman, those 2 characters are already 40. They did it with no gear, legacy devices, vehicles ,if you want I can get their mission total.
2.look people trying to make it easier.
How about a modification;
choose your stats and spec trees as if you WERE going to use gear. They try it.
see how your normal builds rely on your gear, especially CD or in my case cost discount,
I'll stick to using normal stats and unless its a support build, it won't be in support. and the only ones in hybrid I have are AT's or ones restricted by passives. which we don't have
easy AT- mind, without the passive and form, will still do well on energy management
Golden Gimp on @Kittykaboomboom is Range DPS and EGO.
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My one uses ego sleep too.
I think it's more fun to just not pick spec tree's and only using super stats without the extra stuff. Oh and no advantages.
Oh also if we can get atleast 5 of us in the SG it will be cool to start running 5 man content such as lairs and the alerts as a team of gimped characters.
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Busy with *ahem* other stuff but if I did this I'd probably do this powers-first rather than stats-first. Go all out with long range, stealth cheese and CCs. Things like Rico Throw with Evasive Maneuvers and Sleight of Mind, along with low energy CCs like Storm of Arrows and Torrent, powered by MSA.
Of course you'd have to use advantages on the Archery skills, but hey they're Archery skills. They're already gimped in the first place! :O
Will probably need Con because it's Con, Int for MSA and... Ego for knock strength and additive damage maybe. Not sure whether primary Int for Hold strength or primary Ego for cost discount though.
Dual blades, using night sticks.
Theme build, as if playing a tabletop RPG. I won't use specs, talents, or advantages.
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strangely enough, you don't actually need an energy stat. you can get plenty from talents.
lets see force bolts- some KB but ok,,
wind blast(whatever its called) some kb.
hurricane. for close mobs. more blow back than KB
force(the arc in front one) for further away mobs.
whirlwind to get them close enough to use hurricane on
as for energy, I'll get Overdrive.
thats about all.
I could get a heal but... ack there's none in wind and force.
spec trees. I think I'll use the stat one. The other 2 are all bonus stuff. If this is a low powered super, it wouldn't have them
send an invite to golden gimp@kittykaboomboom for SG
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Even with those strictures, and no gear, I don't think there will be much of a problem.
Healing patches okay?
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Well I'm getting stealth from ninja vanish currently. If you are getting advantages then things like EM and others can provide stealth however I'm not getting advantages and to be honest don't really need it with ninja vanish as my TP.
I'm not using talents so I'll need to be getting END or REC as a superstat.
So you've limited yourself to only force and wind?
A Playlist of my CO PvP video's (starting from post nerf PTS team duels)
Healing Patches, as in those devices? Rules stat no devices.
it's not actually a bad set. ok, energy is a problem hence the talents but I'm not getting the SS to fix it. It should still run... fairly well.
I can get overdrive to go off, if I shoot a few energy blasts then use hurricane. Otherwise I can't maintain it long enough.
I just got plain flight.
total character background on the Golden gimp armour.
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EM I 'm not worried about, I do the standard block or die but don't kite.
UP to Purple reign, this is gonna be painful. no heals and basic block. lets guess the deaths.
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By the way, stealth from travel powers and advantages does not trigger powers that get a bonus on stealth--I think only the passive does that.
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I would think it's just understood that Mission devices were safe, but I'll be sure to add that in there so there's no confusion. As far as the Tutorial goes, the different starting points end up with differences in experience points, with the right usage ending up with the Tutorial giving out more experience before the players officially start the Westside Arc from a couple of extra missions in the powerhouse not available to those skipping the tutorial. Figured you guys might want the additional experience before starting in Westside, but I suppose the time it takes to run through the Tutorial might not be worth it. I'll go ahead and change that to a bonus objective instead.
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It's actually a lot of fun and makes for a much different gaming experience often meaning you to actually have to think in fights instead of what we all know happens in CO usually. It actually gives a similar level of challenge that you get in other MMO's that are made much less forgiving for stupidity. Interrupting a mob from using a powerful attack using ego sleep gives such a good feeling, tricking mobs and using LoS to stop half the mobs attacking you while hitting the ones that come around with melee hits. Or sleeping all the mobs then taking them out one by one...
It actually gives a kind of fun in basic content that I never really found in CO personally other than maybe in 2009. It gives much more of a thrill than how the game is currently which personally makes it worth me spending time doing the PvE content and makes it more rewarding when you beat something after working out how you can get around the problem with what you have.
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1. usual tactics. death
2. shoot and dodge behind wall. He reset after a few dodges. I didn't pull him close enough
3. try old tactics form before dumbing down of mission.
blast and run up ramp.
block at top, he stops halfway thinking he can hit you.
you get extra heal time.
damage him, he drops green glowie. block.
repeat, get another green glowie.
send thanks to the RNG fairy who is feeling generous today(or has morbid curiosity)
get a third glowie, kill him(and that glowie was a close call)
don't forget after selling your start gear, tograb a vehicle mod and slotted gear and do the 2 crafting missions
also the perks mission.
Level 7 before I hit kodiak.
Now at 10.
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I think taking a stealth travel power (teleport, burrowing, etc) is a huge advantage here, since it allows some missions to become absolutely trivial.
I remember leveling my main toon way back in the day, and I remember that choosing teleport was full of win.
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Ones that doesn't allready have one...
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Also, with my melee toon, I could not beat Talos until I was level 11.
Ouch. Some of the early bosses are pretty tough on newbies.
Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
I've grown accustomed to routinely doing missions with bosses 3 levels above my hero. Now, I have to be careful fighting bosses of the same level, and higher level bosses are impossible.
Reasons: Can't mitigate enough damage, even when blocking, and can't do enough damage without gear and passives.
Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
yes I know
have you noticed how fast your grab any glowies which turn up?
your days of charge into combat and survive, are out.
learn to snipe, hit and run, hide behind walls.
You are a low powered super now, not a high powered.
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Enemies scale much faster than heroes that lack passives, gear, talents, specs, and advantages.
Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
I'd like to try and take up this challenge. The toon's name will be Nostatistix. My handle is @danlimski.
Thanks and have a good'r, Dan.
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Only devices used are mission-specific ones.
By the way, the no advantage-points, no talents, and no specs rules are bonus challenges.
EDIT: I broke down and am now using advantage points, talents, and specs--makes the challenge possible for me past level 20.
I also rediscovered the Eye of the Storm, Bountiful Chi Resurgence, Overdrive combo. Those three powers together get you through a lot of mobs.
Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
As soon as I exited the Powerhouse, I sold all of my equipment and devices. I accidentally picked up a double XP boost from Witchcraft. I wasn't thinking, I'll do my best not to make the same mistake again.
Time to see what the next levels await.
Dan.
Witchcraft's Double Experience Weekend Buff is fine.
Edit: but bonus points if you do without...
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With that, I can play missions of same level, or even a level or two higher, if I am careful.
I completed Intranet deployment with specs/adv/talents--tough, but made it.
Level 23 now, doing Queen City Arc.
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short of getting things I don't actually need, there isn't much available.
may have to get something outside wind/force. we'll see at 14. IF I can get the next level then.
Yes I'm getting a lot of res and run practice.
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I personally have only died 5 times so far all to bosses before I got my heal. Now I've got my heal I've started running things in elite mode to see if I can still complete the content without dieing. Using ninja vanish helps a lot for picking mobs off with ego sleep mind you.
A Playlist of my CO PvP video's (starting from post nerf PTS team duels)