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It's not pure archery, but you might as well use Ricochet throw, as it is very, very nice to use while stealthed. You target the weaker mob, as it splits in two after the first bounce and will do more damage on secondary targets (which is why I don't take the advantage; I'd rather have the straight damage boost so it's not…
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Oh well, sonic device only procs on the first target =P Which suggests that it counts as a single target attack (the bounce is just a special effect after each hit)... I'm too slack to test ricochet on my 40s, so I don't yet know if avenger mastery works on it for sure, but it is labeled a blast power, so it should work…
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...How does sonic device interact with ricochet throw? First hit only or on each bounce?
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zomg... Ricochet throw is a BLAST. That means avenger mastery works on it! That could be REALLY REALLY NICE! Does it count as an aoe or a single target though, so I know what spec to take to boost its critical chance in the vindicator tree?
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Couldn't really tell you... But it sounds like Night Warrior doesn't fall off of Way of the Warrior as much as I thought. From your anecdote, I'm guessing that if you really, really want to optimize, that you do want to switch builds after the initial shadowstrike. I wouldn't do it myself, as it seems to be a lot of…
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I've only fiddled around with it a little bit, so my experience is at a veeeeery low level. 9. 1.) The scaling isn't specified. I think it just scales with superstats, with the stealth power still being affected by dex. 2.) Yes, you need night warrior to use shadow strike, because you need night warrior to be able to…
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If they ever expand the PA melee powers some more so it's not just a few laser sword attacks, there might some day be a return to strength for PA =P What I'd really like though is for the PA melee powers to also be slot-based; you could have a chest power that launches little buzzsaw drones that hover within 10 feet (and…
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I'm not a fan of the end/wrist bolter/auto assault combination. It does provide energy, but the damage on wrist bolter is so low, you're really just relying on micro munitions and minigun anyway, which can both already run forever with int/rec/overdrive. You'd have the advantage of dex for more criticals, but lose out on…
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You absolutely need int. If you're using overdrive, you also probably want rec, as you can get up to 15ish energy/tick/stack of overdrive with both int and rec superstats. If you want to tank, you need con too, and just gear for ego. Int is practically a prerequisite for PA-ranged because ss int and energy discount…
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Look for Pulsewave's Gyrojet build. It's pretty sweet, and can be tweaked either towards more survivability or maxed dps. It uses PA attacks, and the quarry passive. The best I've managed to get out of it dps-wise is to have primary Int (so that audacity stacks get you to the soft cap on ego and for energy management),…
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I wish they'd make a set of melee powers that function like the ranged ones--they'd occupy slots and could be simultaneously fired. Let's see... plug laser sword (and other laser sword-ish moves) into the hand slot. Have a robot limb/tail/tentacle PBAOE attack (based on the whirling chain type animations, or floating…
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With primary int, the audacity stacks by themselves easily exceed the soft cap for ranged damage increase for ego. Keeping ego as a SS gives higher damage for everything, but diminishing returns means that you may get more damage overall by either having dex for higher crits (as criticals are multiplicative and not…
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Quarry is awesome. That is all.
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Someone suggested a build to me today. Some aspects of it sound interesting. I suspect it's less damage than Gyrojet, though it's surely tougher. It's to use wrist bolters with the adv. and revitalize, with con as a secondary stat, sentry for twist fate and frequent/permanent implosion engine/actives (like ego surge with…
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I should probably rely on the recovery items too, and get over my single player rpg-ism of refusing to use consumable items... Incidentally, during the new Hi Pan alert, with AOPM team mates, I got over 5 stacks of avenger (!!!). There's not much of a difference at 4+, because my reflexes + latency can't take advantage,…
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That 5 stack is a rare event (I probably shouldn't have mentioned it as it's an outlier, but it's just so cool when it happens) =P It's diminishing frequency to get the 5. I'm sure you've noticed there's a distribution--going up to 41% critical (+6 more from vindicator) just raises the curve that little bit so you…
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Well, my cosmetic pet peeves mostly have to do with females: 1) The necks on female models look ridiculous when arched back (with flight/jet flight/jet pack). They're too long, too thin, and look broken. I hide them with the hood costume piece, or with the wrapped scarf back piece, or the studded armor neck piece,…
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After trying multiple variations with stats (including trying out primary rec), I've ended up with 2 versions of Pulsewave's Gyrojet (on 2 separate toons, using up earned respecs and about 1500 g, because I tested in play for a couple days at a time instead of in the powerhouse). I understand his desire to have ss ego, but…
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Soooo... The alternatives to invuln/dodge take more work to do because it's easier on the stats. And you can have the +defense specs with any passive, sooo... it would be even better with something other than lr. Possibly, if you pack on an avoidance mod on top of your avoidance unity purple, that might be a reason to keep…
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Haha, I must have been really sleepy when I wrote that =P Especially since I also have the title... In the end I converted my squishy infernal to a defiance tank with dodge gear. Debuff with a defile tap and fire snake, maintain the stacks with the blast, and heal/dps with devour essence. =P It's more generalist and still…
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I am impressed by super-specialized tanks that can solo Gravitar (when everyone else dies and there's still half her life left). I've only been with one so far. It was amazing. Only her super-bubble could bring his life bar down a significant way, and he'd recover his health almost instantly. But I really wish they would…
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I was just in a Gravitar alert today that should have failed. We all ate it, except for a tank named Paragon (I can't recall his handle). Paragon proceeded to solo Gravitar. Easily. I have rebirth on the character I was in there with and would sometimes poke my head out from behind a tree keeping me out of line of sight…
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Yeah Selphea, I don't disagree, it's just that you're comparing an optimized set up to the AT set-up, and with that consideration, a 30% difference is really not that bad. The ATs can be improved a lot going to FF, but their damage is still okay enough to let them solo 90+% of the content and to group for the rest... so…
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Also, some powersets just suck right now, period. The Force power set is awful. I don't even want to think about playing with an Impulse. A huge amount of content is accessible even if you stick with just silver ATs and never spend a buck, so CO is still one of the best f2p MMOs in terms of not completely screwing free…
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@selphea: You don't need dex to have decent criticals. You can get over 20% criticals with just proper gear and mods at level 40, which is the only time one should worry about optimizing. Obviously, it's better to have dex, since that can get critical rate to 40%, but a character's dps is not totally gimp without it.…
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I have a much simpler animation/modeling complaint. Any human-ish female ends up with a ridiculous looking neck when at full speed flight/jet flight. It looks skinny and stretched and downright disturbing (like their necks have been broken). All my female characters hide this with the scarf back pieces or the hood head…
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Eh, what? I don't think it's OP, but it's definitely one of the top aoe powers. Since the first character I took up to 40 used infernal, I was always spoiled by it and really struggled with other power sets in terms of aoe (granted, a lot of that is because of the super-efficient energy from supernatural power). It covers…
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I haven't tried earth, but I thought I'd chime in. Quarry almost demands that you use primary Int. It will end up giving you a total of +90 to int and ego later on, which means you really can do without superstat ego since it will hit the soft cap. If you're using quarry anyway, consider that using int means you don't have…
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Probably, the highest dps is power armor, because you can have 3 attacks going on at once if built right. But it's actually fairly hard to make it work, and it's kind of slow early on. Honestly, I could never get it to work well until I caved and just copied a Pulsewave build (his builds are awesome and actually well…
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Yeah bluegrass, I think that is what I'll do. At 40, I'll swap out ego for dex. And I think I will find something to drop for protection field or something. I really ought to drop sonic device since I don't really need it, but it just looks cool to use it and then lead tempest for all those explosions. Also, has nothing to…
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I respecced an old toon I got bored with, so at level 35, it's pretty neat. Overdrive lets me use the maintains all day (+15 energy per stack, so with 3 ticks at once that's +45), with an occasional half-charged fc. When electric sheath or lock n load is up, I can fire full force cascades even without endurance. Hmmmm...…
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Thanks! And again, thanks for the build. I've been wanting to make PA work for me for months since I went gold, and it always felt 'not quite there' until I tried this (mostly because balancing energy management, damage and toughness are easier to optimize with infernal or dual blade, which were my main characters). This…
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I finally gave up on trying to make my own PA build because I either ended up with too little energy generation or it just plain felt clunky, like things just didn't feel right together. So I respecced to Pulsewave XIII/Gyrojet, and it's just so good. Pulsewave, is there a reason to have secondary stat end over rec? The…