and it still took me several months of saving to be able to make this build. Obtaining the various IO's used to make this build required countless runs of Positron and Synapse Task Forces, and selling many merit obtained IO's for cash. for the vast majority of the player base. Overcoming these stone armor debuffs without relying on teammates requires some of the most expensive and rare Invention Origin enhancement in the game. although in all fairness, I am the one that has railed against Fire / Kinetics that never learned how to play kinetics to begin with.

However, in the current city of heroes, where a large number of players are AE leveled and have no practical game experience, it's not uncommon to be teaming with players that don't know how to use their buffs. An Empath or a Thermal Radiation can also ease the damage debuffs. A Kinetics can erase the movement debuffs and recharge debuffs, and in mobs, erase the damage debuffs as well. Many of these debuffs can be dealt with by simply teaming up with other players. The reason for this is that the Stone's final armor, Granite, has some serious penalties associated with it's use, which include a hefty debuff to global recharge speed, global attack strength, and global movement. Now, I happen to be the opinion that in the current City of Heroes, players shouldn't make a stone tank unless they have the finances to IO slot their Stone Tank. For the most part, whether or not the developers want to address this issue, an average player has no realistic chance of obtaining a full set of purple IO's.įor this avatar, I broke that rule. So I generally don't build avatars with expensive proc IO's or the extremely rare Purple IO sets. When I IO slot an avatar, I try to only use IO's that a casual player has a hope of getting. One of the objectives I try to accomplish with my avatars is what I call practical builds.

This posting though, is not at all like my other builds that I've put online. Like previous posts, this avatar is, well, still not completely slotted. For the first time in months, another build of my CoH characters.

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