This gives you a boost to your agility which will increase your critical hit change and reduce your miss change.
It's pretty minimal though and won't make much difference. Tanking or Off Tanking Build For this situation you'll want to be prepared to take as much damage as possible. For this your maximum morale and damage mitigation will be key. Might helps when you have a shield on and vitality is obviously critical. This is the best build for maximum damage mitigation and morale. If you're fighting a boss that does a lot of tactical damage you may look at using Tolerance.
Determination is always a good trait as well so mix and match as you see fit. I didn't have a lot of objections to putting a crew on the first issue There were two young artists from Connecticut that had made a strong impression on me. Al Avison and Al Gabriele often worked together and were quite successful in adapting their individual styles to each other. Actually, their work was not too far from [that of] Kirby's. If they worked on it, and if one inker tied the three styles together, I believed the final product would emerge as quite uniform.
There might have been two Als, but there was only one Jack Kirby I wrote the first Captain America book with penciled lettering right on the drawing boards, with very rough sketches for figures and backgrounds. Kirby did his thing, building the muscular anatomy, adding ideas and pepping up the action as only he could. Then he tightened up the penciled drawings, adding detailed backgrounds, faces and figures. Al Liederman would ink that first issue, which was lettered by Simon and Kirby's regular letterer, Howard Ferguson.
Simon said Captain America was a consciously political creation; he and Kirby were morally repulsed by the actions of Nazi Germany in the years leading up to the United States' involvement in World War II and felt war was inevitable: We wanted to have our say too. Captain America Comics 1 — cover-dated March [8] and on sale December 20, , [9] [10] a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor , but a full year into World War II — showed the protagonist punching Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ; it sold nearly one million copies.
Simon noted, "When the first issue came out we got a lot of Some people really opposed what Cap stood for. Though preceded as a "patriotically themed superhero" by MLJ 's The Shield , Captain America immediately became the most prominent and enduring of that wave of superheroes introduced in American comic books prior to and during World War II, [13] as evidenced by the unusual move at the time of premiering the character in his own title instead of an anthology title first.
This popularity drew the attention and a complaint from MLJ that the character's triangular shield too closely resembled the chest symbol of their Shield character. In response, Goodman had Simon and Kirby create a distinctive round shield for issue 2, which went on to become an iconic element of the character. Stanley Lieber, now better known as Stan Lee , contributed to the character in issue 3 in the filler text story "Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge", which introduced the character's use of his shield as a returning throwing weapon. Circulation figures remained close to a million copies per month after the debut issue, which outstripped even the circulation of news magazines such as Time during the period.
In the post-war era, with the popularity of superheroes fading, Captain America led Timely's first superhero team, the All-Winners Squad , in its two published adventures, in All Winners Comics 19 and 21 Fall—Winter ; there was no issue After Bucky was shot and wounded in a Captain America story, he was succeeded by Captain America's girlfriend, Betsy Ross, who became the superheroine Golden Girl.
Billed as "Captain America, Commie Smasher! Atlas' attempted superhero revival was a commercial failure, [19] and the character's title was canceled with Captain America 78 Sept. The page story ends with this Captain America revealed as an impostor: A caption in the final panel says this story was a test to see if readers would like Captain America to return.
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According to Lee, fan response to the tryout was very enthusiastic. Captain America was then formally reintroduced in The Avengers 4 March , [22] which explained that in the final days of World War II, he had fallen from an experimental drone plane into the North Atlantic Ocean and spent decades frozen in a block of ice in a state of suspended animation.
The hero found a new generation of readers as leader of that superhero team. Following the success of other Marvel characters introduced during the s, Captain America was recast as a hero "haunted by past memories, and trying to adapt to s society". Several stories were finished by penciller-inker George Tuska over Kirby layouts, with one finished by Romita Sr. This series — considered Captain America volume one by comics researchers and historians, [26] following the s Captain America Comics and its s numbering continuation of Tales of Suspense — ended with Aug.
This series was almost immediately followed by the issue Captain America vol.
The storyline of Rogers' return began in issue Who Will Wield the Shield? Super-Soldier as well as taking on the leadership position in a new Secret Avengers ongoing series. The Chosen is not part of the main Marvel Universe continuity. During the "Two Americas" storyline that ran in issues , the series drew controversy for the similarity between protesters depicted in the comic and the Tea Party movement. The character, first as agent Steve Rogers and later after resuming his identity as Captain America, appeared as a regular character throughout the — Avengers series, from issue 1 July through its final issue 34 January The character appeared as agent Steve Rogers as a regular character in the — Secret Avengers series, from issue 1 July through issue 21 March ; the character made guest appearances as Captain America in issues On July 16, Marvel Comics announced that the mantle of Captain America would be passed on by Rogers who in the most recent storyline has been turned into a year-old man to his long-time ally The Falcon , with the series being relaunched as All-New Captain America.
Marvel announced that Rogers will become Captain America once again in the comic series Captain America: Afterward, Captain America plots to set himself and Hydra in a position where they can conquer America in Marvel's event " Secret Empire. In , Joe Simon sued the owners of Marvel Comics, asserting that he—not Marvel—was legally entitled to renew the copyright upon the expiration of the original year term. The two parties settled out of court, with Simon agreeing to a statement that the character had been created under terms of employment by the publisher, and therefore it was work for hire owned by them.
In , Simon filed to claim the copyright to Captain America under a provision of the Copyright Act of , which allowed the original creators of works that had been sold to corporations to reclaim them after the original year copyright term but not the longer term enacted by the new legislation had expired. Marvel Entertainment challenged the claim, arguing that the settlement of Simon's suit made the character ineligible for termination of the copyright transfer. Simon and Marvel settled out of court in , in a deal that paid Simon royalties for merchandising and licensing use of the character.
By early , before America's entry into World War II , Rogers is a tall, scrawny fine arts student specializing in illustration and a comic book writer and artist. Disturbed by Adolf Hitler's rise to power , Rogers attempts to enlist but is rejected due to his frail body.
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His resolution attracts the notice of U. Army General Chester Phillips and "Project: Rogers is used as a test subject for the Super-Soldier project, receiving a special serum made by "Dr. Josef Reinstein", [55] [56] later retroactively changed to a code name for the scientist Abraham Erskine. The serum is a success and transforms Steve Rogers into a nearly perfect human being with peak strength, agility, stamina, and intelligence.
The success of the program leaves Erskine wondering about replicating the experiment on other human beings. While in the original material Rogers is shown receiving injections of the Super-Serum, when the origin was retold in the s, the Comic Code Authority had already put a veto over graphic description of drug intake and abuse, and thus the Super-Serum was retconned into an oral formula.
Erskine refused to write down every crucial element of the treatment, leaving behind a flawed, imperfect knowledge of the steps. Captain America, in his first act after his transformation, avenges Erskine. In the origin story and in Tales of Suspense 63, Kruger dies when running into machinery but is not killed by Rogers; in the Captain America and revisions, Rogers causes the spy's death by punching him into machinery. Unable to create new Super-Soldiers and willing to hide the Project Rebirth fiasco, the American government casts Rogers as a patriotic superhero, able to counter the menace of the Red Skull as a counter-intelligence agent.
He is supplied with a patriotic uniform of his own design, [54] a bulletproof shield, a personal side arm , and the codename Captain America, while posing as a clumsy infantry private at Camp Lehigh in Virginia. He forms a friendship with the camp's teenage mascot , James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes. Barnes learns of Rogers' dual identity and offers to keep the secret if he can become Captain America's sidekick. During their adventures, Franklin D.
Roosevelt presents Captain America with a new shield , forged from an alloy of steel and vibranium , fused by an unknown catalyst, so effective that it replaces his own firearm.
Zemo launches the plane with an armed explosive on it with Rogers and Barnes in hot pursuit. The pair reaches the plane just before take off. When Bucky tries to defuse the bomb, it explodes in mid-air. Rogers is hurled into the freezing waters of the North Atlantic.
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Both are presumed dead, though it is later revealed that neither one died. Captain America appeared in comics for the next few years, changing from World War II-era hero fighting the Nazis to confronting the United States' newest enemy, Communism. The revival of the character in the mids was short-lived, and events during that time period are later retconned to show that multiple people operated using the code name to explain the changes in the character.
The last of these other official Captains, William Burnside, [68] was a history graduate enamored with the Captain America mythos, having his appearance surgically altered to resemble Rogers and legally changing his name to "Steve Rogers", becoming the new "s Captain America". As a result, while Burnside and Monroe became the new Captain America and Bucky, they became violently paranoid, often raving about innocent people being communist sympathizers during the height of the Red Scare of the s. Their insanity forced the U.
After he revives, they piece together that Rogers has been preserved in a block of ice since , surviving because of his enhancements from Project: The block began to melt after the Sub-Mariner , enraged that an Inuit tribe is worshipping the frozen figure, throws it into the ocean. He quickly assumes leadership [72] and has typically returned to that position throughout the team's history. Captain America is plagued by guilt for having been unable to prevent Bucky's death.
Although he takes the young Rick Jones who closely resembles Bucky under his tutelage, he refuses for some time to allow Jones to take up the Bucky identity, not wishing to be responsible for another youth's death. Insisting that his hero move on from that loss, Jones convinces Rogers to let him don the Bucky costume, [73] but this partnership lasts only a short time; a disguised Red Skull , impersonating Rogers with the help of the Cosmic Cube , drives Jones away.
Rogers reunites with his old war comrade Nick Fury , who is similarly well-preserved due to the "Infinity Formula". As a result, Rogers regularly undertakes missions for the security agency S. Rogers later meets and trains Sam Wilson, who becomes the superhero the Falcon , [76] the first African-American superhero in mainstream comic books. During this period, Rogers temporarily gains super strength. The series dealt with the Marvel Universe 's version of the Watergate scandal , [84] [85] [86] making Rogers so uncertain about his role that he abandons his Captain America identity in favor of one called Nomad , [87] emphasizing the word's meaning as "man without a country".
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During this time, several men unsuccessfully assume the Captain America identity. The s included a run by writer Roger Stern and artist John Byrne. Stern, in his capacity as editor of the title, originally rejected the idea but later changed his mind about the concept. Homophobia is dealt with as Rogers runs into a childhood friend named Arnold Roth who is gay. Mark Gruenwald became the writer of the series with issue July and wrote issues for 10 consecutive years from until Sept. Gruenwald created several new foes, including Crossbones and the Serpent Society.
Rogers receives a large back-pay reimbursement dating back to his disappearance at the end of World War II, and a government commission orders him to work directly for the U. Already troubled by the corruption he had encountered with the Nuke incident in New York City , [] Rogers chooses instead to resign his identity, [] [] and then takes the alias of "the Captain". Rogers returns to the Captain America identity [] while a recovered Walker becomes the U.
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Sometime afterward, Rogers avoids the explosion of a methamphetamine lab, but the drug triggers a chemical reaction in the Super-Soldier serum in his system. To combat the reaction, Rogers has the serum removed from his body and trains constantly to maintain his physical condition.
This additionally explained how nemesis the Red Skull , who at the time inhabited a body cloned from Rogers' cells, has the formula in his body. Because of his altered biochemistry, Rogers' body begins to deteriorate, and for a time he must wear a powered exoskeleton and is eventually placed again in suspended animation. During this time, he is given a transfusion of blood from the Red Skull , which cures his condition and stabilizes the Super-Soldier virus in his system. Captain America returns to crime fighting and the Avengers. Following Gruenwald's departure from the series, Mark Waid took over and resurrected Sharon Carter as Cap's love interest.
The title was then relaunched under Rob Liefeld as Cap became part of the Heroes Reborn universe for 13 issues [] before another relaunch restored Waid to the title [] in an arc that saw Cap lose his shield for a time using an energy based shield as a temporary replacement. Following Waid's run, Dan Jurgens took over and introduced new foe Protocide , a failed recipient of the Super Soldier serum prior to the experiment that successfully created Rogers. Agility is not a good stat for DPS Champions. Stacking raw MCrit is way better, and Captains do the rest. If you're not with a Captain Agility is not good for Champs unless you're tanking.
Join Date Sep Posts Not an overwhelming amount of any of them, but enough to bump Determination up in my rankings. Also, I like that it's got three useful stats, which is a rarity. Many thanks to all for the great information and suggestions.
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Join Date Oct Posts Originally Posted by jlr. Originally Posted by Jamers. I run Agi and never really miss enough for me to notice it and say "Darn, Agi would solve that! I even ran higher level skirmishes and the results were virtually equal. I never concluded my testing because I got wrapped up in other things, namely work and raiding, but the results are still there and I may get back to it someday.
Take from that what you will. Of course there's a difference. It's just not enough of a difference to ever place the miss chance Agi gives above anything.
My crit and BPEs? So anything above is golden in my book. So Fey your telling me you would only worry about Might and Vitality then?