Amy_Amp

It's unknown because these are from i22/i23 at best.

Am I missing some painfully obvious post on the server being down again, or is this yet another undocumented maintenance? It's getting rather frustrating as hell to log on, get into a mission, and "Oh by the way, we are taking down the servers again" and yet there is no posting of this that I can see on the forum. "Sorry for the inconvenience." It wouldn't be so inconvenient if people would actually post when this is suppose to happen. Apologies if this info is somewhere I am missing.

One of the most frustration experiences I have ever had in game was on a speed ITF with my Bots/traps. The real salt on the wounds moment was being told my pets were only needed during a couple of times. I couldn't wait to get off the TF and anything would have been more fun to play. I can't image playing a petless MM unless for sadomasochistic reasons. The build would be more worthless than a pure healer who only has one attack. At least the numbers for a Emp def are good.

My guess is you are soloing on +0x1. At level 29 that is going to be rather slow in terms of leveling speed. You'll want something more like +1x1, or even +1x2. You just need to figure out what you can handle and go from there. There are other factors here as well for diff setting. If you are doing generic old school story arcs then those will be the easiest. Radio missions can likely be easier since you get to pick the mob type, but if you do a bank mission you will fight an EB at some point. Tip missions are definitely the hardest to pull off. AE missions you just kind of have to roll the dice in terms of difficulty.

Another thing to consider, log out in police stations and work on getting the day job badge for doing so. You get an exp bonus for completing missions for a period of time and that bonus goes up once you have the badge. Pretty much any character I have logs out at a place where I work towards that day job until I hit level 50.

Just remember that when you go and get certain IOs from the market you may likely have to thank a farmer for keeping the price that low and having as many be there in the first place. Have prices on certain things on the market gone down since recent threads on farming in the brute forum have been posted? Yes, they have. Oh noes, farming is ebil. Take away farming and the supply will instantly get overwhelmed by the demand.

Claws. Elec. Brutes. Rule.

Rain won't be that big of a factor against AVs. Scourge, however, will.

There will always be request for healers. These requests are to be ignore unless you like getting on bad PuGs. My ramblings on Emp are on the defender forum so I'll just say Dark/thermal corr and leave it at that. I would probably go Ice/thermal, but that's more of what I would do.

The time required and ease of doing said arc varies. The arc does have 4 EBs in it and some are more annoying than others.

Brute Pro: Gets SS
Scrapper Pro: Gets Spines.

I think the default answer is brute unless there is something specific about the build on a scrapper that makes it worth rolling. The higher damage cap of a brute to me doesn't really come into play for normal play since it's so high and you need 100% fury with other buffs to reach it. For normal content, a brute isn't going to out damage a scrapper given the same sets. There's a reason scrappers can't go SS/shield yet.

Fire/kins are notorious slow starters for no other reason than Hotfeet is one of the worst end sucking toggles in the game. Add in Fulcrum not coming to 38 for a controller and it's definitely a late bloomer, but a strong build once it develops. A controller/dom would be my default pick to team with a stalker though since they can lock down the mobs and make it easier for the stalker to weed through the mob.