Amy_Amp

We all must have missed all of those WP And Invuls posting the best farm times.

Bronze. Typically the lower levels one.

Brutes get a better damage benefit via fury versus +dmg. Scrappers gets a better benefit from +dmg so that's why something like AAO works better for them. Yes, Dark/shield works better on a scrapper, see also Soul Drain, but it still works on a brute. With Dark, you don't have to take Aid Self if you want to solo an AV using no inspirs. With Fire/shield, you basically are forced to unless you think you are going to be that lucky. Not even /sr is that lucky and it's one of /sr's powers.

ATs

Just note those are rather generic descriptions. Some builds within the AT really go against the listing.

And yes, badges are basically the achievement system.

EDIT: It will also help to learn what each power set is about. Too many to list right now, but it's something to at least learn.

EDIT again: Another listing of ATs that's slightly better.

There are jerks in this game like there are in any game. However, once you build a global friend's list and add some channels you tend to play less and less with those jerks.

Preat. levels you 1-20 in terms of arcs. You can go to either red side, or blue side after that. If you want to take a brute blue side, start in Preat. and then pick hero side. You can switch sides later, but you need to run tip missions and eventually the morality missions. The Preat. zone tends to level you rather quick as well so I tend to start characters there even if I'm going to the side where my AT is normally at anyway.

You can make a solo SG. It just takes longer to build a full base. You get a bonus for each character added to the SG up to 15. Bases, are one of two big ignorged aspects of the game. The most practical use I get out of one is easy access to crafting, zones, and storage.

Sidekicking is enforced by default when you aren't soloing. It is awesome. It's basically the reason it won MMO of the Year when it came out while the game that need not be named won Game of the Year. It's why I bought CoH instead of the game that need not be named even though I was fully planning on it when I walked into Gamestop. One article later, and I have never left CoH.

PvP is the second in desperate need of work over issue. It's never been big, but it had a small and loyal fan base. The devs decided to make it fun for everyone, and pretty much pissed off what little fan base there was for PvP.

This is not me stroking our ego, but CoH is one of if not the best player base going. We get comments like yours rather often from new players.

My guess there are very few team wipes which happen that aren't a result of lack of communication, or over estimation by the team leader in regards to the make up of the team, and/or difficulty setting. Some of the best teams I have been on team wiped at least once, figured out we had to actually do more than mail in our playing effort, and started to talk to each other. I would vastly blame the team leader for a team wipe versus the player in the tank role.

Here's my top three. Spines/dark to help with end issues. /elec is set up to do rather well at end game content due to how much energy damage is used. DM/shield can be a beast. I think all of them bring something to the table for a team as well.

I want to know how a brute does more damage than a scrapper with KM considering when a scrapper crits with CS it recharges PS instantly.

Neither Kat, or BS are options on a brute.

Claws and DB are better on scrappers from the point of view that they get more from the +dmg aspect versus brutes. However, in terms of Claws, it was also balanced around slower recharges with heavier damage so Claws on a brute is rather good. I think both sets will come across as being fairly equal on either AT. Brutes get more out of heals like DP and better use out of resist. I would lean towards going brute on this one even if part of me prefers the recharges scrappers get with Claws versus brutes. Claws does bring up the issue where Shockwave will do AoE KB which counters Invinc. Claws is more defensive, as where DB is more offensive. DB has mitigation, but it takes longer to develop. I would likely pick DB/invul for ease of use, but Spin is likely the 2nd best bang for buck AoE brutes get so going Claws/invul really is not a bad choice.

Check your global tag, IIRC, and in there were it tells you about rewards(exp, influ/infamy) it will tell you when you hit the ticket cap for the map.

One does more damage. One is more end friendly. One adds utility and might be the most sturdy of the three. If you are going with resist sets, go brute since they do better with them compared to scrappers.

Yep. Just saw it elsewhere.

Doing one extreme in response to another extreme isn't the answer. You can buff, blast and heal. The heal aspect will go down as you level anyway. If I'm a team leader recruiting for a Posi and I grab an Emp that is unwilling to use heals, then yeah, they are going to hear about it.

A side thought. I never got the idea about rolling something you knew you were going to have issues with. It's a game. Have fun. If you are rolling something and building a character in a certain way just because of what others think, you are doing it wrong.