AtomicTermite

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There was a WM/EA Brute running around Mercy last night on Freedom. His name... So Strong

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If it was a hulking, dark purple beasty with gold chains and a bone for a mace....

I am so sorry.
I couldn't help it.

but. you know, hes SO STRONG! (and pretty)

[serious]What remains is whether or not i actually make it to 50. [/serious]

edit: SO PRETTY!

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lol yep I spotted ya. Cool looking toon btw

There was a WM/EA Brute running around Mercy last night on Freedom. His name... So Strong

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If your 4th power pool is teleport, you'd fail anyway.

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But the elernet did it!

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weak

Great job Ultimus! I go away for awhile, come back, and find you slaughtering Giant Monsters. Truly excellent stuff! Lord Recluse might not have been your toughest opponent but I thought the pics of you killing him looked the best

OK on to the haters.... This is a game, it's about having fun. Ultimus is having fun doing what he's doing, and lots of people enjoy reading about it. Seriously, I don't get the problem here.

People on these forums compliment each other all the time for PvP accomplishments, collecting badges, role-playing, posting fan art etc. Ultimus is playing a super hero/villain game and beating up the major characters. He posts about it here with some pics and some spiffy captions and creates his own comic book of sorts. Good stuff all around. Again, I don't see what the problem is.

Haters, like tweekers, suck

Thanks! Your Regen Calculator is now up and running. This helps a lot. Thanks Fanboy.

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Nice guide Elernet!

I have a question regarding Super Jump. I have my current (planned) build slotted very heavily for unsurpressed jumping. 3slots Hurdle + 3slots CJ + 3slots Sprint(with jump enhancements). I managed to try out a 3slot Hurdle + 3slot Sprint build during the RV test and was really impressed with the height and speed I got out of it. I used SJ as well but I never tried while attacking, only when I was on the run. Do you attack with Super Jump on, and if so how much does the suppresion slow you down. I'm not looking for hard numbers just an impression.

I can't get used to TP so I'm going to skip it. I like flight alot but I don't transition well from flight to ground fighting. I used to hate jumping around all the time but I've finally gotten used to it. I am worried though that I won't have a good escape power if I get hit with a -jump, but does that happen much in RV?

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I'm not hurt that you didn't answer my post, no really, I'm not

Let me rephrase it a bit. I understand you use Super Jump "offensively" and I've read that you sometimes charge into an opponent at full speed before an AS. What I'm wondering is do you click Super Jump off right before you attack?

Is there some sort of free download I could use to get your Regen Calculator to work?

Nice guide Elernet!

I have a question regarding Super Jump. I have my current (planned) build slotted very heavily for unsurpressed jumping. 3slots Hurdle + 3slots CJ + 3slots Sprint(with jump enhancements). I managed to try out a 3slot Hurdle + 3slot Sprint build during the RV test and was really impressed with the height and speed I got out of it. I used SJ as well but I never tried while attacking, only when I was on the run. Do you attack with Super Jump on, and if so how much does the suppresion slow you down. I'm not looking for hard numbers just an impression.

I can't get used to TP so I'm going to skip it. I like flight alot but I don't transition well from flight to ground fighting. I used to hate jumping around all the time but I've finally gotten used to it. I am worried though that I won't have a good escape power if I get hit with a -jump, but does that happen much in RV?

Well apology accepted. Your sig's high coolness factor would alone prevent me from being upset with you Anyway you are probably right in that stating the obvious won't do any good, but I live in a world of "everything counts" and I feel it can't hurt to restate that FA needs a fix of somekind. Also I personally would just like it to have a better heal as it fits my play style, so I guess I'm just pushing my own agenda in that old fashioned, get the mob riled up kind of way. Anyway, sorry if I assumed too much in your reply.

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It doesn't look like you are going to give Brutes a Regen secondary. Most people seem to agree that Fiery Aura is sub-par in both the PvE and PvP departments. So please fix it!

My suggestion is to make Healing Flame at least as good as Reconstruction. I mean FA has a self heal and people with it still take Aid Self

And why do I care? Why not just choose a different Brute secondary you ask? Beacause Fire Shield and all the rest of it look so damn cool! Please don't let such a badass looking power set sit on the back burner any longer (pun intended.) Give FA a boost!

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Although I support your premise, asserting that valid reasoning to change it is supported merely by everyone thinking it needs fixing isn't the best supportive argument to be made. (thats a lot of supporting)

If things got fixed on the basis of consentual agreement, the game would be a lot more worse off than it already is. I agree that HF, and in whole the entire /FA set needs some tweaking, but there are many well documented and supported reasons to be found in previous well discussed and mulled over posts.

HF needs fixed because it is bugged, plain and simple. Castle has stated that fact on this forum and I think he's confirmed it in a PM to another poster, whose name happens to slip my mind at the moment. I also think Temperature protections values should be reversed - the higher resist number being applied to Cold damage instead of Fire. This would bring Fires cold resistance up above the 25% mark and make it more viable - as a whole.

I also think that Consume should be auto-hit, just like every other defensive based endurance recovery/drain power. Dark consumption from the Dark Melee set requires accuracy, and this makes sense, as it is in an offensive Primary power-set. Why consume requires a "to-hit check" when energy drain from the EA set does not, is beyong me. This further penalizes the power-set for no obvious reasoning, at least as far as I can tell. Since Fiery embrace does not buff accuracy at all, that cannot be a caveat that would make it too powerful...the damage from consume is less than 1 BI, and it technically doesn't "Drain" endurance. Making it auto-hit would be a boost that would help FA while not making it dispropotionally over-powered, at least comparatively speaking.

I also think that making all of FA's defensive toggles have a rooting animation is also, comparitively speaking, unbalanced. One or two is fine if you have many to run, but not all of them should root a player. Combined with the fact that most if not all players take combat jumping and aacrobatics to cover the lack of knockback and ready immobilization protection (sans Burn), this further penalizes FA because Acrobatics roots as well. Throw in tough, and it takes approximately 8.5 seconds to retoggle every shield you have, and you can't move at all while doing so. Either Fire shield or Plasma shield needs the rooting effect removed. Of course, that is only wishful thinking, and actually one of the lesser gripes with the set, but still it is a valid one in my estimation.

Power of the Pheonix either needs a stronger disorient magnitude, or it needs a built in minor-detoggle chance exactly like soul transfer benefits from. Soul Transfer isn't scorned as much as Rise of the Pheonix because as a Rez, not only do you come back FULLY healed, but you also detoggle just about everything and anyone around you. The detoggle is so strong, even Granite armor can be dropped by it. Id prefer that the disorient magnitude be raised to possibly threaten melee types with Status protection toggles on, as I think the Detoggle mechanic as a whole is a bad idea and apparently the Developers agree with that premise, but attached to a ressurection power, I wouldn't complain nor do I think many would. They did have to die in order to use it. Not much you moan about there.

Those are some things I think could be tweaked with FA to make it very comparable to other defensive power-sets without making it unbalanced.

Simply saying it needs fixing because everyone thinks that it does just doesn't cut it for me. Sorry.

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Deus not everyone has the time or inclination to write a dissertation everytime they want to state something regarding this game. If I want to say Fiery Aura needs a boost and most people agree please just allow me to say without being a forums snob. Feel free to agree/disagree, offer mathematical equations on the subject, tell people they should get more fiber in their diet, whatever. It sounds like you agree with me, at least in part. If you want to add something, which you did, great! No need to get snooty.

btw I have read many of your posts and you have passed on quite a bit of good info and observations. I happen to think you are a little too long winded, but I never felt the need to tell you until now, and I only do so as a comparison of your attack on my post. Simple as it may be.

Anyway, I stand by my "Most people seem to agree that Fiery Aura is sub-par in both the PvE and PvP departments" statement. I think the devs or Statesman, or whomever might read this post, has enough background information to make an informed opinion without me adding anything else. Good hunting.

-- Atomic Termite ---

It doesn't look like you are going to give Brutes a Regen secondary. Most people seem to agree that Fiery Aura is sub-par in both the PvE and PvP departments. So please fix it!

My suggestion is to make Healing Flame at least as good as Reconstruction. I mean FA has a self heal and people with it still take Aid Self

And why do I care? Why not just choose a different Brute secondary you ask? Beacause Fire Shield and all the rest of it look so damn cool! Please don't let such a badass looking power set sit on the back burner any longer (pun intended.) Give FA a boost!

Someone please post a screenshot of Spirit Shark Jaws! I keep imagining a giant shark shooting out of the ground and gnawing on someone. If it looks like that I must have this power.

Also it is supposedly -fly, so if you are on the ground and you see a flyer, will the spirit Shark shoot straight up from the ground like a surface to air missle latch onto the flier and pull him to the earth? I really hope so

Could someone please post a screenshot of Spirit Shark Jaws?