Bill Z Bubba
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And if ANYONE thinks that someone soloing a TF is going to get through it faster than a team will... I've got some bridges for sale.
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I'm mostly sure that the answer is yes. Which is why there's been an uptick on Positron's TF runs.
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Quote:What do you want?Originally Posted by Catharctic
***Dev summoning ritual***
... OH. Dev not devil.
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Quote:<.<Originally Posted by oriand
Thanks. I'm a bit nervous because we got crushed by the Clockwork King back at level 20... we just couldn't do enough damage. Survived a long time on inspirations, then died...
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Soloed him as well. He got payback the other night during an LGTF. His alpha strike faceplanted me.
A sexy girl with sexy fishnets.Quote:She hits like a girl. -
Soloed Clamor with a claws/sr scrapper. I'd be surprised if she gave your duo much of a problem.
haven't tried soloing Moonfire yet, but I'd bet your duo would be fine there as well. -
Quote:Gut feeling based off of grumblings here and there. Consider it minor doooom calling.Originally Posted by Vitality
Just wondering...what makes you think that will happen?
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No need to nerf brutes. There are times on teams when your ability to build fury will be hurt. There are times on teams when you aren't getting the buffs you need to handle things like a tank can.
When solo, brutes and scrappers are damn near identical in overall performance.
So, no... no nerfs coming for brutes.
That's not to say that I'm not expecting some kind of global nerf to the amount of defense one can get from SetIO bonuses.... -
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I know Dark Armor is weak on survivability, but i can slot 2 damage procs in the fear aura to give an added damage boost to the aura, and neg energy isn't often resisted.
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You won't know until you play one.
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That depends. Against a minion? Against LTs and Bosses? Not considering crits?
Let's do it the easy way:
Can't use claws because they aren't actually the same set.
Let's do dark melee.
Smite: 1.32 damage
Scrap mod: 62.562
Brute mod: 41.708
Scrap Smite: 82.582 damage
Brute Smite: 55.055 damage
Give both 95% enhanced damage
Scrap: 161.035
Brute: 107.357
For the brute to catch up to the scrapper, he needs 127% damage from fury so 63.5% fury.
But let's add 10% to the scrapper for crits over time. Say.. 159% buff or around 80% fury.
As you can see, for every buff to the scrapper, the brute has to work that much more to say even since scrappers have the higher damage modifier. -
It depends. What kind of buffs are you getting from your team?
No buffs? Brutes have only slightly better mitigation over scrappers due to higher base HP.
Lots of the right buffs? Brutes share the same mitigation caps as tanks.
Overall, brute and scrapper damage output is extremely close.
Brutes and scrappers share the same base mitigation values.
Brutes and tanks share the same mitigation caps.
If you're planning to act like a tank with your brute, you'd better rethink taunt as WP's taunt aura sucks for holding aggro. Taunt + Foot Stomp will help make up for that. -
Quote:Hmmm. This is probably the most useful post in this thread.Originally Posted by Kierthos
NEED MOAR STEAMPUNK ITEMS.
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Good info in this thread. Looks like I'm going to quietly slip back into a holding pattern until GR hits beta and/or Mechwarrior becomes more than vaporware. Whichever happens first.
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I've got a new em/inv brute that will be built specifically to fill the "tank" role blue side. I can't play real tanks due to their damage output, so this will be a fun mix I can work with.
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As MB states, my bases are used for quick travel between zones and salvage/enhancement storage.
The statement "no one really uses the bases anymore" is false. Pretty dumb, too.
Quote:Had you done so, this thread wouldn't exist.Post Deleted by Moderator_08 -
Quote:The ITF has already been soloed. One of those being a blaster. I was able to get all the way to the final Romulus fight but the autohit fluffy stopped me dead in my tracks. Since then, I've figured out how to deal with that but haven't gotten around to a second attempt.Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
this i agree with, the only tfs that prolly do require 8 poeple to do are STF and LRSF, ITF i think is 6 poeple min, but could prolly be done with 4 if everyone was purpled out. most all of the other tfs dont need more than 4 poeple minimum.
Remember folks, if they did allow SF/TFs to be started solo, it wouldn't mean you have to solo them. If you don't think your character can handle -whatever-, you call in help. The requested change wouldn't alter that fact one bit. -
As much as EM is lacking, I have a new EM user. She's an EM/Inv brute. Once GR goes live, I'll be taking her hero side so that I can finally have a worthwhile melee aggro control character. In other words, I'll finally get to play a "tank."
Why'd I choose EM when my opinion of the set is obvious? Because Bonesmasher, Energy Punch and Barrage make for a smooth chain when properly slotted. Fury will have me in a content place damage-wise, and whirling hands will be slotted for recharge. EM is fun in the early game.
Want to know what else made the set better? Replacing that persistent EM sound loop with silence. -
Quote:It's you that, once again, fails to understand.Originally Posted by je_saist
Short version.
No.
Long Version.
Hell No.
What part of Team Content just is not understood these days?
Hamidon: Team Content
STF: There are scrappers soloing multiple AVs simultaneously in AE right now. If there is a character that CAN solo the STF, it then loses its "team content" designation. I have personally soloed all of the Phalanx TFs. For me, they are not "team content" regardless of what you or anyone else feels like arbitrarily calling them.
LRSF: See STF.
TFs with simultaneously click glowies: Team Content
In other words, the only content in this game that is Actually "team content" is that which is Mechanically Impossible to solo.
Anything else is just plain old content with an arbitrary label slapped on it.
Would this change make it harder for some people to get teams for TF/SFs? Doubtful. Those that want to solo these things do so now by wasting their time with pads. I even stop whatever I'm doing to pad for those wanting to solo them for no other reason but that I know how annoying it is to get one cranked up.
Is it likely that the devs chose not to allow this when we got the new difficulty slider simply because they didn't want to go through and deal with the simultaneous clicky missions? Sure.
Is it likely that we'll never get it because of that added work? Yup.
But people really need to quit pretending that there's good reasons for minimum team member size requirements.
The whole "team content" thing is a crock of **** and nothing more. Always has been, always will be.
If the devs wanted to give it meaning, they would do one of the following:
Cause TFs to fail immediately if the number of teammates drops below the arbitrarily set minimum number
or Make ALL TF/SFs Mechanically impossible to solo
Until they do so, those stating that they have minimum team sizes because they are team content are speaking from their posteriors and nothing else. -
Team content that only needs a team to START it, not DO it.
It's nothing but a completely arbitrary annoyance and a waste of time for those of us that enjoy soloing such things. -
It's been asked for. Repeatedly. All reasons against allowing it are irrational, stupid, moronic, idiotic, dumb, ridiculous, asinine, illogical and pointless. Some of the devs appear to be against it regardless of that fact.
So, yea, I'd like it as well. Ain't gonna happen.
EDIT: As with other things in the game, (offline sg invites, account storage, etc) it's better for them to force the asocial to buy a second account.
The work around, for those that don't know, is to have the minimum number team up long enough to start the TF/SF in question. Then have all but 1 quit. The last teammate logs off without quitting the TF. Then you can solo it.
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Quote:Bad design.Originally Posted by EvilRyu
Ok then explain grandville, and the 3rd mission of th ITF? Both of those totally murder systems.
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Quote:By using your main claws/sr scrapper to farm for inf/drops.
But Cat how am I supposed to purple out my warshade???
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15 English errors. Maybe more. I counted quickly.
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Correct. Funny thing about the LotG +recharges... you can have 5 of those AND 5 other types that give a 7.5% recharge buff as they are considered to be named differently.
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Quote:I don't refuse to use it. I have no use for it. I have the max number of storage bins in both of my bases. The number of active members in each can be counted on one hand with fingers left over. We plan to keep it that way.Originally Posted by Justice Blues
Wait. You refuse to use a useful feature of the game, because it does not do exactly what you want it to do? I have a lot of respect for you Bill, but that is really silly.
In other words, it isn't a useful feature for me. Nothing silly about it.
I also have access to other accounts. (Not mine.) The only difference between the way I play this game now and how I would play it with account based storage is that now I have to waste the time to log on another account to act like a bank rather than just using said bank.
It's not game breaking. It probably is a dead horse. I don't give a ****. I'll keep asking for it until I get it.
EDIT: Red, I'm stealing that for future use.
EDIT2: And while I'm at it... offline SG invites and promotions/demotions.