Brawlnstein

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Two minutes of build-up for ten seconds of debuff? Yes please.

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Damn, you regen 5 end per second?!

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Dark Melee is fairly overpowered now and I am preparing a grand thread showcasing it off

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Err, this is like "showcasing it off" how great oxygen is...

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Various and sundry "fixes" to rage

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Most of you are vastly overstating rage and overnerfing to compensate, IMO.

I'd say, buff duration (or something else) in BU/AIM to compensate for their feelings of inadequacy.

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I still haven't gotten an explanation for why Stalkers would even want Ice Melee, one of the worst damage sets going.

So, why?

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You have an outstanding order for this posted somewhere where everyone who gives a [censored] can read it?!!?

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i recommend not taking OwtS

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What do you recommend in it's place?

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As a pretty experience player, and I played my fair share of /Electrical Armor when I was soloing Arch Villains with my Brute with SS/Elec and EM/Elec when I made them FOTM.

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LOL, while I pretty much agree with your views on ELa and such, your next challenge is to make modesty FOTM.

Absolute madness. I took an Em/Ela brute to 50 with Aid Self, Stamina and fighting pool and it was the time of my redside life. If they hadn't nerfed Em I'd still be playing it.

I solo, duo, small teams, TF/SF, you name it.

Some stuff that needs refuting in this thread:
Grounded: Works fine on slopes and [censored], that got fixed. Rarely got KB'ed at all, usually only if leaping from one spawn to another when an ally was in need.
Aid Self: One interrupt was enough to fire this off nearly whenever I wanted, a second and I was firing it off during dots without a second thought. Once you get used to the timing you can stop, heal and start moving again while the effect finishes.
Teams: If you can get ice or ff shields you are a god.
CP: It's good, or would you like to see the screaming if it was removed from the APPs? It will come in at frickin' level 18. People take both Stamina and QR but THIS gets ridiculed?

Then again, this is the Tanker forum so we will whine and [censored] and moan and tell people who want to be positive to "wait and see" rather than the other way around. lmao

Heck yeah, range makes cones GOOOOOD.

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Whenever I see this thread with unread posts, it makes me smile just a little...

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It's a strong thread and the smiles make it even prettier.

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My Shield/Fire Tank is only capped to melee/ranged with 41% to AoE and I tanked the ITF like a champ. I do have 3 HO Membranes in Active Defense and enough +recharge to stack it most of the time so I pretty much stay at 95% DDR

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This is my experience with SD. Don't really need to over-cap SD as you have more than just Defense to protect you. I don't run Active Defense stacks although I do have Hasten and quite a bit of global recharge so it isn't that hard to stack it when I need to. I find activation of AD suck hard if you have a weapon though as redraw gets really old after each AD and Shield Charge.

Also, intelligent use of even the smallest inspirations can easily cover up softcap deficiencies. Don't forget what Bill said up-thread about taking out trouble mobs first too.

I rolled a WM/SD Brute up to 50 just recently, also a BA/SD Brute to compare. I softcapped both of them with IOs.

The WM/SD is better for hard targets that you can stack stuns on. Clobber lets you de-toggle and stun mobs that run evil powers like CoT Ghosts and Malta Sappers, etc. I feel it is overall in the lead over my BA/SD.

Endurance is a bit rough for both. WM is bad on average. BA starts doing crazy high damage with enough buffs and rage, because of this I feel it's worse on end if you can't get any damage buffs going but starts doing great when you get going good. I know a lot of folks like to slot Obliteration sets but I've been going for Multistrike for the heavy end reduction to help combat this.

Both sets, I feel, have too many attacks. I prefer to go with Hasten and drop out a few, being sure to take all the AoEs and a good solid singletarget hard hitter. I also took One With the Shield as a backup source of end generation and it also works great while you are building up your softcap defenses. Lastly, I end up taking every power in SD, even Grant Cover.

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Snip LordXenite having a [censored] fit.

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You are weird m8.

Version control is definitely, by definition, what you have on google docs. Something more robust is, of course, more robust and perhaps personally more desirable. Sometimes, though, we just have to go shopping in the mini-van instead of the ATV with transforming boat option and helicopter attachment.

Yeah, I do this but I'm too greedy to really weed out the worthless stuff so I eventually fill my AH slots. =(

Then I switch back to golds! =)

How is there even an argument? Probably because people are mixing terms from different perspectives together.

Players described something like Headsplitter in various guides as a Targeted AoE because it required a target and is AoE. The game says it takes PBAoE sets and it doesn't even bother to mention it's AoE potential at all. Something like Crowd Control though it will call it a "Melee (cone)" which you won't see anywhere else in say IO sets etc.

You can't just mash one term from IO sets into what is obviously a target required power and say, "THERFORE SI NOAT Targetted AoE IN ALL FINGS, NYAR!"

Yeah, sucks you can't fight 15 mobs solo

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I find the complaints of ET's animation time entertaining when, for years, broadsword had three attacks that animated slower for less damage, which gained it the reputation of bursty.

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Yep, yep, and none of them AoE or anything and all of them the last power in the set and otherwise totally f'n identical, yep!

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I'll respond after ET is done animating...

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Cmon it's only .4 seconds slower than KO Blow. And does 190 base dmg @ 50 vs 148 from KO blow (Brute numbers). Also it recharges faster and costs almost half the endurance.

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Yeah! ...and pair it with total focus for another 3+ seconds of do nothing animation and kill steal time just like the... other... attacks in SS.... hey wait.... At least whirling hands sucks uber balls vs. footstomp... hey...

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Hate to tell ya, but it is really hard to judge any AT powersets by level 10. Keep at it and you'll know if you really enjoy the set or not.

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I hate to tell ya, but you don't have to do things that you hate.

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Super Jump goes everywhere but the Shadow Shard, and you can always buy the temp jet pack.

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All my toons Ive ever taken to the Shadow Shard just have SJ or SS and they do fine... just get the VidiotMaps map overlay and buy a jetpack in case you miss a jump. Not that it will really matter because hardly anybody goes in there any more...

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Yeah this is me sans the jetpack nonsense. FBZ is one of my all time faves.

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As president and only member of the just-now-founded Gravity Geyser Fan Club, I feel I should point out that people who need flight to get around the Shadow Shard, are wusses.

And shields never redraw at all, the thing is glued to your arm as long as the toggle is on.

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Yeah, no, the fan club has been around sorry. Small though I'll admit. I don't think I know anyone in it that isn't on my global, lol.

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Noice!

I've got to suggest taking this to the bug forums, just look at the "answers" being given here, crikey...

If it helps any, I see this behavior with my wife's account and drops as well. It was severely pronounced on one toon in particular. She actually ended up making a bind giggling about how she was, "Picking your pockets again!"

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You know, for awhile none of them had the ally or rescue hostage options either.

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You know, for awhile we used to hunt and gather for food too!

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I'm not much of a market hound, but I'll be running my aoe toons like this:
Spawn for 6-8, difficulty 4, conning -2.

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Here is how I presume the new difficulty settings will be implemented:

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Team Size
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Even
+1
+2
+3
+4
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+7
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Enemy Level
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Even
+1
+2
+3
+4
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Note that there'd be no concept of "difficulty" anymore - it'd be split into "team size modifier" and "enemy level modifier". (Our current system basically gives team sizes of up to +1 and enemy levels of up to +2, though not both extremes at the same time.)

This is why I think it would necessarily apply to the AE; there's no longer anywhere to record what the AE should give you.

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What if an 8 man team runs on +7 team size?

Aggro caps for everyone!

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I'm thinking it may simply be that team size is ignored on teams or that the additional members are combined into the total + team size. May be easier to think of it as "fixing" the team at the specific size.

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Thanks for the info everyone. I'll wait another two days and ask this again.

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You get another smile, Farmer McFarmenstein.

But yeah, sorry if I sound a little short, it's a person peeve of mine when this stuff happens. When I played LOTRO, we used to get the same questions day in and day out on some of the class-specific boards, even tho there was a sticky at the top of the forum that explained it all. One gets tired of saying, "Check the sticky" or "Someone asked the EXACT SAME QUESTION half a page down, did you even look at the FRONT PAGE before posting?" Yeah, it went down hill from there.

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Another smile? Am I supposed to forum search fu for the first smile?

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i'm sorry i did my math wrong, i had 4 sets of 6 purples, and one set of 4 purples, i then respec'd to the 5 sets of 5 purples, i took out the set of 4 entirely, but when i added it all up i added the sixth purple in each set and the set of 4 apoc.'s that i had slotted, my build isn't 4.5, it's more around 3.2...

And yes i don't have a life, i work 4 days a week, on a work day i play for about 5 hours, where as on my weekend i play about 8-13 hours a day

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This is where I insert my usual "I don't care about your life" reply.

I'm not going to pity you just because you have a job.

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Actually, I think his point is other then his Job all he does is play, cuz he has no life, and that's why he in essence "wasted" more infl. then he maybe really needed too.
Instead of the usual "I have a job/life so I can't afford X" he's saying, "I barely have a job/life, so I can afford to pay the extremes for X".

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That doesn't change my first sentence.

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Nope, but I would hope your entire post was meant to be taken as a whole. If not, you should go into quotes-for-big-movies-taken-out-of-context-writing for a living. You're a natural!