British Battler

Thanks for all the speculation everyone, and been a Brit who plays on the EU and US servers I can say without a dobut I have not come across any of this you and them talk many seem to be going on about in this thread hehe. My Global over there is British Battler, and all my toons have a handle that starts "British" and no one has comment on that limey been snooty or a tea drinker hehe, in fact 99% of them seem happy to have a competent gamer in there ranks (the other 1% are since i14 and have got to lvl 50 by farming the AE )

I wasn't suggesting merge the servers, as some of you seem to have misread either, just the server lists.

Thanks for all the comments so far, and I'm going to have to go and change my chat handle on 1 of my accounts sometime soon to hehe, both are the same

Happy Gaming

Now that they're merging the Forums, anyone, apart from myself, want to start speculating on when they're just going to combine the servers so we get 15 all together.

The connection to the US servers is fine (I play on both the EU and US servers, and get less lag on the US) and simply copying them to the US would do (and yes i know some of you retentive types will list loads of problems etc in doing this, but in basic terms its copying one server to another, exactly like when they copy Freedom to test for example on the US side), and then they could save money hehe...sorry EU side employees, and everyone could do more with the larger overall population size and even more slots in total.

Anyway, just pure speculation.

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Defenders, Controllers and Dominators. I solo a lot, and these AT's are not built for it. I need constant carnage and/or massive damage numbers for my enjoyment.

If I had friends for regular teaming, sure, but I wouldn't play these AT's outside of a team, which means I don't play these AT's.

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I agree with the Trollers/Defenders are not built to solo, except for certain primary/secondary picks, but Dominators solo excedingly well, in fact I think they are one of the AT's villan side that actually pick up in soloing speed the higher you get them, from my experiance. Just wish they'd sort out the PToD's for soloing in the late levels. But I suppose it depends on your knowledge of how to use them and what powers to take and when.

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before you go calling Nerf on things here's some things to check once you've checked them all come back here with your numbers and truly prove your point.

compare all the brute primaries to each other without considering secondarys do take into account the type of damage they do and any secondary effects they have

now do the same for the secondary

now compare each and every combination possible so SS/WP SS/elec SS/energy SS/dark SS/SR DM/WP DM/fire DM/elec etc etc etc

then do the same but take into account the power pools and patron pools

now do this with training origin enhancements up to the appropriate lvl

now do it with DOs

now do it with SOs

now do it with higher value IOs eg those that give a better percentage than a standard SO

now do it with HOs

now do it using cheeps IO sets

now do it using expensive IO sets

now do it optimising for specific stats so best end recovery best resistance values best recharge boost

now do it for a completely optimised best it can be build using IOs (standard and invention)

now do it using purple IOs

right done all that?..good now take all that data and now do the same thing for every AT villain side once you've done that start comparing the many many different brute builds that you've came up with in different team makeups until you've tried each brute build with each possible team make up.

Once you've done all that and seen how a build changes dependent on level, slotting, and team make up you can go on to see how your individual brute builds perform against different enemy groups (you should also do this for the teams)

and now that you've done all this you can come and say

"X power set is overpowered"

until that point all you can say is "well i think X power set is overpowered but i cant prove it" because half arsed numbers you put together from comparing 1 type of power or 1 aspect of something don't = proof.


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^^ME SAY THIS TO^^

And hello Thorny, nice to see you.

If you want to make it more difficult then go play a melee Dom as well, there resistances are far worse that a Brutes, and don't take the hold . Only the immob and none of the others from the primary. Then you can have all the difficulty you need.

Hahahaha

I just love the seriousnes of some replies, sarcasm just does not transfer to the typed word in any way at all.

Tbh, I enjoy this game the way it is because even though I have 100's character, and only 10 50's , I still have a lot to experiance in the game.

Brutes, SS/WP, Done, Fire/Fire, Done, Stone/Stone, Done, EM/EA, Done, MA/SR in progress, Axe/WP in progress, SS/Inv in progress, Dark/Dark in progress, EM/WP in progress etc etc etc....and thats just a few of them.

So you see, although I have a few /WP in the brute section, and a 50 WP/SS tank and 50 MA/WP Scrapper I don't think they're the be all to end all(little joke there).

All of the sets are good, all have good stuff in them,ALL are good. Some are suited to solo play more than others but isn't this a MMO, we're supposed to team a little bit at least, thats how it's designed. And I can't remember the ammount of times I've seen a /WP go down to Alphas that they have no "OH Fook" power to counteract.

So to sum up, It's a game, it's supposed to be fun, and if you can't spot sarcasm with all the CAPS and in it, don't bother.

I've been playing on the other side of the pond a lot, but got a Dom to 39 so far this past week, and a new corr to 22.

Tell me is Ice/Ice to powerful for Dom's and should be nerfed

And is Nrg/Pain the new fotm....the KB has been fun, but at least I can heal the Brute as they run into the next mob on follow


I'm on here a few nights a week now to

So see you on for a few missions

Hi mate, see things haven't changed around here

NERF THEM ALL, LET THE HAMPSTERS AND KITTENS SORT THEM OUT!!!

Then the Smurfs can make some burgers

Hahahaha!!!

WP/SS Tank's are fun, SS/WP Brutes are fun.....Brutes are fun, Doms are fun, Corr's are fun, in fact I find all AT's powersets combos fun so nerf them all. That'd give me more time to see my family......

So leave them all alone, I like the game the way it is.

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I want the valentine mish to be:

Defeat Baby New Year

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It is Valentine's Day event, mate. This is slightly out of topic.

New mission can be something like: Make a New New Years Baby

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Except conception would be a bit to eary for it to be a New Year Baby then

Yes I know what you mean, I origionally thought the same myself, but it soon disappeared as I realise I had cured my altoholism and blasted 2 50's in less than 2 months, did nearly 3 yrs on EU and only had 5, so It came as a suprise.

Got a one man SG nearly functional with the help of some brits I found over their and have just started work on my villans now, need to get a villan to 50 their before i12 hits. But it really was fun starting over, and tbh I don't miss any of my EU alts at all.

Have fun

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So both of you believe your getting total value for money, oh well nevermind, anyone with a mindset like that deserves to be fleeced and given a poorer service.


[/ QUOTE ]Both of us? Certainly not, I know the US servers would be far better for me, but I'm most certainly not moving at this point.

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US servers would be much better value for money, but I get attached to characters and there is no transfer in place. If there was I'd be gone, as there isn't I try to make up silly excuses rather than to say I dont want to lose the time and care each character has received.

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I know about the character transfer system being a bit useless, shame I couldn't move some of mine EU-->US, but since playing their it seems to have cured my altism, and due to being off work due to illness and recovering from surgery I have had 2 lvl 50's since 24th January. I still hanker for some of my EU alts, but having a nice new one to do every 3-4 weeks has diminished that somewhat.

So unless your multi lingual having 4 accounts allows you 8 english servers for 4 times the money you'd pay on the US side (well less actually if you took the yearly sub deal they offer) for 11 servers.

Yes I know some of you play on only 1 server, but even transfering dormant alts to other servers after a while when they've hit 50 would be more than covered by the waste of money on four accounts.

That is unless they have no friends and have four computers set up and lots of keybinds on a supaduppa multikeyboard they have made with stickyback plastic and string so they can use all accounts at once and pl all his toons in a gratuitous manner

Have fun everyone.

No offence Dior, but I guess you must be differant from everyone else because most people who post a build like this here or something that wasn't a guide would have being told "This shouldn't be here....put it on the Controller bit"

Anyway have fun in our nice little double standard forum

So let him try, on "paper" it looks ok, and if it all goes wrong theirs always a respec.

Many people so far have probably leveled WP/ Tanks and /WP Scrappers and Brutes and not bothered with it and done fine. In "Team" situations with the right support from a regular player base they may find stamina superfluous to their requirements and be great.

Solo, as a brute they may find that 2 acc/2 end red/2 rech enough in their attacks and with Soul Drain to boost the damage have no problem at all with consumption as a back up in case of emergency.

So rather than say doable but unrecomended I would say, Yes, you probably can, and if you don't feel like it's working the way you want theirs always respecs later on.

Good luck, and let us know how it gets on.

So both of you believe your getting total value for money, oh well nevermind, anyone with a mindset like that deserves to be fleeced and given a poorer service.

Just pointing out some of the inequalities i have noticed, and having 3 accounts seems a bit much to pay just to get what u want, when if you didnt restrict yourself to one server you could have 132 Slots from one account compared to 144 Slots from THREE accounts, and half of them requiring you to learn two differant languages to use properly.

Considering English is taught across europe because it is the language of commerce these days it just seems like the EU set up is a bit of a rip off compared to the US set up.

But if you want to reinforce those inequalities with knee jerk responses rather than try for something better far be it from me to disuade you.

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3 accounts still doesn't give enough slots.

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I have found the cure to that, it has 11 servers and less lag, and bigger populations on some of the servers in their quiet times than the EU has in the busy times.....but then again it'd mean less cash spent due to only needing one account I suppose, and they're all in English. Well nevermind, you pays your money and takes your chances

Hi mate, long time no speak, I'm playing mainly on the US servers now, bigger populations and less lag even when a server is full.

Anyway, saw this post and thought, "Heck, just got mine to lvl 45 their last night, why dont I post my build for him". It plays great solo and brilliant in teams RttC taunt aura seems ok for all your tanking needs and Foot Stomp gains their attention quickly to. You generally have no end probles except for a 3 power drop (SoW, Rage and Hasten) within a short period of time, but recover from it well.

Basically it plays very well.

Enjoy

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British Warrior: Level 50 Mutation Tanker
Primary Power Set: Willpower
Secondary Power Set: Super Strength
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fighting

Hero Profile:
Level 1: High Pain Tolerance -- Heal-I(A), Heal-I(11), Heal-I(15), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(33)
Level 1: Jab -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(3), Dmg-I(7), Dmg-I(17), Dmg-I(31), EndRdx-I(43)
Level 2: Punch -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(3), Dmg-I(7), Dmg-I(17), Dmg-I(19), EndRdx-I(34)
Level 4: Haymaker -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(5), Dmg-I(5), Dmg-I(15), Dmg-I(19), EndRdx-I(25)
Level 6: Indomitable Will -- EndRdx-I(A), DefBuff-I(37), DefBuff-I(40), DefBuff-I(46)
Level 8: Rise to the Challenge -- EndRdx-I(A), Heal-I(9), Heal-I(9), Heal-I(11), ToHitDeb-I(50), ToHitDeb-I(50)
Level 10: Combat Jumping -- DefBuff-I(A)
Level 12: Quick Recovery -- EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(13), EndMod-I(13)
Level 14: Super Jump -- Jump-I(A)
Level 16: Mind Over Body -- EndRdx-I(A), ResDam-I(33), ResDam-I(34), ResDam-I(34)
Level 18: Heightened Senses -- EndRdx-I(A), DefBuff-I(36), DefBuff-I(37), DefBuff-I(37)
Level 20: Knockout Blow -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(21), Dmg-I(21), Dmg-I(23), Dmg-I(23), EndRdx-I(25)
Level 22: Swift -- Run-I(A)
Level 24: Health -- Heal-I(A), Heal-I(46), Heal-I(50)
Level 26: Stamina -- EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(27), EndMod-I(27)
Level 28: Rage -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(29), RechRdx-I(29)
Level 30: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(31), RechRdx-I(31)
Level 32: Strength of Will -- ResDam-I(A), ResDam-I(33), ResDam-I(46)
Level 35: Fast Healing -- Heal-I(A), Heal-I(36), Heal-I(36)
Level 38: Foot Stomp -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(39), Dmg-I(39), Dmg-I(39), Dmg-I(40), EndRdx-I(40)
Level 41: Boxing -- Acc-I(A), Acc-I(42), Dmg-I(42), Dmg-I(42), Dmg-I(43), EndRdx-I(43)
Level 44: Tough -- EndRdx-I(A), ResDam-I(45), ResDam-I(45), ResDam-I(45)
Level 47: Weave -- EndRdx-I(A), DefBuff-I(48), DefBuff-I(48), DefBuff-I(48)
Level 49: Resurgence -- EndMod-I(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Gauntlet



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BTW I have 5 full sets of Crushing Impact slotted now and it's even better now, can't wait for the other sets I have planned as well.

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Awwww.....Get a life Maelwys, you must be like many on these forums, less play, more talk and un play like numbers


[/ QUOTE ]In case you didn't know, the game is, in it's core, just a lot of numbers

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You didn't take the "like many on these forums" bit personally there, did you MaX?

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I think he did

Awwww.....Get a life Maelwys, you must be like many on these forums, less play, more talk and un play like numbers and as you must never take the power and slot it properly, like those who coment on other powersets and powers and have nothing constructive to say about it.

Stop posting, Start playing.....Have fun

News Flash: Flares does the same damage as Fireblast without Fireblasts 80% chance to do some DoT.

That makes it very nice in my opinion, and a great boon to all who can take it, whatever the AT. The Changes in Animation and Range have greatly improved this power.

It is pretty good, and actually has the same base damage as fire blast without the dots, recharges faster and costs less end, well that's what I found out on my fire dom, and with the new animation it's awesome

But it does zero your damage and everything tauntwise for 10 seconds as it is, I thought that was what they were trying to fix at the moment, a tank still being able to taunt and use aggro auras for 10 seconds rand the WP brute/tank still benefiting from RttC for 10 seconds rather than having the "Only Affecting Self" bit. Changing it to a recovery debuff rather than a defence debuff signifies the tiredness and needing to have a bit of a breather after expending all that Rage for 120 seconds.

Just looks like those with an independent end recover power (EA, Elec, Fire) are going to gain a bit from this and those with access to Conserve power (All heros, villans with elec and EA) will be able to manage easy enough, and their's always CaB's and kins to help in teams.

Anyway, I'm sure they'll do the numbers on test and if they don't like it we won't see it.

No real need for them anymore, get some inf together and make some lvl 35 basic IO's and slot them, they're basically like +3 SO's that dont run out. It typically costs around 3 million Inf to do this for a lvl 32 Alt, and I've done it 4 times now, also done lvl 30's on a few at 27 (which are like even lvl SO's) and that was around 2 million Inf. Thats for components and recipies, but now I've got some memorized basic recipies on a few of my alts the costs have started to come down, and transfering components between my alts has made it easier Don't think I've bought anything over a lvl 30 SO since inventions went live, as I tend to slot these now and make do until I manage to get some nice lvl 40+ Invention sets to slot as I'm leveling.

Have you checked the icon settings, you can set them to blink before they expire, or just go out when they run out

I have 3 heal 2 interrupt and 1 rech in it, works fine, but then again, i'm just supplementing the protector bots really, and I have a reasonably high defence, so could probably forgo on the interrupts

Thorny...your an experianced player mate, and if your like me and have done the LRSF a few times, you will realise what needs to be done. I don't have Skype either, and manage fine on an all other people have Skype team, but then again I am good