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That'd be my guess. It is a pretty awesome power. A BS/WP Brute is going to be very, very hard to kill indeed. Plus, unlike say Stone where your "protection from primary" stems from mezzing everything around you Parry wouldn't have any impact on Fury Generation at all, things would still be attacking you as often (plus Parry has a really low animation time making it useful as a Fury generator) they'd just be missing an awful lot more.

I want Ice Melee for Brutes. I've tried it on an Shield/Ice Tank but I don't want to play a tank really. I'd love to try an Ice/Something Brute (tempted by the idea of Ice/Elec for some reason).

Being a low damage set isn't much of an issue on a Domi. You have plenty of options for upping your damage via your secondary. This is why Elec, Earth and Ice are excellent on a Domi, and why Grav (which by Controller standards has pretty good single target damage) isn't as it's totally superseded by the secondary.

No, on the entire league, apparently. 40% def to 23 people with 3 clicks. And then you can switch on your pbaoe aura...

The answer is a little from Column A and a little from Column B.

You have an invisible pet which follows you around for 2 minutes. He sporadically (every 10 seconds) has a 50% chance of generating a Vine beside any living enemy nearby. Vines last 15 seconds.

Every 10 seconds he will also create a Patch on any body nearby which does an AOE attack quite like a mini-roots (8 foot radius, around 27 points of damage at 50).

I agree. Fort and AB as League-wide PBAOE buff plox!!

The -End in jolting chains is not AOE, it's just for the first target hit unfortunately.

It's a great rolling control set. As Je Saist says it's a bit of a sum of all it's parts.

The sleep patch (which reapplies the sleep every few seconds) means it works a bit like a Fear power, things can wake up if damaged, shoot once and then go back to sleep. The End Mod it also provides is just gravy on top of this, especially coupled with :

Your PBAOE End Drain power. This won't lock things down totally, because it doesn't prevent recovery but it means you can stand in amongst the sleeping enemies and watch their blue bars shrink.

The chained knockdown starts off as awesome and then becomes a bit marginalized. It's a very slot-cheap power though. 1 Acc is enough on it (damage is rubbish so don't bother). It's also a good place for offensive procs like the Chance of Hold from the Ranged Damage set (but not the Chance for Stun from End Mod). It looks very cool.

The chained confused won't aggro. So you can cast it from afar and watch the pink madness spread without fear.

The best thing about all of these powers is that they all recharge relatively quickly. Which means on a fast moving team you aren't without something to do on every spawn.

Most secondaries are good with it too, Fire and Thorns have issues with the DoT interrupting the sleep patch but any other secondary goes with it well (some people criticizes NRG due to the knockback but I've found the ability to have controlled knockback on tap via power push to be an excellent bit of additional control vs bosses).

As a stop-gap measure to introduce more variety into earning Threads and non-alpha salvage this would be a godsend. With the Alpha you only had to unlock and slot for 1 power. Now we have a situation where you can only unlock and slot 4 new powers (with 4 tiers apiece) from repeating the same2 bits of 20-30 minute content again and again and again.


We're not going to get more than a trial every 2 months and you'd be sick of them within a few days. This approach gives more options to people and teams in order to fill up those 4x4 powers.

Agreed, if you want to get them side by side so peoples AOEs will affect both of them you also have to accept the downsides of that decision and those self-same AOEs. It's not like they spawn side by side, you have to actively work to get them into that position.

I do this this might still be in the works and will be the 'solution' for PP customization.

I agree on the pets issue. My Plant/Emp is looking forward to getting a Lore pety which actually makes sense (Ruluruu Brute I'd guess if not then a glowy, wispy thing).


I laughed when I saw the cossie, having seen the latest patch notes for the 800lb gorillas next patch where they have cossies which basically do the same thing.


New auras are well cool, although I suspect these were the Power Pool Customization effects Posi talked about ages ago so it makes me kinda sad that they appear to have given up on PP customization and instead rolled them out as auras.

I like SB. I'm not particularly fond of stacked SB, especially if it happens on the Lambda trial but I'll survive.

I shudder at the idea of SBed Imps / Gremlins / Ninjas / Zombies / Arsonists, especially given the current state of pet AI.


I wonder how long it's going to take them to spot Power Boost and Forcefields?

When you break it down like this : Dear sweet baby Cthulhu what are the Powers team thinking at the moment?


There doesn't seem to be any concept of balance or any form of extended thought process going into a lot of the changes and additions to powers in the last few months.

That wasn't the original issue though, initially after the merge you could only see the serve belonging to your old serve group. Was like that for a few days, no idea when it was sorted.

Trans-atlantic server transfers do work, as of last night.

Why we haven't had a red name announcement stating that they were fixed (or acknowledging that were broken) is beyond me though.

I kinda, slightly disagree. I've always found the Dwarf a bit of an End Hog in longer fights (say you're the main tank for a PuG fighting an AV). I'd certainly consider slotting Stamina with one extra slot and sticking an EndMod IO in there along with a Performance Shifter proc.


Or a Heal proc into health of course, if you can afford it. You certainly have no need to slot Health for Healing.

Given that he's asking if he should build and slot his IOs I'm guessing not.


Thing is the two aren't mutually exclusive, nor should they be. You can spend a few minutes at the start and end of every gaming session at the market buying what you need and the rest of the time running the Incarnate stuff, or running some incarnate stuff along with some Tip Teams to make some a-merits or whatever.


That's the approach I take (I also slot IOs from 35 onwards anyway), do a bit of everything at the same time, it'll feel more varied rather than slogging through a list of tasks. You don't need to be IOed up to the gills to do the Incarnate arc or iTrials. You can run the trials, join the WSTs etc as you like, just make sure to run the Incarnate arc first so you can earn shards as you go (it's not that hard).

When Burn was changed to the i4 or 5 incarnation this was as-intended. It wasn't immediately flagged by a dev as a bug to be fixed Soon.



So your comparison doesn't make a massive amount of sense.


I'd hope and assume the devs would fix the bug they've acknowledged within the next couple of weeks personally.

So you post a picture of a guy who hadn't changed his outfit in 40 years?

It's a counter-weight for the insane DPA of Seismic Smash

I second this, although I have my eye on an Elec/Traps, especially with the Steampunk pack on the way.

I used to have a unrelenting fear of the cookie monster when I was small. He stalked me in my dreams for years.



Does that count?