Chonos

Oddly, even a Brute running Unstoppable isn't immune. I got hit for over 1600 damage through Unstoppable and my toggles by one of the signature hereos, which was really frustrating. Oddly, later my Corrupter survived two, nearly three hits from Back Alley Brawler, but I'd hit him with about 30% worth of attack debuffs.

Also, one thing that was extremely annoying on one of the instances of RV last night was one or two people walking around in PFF with some sort of Repel power on, and just wading in and being an unhitable pain to everyone. I couldn't hit them with Rage, an Uncanny Insight and 2 ACCs, and I saw only one other person manage to hit them before being pushed away. Most often they'd be pushing someone into Longbow spawns or towards signature heroes.

Lord Recluse was also not despawning at all in one instance. He sat around for the hour and a half I spent in the instance, and I'd occasionally run and hide near him when someone repeatedly kept following me. At one point I think I saw up to three Corrupters buffing him and just waiting for people to try to attack them, which was kind of funny. The zone reset multiple times and he just continued to stand around, sometimes with his own contingent of Bane Spider Commandos behind him.

Some impressions of RV last night for a few hours:

The zone was great fun to be in. Taking a pillbox and watching the zoen change was a great feeling. Taking a pillbox with only the help of a heavy way really fun too. A few too many bosses wandering around for my tastes, but whatever. I probably wouldn't enter this area on Live until I hit 50. Too much possibility of people being lame and trying to purposefully give people debt.

The lack of breakfrees is *painful* for a squishy. Had an Ice/Kin Corrupter who, after a few good kills at first, quickly had a habit of "walk outside, find an enemy, get stunned/help/terrorized and die, go to hospital, repeat". I couldn't find anyone to give me any sort of mez protection either, so I basically had no way to avoid this. Made EM insanely powerful and Controllers or Dark Defenders able to take down my Corrupter with laughable ease. I had one person hold me right near a neutral pillbox and just watched the turrents take me out. Really frustrating. I can live without other inspirations quite easily, but Breakfrees are pretty much required.

My SS/Inv Brute, however, did quite well. Having never gotten a Brute up to that level, I rather enjoyed the feeling of actual resists, especially with so many heroes using smashing damage. Broadsword Scrappers couldn't kill me unless I just let all of my toggles drop, though I had a hard time taking one down one-on-one without a good 50% or more Fury. However, against anything aside from Tankers or Scrappers, Rage was good enough to make me not care about Fury at all. I initially only slotted one accuracy in most attacks to see how much Rage would give; although I probably need 2 in all attacks, it was good enough when Rage was running. Unstoppable was amazing, allowing me to wade into a pitch battle and starting taking down people without caring about my HP at all. At one point I took on a group of 8 or 10 solo; I ended the fight constantly taunted and with virtually zero recharge, but they seemed to be impressed afterwords. Extremely fun.

Amazingly stable too. Although a friend of mine reported having trouble getting on, I stayed on for several hours straight with no problems. My only complaints are that I mostly only saw Stone Tankers, Broadswords or Spines Scrappers (Impale is insanely good and extremely annoying) and Illusion or Mind controllers, with some Empaths wandering around.

Incidentally, although my Brute didn't have Taunt, it seems like everyone likes attacking a huge character in a suit.