Cynic

has it got something to do with the colour purple or am I thinking of something else?

Ambos is wasted in his career path, he should be on TV

Grats on another 50, storm eh? Nice

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Add this to your sig max...

In this case Max is totally incorrect - Antibiotical

The suggested team make up cosisted of a tank and control, neither of which allow a brute to get decent fury, ofc the brute could run of and gain it, but a good tank tends to like having all the agro.

Id say scrapper as you know what ur getting off the bat.

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Hmmm you weren't on the team when MaX tanked and I bruted, was a pure slaughter and mass death. I was at full fury most of the way through as it only took the alpha to put me there and my attack chain kept me there. On a full team herding is not needed for fury

What sets is each toon? Who asked me first? Do I know either of them?

Dark/Dark/Dark is known as a D3 to many people

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If I was to make a tank without taunt as the concept but still wanted to hold the maximum amount of agro I'd take Ice Armour and Fire Melee.

Ice Armour has two auras, one of which is the best aura for holding agro and fire has the most AoEs. AoEs help with gauntlet so its all good

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So which tank sets would you preffer if you were to take taunt? Out of interest

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Having hit 50 with willpower and felt the pain of it I'd probably still take Ice as a primary, or maybe Inv I guess. I am planning a new tank at some point that will the Stone Melee but not willpower again. Its silly when you dont have to worry about surviving fighting +7s, but you have to be paranoid about holding the agro of evens. And my willpower is fire melee. But I feel so under powered in the agro department compared to my Ice (as stated earlier both my tanks have 6 slotted taunt, difference is the WP really needs it, the Ice could do without I just hate my secondary too much to slot it)

If I was to make a tank without taunt as the concept but still wanted to hold the maximum amount of agro I'd take Ice Armour and Fire Melee.

Ice Armour has two auras, one of which is the best aura for holding agro and fire has the most AoEs. AoEs help with gauntlet so its all good

Are blaze and BIB about the same activation? Fire's a primary I've not really played but BIB seems way ahead of the other sets for DPA that I have tried

only EB/AV I had any trouble with on my MM was Synpase really, oh and GW was a pain. For those with AoEs use agressive, for those with STs use Bodyguard. Synapse wouldn't stay on my tar patch though, which meant keeping pets where I wanted them was impossible.

But then Necro/Dark is stupid for control and survivability, have no idea what poison brings safety wise but debuff wise it looks a bit stronger.

MMs are the hardest to just use the spam insps method of dealing with EBs unless you have provoke, then you can BG mode, purple up and just wipe them out. I dont have provoke, and maybe with no self heal its a bit risky, but it could be worth a try

Am no considering dropping Havoc Punch for Chain Induction and going completely AoE if they fixed the XP on it a bit a go like they said, but Charged Brawl being improved can only be good............ where's jacobs ladder it looks awesome (oh and if you wondering about fury I'm an agro magnet, I dont need to hit things I find)

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Taunt makes you more effective at holding aggro. End of story.

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Chilling Embrace makes you more effective at holding aggro. Therefore never team with a tank without Chilling Embrace. End of story.

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Ice/DB tank LTF, will except purples as payment.........

What??! Seemed a good spot to advertise

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I'd probably stop at 4 cause nothing shy of GW is worth 2 slots that could be doing something better

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And there is me needing one less slot with Ghost Widow than I do Recluse. Go figure

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Having not tanked them yet I'm going on the side of caution, but I've never been on a team that's struggled with LR, but I've been on a few that have battled ages with GW

Having both WP and Ice tank as used in the example about I must agree with Praf, an Ice tank not using taunt can hold agro much easier than a WP tank who spams theirs. Infact I find combusion the big saviour on my WP tank because it can hit more in one go than Taunt can, taunt then goes for those I missed. On the ice tank taunt is just for AVs and runners. Both have 6 slotted taunt though, partly cause I was planning to try an STF with each of them and wanted the range boost, otherwise I'd probably stop at 4 cause nothing shy of GW is worth 2 slots that could be doing something better

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Besides there is nothing more satisfying than critting on a Tier 9 power with BU on it, pretty much one-shotting most stuff. Brutes can't do that...so ner ner

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True, but a full Fury Lightning Rod with BU? Bye-bye!

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Never had the opportunity to do so, but i'll take your word fot it

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Thats all Ltns and Minions that you hit with it too........... damn I wanna play my brute now

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Ms Liberty, Statesman's granddaughter, routinely cycles through the "standing" emotes in Atlas.

So we already have a moving heir.

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OK that was better than I was expecting of this thread, I need not say how low my expectations were need I?

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If there was anything you could change about/in this game, what would it be and why?

[u]No[u] talk about the removal of PvP please, it only starts arguments

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The players

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[GR! Tell us what's coming or I'll let this case of XXXX get warm!

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That won't work. Make it Toohey's or VB, then you might get a response...

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You have VB? Give!

I like 3 of those 4 sets, one has downtime and Cynic hates time not spent hitting, yes he does

Welcome back.

The VEATs I have teamed with seem brilliant and I will be making a Crab Spider when I finish all my current projects, or if I finish them I should say.

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RttC I always find fun, the momentary delay between the mobs attacking and the your regen kicking in can be pretty... interesting. If scrapper willpower had an inbuilt self heal it'd need a damn good n*r*i*g (I censored the nasty word for everyones benefit).

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Energy Torrent on a scrapper deals with that moment nicely

Grats on that, my Dom was my first character ever to 40 and still sits at 43 a couple of years later. Well done

It depends a lot on playstyle, am sure if I played a scrapper like I do my brute the lower hit points would take my down and the lack of fury would leave more foes. But critical hits and higher base damage work out nicely too. Brutes will do more damage with fury, scrappers will do more when fresh (in general). I tend to only see one of the three bars when I'm playing a brute, I see none of the two when scrapping. That's once I know the boundries of the powers they have obviously

Brilliant as always

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Let's just say the word 'offline' is meaningful

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Wait, they're stealing my internet and giving me my evenings back? That sort of offline reward? If its a book club I already belong to one thanks