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I am shocked Stalkers are keeping Chilling Embrace. It's one of the best Taunt Auras in the game because of the incredibly fast ticks and hefty debuff. Even if they remove the taunt component it still going to be an aggro magnet for a class designed to shed aggro.

The real strength the brute would have over the scrapper in kill speed is taunt in the damage aura and punchvoke on the attacks. Runners are the bane of my existence on scrappers, which I why I almost never play my main DM/SR or my KM/Elec anymore. But take a secondary with a taunt arua like SD, Inv, or the new EA, and things start looking very nice if you pair them with Super Strength.

I think a SS/FA scrapper would run into the same problem a Spines/FA has, in that the mobs will run before they are dead.

I'm just wondering how/if they are going to add a taunt aura. Integration is a good choice, but I'm wondering if they might reverse stalker WP and scrap Recon and add Rise to the Challenge.

Shield defense is the most thematic. It matches the low tech fantasy weapons, and Shield bash really fits as a "Bull Rush" type power. Although, I would seriously considering going War Mace instead of Battle Axe. The Fantasy Mace, War Hammer, and Legacy Mace all fit for a Minotaur, and in the current game Mace is better than Axe for everything except fighting Carnies.

As I said before, the warehouse ceiling was too low to safely hover blast them. The beams hanging from the ceiling combined with the small platform the first ambush bomb is on allow the mobs to reach you with jump attacks. Since you are in range, you are again running into can you kill fast enough to suck enough insps to keep yourself a the def softcap, damage, and any heals. On my runs, no. If I had just a little more height in nova form It would be trivial, but the level geometry was working against me.

Just for giggles, I tried a run using a warshade with Nova form and Orbiting Death. If I was in human form the lack of fury and no taunt aura slowed the insp drop rate to to low to be sustainable. And the warehouse ceiling isnt high enough to hover blast safely, and the recharge on novas two aoes is too slow to guarantee insp drops. Brute really is the best for this.

I just tested it on my lowbie Elec/Elec brute. Jacobs Ladder isn't enough aoe to reliably clear the spawns quickly enough with just the aura and JL. I was clearing the spawns, but I was dying frequently even with insps keeping defense above 50% at all times. Thunderstrike would make things considerably easier but the level 1 limit nixes that. Even still, I gained 12 levels in an hour of testing so it works as a self pl if for brutes if nothing else.

Why would you take Havoc Punch over Charged Brawl? It's long animation make it do less DPA than Charged Punch or Jacob's Ladder. If you are only going to take one punch, Charged Brawl is better. Even so, if you want to be able to do any ST DPS, I would never skip either unless you are using gloom or burn in your ST chain.

I remember when I was PuGing portal missions in PI about 2 years ago on my newly softcapped DM/SR(my first 50), and a controllers imps aggroed two spawns at once. I Jumped in to a spawn of 20 or so +3 of the old Praetorian clockwork, and the rest of the team took the other. I had no aoes other than Soul Drain and Shadow Maul, but I was able to take the spawn down to 5 from 18 in the time it took the rest of the team to finish the other spawn.

I got three tells from other team members asking what my secondary was. Since then I have mostly stopped playing SR since other secondaries can surpass it's survivability, but that was when I knew I was a scrapper at heart.

/signed

Odd, I certainly feel like I am getting hit less.

My DM/SR is going nerve for the bonus to acc and def. I have well over the softcap which helps considerably when fighting +4s, and the Accuracy is nice since I don't run Focused Acc. With Stamina, Numina, Miracle, and Perfected Self, end isn't necessary and the recharge isn't really needed since my st chain is gapless as is.

I can't wait for the add on to be buyable for the PC side. More costume options are always nice, and the Mission Teleporter will save me much annoyance in Nerva and IP.

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argh - at work - can't see it. Youtube anyone?

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Why don't you folks just download the video? No buffering at all when it is on your computer.

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Kind of hard to download something from a site that is blocked by your companies' web filter.

Purchased! Now I have to wait to get home from work before I can update my characters.

As I said, I had it last year. But those powers only last a few days. They also can be a little buggy and detoggle you when zoning if they are active when you zone.

Even still, way cool.

I feel the same way as well. I love the PPD hardsuit, and was even lucky enough to the the Halloween PPD costume during last year's trick or treat event. I would love to get that power, but there is no way I can make either of these cons.

I am glad it will be there, and I am glad there is an ongoing CoH/V presence. I just wish there was a way those of us unable to attend could get it.

That said, I would gladly buy that suit. I want it more than anything in the Wedding Pack and I paid ten bucks for that.

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Mmmm, Dark Tanks. Me Likey.

But Super Reflexes for Brutes? As much as I love Super Reflexes, that just doesen't seem to fit Brutes from a conceptual standpoint at all.

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I would say Venom at least is a SR brute. There is plenty of scaling resists to show toughing it out when you do get hit, but being super fast when dodging an attack doesn't seem against the brute process.

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Do you guys have this link ??

Spoilers

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Elle to Mohinduh: "What's your superpower? Punching bag?"
Love it.

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man r there any guides with trick arrow beside gravity?

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Read Luminara's Trick Arrow/Archery guide here
It covers all things having to do with sharp pointy sticks.