FireWyvern

One thing to remember... before this summer, nobody could play a brute blueside. So unless it's a totally new problem, they really couldnt do anything else before. Even now, if someone wants ice melee, he's stuck with tanker.

And I know some people can get from 1 to 50 in a week ( or a few hours with farms) but that's not everyone. So anyone who always wanted a really tough damage dealer but couldnt might stick with there scranker, cause it's fully IOed and lvl 50. Or cause it's his badger.

We started using that methode half-way through and it finaly worked. Thanks. =)
Still annoying that it's bugged for normal play though. =(

From what i'm reading, you don't really care about player made challenges like being able to solo AVs, GMs and beating insane amounds of +4 enemies? You just want to see all the contents and catch all the badges?
Then yeah, MA/regen will be just fine. You'll have no problems soloing every "normaly" soloable things and most TFs are easy anyway.

You might have a hard time getting in Mo attempts (people always want support or an insane tanker) but that would happen with all scrappers. Another thing is you will need help for GMs and a decent team for top end TFs, while one of the OP support character means you can pretty much win with crappy players. On the other hand, support characters are a lot harder to solo, and are really insane only with top builds.


One little warning, i doubt you'll get all the badges in one year. Even not counting the ones you can't get (aniversary and vets) there's only a very small number of people that have them all and they've been at it since CoX was out, more or less. But worry about 100 first, then 200, 300, etc. =P Eventually your badge list will make you lag.

The damage cap, i'll never notice.
It's the way fury work now and how the "max fury" is lower then what it used to that get noticed.

Before i could easily be at 10%-15% higher fury then now. In top level ability (soloing pylons, AVs, etc) it does make a pretty huge difference. Took 35 minutes to solo a pylon instead of 20.

You can still solo them and you can still solo AVs, just longer. (and might not be able to solo those that were very limit or needed reds...like nemesis, silver mantis, etc)


So most players don't notice it, but if you have a similar play style to me, you'll definitively notice it.

It's really the fury change. Nobody was keeping at the damage cap solo, specialy when not using insps. It's still insanely high and you probably won't notice the cap difference, unless you're always teaming with FS bots.

My petless MM soloed Professor Echo (EB) and no i didn't use temps. i guess you just aren't good if you struggle that much with lieutenants on any character.

How do you stay at 80% fury exactly? Aside from using the frenzied temp powers since it won't last.


That's also why i loved brutes. Having +150% dam under lvl 20 helps a lot and scrappers can't beat that. Not without slotting any dam.

Nah i still have it. But it's my fault, it was supposed to be this:

P.S. My main is /invuln and i never died because i used HandClap. It saved my life quite a few times though.


I forgot the "because".

Wich is the best way to make it hard to control. You won't know wich enemies will go away and wich one will stay. And that will spread them out. Presently, you can throw them all in the same general direction, and they will all land at the "same" distance.

That's the reason i don't like energy blast's aoe attacks. They are unreliable.

And knockback still gives more time then knockdown. So that's what i'd want for the non-minions. =P

The -dam in shields in so little though. =P
True about dark armor, i really didnt think of that one.
edit: Invuln and WP were the two i mentionned.

Knocking them away gives you 1-2 more secondes while they are thrown and 1-2 more secondes when they try to reach back at you...if they aren't already dead.

With GR/I18, it already happenned. Brutes' fury have been nerfed for top user. So scrappers will always do better damage (with the same powersets) especialy when you factor in shield or fiery aura.


Still, both should be more or less as good to solo content. On a scrapper, you'll spend a bit more inf for protection, while on a brute it's for even better recharge (for damage.)

It's because the pet can't use it strategicaly that it's bad.

How many powers have an aura of survivability? 2 out of 9. A lot of the secondary love the extra mitigation it provides. The fact that they are out of range really doesn't matter. They are also stunned long enough for you to finish them or at least the biggest threat.

So no the KB is not "frusterating" and it's not detrimental for survivability. Only if you don't know how to use it.

P.S. My main is /invuln and i never died i used HandClap. It saved my life quite a few times though.

BIG JRanger!
Making it a chance for KB would remove the utility of the power. You don't need "chance for mitigation" in a oh-crap power.

That's not true. Just like saying DM has better ST damage then fire. There's no one that absolutly beats the other. Depending on the situation (how much recharge and how many fodder for SD) a different one will win.

Good single target damage but that's it? Even if it's not always the best, it's easily the 2nd or 3rd best as long as you're using at least generic IOs. That's far from "just it".