Gemini_2099

Originally Posted by Jibikao

As funny as it sounds, I made a new Brute (because my friends have been harassing me that I only make Stalkers to 50 and not Brute) and to make it fun, I figure I would try Dark/Energy Aura as EA has Stealth. It started as a "joke" actually as I don't know how well EA on Brute is.


OH my.... this DA/EA Brute has become one of my favorite melee ATs so far. The new Fury makes Brute a lot more enjoyable. I didn't like Brute before because fury used to drop quicker when it's lower and I hate losing fury. But with the new change, it seems to build faster when it's lower and drops slower. I know it's hard to maintain it over 75% but Brute doesn't need 75% to be awesome.


The stealth in EA is very interesting. I've seen it in action but have never tried it. The unsuppressed stealth sometimes allows me to kill one target in a group of 5 and the other 4 still don't know I am there! It takes them several seconds to figure out. LOL That's what ASSASSIN is supposed to be!!!! You stealth into a group and kill them and they don't even know you are there!


Well, a shocking realization... Brute > Stalker by a pretty large margin IMO (especially on a large team). I know I've defended Stalker many many times but the new Fury allows me to constantly have high damage and I can just slot for ACC, RECH and END to make sure I keep it going. I am not a big Brute fan. I just really enjoy DA/EA right now and this makes me realize how bad Stalker is at low level on a team. If you take AS at lvl 6 and Placate at lvl 8. You really only have two legit attacks (assuming you take some shields as well). They gotta do something about Assassin strike because I think this power is the reason why Stalker sucks on a team.


Brute sets a very high standard for what a melee dps class should be like... and Stalker has more to catch up IMO.

Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards

Mua ha ha! More power for my Heroes and Villains!

Originally Posted by Wavicle

The game is 6 years old and they STILL haven't figured out (despited the Defiance 2 thing) that Damage/Cast Time is the ONLY really important balance point. Kinda depressing.

Originally Posted by Ultimo_

The passage you quote was explanatory. It provided the reason for the opinion the thread was started to express, it was not itself the reason for the thread.

If your sole contribution to the thread is going to be to make insults, I'll ask you not to post. Further namecalling will be reported.


That said, this thread has devolved, as usual, into arguing about arguing. As such I wash my hands of it, it serves no further purpose.

To conclude, I'll say this:
I don't like the Fitness Pool being made inherent. I don't believe it adequately addresses what I percieve as problems with the game. I believe it adds NEW problems, including forcing powers on people that they might not want and leaves us with more powers and no new slots to put in them.

I would rather have seen the pool reorganized so Stamina was available at L6, or Stamina ALONE made inherent, and something new put into the Fitness Pool at L20.

Originally Posted by Sailboat

I used to see a ton of Ice/Axe Viking-themed Tankers runnig around, but not so many these days.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

In fact, I'm so confident in this costume, concept and name that I'm willing to look at finishing touches, such as picking a better hair. As such, here's a collage of the four other hairstyles that at all looked like they could work.



The first one is my favourite

Originally Posted by Biospark

Actually, I have seen a couple places where they have described exactly how it will work.
From a Q&A session I believe (sorry that I cannot link it for you).

What they have not revealed (as far as I know) is WHY this is being done. Most people (myself included) have speculated that it is being done to assist newer players in getting into and staying in the game after their initial experience. The first 20 levels can be quite a turn-off depending on how quickly you learn the ropes and which AT/Combination you choose.

Originally Posted by Misaligned

2 responses...

And still no proof.

But some creative name calling and some wounded egos seem to abound.

Interesting.

I think I shall label this... "Experiment Dur".

Originally Posted by TXDragoon

Sorry for double post and probably already mentioned but I'd really like to see a natural form of Claws as well. I like to use the Monstrous Bare Hands gloves with those sharp fingers but you still have to select a weapon style of claws. Why not just finger claws?

Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn

The only thing that I think that Resistance lacks over Defense is that Defense will block all secondary effects of a power as well as the damage that would be inflicted. A resistance-based character with 90% Damage Resistance to S/L damage will take, over time, as much damage as the character with 45% S/L Defense. However, the Defense-based character will get hit with 90% less secondary effects than the Resistance-based character.

Originally Posted by Jordan_Yen

Without a power, I definitely won't be buying this any time soon unless it's $5 instead of $10. I'd like to see it even cheaper. There are boosters I haven't bought yet because they just aren't worth the money. I wish there was a way to earn points in-game for these or unlock them in-game (even one at a time).

Look devs! A time-sink idea!

Either way, it's hard to justify the ever increasing add-on costs when it only benefits specific characters here and there. Most of the packs I did buy were ones that benefited EVERYONE on my account (like ninja).

Well, at least Christmas is coming and maybe I'll get a little more money in my "super booster" fund.

Originally Posted by Airhammer

I disagree. I would definitely like to see us get three more slots. I have been saying this is what we should be getting at level 50. The ability to actually SLOT the level 49 power decently.