HelinCarnate

I'm with Ponytail on this one. While solo, I can still pump out the damage and maintain high fury, just not as high as before. In groups it will be even more difficult to keep that damage high and having 2 brutes or even just a brute and a tank on the team will make it even more difficult to build fury than before.

Yes fury probably should have been changed on the high end but not the low end. I would have put the bar at around 50% instead of 30%. Devs seem to have a flair for overnerfing things.

Only time will tell.

And we didn't have those fancy IO thingies.

And forget making both money for yourself and prestige for your SG at the same time. It was all or nothing.

And I know you all love the ability to have hundreds of billions of different costume combinations. Well back in the day we could only have hundreds of millions of different options.


Edit to add. I acutally still use brawl, just not slotted. Now that it is 0 endurance it comes in handy at the lower levels to put it on auto with your melee types.

Well Bill went and quoted my post before I could delete and clairify.

If you look at the sets that scrappers and brutes already share, they do similar damage over time (assuming decent fury generation). Dark, Electric, Fire and Dual blades all can put out around the same damage, over time, with either a scrapper or brute. Granted a brute has to work a bit harder for it to maintain the fury but it is possible. Claws is a bit different since the damage was increased as well as the recharge when it went to brutes so not as easy to direcly compare that one.

My point is, the devs seem to want there to be a balance point between the average damage over time when comparing the same set on the different ATs. (At least between brutes and scrappers)

Because rage is constant (or close enough) and because scrappers get a higher damage bonus, a direct port would shift that balance point to grossly favor scrappers.

So pretend for a moment that all the sets are ported over and you want to make an Axe Melee high damage dealer. You can either pick a scrapper that can crit for some serious damage or a brute that takes a little time to build fury but can put out almost as good of numbers. There the choice is up to you on what play style you want and you can put out similar damage either way. Sometimes the brute will do more damage, sometimes the scrapper will do more damage.

Now you want to make a SS high damage toon. Why bother with a brute when you can make a scrapper that will always do more damage? Some would still play brutes just because they like fury and don't like scrappers. But many others would move to scrappers just because they are able to do more damage compared to brutes. Then folks would complain that SS on brutes needs to be increased to match scrapper levels and everyone would end up being pissed because the scrapper version got nerfed. To prevent all this the devs will figure out a way to balance everything before porting it over.

That 2nd build spends way too much on not getting hit and not enough on doing damage.

So what type of damage would water do? All smashing? To be realistic another damage type would have to be put into the game. Water vs Fire one would think would do much better than Cold vs Fire. And elec vs water would be better than elec vs cold. And then psychic would do double damage to poison and fighting but be weak vs bug........

Good ------ Great ------ Awesome, ----------------------------------------------------------> way over there is SS/WP.

Best thing to do is to find something that does only one type of damage and that does not do DoTs when you farm your damage badge. From my observations, this is how it seems to work.

If you have say 800 bonus HP and you get hit for 1000 points in one hit that should count for a full 1000 points for the badge.

Now if you get hit for say 600 fire damage and then 400 smashing in one attack, depending on what is counted first you would get either 600 or 400 points since that amount is the amount that took you past the 800 bonus HP. Same idea with DoT attacks. Only the attack that went past your bonus HP and aything beyond count.

Although if they ever get the badges fixed to show all damage, then they need to bring back the higher badge numbers.

9 attacks? That is a bit much. With a little recharge you can get away with 5-6. All those extra slots and powers can be put to keeping you alive instead of being on attacks that do not get used that often.

Now having additional arms for the sake of being able to use something like claws or dual blades with shields I could get behind. Not for the sake of having quad pistols or dual archery.

The part that really bugs me is it is unscheduled and furthur infomration cannot be found in the forums like it says in the post.

[Admin] Attention! In 30 minutes, the City of Heroes and City of Villains server will go down for maintenance reasons. Further information can be found in the City of Heroes Forum.

You can't. You can only search for people that are not hidden.

So you miss mobs sometimes. I can deal with that. The only thing I could support is removing the cap on objects. Or at the least change the verbage so it says deflected instead of missed to show you hit the object but you were just being so cockey that it ended up being a glancing blow that caused no damage.

Less Filling!