Hopeling

"At some point" doesn't mean anything near "soon", though.

And frankly, CoH's playerbase right now, much less years in the future when there are so few of us that we don't even cover the cost of keeping the servers turned on, doesn't seem like a large enough demographic to mold their whole strategy around targeting us.

And you can just smirk, knowing the truth of the matter.

Although actually, does any lore yet refer to Tyrant's defeat at all, much less the specific method of it?

Edit: I'm not sure defeating him by bringing twenty-three friends prepared specifically for Tyrant-killing proves you're a superior combatant any more than using the immediately-available tactical advantage does, really. After all, his side attempted the same Quills trick you use on him, and you showed that you're good enough to win anyway.

That's fine. Do Really Hard Way runs to your heart's content.

It used to; it's pretty nice now that it gives 15 seconds of Untouchable status.

Willpower is obviously still a fine set with no self-rez, since it did fine for years before the change, but it's a good power now.

You will never "lose" the boost to Destiny/Hybrid/whatever from your other Alpha powers, either. They may become unnecessary with sufficient buffs/debuffs, but the same can be said of increased damage on Judgement. When Judgement one-shots minions to begin with, allowing it to one-shot them harder is not a particularly exciting improvement. I have absolutely been on teams when my Judgement damage was meaningless; this is not a purely theoretical point.

Doublehit is also a proc, so yes, you're correct.

This, and also everything on beta costs zero points anyway.

Musculature definitely does not affect doublehit damage.

But yeah, making Judgement and Lore 45% more awesome is pretty cool, and doesn't care about AT modifiers. It doesn't change the way that Brutes get less benefit from Musculature than many ATs from the rest of their powers, both in terms of absolute gain, and proportionally. Musculature's benefit to other Incarnate powers is not secret; it's already factored into the comparison.

The forums, as usual, tend to exaggerate things. Musculature isn't worthless/trash/cripplingly bad/meaningless/etc on a brute. It's significantly less good than it is for a Scrapper, and so most Brute builds end up better off with another alpha power instead, but trading 30% recharge slotting for 30% damage slotting is not going to cripple your character, and for some builds is still the best choice available, especially since the "best" choice for a build is a heavily subjective thing.

There is no power more like Total Focus than Total Focus, and I've never yet seen anyone claim it's skippable for Energy Melee. Moreover, TF's DPA isn't actually bad; it's widely hated mostly for its extremely long animation that delivers the damage at the very end, while being in a set where the only other heavy hitter has the same problem, not for its DPA. Sky Splitter is slow, but significantly faster than TF, and Staff has other decent attacks that activate pretty quickly. And Sky Splitter has some nice secondary effects, as well.

Is Sky Splitter skippable? Sure, I guess. Is it kinda disappointing as a t9 power? Sure, I guess. Is it "a terrible attack"? Not in any useful sense; only one other power in Staff has better DPA, and if you count (non-Body) form damage that number becomes zero.