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50% fury is +100% damage. You compared this to a 100% crit chance, since both would give double damage. But in any real build, +100% damage from Fury isn't double damage. It's more like half-again damage, because you're already at ~195% from enhancements, or possibly more for many common builds/situations. Plus, since Brute base damage is lower than Scrapper base damage, the bonus from Fury only helps them catch up, it does NOT catapult them ahead.

Maybe some numbers will help illustrate. I'll use Rib Cracker as an example, since the thread started out talking about Street Justice.
On a Brute, it does 55.05 damage. With 3 damage SOs, that's 107.3 damage. With 3 damage SOs and 50 fury, that's 162.4 damage.
On a Scrapper, it hits for 82.58. With 3 damage SOs, that's 161 damage. Averaging in the crit damage gives us 177.1.
Did you notice that 50 fury doesn't make the brute hit dramatically harder than the scrapper? In fact, at 50 fury the brute is still behind. This is true for many comparisons between scrappers and brutes - the first ~60 fury isn't an advantage, it only lets them catch up to the damage Scrappers do with no windup time. Since fury doesn't go all that far above 60, they don't end up with much of an advantage even in extreme situations - and with damage buffs or red insps, the scrapper pulls clearly back into the lead.
What is with you posting incredibly un-constructive stuff like this in so many melee threads? Brutes and scrappers have many similarities, but do not play exactly the same. Berating/insulting someone for asking what the differences are is silly.

He might, but if he was going to become Lord Praecluse one could argue it was for the best anyway.

You find a warwalker which has been built to quickly repair itself (with nanobots or something? Who knows). The lichen scattered through the tunnels impairs its self-repair mechanisms, so you use that. Then, in a twist nobody failed to see coming, the Devouring Earth lichen takes over the warwalker and makes it regenerate, so you have to fight it again.

This is only true if you have no damage buffs, damage set bonuses, or damage enhancements. Personally, I often have one or more of those things. In any realistic analysis (past very low levels where the scrapper can't slot their attacks very well), scrapper and brute damage is very close, usually with a slight edge to the scrapper.

That's odd. On Freedom, I got a red 30-minute warning as usual. I don't know if there was a 10-minute warning, because I'd already logged off by then.

How odd, it was on beta for not even a week, and we never got an official feedback or bug thread for it.

Not that I mind

Yes, I got that, hence my "put an asterisk in the record books" comment.

Personally, I see no reason that badges which were mildly prestigious years ago can't be somewhat easier to obtain now.

Maintenance has occured quite often on Tuesdays as well, for the last few months, according to this poster who is frequently playing at such hours.

I hope so. That mission was mildly amusing the first time through, but even then I didn't care enough to clear the map. These days, I ignore all the enemies, talk to Ramiel as stuff tries to shoot me, and quickly exit.

I have no problem with a magic themed set. Blasts of eldritch power, runes in the air, that kind of thing. But asking for a Sorcery power set, without any additional info or ideas, is like asking for "Tech blast" or "Mutant manipulation" - what does it even mean? It's way too broad.

I don't know what we'll get once that tier 9 bonus is retired. I'm hoping for rocket noises, myself.

But who's to say you'll be less happy while doing so than you would be drugged with Enriche?

Personally, I named my forum handle after my character.

The actual Praetors themselves would be evil by most measures, yes, at least in an "ends justify the means" way. The Loyalists as a whole are merely grey.

Only if your enemies deal exactly 80 damage per second, every second, all the time. Realistically, especially when you're partly relying on random mitigation like defense, your health bar will take a random walk, even if your regen exactly matches the average incoming DPS. There's no reason your health can't then random walk to zero, at which point you die.

Plus, this whole "the brute lives forever and the scrapper dies" comparison is only relevant in the range between ~71-80 incoming DPS. How many situations in the game fall outside that range? Most of them, in my experience. How many fall inside that range, but end before the scrapper runs out of health? Nearly all of the ones that are left.
No, over time it's still 12%, which is not huge.

I do agree that the brute's greater ability to benefit from orange insps/res buffs is sometimes a significant advantage, though. But then, so is the scrapper's greater ability to benefit from red insps/damage buffs.

Not to mention the non-costume t9 options we already have.

Just yesterday, I (accidentally) saved a teammate from Hopkins at the end of a Manticore TF with the stun on Rise of the Phoenix, because his triangles happened to be off at that moment. So more like "rarely" than "never".