Hypercrasher

[Echo] NUUUUUUUUUUUU! [/Echo]

Drama aside, I'll be sad to see you go. I know I was never on too much since I moved on to other games, but stay well, huh?

Hopefully I'll see you again sometime.

It was always fun to slum around with you!

(Pirinn/Hyper/Tara here)

The problem with the pets from what I've read, is that they sap 1/4 of your endurance to summon, aren't overly damaging, and can't take much of a beating. Not to mention you can only have the pet up about half of the time at best.

I've never got to a high enough level to summon them, so once again, can't really comment from experience.

I've never pvp'd really, so this advice may be pants. Sorry in advance if it is!

But to answer your questions:

1) I'd go with acrobatics. The +stealth of AF is nice - though I don't think it's the best stealth ever. Not on a par with any dedicated invisibility or stealth power (Don't quote me on this, I may be wrong), but acro has hold resistance, that'd help against controllers, or the occasional TA defender or whatnot.

2) Patron-power wise, if you ARE going to take arctic fog ever. Skip the pet. If it gets out of the radius of the fog, it'll be a giant giveaway of your location. No idea how useful web cocoon would be.

3) No idea patron power wise, sorry again. Bitter freeze ray is a bit of a marmite skill though, with a gargantuan animation time, lots of people don't like it. Though many that like it seem to swear by it. If you want it, bear this in mind.

4) In my (brief) times pvping with a brute, I found jump to be ok for most. Of course flyboys always gave me trouble, and speeders had a penchant of running off at mach 10. But that's what happens when you rely on fists to do the job. Being able to fight at range, you should avoid troubles with the flyers out there. And really I'd assume the slow of your cold could help to bring speeders to a grinding halt.

I'm a Leccie/Dark. On teams I try to sponge as much of the damage as possible at all times.
Sure, I faceplant a lot, but I can rez myself.

I usually run the taunt aura, cloak of fear, and sometimes oppressive gloom and then pump out the AoE skills. Though I don't much like taking the alpha, as dark's relatively lackluster resistance often leaves me dead. I rely on my mez (oppressive gloom, cloak of fear) to keep me alive.

Being able to heal pretty much all of my hitpoints every 20 or so seconds helps though.

/comfort
Im a 40 merc mm (Solo black).

Your commando, able to fling out rockets and grenades. Accompanied by your sniper rifle weilding spec ops won't be made redundant (if your specs can sticky grenade the bruiser, what use is he )
(oh and an army of full auto firing mercs helps)

/comfort

Sounds good though, I have to ask, do the pets get any holds or anything like?

Defender 'bots can pop up bubbles and heal each other, mercs can fire sticky grenades, flash-bangs and stun people, and I'm sure zombies and ninjas can do some equally funky stuff. (I know one ninja can drop caltrops at one point, but I rarely get to team with mm's that use these sets)

So are the leaderships all the thugs get, or can they hold/immobilize/disorient as well.
And on that note, I heard that the thug leaderships don't work on players, but will they work on other pets?

I assume the bruiser will be able to stun, using the SS set.

btw: nice to see you are alive ashen.

Well, I'm skipping the goth barbeque for certain now (went out last night from 10pm-5am, spent a lot, drank a lot and subsequently can't AFFORD to go, on top of anything else)

However, I might have a friend (or two) round mine on sat - I can probably hang around for the start of the TF - but if you could give me an idea as to how long the TF would be, that would be tops.
(Would hate to cut out half way through the TF, but I don't wanna leave my mates sat there bored on my bed while I play a game - it's not very polite. But neither do I want to leave all your squishy hides tankerless )

Have nice nights, I'll see you all tomorrow hopefully!

Arr!

Saturday afternoon huh?
Hmm... to take part in that I may have to not go to (gothy) Dave's barbeque.
Decisions decisions

I'll think about it, been inundated with work (really, both my MMO's - Auto assault and CoX barely get a look in anymore ) and saturday may be my first day of "free" time in quite a while.

I'll see - that's all I can promise for now
(and you can thank Ashen for me being here, he sent me the direct link and all sorts, useful brother he is)