Ice_Ember

Originally Posted by DreadShinobi

Since I have class on tuesdays at 6 and won't be able to make this, ill just mention the easy way to win this.

Complete the tf within 15 minutes all but 10-15 cimerorans on the last mission. Then spend the next 45 minutes spamming wakies in front of cim mobs, when you run out of your stack of 20 wakies, hosp and get more wakies. Complete the tf before the hour is up. Sounds suuuuuper fun. >.>

edit: if each person on a team of 8 can average 20 deaths/min for 45 minutes your team should get ~7200 deaths. Maybe halve that for travel time.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

I have to have a concept that works for me or I can't play Spines.

The ability to change the look of the spines was a huge boon for me. I'd love for scrappers to get Ice Armor so I can use it combined with the crystal spines.

Originally Posted by Primantiss

I would love an APP for Defenders/Corruptors that revolved around defense.

I've always thought about Ice, but Energy would also work (and ya, look a lot better on most toons)

Having to switch over to Villain (If your a Hero, which I usually am) in order to get Scorpion Shield is tedious to say the least, especially considering there are no alternatives.

Originally Posted by Argentae

Just wanted to clarify: Are you under the impression that you don't get drops from mobs that have had confuse/possessed mobs defeat them? Unless you're planning on doing ZERO damage to those mobs AFAIK that's simply not true. :-) As long as you are doing some form of AOE (spamming Living shadows with or without procs works GREAT for this), you most certainly DO get the drops as well as a highly disproportionate amount of the exp from the mob defeated/damaged by the possessed/confused mobs.

Seriously, Confusion based powers are the best thing for buffing your XP/inf/drops over time. Possess is one of the best powers in the set IMO. Having a single target confuse is a huge benefit, esp when you can use it to reposition trouble mobs (they will run over the the main body of the spawn to attack someone), turn buffing/debuffing mobs to your side etc.

Arg

Originally Posted by Myrmydon

Temp Power drops should be moved to a vendor and taken out of the drop pool.

Originally Posted by Agent White

The Underground is honestly a lot of fun for me. It's a great dungeon crawl and while a couple points can be a bit irritating, it's not really that bad. It's easily got the best atmosphere of any iTrial except maybe MoM, but that one moves so fast it's hard to appreciate any particular area as you're frantically trying to make sure the phase succeeds. The underground, however, has this wonderful gradual transition as you move from the sharp clean lines of the Praetorian underground sewer/train/etc system into this smooth curvy organic Geiger-esque hive of living plants and corrupted IDF & monsters, ending with the fight against the big bad Avatar.

Really I'm hoping we get some Praetorian Eden style zone that uses some of those art assets.

Originally Posted by MisterD

*puts up hand*
My spines/regen HAS Barb Swipe. It is one of my favourite looking attacks in the game. Note, I said looking. Looks, not for what it actually does. If I had to pick an animation that just says 'Scrapper', I would nominate barb swipe. It looks awesome. Of course..as it pointing out, the damage is utter crap for the amount of time it takes, as well as being a DoT.

I would suggest (and have before) that the animation get ported to Ripper..because to me, it looks way more rippy than Ripper actually does. Then give swipe an alternating single hand slash (in the way dual wield in DP changes hands). Of course..some people love the ripper animation, and fair enough. Can't please everyone.

Originally Posted by DocMidknight

I forgot all about the converters coming out. That might make getting both a little easier and cheaper for my brute. Thanks for the info.


Doc M

Originally Posted by Ripjak

Thanks for the speedy reply. Kind of a shame the HO's are this way now. I wonder if they may do something to make them relevant again.
I know I use Cytos in Invincibility (always have) and the difference between them and enzymes were minimal.

In my shield toon, the enzymes make A LOT more difference...but its fair...we were "cheating".

But in powers like these, it would be nice to see them bump the HO to 50% or something..

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle

Not only would ice armor be better for scrappers than ninjitsu, it seems theoretically possible that they'd be inclined to give scrappers ice melee as well. Presumably this would entail improvements for ice melee, and if that happened it would be a win for both scrappers and tankers.

Originally Posted by Neutral_Nexus

Okay, so my first experience with a brute was bad, I was a KM/EA brute before the new EA buff and well, looking at the sets with some new experience and research under my belt, those were very poor choices at the time and still sort of poor choices now even at level 50.

Right now I'm looking for a better brute, something that actually feels brutish and powerful to fight in a PvE scenario. My first thought immediately was Elec Melee/Fire Aura, the idea of a gigantic AoE spawn-killer felt like a lot of fun to me.

But I've been wrong before, in fact I've made a lot of poor choices in powerset choices when making a new toon, and a brute is not something I like starting over with. My questions are simple if an ELM/FA brute would be an effective toon in most PvE content or should I be looking at other powersets?

My goal for this new brute is trying to be a decently powerful, all-around brute for spawns, possibly AVs, can tank when he needs to, and possibly some PvP encounters with friends(Though this certainly isn't the focus). What powersets should I be looking at for this sort of thing?

Originally Posted by Combat

It wasn't "broken", it probably would still better than most melee characters even after the change if I reslotted. But considering the amount of effort and influence I spent on the build, it isn't worth it for me to try and rebuild. Scrappers and brutes in general can't break the game as well as a good defender/mastermind/corrupter/controller, and most defense sets have enough added survivability to make up for the lack of offensive tools. Shields doesn't give enough extra offense for me to justify the weaknesses (unlike fire, which can be made very survivable and is definitely better than shields on tanks and brutes for offense).