JuliusSeizure

Have you played Ninjas? Or Thugs? I would say that Demons does very good damage relative to the survivability of the pets-- they are just so tough. But it certainly doesn't out damage Ninjas, and is slightly behind Thugs and Bots as well IMO.

That helped a ton, thanks Master-Blade.

Hey guys, I have been going through Paragon with my villain badger trying to get the exploration badges. Can anyone help me locate the entrance to the "secret room" that holds Egg Hunter?

Thanks--

I think there will be comprehensive adjustments to the APPs and PPPs on test sometime soon. Be sure to check it while it's on test server.

It wouldn't be so great in the early levels, but WM/SR is a very solid choice and easy to softcap on a lowish budget. With hero merits the way they are currently-- 1 merit for 5 random rolls-- prices will be coming down though, so any build without purples MIGHT be within your budget.

WM/Invuln and WM/WP are also solid choices for obvious reasons-- the armors have scaling protection from foes clumped on your toon and WM has some absolutely devastating PBAoEs. WM/Invuln is better if you want to go with some global recharge in your build, as it actually has skills that benefit from recharge. I like that Invincibility adds +ToHit as well, which means that even when Build Up is down you will rarely be below a 95% hit rate when foes are gathered on you.

WP has its obvious perks, which are superior recovery and very easy leveling. It's not as powerful endgame as Invuln or SR IMO, but the entire ride from 1-50 is much more enjoyable.

I wouldn't go with ELA personally-- the set is very squishy and will cause lots of redraw with Power Sink and Conserve Power being use regularly. It's without a doubt the squishiest set available to Brute right now, as the buffs to Fire Armor have made that set's squishiness well offset by its offense.

The Scrapper version has a unique mechanic-- it basically causes the attack you use immediately after it to have its critical chance increased by 33%. So, it can increase the AoE damage of the sweep attack by 33% or give you up to a 43% chance of critical on a powerful follow up attack like Cobra Strike or Crippling Axe Kick.

The "ridiculously high debuff" suggestions aren't going to fly at the durations being proposed. Flash arrow has a 15 second recharge, so a 10 seconds duration would be OP, as would 5 seconds, which would easily become perma-"ridiculousely high" with IOs. I could maybe see it being given a 2 second -30% debuff that's fully resistible, but this should have a smaller radius than the massive 35' portion that happens to be irresistible and cause no agro.

I'd suggest 2 seconds of -30% to a 10'radius, fully resistable, and the regular component affecting the full 35' radius (-6.25% for defenders and still irresistible).

Even if nothing happens to this skill, I still really like it. The fact that the debuff is irresistible makes it pretty potent already, and the targeting geometry is absolutely massive.

KM absolutely slaughters DM in AoE damage... Against AVs and GMs, -damage is far and aways superior to -ToHit. Soul drain also doesn't excel with just one hard target to buff off of, Power Siphon does. KM also has two ranged attacks.

Dark Melee has some obvious perks-- with +endurance, a single target fear, and a self heal. Both sets are quite good; my main Brute is Dm/ELA and it appears my main Scrapper is going to be KM.Fire.

The Tank would be better in PvP. The Brute would do more damage in PvE while the Tank would be much tougher and easier to softcap SM/L/En/Neg/Fire/Cold.

Thank Castle for adjusting Fury properly-- he did a great job. The initial change was not so good, and he revamped it later in Beta after listening to feedback.

The 0.75 decay while being attacked and for 5 seconds there after was a huge change for the better. It means that attacks like Total Focus and Shadow Maul are more viable with their longer animations, and sets with a slower net attack speed also experience improved Fury generation/maintenance.

If you like those binds on your Bots MM, why not use the same with with names changed? Use some from this list if you need to: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/List_of_Slash_Commands

I would drop Mesmerize completely and take Levitate at level 1. Have both Mass Hypnosis and Total Domination by level 18. Mesmerize is a throw away skill IMO, while Levitate will let you soft control bosses and stack mag.

I can't see you doing all of that on a 1 billion budget. You will need 5 LOTG globals just for a fraction of the recharge requirements for perma-Hasten, and that's over half your budget right there.

Cool. Thanks for the info Fleeting.

I have a few questions. My main is a Villain, and I was going to bring him hero-side for badges.

1-- Do you get booted from your old SG if you switch sides? If not, do you retain stats in the SG like prestige earned? I am currently the Supreme Leader in mine, but can easily hand it off to someone I trust or dump it on an alt of mine. Any info on what happens to SG status would be great.

2-- Is there anything that you lose out on by switching sides? For example, is there some type of reward granted for never faltering and remaining true, thus never getting the badges/content from the opposing side? I will gladly keep him a villain forever if there is some type of perk for never switching sides.

Thanks for your help guys.

What AT are you on? I just logged into my DM/ELA Brute and did not experience this. Soul Drain hit 6 foes and I had all 6 icons remain for the full 30 seconds. My damage buff is monitored as well and this also showed a full 30 second duration.