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Lol no, the longest ST attack is 2.3 seconds (Rend Armor) and the longest AoE is Arc of Destruction (2.7). So... longest ST is basically KO Blow in cast time and the longest AoE is still faster than CS, Total Focus, 1kCuts and whatev.

Lol that's what I thought, especially hardcore scrapper fans 'THIS POWERSET IS NOT BALANCED IT'S DOING 10 DPS LESS THAN AVERAGE'.

But that also shows why melee sets sell so well, people love them, while if you go to the blaster forums and ask 'hey what's the best secondary for my whatever/ blaster?' 90% of the answers will be '/EM or /MM' (just because one player will say fire and another will say ice, because nobody cares much about the others).

Also... I'm on my 3rd BR toon (other two stalled on the 20s-30s) because I bought the set, I want to like it but it seems so meh. On this third one I got to 30 I haven't seen any other BR like the first two (because the set was new), and nobody talks about Beam Rifle anymore while you still see threads about Kinetic Melee and StJ. I even saw energy blast toons lol.

Robots/Traps MMs say hai. No need for stinkin' IOs.

Manly tears were shed when I saw this happen on my farming Brute.

I wasn't that annoyed on my 50 Stalker (who had 3 full trays) but the damn Broot had a tray I used as the main when farming which had macros for converting all kinds of insps.

I didn't have the bug happen again when zoning like others, but maybe that's because I used the stupid holiday powers before rearranging the trays.

The animation is very quick and subtle, your teammates may not even notice it. But I like it a lot and took it on my Stalker, even though unlike Pyronic or Ion, I have to jump back to use it since she's a melee toon. Damagewise it's very good, the only disadvantage to others is being smashing damage plus lethal DoT.

Well obviously it was the lowbie farming that caused it, especially the ambush thing since it didn't hurt the 50s farming 54s much.

I was simply telling that the method the above poster recommended is not that good anymore, not speclating on the cause since everybody knows lol.

I don't mind redraw on most cases, it's just that Poison was waaaaay too much. Time I never considered because of the aura so I have an Ice/Time, my main hero on Exalted (which I never play but she's very cool - no pun intended - except for the ZOMG endurance consumption).
I think I'm having problem liking the BR set, and I'm feeling guilty for that since I bought it lol.
So... I rolled my third BR toon! (ok the traps one could've worked but I have a 50 fire/traps).

Now he's a BR/Cold and got him to 28 so he at least has one debuff.

I even has a build, not too expensive except for the usual uniques and LoTGs, and if I stick to the plan with all this recharge I may trade single shot for Piercing. Or maybe not since cold has tons of -res already.

Yeah I saw the new values in game, still not very different from 12% to 20% since the damage chance goes way down, so I agree with PleaseRecycle, Radial seems always better, in all the debuffs (well unless the -regen was significant on diamagnetic).

My idea for the Stalker was to keep hitting so I could immob hard targets for me - for example in a +3 ITF the bosses and EBs took quite some time to kill and even damaging them a lot I don't keep aggro and they pounded the lower level resist brute, and I can lose aggro anytime with the toon, but mag 20... meh, not sure now, glad I decided last night to get her destiny and lore to t3 so I could get the level shifts. Well I'll choose one of the DoTs later (she has the 75% -tohit/-25% -regen, not sure how much it helps since it's the same -tohit as one shadow punch and her attacks are slowish - she's EM/Nin and usually softcapped on the iTrials to 59% due to buffs or using a small purple). I just don't wanna go reactive because most people pick it.

For the DM/DA it was the same as yours, immob for OG, especially with no taunt aura like a Brute. But I'll incarnate her later.

Thanks a lot for the help

That's on servers where no one uses the queue.

I joined plenty of DFB's alone while I was chatting in global channels or in WW.
Granted, this was on Freem/Virtue at peak hours, because even on these servers, although there are DFB teams forming all the time, few people used the queue, so in non-peak hours I found myself in 4-ppl dfb teams, some that were slow because they were like 3 controllers and 1 mm and no one had significant damage at that level, plus some took me 5 minutes to start, I just prefer to form teams because of that.

On less populated servers you can queue yourself and wait forever.

(btw I just did a BAF joining the queue too, and I was alone).

I remember when Willpower was released and like, 2 weeks later I was on a team, my IO'ed EM/Nin Salker, 2 very heavily IO'ed EM/Elec Brutes (FoTM at the time) and a SO'ed SS/WP Brute who had turned 50 that day, he told me.

The fella outsurvived both the other Brutes with no issue.

I definitely agree that without Mid's I'd get lost with power selection even on an Human PB. And sure no AT on TO's is that hot but some kinda throw you off right away, and PBs did it for me the first two times I tried them, they just felt weak (except as I said the melee attacks). WSs did not, I just felt them gimmicky but that's only personal taste because I love my 10-keybind controllers and can't stand playing MMs (and some combos like robot/traps solo 'everything' on SOs that's why I'm reassuring it's my personal taste and nothing else that keeps me away from WSs and MMs).

The thing is, some powersets (because no AT actually feel underperforming in every way to me while leveling) kinda turn players off early. My dominators were an example of that - I took the ice/psi to 50 because I knew I was gonna get 'ZOMG PSW' - at the same time I took a plant/thorns to 35 and man, the damage always felt lacking (all before the revamp so the plant/thorns was not one I was willing to go to 50 and do all the permadom IOing to get good mileage from her at the time).

What I mean that lots of powersets actually don't feel underperforming is when I roll a toon (like an ice blaster, let's not talk about fire stuff here) and feel 'whoo this has potential' since I had 3 attacks. Then... my DP one felt weakish but I liked the animations so much I had to roll another and another until I was happy with a DP/Dark corr (and I know numerically DP isn't that hot anyway but I like her).

PBs used to feel like that to me and now I find them very very good, and mine isn't IOed or anything - I'd say I started being pleased with my newest PB just after I got Inner Light, way before SOs. And when a toon feel good so early it makes you wanna play them to their max much more unless cases like old /psi doms when people knew they were going to endure 40 levels of 'sucky controller' to get an amazing power slotted and later permadom. But of course the impression the OP said, players saying they're weak, will last a bit I guess, I still rarely see one ingame (well I rarely see WSs either but the dedicated players weren't asking for buffs like the PB ones so WS lovers mostly seemed pleased with their toons, I saw some farm in i10/i11 and they were good at that already).

I disagree. PBs are very simple to understand, they just felt weak. I always liked the melee attacks and found the rest too 'meh'. Now on my third try on one, she started feeling very powerful with SOs on Inner Light, and I like her a lot (really).

I don't understand why you guys say PBs are 'hard to understand', especially Human Form. Sure might take sometime to figure out about perma light form and its benefits but it's kind of a smooth ride compared to a Warshade - I don't necessarily find Warshades 'hard', even triform, I just can't get used to them because it feels I have to do a lot of stuff to accomplish something, so I'd classify them as complex, and much more than PBs.

I'm used to busy toons like Controllers which I have as many keybinds as my semi-shelved warshade but really, PBs are pretty straightforward and have a good progress once you're done messing with what power you wanna keep (since there are so many), and even easier without the slot starving from a triform. The reason I disliked PBs before was the same reason a lot of powersets aren't popular, they used to feel underperforming, even to a lot of PB fans, or else we wouldn't have seen so much asking for their well-deserved buffs, and of course the people who asked for them were not players like me, but the ones who played PBs extensively - just like I always asked for Stalker changes because I play them a lot, and yes I can relate to loving an AT that feels underperforming because I like Stalkers since before the i12 buff.

Now I know someone will come and say they play their WSs easily and is second nature, they just didn't fit my playstyle with eclipse-mire-mire-change form-etc-kill mobs-stygian-etc. Now PBs for me are much simpler than controllers, an AT I adore because you always have something to do and most do not require a lot of steps to get massive results like triform WSs - again that's my personal opinion and you're all free to disagree with me, and unlike someone else said, many people have difficulties playing Dominators because mob control is not the simplest of tasks in this game to learn and a lot of new players are afraid to go to melee with them and realize they're control/damage and should use their damage secondary like any damage oriented toon once they are safe enough to do it.

In the end, while you may have a PB that was ZOMG powerful with plenty of IOs for years, if an AT or a powerset (like, say, devices on Blasters, Ta on defenders) doesn't feel like they deliver much *while leveling*, they aren't gonna be popular. Doms were less popular than Stalkers before the revamp, I played one from 1-50, got her purpled, but 90% of her leveling career I was the only one on my team (and I only started seeing a lot of fire/psis later because they were the best villain farmers and lived at 50 on Grandville, mine isn't a fire/psi). It's just weird seeing PB players who asked so much for buffs (that again, turned them into great performers even on SOs) saying now that 'they were criticized because people didn't understand them'. Come on.

That was my thinking when planning the build as well. Ice Storm w/ Freezing Rain and Roots is great, Ice Blast helps in the ST department, and since you have so many pseudopets, you can use Hibernate without feeling you're slacking on a team unlike an Ice Tanker who loses aggro with the power.

I was thinking about Earth for Seismic Smash because it's awesome but the armor is too ugly, I have it on my fire/kin (well and of course my stone brute).

Fire looks good for more damage but Consume has nuke-level recharge (360s iirc? I'm on Mac OS now) and my mind/emp has psy mastery, meaning she has a resist shield and I don't find it makes much difference on a controller, unless maybe if she had Tough.

I bet that's the reason I can't make a granite catgurl Brute and not these Eviscerate animations shenanigans

I may have exaggerated because I haven't done it the past 2 days or so but I'm positive she turned my TF into double digits, maybe 30 was some other attack like bone smasher because I was kinda impressed. Might even be close to 100 but it was extremely significant since I was farming her on a 50+1 IO'ed Stalker and she was only an orange EB, my initial strikes (not hidden AS) were taking a pretty good chunk of her health, after the first time she debuffed me I was hitting her a lot and just chipping her health bar until I noticed the numbers and decided to placate, waited a bit and then after three hits she was gone. Anyway it looked like a pretty hefty debuff to me, I'd get a combat log but there are days I just can't log in to the game (burnout). Doesn't matter much anyway because at least on freedom it seems a lot of people don't know how to get the mission (go figure) or find her difficult because all the time they're 'lf lady W team' and you can assemble one in no time. I stopped farming her solo after I saw so many people asking, plus it's faster because by the time people enter the mission I have already destroyed 2 or all 3 boxes