MsMisery

Originally Posted by Black_Marrow

If you REALLY want a build that kills endurance, try a Stone/Dark brute.

Originally Posted by BillZBubba

To be fair... everything sucks with just SOs.

Originally Posted by Kioshi

I agree with Shred. Also I guess you people forget many people play with common IOs and SOs and shields isn't exactly rockin' the boat without some heavy IO'ing.

Originally Posted by Progenesis

Thanks for responses in advance. I was wondering if the fear effects of these two would stack to effectively produce mag 4 fear.

Originally Posted by Neogumbercules

So I go to Cim and broadcast "level 50 fire/shield scrapper lf ITF"

I get a tell back from someone, and our conversation went something like this:

"You shouldn't say Fire/Shield, you should just say level 50 scrap"

"Why not?"

"Because shield is squishy and people don't want them."

"Not according to my being defense soft-capped to all positions. "

"Just saying...help you find teams faster."

"Ok. Well thanks. Good luck to you."


Between my broadcast and this conversation happening I did get invited to a team just fine. I know /Shield when well built is anything but squishy, just thought it was an odd conversation. I thought people had kind of forgotten the "Shields is squishy" mantra.


Oh and by the way, I solo'd several of the cysts on the second mission, and we completed the thing in 32 minutes. I didn't die once, and I don't really ever remember getting out of the green in terms of my HP. I'll chalk that up to a good tank and having a rad, a sonic, and a kin on the team, though.

Originally Posted by MsMisery

if you ask your 1st team "can I have a minute to level (1 to x) you might be an AE baby.

if you think the oroboros portal is the only way to travel between zones, you might be an AE baby

if you are above level 20 and have no idea what pocket D is you might be an AE baby

if you look at map and there is only a line between arb, bm and AE you might be an AE baby

Originally Posted by Youko

Probably the first one, since I did change my password. How would I go about resetting up the test server?

Also, it's won't let me get past the log in if I'm not in the beta or it won't let me pick a server? I thought in the past it just wouldn't let me pick a server, but I may be wrong.

Originally Posted by Baler

The ITF I'm currently on with my Protector SG is paused for the second time and will be finished tonight. I think we're closing in on 5 hours with the last mission left. Of course 5 of the 7 man team have never run it and 3 of them are SKed up so we are going for the EXP.

It really is fun doing it with rookies. I was trying to co-ordinate ahead of time with the teammate who had done it once before so I typed in team chat "How do we want to handle the..." and then sent him a tell "giant robots" so I wouldn't spoil it for the new guys. Seconds later the team hits the corner and they're all "whoa" and such. Pretty much made the glacial pace worth it.

Originally Posted by Soul_Train

Suichiro, that is a cool MM banner, yes.

Originally Posted by Kilshak

Firstly, Hello . I just recently started playing the game. I am enjoying the Brute AT but am seeking some advice on my power choices.

After reading what I could around the forums here it's looking like my choices may not have been the best for starting out. I went Dual Blade/Electric and man does the endurance drain hurt. I'm only level 13 at the moment and am considering a re-roll but before I did that I wanted to probe a few more experienced minds here.
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OK Good News and Bad 1st good news: all brutes and in fact almost all AT's suffer end drain till higher level when you begin to give them sets that will give %'s of end increase or recovery.

2nd bad news: (and its not that bad) DB is a decent primary, and electric can be a decent secondary but will take some work, you may want to slot your secondary powers to sap end where you can this is not a good PvP choice but will be a fun PvE toon.
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I love the idea of the dual blades, and of course the animations. Not having had much opportunity to play with other melee powers, I'm not sure how it stacks up with damage output. I duo with a stalker and I have noticed that most of the time there's not a whole lot of point to me even bothering trying to get off that next skill as she'll have torn them a new one by the time it goes off...
That's not entirely relevant to my post though.
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I love my DB stalker so much I am currently leveling a DB brute I am right there with you they are exciting nice animations the damage and defense debuf are nice, like you I went with an uncommon secondary but since I already have all my PvP toons I made her for a fun PvE toon I went with Dark. but I have a lot of fun with my Mace/Elec Brute as well so I can appreciate the appeal to elec as well.

once you get to roughly 35 if your not there already I recommend IO's they last about 10 levels and will help with your end a bit, if you can pick up 4 perf shifters or 4 gaussian along the way slot them in either stamina oops forget the gaussian that will only work if you get tactics since db brutes do not have build up... there are many other sets that will enhance your end I would recomend downloading and installing Mids Hero Designer it will give you a visual of your toons potential.
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I am considering a re-roll, as I said, to either elec melee/willpower or dual blade/willpower. I am wondering if the "chance" at endurance transfer with the elec melee would make willpower redundant or if the chance of that endurance return is low enough that willpower would still be a greater benefit with quick recovery.
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well understand all those have end issues at lower levels just FYI elec/wp is a good long battle build at 50 not sure about db/wp but I am sure the right build would be goodas well
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I'm also still torn on not sticking out my current build. I took fitness with the idea that I would have stamina at 20 - but again I just have no idea if that's going to be enough to soothe the extreme endurance problems I am having. Dual Blade looks and sounds purty and the electric armor fits with my character concept... but I'm just not sure it's worth it.


Thoughts? Advice?

Much appreciated.

Originally Posted by MsMisery

Play WoW for 2 Months and tell us how you tuesdays when you come back.

downtime for them is an all day event and when something goes wrong 'often' its another whole day to fix it then another whole day to repatch it

CoV is not so bad this month has been a little extreme but still tolerable.