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IIRC it was that the weapon needed to go through "redraw" in order for the weapon's model to spawn in the hand.

I'm not entirely wrong here, so don't automatically dub me as incorrect. I made the assumption that mattman would be playing in windowed mode for the entirety of his play session. That said, he'd only need to worry about waiting for the login to appear at the start of the game. Hell, if you look, I even mention that what I say applies during the client booting. No need to suddenly jump on my back about it.

Mattman: If you're quick, you can hit Command+Enter as your screen turns black and you'll window the game before the wait.

Hahahahaha, oh wow.

No, it's not. It's available to Invulnerability characters only.

Shield has no form of endurance drain mitigation; your best bet, as suggested, is to slot for more defense and get defense-granting sets/powers to get closer to 45% positional defense.

Tankers:


Brutes:

That's pretty accurate. Scrapper damage is a lot like a wrecking ball; you can smash it into things all day but you don't use the base of the machine to bust stuff up. Brute's are more like the giant ball of death from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; sure, it starts off slow, but once it gains enough speed that whole thing is now an instrument of pain.

Scrapper crits (in my experience) are just for their primaries, but Fury is a global damage buff.

Tell you what. I'll roll up a Fire/Elec brute and let you know how it comes out. Sound good?

Repulsing Torrent != Shockwave. Comparing them is a bad idea.

Oh lord no. Repulsing Torrent is like a cone Hand Clap with a puny damage effect added.


I've never had my Scrapper's APP attacks crit.

Fixed. See, who needs Frenzy when I'm around to point out things that will never be? XD

Dark Obliteration.

But no one is going to go purely on armor toggles alone, unless they're brand-spankin'-new to the game and haven't learned better.

Because these powers help the armor in it's uniqueness and utility. If Fiery Embrace wasn't in Fiery Aura, it'd probably be a piece of trash save for the self-resurrect. If Quick Recovery wasn't in Willpower, it would be significantly tougher to run it as it has 4 toggles and relies purely on regeneration to survive. Your lack of endurance would short you out faster than you could realize. If you take Against All Odds from Shield it's just a cut and dry resist/def set with no way of aggro control. Taking the raw numbers from a set's armors and discounting everything else is like going to buy a car and saying "I only care about the mirrors, if you can't see behind you, you cannot possibly drive."


Where?

You're kidding, right? Fiery Melee is not "vanilla damage". It's exotic damage, as it's Smash/Fire and will bypass certain resistances with attacks such as Scorch and Breath of Fire. Super Strength is "vanilla damage" as it's all Smash/Lethal.

Power Sink is auto-hit.

On a Brute, Dark Armor is not a combination of Resist/Defense. The defense in Cloak of Darkness is negligible until you factor in Combat Jumping, Weave, and other bonuses/toggles. For Brutes, Dark Armor is Resistance-based with two crowd-control toggles that act as mitigation. You did not take this into consideration.


Energize also has a pretty respectable +Regeneration component and allows you to fill your health over time in exchange for a longer recharge. It also has a self-endurance discount which helps even more in sustaining yourself in combat.

Solid information isn't needed to back up Fiery Aura and Electric Armor. It's very clear you've never played Electric Armor. Fiery Aura is a completely different beast than other Brute armors, it's made to be a bomb, not a tank. Allow me to address this below:

Rage has absolutely no bearing on the survivability of Electric Armor. At 50, with respectable sets in my Brute, I sit at 56% S/L resistance, 90% (capped) Energy resist, 46% Psi Resist, and 43% to all others. All I have to do is hit Power Surge to cap my damage resist to everything but Psi and Toxic. I can constantly drain endurance from my enemies with Power Sink and Lightning Field, leaving them useless.

No, Shield doesn't fall short of Willpower or Invul. Stone? Of course it will, you're comparing it to Granite Armor.

I'm going to offer you three bits of advice.

1. Do not use base numbers from Mid's as the foundation for an argument.
2. Do not criticize or judge a set until you have played it to 41 at the very least.
3. You must understand that every player in this game can and will enhance the values they can, when they can.

I really hate to say it but you're severely damaging your own credibility, and are probably coming off as a troll.

That whole post should be disregarded.

Sharp and Pretty?

Yeah, but now that I read his sig and (for some reason) have the correct dates now (last time I looked it was 2010 not 2009) I'm redacting my earlier post. I would still say it's a bit much to say it was his idea, though...

I have a Sonic/Sonic named Sound Judgement. Teams love him.

I worded it crappy. Sorry!

You've never played Electric Armor, have you? You didn't account for Grounded, nor did you account for target caps on all sets. Your post is essentially "here's what sucks when everything sucks." My SS/Elec Brute is damn near unstoppable.

120.