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Originally Posted by Candlestick

3. /Fire. Certainly nothing wrong with Fire/Fire, but they are the brute version of the Blaster. Total glass cannon. For general soloing, you are going to be struggling to stay alive vs bosses/EB's and such. Toooons of damage, but it's kinda overkill for a solo-oriented brute.

Originally Posted by Elimist

Cool, thanks. Met a guy who acted like it was the dumbest epic to take. Wasn't sure I believed his lies. Just haven't done it for myself yet.

Originally Posted by rsclark

Like it or not, they have made IO enhancement part of customization. The character you can build with the correct enhancement is much different than the one you build without them - and not just in a number inflation sort of way. If this game really is about maximizing customization potential, then I must repeat, why make part of that customization dependent on random drops?

Originally Posted by rsclark

You mean like that mechanical rabbit at the dog track? At best what you described makes the devs happy - you still don't address how it makes for a better game. And that's at best. At worst, the grind detracts from the enjoyment of the game and gives them an excuse not to develop an actual endgame for 6 years.

So, no, I don't find it particularly important - at least not in a good way. It's cancer important.

Originally Posted by InUse

For part time tanking and DPS when someone else is around to tank in groups which would I be better with.

At late levels in the game which one will offer the most

Just found this now I am really confused

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...ighlight=claws


Gotta love the search feature. Found what I was looking for.


Hi there. My main is a claws/sr scrapper. The only difference brute side is that you'll have higher base hitpoints and evasion on a brute gets a taunt aura. I won't sugar coat this: SR sucks until SOs. However, claws rocks from level 1 all the way to 50, so you can get to 22 without too much pain as long as you don't push your difficulty up. I'd advise +0/x2 until 12 and then either +1/x2 or +0/x3-4 until 22. Anything higher will lead to frustration.

I also have a claws/wp brute in the mid 20s. He's a blender. Has been since level 1. This is because WP scales up the levels beautifully the whole way. There's no "I suck" and then magically "I no longer suck" as with SR.

But in the end, for AV soloing and general survivability in the end game, I'd probably lean toward claws/sr. Why? End drains and mez. I was running around last night on my DM/WP lvl 50 brute and was amazed at just how bad groups like malta and carnies can tear him up. Granted, he's not purpled out like my claws/sr, but the SR just doesn't get hit by nearly as much and therefore has to deal with much less incoming garbage.

Oh... does SR *need* weave? You can softcap without it, but it's easier with it. And tough stacks very well for S/L on the passive scaling dam-res in the passives AND gives you a place for the steadfast +3% defense unique. Yes, it's total BS that we have to waste a power pick on boxing or kick, but that's the way the game is set up and there's no way around it.

Originally Posted by Bad_Dog

You know I'm gonna take a beating for this post, but oh well, it goes hand-in-hand with having an anti-fanboy opinion.

It's funny how I can play for a month and only run across a couple "Dev Fanboys" in the game but I come to the forums and it seems that whatever decision the devs make you all collectively shrug your shoulders, then all say "yeah that's a good idea, it makes sense to me".

Well, in my opinion, the current rate drop stinks and the rate should be increased. Please save all tomato throwing till the end of the debate.


If you don't want everyone to have it, don't put it into the game.
First this is a "game". We players are all equally paying the same sum we should all have access to the same content. Whether you play 80 hours a week or you can only scrape up 8. It's like buying a Monopoly game but I can't have hotels on my properties because I don't play the game often enough. Stupid isn't it?


If farming is a problem then address farming.
The argument that "because of the farmers we have to limit the drop rate" and that means "so sorry casual players you lose" is insane.


Enough with the gimmicks and time sinks
Using "chaser" items and "time sinks" as a lure to keep playing at 50 is a cheap gimmick to disguise the fact that the game screeches to a halt at level 50. It's like hiring a plate spinner to stand on stage while you break the bad news to employees that there are no more pay raises... ever. Many of you are applauding the plate spinner and marveling at the coolness of the act, while the rest of us are saying, "WTF?".

The devs are pretty clear they do not want to raise the upper level of the game, then so be it. But then you need to keep making new shineys and allow everyone to enjoy the game and its' content - it makes them happy. Happy players are loyal players and forgiving of faults. A game, an MMO in particular, needs to be inclusive not exclusive.


If it taking someone YEARS of task forces and regular gameplay to slot one purple IO set, then your ratio blows.
The purple IO drop rate of 1 vs 1500 kills apparently is not working, In the last year I have recieved one (1). And that was on a level one which joined some supergroup members in PI for about an hour. Over the course of the lifetime of purple IOs, I have had about 5, + or - one or two. If I hadn't already bought IOs for my main, I'd still have about a year to go to slot my first set.


PVP IO's does not do PVP any favors.
One of the reason PVP is a plague in this game is that there is a huge disparity between those that already do it and those that might want to try it. The way it works now, new players walk in to the arena and get beat down, period. Reality sets in when the player realizes why they are losing - they are losing to players that may be worse than they are but they somehow were able to afford 1.5 billion inf x 6 (IOs in the set) x number of pvp IO sets they have. There is no way that new pvp players are going to invest that much resources into something they aren't sure they will like. Make PVP IO's available to all or remove them from the game. That puts the focus on skill not how much you spent on the market.


And lower the cap at the market.
1.5 Billion is just plain obscene that this is being allowed by the system.


Don't we already have enough penalties to players?
Hero/Villian merits is another system to suck time and resources from players. The casual player gets the shaft on this deal too. A single PVP IO is 20-30 H/V merits that means its 40-60 days of 5 missions a day, not likely for a casual player and lets not even contemplate if he wants the whole set. And how long will it take to convert resources into H/V merits, assuming you have them? 20-30 days? Real casual players log in have some fun and log out, why is it they have to "give up" their desire to have IOs because they don't spend there few playing hours on a 30 day, laserbeam-like focus on running the same few tips missions repeatedly, farming, marketeering, etc, just to obtain a single IO?


If it is not fun for the people who pay for it, you are doing it wrong
I will contend that the end result of this path is that the game is becoming less and less "fun" to play and more and more "work". Since this is a game and games are meant to be fun then that would mean we are doing it wrong. It doesn't matter how cool the game looks or all the cool things in it. If people don't have fun playing it, they will move on.


Ok I will climb off the soap box, feel free to throw your tomatoes now.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison

Maybe create an AV with only one single target attack? It can't kill you while you rotate attacks with pets nearby?

Originally Posted by Jibikao

Yes, in order to get a more accurate finding, I need the master to "goto" the pets when I move and I need him to stay away from me pretty far. And I don't want the pets to get hit and that's why I side-kick to his lvl 50 and I find a lvl 43 group so the pets just stand there and won't die while I do the hitting.

Actually, I should have asked him to use Gang War... lol I forgot about it.

Originally Posted by Zem

Except you don't want to be running all over a map. To maintain an absolutely consistent crit rate (assuming the pets matter) you want the pets huddled around you and passive while you swing your lightest and fastest attack repeatedly. Maybe get a cimeroran mission and go after a boss or LT that has a Surgeon backing him up.

Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade

My regen is a scrapper but I can say that Grey Pilgrim is right, going from zero defense to 20% made an enormous difference for me.

People can say all they like about "ooh defense doesn't matter if you don't have DDR because the romans will debuff you blah blah blah". Doesn't happen all that often in reality. Yes, the romans, the PPD, and a few others can cause cascading defense failure. But as someone wiser than me said, we have a name for it because it is rare, if it happened all the time we'd just call it "dying".

If you can get 15% defense (I recommend S/L) you will notice a difference. at 20% you will really feel it.

The other thing I found is that many times oranges are just as handy as purples. All you need is to slow incoming damage. psi attacks for instance, and moment of glory gives no help either. An orange goes a long way against carnie bosses or rikti.

Originally Posted by Jibikao

I'll try to find a friend to do it again tonight. Maybe we'll aim for 100 hits this time.


Fighting lower level can be annoying as the mobs keep running away. Maybe I'll find an even level mob this time. I just don't want the pets to get hit and die and I want the master to stay away from me so only pets are counted.


Too bad dummy doesn't show any critical except from Hidden. I wonder why that is. It doesn't even show in combat log. It only shows I do zero smashing and energy damage and sometimes I "stun" it.

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

http://nvidiasettlement.com/

Affected models include Dells, HPs and Macbook Pros

From the info I've gotten so far, Dell knew about this as far back as 2006, repaired systems with the issue and made Nvidia pay for the repairs.

Just an FYI if you're interested.

Originally Posted by UnicyclePeon

Of course, if he goes with Illusion Control, he wont have an every-fight method of generating AOE containment, since Illusion Control does not have an AOE Immobilize. So the suggestion of Illusion may not go well with the intent/hope/title of this very thread.

Don't get me wrong. I do think Illusion Control is very good. I've got 3 Illusion Controllers at level 50 myself (Storm, FF, Sonic). I'm just saying that he may be disappointed that he won't be conveniently leveraging any APP Containment.

But its all good.

Lewis

Originally Posted by Bronze Knight

It's ok.

As we all know Castle never comes here anyway.

Originally Posted by echopryme

Just as an FYI... I ws playing with my Crab Spider's look today and came across a "Storm Cloud" Aura.


Imagine that you mixed full body Smokey and full body Electricity. It's pretty sweet, but didn't match my character's theme at all.

Originally Posted by AllYourBase

I'm running a Strong/Pretty brute as one of my current projects, and it runs pretty well.

Originally Posted by GMan3

I really think this is one of those things they could have stealth fixed and not told anyone about. Not that I mind know, just seems a waste of time.

Originally Posted by Nerfherder

... give them a bottle of Enriche. They'll be calm, docile and quiet.

/macro petsayall <emote drinkenriche>

Originally Posted by Kiwi

(buildsnip)

Essentially soft capped with Darkest Night and 5 things in range of invincibility, should help you figure out what to do.

Originally Posted by Soul_Fane

Long story short, Ice armor and Ice melee put huge stacking slows on opponents, making fury from getting hit incredibly low. Hack job solution: Energy Aura was born.

Originally Posted by Cmls

problem with giving it more def yada yada is. brutes are like tanks but at the cost of making thare def suck. they do crazy dam. heck i wood love 2 see all tank attacks get a dam boost but not goin to happen. so why make ice Armour the best Def set for brutes giving it a .5 more def boost then other sets doesnt sound like alot but can make a huge defrence.