Neogumbercules

2 to 3 depending on the scaling of that particular level. I'd say 2 runs on average. Runs were taking me 3-4 minutes.

Oh! Misread the thread. Thought he wanted something other than his current brute. Oh well.

I'm gonna try that out, see if it works. And yes, the lack of enhancements does slow it down. I was thinking about getting purpled out, but at that point you're already level 50 so you don't need to level any faster and a normal map like Frontload/Cyborgs would be faster for farming inf/tickets.

Edit: Tried it out on +2. It did in fact keep the enemies at 3 and de-level me. Problem was it made the mission way too hard. You're not killing fast enough to keep the inspirations flowing and you need those to live. +1 worked like a charm, though.

They work best on brutes because they have the full 675% damage boost potential even at level 3. That means with 1 Spin (or other early PBAoE) you can one shot bosses. You're killing minions with 2 pulses of Blazing Aura. On top of that, you only need to give the enemies 1 power from the primary/secondary (I chose Scorch/revive) to still get 100% XP. I've tried with Corrs and a Fire/ troller and it was actually pretty slow. That's mainly due to not being able to exploit reds. You need to enter the mish with capped damage/def/res, which you can do with the insp dealer.

I usually get capped, then buy 5 lucks and fill up on enrages in my tray. I enter the mish, destroy the objects and start cycling spin. When the inspirations I entered with start to fade, I pop all of the reserves. At that point I just sustain on the inspiration drops I get from defeats.

Mine works exactly like Frontload, so if you've done that, you know what to expect. I've cruised straight up to level 36 in about 5 hours running it. I found it to be way easier and faster than Cyborgs, even at higher levels, because of the ease and the fact that you're indiscriminately defeating bosses like they are made out of paper. The downside is that you can't increase your difficulty without screwing up the HP scaling on the enemies, which defeats the whole purpose of it in the first place.

Sorry. New number. I'll update the original post. Alternately, you can post your experiences here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=250051

New number: 503858

I've gone ahead and made an AE map built exactly for this purpose. It's pretty much a clone of the popular one by Fuzzy Kittens. It's designed for Brutes that get early AoEs and the mobs are pretty much all fire damage. It's set for level 1-3, so you can have your powers all the way up to level 8.

Edit: Solved problems.

ID: 503858

Why did you push this update live when you knew that it completely broke a huge number of powers in the game? I understand the need to fix the bug, but doesn't breaking stuff in the process kind of defeat the purpose?

I would argue that the power is working exactly the way it was designed to work and made it all the way through beta and had previously been stated to be working as intended. The reactive proc is exceptionally powerful in AoEs and even more so in rain type powers. That said, as far as we know there's never been a quantitative analysis (though I'm sure Arcana is hard at work with it) over how much this aspect of the power actually puts players at an "advantage" over others.

If you cherry pick the scenario, like an AE ambush map, yes it's incredibly impressive due to the fact that it can recycle targets faster than anything and you're surrounded by 100 enemies. When you're looking at an actual team play scenario there's a pretty good chance that the combined AoE assault of 8 people will wipe out the majority of the spawn near instantly. In fact, I know they do because I've been running trials constantly and these big groups of level 54 mobs are being knocked over like crash test dummies 2 seconds into the fight. You'd be lucky to even activate your rain power before everything is 75% dead.

Against things that matter, like EBs and AVs, it's a nice thing to have but the DoT has no chance of matching the DPS you'd be getting out of even a bad ST attack chain.

An Elec/Shield scrapper can deal something in the area of 1200 damage in about 4 seconds flat with a combined lightning rod/Shield charge combo. That's under a BU and AAO but no other damage boosting abilities. A perma-dom dominator can have absolute control over everything at all times and unleash massive AoE damage at the same time and have amazing ST damage. I haven't played or heard of an AT powerset combo that is more "overpowered" than my Plant/Psi/Fire Dominator feels. A Bots/Traps MM can go AFK and solo AVs. SS/Fire/Mu Brutes can clear AE ambush maps at +4 with bosses turned on in 2 minutes. The point I'm making here is that while the Reactive proc in rain powers is very powerful, it's not an exclusive level of power and it's not even the most powerful thing you can have in the game.

The reactive proc damage is supposedly the result of a lot of testing and is working the way it was designed. It has a stack limit and rain powers are particularly useful at quickly getting there. The way I see it once you unlock a good portion of the incarnate slot powers everything is overpowered in normal play. Isn't that kind of the point?