Razor_Shultz

Thank you, i';m glad i have at least sparked SOME active disscussion by the pro's at the game, and i mean that sincerely,

us from the EU servers don't have much of a voice compared to that of the american ones, but we sure as hell can try to be heard. ^^

Praf i can see ur smart and good at number crunching in this game, can u tell me how Banes do compare to everything in solo?

like i said, i love brutes and therefore love to be strong and bulldoze when soloing. I reslotted my bane for 30 and the damage is good, and with 10 second placate i CAN hold a candle to lieutenants and bosses. Perfectly slotted at 50 with IO's who can say.

thanks in advance.

i see. But i'm one of those people who likes to exert his power, which is why i solo, destroying everything on my nrg/willpower brute for example. Naturally being a brute lover, i WANT banes to be able to solo effectively, these are EPIC AT's we're talking about, they SHOULD be able to solo and clear house!

Exactly, whenever someone cries about villains having something remotely good, even for our EPIC AT's, the devs give in and slam the nerf hammer.

They should just man up to the players and say stop crying idiots, VEATs need to have something to make them strong.

Agree praf, syracause can get a life and learn to play, he's probably just a leecher who likes people doing the worlk for him when he sits back and does nothing.

Again i say, if positron and castle would stop being cowards, man up to the players and say 'shut the [censored] up, it's our game and we'll do what we damnwell please'
and make bane spiders and all VEATs a hell of alot more competent solo, they'll probably all suck.

I must say, having used placate with the 10 second recharge on the EU test servers now, i feel bane spiders might be able to do some good qwith it, exe striking then stealth striking after a quick placate.

How they could have nerfed this to 60 secs to 'bring it in line with other placate powers' i dont know.

Oh yeah, it's cos positron, castle and all the other red names hate vilains, and dont do anything unles there's good for heroes in it, and are too scared to give any justification thats anything more than a famous castle- one word answer.

At least do SOMETHING to make up for it if u do

that's lookin better, but remember banes = shock troopers.

Their job is to get in, lay the smackdown and fall back to ranged attacks, they can't train huge gangs of enemies.

u see? that's why they suck. If ANYTHING is made SOLELY for teams, please gtfo. I want to be able to solo at 50, seeing how i perform on my own.

Anyone who needs 7 other people for him to perform effectively sucks, at any game.

just look on the US forums, there's just too much being said there for me to reiterate here.
http://boards.cityofvillains.com/pos...rd=Issue10open

and
http://boards.cityofvillains.com/pos...ers&page=3

banes are squishy and can't tank or take aggro.

the placate got made to recharge 60 seconds, which hugely takes away from their survivability, are they just [censored] stalkers now? their damage is weak compared in pvp compared to the others.

I saw in a US forum post that a energy/WP brute got taken down by every class except bane. Night widows and fortunatas could stop his regen and detoggle him, crabs could overpower him with longfang channelgun and suppression, but banes could wail on him with nothing happening.

I hope they get a massive upgrade before live.

Alot of my friends, as well as me have been noticing, we're getting battered on every difficulty above tenacious.

Now please don't start with the 'thats cos u suck' talk, but i find banes, and i'm sure if u read the topics on the US forums, have been unfairly nerfed in their placate, and their survivability against hard hitting mobs has been diminished.

I was wondering if anyone could help me out with ideas on how to play them, their slotting because i heard u vcan get 45% res on all, and stuff like that.

I really enjoy playing them, but on villainous it isn't much fun.

he's lvl 50 now my nrg/wp and is slotted with all IO's abnd sets and is a complete pwner. thanks everyone.

1st of all i am still pretty much a noober to the game with only having my 1st 50 dinged a lil while ago, so i made a alt char.

i suck at mid's anyway but i came up with what is probably a laughable build :<.

I was wondering if anyone could help draw me up a better one to follow, so i know where i'll stand by 20. And give suggestions for what i could do to improve in the future, thanks in advance ^^

preferably great damage dealer, good in pvp and something that won't die too much ^^

Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.30
http://www.honourableunited.org.uk/mhd.php

anl: Level 25 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Energy Melee
Secondary Power Set: Willpower
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Leaping

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Level 32: [Empty]
Level 35: [Empty]
Level 38: [Empty]
Level 41: [Empty]
Level 44: [Empty]
Level 47: [Empty]
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lvling up and pvp preferably, IO's yes ^^

im a noob at this sort of thing, but i came up with this:

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.30
http://www.honourableunited.org.uk/mhd.php

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Primary Power Set: Ice Armor
Secondary Power Set: Energy Melee
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fitness
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I was wondering if anyone could help me improve it or make any adjustments to it that would be helpful, im thinking it sucks but its the best i can do T.T

Hey cognito ur post helped me but im going for a pvp ice/energy, can u help me with that?

thanks

i will! ingame name and server?

thanks all

to the guy 2 posts above, i wanna do damage but be able to take it.

Thanks!!

Right now (all brutes)

i got elec/invul
super strength/elec
and stone/stone.

Is there any winning brute combos for pvp? and i kind of suck so can you spare me the 'experiement/it's good in it's own way' stuff. A straight forward answer is appreciated, from someone as stupid as me xD

I just wanna know some great AT's to start alting with. Thanks in advance for any great combos people can suggest.

cool

Are DO's and SO's better than IO's?