Red Pirate Boggarts
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50-52 def is 5-7% higher than soft cap, any more than soft cap = defense debuff buffer for us soldiers.
My projected build took tough and weave because it helps me get to soft cap, but I can imagine you're safer now with a heal. 5% chance to hit you, I imagine you safely use your aid self in the middle of mobs. -
Hi, Traps / DP defender player here, on Freedom. Name's Ebon Comet.
Got my first "you a healer? we need one" last night as I had my flag up seeking for anything.
"No, traps def"
"oh lol. no thanks gl"
Good times. I rolled the first half of posi and then all of synapse with great teams who didn't mind that I was a debuffer and went from 1-24 in 1 wknd of fun teams in general. I guess it had to happen, but still I wasn't too bugged about it and proceeded to make the streets of croatoa safer by making lots of witches and pumpkins helplessly gag and run around with bleeding feet. -
Go with Fortunata. Sure, you'd have to unlock it with a lvl 20 on villain side, but 20's easy to do. Then you have to go through 24 levels of being a melee character. But in the end you'll have controls (early ones are confuse and dominate), damage, status protection of a melee toon, option to have your second build into a night widow in case you get tired of fortunata and want a melee stalker/scrapper alt.
On top of it all, you get all the leadership powers for cheap for you and your team (should you wish to team) and enjoy great positional defense and sliding resists. -
Quote:Having angered Statesman, the Defender called up Acme and got in touch with its premiere agent, Wy Lee Koyoti.Originally Posted by Jock_Tamson
Statesman was angered and thundered a curse upon Defender for her impudence, "While you have a great many gifts, the greatest shall be of more use to others than they are to you!" And so it is to this day that the children of Defender have many gifts they cannot use alone so that they, from time to time, "have to".
- Jock Tamson, Mythologist
Defender: Hello, Acme traps and gadgets company? I'd like to order a few things!
Koyoti: Why certainly, what would you like?
D: A web grenade! That'll root my enemies in place and slow them down, so it helps me just as much as it helps others!
D: Oooh, and these caltrops! More enemies running around in pain means less sharp pointy things directed at me!
D: What's this?
K: That would be our acid mortar 9000!
D: Put a dozen in the truck! Defenseless and vulnerable enemies are always a plus!
D: OMG you also carry these poison traps?! I'll take 10!
K: Might I interest you in these Force Field Generators?
D: Heck yes! Mez protection that's fire and forget AND defense to all AND it's a huge aoe?! Heck yes!
D: I'll take some of these seeker drones too! Ohhhhh and a few of these trip mines!
K: Very good sir, now what about these time bombs?
D: yeah... keep those, I've seen a few of your shows vs. the Road Runner, those bombs suck
K: ...
D: Oh, and Statesman said he's going to be paying for all this
(Thanks masterminds and corruptors, for giving us the primary that just keeps on giving, team or no team) -
Got my bane this wknd finally
To be honest, my current impression of him is that he's a stalker with fantastic team buffs and mainly relies on purple pills if things go south. Not a complaint, the executioner's strike was totally worth it.
I didn't know this before, but it was nice to have 4 mace variants available. Here's hoping more will be added but I assume they want to keep the signature look of the arachnos mace. That and only those maces have red outlets for the beam attacks. -
@Frosticus,
Thanks for a lot of your posts about traps. On a whim I decided to roll hero side for a traps / pistols defender after looking through the defender forums and particularly seeing this thread.
Put LF anything flag up, already dreading the tells of "r u haelor?" Surprise surprise, one wknd later, up to lvl 25, and did posi 1 + synapse TFs as well as multiple teams, no "r u haels" tells.
Good grief, seeker drones dropped on the mobs > jump in and put down PT or acid mortar (I usually don't drop both unless it's the boss, no need to) > spray area with caltrops and lay down pistol fire = fun times. It's at 0/x3, nothing heavy, but it's the most fun I've had playing a support toon yet.
It's just my playstyle, but I found caltrops a huge factor in my survivability. -
I was going through mids for a bane build on my soldier (so close to 24!) and in the end I took both armor powers, making the Wolf Spider armor a set mule for steadfast prot -kb and I think the +3% def.
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That's the thing. Even people who really hate teaming and have their "never accept invites" flag up would benefit from TT toggles. Increased hit, damage, AND defense for dirt cheap toggles? Even if they're solo they're a team of 1, and team powers benefit them
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All three are great choices, I have an invul tank and he's great even at SO level. However, since you're in the brute forums, browse the thread "OMG WM + En Aura so STRONG."
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Quote:I think you have it backwards.Originally Posted by Kitty
I haven't played a brute before but I think I'm going to try one, but I have a concern
when GR is released, and brutes can go blue, where will they be left?
will they be the same as a scrapper but with less utility?
and will they have to take a back seat to tankers because they are squishier
the brute seems like the Jack-of-all trades character, but master of none
When GR comes around, I suspect there's going to be a fair amount of scrappers yelling "dey tuk ur jerbs!" Some tanks as well.
Brutes tank well enough. I'd rather have two brutes than a tank and scrapper tbh. Maybe it's cause I'm biased to red side, but all our ATs are multi-role, except maybe stalkers.Quote:Originally Posted by Kitty
sorry maybe "less utility" was the wrong thing to say
I was thinking about how scrappers can play different roles, Like spines, and its AoE.
brutes seem to just dish out alot of damage, the same as a scrapper, but won't really be tankers since the actual tanker will probably be doing that for you
brutes gain fury from taking hits as well as giving them, so unless they are tanking, their fury won't be building as well
so there doesn't seem to be a need for a brute
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Quote:Well thank god, sometimes I MWD. Mastermind While DrunkOriginally Posted by GreySquirrel
I've found that you can generally make most teams work as long as the people are:
a) Intelligent
b) Awake
c) Sober
(b and c are optional) I warn my teams beforehand though, and I can't be held responsible for my zombies.
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8 demon summoners or 8 robotics MMs. In ultra mode. Maxxed out AF and AA. In some huge outdoor map like the last part of ITF.
Or 50 MMs vs Hami. -
I just read the first post, it's dated July of 08. Damn, this thread's so strong it stands the test of time. You brutes know how to pick them.
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Activating burst while going back and forth still roots you? Odd, I could've sworn it didn't root me when I was chasing that runner. Maybe I was going diagonally but I don't think I did.
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I say don't let them change it then! It's fun closing in, firing as you do, then pummeling them when you get in range! It just fits a soldier.
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I was pursuing a marcone runner the other day and burst fired off while I was running after him. It was really satisfying cause I have the rifle model B, which really looks like an SMG.
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Quote:That's just not right though. I don't care if it's intended, if my soldier wants to spend a Saturday night dancing to some revolution while fixing up his old comp with some ram, no one should tell him he can't.Originally Posted by Rush_Bolt
If this is what we get for giving out VEATs at 20, well, hell, we should've done it years ago!
This thread not only well be gone to the Americans, it came back with souvenirs.
Seriously though: the lack of DDR for VEATs is intended. It's not gonna change.
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As someone who's barely touched blue side (highest is 32 tanker) I did plan to experiment with a warshade when 17 went live. Then I saw demonic summoning was unlocked (I don't know if it's cause I pre-ordered GR or if it came standard, I don't care right now)...
My WS plan was quickly foiled in favor of the "normal, non-epic, joe schmoe the plumber, plebian demonic summoner of pew pew" character I created last night. So don't worry about the new guys getting a discount on the price of unlocking epic ATs at 20. I saw Mercy Isle last night overrun with demonlings.
For myself at least, I won't spoil your Atlas Park with my ordinary citizen warshade toon. You guys can rest easy now! In fact, I'll delete him tonight to prevent myself from driving to the gated/guarded country club of "zomg ELITE!" archtypes with my bottom of the barrel self.
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My demonlings
My demonlings
Won't you play with my demonlings
My demonlings
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Quote:Do I get bonus xp for finding irony in this post?Originally Posted by Lonelyshade
And frankly i dont give a hoot ...
Seriously i wouldn´t care if somebody is legendary or not .
When somebody acts like a tweep they sleep by it and eat it .
Sorry for you lesson NET is absurd cause it has no consequences .
So act nice and i will be nice , act like a dweep i just reflect it back onto you.
So epeen dont mean a freaking thing to me .
Got it !! cause Epeen doesn´t make you money or make you more valuable to me .
Whats is hot here is not hot in RL , whats cool here is not cool someplace else .
So thats it if he wants to cry to sleep and moan about it , then i made my day he got his money worth of drama today . -
Quote:Oh yeah! My normal human soldier is lvl 10, and doesn't have any superpowers of any type whatsoever. He's got his gun, his training, a web grenade, that's it. No fireballs, no titanium skin, no electric fences, just his gun, grenades, and gonads.Originally Posted by Madam_Enigma
But you think that SoA deserve to be the one AT without a weakness. Aint gonna happen. Ever.
But his full name is Chuck Boggarts Norris, and that's enough for the archtype to be without a weakness.
Really though, I do wish for my eventual bane soldier to have DDR, but I'll consider purples and dps to be my active defenses. -
Quote:Hey, all the bickering aside, here's an advise from a tank that had end issues.Originally Posted by Lonelyshade
I have 3 slotted stamina , 1 x AC 3x damage slotted powers .
Slot an end reduction into each of your attack powers. I had to do this on my shield tanker or else I'd be bone dry on endurance.
People might this is hogwash but I find attack chains much more draining than most toggles). -
The only thing that strikes me funny is that I just found out a few days ago that the crab backpack stays with your secondary build (bane for example) if you decide to dual build it.
I'm even more surprised that this is the accepted norm for quite a long while, meaning the devs couldn't be bothered to tweak the coding somehow so it won't show up while being a bane spider. Some SoA guru can correct me, but I've read this has been the case since SoAs were introduced! Nice devs
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Quote:As far as assault, maneuvers, leadership: If my math's right, you can get all of those to about 0.11 end cost if you 3 slot end reduction for them. Even 1 slotting them will put it down to maybe 0.17-8? (that's with SOs) My other characters have heavier end cost powers (armor, aura, pink death ray wielding sheep army, whatever) and I don't have a problem with endurance. Nor do I "afk bot" as you like to frame it. Stamina should more than cover 0.33 end cost (0.40 if you only 1 slot assault). This is strictly from a numbers perspective, but I spent a lot of time looking over the stats for the soldier abilities. None of them seemed out of line with the other attacks in the game.Originally Posted by Lonelyshade
Sorry unless i IO out the soldier and widow to the maximum .
I dont think its quite fun for the new people coming in going rogue .
To see them eat the floor so fast , with all those defense debuff ranged attacks .
Honestly without defense debuff , i am getting chewed out there soloing .
Unless i max out on purple inspirations during tough fights .
(it almsot feels like soloing from 40+-50)
And also side note the soldier single target damage is way too low without assault .
Take assault and you have endurance problems (again expensive ios solves the problems, but expensive IOs solves even soloing AVs) -
Quote:One question about shatter armor. I understand it doesn't cause a stealth or executioner's strike when you're cloaked, but it has that -resistance. What would be your opener? hide > surveillance > build up > shatter > shatter armor > placate > shatter > pulverize?Originally Posted by Person34
If you end up going mace patron for shatter armor you can get the blaster pet as well and have 3 robotic spiders.