Sailboat

Aim?

Yeah, I've seen some people with Build Up on autofire. I have no idea why. There are several reasons it's weaker and less effective when used that way, and the only positive reason I can think of is "I am an amputee with only one finger for button-pressing."

If they're better in all respects than Scrappers, what sense does that make? Good game design requires that choices can be made between differing elements, not between "this element is better in every way" and "this element is weaker in every way but exists so you can make the mistake of choosing it."

That's not really something you can argue about, it's just true.

I have almost no experience on Incarnate trials so far, but everything I've read says they involve a ton of energy damage. I would interpret that to mean "slot for e/n defense on an I-trials character."

You'll note I was careful to avoid asking a question. :P

Additionally, my only Justice Tankage is pre-50, so no Apexing for me tonight.

I learned early in the corporate world that for every question you ask at a meeting, you leave with one assigned action item.

Endorse this as an alternative, but respectfully request that in the specific case of Scrappers, the subforums be titled thusly:

Scrappers
- Punching Stuff
- Punching Stuff and Yelling, "Wahoo!"

THANK YOU! That's been bedeviling me for a long time -- the Titan Network folks appear to have it right, but the overwhelmingly random general usage on the forums made me doubt which was correct.

Well, I think of /Storm as adding damage to a Controller -- Lightning Storm and Tornado. I'd say, for instance, /Rad, /Sonic, /FF, and so on do less damage, whatever the primary.

Regarding the OP: One of the joys of Hurricane is that, although it can scatter groups, you can't scatter one guy. As a result, Stormies of all sorts, even the lowest-damage types, completely own solo bosses.

Yeah, funny title aside, that was my "Suggestions" forum proposal to add +resistance bonuses to IOs but create a limiting factor (similar to the "rule of five" after which bonuses stop working) to prevent the combination of defense and resistance from reaching overpowered levels.

As others have said, you're not ever going to see the damage and recharge and movement penalties go away -- unless Granite is considerably toned down.

I find it helps to adjust how I think of the character, as much as anything else. I envision an anvil, a pylon, a linchpin -- strong but nearly immobile.

With respect, I'm talking about more than Claws. Or rather, I'm talking about other posters talking about sets other than Claws. Specifically, I'm talking about how in thread after thread, some people say and many people imply alllllllllll Brute combinations do more damage than Scrappers (at least Scrappers other than Shield.)

Or else they're expressing their thoughts badly -- one thing I see is people springboading from a discussion of Brute Claws to make it sound like ALL Brutes are better, but maybe they just got excited and oversold their case.

It may not be true -- it may be just rah-rah cheerleading for a favorite AT -- but again and again I see people implying Brutes are better than, or equal to, Scrappers for offense and defense, and are thus markedly superior.

If that's true, a nerfcall might be in order. If it's not, maybe being clearer about the differences* would help everyone understand.


*i.e., not exaggerating

Well, I wasn't so much advertising the schedule as explaining why I wasn't intending to move the Tanker back off Champion. It's on other sereves periodically as well.

But I already have tankers on Justice. :P

Yeah, why is it that Shield uses shields?

Yeah, that was great! That thing Synapse accomplished.

Uh...what thing are you talking about? Could you link or quote something? I've searched all 3 pages of this thread.