Sar

Thought I'd post this in here too, as it seems to be an apt place for it.

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For those Brutes having a smidgen of difficulty with wondering how Fury works, I've been busy in Photoshop for the past hour, and constructed this:

Fury 101: Your Fury and You!

I hope some of you find it useful in managing and working out what you can do for Fury, and what it can do for you.

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For those Brutes having a smidgen of difficulty with wondering how Fury works, I've been busy in Photoshop for the past hour, and constructed this:

Fury 101: Your Fury and You!

I hope some of you find it useful in managing and working out what you can do for Fury, and what it can do for you.

Aye, my fury always seems to be pretty low most of the time in teams, because they're all waiting to recover between fights, whereas when I play solo I'm running as fast as possible between spawns to keep riding the red rollercoaster of Fury.

And I've been working on something just for Chelsea and others:

Fury 101: Your Fury and You!

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LF dosn't build fury
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....rue#Post6711199

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Who said anything about that?

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Fury is also gained by the amount of attacks made against you

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...half as fast as attacks you make...

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... so LF does contribute to Fury by keeping aggro, and therefore keeping attacks coming at you...

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Like I said about 4 posts back.

And who said some random poster on the US boards was any sort of definitive answer to anything?


My next post will involve pictures, large print and single syllable words.

Grats guys!

About time

Sorry I wasn't online for the big occassion, but I've not been on the PC at home much at all this week. I blame exhaustion and getting homebrew working on my PSP in 2.71 firmware!

Ooh the joys of Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion and Metroid: Zero Mission on one handheld.

Also what level and way is your brute slotted Chelsea?

If you're having trouble withstanding damage then it may be because of poor slotting.

And Capt Morgan posted his while I was in mid-construction, which backs up what I'm saying 100%.

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Lets not even mention the fact that you have to take aidself to survive, so how are you going to heal when your agroing with LF ?
Please answer me that one i would love to hear the answer.


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I seem to be able to pop off Aid Self no problem, even in the middle of a herd with LF going. I've got it slotted with 2 heals, 1 recharge & 1 Int Red and it's only rarely I can't get it off.

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Are you back ? ... ok .. now you see your 1 AoE is counting as 1 attack and gaining very little fury where as alot of fast attacks gain fury faster than a slow phenomenal single target damage attack.

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Fury is also gained by the amount of attacks made against you. Try standing in a herd of mobs without throwing any attacks or using LF and your Fury bar will rise (slowly), and faster still when LF is toggled on. It rises half as fast as attacks you make, so LF does contribute to Fury by keeping aggro, and therefore keeping attacks coming at you.

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Every person plays differently i agree but when it comes down to it the brute AT is not built for maintaing agro from huge mobs.
Have a good look .. go on.
You'll see brutes have less defence that scrappers and you don't often see scrappers herding do ya.

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Actually their defenses are the same. And I can herd with my regen no problem, although maintaining aggro is a problem as he has no AoEs other than The Lotus Drops.

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Now i'm not saying its impossible what i am saying is its very difficult without acouple healers which totaly defeats the object anyway as an AT should beable to withstand alot of damage if its going to attempt it.

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It may be difficult for you, but that again is down to playstyle. I have no trouble herding a mob (8-10 or more) of white or yellow mobs and that's solo. As the cons get higher so does the risk, but that's both obvious and inherent.

Oh and Health is only a 40% base regen boost, which is enhanceable.

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Oh did i mention your not a tank ?


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Er, thanks. Being a player since launch I wouldn't have known that...

Tanks are NOT the only AT that can herd.

You don't have to be a tank to herd.

Herding can be done by any AT that can survive long enough to kill all the mobs herded.

Etc?

Fly is slow, but TP is slightly limited in that it's either TP to the reticle's max range or not at all, so Flight is handier in this regard.

I have a BS/Regen and my 50 is a Kat/Regen.

I love them both

Regen has good survivability - not GREAT, but good. Esp since it's the most nerfed secondary in the entire game.

I'd go for LF - it can be end heavy, and I found it very much to be just that until I got Stamina.

I have Stamina 3-slotted for End Mod atm, and even now, when my SO's are yellow, I find my End dipping low-ish.

Mind you, come Power Sink at lvl 35 all your end problems are a distant memory

Early on I recommend having your shields on permanently (NEVER drop them) and only have LF turned on in the middle of a large group of mobs, which helped me early on kill some of them before I had the chance to get around to them.

Now however I tend to run it all the time in missions, as it helps keep aggro and helps build fury (albeit indirectly by keeping aggro on you).

I wouldn't go with either of those builds tbh.

My NRG/ELEC brute has 4 attacks: Brawl, Barrage, Energy Punch and Bonesmasher. I've skipped on my most powerful attacks atm (at lvl 27), but will pick em up soon.

I've got all 4 Health power pool picks for travel and survival (Swift, Hurdle, Health & Stamina). Health & Stamina are a must tbh, and get them slotted ASAP, as well as Aid Self, another MUST HAVE for Brutes without some sort of self-heal in their secondary (Aid other is a good pre-req I've found, as you can do some healing of teamies too!).

Lightning Field I like, because it keeps aggro on you 360 degrees within a decent radius, and away from the squishies - nothing like hitting the herd cap!

I skipped on Travel powers until my mid 20's and only picked up SJ at 26 - the Mayhem Mission temps sufficed until then.

He probably removed it because association was spelt wrong.

Aye, this is what I'm finding atm - my end and HP are low at the end of every fight with 3 or so white mobs, and the downtime is a bug bear.

See my sig?

Do you guys run with say Conductive Shield up with Charged Armour or do you switch between em. What's the End usage like at low levels?

Already picked up Hurdle, cos I'm gonna get health & stamina.

I'll pick up Swift as well and slot it.

Might go down this route myself, as NRG/Elec is a fairly tight build.

Scanner is next on my list, along with some new cans for the PC.

Nice artwork, especially the first one

I'd be up for it

Devart name is saruya

Same here Swissy, haven't re-installed Painter 9 since I built this new system, although I have installed PS CS2 since for web graphics work.

They do have their pros & cons, but basically you can do pretty much any artwork bar natural media in PS. For a proper natural media look about your image Painter's the way to go.

I'm in work atm

Should be home tonight about 6pm, but don't know what time the wife wants to go to the cinema at!

If not tonight, then tomorrow night would do as well if it's handy for you?

Yeah that's not a problem, whichever way you wanna spread it is ok by me

I'm concentrating on CoV atm, so I'm looking to fund my main on there.

My global is @Sar, so I'll give you a shout tonight when I'm on (may be going to the cinema tonight, so could be late on).