Silas

warrir spirit never dies

Yeah, see, it's like this: no one actually cares. Play here, or don't. No one is going to lose any sleep over it.

I wish I could be in for this, but I've got work the next day :l

Sounds like a good time though, if an awful time when you wake up the next morning :3

Taunt is a nice power, instant aggro GET! is nice as is the range debuff. But a lot of builds, mine included, don't have room for it.

If I had room I would have taken it. For PvP I would have taken it. As it stands, its a neat power whose primary function is more than adequately performed by the rest of my brutey smashing and semi-intelligent playing, it got axed.

t Siolfir, Yeah, Brutes really do get the short end of the stick when it comes to SD. It's a real shame but its not too bad, Brutes get plenty to be happy about in other sets

t Fire-Minded, I can only speak for myself but I don't have these problems you're talking about with the high-damage ATs dying all the time.

For me, the higher damage ATs like Dominators/Blasters/Scrappers/Brutes/Corruptors are better than the low damage ATs who have higher survivability. It's not a simple question of higher damage. Having huge damage is nice and all, but as you say it doesn't matter how much damage you have if you can't apply it.

And that's the breaker for me. If I can use experience, slotting and skill to hardly, if ever, die on a higher damage AT, why would I play a lower damage one?

It's about being tough enough. If a Scrapper or Brute can be built and played so that they can put out all their damage without dying, which they can and frequently are, why would I want to play a Tanker? Whose damage is yes, piddly in comparison. Who has superfluous amounts of survivability and pays for it in piddly damage. Ditto for a Corr versus a Defender.

If you think Defenders and Tankers are better than Corrs and Brutes because the Corrs and Brutes always die, you need to play with some non-awful Corrs and Brutes.

Or better yet, apply some of that incredible skill of yours you're always raving about and properly play a Corruptor or Brute. If you're as good as you seem to think you are, you should be able to survive just fine. And if you're surviving just fine, why would you make the tradeoff for lower damage and more survivability?

And if you want to talk soloing numbers, here is the list of my apparently low-survivability ATs that can and have soloed x8 missions with bosses.

At +4: My Fire/Dark, my Rad/Kin, my Ice/Cold, my Fire/Fire dom, my Fortunata and my Fire/Traps.

Pretty much all of my Corrs can solo at +1-2 x8 with or without bosses.

Do the Ouro TF for the Television arc. You can do the mission again, you'll just have to relog for resets.

You'll get purples as normal. Just lern2notsmash the locators, k?

Okay, this time I will definitely be there. I'll set up a coffee IV drip or something to keep me up

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This almost got me. Always mouse over the "NCSoft" emails to see where it's really going, kids.

If I'm still conscious, I'll be there :3

The "splashes" from CI and Thunderstrike are buffed by stuff like AAO and Fury. As for procs in CI, I know they used to be bugged but I think that's been fixed.

Thunder Clap is for skipping.

I don't think the solution is to make Tankers tougher, either by scaling their numbers up or giving them higher caps or whatever.

They're already arguably too tough, since they pay for it in damage, a bad bargain a Brute doesn't have to make. IMO what Tankers need is a revamped Inherent that better differentiates them from Brutes.

A SS/Nin scrapper would be hilarious.

Footstomp -> Smoke Bomb -> run away giggling