SlimPickens

I only farm and sell drops. Flipping provides absolutely no service to my fellow players, and in fact only serves to further drive up prices and make more part timers frustrated over not being able to afford anything good without resorting to investing/flipping themselves to get it.

Therefore, I only sell what I dont use from what I get farming, and only buy what I cant find with the proceeds from what I sell. I think of it as my little gift back to CoH. Theres enough fake money profiteers out there that the game doesnt need me making it worse.

That said, I only play 1-2 hours a day topping out at about 4-5 hours a week total, so dont generate as much stuff as I used to. I probably take in 50 mil a night, then spend 150 mil a week so I only hold onto 50-100 mil profit in a week of play.

I am a billionaire...but dont think I rate too high on the ebil scale.

ug...even at 4 billion a drop i just dont have 5+ hours per chance of a drop of farming in me...

After reading that my brain ******* exploded.

I always put active defense on auto, and use manual clicks for rage/hasten at least 10 secs apart so the crashes do not stack. If you are not right with the timing, you can run into the tri-fecta of doom that is rage crash, hasten crash, auto-fire AD which is a lot of end going bye bye really quickly. I think thats somewhere around 50 end if they all drop/fire at once... say hello to detoggle death if you are busy spamming AoEs at the time...

So I leave AD on auto and time my hasten to keep AD double stacked when needed, and I usually try to double stack rage for the -def avoidance right before it crashes. But generally I dont find a need for double stacked rage and the double crashes it brings.

I actually find my SS/fire to be tedious with the timing on hasten/rage, so my ss/sh is even more frustrating. I am thinking of rolling a fire/shield and calling it a day on rage for fast paced farm toons... too much work when all i want to do is button mash and not keep checking my timers on crashes.

"I'm your huckleberry"
-Doc Holiday, Tombstone

Roll a fire/invuln brute. problem solved.

Waiting for the animations on EM is like watching paint dry. So boring and slow. Its the exact opposite of what a good fury generating set needs to be.

Honestly, until EM is "fixed" again its a broken set. Especially for brutes trying to keep up fury and still get to use their high damage attacks.

Fire melee does exellent single target and good AoE damage, and generates fury much better at high damage value then having to spam brawl...

Plus it looks cooler then having colored pom poms on your brutes hands.

Brute. Probably fire/wp or ss/wp is one of the better bang for the buck straight out of the box to get 1-50 real fast.

Pretty much tears through content, and /wp is good even on SOs while levelling up.

Or a MM if you just want to afk level to 50

Also, keep in mind what works for levelling up might not be what you want at 50...

So, while levelling I generally take aid self for soloing, but at 50, I rarely keep it in my builds, as I am soft capped to range defense, and usually dont need it anymore. But getting to 50 without it would have been more tedious, so I usually recommend it on blasters who solo. Its all well and good to think you are going to kill them all before they kill you, but before you have defense or much mitigation, I prefer to have aid self to fall back on to keep me rolling along with no downtime.

For power pools while levelling, I usually go with fitness, speed, medicine, and leave the 4th pool to meet any needs i havent already addressed. I ALWAYS take stamina, and hasten, and on blasters get build up and Aim ASAP.

Your job is to kill mobs before they kill you, so haivng end, recharge, and buffs to hit and damage are your main requirements.

As far as aid self goes, take it or dont, but I have run about 260 levels of blasters, and solo it really helps speed up levelling because without it you are looking at serious downtime for rest/regen or holding tons of green insp every map. I prefer to hold purples and use aid self and just keep rolling along rather then taking a knee every other mob to get my green bar back.

Keep in mind, my advice is for levelling up to 50, not for being 50- theres a big difference. plus you spoke of being on only short hours and soling alot ( which is my exact playstyle as well) so my advice on aid self was with soloing a blaster to 50 in mind.

Man this thread delivers.

But needs moar caps and large font.

5 stars.

Well, something like AM I would still cast on him if possible- the +dam and +speed both still work on him as well as the resists.

Speed boost I rarely bother anymore unless i need the pet to keep up with a fast moving pace, and its lagging on runspeed.

And with the attack chain AI still unfixed on most pets after the supposed "fix" by nerfing the recharge on pets, I remain skeptical that the recharge in any way is the problem, and that was simply a convenient way to shovel a nerf down the throats of speed boosted imps and super recharged tornado pets without overly angering people... as if the nerf was truly meant to fix a deeper problem, and the poor recharge in pets had to be sacrificed for the greater good. Ha.

Sarcasm and internets dont mix well, but thats my take on the recharge and pet issue. The same as it was when they first gave us that cocknbull excuse for the nerf.

So, long story short, no. Recharge does not affect pets either buff or debuff, so plan accordingly when deciding if a buff is worth applying to pets.