SpyralPegacyon

I want to know on what server Tankers are 'closer to the bottom' because it sure as heck isn't Virtue.

No, I meant that Super Strength is a weird set that is lousy on tanks and godly on Brutes. Fury makes KO Blow and Foot Stomp even more godly and makes Haymaker and Punch actually serviceable.

I've played an Inv/SS and a SS/Inv, and I'd take the brute over the tank in that matchup too. Put my SS/Inv against my Elec/TW though and its a heck of a lot closer.

To quote the esteemed philsopher, Adam Savage, 'Well there's your problem!'

I think we could solve half the complaints about tanker damage by hanging a 'Fury And Soul Recommended' sign on Super Strength.

My Elec / TW tank is having a hearty gut laugh at this. He doesn't kill as fast as my scrappers or brutes, sure, but when it comes to holding his own in a Manti on nothing but SOs? Accept no substitutes. I'll gladly take that trade off between defense and offense.

And 'hard to kill other things'? Ever play a defender? Controller? Corruptor when the RNG is laughing at your pleas for Scourge to kick in?

And, yes, Johnny, you can quote me on all of that too.

Prepare to be perpetually disappointed.

Either? If you have plenty of merits left over, though, I'd go with the proc since you can scoop up converters and grab the Glad Armor proc on the cheap.

I ran with Shield, AAO and Shield Charge just makes minion stomping that much more fun. Barring that and Willpower, though, maybe Elec? The set does tend to run endurance heavy.

I dropped Initial Strike myself, but that was to free up powers since the other three combo builders can keep rolling all night long. Sweeping Cross is kinda skippable at the endgame, but its your only PBAoE and your heavy combo finisher before Crushing Uppercut so you might want to hang on to it for set mules and exemping.

On a leveling build, I'd skip it. For an endgame build, its very handy. In the end, I took it myself since it allowed me to run Active Defense double-stacked, have Shield Charge up more often, run Crushing Uppercut after four to five builders, and - most importantly - have Spinning Strike up after three builders. That was just too nice to pass up.

I ran it with Shield so I was gasping for blue skittles and +End IOs as fast as I could grab 'em. Paired with Conserve Power and Physical Perfection, its manageable.

Thanks! It took a lot of re-designing to finally put it all together, and I'm 14 XP bubbles away from finally putting it all together for incarnate trials.

Yep. Easy way to think of it is that it takes three or four slots for the best S/L/E/N improvements, but almost always six for positional.

Sadly, yes. I only slotted mine as a KC mule.

I slot for glad armor on the belief that I can convert my way to victory there, and a I've turned into a horrid marketeer so now I'm building all the time for purples.

Honestly, I'd go for the Erads, Kinetic Combats, Reactive Armors, Mocking Beratements, and Adjusted Targeting first to get your defense up. The Tanker ATEs aren't too pricey either, go for those too. Once you're all set there, then go for the purples. Surviving is job one.

EDIT: And I'd skip Scirocco's and go Oblit if you're hard up for purples. Scirocco's is great for positional defense and damage auras, its horribly lousy if you're building for recharge for both global and the attack itself.

Pretty much. Fire/cold only enemies are rare, but you'll have plenty of resist anyways so its nothing major.

Its melee if its typed melee, you can shoot someone point blank in the face and it'll still be ranged if its typed range.

I knew that. I was talking about Bruising plus Rend Armor, Follow Through, and Arc of Destruction.

I'd like to see both of those builds, actually. The PvP IO is a lot cheaper to get these days, just buy one of the other IOs from the set and play converter lottery.

I see it this way: Look at Bruising as taking the damage of that tier 1 attack and then adding in up to 20% of the damage of every attack after that Bruising kicks in on. Defensive Sweep looks a whole lot better now, doesn't it?

And it gave us more freedom in what shields we can use as well. The Riot Shield Toss might be an Olympic sport in the Paragonverse but its not going to be a very effective weapon.

Well said, Sam. I wholeheartedly agree.

I think world-building is just one of the things. From prior to current history, I get the impression that there are a lot of moving pieces at the CoH side of Paragon, and only so many hands to keep said pieces moving. There's the list of player-discovered typos that's been sitting around for years now that there's never any dev time to fix. Having an editor for typos and lore comes in noticeably lower on the priority scale compared to most everything else.

Everyone has deadlines, sure. My point is that I'm not entirely sure that the writers really are separate from the mission designers, and that gets into my other point about the budget. I get the impression that at Paragon there's not a lot of people wearing a great many hats. Just look at the response every time we bring up all the known typos. Lore checking, spell checking, et al all get left by the wayside and there's not enough money to bring in additional staff that can help out there.

And its a whole 'nother can of worms to go from simple AE writing to SSAs and world design.

Now fit that all in with the ability to create multiple challenging bug-free missions, just as challenging new NPCs, and do it all on both a deadline and a shoestring budget.

Its Standard Hero Manuever 14: Insult their manhood / mother / favorite teddy bear / whatever. It wouldn't hurt to have some alternate animations available, but right now Taunt is whatever you imagine yourself doing to incite the enemy.

And here I thought he'd play Clarence Boddicker.