TheBruteSquad

The same activities he always is looking for every time he cycles through this post after he finishes a project: To be the best.

Required reading

On topic it's ss/fire. It really is.

Leaves me with another mystery, though. Why does Chrome eat code block parenthesis at random on me? It's not every time, but often I have to go back and edit the post and manually add a few in, especially in quote blocks.

And on topic when I clicked on the 'ok' with one of my free accounts it crashed the game. Or at least, the game crashed after I'd clicked ok. Hell of a button.

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How did you manage to post a blank message?

Perhaps not as intricate as previous offerings, but I liked it.

Willpower. If I don't have a specific armor set in mind when I come up with a concept it invariably becomes willpower. It has its flaws as a set, especially on SOs where I spend 95% of a characters career, but the 'set it and forget it' playstyle more than makes up for it for me.

1) Alpha
2) Interface
3) Judgement

I don't really use the other two, though I'll build them as I get parts for them.

I want blasters to be tankmages.

Very nicely done. I didn't even realize it was a fan trailer until I read the description afterwards.

My girlfriend and I got a laugh out of it and neither of us have heard of the source material - so if nothing else the trailer has brought awareness that it IS based on something to two more people.

I'll probably watch it before thinking about checking out said source material so I don't have to worry about being outraged at the adaptation.

I'd be seriously surprised if the Lone Ranger remake was anything but Zapp Brannigan and Kiff from Futurama in the wild west.

No thread on it yet?

General Mountain is kind of a jerk

Poor Frieza traded Vegeta for this?

I still think the hype for issue 5 was perhaps because they either became aware of a leak on staff or the assets for the issue went in before the story did and they were sure someone would notice.

Either way it would be preferable to 'spoil' it on their own terms to keep the hype they wanted going before a pig-diver or squealer posted on non-official forums who died and it got passed around as common knowledge.

I guess aliens don't have a sense of sarcastic humor.

It's a satirical song written specifically about the perceptions among the playerbase about the Kheldian AT. It's what he does.

Plus, you're just jealous your logo isn't made of gold

Remember that prior to the new difficulty slider and inventions these were roughly the settings you could choose from:

+0/x0
+0/x2
+1
+1/x2
+2

Soloing, in particular, there wasn't a brute set out there that couldn't handle that - until the high end game, where things like Arachnos, Carnies, and Malta destroyed you (many were the threads about how Invulnerability was the weakest brute armor, aside from energy aura of course).

This is all still true. On SOs, on those difficulty settings, the game is no different now than it's ever been.

Back then if you wanted to tank for a team as a brute you needed support. The idea of running into a x8 group and living was ludicrous unless it was Council and you were Inv or Mu and you were Elec.

I bring this up because that core still exists. That core experience is where the devs balance the game around.

That core is found wanting when you start tweaking the diff settings solo.

Without a team you have to make up for not having a team - and healing doesn't cut it, as nothing you can do could ever replace the efficiency of a /thermal using its single target heal on you every 5 seconds if needed*. That leaves resistance, which is not really self buffable (and again is no match for team resistance buff numbers).

Which finally leaves defense ... which, due to the way attack rolls work and some serious short sightedness on the dev team's part when designing invention sets, magically IS self buffable to the point where it's like you're on a team (the buff numbers don't match up, of course, but they don't need to because of the soft cap)

Without defense you still will be competitive in today's game as long as you respect the limits of what the armor sets are designed to take solo. And solo is the only place you'll notice those limits provided you get on a team with any support at all. I have a /regen scrapper with little defense and he does fine on teams and trials as long as he doesn't do something stupid like run off and try and solo crates in Lambda. That's a job for someone who does build for defense. It is 'Not Intended Behavior'. It is also stupidly slow: sticking with the team and protecting the DPS would wipe out said crate in a third the time.

Edit 1: I have a point, but I can't recall what it is through my fever

Edit 2: Ah ha!

Title fixed to reflect change of thread direction.