The_Altruist

back alley brawler only has 100% s/l resistance when unstoppable is up. but damn that is a long 3 minutes

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the long winded post indicates how a stoner works. Oh and for clairfication how does BuildUp differ from Rage. From what I understand both give you damage + tohit buffs? With the way mine is slotted I can run it almost perma, so how does that differ from rage?

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because there is a massive difference between the "almost" perma of build up and the perma of rage. if you 3 slot build up, it's up 10 seconds, down for 35, if you 3 slot rage, it's up for 120 seconds, down for 2 (with the built-in 10 second downtime making those 2 seconds meaningless anyway).

well, i have no experience with stone melee, but i can comment on super strength.

there was one reason outside of concept i chose super strength for my brute: rage.

rage allows me to slot all my attacks 2dam/2end/2rech, which gives me a full attack chain with just jab/punch/haymaker, as well as allowing me to attack forever. rage also gets over the initial weakness of the brute class- the low starting damage (before fury buildup).

as far as i know, rage is a 50% to-hit buff (not accuracy buff), and even if it is lower, it allows you to hit oranges regularly without any accuracy in your attacks. this on top of the 80% damage boost. the drop sucks, but is a lot more manageable without the hasten drop i used to have.

yes, there are a lot of level 50 characters on champion.

global name @The Altruist

COH:
The Altruist lvl 50 scrapper
Marc Century lvl 50 tanker
The Altruist Reborn lvl 34 peaceblapper
Dr. Nilus lvl 27 scrapper
Faxian lvl 9 scrapper

COV:
Omega Centurai lvl 30 brute
The Misanthropist lvl 6 stalker
The Count of Lithuania lvl 6 brute

yes, i'm horribly addicted to melee ATs...

hey statesman, instead of being so "maschoistic", maybe you could pop around the forums and answer some much-needed issue threads. like, oh, i don't know, this one?

hero planner is wrong on overload. it has been dev confirmed to be 180 duration, 1000 recharge.

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Last night, I saw a Brute run straight out of Breakout, go to Nerva, and run the respec trial SOLO!!!!!one!

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lol, he had to get out of breakout first? when i created my brute, a message just popped up on the screen saying "you win at cov, congratulations!"

man, i can't wait to get my passive unstoppable at level 2!

excellent guide sword!

i have a few minor corrections you might want to slip in if you can still edit:

1. dull pain's HP boost is 40%. might as well include the numbers in there so people can see how massive a heal it is.
2. in your resist elements write-up, you said that it gives more resistance than RPD. it used to be true, but now they all give the same 7.5%.
3. also recently, resist elements now gives resistance to toxic damage.

great work on the guide, it will really help people who are new to invulnerability.

well, i guess since my sg-buddies started posting in here, i can't avoid it any longer...

so who am i? i'm a 24 year old college student.

i have a BA in journalism from michigan state university, i graduated in 2004. after graduating, i decided i wanted to teach, so i enrolled at western michigan university, where i am currently working on an english degree in secondary education.

professionally, i work at a k-8th grade school in kalamazoo, as well as the kalamazoo area boys and girls club. since i have a great love for sports, i run a lot of the fitness and sports-based sections of these programs.

recreationally, i enjoy the college lifestyle- mainly going to bars with my buddies. i used to be very active in music, and was a professional deejay and producer in the lansing area for a few years. i played at a lot of clubs, and had some great times that i will always miss.

anyway, i don't know if we post pictures here, but kay did, so i guess i will too.

Me and my Middle Brother

Me and my Youngest Brother

Me deejay'ing for the rapper Alias at the Temple Club in Lansing, MI

it has been iterated many times in this forum, and in other forums, but invulnerability doesn't feel right. the concept of being invulnerable, the expectations of a player with an invulnerable character, hell- even the in-game description, all revolve around resistance, not defense.

i know there are plenty of numbers for the devs to pull out that show invulnerability performs fine, heck, i offered up some of those numbers in the (non) dev response threads. the issue isn't surviveability, it's feel.

at level 50, my invulnerable tank should get hit- a lot. but it shouldn't matter. he should laugh at the hits, take some more, and keep laughing. now it's just dodge, dodge, dodge, 200+ point hit, dodge, dodge.

really sucks, but we can't seem to get any developer response on concept within the set, only numbers on how invincibility balances the entire set.