Westley

Maybe it's time you take a break then? We all have to take a break sometime, I've already taken two in the last 5 years. Maybe that's an indicator that it's your turn now?

Now anyone that plays villain side knows about the incomprehensibly invincible Citizens in Mayhem missions. Sure, you can smash a car to pieces with your bare fists, but try to nuke a citizen with a rain of hellfire? Not a scratch!

Anyways, after getting used to that oddity, I've come across another. I'm almost at level 50 with my Brute, and so I decided to run through some Ouroboros content solo but set for 8 people. Even con enemies are the difficulty level I have it set to. I am running through Tesseract's arc (might I add that I LOVE her personality and dialogue, it makes me smile), and I whoop BOTH Miss Liberty AND Ms. Liberty (Remember Kids: violence against women is OKAY as long as they are super-powered!).

Then I get to the mission where you have to "prove yourself" to Lord Recluse, even though I already completed all my patron stories and defeated Recluse in the future where he's presumably more powerful than in the past, and he has already called me his equal.... anyways. So I'm pounding on his minions Calamity, Wrath, Sleepy, Happy, Dopey... and all of their ambushes in between. I get wiped out the first time that I am surprised by the ambush but after that, no problem. I beat the mission.

No sweat so far, right?

Then I get to the next mission. Hey, lookie there, after facing two legendary heroes and the worst that Recluse has to offer, I now get to go after Marchand and his band of...





Wait, who's that cute little girl in knee-high socks and her buddies that look like normal people? I can't attack them, they're normal! That's not right! Plus they are conning BLUE to me! They look so cute, I wanna pet them. Hey wait, that guys got an Uzi..... all of them have Uzis... alright, let's get down to business, time to whoop some "Loyal Citizen" tail!

What's this? They are tearing me apart with their Uzis. Okay, fine. I go to the hospital, stop by Sears and Mender Roebuck to pick up some inspirations, head back in. I pop two purples, 25% Defense plus Willpower FTW! I then pounce them. And they SHRED me again.

FTW became WTF.

I then go to the hospital again. Stock up again on supplies. Now I pop FOUR, that's right, FOUR purple inspirations..... that's 50% Defense well over the soft cap. And these "normal" citizens are STILL hitting me.

I faced Recluse's worst, and TWO heroes that could NOT hit through TWO purples but once in a while, and these "normal" citizens from the PAST have some sort of super vision and accuracy and tear right through 50% Defense?

Wow.

Moral of the story: They really DON'T "make them like they used to".

Yeah... Sam? Ever since around Issue 16's release, you've been ******** and complaining and whining a LOT more than you used to. So what's up? Just more free time, so more time to play the game, so more time to find things to complain about... or is something else going on here?

*points at the couch*

Here, lay down and tell me all about it.

*pulls out a clipboard and pen*

Tell me about your mother...

<Insert obligatory reference to Deth kicking and lesbian Hellions>

Actually, switching to a Netflix online movie and watching that at the same time.

Such a long thread for someone that's too lazy to click 3 powers every 2-4 minutes or so...

God I hope you never play a Kinetics Defender.

People need to lrn2TEEM! *points to his signature*

Hey, you won't see any nasty internet video here. Get your mind out of the gutter! *shudders*

I just got my SS/WP Brute from level 48 to 49 in less than FOUR hours. How? By setting my difficulty settings to 8 people, then going in and popping just two lucks, with all my other defense powers on of course.... then SMASHING the mob, which builds my fury FAST. I make sure to keep inspiration slots open, and combine to make more Lucks. By the time I'm done with that group I have a full Fury bar, and at least two more Lucks ready to go for the next group...

Just keep running and smashing everything in sight. Keeping the Lucks going every group, and the fact that I can kill an entire spawn in less than 30 seconds with Foot stomp and my Mu powers plus SMASHING.....

..honestly I'm beginning to wonder if this is an exploit, using Lucks continuously in this way to have perma 25% Defense and making more as more drop. What do you all think?

Is 48 to 49 in less than 4 hours too fast solo-ing a Brute?

Yes.

If you TRIED to get everyone to go to the park in front of Liberty, and got a few of your buddies to help "move the crowd", I'm sure you could pull it off WHILE YOU WERE THERE.

But as soon as you and your buddies left? It would be back to business as usual. Humans are creatures of habit.

Yeah Techbot.... good luck in changing pre-established patterns of behavior.

Your screen resolution must be huge son.

Because :

1. The trainers of each zone are THE centralized location for the zone.
2. More importantly, there are Police Drones NEAR the trainers for safety, but not so close that they zap all the enemies without giving you a chance to get them first. It just helps keep the amount of enemies to a "safe" level with the drones nearby.
3. As a result of 1 and 2 above, people feel "safer" near the trainers.

I like the never-ending enemies. I could care less about Trick or Treating after the first year. And since I don't bother to badge anymore because there are certain badges that I CANNOT get.... not much to Halloween for me except SMASH!

Which is just fine with me.

SRS BZNS rite here!

Did I just enter into a polygamous relationship without knowing?

Yeah, and your screen name has six characters in it...