i18 Brutes the sad tale

850% to 775% is the only real nerf to brutes .
But understandable with cross over , who the heck wants a scrapper aside from BS/SD

Sorry that change is 100% understandable gives the scrapper there top damage back not based on luck .

The rest i only read buffs .
That some 5% knew how to maximise their fury , doesn´t mean its working as intended
It saying stalkers were fine cause 5% knew how to play them well .

Sorry brutes are now more then fine with bigger allowance for choices of first tier or 2nd tier powers . that coupled with brawl on auto .
Sorry the change makes shadow maul or other so called dump it powers on brute more viable.
So whats wrong with having more viable powers then straight forward you NEED this brute build nothing else !!

This is my first post in two years. I never post here, because if you are not in the click you just get shouted down.

But reading the comments on this thread upset me.

I liked Brutes because they were one of the few AT's in the game that felt "superheroish" because, lets face it... most AT's in this game are underpowered and horrible especially at low levels and especially if you have to solo them up because the population of this game is so very low (aside from the expansion ebb and flow).

I could actually solo to 50 in a reasonable amount of time... without pissing away a very unreasonable amount of my life online. If you have to play 10 hours a day for a month or two just to level one character you are SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME playing a video game.

The brute I am leveling now moves less than half as fast on the experience bar. I cannot max my fury bar even when I am taking on enough mobs to pound me into the dust. I die way more easily... so really now I am forced to take all my IO's off my Brutes and move them to Scrapper or Tank.

Really now a well built scrapper can tank as well a brute and do almost twice the damage, so how is that balance? I am sure the scrappers are happy but how exactly is that balance?

Tankers are still so poor that playing them is like watching paint dry on a wall, but again who benefits from that? Really do we make a class that boring and low damaging for the "benefit of the game". No we make it that way because a very small minority of opinions have a stranglehold over this community.

Do you notice that except for this new expansion NOBODY PLAYS THIS GAME! And in a few months it will be a ghost town again. Yet the same people are applauding how well the developers "balance". Are you kidding me? This is the very worst balanced MMO of them all, by a substantial margin.

The only reason I play this game is because you can create your own unique character. I love being able to be unique and not look like all the other characters who go to X dungeon and get the pink breastplate of uber shiny. But that's it, that's the only reason to play CoX because aside from being able to customize your character and create a unique identity. This is a terrible game as far as balance and playability for at least 60% of the power/class combo's.

Brutes were one of the things "not horrid" about City of Heroes and here you all sit celebrating their descent into "horrid". I cannot explain your acceptance of the )$@*# you are being forced to swallow. Do you all have Stockholm syndrome or are your noses just so brown you can't smell the stink?

I will go back to the shadows, and in a few weeks when I am tired of the emperors new clothes my subscription will be canceled again, just like so many others.

Meanwhile you can pat yourselves on the back and be satisfied that all the "whiners" are silenced.

Good job.

Bye again.

I love how people keep posting as if they're all knowing about some big conspiracy by the developers and that we, the "Loyalists" (*snrk*) are blind to everything that is so obviously wrong with this game.

It really is hilarious.

To Q_Candy .

Sorry but Pretoria is way tougher to level solo then anything i have played before .
Its not that brute is flawed , it seems like they just want you to start using IO DO when they become available .
TO hardly cut it anymore at level 12+ still doable , but the incoming damage is way higher then old classic COH or COV .
Most of the oppenents use fully powers that are anoying if you dont have status protection.
Stuns Knockback/Down , endurance drain , Pyschic attacks are more normal .
ETC ETC ...

This has nothing to do with the brute class it self , yes partly it feels slower the brutes but its cause of the mobs changes are a lot tougher then classic .
But fury able to be maintained at 100-150% without the bigger decay . means you dont need to see a full bar .
The decay rate slow down means you are almost always operating at 50% damage in no time .

The rest of the post sadly yes , once i am done with the story arcs (and they are really wonderfull written) i will see again drop in people .
So just enjoy the months , the arcs are really nice written and mature choices i didn´t expect before .
Kill somebody really Kill somebody just to maintain your cover or gain power .
No longer arrest nonesense . infact Pretoria is the darkest of the world , its the world that should have been city of villains .
Well yes most people dont even think about that , they just level onwards missing the wonderfull choice in can make in the game .

Sadly limitation to the game system , and developers not willing to give in base fitness pool.
Moving powers to IO set to be uber .
Market is ruined for new people to even start using especially now since emails means , people like me dont even have to bother with the market .
Means very few of the new people will stick . even the old ones who return will be envious or feel way left behind .

The balance is simply set on keeping people playing like any other MMO time versus money issue . and hoping that there are more supporters of the game .
That just pay and not play .
Sorry if a server is already lagging so badly with 1000 people in europe .
I can´t imagine it being fun with 5000 people on the server .

son you need to learn how to troll.....mayhaps 4chan?

I was running some missions earlier on my 50 SS/Invul at +1x8. I had 80-85 fury most or the time. I'm really not noticing the change, with the exception that the fury stays up easier between spawns ...

Just saying.

I`m having a blast in the New Zones. I`ve soloed the whole thing so far, & have only died once. Brute is now sitting at lvl 18 SS/WP, however been using hand grenades sparringly. Also only using DO`s enhancements.

Never have health issues, just ED little blue pills, & rest seem to fix that problem. Opening up on a mob with a few quick hits, & by the time on the second mob fury is about 50%.

Brutes are atleast easier to play out of the box. Unless, its just the power sets I picked, & following some time proven guides ^^

So I have been playing 3 brutes lately. My 50 SS/Fire brute, who is now godlike thanks to the Burn and FE changes, my 50 Stone/Inv, who is just as tough and awesome as he always has been, and my new 14 Claws/Fire, which I am leveling in Preatoria.

Overall notice of these changes? Well, my SS/Fire has gotten better at everything, but this is due to the changes of Fire Aura really. I never noticed fury in the first place with double stacked rage.

My Stone/Inv does feel the changes, but only a little bit. I notice that my damage is not *quite* as good as where it used to be, but again, only a very minor change to me. Because I use Fault on teams, I don't get quite the amount of incoming attacks that other brutes do, so again, a touch slower, but I still feel awesome.

My Claws/Fire is one of the easiest characters I have leveled. Soloing through Preatoria, and If there is an increased difficulty in Preatoria, I haven't noticed it.


Overall conclusions? The fury change is fine. Go QQ moar plz.

I just started playing a new brute today. Those who think Praetoria is hard are smoking crack, or just never learned to actually play the low level characters they've supposedly had.

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