Fury fears.

I decided not to say anything about the Fury changes (admit it, you were waiting with baited breath. hee hee hee) till I was able to really give them a good testing. And I really have to say I agree with all the Non-Doom folks out there now. I admit I was worried. But not now. I was on a full team in Pratoria last night. With, among others, 2 other Brutes, a Scrapper, AND a Tank. I had NO problem generating 60-70 Fury, and maintained it very well. Even with all those folks begging for aggro, I had no problem getting it up (WOW, you could really take THAT out of context), and keeping it up. The Tank was SS if I remember correctly. And he was all about stealing aggro. But I had no difficulties at all. And kept it around 30-40 between MOB's. All in all, no worries here.

I have to agree, I've been playing my Brute a lot lately, and even though I'm solo, it's been quite rewarding to see that Fury shoot up. I was never about maxing it out anyway, so I can maintain it a lot higher a lot longer.

I honestly think the whole thing about "it drops slowly as long as you are in battle and drops quickly when it ends" is the way it should have worked all along. It just makes more sense that way, even if the incoming Fury has to be lowered accordingly.

Thank Castle for adjusting Fury properly-- he did a great job. The initial change was not so good, and he revamped it later in Beta after listening to feedback.

The 0.75 decay while being attacked and for 5 seconds there after was a huge change for the better. It means that attacks like Total Focus and Shadow Maul are more viable with their longer animations, and sets with a slower net attack speed also experience improved Fury generation/maintenance.

That permanently empty end part of the Fury bugs the **** out of me.

Yeah, I'm not really worried about group scenarios, because honestly... In a full group scenario the Brute's damage doesn't matter enough for a small reduction to affect group performance significantly.

However... The lowering of the maximum fury generation that can be practically achieved quite significantly affects solo bruting. Even having the max drop from 85% to 75% is a very noticeable diminishment of a Brute's solo damage output.

I'm not crying doom, but I don't care for it, not at all. If I have to lower my difficulty a step or two to compensate for a change, that's a very serious thing for me, it affects my enjoyment of the game significantly, because smashing my way through hordes of enemies is the entire reason I play this game. It's where 100% of the fun factor comes from for me.

Having to fight less enemies, or lower level enemies == less fun.

I don't get it, i dont really remember having any trouble maintaing fury from group to group. Infact it feels worse now, before the changes i would be running around with about 75-85% fury in mobs then dropped down to about 65% at worst. Now i have trouble even getting up to and staying at 65% in mobs without running at x8. But that said i don't see THAT big different as far as my kill speed. It just sucks that my fury bar isn't as full as it used to be, which just isn't as rewarding feeling.

I am just curious as to how many of these threads about I love/I hate fury changes we are going to have?

In my opinion, I like the new changes. I am a casual player who likes reading clues and all the little extra's in the game. These new changes allow me to keep my fury bar up in between mobs with little difficulty, even with pausing to read everything.

For those that don't like the change, and I say this with respect and no bashing intended, but have you considered playing a scrapper? They have a higher base damage and you still get that SMASH! feeling when a high damage attack crits. True you don't get acess to sets like Energy Melee and Super Strength but most of the other sets cross over well. With GR now things like hero and villian are transitory so picking a scrapper isn't the blue side forever like it used to be if you prefer red side content.

Again, this was intended with respect, I am not trying to be snarky merely asking a question. If you are unhappy with something, why not try something else that will make you happy?