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Dark is a lot of fun and very busy. If you're doing your job well as a Dark you don't need to heal much because the enemy is either quivering in fear or missing entirely.


Dark/Arch would be quite fun, Tar Patch and Darkest Night things and then Rain them to death.


Dark/Ice would be an interesting combo as well. Defenders get the Blaster form of the Rains and Tar Patch means everything is basically stuck in molasses and being rained to death by Ice Storm or Blizzard. Plus you get a plethora of debuffs and controls to play with.

You want HPT 3 slotted for +Health, extra HP means more chance of surviving an alpha and also means each regen tick restores more health. You also want 3 Healths in Rise to the Challenge.


I'd remove the a Recharge SO from Evisercate and one of the first two attacks and use them in HPT and replace the End in Rise with another health.


I find End Reductions in attacks do more for conserving the Blue than in the toggles personally. I'd remove the two from the two shields and stick them into your most costly DPE attacks (not sure off-hand what they'd be). For a Brute you can actually consider replacing a Damage SO in attacks with an End Reduction SO instead, if you are finding yourself gasping for End. Fury gives you a greater damage boost so you want to try and maintain a high Fury at all times.


These are just minor tweaks and not worth another respec but you certainly want to think about max-slotting HPT and Rise with Health SOs, it plays to your strengths as a WP Brute.

My Widow is not only my first character where I'm using and slotting the two builds at the same time, but I also find myself yearning for more Alternative Build slots so I could try out other Fort variations (like a control, Vengeance & toggle-heavy Team Support build, and maybe a Spin & Psi Tornado & Epic AOE melee build).

So much wrong in here. Snowstorm does certainly tick every 10 seconds, as does any toggle (or pseudopet which uses a toggle to work, like Freezing Rain / Sleet). Doesn't matter if it's PB, is anchored on an enemy or targetted via a Pseudo.

Performance Shifter in Speed Boost does actually have a chance of giving your ally a wee bit of End (10% of 20 end I think?) when you cast it on them. It's just not really worth it considering they'll be getting lots of +recovery from the power anyway.

I'd actually do that over the Tactics style powers, if I had the room (not skipping my Combat Jump / Super Jump though, too much fun and that 3% is valuable to me when Mind Link is up, takes me over the soft-cap on melee).

Regen Cap is 2000% afaik. I think (think mind) that the only way for anyone to get that high is a Domi with Drain Psyche fully slotted hitting around 8 people.

I think you'd be hitting around 1000% on a WP with a fully capped aura running, but of course a Tank has way more HP so the amount recovered per "tick" will be much higher than the domi (the domi will tick more often though).

Health isn't absolutely necessary, Fighting is probably more useful but since you'll probably be getting Stamina anyway you may as well get and slot Health along the way (my Dark/WP brute skipped the Fitness pool altogether in favour of Dark Consumption, Quick Recovery and the fighting pool). Fighting is nice because it'll stack with your own S/L Resist toggle and E/N/F/C Defense toggle and help with alphas (WPs weakness).


In terms of IO bonuses get yourself to the HP cap first over getting more regen bonuses (not sure how much you need if you factor in the Accolades and WPs +HP power). The regen bonuses are relatively small for you compared to the monster regen you'll be running anyway.


AOE Knockdown is gold for a WP (in PvE anyway). Sweep would be gold for you (on paper as I haven't played DB). PBAOE Knockdown means things around you are fueling your aura but on their backs, which gives you time for your regen to kick in and heal you back up.

Do people actually take the ToHit toggle?*



How do ye manage to fit it all in? I have to skip it in order to get me some lovely AOEs so the other two toggles are needed (to do more damage with the AOEs and then let me survive the hate they generate).

What you can try is a Free US Trial, that way you can try before you decide.


* You don't even need to install the US version, just go to where ever you installed the EU version, copy the cohupdate.EU.exe file and rename the copy to cohupdate.exe (I think that's right anyway, basically look for the file with .EU. in it, copy it and remove the .EU). Then run the copy file and it'll connect to the US servers (you'll be able to tell because the Updater will actually have some recent news stories in it, unlike th EU version).


US 14 day Trial is here

Think it's pretty cheap now, I'm not sure because I reactivated a US account I'd bought 2 or 3 years ago.

You do know there's no actual proper way to transfer across characters? You can recreate (assuming the name isn't taken), saving and loading the Cossie helps with that, but there's no server transfer mechanism. You start from scratch, and lose any Vet Rewards to boot.

Also because Gleemail is based around globals (which are separate EU and US sides) you can't Gleemail Inf from an EU to a US account (or the other way around). You can use the market trick to buy something like an Intangibilty TO from a US character using an EU character, slightly nerve-wracking (make sure there are NO bids or For Sales on whatever you use and little activity) but that's what I did.

So if you don't mind starting basically from scratch it can be worth it, but just so you know how much you give up doing so. Mind you your EU account will still be there but inactive so it's not a one-way process either.

We don't want your sort around here Wuffles*



I've done the jump over a few months ago myself. It's pretty busy, even red-side but as you said the time difference is there, but if you play mostly in the evenings our time Virtue is pretty busy. Even red-side is pretty busy, although it's died down a tad since the City of Growling Monstrosities fad has passed.*


If you do arrange TFs etc I'll certainly try to attend (although I've a new baby on the way in the next 6 weeks so don't hold me to that).


If you need some blue-side funds to get your heroes started let me know too, I don't play much blue-side so I can certainly send you enough to ensure things like DOs and SOs aren't a pain to buy.

I've still never managed to do an ITF (done the LGTF a few times).



This will be my mission for next weekend if I get the chance, bring my Plant/Emp onto an ITF (and not necessarily a speed run).

Seconded.

Instead we got scary demon outfit (I do like the other cossie though, very Abe Sapian from Hellboy).

Maybe it should have been called the Hellboy Booster actually*

I know what you mean. My pre-24 widow was on a team with 6 Demon MMs on it one night.


It was nightmarish. The Demons were one of the reasons I shelved my Ice/Psi Domi and a Stalker. Being in melee and being shoved about by them isn't fun.

Of course the other reason was that with dual builds my Fort kicks the Domi's bottom and a Widow does the same to the Stalker. Being a chronic Alter it's great being able to decide on what I feel like doing and what's on the team, pick a build and yet be levelling them both at the same time (I love when I level).

Once I hit 35 I'll be hollering for my first ITF with her (I suck, never managed to do it at all).

Oh, sorry. I wasn't talking about THAT far back in the mists of time. That changed before i4 didn't it (i2 or something?).


Old man!


*runs away*

Tough works nicely with WP, since it goes on top of the S/L resistance you get in WP. Weave goes on top of the E/N/F/C defense you get but unlike say SR where you're layering it on top of high defenses from the set it's not as useful numerically. 5% on top of 16%ish isn't as nice as 5% on top of 30%ish due to how you calculate the gain from the final number (5% on top of 40% is basically doubling how hard it is to kill you for example). The closer to the caps you are the better stacking a wee bit more works in general for Defense and Resistance.

Spawn sizes would, but I've never seen Diff do it on any 8 man PuG, ever.


Mission Padding was simply about getting the number of individual enemies up so there'd be more drops I thought?

No, they don't and never did. You're simply wrong about this (again).


The Team Leader must have been sneaking off and upping the diff via a Fateweaver / Hero Corp (which is what tends to happen to any PuGs I join from inception as we get more bodies)

Enemy levels do NOT go up automatically if the team size does.



Well not until the leader goes "This is too easy now, visiting a Herocorp / Fateweaver".

Nope, we got a rather cool glowy set, and something that looks like it came from a WoW Demon.



No tentacles at all. Me is sad.