Carnifax_NA

Stealth and Invis, why do you want them?

I'd certainly be taking Terrify and Mass Confusion at 26 and 32, and Power Burst at 38 and leaving them off until later sometime. They're low priority IMO.

How did you manage to take Stamina at 20 with just Swift taken before it? Health is taken at 28.

My Earth/Fire Domi is quite happy with this. Fiery Embrace just got even more awesome!

True. Although for a while while the boards were down the "We are sorry, the boards are down" page refused to load too, because it was using the us.ncsoft.com domain name.

Even the error messages throw error messages

That's a good comparision alright, I've been a Domi for too long, keep forgetting about Spooky.

So is it like Spooky in that you can only have one out at a time?

Anything EU side

I dearly wish they'd open EU-US transfers and let me pull those characters I've put 4.5 years of play time over to the US.

Maybe I'm being thick but shouldn't there be a Market Interface screen in the middle of that picture somewhere?

Or the Market Chat window which shows your transactions or something. As is it's a picture of you standing in Wentworths, there's no indication of what you've sold or for how much.

Nope, it's trivial. With 3 Recharge SOs you've got Quake and Stalagmites back every 45 seconds, so if you're staggering them you're talking one of them back every 23 seconds or so. And QS is back veryt quickly with just 1 recharge SO in it anyway and available basically on demand. And then you have Gases still available as an additional control for whenever you think you need it (twisty corrider maps like Office where there's a good chance of two spawns aggroing is perfect as it will hold anyway who runs into it, and if you dump a QS as well they're not getting back out easily).



Earth Assault has the best single target melee powers of any Assault Set, plus no cone powers (which is a big bonus for a meleer IMO), getting an AOE instead in Fissure. Sure it's not the Controller version but it's still nice and works well with Hotfeet. With a Fire/Earth you will need to learn careful use of Fire Cages though as it will nullify the sporadic knockdown of your Earth Assault powers (personally I'd skip it entirely and just allow for thing to be doing the stun-stagger around you, the ghetto hold combo of Flashfire -> Cages is nice but being then able to knock an annoyed non-stunned boss off his feet with a Mallet or Fault or Air Superiority, if you take it, is nicer).*

As people have said if you fancy a meleer go Fire/Earth. If you fancy a more ranged approach go Earth/Fire. Both have excellent synergy, more than a more thematic Earth/Earth or Fire/Fire combo IMO.

I was always able to reliably recreate it on my Stone/Fire brute by Stunning a group that was getting back to its feet.



So Tremor -> *Fault would always produce it without fail, but Fault -> Tremor wouldn't. That's the only time I've been able to produce it "On Demand" other times have probably been as you say.


Sapping is generally not an effective control mechanism anyway, so I think I'll be sticking with trying out an Elec/Thorns/Mu domi, looks like it will play similiar to my Ice/Psi, a soft-control meleer.


Looking at how it's designed it seems to me that it'll be something between Earthquake and Volcanic Gases in terms of how it will work. For Alpha mitegation it looks pretty good, after that on teams it may work a bit like a Fall Over patch where things are out of commission for a few seconds. And like Fall over patches there will be some powers which will nullify it if you're not careful (like DoT or Rains). Static Field -> Synaptic Overload looks like a nice opening combo too.


The 40 second base recharge is nice though, being able to lay fresh ones almost On Demand is pretty useful, especially when you consider things like Add groups and incoming ambushes.


In terms of mechanics I'm delighted that the Chaining mechanic has been reused for a control set.*

Genius!

That works alright. Hopefully they get it resolved as they've only a week to go before GR launches.

And the idiots still haven't fixed the fact that us EU folk who play on the US Servers still cannot see a Purchase link for the correct version of Going Rogue on the site. All I can see is the EU version. Of course every other item listed gives a link for the US versions.

*sigh*

The only one I remember personally is the Terra Respec trial back in i4 or i5, when everything was conning at least red. That used to always spawn at max diff as far as I remember.

Yep, you'll just have to start training todays bunch of young whippersnappers how it was in the good old days Gramps

Brutes aren't particularly expected to do that though (at least not the taunting adds bit). Just because that is how YOU play YOUR brutes doesn't mean in the slightest that anyone who is more focused on simply fighting is doing it wrong.

As a Domi I personally see Adds as more my problem than the Brutes (since either of my Domis tends to have a few AOE tricks up their sleeves which will slow a bunch of adds right down). A Taunt with a cap of 5 targets doesn't compare.

So you're saying that since the aggro cap came in Tanks are in fact Bruting?

My source is referencing the same US server for the CSS sheets (and the Javascript files).

If I attempt to follow the City of Heroes link on the page I get a Network problem with : http://us.ncsoft.com/en/city-of-heroes

Doing a "wget http://us.ncsoft.com/en/city-of-heroes" on my Linux console gives me a name resolution error :

Resolving us.ncsoft.com... failed: Name or service not known.

So it looks like a DNS issue for anyone over this side of the pond.

Taking the Alpha != Tanking.

Tanking is about continuely soaking up aggro, focusing on rounding it all up at the expense of doing maximum damage, pulling it off their fellows and generally trying to act as a giant Hate Sponge.

Brutes tend to just jump in and then fighting away and don't really care about grabbing every single screed of aggro, they just want enough enemies around them to hit them and be hit by them in order to keep that Crackbar nice and high so they can make the pretty Orange Numbers as big as possible.

Brutes are pretty flexible in terms of what they can do, so you'll tend to have every breed of Brute from the Tank-and-taunt bot to the single-minded Fury-whores who are enslaved by The Bar and do its bidding.

I will agree with you that there's nothing worse than a wussie reluctant Brute / Tank. Especially if they use the word "Pull" (unless the team has already messily wiped once at the same point and this is the return from Hospital trip).

After 34 seconds that took me to half a store. Some content there, but no stylesheet came with it, so it looks odd.

NCSofts web development team are really lacking, bless.

So the answer was "4 years ago?"

Phew, my brain isn't as bad as I thought it was.

Nurse, more beer, there's still a few braincells firing.

I thought it used to be purely down to the owners Diff settings, but since you had to play SK Tetris you could end up as a Sidekick to someone a few levels lower than the rest of the team and thus be faced with +5 enemies. But I could easily be wrong, my brain is old, rusty and filled with useless facts so the past is a bit blurry.

Nowadays you do have to rely on the leader to go up the diff manually afaik, so nowadays it's down to the OP hanging out with wusses.

Team size never affected enemy levels did it? Just the number and "tier" of those enemies.

Nowadays it's easier to ramp up the difficulty more than it was previously, you've more control nowadays. So I'm guessing you're joining wimpy teams where the leader isn't visiting Hero Corp to up the diff once they've seen how well the team works.

Domis don't get Burn or Tornado though.

Like I said, if you've got a good reason to be using them then use them, sparingly. A Brute using his Epic Immob to keep things in Burn is sensible. A Huntsman using his because he's about to use his grenades is sensible. Spamming them as a Domi "because you don't have any hard CC available" is just dumb button mashing.

Me too, it's silly to force people to use the same log in details here as for the game.

The forums do have a lockdown on attempted log ins if you fail 5 times in a row though. It's only 15 minutes but it does reduce the effectiveness of any Brute Force techniques.