Dispari

My main's a 50 Invuln Brute. Before that, was a 50 Widow, and before that a 50 WP Brute. I also have a 50 Shield Scrap, 50 Shield Brute, 50 Crab, and 50 Blaster.

In my personal experience, Crey are laughable because they're designed like level 30 enemies. Even at 40-50, they don't really DO anything other than take a while to kill. I've never had problems with Crey on any of my 50s.

Nemesis are annoying for other reasons besides flamethrowers. They eat up DEF the worst. My Brute can't farm Nemesis because unless I go really slow, they just end up getting massive stacked DEF and ToHit. Has nothing to do with flamethrowers. I can't think of any of my 50s that actually liked fighting Nemesis.

Arachnos are in the range of annoying enemies, but lower to the bottom. They have some really powerful debuffs and do some really annoying crap, like Smoke Grenade. They're tolerable, but really frustrating. I can handle them with most of my 50s. Nothing about Invuln particularly stands out.

Now, Longbow are hell on Invuln. Longbow debuff absolutely everything that a melee toon could possibly use to defend themselves. They eat resistance, they debuff defense, they can floor regen, and they reduce recharge (which affects click powers, like heals). Yeah, my Invuln has a real hard time with Longbow. But so do all of my other 50s. Longbow is a gang for huge debuffers and mezzers, who can stop that stuff from happening. I've yet to make a melee toon that feels comfortable surrounded by Longbow.

Carnies and Malta are the same way. They're a little better than Longbow though because they just have a couple units and a couple powers that will decimate you. If those powers slip through though, you're dead meat. If you get hit with a Mask or two, or a Sapper, you're hitting the floor. But again, that applies to all my 50s, not just the Invuln. In fact, my Invuln's the only one capable of taking a Sapper to the face and not detoggling immediately. She still drops by 75-90%, but I have enough time to hit a blue and respond.

Rikti I'll give you, but for all my 50s, the only ones that feel comfortable fighting huge numbers of Rikti are my Widow and WP Brute. They do lots of psi and energy, and while Invuln can handle energy to a point, I can't handle psi at all. WP however dodges energy, resists psi, and overall has high HP and regen to handle all situations. My Widow just plain dodges everything, and has high RES to psi. But at least my Invuln stands a better chance than my Shielders, Crab, or Blaster.

I don't see any real issues with Invuln. If I was to rate the support secondaries, I'd go Stone (which I refuse to touch for visual and slow-moving reasons), WP, then Invuln. Most of the things Invuln has a problem with, other sets do too.

Right now I'm entertaining the idea of making it level 10. That would get me into debt range which I'll need to get an accolade, as well as give me a fair bit more powers and slots, along with some good IO choices. It'd also guarantee that if I did MM, I'd have at least 2 buffed pets, if not 3 when SSKed. And would open up the "good" powers that often appear at 6, 8, and 10.

*edits OP*

That's pretty much what I've been saying. I may not necessarily like the mag 100 hold or the detoggle, but it means they're at least trying to make this experience more unique and interesting. It's pretty hard to throw anything standard at a team of 8 and have them not brush it aside. Much less 20+ people. That's why we have things like Mask debuffs, Sappers, and Vanguard. It has to be totally bonkers to impact a good team, and at that point most people go "Cheap!"

Player buffs in CoH are a hefty thing, and past a point, unless you just throw a huge number of strong enemies at the player (Mothership Raid, LGTF, LRSF), you basically have to resort to using new abilities that may be perceived as cheap. Or totally reinvent the encounter such as with Hamidon. Which I think is a bad idea for totally different reasons.

Snipes could fit if they were balanced toward what they're for. For a 4 second cast time on a power that does less damage than Total Focus, which you can use in combat, it's just not worth it.

Snipes could be upped to have twice the damage they have now, and then they might be good. You might have to up the recharge to 32 or 40 or something, but that'd be a heck of an opener... unlike what we currently have which is really just good for taking out minions. That still wouldn't be as much damage as an AS, so not too nutty.

Just doesn't fit a Dom lifestyle though, even if the damage was upped.

Not to mention "When are you going to fix platypuses?"

Maybe. And maybe to give debt its fair shake.

What would people suggest if level 10 was the cutoff?

Theoretically no Good alignment would just flip out and kill people on a whim for no reason. Being Good means you work to make things Good, or work for the greater Good, or do it because it's right. You don't kill people for no reason. You may however kill people if they're standing in the way of Good, depending.

If you're Lawful Good, you follow whatever rules you're listening to in the name of Good. If you're Chaotic Good, you do whatever you want... in the name of Good. If a Chaotic Good elf is fighting for Good, and an Evil person stands in their way, would they kill them? Maybe, maybe not. I should say they're certainly capable. Legolas did it all over the place.

Actually, this one can be dangerous. It's not possible to predict what would happen here. Because it's also possible that the main reason there's so few similar names is because people are dissuaded when they find out something is taken.

From my earlier example, I tried to take Black Jackal. I had no intention of just settling for Bl4ck J4ckal and calling it a day. I think that there are a lot of people out there who don't want to so clearly broadcast their lack of creativity. With crazy simple names like "Darkness," all the variations may be taken as well to the point that someone just gives up.

If names weren't unique, that'd never happen. I would never know there's another Black Jackal out there until I ran into him/her. And every single person who ever thought to name their toon Darkness would immediately be able to do so, and zone right into Atlas Park next to Darkness, Black Jackal, Catgirl, and Darkness.

And then 8 for that other power, and then heck let's do 10 cause it's a round number, right?

I'm pretty sure Batman is Lawful Good. Lawful doesn't imply he obeys the rules and laws of government, just that he obeys some sort of rules. Batman does have a personal code of law that he follows. For instance, he never kills anyone. If he was Chaotic Good, he'd kill badguys on a whim.

You more or less had me until here. The snipes suck, yes. Heal or RES toggles on Doms? Don't think so...

Invuln is a pretty solid set now. I'm almost certain it's #3, or close to it, in personal mitigation now. It's certainly a lot more sturdy than most of the other sets, especially to S/L. And if we start talking soft-cap builds like SR and SD, it's possible to soft-cap Invuln as well. I know, because I have a soft-cap Invuln Brute I can do +3/x8 with. 47% S/L DEF, 70% S/L RES, with a Dull Pain always waiting. And Tanks can easily run around with capped S/L RES using Tough. With the build I have, a Tank could easily do +4/x8.

At the very least, it's certainly more than "playable."

I'm a believer that mez protection shouldn't be all-or-nothing. I'd like to see all the holes patched up with a small amount of protection. Every set that has a confuse hole or knockback hole gets mag 3 protect to that. Not the full 10 or 14, just enough that a single application isn't a problem, but you're still "weak" against it.

Besides that there's also some weird holes I don't understand. What does an invulnerable person have to be afraid of?

Well I'm not saying they're the only gangs, or necessarily the hardest ones, I mean they're the ones that characters at their absolute peak at level 50 are supposed to fight!

I'm a lot like you. I take Fly or SJ. I have one toon with SS, who happens to be a Kin. I have one with Teleport, but I don't play her. She's one of my oldest toons too.

Truth be told I have respecced a couple characters to drop a travel and just use NR. But none of those were flyers. I only drop SJ to take NR instead. I can easily get Hurdle+NR to SJ (sans Hurdle) speed. I get the added benefit of running fast too. Still, I've put NR on the bar for all my toons. My main villain is a flier, and I NR around with her for short trips and inside missions. But I still prefer the autopilot function of Fly that no other travel power has.

I'm the same way. Though I technically can't skip the prereqs yet, I never would anyway. I like CJ and Hover. I would never drop one. In fact, my characters I mentioned above that don't have SJ, still have CJ. I have SS on a few toons as a level 49 throwaway power, but all my characters already have Hasten. And I don't care about Teleport. I'm not one of the Air Sup folks. I take Hover and like it. It lets me do stuff NR couldn't do, like float around in the air or reduce knockback effects on squishies. One of my Blasters even Hovers 24/7.

It was a bug, but it was fixed. And it shouldn't affect NR because NR doesn't have any slow. Walk is technically a -max speed debuff to your toon, which could be increased to be a stronger -max speed debuff. NR has no such effect, so IO sets that increase slows should do nothing to it.

And it was me that pointed it out on the forums that he responded to.

I don't really think it's the best solution though. MA already has enough single target damage. It has 4-5 ST attacks depending on whether or not you count CAK. Adding another single-target attack doesn't seem like it would change anything.

I'm not arguing that mag 100 holds aren't cheap. What I'm saying is, what else could he possibly do to be a challenge to 20+ players? Even if he does totally outrageous damage, it's almost a given that a team of 20 people would have RES and DEF buffs, reducing incoming damage to maybe 5% of its intended value. If he autohits, that's cheap and unfair to DEF users. If he does damage that's unresistable, that's cheap and unfair to RES users.

What would you suggest he did to make it actually hard and not just fake difficulty?

It's not a "you" as in you, it's a general "you." And it's not saying YOU PvP, it's saying "different people like different things, whether we understand or relate to them or not."

Update on my friend's situation: She got her badge. She tells me the GM that helped her basically said "Oops, here you go." vv

Yeah this is the one that bothers me the most. That awesome belt is ONLY available when wearing a robe.

Also I hope they fix the tai glove skin texture issue for girls so I can actually use it!

I'm thinking so too. I've heard scarcely few (read: zero) horror stories of CoH accounts being hacked and overtaken. Much less numerous times to the same person. And unless he's doing something awfully bad, there'd be no reason to ban all of his accounts, or blacklist his name.

This sounds more like a PEBCAK problem than anything. Exactly what precautions was this friend taking (or more accurately, not taking) that allowed him to be hacked multiple times?

I always thought that the gang progression in CoH made no sense.

You start off fighting guys with pistols and knives. It's not long before you're in the Troll and Outcast range. Almost immediately you're fighting mutants, freaks, magicians, demons, aliens, and monsters. Yet, once you get up into the high levels, what gangs do you fight?

Council
Arachnos
Longbow
Malta
Knives of Artemis
Cimerorans

So you start off with people using guns and knives, progress into mutants and aliens, and end up fighting people with guns and knives. And those are the most threatening units in the game!

I giggle at the idea of Superman fighting Romans, and losing.

Doubtful. I have a Natural Blaster, Magic Scrapper, and Science Brute who are all 50. They run at the same speed.

The speed should scale by level. But it's also affected by global run bonuses and Sprint/Swift.