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Yes, but to be fair Brutes don't (generally) herd or take as much aggro as tankers. And you guys tend to rely on fury to kill things so you can get away with using your large heavy-hitters less often.

Scenario: INV/SS Tank fighting a big mob, in the middle of the herd letting Invincibility do its thing. Hitting things with your End Bar hovering around 50% (normal practice for my INV/SS, the big attacks cost a fair bit).

You hit Knockout Blow on a Boss, bringing your end bar down to around 25% and notice that "rage" is beginning to blink. You hit Rage and Queue Footstomp to avoid some aggro with the -defence you're about to receive. Suddenly rage crashes and you get hit with the 25% end, dropping all your toggles, leaving you with -defence and that "only affecting self" message ---> **Completely** helpless.

And it'll be far worse when fighting carnies...

No, it won't affect people who don't run perma-rage.
It'll probably mostly affect PvE tankers who solo from time-to-time.

It's not a SS-killer, but it'll certainly be very annoying for certain people- myself included.

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Hahaha, no. I herd as much as a tank with considerably less surivability, I have to spam my attacks to (ie; more end use)get Fury and I have lower base damage than a tank.

All the change means is that you have to pay attention a little bit more and maybe *gasp* pop a CAB!

And the End crash is a lot better than the old penalty.

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didnt it used to be autohit?

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Yeah, but the Def based toons got annoyed. Especially the Stalkers being auto-knocked out of hide.

I don't really see it as an issue on my SS/Invul Brute to be honest and while I usually run it all the time, I generally don't auto the power because of possible slows etc...

It's not exactly a nerf at all.

Woop!

The Paragon Defenders rent goes from 220k to 65k!

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Although I still say PB doesn't boost -res

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It doesnt. -res is another form of +dam and damage is not a secondary effect. PB does buff a whole lotta other things, like other debuffs in that build.

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It's all about the boosted Heal and the boosted LR.

Rad/Sonic, especially builds like this are designed for 1v1 PvP Psydock.

Besides, Rad is just too good with Power/Primal.

It does work, but not against better players.

Still scares Xanthus though, he always goes "Oh [censored], Gatling's going to nuke me."

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Your Ancillary Power Pool shield will offer 50-55% odd by itself.

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i'd have to agree with max this seems unlikley

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Go test it.

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Your Ancillary Power Pool shield will offer 50-55% odd by itself.

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I got it from, ya know, in game testing, you may have hedrd of it, more fun than reading numbers from builders. Defenders get about 45%, Controllers about 50%, Blasters get about the numbers quoted in the builders.

Actually, you'll get higher res that I previously stated. (I read the first post, hit reply button, got a sandwich and came back to write the reply, brain glitch!).

Your Ancillary Power Pool shield will offer 50-55% odd by itself. Throw in Tough (and if the builder numbers are right on that, not sure but I can test it later) you could be hitting 65-75% at a pinch for S/L.

Endo's don't affect Duration of Cage.

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Also snipe is questionable in pvp. Can use it to snipe squishies in zones but in arena it is not very good.

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Snipe can be used really, really well for burst damage with a co-ordinated team. But Fly is really needed as it just gives you a huge advantage to Snipe with. Especially so on Elec/* Snipe+Nuke is a very dead squishy.

Aye, about 50-55% Res depending on shield and SO level.

@Imag:

Em, we're not so sure. Reports state Endo's enhance Mag, not Duration for foe intangibles. But they're not exactly the same as Foe Captures, so we're doing some testing later.

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Still not sure why Heroes would have cells, as all criminals are tp'ed straight to prison after we take them down

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Same reason Reichsman is under the FP headquarters. Some threats are too dangerous.

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and why not stun ? people give that skill such a bad wrap but it seems classic for smacking down on a dominator/corruptor

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You can 2 or 3-shot dominators and corruptors anyway, with very high chance of inconsequential disorient from your attacks in doing so. Theres no point in wasting 2 seconds just for using stun

And outside sirens call total focus is miles better than stun, if you want to disorient some squishy. Only theoretical reason for getting stun would be to stack disorients to mez a character with disorient protection. But I'm not convinced its possible anyway until someone shows me.

ps, in sirens call,
Aim, BU, Bonesmasher, energy punch, bitter ice blast
= dead dom/corr or a brute propably low at life depending on brute

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do you reckon the first ice attack is worth it? or should i be thinking about ditching that all together.. I mean for the sake of regularity i like it.. at the same time the damage isn't inspired.

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Adds a nice amount of DPS to be honest, rounds off your ranged attack chain nicely.

What do you want from the Controller?

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seen another pvp event is then so can do 27th

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Woo. *does the PvP happy dance*

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Right, Xanthus is actually going back to Uni on the 13th and I think we'll be Hami Raiding on the 14th.

I'm thinking either Saturday the 2oth or Sunday the 21st at say, 8:30 GMT on Test? Pocket D?

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Just to confirm Retribution is ready for this fight on Saturday 20th at 20.30 GMT

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Sounds good for me.

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If i were u i wouldent take Grant Invis.
No use for it in PvP.

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Other than dropping stuff like Rad toggles?

To be fair, the term Regen is slightly misleading now that IH is a click. Regen's survivability is all about Dull Pain and Reconstruction, so Slow's [censored] that right up.

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Sr is squishy without a sonic in the arena. Even if the sr has fort, i would only attack a sr with aim and build up and i could 3 hit the sr if i get lucky while a regen takes a lot more effort to take down.

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With a good Empath behind them? Unlikely.

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Regen's biggest saving grace is Dull Pain, which'll annoy any Blaster almost as much as Miss Miss Miss.

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Dull pain + reconstruction is the annoyance, Elude is no problem for me

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Throw in Fort and it may be.

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IT might, I havent tried. Bring the toons to arena, I want to test

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Have to be Test, Imag's Spines/SR is on Onion.

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And yes, all taunts need a ToHit Check but Taunt (the actual power) has a very high accuracy in PvP anyway.

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yeah i know, but I suspect you also want to do some PvE at times as well, if only to lvl up

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Pv... E... I'm sure I remember doing that once or twice...

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Regen's biggest saving grace is Dull Pain, which'll annoy any Blaster almost as much as Miss Miss Miss.

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Dull pain + reconstruction is the annoyance, Elude is no problem for me

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Throw in Fort and it may be.

And yes, all taunts need a ToHit Check but Taunt (the actual power) has a very high accuracy in PvP anyway.