Kyria_Shirako

Or, in some cases, "Your AT is better than my AT." I've seen posters with a remarkable talent for self-flagellation in this regard.

I can point out many failings of the queue system, but minimized teams isn't one of them. Heck, I've never had a more boringly easy time than one BAF we deliberately ran with 12 people, because the escapee spawns, reinforcement spawns, and (I've heard and find plausible but have not been able to verify) the AV HP scale to the quantity of trial participants.

This. This is my problem with Praetoria as "The Current Storylline," and I could scarcely have said it better myself. It's not that Praetoria is - or at least, was - a bad setting, it's that what the game is continuing to do with it strips it of everything that made it unique and interesting.

This! Also firing (Or, depending on track record and if it was in fact someone actually valuable having an uncharacteristic brain fart, administering one hell of a spanking to) whoever decided the Lore pet implementation as all Praetorian, even initially, was a good idea.

It's a very good extended tutorial on ambushes!

I'm basically just ignoring the Well for most of my characters and using logical extensions of themselves to explain much higher tier abilities. For example, I have a Kitsune character who, as she gains more and more powers, will gain more and more tails, until once she fills the Omega slot she's got her ninth.

Hell, forget the Incarnate paths, a lot of people ignore the canon descriptions of their primary powersets in favor of their own interpretations; I know a "Radiation" Blaster who was made out of living water and who'd colored it blue and was calling it just that; the -Defense was the ability of her blasts to flow like... well... water, and into the cracks in people's defenses.

It was a brilliant little joy to see and I don't see how creative interpretations of Incarnate powers would be much different - like for a ninja I know who's using Void Judgement as a big smoke-bomb, followed by a two-second faster-than-the-eye ninja flip-out. Then hey, the smoke clears and everyone's suddenly unconscious/dead!

That's part of why Lore (deservedly) got such heavy flak - it was one of the two most complained about things in the Beta because it is harder to reinterpret as yours unlike the other, recolorable, customizable Incarnate powers.

Do you know the amount of base damage Firey Embrace boosts Scrapper Burn?

I'm sorry, I don't... understand the question, which concerns me. What factor am I missing that says that the brutes with the same powersets and under the same set of conditions do more AoE damage?

Okay! Time to explain the damage scalars again.

This isn't actually painting an accurate picture, because of the damage scalar, which is easiest to think of as a multiplier applied to the damage of all attacks. Scrappers have a 1.125; Brutes have a 0.75. The reason the Brute cap is higher is so that they can have room for fury.

1.125[Scrapper scalar] x (100%[base] + 400%[capped bonus]) x 1.1[crit] = 6.1875
0.75[Brute scalar] x (100%[base] + 675%[capped bonus]) = 5.8125

In most circumstances, Scrappers will do more damage than Brutes, especially in sets with any kind of sustainable self-buff - because a given damage buff to a Scrapper is almost twice as good as a damage buff to a Brute. Actually, it's 1.875 times as good. Scrappers get 100% value from powers like Build up applied to their damage scalar of 1.125; Brutes get 80% applied to their 0.75. Soul Drain at high recharge falls into this category and is an incredible damage buff.

That said, Brutes do get more out of resist-based sets because of their higher cap, the self-heal will be stronger because of the Brute's higher HP, and Firey Embrace is a special case these days in terms of damage buffing, one I haven't had a chance to fully analyze - Though Scrapper Soul Drain would apply to Firey Embrace damage and cause a huuuuge multiplier.

Oh wow. I think I actually have to go and look at the numbers and think about this one.

That's because you shouldn't be trying to cap positional defenses on Invul, you should be going for typed on both that and Willpower.

If you really want positional defenses, go with Shield or SR, both of which live or die on their positionals. SR will be less expensive to softcap and has more affordable resistance to defense debuffs; Shield contains a wide-range non-crashing nuke and a damage buff and will be more amazing when it reaches said softcap.

Iiiinteresting. How do you silence them?

I have never actually had a problem with Trapdoor on any of my 50s - but then I get full IO builds out on people right at 47, so maybe that helps. But I can tell you that one reason Trapdoor gets more complaints than the Honoree/Holtz fight is that the Honoree/Holtz fight can be autocompleted, something I often do just for expediency's sake.

Aw, hell, seriously? It doesn't? That's disappointing.

I forgot about temps, and they're a good answer. Getting a Shivan Shard is pretty easy and should help you take him out quick-like.

The advantage of Fire Melee's DoT's being affected by Fury and not Criticals is sometimes overstated. Looking at the numbers for Cremate, the DoT accounts for a quarter of the damage, and Criticals for one tenth of that.

That's a difference of 2.5% from otherwise expected performance, and that's the outside case. Fire Swords have an 80% chance per tick to stop ticking mid DoT and Incinerate delivers all its damage on a critical.

That said, Willpower will have a higher regen rate and maxHP, and without a consistent damage buff from the primary or secondary the damage will be pretty comparable. Throw in outside damage buffs or Musculature Alphas and the equation changes in favor of the Scrapper, but absent such things you'll probably be fine, damagewise, on a Brute.