Lightslinger

That'd be awesome Snow Globe, let me know if you find something and we could try to work something out. I'm sure there are others that would like a shot at this too.

Really thought I could make myself love a Tank and for 26 levels I stuck with it, Aristos Shield/MA Tanker.

But whenever a Brute was on the team I felt useless. Brutes were jumping in, taunting, often taking aggro from me (I was also taunting) AND doing great damage. These weren't super maxed out FotM Brutes either, I'm talking mid 30s Claws/Inv Brutes were showing me up in almost every way.

Sure, as a Tanker I was tough enough to withstand almost anything, but considering Brutes were holding aggro AND doing great damage I started feeling pretty useless. So, I called it quits on leveling any more Tanks until something is changed with them and I'm back to my original intention, Aristos is a SJ/SD Brute and even at 12 he is amazing, Sweeping Cross hits HARD and I'm already tough enough to handle jumping into most spawns. I know Shield would be more damage on a Scrapper, but the inherent toughness of the Brute sold me.

Thanks for the advice everyone.

As I understand the Victory Laurel is an option on the reward table for completing one of DJ Zero's Valentine's missions. Is it possible someone may still have him available as a contact, meaning we could run that mission and I could get this costume piece?

I've got a character I'd love to have this on if at all possible, and waiting until next February is a long time off. If anyone has more info on this or would be willing to help it would be much appreciated.

I'm on Virtue server, available most evenings after 8:00p central. I'll be on most of today (Sunday, May 27).

Edit - D'oh! Appropriate Info would help, huh?

I'd actually thought about SS/SD for that very reason, but I really don't want to roll another SS character, that would be my 4th.

So I guess you're saying the difference in "toughness" of the Brute wouldn't make up for what I'd lose by not going Scrapper?

I need some advice on a character I'm working on right now, a level 8 Shield/MA Tank. I want a Shield Defense character and I want to build for some awesome levels of toughness. Tanker damage is just something I can't get past, sure a Tank would be the toughest a Shield character can be but the damage is beyond anemic.

Despite the fact damage would be much better on a Shield Scrapper, I think wanting to build for toughness would lean towards Brutes.With a Brute I could still be tough enough for 95% of the game (maybe better than that!), AND have great damage.

I'm thinking Street Justice/Shield, any advice or builds on how to make a very tough Brute for this build?

Edit: If anyone has a SJ or MA/Shield Scrapper build they wanted to show off I will still consider that, Shield has a good taunt aura so I'd be open to a Scrapper if it can be tough enough.

Does Shield have a taunt aura? Because whether or not AAO works well on Brutes, if it doesn't have a taunt aura, you'll be dealing with runners on a Scrapper. I'd much rather lose a bit of effectiveness with AAO and go Brute if that's the case.

Can't wait for this, my main since I started playing in Issue 7 is Lightslinger, an Energy/Energy Blaster and while I appreciate the KB when solo, I hate it when I'm teaming. Can we slot more than one of these procs or is it unique? If I can it will be going in Torrent and Explosive Blast post haste.

Edit-Just read up and saw that it's unique, now to decide what power to put it in, probably explosive blast.

Young Justice impresses me more and more every week. This whole Invasion arc has been really well done, what impresses me most is character design. I've loved every single character they've done so far, from the Justice League to Young Justice, all the costume/character design is amazing. The YJ Nightwing is easily my favorite costume of his yet.

Also, Tim Drake Robin in the new timeline makes me want to play my Staff Melee characters more.

The biggest Going Rogue disappointment is that now those beautiful zones and amazing storylines in Praetoria have been almost completely abandoned. Would love for the devs to find a way to open those zones up to more people.

This thread got me to go check out Laura's arc, running it now. The mission that awards Steel Savior is awesome, glad I found out about this.

I don't want to advocate more annoying "So and so wants to talk to you.." contact pop ups, but the devs should really get a way to advertise great new content like this.

At least work in a mole machine somewhere here, and some of the brass ponies too!

The most important question of all regarding today's vehicular team teleport: is it a dog? Surely there's a 4 leg rig used here somehow.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't a dev say that Kinetic Melee came from an attempt to revamp Energy Melee? They basically decided they were changing so much they just made it a new powerset instead.

Not trying to derail the discussion or disagree, Energy absolutely needs help. I just think its an interesting footnote in Energy Melee's history.

Can we just get back to nerfing Blasters? Thanks.

I did miss out on this because I wasn't able to play enough in January and February to justify VIP, but I would definitely buy that aura the second it hit the market if ever. The Vanguard Pack set the precendent of being a loyalty perk later released on the market, I'm hoping this will be the case here too.

Rolled a Staff/Dark, I'm definitely still going to try /Regen, but I will probably wait and pair it with a future set.

My Staff/Dark (Sandslinger, all the dark powers colored to sand, very original and totally not done before) has been incredibly fun so far. He's at level 15 and right now the ST is good and the AoE is awesome for a lowbie.

For those not wanting in on all the Staff on Staff craziness, roll a new support character and be a God on all the DPS only teams running.

If they didn't find a way to use the 4 leg rig with Staff Fighting I'm out of here, that's ridiculous.

I've at least narrowed it down to definitely Brute, still don't know if I'm going /Dark or /Regen. I know Regen is nowhere near as OP as Dark, just something about it sounds different enough to be new and fun.

However...redraw, bah. /Regen would probably be better paired with the upcoming Psionic Melee anyhow.