New Dawn

I do agree on the Crab Spider, that was my initial interest but then I got this all VEAT team thing going on Zukunft with which we are talking about doing the LRSF already. Thinking back on all that has interested me in the past ie an all leadership scrapper team etc I see a perfect opportunity. Truth be known I would like 7 types of VEAT (I think they are that good) and I thought my mate who said he wanted 6 was mad!

Widow Tanking!!

Even on the LRSF.

Call me what you like you Novices.

Its a tad early to be getting into numbers but I couldn't help it. These guys are looking heavenly flexible

Better than Khelds in my opinion!

Fortunata side looks interesting but I'd rather do one later

When it comes to the sets, I see:

claws;
assault rifle;
super reflexes;
psionic blast;
mind control.

All of which I have a level 50 with.

So really I should be the most horribly bored person.

But I am not, I feel somewhat empowered. Someones mixed up what I am most experienced in and becos i can get confront I wonder: will I tank heroes with it?

Hopefully in a way that I imagined an all scrapper team could with a leadership build...So now while everyone is interested in getting the kills (when in wolfpacks this should be good) I might have a chance of clearing up another of my what if ideas. Kills just ain't my thing; I care as much about other people getting them as they do themselves.

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I'm thinking more towards EM now, if i create a woman character then the glowy pom poms wouldn't look out of place.

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Mine is called Pom Pom.

Prolly a bad time to ask with all the testing and that..maybe wait on the build change?

Very expensive.

Oi! I have a 50 TA! Very nice set. I'd tank for a TA like mine easy...seriously dunno bout anyone elses

Really like your concept btw.

Your not alone. I can't take villains seriously. Who cares if villains fail? I remember all the "Please can you nots...". I best hush up in case anyone from zukunft reads this and kicks me out the vg.

Tanking in reverse to me is turning around and shooting your team mates.

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I prefer it to look like they're doing something not prancing and posing like complete fools myself, but if that means slow and powerful I guess the answer to the second question is yes

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The Knockout Blow, as good as an attack it is, has that stupid wind up to it, Jab isn't a Jab, Haymaker is more of a double Axe Handle and hurl helps you produce a rock out of a steel platform...all moves are so telegraphic you wonder how on earth it should ever hit a defense set...if you wanna get fussy

Yours had scrapper survivability did it? or do tankers have to look slow and powerful?

I have 2.

Dude those taunt auras help cause the enemy to hit you and build fury. You can more than reap back the end cost in running them from the additional damage per end.

I struggle to think why I would even want a SR brute tbh. Mine would fly I know that much

I have to apologize I was wrong about there being no real investigation on how to make it a damn sight easier.

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0 end slots: 0,52 eps
1 end slot: 0,37 eps (a difference of 0,15 eps)
2 end slots: 0,28 eps (a difference of 0,09 eps)
3 end slots: 0,26 eps (a difference of 0,02 eps)

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I wrote those figures down wrong XD. Bold printed the missing digits. I know, didn't matter too much.

The biggest problem with doing the STF is that there has been no real investigation on just what you can make yourself capable of doing on it. A team with one simple interest in dissecting it is bound to come up with simpler methods. You can do a STF live, character copy at each difficult junction to the test server (but you will have whole missions to cover) and really get a chance to play with it in your own time to try and destroy some of the myths. I believe that the way its commonly gone about isn't the most sensible way and that there are methods that can make lighter work of it so that teams don't have to be so fussingly set up requiring certain pool powers and powersets making it easier for more and more PuGs to walk in and do it. Half of the get this and need that is pretty knee jerk imo.

I have yet to do it with a bubbler but I can imagine some empaths having to spam heals way, way less. My empath currently has power boost which puts fort at 45% (had it checked) so she is a bit "bubbler? per che?". The thing with empaths is that its much better if the tank and the team can make it so that the damage to the team is taken thru the tank, with bubblers you can afford to be less careful unless we are talking about stacked AoEs.

I would sooner make DA tank but tanks are what I normally think about. I've heard it said that it could lead to a whole new way of tanking. I openly admit that I had personally thought prior to the past years game changes that a Dark Armour tank could be somewhat over powered indeed. The trick is, its not for those that concentrate on the offense whilst the passives take care of the defense. To get by you just can't always play just like everyone else does. I find it the most interesting anyway or most sick, sick is a better word for it.

Omg flaming has come to the creative section Fun read!

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For some reason, I can't get 'Hey nonny, nonny' out of my head

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Where does that nonny nonny come from?

Its like we are witnessing someone evolve beyond what most people do in seeing what you do.

I love where your going. Keep up the great work.

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Nemies Claws

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Really love this one.

I think its a lovely gesture. Great Name for a character also.

Can't believe Morgana is in fact Mother In Law btw

Mainly because your empathy I'll suggest Dominate. Scrambled thoughts takes too long and is weaker in almost every other way but perhaps its better for PvP as its a disorient. Dominate has the right amount of range because its more similar to the ranges of your empath powers anyway.

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So the best build for a brute is : use the same primary as secondary (DM/DA, Nrg/Nrg, Elec/Elec, ect).

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"My apologies if I did not make myself clear" What I was saying is that Dark Armour alone with the right pools added, movement and timing can handle large groups without even touching the primary. So the DM part doesn't even matter, well normally until I am going for higher ranks. The key thing is that I still had all the primary with the pools added, even taunt. Any melee will do fine. A single target won't have me using death shroud, on less than four minions I see it as a waste. Generally its the same with CoF being DM.

I am an experimental player as much as someone who goes with concepts. I tend to synergize everything and put them thru the same paces. As much as I put my min/maxxing days behind me there is still me trying to do a lot with a little so then if I had the min/maxxed builds that some people do have I could theoretically do a lot more. So in real game I play gimped characters really.

Checking balance, in one day I had 3 Blasters who went and soloed Frostfire at level 7, each had a different advantages and disadvantages and each had to operate slightly differently to the other. All in all he got owned. I do sense a balance across sets and even had, with excel at one time found, common traits across them. They have shared values.

I could say that Dark Armour is gimped to everything else because of how I play it or say Dark Armour is one of my strongest brutes because of how I play it and that I did. They are reasonably balanced and its just how I play it or in the dynamics of how people team with me that tips the balance.

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Shannon, try replace 1 recharge with 1 heal on your Dark Regeneration, this will make your heal-per/sec better, and it's a bit less on end-use

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The Dark Regen has been set in a way that is down to how I play. I do rely on a heals per sec. I know that you get a level of heal from the amount of foes you effect and work from that. In short, its PvE and because of how I play I almost never heal to anything but a full bar. A heal to do more to that full bar wouldn't do anything but a recharge to help gain a full bar more often, say every 12 secs from nothing increases my hps. If I was PvP I'd have a completely different build and would have to have a heal slot.

I wouldn't go and 3 end red anything on DA really. This is because well lets do it to death shroud:

Death Shroud plain IOs:

0 end slots: 0,52 eps
1 end slot: 0,37 eps (a difference of 0,15 eps)
2 end slots: 0,28 eps (a difference of 0,9 eps)
3 end slots: 0,26 eps (a difference of 0,2 eps)

Now with each additional slot the saving in endurance is reduced. I think of the whole build. Is there space for a slot elsewhere that can save more than 0,2 eps. Because we don't just run death shroud, we run other powers too and they all stack with each other and add up to give an overall endurance cost.

But I may not use that slot as an endurance slot. In order to save on a couple of endurance points I might want to do more damage per endurance points. Using one attack that can one shot someone. Its better to hit them once with it using just 2 damage slots than slot just 2 end slots and have to hit them twice to do the same amount of damage per endurance.

The Acc is there in DA because. I hate to miss. Damage and taunt stack together to make me the main target. If I am getting attacked then thats my fury bar heading in the right direction.

Conceptually I like my Brutes to be phenomenally brave, the one to fear most, the one major threat to put down first whilst they still are outnumbering me and therefore stand no chance of passing aggro onto anyone else even if it means my defeat. Anyone feeling like they can turn their back on me for someone else has paid my brute an insult

Generally Brutes secondaries aren't all that dissimilar to Tankers imo.

I seen pictures of train wrecks less twisted than this thread.

I think I can get what 2 people are saying with neither one getting the other anyways.

Walk it off

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Well I been playing on my new Grav/kin and she is great fun too, ironicaly, my mate who sits next to me to play, missed my sonic/sonic so much, he went and rolled one, so tada the headaches are now stalking me lol...

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Before I tell you this you better sit down and take a deep breath.

He's not your friend

Firekitty done a Grav/Kin guide a long while back. Its a bit of alright really. I just would try to avoid sbing those that don't want it rather than calling them rubbish and sb them anyway . I think if you have hurdle and lack combat jump its easy to overshoot and if you sb someone in motion they enter mobs earlier than they timed.

Trick Archery is a more enjoyable set imo. In some circumstances you will be less useful than a sonic (and there was you worried about thermals XD ). TA doesn't hand teams uberness on a plate in some cases, but those cases aren't necessarily impossible, success just won't be handed on a plate. I think the same thing with storm as well. Great sets, great for people who like to think, playing one or with one. TA with other defenders can be awesome fun but TA played with people who have pets can be annoying because of oil slick.