StratoNexus

All true, ego-tripping is not confined to meleers, sometimes I get bummed about KB on my rangers too, especially my Fire/Fire/Force blaster, they always seem to use KB right as I use Rain of Fire. If only they would just stand and admire my beauty and the devastation I will cause to our enemies. Damn those other players for wanting to use their powers too!

Sure, their attacks cause damage and add control, but MINE are so much more productive! How can they not understand? Why do they think they should be able to play too?

It will be interesting. Regen does much better when combined with attack sets that provide mitigation (Swords, Claws, KM, DM). Most brute attack sets provide reasonable mitigation. Using KD, KB, stuns, mezzes, etc. magnifies what Regen brings pretty well.

WP is certainly easier to use, but Regen can likely match/exceed it on standard to mid-tier builds. Once you get to very high end builds, regen may fall behind, but especially when you consider a brutes higher HP cap, I think regen will surprise a few people.

I am looking forward to a SM/Regen brute and I generally prefer scrappers to brutes.

I love defenders, but when talking about AVs, all corruptor teams are by far superior. Scourge is ridiculous against AVs and GMs.

That being said, any increase in defender damage would need to be accompanied by an increase in corruptor damage.

I still believe in the post in my sig. I still think it is crazy, but I believe in it anyway. Buff defenders!

Can't do it. I don't turn my difficulty down and stealth through missions just to get them out of the way. I never log into the game just to get it out of the way. I never do anything just to get it out of the way. I have one character that has built up 23 H-merits. Almost every one of the missions I ran at +1 x5, my standard level for that character. Some came when I teamed with others, and then they were at whatever level they ran at. When I run a tip/alignment mission I want to enjoy the mission, not just finish it as fast as possible.

PvP IOs are not easy nor are they within easy reach of anyone who just wants one. 330 missions is not reasonable.

EA has been relatively painless to soft-cap since I13, but not because of PvP IOs.

I do not think the regen gets shutdown, but even if it does, compared to how well the defense and resistance of all the other armors works I guess you are...

wrong.

Reconstruction and Dull Pain have unresistable heals. The mechanic Hami uses to stop healing is granting you heal resistance. Heal resistance does not work to stop regen's heals. It is good to be a regen in the LGTF.

Indeed, your teammates should watch in awe as you do all your stuff damnit! I always say the only reason to dislike KB is melee ego-tripping; you and I are some of the few who are willing to admit it!

Indeed it does. I always forget that Granite has mez protection.

I am all for a no fade option on Energy Cloak. My /EA loves the fade, but I see no reason for this not to be part of Power Customization.

I add my voice to your clamoring din! Let my character remain visible even when cloaked!

I find it doubtful. I have decent, but not spectacular, global recharge, +56.25% before Hasten and once I get Energize I am sure that will improve by 5% thanks to DW slotting. With my FF +recharge in Foot Stomp I figure I can normally have Energize floating just above a 40 seconds cycle time. I am guessing the +recharge for the set will cap out at 30% or lower (likely hitting +20% around 5 targets). Even if the recharge shoots to +50% from the aura, I will only likely get to ~36 seconds at best.

And of course the +recharge would help me shave a second or two off the ED recharge as well, which can have additional mitigation properties beyond the heal. I think the EA changes overall will be very good. However, I am very happy with my /EA brute now and this change will be removing a heal I currently rely on regularly and replacing it with a heal that has twice the base recharge and a lower potential maximum heal (although counting in the +regen, Energize likely beats out the total HP gain). I am not sure which will be better for me, although I accept I may suffer a degradation in performance to lift the set overall (blaster defiance changes already did that to me once).

I do not normally suffer from being whittled away. I am normally fine and then take a big hit where a heal is nice. When I get hit twice with that big health drop quickly, I know ED will be back very soon (or I can use Aid Self with its 10 second cycle time). Energize could be 30 seconds away. The kicker is that in order to take Energize, I'll likely have to lose Aid Self. So I am looking at losing the quick recharge heal in ED and the very quick recharge heal in Aid Self. I am not sure what the other changes to EA are, but those resistance increases in the passives better be more than just token buffs.

I can handle one blue patch. I never move away from BM during the first half of her health. Haven't really been able to test against just 2 patches, but I imagine 3 or more would be killer no matter your regen.

I have trouble figuring out what Destiny to take on my tank characters. I ended up with Ageless on my WM/WP/Earth tanker, mostly because End drain was likely his primary bane and I thought the debuff resists could be nice. So far I am happy with the choice.

My Kat/Inv/Body scrapper went with Rebirth. An extra heal and more regen on top of all the other mitigation is very nice.

My SS/EA/Soul Brute went with Clarion. Avoiding Fear and Confuse has been nice, the modest increase in defense and a few other secondary effects is OK, but primarily I thought if I could keep teammates from getting mezzed, that would likely help me the most.

I have no idea what to take on my Fire/Ice/Earth tanker. His recharge is already great, he has no end issues, so Ageless is out. Healing Flames recharges so fast, Rebirth seems a waste. Barrier could be could and seems the likely choice, but Clarion is also looking nice. Some extra status protection for myself and allies, preventing even those exotic mezzes (which become less exotic every year).

Anyone have a good Destiny suggestion for a graniteless Stone/Stone/Energy?

The irony is, just on SOs, Regen will be near the top of the performance curve. It is only when you start IOing and only when you add many enemies where regen's performance evens and can even fall behind. Yet IOs can still allow regens to far exceed the performance needed to tank AVs and 8 man spawns, but, yes, they will have to use their clicks.

With Dull Pain active, Regen brutes should be able to tank for a team very well. When it is down, it will likely be tougher. Regen is not a dive into the middle and soak all the aggro for a team set. It can eat an Alpha, but if the team doesn't provide help quickly after that, Regen can have issues. Without a lot of +offense (QR counts some, but not as much as an damage aura or AAO/Shield Charge), they also are not spawnmowers and deal less well as spawn size scales up.

Regen should do fine tanking AVs though. By the time a regen has used all their clicks, a team should be providing strong support vs. an AV. LRSF is, as always, exceptional, but one expects to use inspires, ally (de)buffs, or a strong IO build to handle that encounter. I think they will do fine and should be a fun set.

I am pretty sure I am going to make a SM/Regen Brute although KM and Axe are also appealing. I am more torn figuring out which secondary for my Kat brute. Inv is my first choice, as a replay of my Kat/Inv scrapper, but I also might choose Electric or Dark.

After issue 21 comes out, you can send that 769m and some change to @StratoNexus. Dark Regeneration will not be a blaster power. I have never wanted to lose 500m influence so badly before.

Mmm. 2 self-rezzes. I want it!

OK. I am not good at this whole odds thing. How much do I win if I bet 500 million influence against?

It has KB. I hope it is like Energy Torrent and is at least 60%, although I'd be happy with 80 or 100 as well. If it is 50 or lower, I'll be a little sad (unless they remove the KB, which would also be OK with me).

There are really only 2 reasons to go corruptor over defender IMO. First, you would rather get the blast powers sooner. Second is if you spend most of your time fighting EBs or AVs.

Solo play is about even for both sets, although defenders are generally more survivable solo, IME.

So is that how I can get tankers like you to move faster? Now I need to find a way to get KB on my Fire blasters, so after you gather them you realize that your job in this spawn is over and it's time to move on.

1) Being unable to invite is a bug they say they are going to fix.
2) After popping into the queue for a Keyes with 14 people, I announced the fact in broadcast and 3 global channels for the server I was on. This was a trial at 1 AM EDT. We ended up with 17 people. If people start to learn the LFG system can be made to work, more people will be able to use the feature. Gaining 3 people was great.

Indeed, if we fail to reduce that first number an extra 5 minutes is unreasonable. Therefore the system needs to be supported and given the proper means of communicating to the playerbase that they can join a trial. Currently, the onus falls on league leaders to do that. Some people are better at recruiting than others. I have been on leagues where the leader gets people quickly and queues quickly, with little concern whether the league is full or not. I have been on some leagues where people take 30 minutes to form them even though we were good to go after 8 minutes. I have been on leagues where I waited 20 minutes to start even though the league was good to go WHEN I JOINED (I am glad I read the forums a lot ).

I never recruit that long. I almost always immediately set a deadline. I'll spend 3 or 4 minutes inviting my SG/globals. Then, depending on the population level I set the deadline. I tell the people in the league, we will be queuing in 10 minutes if it is very populous and the most is 20 minutes for a slower time (actually until Keyes, my highest was 17 minutes, but Keyes has been more difficult to form, so I added 3 minutes for Keyes). I literally set a timer. When I announce the forming of the trial in globals, I include the deadline. Every few minutes I inform the league how much time is left and if I announce it in globals again, I include the new deadline.

I do all this because I HATE waiting doing nothing and having NO IDEA if a league will start soon or be another 10 minutes. Since I do not like it when it happens to me, I refuse to allow it to happen when I lead. I never try to fill, but frequently do anyway.

The potential I see in this system is to automate some of those things I do to make everyone's life easier. Yes, I still expect a trial to take 10 to 15 minutes to form, but I'd rather it be a lot less work to form; I'd rather a lot more definitive time until start existed; I'd rather feel free to wander my house, folding laundry, knowing the Green button is coming in 4 minutes, rather than worrying it could happen now, or maybe now, no wait now.

You misread. I do not want the leader alerted, I want any population capable of joining a trial to be alerted that an open league has just entered the queue and that they all have 5 minutes to join themselves if they would like. Knowing that a trial will start in X time is a lot more appealing to people than sitting around Pocket D waiting. A fair number of people who may avoid the trial setup waiting, will likely be willing to go, "Hey, I can join that queue, finish selling, and know the trial will start in X minutes, rather than being bored and uncertain waiting for a leader who may insist on a full trial or some other bizarre nonsense."

Since I do not need to invite those people as leader, I am unburdened of some work. A few people will just automatically fill in and I'll be happy.

Your experience does not match my own. The system has not been out long enough to teach the players that it can function. Cutting it off so early in the process is a mistake. They have not even given the system the proper methods to function, but they are making steps in the right direction. To reverse course now is too soon. Support the system and it will work. Give up on the system and it will fail.

I say we bypass the whole problem!