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Originally Posted by Sherpherd_Boy

with all due respect... if you need to rely on inspirations and or accolades, especially in a duel, u have two options... respec or delete

Originally Posted by Aura_Familia

Me thinks they forgot to adjust the rewards BEFORE moving stuff LIVE.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

motivation to move on to primal earth?

Originally Posted by Pitho

Haven't done any praetoria arcs yet but....are they still only giving 2 merits per arc?

I thought that was just placeholder until they put in the real arc merit values.

Originally Posted by Redd Rumm

OMG !!! My Fire thorn perma dom with fire ball ,rain of fire & melt armor !!!!!!!!
I think i luv this game again !!!!

Originally Posted by EricHough

Brutes get nothing for CS because they would not normally GET anything extra. Scrappers give up their normal crits on CS in order to recharge power siphon, as do stalkers. Brutes don't get crits, so there is nothing to give up to get the extra feature.

Originally Posted by RedSwitchblade

Wasn't sure.

Anyway I've seen a petless bots/Traps in action.

Sit down kids, let me tell you the tale of Professor Freak.

Professor Freak was a man who sold out his enormously flawed superscience to the villain world at large. Always thinking grandly and delivering poorly, Professor Freak was loved and reviled, depending on whether you were on the bystander side or receiving side of his genius, respectively.

In 50 levels of my teamings with this NoBots/Traps, I was surprised to find that he still was as valuable to the team as ever, even if his only sources of damage seemed to come from pulse rifle blasts that could barely melt butter and seeker drones that actually managed not to slice their own master's head off in carnal lust for blood.

One time, I saw what the fuss was all about, and it was a doozy. The sun, if you could call it that, was dimly lighting the obscured sky of the ruins of Atlas Park in some dismal, grisly future where Lord Recluse finally had hiked up his gonads, roflstomped Statesman, and proceeded to crap all over his kingdom by letting it calmly burn to ash around him. Content that he was secure in his Fortress of Burning Lolwut, Professor Freak merrily hopped, skipped, tripped occasionally, and finally stumbled across the landscape unnoticed.

We engaged Lord Recluse in all manner of attack that some would call downright uncivilized. Professor Freak spent most of his time tickling the Spider with his guns, until finally Recluse turned and looked at him angrily - only to be shot in the face ten times with an acid mortar that was loaded to the gills with Damage Procs, and a couple of seeker drones buzzing at him like angry metal bees. Oh, how the Spider hated the bees!

Knowing he could not go it alone, or even with my assistance, Professor Freak calmly asked a few friends to assist in the beatdown.

What I saw next was something that blew my mind. The team descended, and in pitched battle the Spider taunted them all with his army of Banes and his sliver of insurmountable health. Then, from the heavens above, descended a single Assault Bot. The label above its head was emblazoned in green with the moniker "My Life's Work" and it promptly landed, shouted an error code and made the bootup noise from an OS9 PowerPC, then exploded, killing the Spider. Sparks flew from Professor Freak as the Super-Villain Advisory Board granted him clearance to level 50. My jaw hit the floor for critical damage. This little turd of a character violated his idiotic noPet rule for an equally idiotic chance at glory with a marginally idiotic use of Detonator. I then imagined what he could have done if weren't an idiot.

Never in my years had I ever seen something so amazing, until 3 weeks later when an Ill/FF named Subconscious scored the final blow to Lord Recluse, at the feet of Grandville City Hall, with a baseball bat after we took down his WEB device.

That's the story.

I know all too well the power of Bots/Traps in reality, but to say that even WITHOUT pets, you are super useful, is something else. Also Professor Freak is very real, he's a good friend of mine, and he's far from an idiot. But that moment blew my mindhole wide open.

Originally Posted by DSorrow

I'm going to change Fireball for Ball Lightning on my Elec/Shield. If not only for the better conceptual fit (goodbye Fire Blast and Ball, welcome Elec Blast and Ball Lightning!), but also to save a power pick. I'm not yet sure what I'll do with it, but being able to summon a Mu could be useful. They do have a heal, right?

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

True. However, while I may be a complete aberration in many ways, how many high end scrappers don't respec fairly regularly? I can't respec Bill these days unless I buy a recipe off the market or a new freespec lands.

Originally Posted by Kheldarn

Turns out there wasn't a patch. My updater was just being a ******, and wanted to fix and verify things.

Anyway, I clicked an empty slot to make a new character, picked Praetorian -> Brute -> Kinetic Melee, hovered over Burst, and set the slider to 50.

The results were:
31.28 Smashing Damage
20.85 Energy Damage

Plus, while under effect from Power Siphon, it adds +25% strength to Smashing, Lethal, Fire, Cold, Energy, and Negative Energy on self.

Originally Posted by JuliusSeizure

I wouldn't say that Brutes were any more broken relative to Scrappers than Scrappers currently are relative to Stalkers.

In fact, if the Stalker community was as vocal as the Scrapper community, I wouldn't be surprised if the self buff modifier of 1.0 and 0.8 was swapped between the two ATs-- ie a nerf to Scrapper's burst damage and a buff to that of Stalkers.

Originally Posted by EvilGeko

Fixed.

Broke AT is broke.