Tonality

What I find more annoying on melee AT's and kins is scatter because they go every which way. I'm looking at you assault bot!

Knockback can be incredibly fun. Just ask my fire/nrg blaster when it punches something and it goes flying. It's entertaining - especially if you're waiting on a TF to start and you just start launching things that con gray.

Note: If it cons purple, make sure you launch it and run back to the group waiting. They'll thank you later.

That's why I wouldn't compare the two powers. Now that I don't need Aid Self for my builds, I grabbed powersurge for my SS/Elec, but my Elec/Elec still doesn't have it, because it does just fine without it.

I still find the crash incredibly annoying, although I've gotten better at surviving during a crash while surrounded by many, many +3 bosses. It's my latest challenge for myself. The last one was seeing if I could consistently use aid self in the middle of fights surrounded by 16 enemies.

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However, I find tough necessary for my style of gameplay. For ordinary teams, it probably isn't necessary. However, getting your S/L resists up around 60% from 40% is a 50% increase in resistance, which isn't small potatoes. I notice when I don't have tough toggled on.

I just respecced my ELM/SD/Body to ELM/SD/Fire.

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The finger on the shift key twitches just thinking about BU+SC+LR+Fireball

I think instead telling them they get ~15% defense enhanced, I'll tell them it's like having a medium luck all the time. That just might be enough to get them thinking.

I carefully asked the two people I ran across. The first player had wanted a more offensive build and had sacrificed the power to pick up the patron AoEs. This made him more of a blaster than a tank/support toon. I can't fault a play style decision, even if stacking TT:M drastically improves a team.

Now the second player was very much in the first category. He had it once, but complained that every time he got hit, TT:M detoggled. My mind boggled. I didn't press the matter. In hindsight, that probably meant they didn't have fortitude either, and perhaps were still sporting the wolf spider passive instead of the crab spider.

But in any case, definitely approach asking the question carefully. Sending a 'Dude u suck u dun hav TT:M' doesn't usually end well. No, this isn't from experience.

...did you just compare power surge to tough?

Powersurge is not available 100% of the time, and therefore is not the end-all power that allows one to become an alpha-brute. At best, it is a situational power.

There are ways to deal with the crash. Pop a purple or Demonic before the crash, and have a blue and green lined up and you can actually be up and running in 2 seconds providing you time it right.

If you dig around both here and the scrapper forums, you will see dozens of elec/sd builds ranging from the incredibly expensive to the moderately affordable. It's kind of silly to post builds that are already fairly common on the forum.

Energize was added in i16. It is not listed in the patch notes, but the change was necessitated by powerset proliferation as both scrappers and tankers had access to conserve power.

I believe that if you do not respec your brute, you will retain power names, which is why yours did not change.

Try adding some melee defense to your brute. Throw in obliterations into Lightning Rod, Thunderstrike, and Jacob's Ladder. Add a steadfast 3%. Pick up weave. You can hit 30% melee defense without compromising your build.

My elec/elec does fine soloing 3/8 mobs filled with S/L damage. A big part of that reason is that a single luck puts me at the soft cap, and when you solo, inspirations fall from the sky.

As I joined CoH after CoP was pulled, I didn't realize it was that big of a deal.

As for AE being profitable, I have found it far more effective for PL purposing, as you can still tailor mobs to fit your powerset. It is this reason alone that it is easier to farm with. There's no real way to stop this.

I know of a few PvPers from Infinity that moved to Freedom for that reason. I wouldn't base PvP stats on Freedom for that reason.

No but I would like to see something besides circumstantial evidence before drawing your conclusion. I realize that until a dev shows some solid data, this is going to be moot. I will be shocked if more people PvP than play AE. That does say something.

We are agreed.

There are only two draws to Cim: The ITF and farming the wall. However, I admit you could say that about other zones.

Absolutely.

My issue with your post was your statement that PvP was more popular than AE. I don't think they are quite comparable. For starters, AE is an option for PvE'ers as something they can do, while still in a PvE environment.

PvP isn't an option for those that want to PvP. If they want to take their 50's to PvP, there is only one place to go. Those that enjoy PvP will undoubtedly spend more time in it compared to a more casual PvE'er.

I will take your word that this is the case, but I still find it hard to believe.

That leads me to believe that the AI is actually rather intelligent. Why pick a fight with the scrapper that hits like a truck when this tank isn't going to hit hard at all? Sure, I'll go fight the tank. He hits like a girl. That's better than that person over there carrying a broadsword. I think I'll leave them alone.

My main is an elec/elec brute, and I don't notice this, but this may be due to my attacks having a taunt component and my tendency to aggressively use powersink as a taunt and a source of end drain. I also keep lightning field running, which keeps things nearby.

Absolutely.Want.This.Now.

Would you consider posting an ARC ID# so someone can look at the mission in game?

Cathedral of Pain got less media attention than Architect. Many players don't even know what CoP is. Architect still works, and there is parity between missions in AE and in game missions, providing you avoid using custom mobs. Yet if you use the words "PvP" and "failure" in the same sentence on this forum, very bad things happen. Oops.

I find that hard to believe.

I find that even harder to believe.

Which minority are you speaking of?

I would argue that the average PvE'er is more likely to accept a team invite to AE over a team invite to PvP. Over the course of time, it is more likely to see a larger fanbase using AE than active in PvP.

At best, this is an unsubstantiated assertion.

But it's Christmastime!

If the two colors were red and blue, I would probably make it a goal to turn my rep red since I enjoy redside. Still, a very interesting thought.

Then I suppose I should reply to that topic. :-)

I probably won't be spending it. For some reason, I have a very hard time parting for inf. I wind up collecting the merits to get LOTGs, farming for purples I need, and whatnot.

The obliterations represent my appreciation for the time when I was flipping each of those parts on 6 different toons during the AE craze. I'm still trying to liquidate those things.

Does this help get your hopes up again?