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I'll go with this guess too. The first pick by itself said little but the second one kinda clinches it. Also, the New Boomtown will have a TF with Apex as the starting contact.

This is what I think. Skipping pets on a mastermind is like making a Blaster and then skipping all those annoying attack powers.

First tier pets at low levels do about 50% of your damage. There's two of them, each does about what your own attacks do, and there's only one of your Tier 2 pets. Plus, as mentioned, they provide 50% of your Bodyguard mode.

How would you like to take a Brute or Blaster, and then say "I'm going to reduce my damage by 50%, and reduce survivability (hit points, defense, whatever.) by 50% too."

No? Didn't think so.

Take the pets ASAP.

So the Brute version should too, but not Widows' Confront or the powers from the Presence Pool. No auras either, even if Tomax lists a taunt effect. Just checking.

Do all taunts have the -Range in them? Or is it only Tankers' Taunt? Serious question...

I just respec'd my (new) Fort for the required 24 respec, and pretty much this.

Aim -> Subdue -> Dominate -> Mental Blast plus Psi Tornado and Psi Scream when there's a big enough group to make the AoE worth it.

I have Stamina but no travel power, and the basics from the secondary (Maneuvers, Mind Link, Indomitable Will, Foresight). Can tank for a bit, esp w/ Mind Link, and dishes out the damage. Good times.

I my defense, I was referring to Acemace's post in this thread here.

But other than that the basic idea would be useful? Get rid of Origin and replace it with some icons relating to team/invite status?


Making more unique icons would be fine with me, I was running low on ideas as I did this.

On Mission Map: maybe a little door icon, since so many instances are "door missions."

Also, what's the difference between a team leader on a full team (who can't invite you) and a team leader on a less than full team (who can)? I didn't see that one listed.

Some thought should go into making sure the pop-up help is useful too, if it's too cryptic it might end up needing more work.

While you are looking at badges, could you look at the Vandal badge? It's for villains who defeat 25 Hydrants, 25 Mailboxes, 25 Newspaper stands, and 25 Pay Phones in Mayhem Missions.

I'm not seeing any progress on the badge on several toons. Is it awarding? Or just not showing progress? Thanks if you have time to look into this.

Damage Enhancements are a "Schedule A" enhancement. The first cap occurs at 70%.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Enhanc...iversification



I'm pretty sure this is a known bug. Look for it to be corrected soon-ish.

I call them "demonettes."

I'd say yes also. If you can pull a spawn into a tight bunch (corner pull or whatever) and then immobilize it, post 32 your minions will AoE it to death fast, no matter what it is.

That's a bummer because MMs can be fun and rewarding. Robots/Traps in particular is a strong build once it gets going.

You did make some mistakes. Triage beacon is the weakest type of heal available, and the recharge is huge. It's pretty much a "pick last" power for Traps imo. Aid Other, from the Medicine Pool (available anytime after level 6) is a better choice imo.

Caltrops would have been better too, it causes enemies to run slowly, take damage, and then flee the area, meaning they spend a lot less time attack you or the bots. Acid Mortar is also a great power.

You also picked all, or none, of your personal attacks. Neither of which is a great idea. It's better to pick one or two personal attacks, and save some picks for the secondary, which does provide a big boost for ya. A bit of damage from you, plus some mitigation from your secondary, would have been a big boost overall.

Lastly, I see you slotted for damage, but didn't mention Accuracy. MM or Scrapper, slot for Accuracy first. Get two Acc in there (especially before Single Origins), then start slotting for damage.

Good luck.

This too. I don't think we should necessarily try to change the fundamental themes of Brute EA. It's OK if the EA set doesn't quite live up to WP or Invul as a pure tanking set. But I also think EA is clearly under-performant in many regards and needs a boost, even if it doesn't get boosted all the way to WP's levels.

I think the first thing would be for us to agree on what's broken and then how it should be fixed. I'd like to see some thing done with EA that doesn't make it exactly the same as every other melee set.

For example, EA already has a theme of Endurance Reduction and +End, but that's kind of lack-luster, imo.

Invul has +ToHit (in Invincibility) and SD has +Dam (in AAO), both of which boost damage. Therefore:

What about some +Recharge for EA? To me, "energy efficiency" also means "runs better" or "purrs like a kitten," which +Recharge could represent. Also, I really like the global recharge on my Widow, and I can't think of any other melee defense set that provides global recharge, so it would be unique to EA also while indirectly boosting damage too, like Invul and SD do.

This is of course in addition to obvious performance boosts like adding more Def Resists, which I think has to be done no matter what.

Hmm, Drain Endurance gives +25 End, but you have to wait until level 28 to get it. Whereas Fiery Aura gives you Consume at level 20, which means you could conceivably use it to Skip Stamina. So which Brute secondary really gives you "unlimited endurance?"

I'm not trying to pick on you, I'm just confused by how you see "unlimited endurance" in Energy Aura. Personally, having to wait until your late twenties or later for a Power Set to get good means it isn't good. I'd like my powers to provide some performance while I'm leveling, not at the "end game," which CoH really doesn't have.



I do totally agree that on paper at least there's a big difference between EA and other sets. EA appears to have modest defenses and low resists, and it takes quite a bit of time before it even builds those up. It doesn't get any "extras" until very late. By contrast, Invulnerability and Fiery Aura both get self-heals before level 4, and Dark Armor gets a self heal at level 16. Willpower gets Regen, +HP and +Recovery by level 16.

Whereas Energy Armor just plods a long getting small bits of Defense and Resistance and nothing extra to show for it. The "extra" it finally gets is Stealth at level 20, which is counter-intuitive for a Brute.

I don't know if moving the level at which a power is available breaks the Cottage Rule but I think moving some powers around might be needed to provide some more performance for EA in the early levels. This and buff the individual powers as well, many are far too weak on their own. The passive resists in particular need the Invulnerability treatment.

My 2 inf.