Greldek

The lost are by far my favorite enemy group. I just thik they are hilarious. But I also agree with the previous poster who hates the enemies who bubble themselves or team mates and make them invulnerable. It's just not a fun mechanic.

I really enjoy my dual pistol / kin corrupter. I dont know how "good" it is cause I just team play with it. But it feels fun and effective.

You cannot beat a claws scrapper for a "do anything" character IMO. And you can pretty much take whatever secondary you want with it, and make it work. some end hits will need the +endo procs to run smoothe, such as dark armor. But claws scrappers are amazing.

I cant even get my own original names used for RpGS across the decades! Then I scroll through my character list and see "oh I do have that name already!" And add a surname to the unplayed character and take my name back on the fresh character 😛

Would you share your regen build ? I e got a kat/regen scrapper that I really enjoy and just started an MA/Regen brute. But not really sure on the build for either. The scrapper is currently just in plain old non-set lvl 25 IOs.

War mace is pretty strong and has bonus CC built into it to help reduce dmg in the form of knock ups and downs, and disorients too I think. It is a slow starter though. Claws is overall a great set. And very noob friendly. Super strength is always popular. You do have to learn how to use rage right and manage the crash though. Street justice is a fun melee combo set, with very easy combos. But once you get a few powers in it flows fast and feels fun to play. Katana is a great old set, and has bonus defense to go with it. Same with martial arts and broadsword. Most of the rest if the sets, while still good (and some are great) are not as first brute friendly as these in my opinion. Also elec armor is great and should go well with any set you choose.

I was thinking staff could possibly use a baseball bat skin, but thinking about animations I think you're right and TW is probably better.

Regardless of how old and cranky positron acted back in the day, they never removed AE farming they just tuned it down. AE farming was a thing all the way to server shut down. I prefer farming to be done in places like AE, so that you can enjoy the rest of the game without running into farm teams monopolizing areas. And farming / power leveling will never go away. It is a staple of gameplay in literally every MMO I've ever played. And havi g it tucked away in private instances is the best way to have it. But yes I agree those assholes who make a new lvl 1, and then just sit in Atlas spamming for hours to find an AE farm need to STFU and build their own farmer on a 2nd account or something. But anyway farming v no farming will not do anything to increase population. if you want more population start streaming it on twitch, start uploading videos to YouTube and mention the server you're on. Post that shit to general gaming subs on reddit instead of COH only subs. If you want new players, just go to wow forums or something. Find a post bitching about how dumb the newer expansion is, then make a post "yeah this really bummed me out too. I havent played wow in months now. Been playing in city of heroes for awhile until blizzard gets its shit together" or whatever, obviously dont be spammy w/ it and dropping links everywhere. But getting the word out that it's back and still fun is how you'll get new players. I was actually playing a lot of gw2 before homecoming came around, and when coh came back I was thrilled. But just because I was bored of gw2. It's a fine game but I was over it. Thered a lot of gamers out there who might like to play this game but dont even know of it, but just nerfing shit and talking about it within the community isnt going to be a catalyst to them finding the game.

This is my issue with bean rifle. In already well into my next shot before my previous shows up, and so it often feels like I'm missing all the time cause I never know which numbers I'm seeing are from which shot I took.

Claws is amazing on scrappers and tankers, but brutes and stalkers need follow up with claws. I also feel like staff is in a great spot. Everyone likes to butch about its low dmg but its middle of the pack. It has great utility though, and overall is fun and flows well. I just wish we didnt have to breakdance for the aoe attack, and had an alternate animation we could choose.

That's what I thought. I was sure there wasnt a lockout timer that would bring the MSR to a halt. and like was mentioned there is a instanced version they van spawn if they need those merits, but chances are 99% of those merits will just sit in their inventory for months/years.

The worst scrapper, is still better than the best of any other AT. So the reason would be because you're bored of playing SSSS++ tier characters (every scrapper) and just want to slum it with some noobs on some other random garbo AT.

Does that lock them out somehow? Doesnt it just make 1 less pylon for them to kill?

It pairs really nice with dark in that it helps with darks endurance issues. I have a dark/staff tanker and it's amazing. Now I plan on making a more dps oriented staff character and cant decode between stalker, scrapper or brute. Stalker loses some of the utility but gains massive ST dmg which is nice. but I might just go brute, I have a bunch of scrappers and stalkers already.

My only characters with stealth are stalkers or happen to have stealth because of other powers with stealth in the set. Like energy armor or devices on a blaster, or the shadow fall type from dark affinity. If I do take stealth power pool its exclusively for a iOS, and usually just 1 lotg recharge. And I never stealth missions. Unless I end up in a speed TF that is stealthing them.

It's not necessarily better on either. If you want to get the most dps out of it, it's better on scrappers. If you want to be sturdier and have more threat it's better in tankers. People really need to stop with the thi king that powers are only good on 1 archetype because some nerd decided that its marginally better on 1 at over the others. There are very few power sets that change enough between ATs to make them clearly better one 1 AT vs another, and even then that usually doesnt mean they are bad on those other ATs. Just that they are overtuned on the other ATs. In most cases it's not "is it better on..?" the question is "what do I want to do with this character?" And also.. who gives a crap what the nerds say play any powerset on any AT you want, and have fun.

This game is so piss easy none of that matters. There are no bad sets. Just bad players who cant get past the ezmode sets, that take no thought other than copying someone elses build to make strong. Anyone who says they would never play resist sets on a stalker or scrapper is not worth listening to, to begin with. People were soloing avs before IO sets and incarnates with resist set scrappers, soloing +4/8 missions too, back when you had to get friends to join your group so you could get the max team size, but somehow now that they can stack IO set bonus' and incarnates and become unstoppable gods, those sets are somehow "bad" now. Give me a break.

Having a kin just makes cleaning the maps faster. Not as important if you're just grinding recipe drops and inf passively. But if you're trying to plvl a new character to 50asap it makes a difference when you're going to be slamming aes one after the other. Often still with incarnates on cooldown while clearing some maps.

I love staff on my tankers. It's so fun and I'm not as concerned with dmg on my tankers, but man those huge cones and that big aoe all on short cooldowns is great.

My first energy scrapper is bio. I have him with about a half a billion build and all incarnates at tier 3, but none at t4. And it's fine but I dont, I really prefer the energy/rad scrapper whosnon a budget build and not incarnates out. and shield would be strong too but idk, I like rad over shield for energy as well. Once my rad scrapper is finished lvling, almost there and getting some incarnates I'll probabaly steal a lot of IOs from that bio scrapper as I dont think I'll be playing it much anymore.

I've noticed many people who comment on this game dont test anything they read and just take it all as fact. In addition theres a large feeling that if it's not best its trash, which is just stupid in a game this easy. so people have been saying kat is bad, without every trying it or testing it, because someone else said it was bad, and they only said that, cause they read that it was bad, from someone else. The good news is that ice melee/electric armor is the new hotness. Avg of 5 runs is 1:22 Now I just need to sit under atlas and watch all the ice/elec scrappers pop up in front of Ms lib

I agree on this. My peacebringer was a blast to lvl up to the mid 40s then just kinda faded into uselessness. I couldn't tank as good as my tankers or dmg as good as my dmgers. And I was spending the whole fight trying to swap forms to keep up with what was going on. So much work for so little return at high lvls. I feel like abandoning human form as a combat form and buffing up squid and tank with human form powers would help. You could then focus on being blast with a side of tanker tanky with a side of blast. As it is, I feel like i should just play a sentinel instead of a PB.

I have 3 energy melee scrappers. Bio, rad, and shield. Shield has been stripped and forgotten I just really dislike shield. It's not fun unless its fully IOand incarnate out to me. And I like characters that are fun all the time. I prefer rad to bio, but both are strong and for pure dps I think bio takes it.

Troll shadowknight checking in. Dont worry that 45% troll+hybrid exp penalty was totally worth the like 7hp per 6 sec health regen (out of combat).

Can you post your build? I was trying and trying to make BS fun on a scrapper, and venting my frustrations, when someone said to try it on a tanker as its better on tankers. So far my rad/bs tanker is lvl ~25 and having good fun with it