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TLDR: EnA, ... SD, Inv, SR, ... RadA, Bio, ... with probably EnM ... or Mace, Axe, Kat, ... Define Strong. If you mean durable, that's one answer, if you mean 700+ dps, that's another almost opposite answer (and probably isn't a brute). If you mean both, that's a completely different third answer. If you want to solo a 3-star hardmode ITF, that's yet another fourth answer (and probably isn't a brute).

This is Lucy's combat monitor. SD/RadM. SD and SR can stack DDR, which can be very valuable at times. RadM for the self heal, DM being another alternative for self healing. Tank Proc, if slotted for it, can stack up 21 ish resistance. If you swing away from SD, and don't mind low damage, you can push that another 7 or so points with /Staff and have a dynamic up to about 30 ish resistance. Which is were you probably start leaning Inv/Staff. Which then leads to Granite/Staff which is just silly and probably can't kill a fly. But I know a few of those and they are indeed durable. Rune/Hybrid/Rune/Demonic ... Demonic is an accolade, so it IS available in hardmode. No her resists aren't perma, but they're up ... 7 minutes down 1 minute ... or something like that. It's pretty ludicrous. There's also a very viable offensive variant with the new SD/Axe where you could use /recharge procs. You could even explore that route further and off into the direction of Axe/EnA on a brute for an overload/burnout/overload stacked with Rune/Hybrid/Rune/Demonic/...

I personally haven't done ElA/ in over a decade, but there are several that have run 801s with me, and I'd say they, with those players as pilots, rate at least a 7.

Inv/ is the easy answer, it practically builds itself, and it's very easy to pilot. EnA, Inv, SD, SR, Stone, RadA, Bio, ... and many more. A good hardmode self contained pug tank should be able to solo AE "801.7 static". If you're more selective with your teams, and your team provides buffs the way it probably should, and actually works as an actual team, then any self resist-capped tank becomes the desired choice, then as the team quality improves further you shift into full offense resist based tanks, and several teams start leaning into a full offense fire tank .... which is the exact opposite of a full 801 (Inv, SD, Stone) Tank that would be the above pug hardmode pick. A full offense Bio/ would also fit this slot.

Never actually tried it purposefully, but frequently I take out over half of them when I'm testing, and that's with pauses in between tests for recharge, making notes, and so forth. I would say a duo would be doable. I know raids have been done with 4. I don't think you can do the actual raid with less than 2 due to the placing of the bombs/grates things?

I bind them (bio and staff) both to attack keys, and use macros to switch the bindings in order to switch stances. That way they always automatically turn on when I start fighting, if I've forgotten them. I do the same for Dual Pistols.

I put 2 slots in it in my latest hardmode build. (Recharge+5, Membrane) For standard content 1 slot of recharge+5 would be fine. For hardmode, you can go up to 3 slots of (defense/recharge)+5 or membranes or whatever.

Scrappers can be very durable, considerably more durable than blasters, and can have up to twice the ST damage, but considerably less AoE. I would recommend EnM/EnA for near tank durability while still maintaining respectable damage (but light on AoE damage). I used this combo to solo 2-Star and 3-Star content. From there you can expand into more overall balanced damage with Kat/ Mace/ Axe/ Fire/, /Bio. More AoE focused with ElA/, /SD. and many more variations. EnM Ena ShadowMeld Scrapper - 801 - Recharge-T9 ver 2J - [i25].mxd

There isn't. It's about HP (and regen) and the artificial cap put on degen but not reactive, not DPS. pretty sure for AVs it's always roughly equal, but +4 Trial GMs might swing to Reactive due to the artificial capping on Degen. I do know the really fast teams abuse degen stacking rules to nuke the AVs and GMs faster. Every 2 players take a different radial degen tier, then the last pair take Reactive. Instant max caps of -HP, then multiplied by -Resist. Note: all interfaces have a stacking cap. Degen also has an artificial max -hp cap.

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(Clarion * PB/PBU * Vengeance) isn't your normal unslotted vengeance mule. (Clarion * PB/PBU * Vengeance) can be up to +85 defense in a 100' radius, and can be recharged by the time it expires. It 'can' be very valuable in Hardmode. Typically Vengeance no longer stacks with other vengeances, the only way to stack it is to have everyone cast it simultaneously such that each copy starts casting before the animation ends. The only exception is that you can stack standard vengeance with veat vengeance, as they are different powers.

PRO: **IF** it's a Clarion*PB*Bubbles Hardmode build, then vengeance can add another 65 to 85 defense to prevent a cascade wipe because the team pulled too many EBs and is suddenly facing a defense soft-cap of over 200 defense with an insta-splatted tank who was an idiot and ran into a room with 7 EBs with tactics on a 4-Star, 200 defense soft-cap which is also over the tanker hard-cap for defense. That has the capability of one defender to pump out ~165 team-wide defense. (Yes being a Leroy Idiot is SOP on speed runs, but those teams 'usually' know what they are doing and try to ensure hardcapped def/res 24/7. One of those teams would ideally leverage the Clarion*PBU*Bubbles to allow for an otherwise more diverse less cookie cutter team. vengeance should not be required on a decent or better team.) Con: Most teams res so fast, or hospital so fast, you don't have a prayer of getting of a full Clarion*PB*Vengeance. You'll be lucky to get off a PB*Vengeance for ~65 defense, and a total of ~145 team-wide defense. Double-Con: Even worse, most random teams won't even have the discipline to let you properly leverage Clarion*PB*Bubbles. Buff Discipline matters. **IF** the team cooperates you're a defense buffing monster of monsters, if not, the entire build is effectively wasted and you should have gone high recharge near-perma //Dark/Souldrain instead. Or just roll a Cold/. The players that can't understand how to leverage FF and won't let you do your job, will just love the K.I.S.S of Cold/ even if it's only putting out 20 defense instead of 165 defense.

Here's a petselect pure bind example for MMs. I didn't program a reset key for this, and you'll have to adapt to your own number of pets. I was using a Bots FF with 2 extra pets (Lore). You'll probably need to program a reset key, I usually use 1, and edit it to your buff powers. Petselect_kb.zip

I've run solo at least three times now, on different servers. However, I've also run multiple pairs, and they definitely work better with at least a pair. It probably hits 'optimal' with a trio.

DP is a very FUN set, but it is also near the bottom of the list for Damage unless it's Heavily Procced. I personally don't do (many) Proc builds. Someone else like @Bopper or @Dahkness could maybe help with that. Or you could go find their builds and steal their DP half to weld onto your Empath half. I would recommend Emp/Ice or Emp/Fire. I did my offensive empath as Emp/Fire on a completely sacrilegious build. Aka, most empaths tell me how horrible wrong I went and then burn me at the stake. Hopefully one of the following will help give you some ideas or directions to pursue. This is mine. One build fully offense, one a more traditional Green Machine style build. Neither have been updated since, and could probably use a refresh. Here is Voltak's, and his is a much more tradtional support build, but still capable of offense. Here is Lex Talion's version, but I'm not sure if his build is posted in there or not. I did not see the build at first glance just now. Last are two nearly ancient armored builds. Neither are going to be nearly as strong offensively as a good proc build, but both have very heavy self-armor. They are fairly standard Linea builds. Personally I'd probably say try the one that has Rune at level 20 for status protection. No, it's not perma, its not even perma when you get older and start rotating it Rune/Hybrid/Rune/Demonic ... but it will still make you very durable and give you some options. Emp DP - Beta 1 - [i25].mxd Emp DP - Linea 1 - [i25].mxd

The program will need to be updated by someone.

FF/DP for fun. FF/Water for Self Durabilty and Utility. Clarion Radial T4 * (Power Boost or Power Build Up) * Bubbles are almost twice as strong, and retain that strength for the entire duration so long as you do not overwrite them with weaker unboosted bubbles. However, that means you can only bubble 2 to 3 pairs of targets maximum every 2 minutes if you're using clarion, or 1 minute if you're only using PB. IF you recast bubbles without the boosts, the new bubbles will be weaker, and will overwrite the older stronger bubbles. The bubbles are AOE. That means that so long as all team members are at least relatively close to either of the two targets that you cast enhanced bubbles on, then the entire (at least in theory) gets double strength boosted bubbles. The entire team except for that guy that keeps hanging 100 feet behind everyone else and out of sight hoping nothing kills him. ITF MRA 2d build - is Mattea's current heavy support build that uses Clarion and PB. This build pushes out huge defense buffs. This build has standard defense soft-cap armor, with Rune/Hybrid/Rune Demonic for resists. Which since this is DP without procs means minimal offense. DP is fun, but very low on the offense list without procs, and considerably higher WITH procs. Dahkness' build - is a proc build from another thread. He builds very nice offensive proc builds, and this one will put out some huge defense buffs as well. But has less self-armor. But that procced offense is nothing to sneeze at. But the lower self armor means you'll probably be midline support. STF SLE build - has standard bubbles, but extreme levels of SLE self-armor and resistances. Layer Dampeners on top of that for even more armor. It's a really nice self sufficient build for difficult missions. However, as it's SLE based instead of MRA based, Psionics can be an issue with this otherwise very durable build. Dark Beta build - this is a very old full standard self armor and full offense non-proc build, built prior to proc builds becoming the latest craze. And then there are dozens more variations. FF DP Soul Def - Heavy Support - ITF MRA 2d+ - [i27].mxd FF Ice Defender - Dahkness Bubble Proc 1 - [i27].mxd FF DP Scorpion Def - STF SLE 1d - [i25].mxd FF DP Defender - Dark Beta 1b - [i25].mxd

If you are having to pay 1m for rare salvage, that means the PLAYER SUPPLY of salvage has been exhausted, and you are buying from the GM SEEDED SALVAGE PRICE CAP. The AH was seeded with about 10m of each salvage at 1m orange, 100k yellow, and 10k white I think it was. It was seeded with 10m of each. I doubt the seeding has ever been bought out, nor will it ever be. It's there as an emergency price cap, any manipulation you see is purely player based.

It's like editing a dos batch file while executing it. The parser literally picks up at the last character it read and starts reading the new overwritten code. Kind of like a text based buffer overflow.

WARNING: These are advanced binds, if you do not know what you are doing and are not willing to learn, turn back now, ahead lie dragons that are best not disturbed. Pro: A single key to rotate buffs like Fortitude through the team. Con: Very complicated and Difficult to setup, use, and maintain. Also this version is limited to 5 buffs, but you could expand it to more. Oh !@#$: just use the following command and forget you were ever here: /unbind divide Warnings: Binds are 'mostly' read right-to-left. However, some parts of the binds(and macros) are read left-to-right. Proceed with extreme caution. This will utilize what I call "Press/Release Binds". I've also seen these called "Toggle Binds" and "Cycle Binds". This will also utilize binds to macros. Doing this means it's easier to edit on the fly in-game, without ever having to come out of the game. This will also utilize macro to binds. You're binding macros that bind binds. Proceed with extreme caution. Binds, Macros, and Binds to Macros, and Macros to Binds, and Binds to Binds of Binds, are all possible, and doing these things CAN rewrite the very binds you're executing WHILE you are executing them. Proceed with extreme caution. I do stuff like this all the time, usually just with bind files because I don't mind editing the files on the fly. However, I can see where something a bit more flexible and universal could be useful, and I was recently asked about it. So, what does this do? This binds numpad-divide to [target, cast Fortitude (or any similar buff like Frostworks), and cycle through up to 5 targets (players)], while the binds themselves keep track of who is next in the cycle. This makes it easier to keep on shooting things with less interruption. You could even re-write the binds or macros to re-target after casting the buff, but I prefer to leave the re-targeting separate as I also use pretty complicated targeting binds, and also wanted this to be more universal. Requirements Tray 7 Empty, and nothing bound to Numpad-Divide. Optional any other tray empty as well. If you don't want to use two trays, you can simply edit the T# macros in-game on the fly. Setup (assuming the HC Launcher and installed to something like C:/Games/CoH_HC) unzip the kb directory into your .../Games/CoH_HC/settings/live/ directory. The path to the binds for the game to find should be something like: .../Games/CoH_HC/settings/live/kb/fort1a.txt You will need to do this for each shard you play on. Setup the macros on Tray 7 and optionally one other tray. The second tray can be ANY tray. In the example below I used Tray 6, but it can be ANY tray. If you do not want to use 2 trays, you can edit the T# macros in-game on the fly. Edit the Buffing Power Cast in the T# macros as Needed. Ex: Frostworks instead of Fortitude Press the RST1 macro to finish installing the binds. Usage Press and Hold Numpad-Divide for a half a second to target the player, then release to cast Fortitude. Press, Hold, and Release the Numpad-Divide key. DO NOT TAP the keys. Tapping too quickly and/or lag can cause things to get out of sync. Press the Reset Key for the appropriate player if things get out of sync. Use RST1 to reset and start over from the first target, usually player 1. Rearrange the T# macros and the RESET macro to adjust to your team and desired cycle. Default T1 to T5 Cycle. This is how it should look when you first set it up. It cycles left to right, or more precisely bottom left, up right, down left, up right, down left. You can rearrange the targets as desired. The RST# macros should remain where they are unless you want to buff less than 5 people, THEN you use the RESET macro to replace one of the RST# macros to make it recycle back to start sooner for less targets buffed in the buff cycle. Cycle T2 to T3 and back, for the current team of 3. I'm T1 so we don't want that in the cycle. We put T2 and T3 in the first two slots. We are a team of 3, so we want to cycle T2 and T3 that are in slots 1 and 2, then reset back to slot 1, so we set RESET into 8 (where RST3 was, and before, also left and down, of Slot 3). Cycle T2 to T6 and back, for the an imaginary team of 6 to 8 with me as leader. You can rearrange the targets as needed for any team. If I was teamselect 3 instead of leader, you could rearrange them as: T1, T2, T4, T5, T6 If I was teamselect 2, and we also wanted to skip teamselect 4 and teamselect 7, then we could rearrange them as: T1, T3, T5, T6, T8 EDIT: That should say T2 to T6 If all else fails: "/unbind DIVIDE" and pretend you were never here. /bind Jilaiya Medici kb.zip

Hey guys. Good to see you again Dacy, and welcome Aboard Bunny.

@Gobbledegook "Not a chance in %@#%." Solo 801.6 for starters. If you survive that, then try 801.7. If you survive that, then solo a 2-Star ITF. If you survive that, then solo a 3-Star ITF. If by some miracle you survive that, then we'll talk about blasters being as tough as scrappers. I would under normal circumstances start you on 801.2, then upgrade you to 801.5, then 801.6. But as you're pretty confident in your ability, It should be fair to skip the start levels and just to jump straight into 801.6 Sapping with ranged defense IS a very good tactic. Sapping IS considerably more viable now, than even a year ago, due to the electric upgrades, and it's a great addition to team, ... But it doesn't make you more durable than a scrapper. Damage wise, pretty much any blaster will out AoE any scrapper, that's AT design. ST Damage, you're going to have to crank out 650 to 700 dps to outdamage top tier scrappers. I've not seen any blasters do that yet.

I mostly use Agility. Nerve is nice on a handful of builds. Intuition on all my snipers, and a few others. and probably at least one build with each of the rest here and there. Intuition, Clarion Radial, Boost Range, .... there is something hilariously fun about a sniper that has more range than max draw distance.

Any Sentinel - They were designed to level well from 0 to 50. At 50 most players feel like they fall behind other choices, but that is primarily driven by an over-emphasis on offensive dominance in relatively easy content. Any Veat - Once you get them to level 25 and can respec into full armor. And they aren't bad before that, but are definitely much much better after. Huntsman are my favorite variety. (Almost) Any Blaster - once you add Incarnates and reach level 50. Which is 'oops' if you plan on leveling it 0 to 50 the hard way, and solo.

I have probably dozens of variations. Huntsman - Agent Seventy Seven - Malfactor 2n - [i25].mxd - This is probably the one I did the most malfactoring with Huntsman - Agent Seventy Seven - Malfactor 3b (Hybrid Offense) - [i26].mxd - This is probably the current one, aimed at a higher average level There are so many other ways to build. Most frequently would be double leadership and/or Crab. But the whole point of the huntsman is to get rid of the Fugly Legs.