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Yes, I know what the word "enabled" means. There is a reason I chose it. Its almost like I did not include in my post:

The game enabled Trinity style play from the get go, and people coming from elsewhere certainly were willing to lean into it. Tankers, other than Fire, were not known for their damage, a large enough group would want healing, and the way you end fights is damage. And in recollection, there was plenty of love for Empathy Defenders (along with people declaring themselves loudly to be such) and not so much love for Force Field Defenders. Heck, if Kinetics didn't have Fulcrum Shift and Speed Boost I suspect they would also have been a lot less popular with their healing emanating from foes and requiring them to hit for the heal to be triggered. But people have also been finding ways to get by outside of the Trinity since the start too.

I'd rather have Energy Aura tankers. 😛

Would love to have the option on Chest Detail for Ascension without the grillwork. As example with original left, suggestion* right: * To the limit of my artistic abilities

Storm and Dark suggested the costume colors to me, including hair: WeatherWitch.costume

Not sure how Stealth is measured, but yes it stacks with Celerity (which I have slotted in Sprint). With Sprint and Shinobi-Iri activated very little sees me (though some few things do). Edit: Should have checked Combat Attributes.... So things with a perception radius of 65 ft. or less will not notice my character unless they they ignore stealth radius like some things do according to Stealth and Perception - Unofficial Homecoming Wiki (cityofheroes.dev)

Unconquerable - SS/Bio Brute Here Comes The Boom - Nelly - YouTube

Not necessarily what I would do given my druthers but trying to follow your lead on S/L Defense. As such its lower in S/L Resistance than what I've done with Bio before but tradeoffs...you can't have everything. But that does make me wonder if your choice comes down to which two of S/L Defense, S/L Resistance, or +Recharge you sacrifice. | Copy & Paste this data into Mids Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1381;670;1340;HEX;| |78DA6593D94E53511486F7690F201D1804649E5A192C5029EA9D89010113A552E10| |14853B7F524A525A735814BDF4051E3AD13B7DE2083E353A8F1C207905113AF3431| |C775CEFF079AD0A4F9F6597BAFE95F7B27972743AFAFDDBFA28CE0D55CBA585C98B| |0EF9574D57CC6D2F98C56EEAF4AFE2D9E7921A9735AC7A7F2DACEAEE0A31B1B93FA| |8ECE17757CC22A2CCCDAD974DECA2C8CDB8B055B855385422E3E6D65EF96AC7C36E| |07DCD2F697DBBD15B4E2D2F69DB5AD4F952BA6415F2419CCEB9C71BA696AC4C7CDC| |CE942458325D2C697BA5456A89BA35198A3FC7AF528288A97CB7C839D09C07D75D0| |7EFBC63AA515924642F01565E202F82A72E816FC4C7808F327A9467DB109B1FB60A| |FFA1DFB3057E927FC4DC69AAD05FF21F58D3C4B8820AD65BF1023E032FC95760ECB| |26C9B7E556D40733777D510726F4AEE6AE47602C220F67DC11D1FF2EC82757BA021| |01C2CC17A63E31EA13A33EC3D4E79DC4AE655FB53F504BDD0E787A97DC031BF7C90| |330247EF5F4AD7F607AB6330FC955B0E511F9186C7B02BE97BC0D46C0F5351A9A0D| |AFEEB631C4F54BFD4D9C591367D6C199758C815D9C5D1767678A4F337CFCCD3710A| |78B73EAF94D721E61412B356CA5863DD4B0971A7E90FADAD95BFB33F8F73E27D7C0| |287DA3F48DEE83956E3BD4BF93FA0F53FF61EA3F42FD6BE46C377BED0E419BB361B| |286AC05FBEBC18F525B043EBE0873F7B3EE01D6F049CEF47917DF31FB66D0777F12| |1CB949CE8289149892B60659F7E067C439F785FC4A7E03BF87941AE23D1D6AC33D9| |D13FF387B89AFC3767E83DC24B7C0C4361891B98D228E31CAFB9E203BCCA377EE5E| |7DC751D3E6D16B76664EECA64C6EBAEFD6B31C04CA5EB267F9596EB92E8B01531D9| |E38F5EBD86218AB3EBCE2A7E0B6FB1A91C5D92A5BBF2D5BAFC58EEBFC0F5007D91A| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

If you're not facing Defense Debuff then between capped S/L resistance, absorption, and regen...is S/L defense really adding much? And if you're facing Defense Debuff...well, you're back to leaning on resistance, absorption, and regen. Just wondering if more effort should be bent towards improving Recharge by which to better make Ablative, Siphon, and Parasitic.

Have to admit I am impressed at forcing S/L Defense to such values without crazy sacrifice.

Electric Armor is perfectly good on a Brute. But Electric Melee....well...errr.... And no, I have never taken extra KB protection on any of my Electric Armor characters. Suffering knockback in the air just does not come up enough to worry about.

I don't think I've ever done that TF so quickly. Was a great time.

I still want to see Savage/Stone being played so I can see someone in Granite form using Savage Leap.

Or you could cheat and make a faux-stalker by building a Ninjitsu scrapper. Add a Celerity: Stealth IO to sprint and most things will never see you and you get a crit from hide (admittedly only every 20 seconds).

SSSSHHHHH!!!!! Do not start another round of the Melee AT Wars!

Ahh!!! Brutal Thursday. Actually hosted a group of Brutes a few weeks back on Torchbearer, though it was a Saturday.

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A matter of what a person wants out of the game. The only routine use I make of P2W is xp boost (I grab 2) with the hope that DFB, Posi 1, and Posi 2 will get my character to roughly 20th level. Back on live I did have one character with a human origin making use of Assault Rifle and Poison for whom none of the travel powers made sense. For him I purchased a hoverboard.

Think of it less as redundant than being able to not used Divine Avalanche in your rotation unless you come up against opponents who debuff Defense. Not sure if it is a worthwhile difference but for the cost of 4% Smashing/Lethal Resistance you could save yourself the cost of the Superior Blistering Cold set in exchange for an Obliteration set in Divine Avalanche, gain another 1.25% Melee Defense, and 5% Recharge.

Already had pulled it up and relived my highschool senior year. 😁

Putting aside song references (for a while anyway), I have in previous posts noted my desire for a character with Kirbyesque fashion sensibilities. Sadly my previous characters who got the designs did not hold up in the playability department and I was not so wed to their costume designs to reuse. But hope springs eternal. In this case I was shooting from a kinda fusion of the Valiant character Livewire with the Marvel character Crystal (Amaquellin) of the Inhumans. You know...there should be more costume featuring complex design. Here is what I've managed for my new Electrical Affinity/Psychic Blast Defender: ShortPsircuitc.mp4

I should probably step outside my little world. Maybe talk to a pretty girl.

You were trying to get that song stuck in my head, weren't you?

If you are a member of super group with a portal equipped base, Ouro->Talos is your friend because both a base portal, the tram station, and the TUNNEL network are all a skip, hop, and a jump from where you arrive from Ouro, hence allowing you to choose the best option. For Cimerora, its probably easiest to just super base portal to Croatoa which puts you right outside the local Midnighter's Club.

I will admit that while doing a Posi 1 on my level 50 tank who absolutely did not need the TF but whom I ran to help out a group looking for members I was a bit frustrated when after two pulls of me jumping in first and not a single thing coming off my tanker (who because of TF level only had one of his two damage auras) I was a little miffed to twice look up and find myself alone with the group having run off after the veteran blaster who was faux-tanking. I say faux-tanking because while the blaster was fine I noticed repeated precarious drops in various other character's health which did not happen when I actually waded in first. Then, with a goodly chunk of my powers missing came the pull where my guy went down and sure enough, nobody was behind me. "A level 50 Tanker went down?" I can sense you asking. He's level 50 but I have not yet respec'd and IO'd him into his post-50 build. So the loss of powers due to the level we operated at was significant. I've taken the finished build cruising on the Test Server and it handles +4x8 like you would expect--without a problem. In any event, at that point I am really miffed. So I decide from that point on (Oranbega) to not be the first in on any subsequent pulls. Sure, when we got to our dark doppelgangers that proved to be a bit of an issue (for them...I lived) but they never seemed to take notice. So in a way, you're right--tankers aren't really needed. . . . But then, neither is any other AT. No party is going to wipe because it does not have a single Blaster, or Controller, or Defender, or any other AT you can name. Having a particular AT around may change the variety of tactics available to a party to be successful against its foes, but that's about it. And I have certainly had tons of fun figuring out how to make it through DFB in a group of three before (though the minimal number I have badged with is four). So as arcane suggests, if nobody is face-planting, there isn't really a problem here.