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Ooh. Some interesting choices there, you really shouldn't need the ToE proc thanks to Particle Shiekding. I'll take a look on Mids' when I'm not working later.

Those of us who exemplar a lot? Heck, as an Ill/Sonic main, heals help keep me and my poor phantasm from faceplanting even at 50.

So?

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

I was pricing a Hecatomb recipe a couple days ago, and prices were running at under 10 million. I crafted and got back 22 million, but still. Just in the past day I bought a set of Apoc recipes at under 15 million, save for the proc. The patch is working as intended? Huh. Imagine that.

Dechs sold me on it back on live. Longer explanation: Dark Regen, Soul Transfer, high resists, just enough defense to get you to the cap, and a damage aura. A well built DA is really really hard to send to the hospital.

I love my staff/dark brute to bits. Properly built out, dark is a beast of a defensive set. Between the resists, Dark Regen, and Soul Transfer, you're rarely hitting the hospital or asking for wakeys. That said, I also chose staff for her partially because Form of the Soul would help with the endurance issues during leveling. That also said, its not like there's plenty of other armor sets with endurance issues. Still, there's some room for improvement in DA, or at least discussion. This right here. I don't call her 'Toggle Lass' for nothing. You have seven(!) toggles, two clickies, and zero auto powers. One of the toggles is also your damage aura, so that's even more endurance drain. The other damage aura sets get some endurance mitigation so you're feeling kind of left out here as well. I'm not sure I'd want to change any of these to auto powers, but I do feel that's something worth pointing out as to why everyone feels DA is hard on endurance. Cloak of Fear improved when fear went from 'run away' to cower. Now tanks and brutes don't have to worry about chasing off the guys they want to taunt. I use it on my brute as cowering minions does give you a little bit of mitigation, and it makes a convenient set mule for Siphon Insight. I imagine it might be a little more useful if you buffed the to hit debuff, but I'm playing a brute so what is debuffing even. Oppressive Gloom, meanwhile, is where DA really needs the rework. A mag 2 stun for an HP drain? Even if that might be useful mitigation for scraps and stalkers, they don't have the HP to actually use it. I don't know if Cipher can run the stats, but I'd easily believe this was skipped on like 99% of dark armor builds. Alternatively for Cloak of Fear, I can endorse this. Playing a staff brute with no inherent +to hit outside of Form of the Mind levels, I weep every time the CoT drops my roll to hit down to below freezing. Being able to shrug off their attacks doesn't help when I'm flailing away helplessly back at them.

Given its not that hard to finish a build here that can get you two stacks of rage, I'm unsure. Rage is just a massive unbalancing factor when it comes to SS.

This was the problem Captain Powerhouse ran into when they tried to re-balance Rage some months back. You can't re-balance Super Strength without factoring in Rage. And Rage is kinda hard to adjust.

Check the beta forums, its in the upcoming changes Jimmy mentioned.

Didn't want to get caught trolling on main?

You joined nine days after the patch landed, chief.

Meanwhile, prices on converters have... dropped? At least in the past day.

This kinda stuck with me while I was working from home today. Five alts a week every week already almost IO'd out. Do you actually play these alts once you're done top-tiering them out?

Oops, I forgot its also 60 pages of Oppression Olympics: Homecoming Edition.

Welcome to 60 pages of Bad Economics: Homecoming Edition.

A class that needs more powersets than it does a nerf. I'm still trying to find a dom concept that works, from my limited experience the class is fun but I need a hero/villain not just a powerset with a costume.

If they don't feel different to you that's not a game problem. I mean, I run content consistently at 50 and lower and its definitely not a City of Brutes. I consistently see a variety of archetypes when I'm puggin'. Everyone plays their own style, everyone has their own favorite ATs and powersets and characters, everyone is having fun their own way. There's close to 3000 players online right now as of Thursday dinner time EST. The game is doing something right enough that a private server for a sixteen year old game can pull in that kind of numbers. And I don't see how broad nerfs will make any of them feel more special.

When no one is special, everyone is?

My dark armor brute is already weak to energy, my rad armor stalker is weak to cold, my blaster is weak to everything. What more weaknesses do we need?

One bad economics post generates twenty responses. Why. If y'all really want to combat inflation, make it so that forum posting costs 1000 inf a word.

The horse is dead, Jim.

Dark. Form of the Soul works really nice with the end usage.

Taunt on a brute is still handy for those times you're tanking or want to pull. As for what's skippable, I never took the cone AoE on mine. Between Eye of the Storm and her damage aura, I didn't really need it. YMMV

No, I don't think I will.