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And even with all that, its still not City of Blasters, because you're still going to wind up picking up more debt than most anyone else.

I'm not even sure where to begin on the logistics of 'using X power locks out another player's X power' and that's not even getting into needing the same lockout so Judgement doesn't waste my blaster's BU - Aim - Nuke combo.

Sir, we're going to have to ask you to put down the fork and step outside.

(Is this where I say Malta's actually easier now than Council? At least Gunslingers stay down!)

Illusion has a ranged AoE hold/sleep and a confuse at level 2. Drop a Blind, drop a Deceive on whoever slips through, and you don't even have to worry about using PFF at level 5. Blind procs Containment, so now you get a good chance at bonus damage with your Spectral Wounds as well. Easy peasy at +0/x1. Yeah, 'trollers won't match the damage of a blaster or scrapper, but they're still loads of fun.

*another notch on the belt* Yeah, I put it in Shatter so I could have the proc up not just for Whirling but also for Clobber since it has the highest DPA. (At least on Mids. If that's off, let me know.)

I've yet to try either Broadsword or Axe, actually. My currently sole scrapper at 50 is DM/WP and this puts him in the dust, though I should revisit that build to see if I can slot the Crit Strikes proc better. I'm curious to see what an Axe build would be like too, it seems like its the new hotness among scrappers.

And unsurprisingly where nobody's at. My TEDTalk about how "early game hard, late game easy" is turning the entire model on its head.

Praetorian content ends because Praetoria ends. Yeah, time travel, but why? The future is Praetorians stuck on Primal Earth and the content that can provide. And I can kinda see the lack of interest in Praetoria because of that. "Why am I doing all of this if almost all the land and people are gonna become Hami food and then I go Primal Earth and become just another cape doing cape things?" And you'd need people who want to play goldside and, uh, its not because of the lack of content after Night Ward. But that's for when I'm done through my own goldside replay and 'How To Make Praetoria Suck Less' thread. (Early level 11 spoiler: Nerf ghouls.)

Dusting off my old WM/SD build, I took some newer lessons I've learned, the latest SD build I could find here, put something together, and gave it a test try on some Council in Brainstorm. In the words of the man: Good Gawd Awmighty. So, apparently putting the Critical Strikes proc in Shatter, and leading both my AoE and ST rotations with it, turned her into a one hero wrecking crew. I had never seen that many 'CRITICAL' pop-ups at one time. And the proc and criticals pop up more on ST than it does on my DM/WP. Spawns were clearing at near-team like speeds and even the bosses didn't take long to wear down. I even managed to make end use manageable, and the only real issue is with runners that survive the initial onslaught and taunt aura. Other than that, wow. She was putting my tanks and brutes to shame. Posting the build here to share and in case I'm missing anything, but I'm pretty happy with the results I've seen so far. Officer Newton II - Scrapper (War Mace - Shield Defense).mbd

"Some men, Mr. Sinclair, can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the forums burn."

Or Brute gets its own spreadsheet ATO.

Any ATO revision would have to go over all the ATOs, not just brutes. Defenders, doms, 'trollers, VEATs, etc. Now you're looking at a much bigger undertaking, not to mention just how would you balance them.

I think suggestions should be grounded in practicality, capability of the dev team, the fact that never in the history of MMOs have classes been outright deleted, and that there is more to the game than just speed clears.

As a professional sysadmin myself, let me give y'all a hearty "PREACH."

Incarnate content was the devs' answer to raids and raid gear, so it had to provide some benefit outside of raids. Otherwise, why raid? Raid gear was still useful outside of raids, so, sure, why not incarnates in regular content 45-50. Also remember that the only way to get incarnate salvage and unlocks at first was through incarnate raids. Dark Astoria came later for soloing. It wasn't meant to be this easy to achieve. The issue here is not a matter of incarnates being available at 45-50, its that now you can get raid-level stuff without doing raid-level content.

Nah, @tidge had it right. The Idea Police live inside of our heads,, the Idea Police they come to us in our beds... 🎶

"Chernobog get moose and squirrel!"

Yep, and I see their posts listed in the forum as well.

BM is a special case of trying to taunt her while she's taking damage from range and attacking from range. You'd need a MLTF-like strategy of 'Nobody shoot her while she's in blue' and you can already see the problems at that.

Actual suggestion: If you can't diable 'Winner Of The Day' functionality, then hand out timeouts to posters blatantly posting trollbait to 'win the day'. ADDED: Or at least make it so that I can't see the posts by anyone I've put on my ignore list.

I've seen a few other players around the plaza in Everlasting, but oddly that's only where I've ever seen them. Having made it to Imperial City and done some missions there, I'm probably going to be making some suggestions over on that board once I'm done with my Praetorian run.

Want better discussions? Disable high score stuff like 'win of the day'.