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It's a binary issue. Either the enemy has endurance and attack or they don't and can't. I think Homecoming should've thrown in a purple patch addition of res to -recovery, instead of making endurance drain do nothing to AVs. That way the -recovery could mean something and bypass resistance to -recovery given enough effort, while balancing the explicit secondary effect of some powersets who's whole purpose is to provide a mechanism to mitigate damage.

Oh yes! Good catch, I was mixing up the two terms.

If small details like this are what you like, you should take a look at what the community has found over the years in this game...

The Alpha Incarnate slot allows a player to basically slotted enhancement which for the most part bypasses the effects of Enhancement Diversification (diminishing returns basically). However, with Alpha Agility and (another Alpha I'm forgetting), it provides global slotted Recharge which decreases proc rates. You can see in the pet window when you summon a Lore pet it inherents the casters Incarnate Alpha and Interface effects.

Here's my recommendation for your quandary: Keep Arctic Fog, ensure it is slotted to your desire. For example, I have it 6-slotted (by Level 50...) with the Luck of the Gambler set, which gets is down to 0.27/s endurance cost if you +5 them. What I would also say is to pick up the Recovery Serum temporary power from the S.T.A.R.T. vendor. You can carry a lot of these and they work in a pinch during the 10 levels between Arctic Fog and Heat Loss power access. Arctic Fog is a great power in that in addition to getting some resistance and defense (which persists even in combat), it also grants Stealth (35ft) which persists even in combat also (if you click a glowie it will shut off like normal stealth powers). Edit: There is also the base temporary power station that you can craft the Increase Recovery temporary power.

I'd like to continue along the same thought as @Herotu (I've recently been levelling a Scrapper and it feels... weak. It's damage isn't as impressive as I imagined). I absolutely enjoyed every second of playing my Fire/Fire Tanker back in the legacy days (Issue 0 onwards). I decided to make a Fire/Fire Scrapper on Homecoming after reading about some power changes back in Page 5 of Issue 27. I'm at Level 4 and I'm enjoying it so far - very simple and I like DoTs from Fire as a secondary effect. However, I can't get away from Mids and build optimization (once you open that pandora's box, it's a curse!). Is it reasonable to expect this build will not be the worst Scrapper I could've rolled? Hopefully that bar is low enough 😄

To your question: The comic book character(s) I think are Brutes are Wolverine and the Hulk. Whether those two were a design element or not is speculation on my part, but it's also how I see Brutes (or really how I hope they could be). A Berserker of sorts - how this gets applied from a technical stand point is outside of my comprehension. I think Fury is a staple to the Archetype and it should grow as the Brute experiences combat.

Oh I found them! They're all in the 'Patch Notes Discussion' sub forum.

I dunno where they went, but only going back to Page 6 of Issue 27 on the 'Patch Notes' sub forum kind of sucks. My suggestion is to add the patch notes back, starting from when they were first posted in April of 2019. Thanks!

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I think Slows are also a form of mez too? Edit: wow even more - repel, knockback, knockdown, sleep, confuse, fly, only affect self, and blinded. Sorry for the tangent, learning and sharing as I go!

I think there's also a caging and intangible status effect rule in there too. And fear. And teleport mag/resistance. And invulnerable status. One rule to rule them all though? Not so much. I guess I thought it was more rigid design than it actually is.

Toggle Suspension allows toggles to pause their periodic activations when under specific modes (e.g. Granite Armor, Kheldian Forms). This means the toggles will stop working and stop costing endurance while in one of these modes. Once you leave the mode, the toggles will resume automatically without the need to re-toggle. Once a toggle is suspended, you will no longer be able to activate it or deactivate it until you come out of the mode that caused the suspension. Tank & Brute/Stone Armor/Granite Armor suspends the other Stone Armor armor toggles in the set while transformed instead of deactivating them. Also will suspend travel toggles (Run, Jump and Fly). Suspended toggles cost no endurance while running. Peacebringer/Luminous Blast/Bright Nova suspends the other Peacebringer toggles in the set while transformed instead of deactivating them. Also will suspend pool power toggles. Suspended toggles cost no endurance while running. Peacebringer/Luminous Aura/White Dwarf suspends the other Peacebringer toggles in the set while transformed instead of deactivating them. Also will suspend pool power toggles. Suspended toggles cost no endurance while running. Warshade/Umbral Blast/Dark Nova suspends the other Warshade toggles in the set while transformed instead of deactivating them. Also will suspend pool power toggles. Suspended toggles cost no endurance while running. Warshade/Umbral Aura/Black Dwarf suspends the other Warshade toggles in the set while transformed instead of deactivating them. Also will suspend pool power toggles. Suspended toggles cost no endurance while running.

Might need to clean up the power attributes/effects naming. "Set Mode (Suppress_PoolToggles) (self only) for 2s" Set Mode (Suppress_JumpToggles) (self only) for 0.75s Set Mode (Suppress_RunToggles) (self only) for 0.75s Set Mode (Suppress_FlyToggles) (self only) for 0.75s

I think what Deadly is pointing out is the standard PvP mez duration "rule" of 2 seconds for non-Controller/Dominator Archetypes and 4 seconds for Controller/Dominator Archetypes. This rule applies to Primary, Secondary, and Epic/Patron Pool powersets. Pool powers appear to use the Melee_One attribute to determine the number of seconds for mez duration in Misdirection, as well as in the Presence Pool powerset.

Borea is an endless source of missions, much like the Police Radio or Ephram Sha/Maharaj in Dark Astoria. You should really try the new RWZ story arc though. It is the conclusion of Issue 27.

Looks like a Superior Blaster Archetype Origin Enhancement. Edit: And yes to your second question.

The original poster hasn't logged on to the forums in four years so....

Thank you so much! I'm sure I won't have that top Corruptor spot for long, but it's fun to see. I'm going to try the AE mission next to get a better spread of the build aside from single target mashing.

What about memory? I'm at 32GB of DDR4 3200MHZ RAM. I can't tell what actually gets bottlenecked from CoH - is it a game engine limitation??

I appreciate you sharing this - I too have the 8700K CPU and I've been debating whether upgrading my GPU (currently a GTX 1080) to a 40 series would make any noticeable impact on my gaming experience with CoH. Sounds like we have the same framerates - what display resolution are you using? I'm hitting the same frames at 1440p.