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Wait, what? Isn't that the purpose of these forums - to dictate how other people should play the game and to yell at the devs that they must hardcode the game so that everyone plays the way each poster wants them to? 😄

One advantage that NW has over stalker (I semi-mained an ice/nrg stalker before becoming a convert to the Cult of Widows) is that they get most of their important attacks early on, so they exemp really well. If playing lower-level content is a priority for the OP, that is a point in the widow's favor.

The simplest way to mitigate psi/toxic damage is to make a habit of scouting the enemy group before attacking, and then selecting the psi- and toxic damage dealers as the first ones you kill. Similar to how you prioritize sappers when fighting Malta, or surgeons in Cimerora, etc. Yes, you can plug a psi or a toxic gap in your damage mitigation, and for a truly high-end build you will want to. But for most of us mere mortals, that kind of optimizing requires some tough choices in terms of what you have to sacrifices in your build to make room for the anti-psi/toxic IO's. Which means your character will be a bit less powerful all the times you fight non-Arachnos enemy groups.

Our SG has a recurring event called Bring Out Yer Dead, where people can take one of their long-abandoned characters out for a spin. It works well - you either get reminded of how good the character is or you get a brief, nostalgic enjoyment of the character before placing it back into mothballs. Well, that or you get confirmed in your earlier decision to shelve that character. Either way, something good comes out of it, and you have Fun With Friends(tm) as a significant side benefit.

+1 to this (bolded text my emphasis)

+1 to all of this, especially the second and third one. Blueside, Steel Canyon and Talos Island for similar reasons - the architecture seems cohesive, and these are the zones where as a new player you started to get a sense of your character and how it fit into the bigger Paragon City picture.

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Yup, that was me. Great to see that you are still around. 🙂 Edited to add: My global is @Atrocifist these days.

I use Beta Decay on two different characters*, a dark/atomic blaster and a rad/dark tanker. On both of them I have noticed that from time to time, Beta Decay toggles off without me noticing. I thought it might be caused by an enemy attack which randomly turns off one of my toggle powers. However, in that case it ought to be equally likely to turn off one of the other 5-6 toggle powers I am running at the same time, but in practice it only happens to BD, not to the other toggles. So, even though I know the above is not a whole lot of information to go on, the question is: Is there some commonly-known-to-everyone-but-me reason why Beta Decay can get detoggled without any other toggles being affected? Thanks in advance. (*) ...which is why I am posting this question in General rather than in either of those ATs' subforum.

There was a group called The Rabid Pingus, I was a (mostly silent) member of that. Character names were Atrocifist on blueside and Marcus Junius on redside.

The same thing happened to me dozens of times, until I made a Widow and found that it can do all the different things I look for in a character. So, +1 vote for (hybrid) Widow, for all the reasons Gulbasaur mentioned in his post. Sorry for sounding like a crazed member of the Cult of Widows 😄 Whatever playstyle I happen to be in the mood for when I log on, the widow is good for it. Ranged or melee, solo or team, lowbie or incarnate missions. As someone who was constantly searching for a Forever Character, it feels good to have finally found it. It also feels weird, though. Like, what do I search for now?

Solid advice. Although the OP's reference to Ghouls makes me think that this is a goldside character, in which case finding people to team with will be a bit difficult. On the other hand, playing on goldside is - for most people, at least - more about the storylines than the challenge, so taking your mission difficulty down a notch in the tougher missions can also help.

I searched, I promise I did, but I don't see your build in the forum. Brasilgringo, would you mind reposting it, or alternatively PM'ing it to me? I am looking to start a water/plant myself and am too lazy to make a build if someone smarter than me has already done the dirty work. Thank you in advance!

https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Lore_AMA After the Cataclysm, some of the ex-devs answered lore questions about the (now-abandoned) future plans for the game. The bits about the Coming Storm and the Batallion are mixed in with a bunch of other stuff, so you have to read all the AMA's to get the full picture. Not that reading the whole thing is a bad thing at all, it is an interesting read. Personally I am not quite as disenchanted with the CS/Batallion ideas as Greycat and Darmian, but I definitely agree that the Coming Storm was way more dramatic in my imagination than in the ideas presented by Positron & Co. It seems like Yet Another Undefeatable Alien Invasion that humanity somehow averts because plot power.

In the absence of any replies to the above post, I have tinkered with a build myself. It is not great, but better than no build at all. If any of you more experienced builders in the CIty can give suggestions for improvements, I would appreciate it. If not, at least this might be useful in the future to others like myself who just need a build to get started with. A few things to note: - This character will most likely be retired as soon as he hits 50, so I have not included any purple IO sets or any other really expensive sets. - Endurance use is higher than I would like, at least in the early/mid levels before the toggle powers are slotted for -End. Liberal use of Energize and Power Sink will help with this, but I do hate being dependent on click powers to maintain endurance, it takes up precious time that any self-respecting brute would rather spend on mashing attack buttons. - Power Surge is only used as a slot mule for the psi-resist IO. Basically I had a power slot which I didn't know what to do with. So with all those caveats out of the way, here it is: | Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1464;671;1342;HEX;| |78DA6594694F53411486E7B6B794B6EC4B01D9CABE5750BF131430414848488C6B9| |A5A47B87A29A44BA2F193BFC2F59BAC9AF8BBDC105C7089423D77DE972569D3E6B9| |7DCF36E7CCCC9D7B3859F6EEF2937165452EB9C96C36713193CFE9E042CAD1E994F| |62BA5A2933AE52CE7B3B1997CDA114CB8779C743E1B14538B714ECC6957EBF894AB| |53B98C934ABA10689CD4F7743A7B624E4C64965732AA7C7E65C58D4F3B8B4B3927B| |D1836FF1656B5BE5B661E67757255F408BC5CCFAD7E6AD549C559319F984B66733A| |F3A85196D123BF4375F429D86A51D0692BDF12E980F67DF201F8DA73B74C8C5FFDF| |01BAD649FFC0596FE060B47AEAA10B04A6CA385836429581622C360C563D45917F8| |59C7CF3A35AC53C7FC757F40AF488075026B3EA345D7C90DB07193DC02CF6C8396C| |4063983E05FDA0EC09643B200B629D45B13EF10EB852258779BE7D34A1F618C7DC4| |C611137B8A1C1B2247D09715895AC6B7A301F4C942CA91579517E4A336E5B912DEA| |AF21C327B53A966F5EA6BC8DE719DBC0176DD246F91B7C12D89AA65BEDA11C198E4| |93AAF59C743D27DDCD49777347BB39F14EF16D406DAB61081DF692B6D89A90C76EF| |2127AB60365D6DCFB1D6BEFDB459EBE6FE0B6989BD94BF37BDA3E80031FC94FE467| |7070078C4ABD56D4F3B5B2DEE0347DAE800191DB99BF9D3B32ECEDB2F43D7C401E8| |22305D2DB4161C24BC193D1F90CB123CFC1B32FC897E42BF08DB959969965CF1E4E| |C6D857729FFC09BE15AF7EEE76FF00D61F919E86A80DFD8316122D4E2DCE3E5554A| |9516AA3D45AECE3DB2C5FEFF40C1629A345CA589172BE48B950A44CDBC76F81C2EC| |C9B3A54298616910A77DDE3E7E0328CB4486AA94375F13B91356E6FE196B1726B87| |BA2F9AC1974567115ACEAC0AE7E391DD78FB8BDD371BC6B55DC811A4EFC3FD4B0E9| |86| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

@BrandX, would you mind posting that build or PM'ing it to me? Regardless of defenses, I am sure your build is better than the hodgepodge I have been able to come up with myself for my elec/elec brute. T.I.A.

Redside also has Psimon Omega's "Nictus Dissection" story arc at level 30-34.

Just a thought: Arachnos Widow is a possible alternative for what you need. Not trying to talk you out of your kinetic/nrg stalker, because it has a lot going for it, but file this under Things To Look At If The Stalker Is Less Than I Had Hoped For. Gulbasaur's builds in the Widow/Soldier subforum are a good place to start. I believe stalker has better melee damage outout than widow, though, but not being a numbers guys I could be wrong.

Total Domination has too long a downtime to be relied on IMHO. Having said that, however, it is an easy source for an additional 7.5% +recharge if you can spare the slots to put 4 x Basilisk's Gaze in there.

This is what you should feel bad about 😖 To date your ex' younger sister is one thing, but to insist on calling her by your ex' name is either rude or creepy. Give the new dominator its own name and its own identity, and let the old controller keep its name and thus its dignity.

Do any of you have a high-end Elec/Elec brute build you can share? I took my e/e brute out of mothballs today and had forgotten how enjoyable he is to play - but he is on a dirt-cheap build, and I would like to upgrade him. Oh, and bonus points for a build that exemps well. Some of my favorite CoX content is in the lvl 20-30 range, so I like to build all my characters to be exempable (if that is a real word) to that level range.

No, sorry, I meant to ask whether widows and spider get the same values. Apologies for the unclear phrasing of the question. <--- this is what I saw in Mid's, and it was enough to confuse me about all the other bonuses. Thanks for pointing that out. <--- and this was my intended question. So now all is clear, and thank you both for the help. 🙂

Do teammates gain the same bonus from the Leadership pool powers from both of the VEAT types, i.e. do Spiders and Widows give their teammates the same %-amount of bonus from Maneuvers, Tactics and Assault? To be clear, I am asking about the Leadership pool powers - not the similarly named "Tactical Training: ..." powers (from which the team bonuses from Widows and Spiders are identical, that one I do know).

Thanks much, Nebber.

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