Triumphant

Loved the dude in Game of Thrones. A bit hard for me to imagine him as Baylan, just because the personalities of the two characters are so different. Going to be a hard sell for me, whoever plays the role, but I'll certainly give the man a fair shake, given the quality of his acting. Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for the best. 👍

I think of melee ATs (excepting Tankers, perhaps) primarily as single target DPS with a bit of AOE tossed in there. If you REALLY want to get down and dirty with AOEs, I think you probably want a ranged character. Having said that, I love playing Brutes and I've had good results with Savage Melee and Titan Weapon. Also, remember some armor sets have "set and forget" damage toggles like fire and radiation armor. On melee toons, I tend to look at AOEs as tools for either softening up targets for single target DPS attacks or finishing off weakened foes. Maybe you can't find powers that really feel like the concept you're imagining? (damage/effects-wise, I mean). If you want like a super-powerful melee AOE, you're looking at waiting until incarnate to take Mighty judgement power and build it out up to T4. That thing really gives you the "HULK SMASH!" feel.

*Meh. Posted in wrong topic. I clearly need to go to bed* 🤪

You have to look at debuff resistance, too. I haven't tried ninjitsu, so I don't know what it maxes out at. SR maxes out at like 90 or 95% debuff resistance, I think. EDIT: Defense debuff resistance specifically, I mean.

This person needs @Hyperstrike. Help them, Hyperstrike Kenobi, you're their only hope. 🙏

Not against it. Having said that, I"m more interested in expanding the story with new villains/threats to paragon city and/or the planet Earth.

My feeling is that this is by design. It's what I want out of the AT (similar to what I want out of the Sentinel- my second favorite AT, after Brutes). So, for me, this is not a disadvantage. This is a subjective opinion. I don't find it any more (or less) boring than any other inherent. Brutes have become my most played (and favorite AT), even overtaking Sentinels, which used to be my #1. Both ATs have many detractors. I do feel there was once some justification for this, but the developer tweaks have really addressed those issues for me. I'm very happy with where both ATs are at this point and time. Just one Brute player's opinion. 🤷‍♂️

Don't play VEATS, so I have no useful advice there. I do play things like Controllers sometimes (very squishy), and it's just part and parcel of playing an AT designed to be part of a team in a game that was concieved as a team-oriented experience. If you want to play those kind of ATs solo, you suck it up (i.e. die a lot) until you get enough practice and figure out strategies to deal with the handicap. Eventually, you hit a high enough level and get enough enhancements that you can solo just fine, even with a squishy AT. Playing this way requires one essential quality: Patience. I don't think there is a way aroud this. Otherwise, you have to play on teams (which, is as intended). Again, the caveat here is that I don't play VEATS, so I don't know if any of the above even applies to your situation.

Even after reading all these posts, I don't understand what would be gained by making items either rarer or more expensive. My vote would be no. Having said that, if it were changed as suggested, I would still play the game. I would just find it more tedious (i.e. not as enjoyable) to access the parts of the game that I enjoy the most.

You guys are a hoot! Was going to say I had hung out with some of your crew in an AE farm last week, but it was on Everlasting, so must just be a concidental group with the same theme. Love your pirate galleon base. Great work! 👍

I love this robbits happy, green, smiley mouth! What a great use of the head slots to make that effect! 😁👍

I'm always somewhat hesitant to opine on threads about the mechanics of the game, because my understanding of this is so poor. But, I will say, reading both @dukedukes and @Maelwys posts, that my personal experience playing the game does seem to reflect their critiques on the matter (and I do use a lot of procs in many characters. I really love the idea of them, and find them extremely useful, even if they have some issues, such as those outlined above). I don't use pets very often (or carefully observe how procs affect pseudopets), so I'm not as clear on that point, though I have no reason to doubt Maelwys comments, given that everything else they said feels spot on to me.

Two of my favorite (and best performing) characters are my EM/INV Brute and my SVG/SR Brute. You could try those combos and see how you like them. Endurance is an issue with EM/INV until you can dip into your Epic powers (I take Energy Mastery pool to deal with that), though- YMMV. Both toons reliably solo most content at +4/8, though.

I feel you on both of those, my friend. Whenever I read a well constructed forum post and see the confusion reaction, I always think to myself that the person who reacted that way must simply be too dim to understand the topic, or else they're just a very poor reader. 🤷‍♂️

Given how rancorous this topic is becoming, I wonder if it wouldn't have been better to have simply asked for a "thumbs up" emoji if you want enhancements to be free and a "thumbs down" if you want them to stay the same. Granted, this would only give us a metric for how people that visit the forums feel on this topic, which I suppose is probably not representative of very much of the player base. But it would serve the same general purpose without all the feather ruffling. And now, having written this, I've contradicted myself in my reply to Tenmix's post on disabling reactions on the forum. Ah, well. 😁🤷‍♂️

I actually do empathize with the OPs general sentiment here, even if I have to admit that the responses are pretty funny. 😄

The highest praise I've heard of this film thus far, was from a BattleTech gaming buddy of mine. His kid asked him to go see it. He'd seen the trailer, and thought the dog wearing a cape looked stupid and had very low expectations. He told me, after he got back, "I was wrong. I was SO WRONG. This movie is everything a comic book movie should be." He's really picky about that kind of stuff, so now I'm sort of stoked to see it (will still have to wait until it comes out on streaming, though).

Great. I hope your base never gets wiped out. I'm not willing to take that gamble, and neither are most people who put a lot of time into their bases.

What do you mean by lower levels? Or rather, what do "lower levels" mean to you (i.e. what level ranges are you thinking of?).

Well, to be fair, I don't know that this has ever been tried before (if I'm wrong, do tell me, please. I'm curious to see what the results were.). If I'm right in my suspicion that it's never been tried, I would interested in trying this innovative approach by adding a regular server that offers this choice, and then see whether it succeeded or flopped. Yeah... no. This argument has been forwarded perhaps dozens of times over the years. And we always explain that, no, actually having your Supergroups base deleted everytime the server is updated, is not a good option. Figure out how to update Brainstorm without erasing stuff and then- yeah, for me, that could actually would be a great option. I'm pretty sure it's not possible though, or they would already have coded it that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4amWTwO1GM

I'm a chronic alta-holic, so my "main" changes from month to month. Having said that, a lot of my characters probably would fit better as supporting cast, as opposed to starring in their own books. As far as recommending writers, artists, publishers... I'm so far removed from following the industry these days, I really wouldn't know who to suggest. Also, many of my characters are humor-based, and probably only seem funny to me. I'm doubt they would be well-recieved as a commercial product. I guess the OP's question doesn't necessarily assume that the comic would be made for mass consumption, though.

Snark, personally, I think you're missing a real opportunity here. You should be asking for faces with longer fangs and more evocative sneers. Perhaps several more "corpse-like" shades to add to the skin color selector. The night-sky is the limit, here, buddy... 🧛‍♀️

My Top 10 reasons for playing CoH (in no particular order): Best character costume creator ever invented (if there IS one that is better, please let me know! I definitely want to see it). Tons of people availabe to RP with, if I want that. I can do pretty much all content solo, if I don't want that. The massive number of power sets and things you can slot them with allows for near endless tinkering and experimentation with builds. Grinding is orders of magnitude less painful compared to most MMOs. It's free to play with all available content. It still runs on my creaky, old rig. After graphics updates and content additions it STILL works on my creaky, old rig. Player community is much cooler (and kinder) than pretty much any other player community that I've interacted with. Movement Powers (Though I could still wish for a way to implement wall-crawling and swing-lines. Oh, well. Nothing's perfect. 🤷‍♂️).

So, I don't play tanks as much (which is the focus of this topic), so I won't opine on the tank changes too much and leave that to the more experienced tanker players. However, I do play a great many brutes (one of my two favorite AT's these days) and I have to agree with tidge and others above, who say that Brutes (despite the somewhat lackluster ATO) are in a pretty good place right now and don't really need to be buffed (again, this is just my opinion). So, if tankers do need a little more tinkering (and I don't know if that's true or not), I say give it to them. Just don't be too hard on our hard-working Devs. Adjusting an AT's balance is no doubt a delicate process, and regardless of what you change, you aren't going to be able to please everyone (or to put it differently, what ever changes one makes will be guaranteed to offend some players). That's just plain fact. 🤷‍♂️