Killing Legacy

Thing is, I don’t have a problem with other people using AE all the live long day if they want to. I use it for whati want to use it for and couldn’t care less how other people use it. If someone used it to get to vet level billion it has no affect on my play.

You get rid of power leveling in AE and you’ll get rid of a lot of interest in playing. For some, their entire coh carrier is spent in AE. Some like me are bored of the early levels (been there done that) and like power leveling to 50, gearing out and playing through all the endgame content. I can’t stand early levels anymore, so I just skip the grind in AE then gear out my character regularly from there. All my incarnates to t4 is all done legitimately. As soon as I ding 50, I’m out of AE. I don’t grind out my incarnates in there as I do t actually enjoy AE farms, but I like them drastically more than early levels.

I’ve already got a sd, ice armor and earth armor and I don’t like doubling up on defense sets. with that said, which of these would synergies best with EM

Im not sure what causes it, but sometimes it doesn’t even take damage in the pet window. It just instant breaks, even vs a single peon enemy. Something isn’t right with it. other times, it does what it’s suppose to and you can see it’s health slowly going down in the window, even in a large mob of enemies. Anyone have any clues as to what causes this? I know that in the instances when it breaks instantly it’s not due to overwhelming damage, as it can even happen vs a single LT. some kind of bug or other interaction is causing it to break early.

I didn’t even do a build. Just looked at the powers and thought “I’ve never played those power sets” and threw them together. is there any synergy here? Is it a suck combo? I guess if it is just garbage I can always use it as dark Astoria arc fodder, since I run 3 accounts.

Old skewl I remember my fire ice tank back when wolves and dreck was a thing (they nerfed wolves making it a timed mission but didn’t touch dreck for a long time). Herding up the whole map then dropping ice patch and burn on them. Those were the days. That was peak coh, fella’s.

I love ice patch. I don’t even need it for survivability. I use it because it keeps enemies from running around. With chilling embrace and ice patch, most enemies don’t run from me. As I’ve already stated, I HATE chasing down enemies. on my savage/shield stalker, half the fight is spent chasing stragglers.

Nah, bruh Stone is a top tier stalker set. You’ll be like me, but you won’t have the psi hole. You’ll also edge me out in the damage department cause of brimstone armor. I got you beat in the t9 area tho. Ice has everyone beat in t9

As in need of a revamp that regen is, ice melee is probably the best it pairs with. Ice patch will give you control you need to survive.

It’s a dang brawler, man. You’re basically a scrapper with a bit more controlled crits. I took fire mastery for fire ball, and with my global recharge being over 200%, i can basically cycle between that and frozen aura. I don’t even need frost so I got rid of it. Basically, I start a fight like this: AS>fire ball>frozen aura>ice patch>energy absorption>repeat. Use ice sword and freezing touch when any of the others aren’t off cd, or when fighting single target. with ice patch and chilling embrace, enemies stay put. I always hate chasing down enemies, and that happens A LOT on my other stalker. Chilling embrace seems to draw aggro so enemies are more likely to stay put, WHICH I LOVE. When I really want a group dead, I use melt armor then the t4 damage path fire judgement. All die except bosses, which I mop up quickly. Man, this is probably my favorite stalker yet and it’s likely due to the control that ice offers. Thoughts?

They seem to pair well with each other quite nicely. Stone is an end hog primary, rad has extra end recovery. Stone has sluggish recharge, rad has recharge reduction toggle. Rad has very little defense (unless you count beta decay tohit debuff) stone has soft and hard control to help offset it. Stone has garbage aoe damage, rad has two damage pbaoes. they just seem to help each other out. I’ve been running one at 50, fully ioed and incarnate t3/t4 and it’s a monster. The reason I chose stone melee is two fold. One, only tanks and brutes have access to it. Two, it fit the theme I was going for (a sort of swamp/septic tank/slime/sewer monster science experiment). I suppose super strength would have worked too, but…. Idk. Just not a huge fan of ss, visually. Stone melee just feels heavier to me. Ss has the superior aoe, but meh. I slotted tremor with all procs. Rule of thumb, if your sets aoe sucks, slot it with procs. Besides, how could one not like stone melee? Do you like to smash? Then you like stone melee.

I’m still sitting here in atlas at level 1 waiting for my handout.

Screw it. I bought a bunch of training SOs. I don’t need your scum scummy money soaked in scumminess

Still waitin on my hand out. Hurry up, *snap snap*

One of you rich scumbags give me some cash, ASAP

You Greedy bastards

With all the defense iOS plus the to hit debuff, my demon pets were effectively at the defense cap, with sizable resistance to boot. idk, maybe I’m just burned on ninjas from leveling a ninja/poison on live when villains first dropped. Yes, really. It just seems like theyd do better with a resistance set or a set with lots of cc, like dark. They’ll just get murdered even if they are at the defense soft cap. I’m talking about +4 x8. That many enemies? Attacks will push through and land regardless of their defense value and they’ll get one shot by +4s

What about rad melee/elec armor? that should help with recharge speeds and energy issues, no?

There a few posts here and there on this forum, with quite a few on Reddit. It’s always the same lamo argument of resist primary with defense secondary is sub optimal. I’m like “what?”. I mean, maybe if the defense from time was piss poor and the only way to reach soft capped pets was with pets that already have inherent defense, but that’s just not the case with time. I mean, I’d even argue that time is BETTER on a resist oriented primary, due to the fact that time is gonna get your pets soft capped no matter what anyway (if you build it right), so may as well pair it with resist. It seems like youd be better off pairing a resist secondary with a defense primary in order to fill their resist hole. For instance, I don’t think time would help ninjas that much, as they are so lacking in resist they will just get one hit when the inevitable attack makes it through.

I’ve been using the set for everything, including +4 x8 AV killing. It’s got tools for everything. large mobs of enemies? Click based AoE hold/slow with power boost and PBAoE tohit debuff. AVs and GMs? -regen/slow/defense/resist/tohit debuff. one of the only lacking areas is a team wide damage buff and a Rez. It’s got a decent single target damage buff tho, which stacks well with hell on earth.

A perfect blend of survival and kill power is what he’s looking for. How would rad melee/invuln be

I’m not a brute guy, but my friend is brute obsessed. Problem is, we just started playing after a 10+ year hiatus and there are quite a few new brute sets. My question is, what would be the most powerful brute build with the least amount of investment? in terms of primary, secondary and power pools, which is all round best, if there is such a thing.

Read through threads and forums on multiple sites, and keep see the same lame-ass arguments against time on a resistance heavy primary. I’ve been doing some testing of my own on the brainstorm server and I’m having a super difficult time seeing the bad in having pets that are defense soft capped/near soft capped with good resistance to fall back on in the event that they manage to get hit. perma power boosted farsight, maneuvers and the tohit debuff from time, WITH an aoe heal…. They aren’t going down. I mean, it doesn’t matter the pets you use, they are gonna be at the defense soft cap with all this running. Why not use it with a primary that has resistance to boot?