Bill Z Bubba

It's also completely false. Even as per the developers since day 1 with the existence of the scrapper. There is *some* content in the game that required a team. Far less these days.

Go EA. This is why and we all know it.

Sure. Claws/SR brute: Shield/Nrg tank:

Roger that. And the +75% damage from doublestacked followup makes a lotta difference, too.

This whole thread is kinda dildos. I'll be the first to admit that for the vast majority of my characters, there are only four regular pools. Fighting (Boxing, Tough, Weave,) Leaping (Combat Jumping,) Speed (Hasten,) and Flight (Fly, Hover, sometimes that last power as an LotG mule that gets deleted from the tray.) I took Confront for the first time since maybe Issue 2 on my new claws/stone scrapper specifically because of the ridiculous rate at which enemies are running away these days. It was, indeed, useless. Sure, it might keep one runner from rabbiting but some of the time it had absolutely zero effect and they just kept on goin. Provoke was better (had to drop CJ for it) but it, too, failed completely from time to time and isn't even autohit. So, I get where the OP is coming from but I still can't agree with the requested change. It's just ridiculously unnecessary considering all the varied ways we can already get around the battlefield quickly and the devs could use that time/energy are far more important items... Like un-assing the "I'm now terrified so I'm gonna run to the next freakin map" issue they created. As for the new claws/stone scrapper? Seems he's heading for the chopping block. Maybe I'll do some graniteless stone/somethin tank instead.

Took my claws/sr brute up against one of the DE monsters north of PI's main island. When lore pets were up, its health dropped. When they were down, it healed back up. Daggers would have made it happen PDQ. Based on pylon times, pretty sure this means both my claws/sr scrapper and shield/nrg tank could pull it off and it would probably be a cakewalk for a */bio brute.

This is the part that has never made sense to me. My rage has been a zero end cost toggle for a couple decades.

What numbers are you running? I could see spines having better AoE but its ST damage is freakin abysmal. You taking doublestacked followup into account? Edit: If it helps your calcs, my two chains are Followup, Focus, Slash, repeat and Followup, Spin, Shockwave, repeat.

While it'd be nice, it won't happen. The answer is always "it'd step on tank/brute toes and you can always take provoke."

Oh yea.... last thought on that: In the end, shield also loses, badly, because we can't do claws/shield.

Lots to love about NrgAura but every time I've played it, I've found myself having to click Energize and Nrg Drain often enough that I know they're offsetting any gains I'm getting from the +recharge. So, once again, shield wins. Also wins against SR if you're wondering about that.

I think most of us are agreed on that. There are caveats and autohit powers and Rularuu Eyeballs, etc, but on the whole? Yea, Defense > Resist.

Yup. But that 5% of the time is only true against even level minions. +4 bosses and AVs are going to be tagging you far more often. 90% resists is just 90% resists with 90% resistance debuff resistance. (Unless you're over the cap. RDR can go up to 100% where DDR is hard capped at 95%.)

All of them can. Even your SS/WP. Do you have hasten to tighten up your single target chain and get you to where you can double stack Rage? Soul Mastery for Gloom will greatly improve your ST damage output. How IOed out are you now? I only ask because the vast majority of AV soloing is done by fully kitted out builds.

I've never taken stealth. I also hate Hide and thus Stalkers. Apparently I'm that damn narcissistic with my characters.

First time loggin back in, hearing the music, seein Ms Liberty... yea. It's a gut punch.

I'm only on beer 3. Not full yet.

C'mon, man, this isn't a true statement. Playing the game generates inf. Merits for arcs. Inf for killing. Random invention drops. Stores to sell shit. Ok, sure, if I do NOTHING but level alts from 1 to 20 and never sell anything and I have double xp going....

Again... it wasn't work for me. I play the game to kill shit cuz it's what makes the game fun. If it was work, I wouldn't do it. If only I had that option in real life.

Whatever. If you're poor in this game it's by choice. Edit: UNlike real life, of course.

I can see not having 16mil influence laying around on one's FIRST character in CoH. After that, there's no excuse. I'm sittin on 5 billion now, I don't play the market, I sell everything that I don't dump in the store in my base on the market for 111 inf and for anything I don't have in the base from deleting alts I buy on the market at buy now prices. And one can always ping Yomo for starter cash.

Yup. Always reminds me of goin sword and board in Dragon Age: Origins.

If only they'd realize they could slot acc/2*endred/recred/2*dam instead of acc/endred/recred/3*dam.... Or 4 perf shifters in stamina at lvl 17.

Go for it but the +damage from form of the body will be completely overshadowed by fury. Form of the soul's endurance discount, however, might be damn useful for an up and coming brute.

Then don't. I try to judge sets and archetypes on how they perform at level 1 and at level 50-T4 and all the way in between. I'm also lazy enough to make an attempt at old soloing (always with double-xp) on tons of my alts but end up saying fark it and PLing them to 50. Unless I have a reason to go all the way like I did with my Swipe/Inv scrapper. My new claws/stone scrapper was soloed from 1 to 38 in 2 days (amps for the first 8 hours) but I haven't touched him since and may just delete him due to enemies running away. Don't want to go brute or tank on that combo because I hate granite armor. Edit: Oh wait... I CAN'T do that combo on a brute or a tank because of granite. We're all gonna judge what we build, and what others build for that matter, on how we see the game and how we play it. Is what it is.