Bill Z Bubba

Hey now... don't go blamin my ilk for that garbage!

I feel defeated.

Pretty sure Linea's main for this stuff and 801.* is a stalker. I actually have a db/nrg scrapper that dishes out some pretty nasty damage but I do find that I have to lean on nrg drain and energize often. Obviously that would be a boon in a situation like this but it always annoyed me during pylon runs or AV fights.

Nah, betting Nrg Aura. Built-In +heal/regen with Energize. I did run the sd/nrg tank with rebirth regen at one point, but then my end kept bottoming out from all the end drains. No win situation on that front.

And it would take another ED/GDN level nerf to get things back under control. Thus...

3 faceplants, 1.5 hours later, I finished the 2nd mission and called it quits.

Whatchu got against drunk people? Council suck against low level regen, by the by. Slows and regen do not mix. I still enjoy hearing carnies scream. Edit: Total side note... soloing DASF on Vicious. It's more a tedious pain in the ass than anything else since I'm having to pull and play like a squishie, but interesting anyway for a try.

Reminds me that I was on a break from CoH when I got a message stating "brutes got claws. Also, new difficulty settings." I came back so that I could run +4/x8 with a claws brute. Sooo, yea, long before incarnate stuff, the game was already too easy thanks to inventions.

Tis true! Course, the OG devs could have just avoided all of this by creating the option to disable it in the first place... but that was then. We have a fix now. Might as well add "allow all rezzes without prompt," too.

Ok, starting Vicious run with the shield/nrg tank. Gonna play like a blaster and see what happens. Edit: I obviously didn't read the instructions. Are incarnate powers supposed to be off? Edit2: Oh... I had unslotted them all for some reason. Restart!

You're very welcome. I used it for the first time a couple nights back. It's pretty cool.

Fun fact: Pylons use an AoE attack but it's typed Range. I've never understood why. Made double weird because it's listed as Area Lethal under Attack Type but at the top of the page it shows Ranged Lethal +KB. https://cod.uberguy.net./html/power.html?power=rikti.war_zone_pylon.swarm_missile&at=boss_archvillain There's probably a LOT more weirdness like this than we'd care to know.

No, it would be a total rework on several of the sets. Bio, Nrg, Ice, Stone, and even Willpower all have powers that grant only typed defense. I don't necessarily disagree but attempting to rework how defense functions in this game is absolutely the wrong way to deal with those issues. Nerfing set bonuses, powers like scorpion shield, rune of protection, unleash potential, etc, blocking incarnate powers in all non-incarnate content, purging level shifts, these are all options and none of them, including a complete defense rework across the game, are going to happen. Yes, the game is too easy. And it's just going to get easier. But at least now there is content that I can't solo.... until I start abusing all the things I've chosen not to abuse so far, of course. And we ALL have the ability to remove a bunch of these problems ourselves. Nothing is stopping anyone from running SO only builds.

Nope. SR has 6 powers that buff defense. 3 toggles and 3 passives. 1 each for melee, 1 each for range and 1 each for aoe. Many attacks in this game are dual typed with both a Positional Value and a Typed Value. https://cod.uberguy.net./ That link has all the info you need but if you drill down to a specific power you'll find Attack Type. https://cod.uberguy.net./html/power.html?power=blaster_ranged.archery.aimed_shot&at=blaster That's Archery Aimed Shot. Under Attack Type it shows Ranged, Lethal. If that is used against someone with Ranged or Lethal Defense, the higher of the two values is used. Psychic Wail, on the other hand, is Area, Psionic. Same story, if I have both AoE and Psi Defense, the higher value will be used. https://cod.uberguy.net./html/power.html?power=blaster_ranged.psychic_blast.psychic_wail&at=blaster For the most part, this is how it works although some attacks are untyped vs position and some are just flat out autohit. What you may be thinking of are some Set IO Bonuses like the bonuses in Reactive Armor that buff both a Positional Value and a Typed Value. But to the statement, NO, capping to Melee or Ranged will NOT cap you to AoE. It has to be capped on its own.

Too bad that spawn I'm trying to kill is inside that 60ft radius. Guess I'll go solo somewhere else on the map instead.

It completely screws over defense based sets while barely harming resistance sets. It would also involve reworking every typed defense based set completely. AoE Defense is already exclusively AoE Defense. Not sure what you mean there. The game is too easy mostly because of IOs and Incarnates and partly due to powercreep in AT changes. Getting SOs at level 2 ain't helping even if I love that particular change. Defense and how it functions isn't the problem.

What kind of times might I expect to be facing on such an endeavor?

Huh. My SG ports me around when I go afk to GET me killed.

It's not mandatory. The screaming of SHAME while ringing that damn bell gets annoying after a while, though.

Sweet! How was that last Rom fight? Same thing? Cycle through the 4 buffs and no issue? Conversely, my lvl 18 fire/regen brute is getting beat up by +1/x3 council due to the lack of any of that.

I've certainly spent a billion on the various BZBs with respecs/rebuilds/etc but as time has gone on, more alts deleted, more bins filled, these days builds are cheap. Recycling for the win.

This has been my experience with BSOD, the SG I run with. We may occasionally plot and scheme but it's always us doing that together. Not once have I ever been asked to bring something else to anything. If one amongst us senses it might be good, we offer.

That's the thing in my mind about tanks. It takes so much less build effort to hit the caps, compared to the other melee ATs, that you're left with plenty of slots/options for cranking out more damage.

I concur. Only time I go Mane over CJ is when I know I also have to grab assault and/or tactics.

Cuz electric assault ain't electric blast. Will take extra work which is the same reason sents didn't get seismic blast.