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Was he engaging first in melee range?

It doesnt do anything too different from invulnerabilities invincibility power - only difference is EA yields its stacks by a click power that expires vs invul that ramps up per enemy in range. Invul also has better resists across the board - the two sets are slightly inversed in that EA has slightly better defenses across the board - but with sets the end result is the same - unkillable.

Stealth only works 100% when combined with celerity +stealth to where your stealth radius is to a point to where they cant see ya. If You are running with celerity take it out and stealth by itself shouldnt be enough to keep their perception from detecting you either way. If you dont want to give up either one then its going to be hard to help your situation. Besides you are a tank, just run though - they shouldnt be able to kill you either way.

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Going to have to hard disagree on this - theres plenty of stuff that illustrates the relative weaknesses of scrappers and stalkers to tankers and brutes when it comes to survivability. Even overcapped they are weaker than tankers and brutes.

Hmmm not sure about that one - if you did that blasters, defenders etc should get status protection in return - and scrappers stalkers brutes would need more than 40% as well.

yeah im on the computer and i see the everest sized picture lol i did that on my phone - had no idea thats what happened - thinking back now to all the times i have done that - and certain reactions to me are starting to make sense LOL never meant to come across that way.

Uh its just a screenshot, sorry I guess? That was my way of asking what the hell you meant.

You said IOd brutes. All things being equal its innline with anything else IOd SOd or otherwise.

You can do that with invul, Shield and SR also.... Just sayin.

If the underlying issue remains why would they?

Ie stop the underlying cause for every build needing or having perf shifter, miracle and panacea?

Thats just one way to look at it, there are lots more. But when you can get the same reward for council stomping rather than Malta or carnies or incarnate content that is a balance issue.

If anything I could see this leading to balancing rewards based on content rather than whole game rebalancing - which IMO is fair. I think you are misreading GB, I dont think rebalancing the whole game is the intent of this. And if it is hes really going to have to brush up on his willpower slotting.

Easiest solution to me would be to add an option to add difficult spawns if you wanted them. Or if you didn't to not use them. I wouldnt be in favor of the game arbitrarily becoming more difficult across the board because sometimes you just want to have an easy roll. Sometimes you want a challenge. Dark Astoria - praetorian content from Maria - high level stuff from Unai. It can get dicey at times even with maxed out builds - I think the main problem or non problem is a lot of people don't run the hard stuff that actually does exist. If You run the task force of the week on +4/8 most of those will be a fair challenge from my experience - but a lot of times I set it to -1 because the team I'm with may not be up to that level or not want to slog through. Thats why any changes should be options - not hauling off half the population to a different server as has been suggested here. Options would solve the issue and appease everyone. How to implement those options can be varied - difficulty setting that adds exotic spawns and dmg types is and has always been my solution.

Not if You want to get a buzz. lol

Well have you for once thought that certain communities exist where SO users and crazed power gamers like my self get along and actually team together with no issues and would prefer to not break that bond up?

Babylon 5 didn't have a bad first season - and it stillngot better as it went IMO. But that was because the story fleshed out and the complexity was designed to be beginning middle and end from the beginning.

lol Favorite scene was ST insurrection riker: smoother than an androids butt - data: shakes head no. lol

Well done, that's good times for that. My best with that combo - with energy mastery was 2:53 - I always wondered what it would do with gloom etc. Mine was with ageless too so those numbers are very impressive.

On the rare occassions I do fall to something silly like Hamidon and the no heal bs its a week long pick at Infi fest because I fell By my sgmates. Thats how rare it is.

My invul, Dark, stone, Willpower, Ice, SR and shield are already there. Doesnt matter what you move - I ain't dying. lol There isnt much separating Invul Shield Ice SR and Dark when it comes to survivability - stone also but its a different animal with movement penalties. Yeah EA would be in that mix but so what? Those are already there - EA would just be a different flavor added.

How bout no.

SR - It's almost like a mini game "Oooop you almost had me"

I ran those numbers on another thread Brute invul vs Brute EA and it still matches up to invul there pretty closely with EA having higher defenses and invul having higher resists. That's with both saturated. Either way it's very similar and at the end of the day you still have to remember to click the power on EA whereas Invul its auto. Without that click EA is a lot weaker under duress than invul.