Atlas_Carter

Sadly I don't have his pine setup or even his current set up properly. After a terrible terrible TF where I became so intimately acquainted with the ground, her paw came out with a shotgun and threatened nuptuals, I respec'd him in a fit of pique to pull out his set IOs to recycle into a dual blade/electric scrapper. It's the day after and like many things, I regret the night before so I wanted to check in with you guys and see if I'm doing something patently stupid before I completely give up.

I messed up somewhere. My brute is a lotta fun but when going up against cimerorans and rikti, he goes down faster than a sack of concrete mice in the river. I saw that I was taking a LOT of smashing, lethal and of course psionic damage but I have no idea what skills in the wp set I should be taking...do I need to branch out to the leadership pool? Was combat jumping a mistake? halp, please!

This was to pain train, so... the choo choo part was quite essential

"Doesn't she know I'm 99% titanium?" "The other 1% is cheese nips, by the way."

"I don't care what you smell, get in there!" "Wait, that was actually Han Solo, don't attribute this quote to me!"

"Aw yeah! Non Union Ghost Busting!"

"CHOO CHOO ka CHOO, I AM THE WALRUS"

"Keep away from the wackadoo, he'll put his fingers in your mouth."

"TOO LATE WE ARE ALL TEDDY!"

"I saw Lord Recluse punch a fish once, then we were ordered to destroy the ocean! What's up with that?"

I'd love to have a playable war-walker set, yeah, plus 1 from me too!

Aw! That was a really nice story! I respec'd my crab spider again last night to try to go full longfang and...well...it sucked. I ate pavement about 7 times last night in a group and it wasn't nearly as fun as my jank-ass take on Red's builds or the builds themselves. I highly recommend following the builds as detailed, and if you DO decide to go it alone... use them as a baseline for spider's sake!

And this is why I put that last sentence in :) Thanks guys, I definitely see your point now, and I figured that blasters used it mostly as a 'back off!' but I wanted to get some more educated opinions in on the topic. As a melee dude, it's a royal pain for me because I WANT the 'enemy is flat on their ass and has to get up again' mechanic, but not the "ah crap, they're on their ass then stumbling around all the way over there and I can't reach them because I have fifty other dopes nibbling my ankles and I can't push past them" mechanic which happens a lot with knockback, as previously mentioned. When it happens randomly it makes it annoying. As for players doing it deliberately, that's another kettle of fish and we won't discuss it here. There's also the question if this is even possible, which may not be the case.

Would it be possible to change all knockback powers into knockup/knockdown instead? It'd help melee out immensely, though it would invalidate the 'change knockback to knockdown/knockup' special abilities of some enhancements... I'm speaking from a melee afficionado's perspective however; what do you blaster/mastermind/defenders think, would this make your lives particularly difficult?

I've found that my crab makes a decent off-tank, which was a pleasant surprise. Keep in mind, I'm working with my own jank-ass build, however, and the builds detailed here are far superior.