Without_Pause

April Fools. He did post a new video running a costume contest so he's still around. He might have needed a break for whatever reason.

My guess is the restriction on HC videos hurt his channel. I know he tried others, but he might have not found them up to par.

I started on TB when it was the most popular but recently switched. I switched all of my characters to the same server as I prefer keeping them together. I mostly played on two servers on live, but I honestly tend to just stick to one these days. Partly because it is easier to have a crafting character who can dump IOs for other characters into a SG versus sending them in e-mails.

But are waiting until at least 26 to have what feels like a proper attack chain. That can be an issue with people who are new.

Just note WP doesn't have a damage aura so the farming aspect is on the lower side. Still a great set. I would honestly push Kat over WM for a new player since Kat is faster, hence more Fury and the attack chain comes together sooner, and DA further helps smooth the leveling process out. WM has mitigation and comes together in the end. I just think the curve for Kat is smoother. There was a lot of back and forth on if I wanted to go /wp or /elec when I rolled my Kat brute. I went /elec partly because I love damage auras on brutes, and I already have a level 50 /wp brute.

This is why when you do a server transfer everything in the AH remains.

I don't need status protection to like a build. I, in fact, played support as a default on HC and thus played a lot of builds status protection free. It took me years to play the character who became my namesake here and thus gain status protection. I even took a hardcore blaster to 41. I tend to prefer power sets which get out of my way(see /wp). Even if you have enough slots for it and on auto, there are times when auto doesn't kick in and I have to click it to make sure it goes off. To me that's needlessly fiddly. More so when the vast majority of defense sets don't use this mechanism. "But you are missing out on powerful sets." Yeah, I don't care. I prefer sets which are fun early and not waiting for things like attack chains to finally come together at level 26, 32, 38, IOs, etc. Note, I rerolled a TW/bio brute in the 30s because it wasn't fun. "Dude, that build is broken if you invest in it." Do. not. care. (points at alias) FYI, I actually do have a few /shields builds, but at no point do I see preferring them to builds with toggle status protection and none have hit even 40. I don't have to have status protection. I just don't want to be given it and fiddling around with it.

Also why I don't play them.

Likely why despite my attempts to like Shield I can't put it into my upper tier of defense sets.

What works for fire farms isn't really what works for end game content. For fire farms, fire armor. For end game content, not fire armor. It also depends on how much you are willing to invest in it. If you want something which top tier, then TW/bio is in the running, but it is going to cost to get it to where it can be. I found it a bit underwhelming in its 20-30s. If I wanted something to farm S/L maps and for general content, I would pick Spines, Rad, or TW with /bio or /rad. Also note if you are creating a fire farmer for the drops, you are literally wasting your time as influ/time is better generated through the market. If you want to create one to dual box and PL friends and SG mates, then by all means do so. This is why I suggest going for a general build versus a fire farmer. I honestly only really use my fire farmer to dual box.

The problem I've found is I HAVE to bump my bids or they sit no matter how long I'm willing to wait. I am borderline having to double my bids in places to get similar traction as before. Even with bids below the last 5, bids can be 175% of what I was bidding before and still sitting.

I feel like shouting from the mountain tops you can stack those other powers with Sonic. You are comparing apples to oranges.

Technically the scrapper version will benefit from Follow Up more. Also, the ATOs for scrappers are better in terms of creating higher DPS.

Hulk. In all seriousness, how do you define strongest?

Higher than scrappers? Yes and also yes.

It is similar to Follow Up in that you will get the buff to stack so one use of it might not seem much, but as longer the fight goes on you should be seeing better numbers for damage on top of what Fury is adding, which also might be why it doesn't feel so powerful by itself.

Dark or Rad would likely be my picks with Shield. SS is going to be end heavy. Rad would likely be as well since it has a damage aura, but not on the level of SS. End issues so far on my Rad/shield scrapper haven't been that bad. A friendlier take on SS would be StJ which has solid ST and AoE. I've done a couple StJ/shield characters but none to 50. Neither were brutes although I don't think it matters that much.

Without currency sinks or caps on items this will ultimately just delay the inevitable slow increase of items traded between players. This was covered on Live. Currently builds are vastly cheaper than they were on Live, but Live also had years worth of a player base building currency. There's currently nothing preventing from it happening again.

Jack taking back CoH would have been a WAY better April Fools joke than tiny togas.

People are also focusing on the secondaries, but Grav has a much better ST attack chain and Elec is on the lower damage side. It is proc friendly, but I'm not sure if that translates well enough into being something built for AVs and more so compared to something which out of the box has an effective ST attack chain. Oh, and if you think end drain is going to save you against AVs, well, I got news for you. It won't.

I played an Ice/Ice tank on Live which I liked. I have thought about rolling another Ice here, but just haven't. I have played /fire to 50 twice but only for farming. My sliver of experience of using /fire outside of a fire farm wasn't fun. I know I have seen /fire brutes outside of AE, but I just feel like they would be more work than I would want to put into one. I also can't recall the last time I saw one on a level 50 team. The only reason I see to roll a /fire brute for me is to dual box it. Depending on the concept, Ice/fire blasters can be incredibly good when invested in. I believe someone soloed the ITF with one using restrictions.

Yep. Went to play CoH to further reduce stress for a bit, and then 8 person team trying to get through doorways with 8 tiny togas. I logged after that.

One problem with April Fools is how few of people are good at it. #notsorry Maybe in a screwed up time like this something like this works for some people. But for others, well, yeah. I have been a pure ball of frustration, anger, and anxiety the past few weeks and this is one of my only escapes. I'm going to play for a bit, but I don't want to play.

I won't say it creeps me out, but I'm REALLY not of fan of April Fools, and right now(insert stuff going on my life outside of the obvious), I have so little of tolerance for this. This is my escape when I desperately need one. But hey, here's a tiny guy to follow you around. But why? Don't you get it? It's a tiny guy and that's hilarious! (beats head against desk)