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I ran a Kin as my main on live. Run teams even if they are radio missions. Since you consider yourself still a newbie, learn how to build teams. Not everything needs to be TF or +4 content. Part of the reason your teammates are blowing through content is due to the fact you should be putting them at damage cap and giving them +recharge and +end. I often felt like I was getting a free ride on teams since we could blow though content at such a pace. If you are doing heavy amount of TFs, then that's where heavier Incarnate teams are running. Build teams and run at +2. Say all levels welcome. This opens up as an example people being in their 30s joining. Kins benefit from having melee/tanks and controllers/doms on a team. Ice can survive from a distance so try to do that and going in closer range as needed as mezz is a high issue late game as you have noticed. Make sure to have purples and break frees on hand as you will likely need them. Learn what mobs do what. Don't sweat death so much. Debt is merely a badge. You are new. It is okay to mess up and feel underpowered compared to other people. There are times where some of my builds or just me in general feel underpowered and I've played for roughly 8 years. FYI, back on live I leveled a En/en blaster to 41 without a death and no Med pool. No 2x XP back then either. Run the kind of teams you want and learn.

A tank who can control melee and mobs in general.

Playing with friends doesn't level multiple characters for me at the same time. Some people prefer this method as it can be done well as an added challenge. You don't do it nor understand it and that's fine, but please go pee in your own pool. FYI, due to an issue which started after that last patch, I can be forced to reboot when playing the game. This has made being on teams difficult. If I dual-box across two PCs, I can level characters at my own pace and not having to worry about getting dropped from teams at a decent rate, so that's what I'm doing this weekend.

War Mace/wp has to be as easy as any.

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I think anything with a damage aura should generate a certain amount of hate. I still tend to go brute on those though. I think Ice is one of the best as it has Chilling Embrace. I have thought about making a Dark/ice scrapper more than once. Plenty of hate and more AoE which helps Dark. /regen should be maybe the weakest.

I had someone ask if I wanted to team on a fairly high level team as a melee character(brute maybe) and then I said I had just hit 22 so I had nothing slotted and would prefer switching to something which did have things slotted. They said they preferred what I had because they wanted something which couldn't pull agro from the tank. Not the first time I had comments about agro and tanks on teams, but that felt like the most odd. Almost felt like grabbing my Spines/bio brute. 😛

I wouldn't directly blame AE for that. With 2x XP people can hit 50 in less time which means they have less time with their builds. I finally got a build to 50 and still feel like I can spend more time with it. On live, many builds felt like once I hit 50 I was done with them.

Board gaming. I have run a game group for over 7 years. At my peak I have been able to play 88-125 different games per year. Not a 100% correlation, but yeah, it was very much something I moved unto once CoH died.

I played Earth and /dark to 50. The combo would be a beast.

32-Bit and nothing else running and still happened. I wasn't even on long. It was due to zoning from my base, so that might be a first or a rare instance. Again, it ran for months without issue until the last patch. My work laptop did get a RAM upgrade, so I'll try on it.

Vets of the game aren't wasting time on SOs, or at least they shouldn't be.

Good luck doing damage.

Pineapple also isn't a planner and offers actual gameplay. I say stalker based on the fact it doesn't lose out on AoE and gains an AS type attack although this isn't a 100% win. Now, there was a thread on the brute forum asking if the set wasn't a bit underwhelming and the conclusion was that it was. I did do a search for it and didn't find it. A couple threads I did find.

Yeah, but this one has a dash in it so it is totally different.

There are ones which are Dev choice and hall of fame arcs. It really isn't difficult to find. Saying there are only farms means you have put in zero effort to find anything else.

To be fair, one might want to factor in /fire brutes. The top 3 builds for brutes are known farmers and make up for roughly half of brutes. #4 is Elec/sd which again can farm. #5 and #6 are again /fire brutes. Factor in a team might only "need" one tank, but can benefit from multiple defenders and defenders still have lower numbers.

A SJ stalker fired the scrapper AT for me more than any brute has, and brutes have been my favorite AT for some time.

For me I can go do some farming and wait and see what pops up for teams if anything. I mostly do 1-2 runs and then switch. I did a number of them early on as a way to level up to get to a certain point with the build. I am also working on a character for more regular content but S/L farming as I really don't want to take the effort to make Spines/fire for farming and regular content. I also had plans to dual box, but honestly haven't gotten around to doing so much. For other builds, the "Bad" space map works wonders. Again, vastly for early levels to get a build up and running.

There's only one toggle at 10. The next one is at 20 and can be put off until 22 while taking the Fly type travel power. This is essentially what I did. I had no real issues with end. I got on teams with it. 2x XP can get you to 22 rather quick. Even soloing, one can go to AE and do the "Bad" missions. I prefer the space one. At 10 with 2x XP running, you can gain a level per every run. An almost default for me is to run a new hero through it until like 18 and then go team. Early TFs would also be good. People run Posi I feel like all the time.

Zoning seems fine. I was very much looking to post about getting a new graphic's card when this issue popped up as the game can be still pictures at times. I have not gone through those steps yet. I got on a Tina arc team and dinged 50 for my first hero on HC going from 46 to 50. I did three Posi 1 TFs today and had considered the issue maybe over until it happened when I clicked to exit the final mission of the last Posi TF I had done. RAM for the game was 1.2 GB at the time of the issue.

I Goggled the model and Amazon showed one with a NVIDA Quadro NVS 3100M.

Resistance on a controller is less needed than defense and defense stacks nicely for what Dark does. Mez protection can come from being Incarnate, and to be honest, I don't get mezzed much. With "2.5" pets already and one coming from Incarnates, I don't see so much benefit from adding another. I concede Power Boost is awesome, but I can't really complain about any of the Ice powers and two AoE attacks is mighty nice for a build lacking in firepower compared to others. I debated Psi and Ice. I might change, but I got to 50 last night and need to go back and fill in my slots. From what I got playing it last night, I'll be more than happy in the end. FYI, I started at 46 last night so I had some of the ice powers already.

I don't know when the load screens all happen, but entering and exiting missions is when mine definitely happen. I don' think it has ever happened dealing with the base.

Bruise Brother. He's on a mission from God.