Without_Pause

AT, powerset, and name are essentially a given before going in. I have a number of stock looks saved so odds are I might just load in one and tweak it. Actual character creation is rather quick to be honest.

I don't use my old forum name. 1. HC is a chance to start over. 2. I grew fond of the character who used the name Without Pause, so that stuck with me. 3. My previous name used a female's name based on a character I used on live. Since I am a guy, something more neutral sounding worked better for me. 4. I was a bit done with the character which was my namesake on live, and I had no real desire to recreate it here. With Elec blast getting buffed, I have thought of doing maybe the Corr version, but even then I would use a different name. I knew recreating Without Pause was a given although I was done with regen. I've honestly made three variants here.

Depends on if I feel like doing the tutorial or not. I mostly just hit up a couple mobs and ding 2 that way. I've given up on using 2x XP boosters as I found I felt less invested in them once they got to level 50.

Ones which reach 50.

Please don't sell me BS you know isn't true. Even if you give Brutes better ATOs, it still doesn't counter a Def based Tank walking around with a potential of +20% Res simply for attacking.

I don't think anyone is wanting Brutes to have Tank level mitigation. I think the Tank ATO proc should be tweaked so it covers def and resist, but at lower numbers. Giving a possible +20% Res to a Tank is a bit silly, and does far less for a Res based one versus a Def based one.

EA and Nature are best for doing the harder things as per discussion on the Defender forum. I would lean Controller since you are looking for being on the more support side of things. Earth is awesome regardless of what you pair it with.

Data is from 2020, but Fire was #1 for primary and Rad was #2 for secondary. The combo itself was 8th.

The popularity might be more based on the AT than how good the ATO procs are. You can still split the one into two sets of three and get 10% S/L Def.

Doing any decent build for under 500 is on the rare side. ATOs alone can cost you about 100 mill.

First Player's true super power is to get great names.

"I'm not saying you guys need to git gud, but you should really git gud."

This sounds like terrible reasoning for moving Claws to C. "You think removing its best attack is bad? Well, here's two other reasons why its conversion sucks." I love Claws. Money would need to be involved for me to play the Stalker version.

I already covered my error in understanding the context of what was being said. I still find it interesting that AE/farming was impacted in a negative way in Page 4. Player numbers haven't seem to gone up despite the new Page being out. The dirt cheap market is even cheaper. The market during Page 3's release absolutely went up. Yet people are still going, "You know, we need to curb faming even more." I have over 3 billion sitting. The vast majority of that comes from the market and not farming. I might dual box for a bit once every so many months. If farming was genuinely gone, and don't ask me how that actually happens since Unai Kemen exists, but its legit removal would essentially end my playing time for CoH. In the land of things CoH needs to fix, farming isn't the win you think it is. The only farming the HC team needs to worry about is faming more talent for their team.

1. I realized this was more about AFK farming than anything else after I logged off. 2. I have never seen an AFK farm advertised, like, ever, and I play on Excel. I'm not saying AFK farms with additional people don't happen. I'm saying in terms of advertisement, that's BY FAR on the low end. Meanwhile full team farms with one person doing all of the work happen like breathing. 3. To say it would curb door sitting is outright naïve. I know maps were a door sitter could spend their time doing a fine jig of back and forth in complete safety.

So basically don't plan on playing if you feel like you will ever get distracted.

FYI, I can cakewalk clearing the Big Mob tunnel in under that while dual boxing. I've done runs in 11+ minutes and I know I can get faster. The space map would be in a similar situation.

The nice thing about Claws is it can keep things around due to KD. Saying that, Claws/ea is about as much of a holy grail build I am going to find for a Scrapper.

Good luck adding in a timer. What qualifies for it to turn off and how long would it go before kicking in? Asking because genuine AFKing is a thing.

The problem with this recommendation is how slow it would solo. I prefer using a debuff based primary if I am going to solo a Defender.

Define outdoor? There is the space map. Battle Maiden maps tend to be the go to outdoor maps. I was using a classic cave map only to find the tunnel one(Big Mobs) more sane for me. All I do to search for stuff is put in 'fire' into the search bar and go from there.

I've been taking a break from the game. I do recall during the last Page update the market was active and prices went up. I have started to occasionally log on to work on day job badges and do some marketing. Looks like by all accounts prices are cheaper than ever and even the LotG: +Recharge is capping at 6 mill, which 7 was an easy sell before. I went and looked at player numbers and in all honestly there doesn't look to be much of any upswing in people playing despite the new Page coming out.

You'll need the heavier attacks to function with /rad. Since it hasn't been mentioned, I would offer up Rad/ice. /ice is defensive enough to help out a defender and the slows will keep things in range of the toggles.

I could probably cut my play list of 30-40 characters down to a Claws/ea Scrapper and a Fort. I might want to add in a support character, but that would be about it.

A Stalker dictates the initial strike. This means before the battle has started, it has already moved in favor of a Stalker. It is harder, but not impossible due to ranged attacks, to do the same with a Blaster. A Stalker can do the minimum for a mission. Again, a Blaster could do the same, but it will take more effort to do so, and a Stalker can do it at level 1. Stalkers have built in mitigation. Even if a Blaster can get similar or equal amounts of mitigation in the end(Incarnates), a Stalker gets it much earlier. "What about ambushes?" And? I get what Hide offers, but considering most of the time I'm attacking isn't while in Hide, then not having it isn't a big deal. I'm more annoyed if I'm trying to Stealth for speed reasons and I'm forced to fight, but again, a Blaster doesn't have an advantage here either.