Without_Pause

You falsely assume they are looking to farm. This is a rather poor build for doing so. See sub 20% Fire Def and 55% Res Fire and no added AoE via Epics. At a glance, it is fine.

Ended up running First/Night Ward missions to end so might start there next week depending on the Weekly. I hit level 30 so getting close to where a lot of the sub level 50 content is available.

Just hanging out in IP.

StJ is more fun for me. The combo system is forgiving. There's no rage crash to deal with which means it is more friendly with Def based armors. StJ's AoEs are the smallest so that's going to show up more on x8 content as where Footstomp is obviously going to excel there. StJ does animate fast and has low recharge. I think it partly depends on what you are pairing it with. I can see StJ/shield or /stone and SS/elec.

In short, do red side content. You get Arachnos and Longbow. Longbow honestly aren't that bad, BUT their bosses and certainly specific ones are hell to take on so it might take more than a single map to get a vibe. A Rad based boss is, well, not fun because all it takes is toggles. Bye bye recharge and regen. Arachons might need more than one map as well. Arachnos are an issue because the sheer mass of Mu and more so with some being bosses can create enough end drain even an armor with some end drain protection can feel it. Their LTs, maybe, who have an assassin strike type of attack can move a health bar even on a Brute. BP can be an issue for some builds as well. My WP Brute can be fine and then, "OMG, what the hell just happened." Same with a Fire Brute when I was dealing with Arachnos. Now, take a Scrapper with SOs because Scrappers were "soloing +4/x8 back before IOs" and yeah, good luck with that. Mr. G is a great measuring stick. There is a mob, whom I'm too lazy to look up, which debuffs end and recharge. They broke my brain a bit the first time I fought them at +3/x8 on my Fort. There's a mission which has a mob full of EBs and others including at least one boss. Heaven help the person who walks into that with diff setting set at soloing AVs. This says nothing of mobs which contain high amounts of Psy which few Resists sets can properly deal with and more so with just SOs. 801 testing has repeatedly shown Def based sets win out on average. Add in Scrappers/Stalkers having lower HP and resist caps, and yeah. I stand by my statement if you care about pushing the envelop in terms of diff setting. If not that or certainly in team situations, any/any.

It took some effort, but I found the chart.

Saying people solo at +4/x8 is honestly a bit meaningless when you aren't saying what they are soloing exactly. I say this because I know of maps which will absolutely make a Res based Brute pause if not repeatedly faceplant even with IOs. Oh, you can solo +4/x8 against Council? Well, good luck with that being your standard.

Someone recently posted how much better Energy performs DPS wise once you start to slot KB to KD into it. I have a Water/temp at 50 and it is my only level 50 Blaster. Needless to say I like /temp a lot.

To be honest, pylon times aren't really even Plant's strength since Seeds is a non-issue. I solo on my Plant/ta as needed. The two holds mean bosses are held quickly even with basic slotting.

Also, when someone does offer a build like in the thread I mentioned, it would be considerate to actually reply to/like/thanks, etc the post.

/ea only adds recharge so /bio is going to be better. I would say EM/bio Scrapper. I haven't looked at the Stalker version in terms of pylon times though.

For x8, Fire and Plant are the best options. Plant is more ranged based so more blaster like.

If you want a two way conversation, I suggest PMs. As for the rest.

I was confused by me getting a notification for this thread, and honestly had to go looking for why. Feels like needlessly naming dropping while saying what borderline looks like gibberish. EA to Tanks is a separate issue. This thread should have been done in suggestions. My stance on Regen remains the same. Regen needs debuff resistance against Regen Recharge End Drain Regen as is on Tanks is "Good luck with that."

You can add a build into Mids. Import it to the Test server. Test yourself.

Some of us like the challenge. I became a better player when I had to learn how to solo mobs versus leaning on teammates to help blow through content. I find sometimes I want to team because my build needs an audience.

Starting a new thread is just being lazy. Add in it being a few days later. I get making builds isn't for everybody, but I just started to copy builds I liked. Took notes on what was used. Decided what worked for me, and went from there to where I can mostly do a build from the ground up. But a thread on Sunday and Wednesday asking for the same thing is a big ball of self entitlement. Worse case scenario would be to level the build using common level 25 IOs, and once you hit 50 decide what you want to work on with the build. Hell, just adding in ATOs with the typical one offs and such added in wouldn't be that hard to do.

Posi 1 was done with 4. Posi 2 was done with 6. One person who I didn't know did add me as a global. I was just poking around on /ah and whatnot and got invited to a level 50 team. I grabbed an arc mission before doing Posi so I went back and soloed that arc to clear that out. I dinged level 27 by the end. Yin is the Weekly so likely that and maybe some arc content to have a good cut off time so people can make the Themed TF stuff. Adding Citadel might be a bit much. I'm fine for Merits so whatever arc content can be done. Once server transfers reload, I'll be set with adding in another character to get some work on them as well. I technically have a level 18 Claws/ea Brute here, but I might dual box them up a bit as well. I know Posi 2 was streamed. Is there a link?

I don't expect them to do so. Apparently HC has ruffled enough feathers for that to never happen. My point is they could at least try on some level to gain talent which has at least some working knowledge of the code base you are working on. Me being me I would of had the various shard teams be their own community, but apparently that's so not happening for whatever reason.

Somebody still got a live version of it. If that shard is on life support, and they all are, why not reach out to them and see about coming on over and doing similar work?

My main here and the one I use for my avatar is a Claws/wp Brute. I have switched over to Claws/ea Scrapper as a badger. Agreed that WP isn't what you want if you want to push it as hard as you might want, but Claws is just flat out fun to me. If a boss can't counter KD, Focus alone can put them on their butt to the point zero or near zero damage is coming your way and that's with the added bonus of being from range. I still yearn for the day we get a Def based Willpower set in that it doesn't have clicks. I don't need a heal. DDR doesn't need to be top notch. Just want to toggle and go.

I soloed red side 1-50 on an Ice/stone Brute. I see little reason why /elec couldn't be swapped in. The protection from End Drain is going to be huge the more you push the diff setting.

My guess is by the time either did UE 7 would be out.

Wind Control is literally in your Wiki. While it has been mentioned in one of the other code bases that their version might be a bit too strong for end recovery, that seems like a mild issue to hammer out. Also, it can be other bodies simply working on what you want to add in the first place but now just getting it done faster. Oh, I do get your point and understand why you guys are doing what you do. It is just frustrating to see the dev base for this game so split versus condensing it down and making HC even better. Tangent, Sonic Melee is practically on a silver platter right now. There's zero reason for it not to be in the running for having the fastest overall animations. I will be a sad panda if this isn't the next melee set added or ever at all. I feel like I should always mention it until it is fixed, but the "Last 5 bids" bug in the market code is really annoying. Find someone who can hunt that down and kill it. It was mentioned, but I don't think I thumbed the post, but Dev events can be big. Anything really to get an article written about CoH at this point is significant. I honestly see new people all the time. I do think player retention is important. How not to introduce someone to the game. See a level 1 in Atlas. Blindly invite them on a farm. Tell them to grab a 2x XP booster which they can't do since they are now on a AE team with a selected mission. I should have global blocked before I logged. How to introduce people to this game. Lead teams. If you are here, odds are you are one of the more knowledgeable people in terms of the game. You should by default be able to run a team at a decent level. Find out who is new to the game. Make sure they are comfortable playing the game. If you have extra currency laying around, it wouldn't hurt to toss a newbie some of it so they can grab something like TT. Lord knows if they did grab 2x XP boosters they might not know how to counter that aspect yet. Create chat on your team. Non talkative teams are boring. One can stream roll and chat at the same time. Do the things which make the game unique and fun. Frostfire is a classic. I ran an Atta which is also a XP dump with a unique map and someone remarked how many years it had been since they ran it. I unlocked the Wasting Disease mission. I plan on grabbing people for that. Certainly beats some mindless radio mission.

It literally says 3 months later above MoonSheep's post. Yes, it is an old thread. I knew that. MoonSheep was even asking the people who included Thunder Strike in their builds about it. in the land of nercoing, this is mild.