Without_Pause

Not really helping your case if you need to add in an epic pool attack. Not all builds can afford to do that, see SR and Shield.

I went and looked at the stats thread and Fiery Melee can rank decently in some ATs.

I double checked, there are few T8s which I would skip, and I don't feel like those sets are that impacted by doing so. Savage's ST damage isn't that great without Hemo as it should be the heavy hitter. Even if one wants AoE, it is at best third.

Call me crazy, but I don't deem soloing +4/x8 as normal content. I don't have a good standard for what is. I just try to find the ideal setting for builds where I can go maps with as little changing of my diff setting as possible. Certain missions just require lowering the diff setting and are found in various normal arcs, see keeping an NPC alive.

I just find Savage being listed as S tier when Hemo isn't worth taking as rather interesting.

It would start by giving it resistance to -regen. Giving it a way to deal with -recharge might be required as well.

Play hardcore and then so how small defeat feels.

I chill out the most on my Stalker. You can do as much content as you like since you can stealth as needed. I would say StJ, Ice, Elec, or EM paired with EA, Stone, or Shield. Elec and Ice are super friendly to Stalkers. Ice is better overall and on the defensive side as where Elec is the AoE king. Shield can take some time to get going since it offers no end recovery aid.

Dark Obliteration also requires taking another power so it might not be as simple as taking it over Ground Zero. I would take Ground Zero, but then I'm realistic about what I'm looking for from a utility power from a secondary. Meltdown can be a good place for one off IOs. GB and BD can be one slotted. GZ doesn't take much. You basically want to load up on everything else.

On a Brute, I only skip the T1 in terms of a non-farming build.

Either. EA is the better regarded of the two, but Rad is more than fine for general content. I have a Sav/rad at 23 who is only on hold due to me wanting to play alts. I have a level 29 Rad/ice tank and she's been a blast to play. I have a /ea Stalker at 50 and a couple /ea Scrappers getting there eventually as well, so both sets get a thumbs up from me. If it matters, slotting the Theft of Essence proc into Radiation Therapy makes Rad super end friendly earlier than what EA can manage.

I just grab attuned IOs. If I want to do a build where I get maxed out IOs with level boosters, I'm now looking at a second build for limited content which is going to cost even more. A character like that could easily cost 3+ billion to IO out. I have one that would be 4+ billion. I find IOed out builds with T4 Incarnates are overly good already. I don't see the need to drop 2+ billion on trying to squeeze so little out of a second build. The best case for a second build to me would be for farming or PvP. I've done farming builds with non-level shifted IOs and I can clear a map in fine enough speed.

On a basic level, I slot level 25 commons until I hit 50, and then decide how much I want to dump into a build. Some builds simply get retired. You can IO out a build for a few million this way, and they will play fine. I'm around 50% of my 50s not having full level 25 commons in them. It will be some time before I do another. I know enough to raise enough coin to IO out six 50s, but it still takes time. Second level is slotting one offs, ATOs, and some uncommons until I hit 50. I don't care if they are top tier or not. Getting any bonus is better than getting none. Third is doing the same, but around level 27 using a respec to get as close as I can to slotting as if I'm doing a final build sans those which can only be slotted at level 50. Finally is doing the third level, but actually slotting in those purples and whatever else. Which path I pick largely depends on my desire to do so and how much I like a build. No reason to drop 2 billion on something you are retiring anyway.

Those aren't friends. Friends will let you bring whatever and not care how fast things are run. Also, I find it rather laughable that a Scrapper is going to be THAT valued over a Defender when it comes to team speed.

I have yet to play a build which felt needed on high enough level teams. Not sure why a support build would need to feel any lesser. IOs and Incarnates make so much of the game irrelevant. Odds are if I'm on a team I am more and more likely to be playing a support character. I really only play non-support ones on teams if it is for a TF/badge.

Some alternate colors and maybe some tweaks with some of the pieces, but this is my Shield/wm variation of the above. I was originally was going for an Arcane(Netflix) look, but since War Mace's light can't change its color, I went with a rather different idea. In all of my history of hundreds of characters, I don't think I had ever done a non-human so was looking to break that streak.

You'll be fine. Take Posi 1. Min level is 8 and max is 15. If someone is level 8, they are limited to that level although they can be SKed to 14 with you on the team. You on the other hand will be level 15, but have access to powers up to level 20 and all the slotting with possible bonuses for IO sets. "Why not just PL a character to 50 and then go through stuff while being uber?" Because you likely still don't have a proper sense of how the build plays. You might find out you don't even like the build. Slotting out the build might cause issues if you don't have actual hands on experience with it. I have two accounts, and in all honestly I rarely PL my other characters. I have essentially retired my Spines/fire. I find I enjoy the characters I leveled the old fashioned way far more and anything which used 2x XP, and I still need to get more of a feel of while they are already level 50.

What head is this? Maybe the coloring I have is throwing me off, but I can't seem to find it. Update: I think I figured it out.

Previously talked about here. I know @Yomo Kimyata posted a slightly different version of the build over on the Scrapper for forums under the topic of AoE based Scrappers. Note, Yomo has enough coin to afford all the things, but there are other builds to look at as well.

If anyone wants to justify using those two powers while skipping on AS I would accuse them of negligence to put it mildly. AoE Containment with Tanker cap targets versus the two worst cast times in the set and both being ST? You're a Tank. Take the AoE.

AS is huge for gaining Containment. I can't imagine not having that in the build.

Rad is better AoE. Dark has more utility. I feel like some of Dark's utility, Dark Consumption, is lessened in the end when IOs and Incarnates are factored in. We'll know Dark has over taken Rad when Dark/fire Brutes are the ones showing up in numbers on farms.

+1. First time doing it was on my Kin/elec and failed horribly. Came back looking for revenge with an Earth/storm and I think we might have let out 3. I also knew what mission was going to be talked about based on the title alone.

I've used sleep powers on teams rather successfully. They can be used to mitigate alpha strike or prevent additional mobs from coming in. They might be situational, but I don't think they are bad.

My suggestion would be to advertise something like this, "Level 25 Newbie group in Talos. No Vet level characters please. LF4M." The only sub level 50 +4 content I feel like doing on a repeatable level is Frostfire with the lead using 2x XP boosters. I've only done it once without the 2x XP booster and it was a slog. The other times were an absolute death fest. Part of the issue as pointed out is player knowledge. CoH in general isn't being played by newbies. Many people have played this game for years. A level 100+ character has been played a bunch so the player should have a solid grasp of the character and likely in that situation already. Hell, I tend to play red side as a default just so I'm not doing the blue side TFs for whatever time I'm at them for each one.