Sovera

It was. You'll get addicted to it for the next two years.

Lets try and accept anything works with the current, even squishy Fire Armor. Trying to brag about how tough our current builds are falls flat with the lack of challenging content. Page three will fix that. THEN we can brag 😄 I'll probably be sticking to the Fire/Ice but it might be the death of it as a main tank depending on how it all works out.

Tried that earlier and it did nothing. But I'll try one more time with the 'hitting their heads while hovering' just to see how that works out.

Travel power IO sets seem like an odd choice. Not a BAD choice. It's never bad to have more choices. But most builds struggle with slots to begin with and with so many better candidates a travel power is really down the list. We spend 10% of our time moving from one mission to the next and then 90% of the time fighting with travel powers turned off. As others have said the sets need to be -really- good. Right now my travel power gets the -20% slow resist and I have a hard time thinking I'd remove that. On the other hand I've 4 slotted Brawl and boxing more than once to get the 3.75% S/L defense and I'll be honest I use those absolutely never compared to travel powers who at least get the 10% use time.

In an effort to reach greater heights I tried using Greater Ice Sword. Mids shows a slight improvement with GIS doing 418 damage opposed to Frost only doing 300. But unfortunately it made no difference. Three pylon runs ended with 3:24, 3:24 and 3:30. Ergo same results at the expense of an extra attack picked and slotted. I'll leave the build here anyway. Overall the Ice Melee/Fire is the best all rounder still, but it will only shine once we have the new difficulty settings in. Right now the Energy Melee/Fire is a ST and AoE powerhouse crumbling ignominiously only to the Shepherd challenge meaning the extra defense from Ice Melee is not required, and not being required we might as well go full oomph. It's not that Ice Melee/Fire is -bad- but it's true that 3:20+ times does not truly fit someone looking for damage. But it is a good all-rounder. Still tougher than most Brute builds while more offensive than a tanker (4:20+ for a pylon test).

I decided to give this another try after the tales of kiting and splitting up spawns, but, no. Even just BU + Burn then run off and break LoS and wait before attacking when they arrived had me die twice still at the first spawn. At one point I got a crit that shaved 75% of my HP. Boom 😄

Footstomp from Super Strength also as long as we are flying super low.

Fly and Sorcery come to mind. Anyone with Fly takes Hover and immediately nullifies Fault. Or if they take Sorcery and use Mystic Flight during combat. I understand the roleplay aspect of being on the ground to kick the ground and make a fault, I'm talking of a compromise where someone flying against the ground can still activate Fault. The code is there with Burn who it too cannot be used in the air, but can be used if grinding our nose against the ground.

No idea. Never took it before. Just suggesting a change so it doesn't nullify one of the two combat travel powers.

Fault does not work unless on the ground. Interest to test waning as a Fly user. Might I suggest a compromise where we need to be completely hugging the ground for it to work like with Burn?

I have to say I haven't tried it yet but it seems pretty weird. Why the needless complication and not just make it a fireball effect? It seems needlessly complicated to have a cone that explodes into a non damaging AoE. Though it's a nice improvement on Stone Melee's lack of AoE. I will need to try it and see how it pans out in actual use though.

Here I was browsing the changes to see if PPs lost their T9.

Alright. So, Stone gets creamed, SR as well, Fire. Shield is da wae.

Dayum Werner, you're a god damn beast 😄

Damn, it was SR I expected to have an easier time with it.

*pompoms* You can do it! Is BZB the SR tank?

Lets face it: you want KD? You take Ice Melee. It's the only thing that made me survive the challenge I posted in the Tanker forums. That said it definitely shines not on a Tanker that is already inordinately tough, but on 'squishier' ATs such as Scrapper or Stalker. But then we enter the ITF and mobs are about immune to CC (including ice formations on the ground).

I'm not positive what would solo this well further more as it comes at a level where we don't have all our powers. Perhaps Super Reflexes?

I posted this over the Brute forums but it was hidden in an unrelated thread and either flew under the radar or none felt like trying it, so I bring here to the +4x8 buffed enemies, debuffed players solo crowd. I went to look for the same Shepherds that crushed my Fire/Ice Tanker and got crushed again, but this time without Ice Patch to save the day it is safe to say that doing it at +1x8 was going to be impossible (I stopped after dying twice to the first group of mobs I found, both times under ten seconds). I wanted to test to see if the extra damage would make a difference and if my first experience had been a fluke, but it wasn't, and it didn't. It has to be said that Shepherds are a bit insane. Just look at all that they can do: https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/Shepherds Broadswords attacks to -def, Tar Patches to -res, Vengeance when killing enemies, World of Pain. And on top of that stacking -tohit from regular attacks. Booyah. Cimerorians are a joke compared to these guys. An ITF with them instead of romans would not make an ITF a walk in the park. For someone who wants bragging rights the only place I found them was in the First Ward first chapter. Bracket 24-29: Got to do a bit of talking first then two quick missions. The third one is all Shepherds. Eagerly waiting for tales of victory or defeat!

Nvm, I'm going to delete all files and re-install. It helped last time.

It's just the lowest estimate. Not everyone, especially not a newbie still thinking in SO terms, is going to be into digging through guides and spending half an hour puttering with things. Even if eventually it goes down to 10 minutes. A new player wants to play.

'Can't stand' post title. Uh, someone is complaining about som-.. Oh, hello Dian.

It's not a magic bullet but at least grab Recovery Serums off the P2W vendor. They save my butt in Freak heavy missions since Consume does not keep up with multiple Super Stunner deaths.

Doing Synapse gives 56 merits. Then defeating Babbage another 6. Rounding it up it's 60 merits. 60 merits turns into 180 converters. 180 converters at 75k each makes 13.5 million. I shaved 500k off for AH fees. More than that if level 50 and not under the 100% XP-but-not-inf. I think I made 3-4 mill as a 50 doing it but was paying zero attention so don't quote me.

Did you try hitting the square box before the X?