JayboH

Due to the overhauls I've been messing with Mercs mostly with a little Necro and Bots for months (since alpha patch...) ...then I went back to my old Thugs and remembered why I always have liked them best. It's a Traps MM with softcaps. Just seeing the enforcers in their Matrix-style leather trenchcoats and sunglasses tossing ammo clips/magazines at enemies AND SHOOTING THEM IN THE AIR AS THEY ARRIVE TO MAKE THEM EXPLODE gave me a big dumb grin on my face. Having a literal brute using super strength while this is all going on plus the maniac pyro going berserk just reminded me how incredibly awesome the set is theme-wise, plus the damage is wonderful of course. Calling out a whole mob from time to time on top of all this makes me wonder why I even bother with the others sometimes. Just a sick theme/concept. 😈

Why is there a proc difference

Note: brutes have less damage buff if you noticed their alphas compared to tankers/scrappers

I'm not. All I wanted after its revamp was to have patch sped up, and they agreed and sped it up.

If negotiations are over, can you make it official?

Sounds delicious - I prefer cold tea to warm/hot. ...but I was curious: are we spending money on lawyers to discuss things with NCSoft still?

I think I am at 39. I've been soloing radios for the most part on double xp instead of farming him up the fast way. Council can be a bit of a pain and Circle is worse - they both have plenty of -def and in Circle's case they cast Quicksand which covers a pretty decent area that I have to micromanage around. You can't really facetank when that happens. I only have generic IOs in most stuff and only the pets have sets currently. I'll respec when I get him to 50.

The purple proc will give them build up, so try that instead. Yes end reduction in pets makes them use less endurance. Summoning endurance isn't an issue anymore thankfully.

Once I get him up there I will likely follow this. Commando is the only one I notice REALLY needs a ton of end cost. He has a bunch of 15 endurance cost abilities and some of the sets just aren't enough. Would be cool to see you upload some footage of this build. I'm at lev 34 at the moment.

Can you post the build?

Bio would grant a damage aura but there is a number of clicks in case we bring up redraw

Yeah I wouldn't use that either, just keep mobs away. There are benefits to Damping even if you don't debuff with it.

This combo sounds fun now with the new rebalanced Mercs and Force Field set. Keep them at a distance with Repulsion, debuff resist with Repulsion and Force Bomb, make them tougher with resistance and defense in the two training abilities, etc.

I'll just quote myself: "I have fought several times to get that power to be worth a damn. Absolutely everything sucks about it and no amount of slotting makes it worth it in my opinion."

Powers for different archetypes that aren't available for those that can get Dark Pit seems to be a weird comparison, and every one of those have better numbers - namely either lower endurance, larger AOE, higher mag level, can hit more targets, and/or have longer soft control effects. Dark Pit is beneath them all.

When I was testing it, it was doing over 500 heal on lowbies if I recall over on the alpha server.

I like it very much.

It's still bad even then - the acc is terrible and duration is terrible, and you can overcome that at the cost of something else if you really want to put all your eggs in that temporary stun for some reason.

It's the king of cones but it's not why I picked it.

Thanks Hyper!

I assume the same is true for TA/Arch, partially because I found Defender Archery to be awful damage, like the worst I've ever played.

Kinda looks like the main problem would be endurance.

Yeah that's the opposite of what I would like, I want it to be droppable. That gives it a flavor. It really wouldn't make sense as far as the Tree is concerned anyway. I guess the closest thing to what you are talking about is perhaps the Pain Domination toggle but that's smaller AOE and it is a heal (not regen) unless you are in pvp.

I'm not sure why. It is the king of cones. It's not that bad. You can just change it to another set you would rather have then.

Yes they stack with each other and not themselves, which means you are expected to re-apply debuffs to surrounding mobs instead of what other sets can do.