Snarky

as the pillar i want to stack get to the top the only way it will attach is at a right angle, i want to stack it for a longer pillar

no, it is sitting in base portal room

How do i turn off clipping? figured that. you enable it.... grrr now, can i build on top of what i clipped above ceiling?

I am literally in the base, not in editor mode guessing about 400 feet up. could go higher. proves the point though....

Okay, so having established it is laughably easy to make enough to easily get SOs, and with a lucky drop here or there some good I/Os feathered in.... You can solo on pretty much anything. If you are doing story arcs (more merits...) then you can set up something like an AR/Dev. This has a semi stealth in Field Operative. Then you can pop a Celerity +Stealth in inherent sprint for full stealth. To grab glowies you use smoke grenade from devices on mobs near glowie. Very Fast. Surgical. If it is a boss, stealth in kill boss. If it is a kill all. Well, you are an AR Blaster after all... But there are any number of AT and power set combos that will go fast.

Of all the ATs and Dark Dark powers on CoH, this seems to fit my vampire concept the best. It has a lot of tricks, yet does enough DPS that I am not screaming because the team went in a completely stupid direction. Then, when the team is actually there, I can provide a crapton of leverage to help them succeed. Corruptor is a very powerful archetype. It speaks to dark villainry. Would not be (and was not) my first pick. Yet the thing is just powerful, and the more you understand the combat system the more powerful it becomes.

does this not allow you to put big objects in? because the editor thinks there is something blocking me, and so i cannot put tall objects/stack objects past "imaginary" ceiling...

No, it does not make sense. You can collect 5 merits for getting all badges in a zone. like Atlas Park, Echo Altas etc. So even at level 1 you could get a few dozen merits. Theat you buy converters with. Then sell converters. And get SO enhancers. And, literally, a half dozen other really easy ways to get cash. Plus hundreds of more intricate ways. But, you do you.

you say no enhancement? like not free? not SO? not cheap I/O just none? So, you lost me here because I cannot understand your mind set. If you wanted the fastest soloer? i do not know, but AR/Dev has the damage and gimmicks to speed any arc in the game at +1/x1 Any Brute will make a decent soloer, and I have run a ton of content on SS/Will Brutes using just SOs. But,... Ya, i have no idea how you even Good Luck

well etched did what i needed, which is just rip the ceiling off and now i have a wide open area to mess around.

ya, on excelsior, von snarky curr vig

i want to create a base with a wide open sky. that you can fly though, and not be in that 20 ft horizontal zone. i have asked about how to do this a few times in base bldg help. the responses have left me unsure these people can successfully manage a bathroom visit. this is on a brand new base. can someone just pop in, set up the place as wide open? i can decorate. thanks.

My current iteration of Snarky is an AR/Dev Blaster. Say you are a run of the mill vampire in any genre. Not THE MASTER....just Joe Vampire. Sure, you are tougher than mortals. And usually have little power. So, grab some locally made weaponry and start doing some crimes....

so i just go ahead and speak my mind. not that they deserve my wisdom. for me it is like hitting the gym. the resistance makes me stronger.

Well... It truly depends on the type of vampire does it not? I have ran nearly every dark dark dark X combo on nearly every AT. I can say this, Dark is very good in CoH. Great toolkit set. I dusted off a Invul Dark Tank last night. If you want the unstoppable master vampire, unfazed by the world trying to kill it, this would be it. A Dark/Dark Brute.... (Dark/Dark on melee reaches it's zenith on a Brute in my opinion) This ball of hate (with non suppressing stealth) is just a hoot. Although complicated, subtle, and expensive. So, challenging to build and run. A Dark/Dark Stalker. Very good. M only issue was ... Dark Dark Blaster was just faster Dark Dark Blaster Very powerful. A vampire that can pull the negative material plane onto earth and destroy enemies with it. Dark Dark Corruptor. On a team a significant step above Blaster in terms of power. And Corruptor, right in the name. Control types ar harder for me. I have both Dom and Controller. A Dark Dark Troller would, for my money, be both easier and more powerful. Only annoying thing is you are basically a petless MM and your team is your pets. You gather a bunch of supers to achieve your goal, or leech off them. Then use some of the biggest powers in Dark to ensure they achieve YOUR goal. If you can stand doing little to no damage and just want to completely ruin the enemies chances of doing anything a Controller is the choice.

This week I have run Dr Q on my two Blasters that needed the badge. Both relatively recent additions to the stable. I looked around and most of the other 50s I had already had it. But… there was this prime tank from 2019 that did not. Now, I do not run many Tanks. I built this as the ultimate. It is Invulnerability, with a slightly tweaked Hyperstrike build (prob degrading it, but it became mine). I paired it with Dark Melee. I believe this to be hand down the toughest heavy melee pairing in the game. Dark has a heal, and an end recovery power. A hard hitting ST chain with to hit debuffs for the kiddos. So I dusted this off. To my dismay there were three if us Tanks. I never inspected them. Not sure what level or powersets they were. Either by level, powerset, or player neither were particularly useful. We stormed through. I took one break at the start of a kill all for about three minutes and the team looked like it was about to implode. One big room of crey at the start of a mission. Two tanks in there. Sad panda. I rolled in and we rolled on. I can only think the other two tanks were not incarnated. It was spectacular how good this was. Once I got comfortable behind the wheel it was untouchable. No matter how big the room, what combo of mobs, if I agroed a room full of a hundred looking for a glowie half the time i could get the glowie without eating even a sm purple. Damn things defense is that good. Truly a joy to run and a fun break from blasting. We finished in about 1 hour 50 minutes. It was laughably easy. The only issue i see in running it regularly is a lot of people play Tanks and Brutes. Unfortunately most if them are like the other two tanks on that Q in my opinion. Not ready for prime time.

I do believe Yomo may still be giving out dome cash. Subject to Yomo’s casual schedule for reply. Might be worth it to shoot of an in game email…

So, joined Oklahoman on a two run through Magi where the league was textbook. Every badge except Really Hard Way and made it look like a cakewalk. Immediately after there was an ad for a TV2 respec. I needed the badge. It went okay, not great. Until... we got to the reactor room. I have rarely seen this thing fail. I cannot remember the last time. I felt like I was fighting the whole room solo (a Blaster) with occasional glimpses of people i think were my teammates being chased by hordes of Freakshow blowing past. An unmitigated disaster, and the reactor inevitably fell...

Here is what I am currently using Blaster (Fire Blast - Fire Manipulation) 2024 v 2.01.mbd

One word per post. Thanks Luminara. My new forum style...

ironic, isn't, it,?

Okay... a little long. But I can Edit the thing to sound a bit more like me... "I appreciate the depth of yuor argument against this thing. But you are WRONG. Artists smudge allatime." There. Fixed.

i can get an AI to do that for me?

He may be right. But I remember all my art classes and projects in pencil, charcoal, and oil where smearing was the solution.

Soooooo……. Glad you like Brutes This is the “entire Brute nerf” in one sock The perspective from a former Brute ( now mostly Blaster/some Corr) player; “Some whiny Scrapper players showed formulas that indicated on edge cases with certain powersets Brutes could do more damage than Scrappers. The Devs rewrote Fury so it was easy to get and impossible to peg the bar to the top” Brutes used to have to use tricks to build and MAINTAIN Fury. Constantly fighting and agroing mobs. It was glorious. Now….yawn. To add insult to injury now Tanks out damage Brutes. Tanks and Scrappers both got great ATOs and one of the Brute ATOs is only useful if you are do bad a player you keep crayons next to your game so you have something to eat.