Snarky

about the only thing that will easily kill it is CRACKLE in Magisterium trial and Hami without using a special inspiration. Again, i use the less tough Brute version to Tank Lord Recluse in Ms Lib TF Master Runs. Recluse does massive energy damage..... My build is rock solid. in my opinion chasing def on a armor with no DDR is a waste of build strategy. especially with the "faux def" Dark puts up. There is slightly more defense in the Brute build. Again, I do Tank with it, but it is not built as a Tank. It is built to assassinate small tough groups, solo victoria robots and her warworks helpers, and get through hard content by shock and awe. It uses inspirations, and strategy to stay up. I have heard some people say they die all the time running it.... without using purples or tanker sets? the tank would probably about as tough as my dark dark Brute, but i am not going into mids to build it lol, Snarky 5.1 Brute (Dark Melee).mxd

I just posted my Dark Dark build in the question asked a few minutes ago in Tanker. It is a purist build and I included a rant with why I think it should be built that way.

leaving out Death Shroud is such a mortal sin I do not know how to address it. I have seen people leave out the mezze toggles, and I think it is so much weaker, to each their own. But a damage Aura. um. cough. But you left out Midnight Grasp.... So, I suppose damaging anyone was not on your design board. Teleport pool? You have stealth. If you want teleport for theme use Mystic Flight and get a Bamph TP bonus. You can fly your ball of hate anywhere on a map unseen by 98% of enemies and get your work done. Fold space? Fly your butt the 80 feet. Most will not see you. The few that do you probably wanted to collect their agro anyways. Why you need Fold Space without a damage aura? Okay, dropping that topic. Sigh. Dark thrives on Purple Sets. Because it is a resist armor set that FEEDS on Accuracy and to hit buffs. YOU hit them, they stumble around, cower in fear, whiff when they try to hit you. You need to hit to HEAL. For Soul Drain. Did you know that RES is what stops (-resistance debuffs)? So a RES value of 100% (hard capped at 90, but the game track the hidden number for this) resists all resistable -resistance debuffs. -res debuffs will chew through your armor values in a few brutal seconds. While a solid built RES armor will just stand there and be like "what does that power do? Is that supposed to be funny?" ps, compare your resist values to mine. there are no incarnate powers yet on my build, when you add them....fuggedaboutit Why do i bother? You probably will not take this advice and will decide Dark Dark is weak after running it a few days. Good luck on your next Alt.

I really need to formalize this info and save it. But here goes.... I prefer Dark Dark on a Brute over a Tank due to non suppressing Stealth. It is INCREDIBLY good on a Tank, it is just that I am a theme purist. If the Armor wants to go somewhere I tend to follow. In my opinion not taking all the toggles is a very bad idea. Defense > Resist > Heal in this game. Dark takes that statement, pretzels it, and sells it back to you. Using mezzes to slow the trash and to-hit debuffs to further reduce incoming damage creates a "faux defense" that cannot be reduced by -defense debuffs. When facing a real boss/AV etc you have some of the A tier resists in the game, along with a S tier Heal.(which is up embarrassingly quick) Dark uses AoE stun and AoE fear to mezze the nobodies. This gets rid of a ton of annoying incoming attacks. Dark Dark uses to hit debuffs to also reduce incoming attacks. Dark has non suppressed stealth. When they cant see you eating their friend twenty feet away you can call that defense. So Defense strategy set Now, your big bads ignore most of that. Soooo… some of the best resists in the game. Do not neglect energy resistance. It can be built into a nice neighborhood. I have Tanked Rom on a Master Run (with a Dark Dark BRUTE!!!) because i have energy resistance BEST heal in the game. Available every few seconds. with hasten up sits at 11 sec recharge. From .0001 health to 100%. Dark Melee provides very good ST damage. Bolstered by Dark armor damage aura there is decent AoE as well. Tanker - Dark Dark revised Apr 23.mxd

Dont get them mixed up

Heh

People play MMs? 😳

To my (admittedly untrained) ear most fluent german speakers utter their sentences in unbroken chains. Given that German grammar allows (whole sections) of sentences to move around in ways english never would…. The (whole section) sometimes (again, to my ear) becomes one long spoken word. That may have naturally given rise to using “run on compound words” to become a regular part of the vocabulary. No idea, German language history is a long way off in my meager studies

Das ist gut.

Germans have a word for everything!

Thanks for the info. I would have assumed pets were a no. Pseudo pets are odd but would almost have to be coded for because of Ice and such. Otherwise Ice Blasters would be even more F-ed than they were to begin with

Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I’d never know ‘cause i wouldn’t eat the filthy MFers. similarly I will never know anything that PAs purchase because I do not like meth speed runs and I will not purchase the things.

I love the thought. I am struggling to figure out if this is the right way to say this however. And my grammar is elementary. The “an” at the end would be part of a separable verb. But anbissig? Also, it seems like the en declension on bissig seems wrong, but I am unsure. Yes, Vampir is a male noun and in the accusative would receive an en…. I am just starting to study declensions and am still very confused lol I need to practice so much more. I do love the thought! edit: i get the Anschauen part now. i realized my error and checked notes. for anyone curious, and lazy, the expression means “Check out the snarky vampire in the night.”

You make some good points. <insert Snarky comment here>

There is a way to “trick” your mind into understanding Icelandic. Take a large container of ice and sit on it naked. When your butt gets cold enough it will all start to make sense.

build exactly as this person says. literally wrote the book on invul

smarter than me

I am grateful CoH exists. Thanks Homecoming Team! This place has been very good for me. While I snarkily disagree with some creative decisions (PAs…really?), I have to give a *fancy bow with *cape flourish to the wonderful professional volunteers who have raised this Titanic and keep her floating. Top notch writing on new arcs, nose to the grindstone cleanup, and an obvious love for the game. Which allows me to interact with all of my adoring fans. 😎 sooooo Thanks

Its the tones. Unless you grew up with them or are a practiced singer with perfect pitch your chances are not good. I am getting a lot better with the three German Umlauts, changes to a o u. Except Apfel. One sound is single apple and the second is plural apple. I swear to the dark lord of undeath I have yet to hear a difference in anyone who has said both.

In german it us correctly said “ i dont bargain largeorangesquashfruitpredatorsexfetishistagent

Well. I am a stubborn old vamp. I had to look up about three words in that wall of Deutsch and guess a few by context. But yeah, I understood lol. Now, if it had been spoken at me spitfire Berlin style? Heh. No. The honest truth? I thought it would be cool and Nosferatu was a German film. The whole dirty secret comes out. Fing great brain exercises though. I may never be fluent but I have an endless Rubiks cube of a language to play with

Here is the joy that comes with being me. I am a very stubborn old vampire. My goal is not to become fluent. That would be nice, and is a possible outcome. My goal is to study German 1 hour + each day, with supplementals based on the area I am struggling the most. Currently the Case system and Declensions. After that I will either hit Noun genders or verb madness. (German does some wild shit with verbs) I have rarely missed a day since I picked it up in Feb or March. More often now I am spending more time with it, the more I learn the more interesting my old brain finds the puzzles.

They killed Statesman again? Well, in game if you kill a boss once you better grab a punchcard. That fight is gonna get familiar

I just (today) signed onto (free!!) Germanwithlaura.com. I do not know if there are charges later. But she has a TON of free stuff there and on youtube. She is also the clearest instructor I found on YouTube which is why i am expanding my studies to include her materials