Snarky

You are saying stuff them in peoples trunks and then let the machine hide them?

most pressing issue....where to put the bodies. it is a neverending struggle. you have no idea. you can only fit so many in any one grave, even if you are willing to keep re-shoveling. ponds fill right up. and smell.

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Built correctly the Dark Dark Brute, pound for pound, is one of the flat out meanest creatures walking. But….it is not for newbs or idiots. No offense meant. Just setting an expectation level You have to understand HOW Dark works. Dark takes the standard CoH Def>Res>Heal and puts that right in the trash compactor. Then dares you to say shit about it. Dark uses AoE stun and AoE fear to mezze the nobodies. This gets rid of a ton if annoying incoming attacks. If you do not take both those toggles do yourself a favor and quit reading. 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 is this. Do not waste resources building defense. you have no DDR and shit is worthless in a tough fight, it goes the F away 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 because i have energy resistance BEST heal in the game. Available every few seconds. Top of my head i think mine sits at 8 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. since a Dark Dark Brute is rarely killed you will win any and all DPS races. the most spectacular tacoing of my Dark Brute i recall was a shadow shard TF. A teammate got stuck in a crossroads in a cave map with tons of big spawns all around. My overconfident butt went in. Those F-ing eyeballs ignore steath. So part of my “defense” was gone. Then…..oof. Rikti, some Nemi and a very few Longbow Wardens do the same. You need to learn the groups and know the odds. Only bet on winning hands. that is the cliff notes. If you dig around the Tank and Brute Forums you will find my builds for each AT. They differ from how most people build the armor. A lot of people do not take all the toggles. Yeah, I do not think highly of that. A lot of people go “oh, I cannot have good energy resistance” Yeah, I do not think highly of that. Finally, Resistance is odd. It is very simple, and that places it as the odd duck in CoH game mechanics. I cannot stress this enough. Resistance is it’s own Resistance debuff Resistance. Weird sentence. What it means. If you have 100% resistance you can ALMOST never be debuffed. There are a very few (and i mean just a couple) beings in CoH that ignore res debuff res. One is an odd all Longbow Warden which you will encounter almost freaking never. But that shithead is out there. I am sure there are one or two others who do the same. They are much rarer than a sapper for instance. But just to be clear, that power exists in game. So… when I build a Res toon I build for 100% values rather than 90%. Then my Res cannot be yoinked out from under me. In say a Dr Aeon. Those brickers tear through resistance like its tin foil on a candy bar. Enjoy the ball of hate that is Dark Dark i will bump my dark dark thrad to top so you can look at that build.

17 rescues on a huge map….then it is a kill all you find out after the last one is found. Gotta love blueside

The big powers and AoEs I am in love with. Dropping levitate is okay. I have not run it yet so I dont know what my ST burn chain is. (I never calculate these, I learn them by play). I will be surviving based on two-three things. Situational awareness, I do not draw agro first. Unless no other choice and dropping a big AoE control. I let the Tank/team make friends and back their play. I put a knockdown in the dark cone that is up every 8? Seconds. It is narrow but i know dark cones well. A lot of soft controls. I am not a premier damage dealer, not on this. I screw with everyone for my enjoyment and ST things the team is struggling with. When the combat comes to me i mez use PBAoE powers and then get 40-50 out of the way and cone/control My plan anyway

here are my ideas so far. Snarky - Dominator (Mind Control - Dark Assault).mbd

I have taken a couple months break and now want to wander back in. My thoughts wander to creating the "perfect" vampire and, right now, I see that as a Mind/Dark Dominator. I have played Dominators occasionally over the years but am no master at running them. or building them. Any assistance would be appreciated. I will be taking no melee attacks but will have the PBAoEs, especially since Dark and Soul get a nice toolkit out of that niche. I am arguing with MiDs right now. I am truly unfamiliar with Mind. Any suggestions about powers there and how to slot them would be a great help. Thanks.

Cut off their legs!

absolutely true

increased range will not help with AoE. AoE is an effect in a defined area. Shadow Maul is an AoE. Increased range is for Ranged abilities like bolts and fireballs etc. if you launch a fireball with a range of 80, and you (through enhancement set bonuses, incarnate abilities, whatever) increase it's range to 100, that will still NOT increase the diameter of the fireball (an AoE)

i had fun with an Ice / Cold controller. very laid back style with giant AoEs and no one on the team but you can usually tell how helpful you are being. half your effects (slows etc) are just not visual. but YOU know how different the flow is if you know the game and are really working the combat strategy. in the end it is just no damage and i cant play that for too long. but sooooo powerful. if a team had an ice/cold troller and an ice/ice tank they prob would need zero heal ever lol

in the months of March - June I did nonstop levelling of new 50s. Nearly all with the same method. PL to 20-30, then run DFB (badges) and all the TF/SF/Trials Red/Blue in level order (top level of the TF/SF/Trial as reference) to me this was very fast, and I could get a new 50 after about two days. This method would be a disservice to anyone learning the game. (it would be nearly as fast without the PL bump to 20, but for slotting convenience I always tend to do it that way) To test a new AT and power sets it is great for an experienced player. But a new player might quickly get lost in TF mechanics and over whelmed by choices in combat and character development. They will level fast and might be great 80-90% time and then the "city hall fight" in Posi 1 hits and they are screwed. Or the "get through the dam" in Posi 2. And on, and on. We cannot (and should not) dictate how players learn the game. There are plenty of players in game and on the boards who will answer all the questions people have. No one can make a person reach out, and it is hard to even teach people they might want to ask if that is not their comfort zone. CoH, like life, can be a very organic learning process. That might be a rave review or a giant critique.

How would you balance game development for a player base who has both experienced the game one way since legacy launch and with the new players who through all odds find themselves trying out this super hero MMO? .... it is balanced.... unless the poor SoB starts a toon Goldside.

yeah i blocked drinker from my youtube channels a while back.

Props to a master of his craft. Of tanning...

That explains this…

crap, and I have two ghouls writing a porn version of that for the last month! You know how difficult it is to get even a ghoul to cross the writers strike? Brutal. Ruined! Now, where is that Shakespeare for idiots. Gotta be something in there we can rip off.

Can I make a "Not even close to white and seven mostly not vertically challenged MM?" or is that too close to the next big screen movie?

that is how you rant? i can provide lessons.

And this is why this game will always rock, In CoH you can make your own wild character.

We need more options to emulate these costumes in game. Including robes for men and translucent option

and dont think i am not pissed

To be absolutely clear I am a vampire. Except for a passing interest in your blood type i do not care what any of you are, or what you do. oh, and stay off my graveyard!