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That one works for me. Now I can lurk. Thanks.

This whole thread is my opinion and conjecture. I mostly play regular content on PUGs with 50+4 being comfortable for my 50s. i have run some 2 star stuff but do it just for the badges. Not a fan. I am almost a carry in a 4 star, though I try. And I have not tried much lol. Certain ATs and playstyles are just more efficient in the modern game. A 7 person team of one Tank and 7 random Corruptors could clear faster than almost anything else, in my opinion. I do not believe mixing Blasters with Controllers and Defenders equals out. Corruptors are just the bomb. But I do not enjoy the playstyle. My favorite Corruptor is a Dark Dark. I have basically two "phases" that synergize with Corruptor Scourge. 1) set them up, debuff. Tar patch, fear, to hit debuff. Really screw with the targets. 2) Burn. I have an Ice Cold which is powerful but I miss a hard hitting Nuke. My favorite current playstyle is a ranged Blaster. I have a Beam Temporal that I ran in endless Master of Incarnate Trials. It is probably more effective at high end content than my new love. AR Devices. With the changes to AR this is now a viable option to me. Better on trash mobs than Beam, With munitions getting a little debuff back. I love the toys, theme, and the mini strategy of caltrops, mines, gun drone, etc. My new "main" is a Dark Dark Stalker. This is the hardest hitting melee ST I have run. Insanely powerful. Melee is no longer my preferred playstyle. I do not enjoy Dark Dark on any non melee toon very much though. So my Vampire meme will be badging the year away on this one trick wonder. I am dusting off a Invulnerable Dark Tank and keeping them in the batters box ready if someone needs a heavy for a team. To me this is the ultimate Tank. (although Ice Ice has insane agro control, to me Invulnerable is just Tankier) But though my three "go to" toons are not what I consider the "best" AT for powergaming all three bring great playability to high end teams. What are your favorite toons and thoughts on how to be effective?

I tried to join via that link and got an error. Me or you?

I have played Dark Melee on Brutes, Tanks, and now a Stalker. I almost always pair it with Invulnerable or Dark Armor. To me there is no stronger melee pairing in game than Dark Melee Invulnerable Armor. Invulnerability lacks a few things and Dark solves all the possible issues except Psi hole. Need a quick heal to top off Dull pain? Dark. Need some End? Dark. Need some tohit debuff? Dark. It is, of course, very synergistic with Dark Armor as well. To hit debuffs, Fear, End, Heals, all of that is hand in glove with Dark Dark. Dark Melee is a strong ST damage dealer and a mediocre to poor AoE. It gets the job done against hard targets and works with your armor to patiently get around to the schlubs. I started on Super Strength. Played it for years. Knockout Blow. That sound! That impact! That animation! What is not to love? Well, corpse blasting when you are new to it lol. But you figure it out. Foot Stomp. So good they could not justify increasing the AoE for Tanks like they did all other AoE. Rage. Sigh. The reason I do not play the set anymore. There are probably 20 things you can do during the Rage crash. I am tired of all of them. Moved on. In hindsight (where I could squueze it in) I might have taken handclap more. Need to KB-KD it and enhance it. But it is a worthy power in the game. I have only flirted with other melee power sets. So I will let others describe those.

Holy smokes we have a great base resource. I have friends who have built art work. Mine is big but clunky. The base builder interface is....difficult. Getting a basic base up is no issue. Anybody who knows it can have you on a huge base with a basic theme, teleporters to all zones, storage for salvage enhancers and inspirations in under an hour. Bare bones decorations. Its the decorating that can take days, weeks, months. Ask for help. People will help you. You can give base editing permission to a junior SG member, invite a helper to your SG as that rank, and they can set you up.

.....sooo..... Is there a question in there somewhere 🙂

We need a search party. I have a few cadaver dogs....but they don't find dead bodies. They are dogs that are cadavers. undead dogs are best. no need to walk them. nvm, probably not helpful here. Bueller? Bueller?

I'll be damned. I assumed Gold. Nice catch! And actually with the tunnel being right there..... I think you may have given the best possible answer for how this occured....

My two cents. I keep avoiding the "petless mastermind" option. But no. See, in my mind that is not a "valid" pick. That is like saying play a Stalker with no secondary powers (including hide) Or do not slot any powers. I want to give actual regular choices that just happen to be real hard to solo with. I have not looked deeply but Ice Control Force Field looks hard.

You do miracles with PUGs. I got on one of your MoMagi and was so confused. I geared up to do it the way I knew. You had this long slow plan that was like nails on a chalkboard to me. Wwwhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? Then....it worked. And I saw how trying to get a PUG League to do it the way I knew would....not have worked lol, But yeah, that League sucked. I only brought a 50+1 (my new Stalker) but is now a 50+3. I look forward to being on some of your future leagues. I was also on your MSR later. I tried to tell people not to KB targets up the bowl. (Stalker...grrr) I checked the league and I think there was one Brute / Tank. Who may or may not have been pulling. Sooo.... I took my Stalker Butt over the rim, turned off hide, and started pied pipering the aliens. Worked like a charm. No deaths.

Gold cannot go Blue at 5

Not if they are gold. I have heard Gold can go to Ouro. Never done it myself. But they would have to go back Gold. Red Blue are no go It seems they made it to DFB…which will drop them right back in…. And how/why are they…..? People are endlessly fascinating.

Here is the bedrock of the problem. Brutes were bent over and a…. Uh, modifications were made to the Brute inherent to ensure full Fury could not be achieved. So, any suggestions about Brutes getting that back I file under in the “maybe Santa will bring us something good this year” envelope. I bring up addressable issues. Like, hey, you guys made sure Brutes Fury was capped. And we all cap it pretty easy. So that makes a Brute ATO proc that gives Fury about as useful as pouring water into the Pacific. Maybe you could make it useful. (What the Devs just heard: Hey, can you guys buff Tanks? Brutes have Fury after all…)

I looked back at some of the original posts. Of particular interest was the "everyone is happy with where Brutes are now" *blinks. Where would you like me to start? Oh, it doesn't matter. What you will hear is buff Tanks. But, having given up on the hot mess that Rage was turned into. How about giving us ATO procs that actually do something. Useful. Chance for Fury bonus? After the nerf bat that Fury was hit with? Possibly the most useless ATO proc in the entire game. but it really does not matter. You heard, should we increase Tanker AOE a little more? Or maybe bump the power of their ATO proc? Tough call, either/both are needed. Both you say?

Just give in and ask the nice nurse for some drugs. stay a while.

I just gotta have a die hard Regen Brute now.

The dude said he wanted the hardest by AT and combo. I am therefore pointing to this oddball of Ice Control Force Field. If you want to discuss why Controllers are great soloers... start another thread? I might learn a trick or two.

Thats great. Apply that math to the crap Ice Control Force Field attack powers and you get an overall damage output of (*hold on, calling a Tank to get some DPS in here)

So... I am always trying something new. And stupid. I think back to my "Tank Mage: Invul Tank, Kinetic Melee" Ranged Tank. Just....odd. So looking at the lists real quick I notice only two powers different between Brutes and Tanks. Brutes get Regen and Energy Armors. Tanks do not. I have not come up with a Regen idea that works yet. Energy Energy Brute might be worth a go however. Anyone have experience with these two "exotic" armors? I realize Regen is just....wow, build for +health and carry insp? But Energy looks like it is great. Until an AV makes the shot lol.

You can really dial the game to what you want to do. Almost any AT has a certain playstyle solo that works. Some faster than others. When you mention combo that opens it up. Because certain power sets are just more team oriented. I would think an Ice Control Force Field Controller would really be painful to solo with.

they would probably try to eat the infamy. poor lost souls

Joined a MoDD run by Oklahoman on my new 50 Stalker. 50+1, so a little dicey. But the issue was the league. Oklahoman restarted after the league could not follow directions and kill the correct 4 heroes. Then....they barely scratched MoT. got him to 75% and then all the melee stood around him as he regen. And they, again, would not follow Oklahomans instructions. Bonus, somebody kept dropping Ice Patch. useless against MoT but great for obscuring his white regen marker. Then I joined a MoEden on my AR Blaster. only 6, but whatever. Then the people stopped to harvest Ambrosia. For a looooong time. I guess they deleted all their greens to make room. Because a couple stayed at 25% health for 15 secs or so in the first attack on the AV. Not even trying to heal. Then.... Yeah, we all know how this story ends.

Yeah. I just had a great experience on a PUG team that showed this. My Stalker is 3 days old. 1st two days were doing every pre 50 TF in order. (missed Cavern of Transcendance and Dr Q). Y=3rd day was getting Accolade powers and some badges. Overall I miss my new AR's massive ranged AoE lol. But damned, can the Stalker hit. So fits my Vampire theme I know this will be my final incarnation of the concept. We were doing the Maria Jenkins thing. Team leader insisted it was kill most. I think it was plus something but I honestly did not check. The clockwork and DE bosses were tough. I was able to quickly burn them down. Sometimes in as few as two hits. We all know Dark Melee is strong at ST and pretty much sucks at AoE. So, better or worse, this is enhanced on the stalker AT. The thing can delete Bosses fast. I let the team handle the light work and concentrated on the hard points. It can....barely...tank when I got way out in front and soloed a spawn once or twice. Propped up a little, but not much, by inspirations. I still need to get my rhythm down on the attack chain. I am okay but definitely not great. I did not take placate. No need and no room. I did take both aura toggles. I love me some Dark screw with enemies powers. I will be badging on this guy for a while. We will see where it goes. Just opened Judgement and interface. Both Dark of course lol.

That was called "acting" Took me twenty years to realize I never liked John Travolta because he was acting characters that I disliked. When I saw him act as a character I liked I was like...WTF?

Glad to have you on Homecoming! Yes, the game is easy at lower levels. Especially on a Brute. But there are many "challenge" types of things AT/Powerset wise. Then there is the deep end hard mode stuff at end game. First you will probably encounter teams running +4 content. then maybe try your hand at a 2star or more Task Force. Deep end indeed. Say hello to the Titannic while sightseeing!