Snarky

Well.... Ice excels at being a bit away from the mobs and Dark is built for being right in them. Not saying they do not mix but it is an awkward pairing (in my opinion) for that reason. In general, one thing Ice and Dark have in common is screwing with enemies through minor annoyances that add up to major problems. This is a time based strategy. You want up front results go FIRE FIRE FIRE. Here is something I slapped together that plays off my understaning of Dark. Build Resist, your defense will go away in a tough fight, This Hero build was built using Mids Reborn 3.4.7 https://github.com/LoadedCamel/MidsReborn Click this DataLink to open the build! Level 50 Magic Sentinel Primary Power Set: Ice Blast Secondary Power Set: Dark Armor Power Pool: Flight Power Pool: Speed Power Pool: Leadership Ancillary Pool: Soul Mastery Hero Profile: Level 1: Ice Bolt (A) Apocalypse - Damage (3) Apocalypse - Damage/Recharge (3) Apocalypse - Damage/Recharge/Accuracy (5) Apocalypse - Damage/Endurance (5) Apocalypse - Chance of Damage(Negative) Level 1: Dark Embrace (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (7) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance (7) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance (9) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime Level 2: Tenebrous Regeneration (A) Preventive Medicine - Heal (9) Preventive Medicine - Chance for +Absorb (11) Preventive Medicine - Heal/Endurance (11) Preventive Medicine - Heal/RechargeTime Level 4: Murky Cloud (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (13) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance (13) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance (15) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime Level 6: Ice Blast (A) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (15) Superior Winter's Bite - Recharge/Chance for -Speed & -Recharge (17) Superior Sentinel's Ward - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime (17) Superior Sentinel's Ward - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (19) Superior Sentinel's Ward - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime (19) Superior Sentinel's Ward - RechargeTime/Chance for +Absorb Level 8: Frost Breath (A) Bombardment - Damage (21) Bombardment - Accuracy/Recharge/Endurance (21) Bombardment - Damage/Recharge (23) Bombardment - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (23) Bombardment - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge/Endurance (25) Bombardment - Chance for Fire Damage Level 10: Obsidian Shield (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (25) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance (27) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance Level 12: Ice Storm (A) Ragnarok - Damage (27) Ragnarok - Damage/Recharge (29) Ragnarok - Damage/Recharge/Accuracy (29) Ragnarok - Recharge/Accuracy (31) Ragnarok - Damage/Endurance (31) Ragnarok - Chance for Knockdown Level 14: Aim (A) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff (31) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Recharge (33) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Endurance/Recharge (33) Adjusted Targeting - Endurance/Recharge (33) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Endurance (34) Adjusted Targeting - Recharge Level 16: Obscure Sustenance (A) Touch of the Nictus - Healing/Absorb (34) Touch of the Nictus - Healing/Absorb/Recharge (34) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Healing/Absorb (36) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Endurance/Healing/Absorb (36) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge (36) Touch of the Nictus - Chance for Negative Energy Damage Level 18: Bitter Ice Blast (A) Superior Opportunity Strikes - Accuracy/Damage (37) Superior Opportunity Strikes - Damage/RechargeTime (37) Superior Opportunity Strikes - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime (37) Superior Opportunity Strikes - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (39) Superior Opportunity Strikes - RechargeTime/Chance for Opportunity Level 20: Cloak of Darkness (A) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All) Level 22: Chilling Ray (A) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage (39) Decimation - Damage/Endurance (40) Decimation - Damage/Recharge (40) Decimation - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge (40) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (42) Decimation - Chance of Build Up Level 24: Fly (A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points) Level 26: Bitter Freeze Ray (A) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (39) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage (42) Superior Entomb - Recharge/Chance for +Absorb (42) Superior Entomb - Accuracy/Hold/Endurance/Recharge (43) Ruin - Accuracy/Damage (43) Ruin - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge Level 28: Cloak of Fear (A) Unspeakable Terror - Accuracy/Recharge (43) Unspeakable Terror - Accuracy/Endurance (45) Unspeakable Terror - Accuracy/Fear/Recharge Level 30: Hasten (A) Recharge Reduction IO (45) Recharge Reduction IO Level 32: Blizzard (A) Superior Frozen Blast - Accuracy/Damage (45) Superior Frozen Blast - Recharge/Chance for Immobilize (46) Superior Frozen Blast - Damage/Endurance (46) Bombardment - 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It's my fault. i was too lazy to form one. And someone started one. so i joined. First mission, smooth as silk. Second mission....the difficulty had obviously increased. level 22 minion, purple bosses everywhere. Me in team chat "Did you increase difficulty?" Leader: "No" Me "I'm seeing oranges and purples everywhere. Going to take a long time on these kill alls using KO Blow on minions" Leader "I can lower it" Another team member "We are cutting through this like butter!" Me: "silence" just quit team and logged off. Look. Don't lie to me. Or do, but I am not dealing with you after that unless it profits me A LOT. Like if you are lying your butt off to me while I am doorsitting your farm, w/e. If I am grinding minions like they are bosses for two hours? You have officially exceeded your credit limit.

I have started a Super Strength Regen Brute Special thanks to Spaghetti Betty and Doomguide2005 for tips. I do not have a build yet. No doubt soon. I used my alt account to farm him to 34. Then i Respec’d him so all slots were frontloaded to powers available at level 15-16. Then I ran a Posi 1. Initial thoughts. This is not Invul lol. You are tending that Health Bar like a home garden. It was not horrid, but a noticeable difference. Not sure if that will be a constant theme or just a lowbie phase then obviously in AV fights. Super Strength. Not going to lie. It felt real good to walk up to a Ruin Mage and launch him in the sky with Knockout Blow then finish him with Haymaker when he lands. (Both powers rocking 1acc, 3dam, 2rech at this level) The crash is annoying…still. I am enjoying Super Strength but will be shelving it after this project. After coffee this morning I will run a Posi2 then Respec for a Synapse build. I will just do TF commander TFs on this run. Getting it to 50 is the goal, while learning it a bit and getting the accolade. Each 5 level shift I will Respec and start to bring in sets as they make sense. Have a few globals and a 4 set of Reactive Armor in Tough. SOs are just more powerful at 15 and are 95% of what is there. There will be a few more Set Pieces on the 20 build and quite a few more on the 25 build I suspect. Then by 30 starting to lay in the bones of the real build.

I just abandoned a solo all Redside because I failed a mission at level 14. Stupid catch this guy. Before he runs out door. *facepalm

I started one of these and will put some time into exploring it over the weekend. I love super strength, played for years, gave it up. Bitter they chose not to fix the crash I have never played Regen. Rolled a few, never made it past teens. I will look around the boards for ideas. I am assuming sets for +health and recharge. The finer points of whether to fixate on certain bonuses is something i will try to determine. I will include hand clap. Useful during rage crash….possibly. Accuracy then? But definitely Foot Stomp and Hand Clap will shake and bake adds. Another AoE with a Knockdown too maybe…see if that Superior Winter can make it

I wish you well. I just saw a Super Reflexes Tank (only Alpha slotted) eat dirt trying to Tank Rom on a 2 star ITF. I stepped in with my Dark/Invul Brute. With a hand at my back by one of the teams corruptors I was fine. Regen? Just straight up eat it all huh? Because there are adds from time to time on top of Rom. I think My Dark Dark Brute or for sure Dark Dark Tank could do it, maybe without the outside heals....maybe not lol. But Dark has the best heal in the game. And so much Resistance, and tons of tricks to screw adds. But just balls out heal through it all? Now you make me want to try a Regen Brute. Curse you!

Wow I know I am OCD, yet I also know I am a mediocre player. But I guard that reactor like my stash of blood is hidden in it. Healing it and landing on any attackers even looking at it.

Was everyone on Discord laughing about how great things were going and encouraging each other to do bacardi 151 shots? or.....how the F did you guys screw that up? No, I certainly want to hear more. Tell me about your pain.

All the great Vampires pay the Renfields in random junk and whatever creatures slither past. Now you know. See, I even gave you a FREE EDUCATION! Where is the gratitude???

Well it is an old build. I have dropped rune of protection. But the build is still very similar. And i tanked Rom in a two star ITF with that Brute two days ago. Just think what I could do with a good build. Post one and may e I can Tank Rom on a 4 star ITF

I am relatively sure that somebody’s mother does in fact play. Sigh, no doubt mostly Blueside, and will be the heroine the city needs. Blech

Hey! You dont speak for me!

I chose to dump combat jumping. Then I noticed you had used regular winter and i reslotted as superior. And six slotted Brute set for damage resistance and two slotted the other in three places for health. Now i am pulling at this thing everywhere lol

It is a challenge. Die and re roll you coward

If you are using MiDs go to: File Export Forum Export, (export full build yes) and i usually do Export data chunk as well as data link

No fusion?

i love low level stories, and i love redside Standout stories for me are from The Radio (excellent low level arc!), The Slot Machine (twilight zone stuff), and I like the wretch storyline from Seer Marino. Mostly I think due to the complexity it adds to Ghost Widow. Good writing there. The Vahzilok arcs added by Homecoming team are top notch. In mission layout, storytelling, and development of CoH lore they get high marks across the board.

Kind of wonderful CoH staff does regular stuff on schedule year round that we can depend on. (this seems like a positive response, discerning eyes see the Snark!)

Are you saying it would be a Snarky (TM, pat. Pend.) thing to do?

soooo i joined a pug 2 star itf. i knew it would be tough. 2 blasters, three corr, a troller, a tank and me. it was a super reflexes tank with only the alpha up and running i learned later. good player, no way they were tanking rom. so.... yep, i went from easy chair to hot seat. i can tell you the dark/invul can tank rom on the 2 star. it needs to be built, mine is fully incarnated, and i needed a healer while i was kiting him around away from the team killing laser squids. but it was okay. i do a 2 star itf about every 3-4 months. then remember why i dont do them. but we finished. and i was glad to be on this particular brute....

good luck with that. reminds me of tony sopranos nightmare of doing twenty years inside playing cards with pauli walnuts

Whaaaaaaat?

Why? Villains break out of the Zig, beating the guards senseless. Or killing them. Or beating then killing them. Guards loathe and or fear Villains. The only worse RP scenario I can think of is slavery. It is only worse in that those being oppressed are oppressed out of sheer capitalist greed. Although that opens up the discussion of corporate investment in prisons. But on topic. Why?

The Grinch came down from Grandville and just F-ed you up! How you like the holidays now hero britches?

I write sporadically about an insanely powerful Vampire. Indestructible. In game my model for this is a Dark Invulnerability Brute. You may ask why not an Invulnerability Dark Tank. The answer is simple…. For 99% content a Dark Invulnerability Brute is so Tanky you never realize stuff is attacking you. The other 1% time you use Dull Pain and some inspirations. So take the Brute and start doing more Damage. Also…Redside, Bestside