Snarky

I have not run Rad armor but I have run a ton of Dark melee, usually with Invul. They key is ..... Recharge and Accuracy. Chase your recharge and accuracy bonuses and things start to tighten up. Here is the Dark Invul perma hasten build I use. This Villain build was built using Mids Reborn 3.4.7 https://github.com/LoadedCamel/MidsReborn Click this DataLink to open the build! Brute Mage: Level 50 Magic Brute Primary Power Set: Dark Melee Secondary Power Set: Invulnerability Power Pool: Fighting Power Pool: Sorcery Power Pool: Speed Power Pool: Leaping Ancillary Pool: Energy Mastery Villain Profile: Level 1: Shadow Punch (A) Superior Brute's Fury - Accuracy/Damage (3) Superior Brute's Fury - Damage/Recharge (3) Superior Brute's Fury - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (5) Superior Brute's Fury - Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime (5) Superior Brute's Fury - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge (7) Superior Brute's Fury - Recharge/Fury Bonus Level 1: Resist Physical Damage (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (7) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance (9) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance (9) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime Level 2: Temp Invulnerability (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (11) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance (11) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance (13) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime Level 4: Dull Pain None:D-Sync Reconstruction Level 6: Shadow Maul (A) Armageddon - Damage (15) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge (15) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge/Accuracy (17) Armageddon - Recharge/Accuracy (17) Armageddon - Damage/Endurance (19) Armageddon - Chance for Fire Damage Level 8: Siphon Life (A) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage (19) Superior Blistering Cold - Damage/Endurance (21) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (21) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (23) Superior Blistering Cold - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime Level 10: Resist Elements (A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance (23) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Recharge (25) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge (25) Reactive Armor - Resistance Level 12: Kick (A) Force Feedback - Chance for +Recharge Level 14: Tough (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (27) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance (29) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance (29) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime Level 16: Unyielding (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (31) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance (31) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance (31) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime (33) Unbreakable Guard - Endurance/RechargeTime (33) Unbreakable Guard - +Max HP Level 18: Dark Consumption (A) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage (33) Superior Avalanche - Damage/Endurance (34) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (34) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (34) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge (36) Superior Avalanche - Recharge/Chance for Knockdown Level 20: Resist Energies (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (27) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime (36) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance (36) Unbreakable Guard - Endurance/RechargeTime (37) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance (48) Impervium Armor - Psionic Resistance Level 22: Weave (A) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance (37) Shield Wall - Defense/Recharge (37) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance/Recharge (39) Shield Wall - Defense (39) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed Level 24: Mystic Flight (A) Winter's Gift - Slow Resistance (20%) Level 26: Soul Drain (A) Superior Unrelenting Fury - Accuracy/Damage (39) Superior Unrelenting Fury - Damage/RechargeTime (40) Superior Unrelenting Fury - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime (40) Superior Unrelenting Fury - Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime (40) Superior Unrelenting Fury - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime (42) Superior Unrelenting Fury - RechargeTime/+Regen/+End Level 28: Invincibility (A) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance (42) Shield Wall - Defense/Recharge (42) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance/Recharge (43) Shield Wall - Defense (43) Reactive Defenses - Scaling Resist Damage Level 30: Arcane Bolt (A) Apocalypse - Chance of Damage(Negative) Level 32: Midnight Grasp (A) Hecatomb - Damage (43) Hecatomb - Damage/Recharge (45) Hecatomb - Damage/Recharge/Accuracy (45) Hecatomb - Recharge/Accuracy (45) Hecatomb - Damage/Endurance (46) Hecatomb - Chance of Damage(Negative) Level 35: Tough Hide (A) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance (46) Shield Wall - Defense/Recharge (46) Shield Wall - Defense (48) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All) Level 38: Rune of Protection (A) Resist Damage IO (48) Resist Damage IO (50) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3% (50) Gladiator's Armor - TP Protection +3% Def (All) Level 41: Hasten (A) Recharge Reduction IO (50) Recharge Reduction IO Level 44: Superior Conditioning (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End Level 47: Physical Perfection (A) Numina's Convalesence - +Regeneration/+Recovery Level 49: Combat Jumping (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed Level 1: Fury Level 1: Brawl | Copy & Paste this data into Mids Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1619;684;1368;HEX;| |78DA75945B4F135110C7FFDB6E457A012A52C05E688BA5B495023E794D8C02066D1| |312135F49C5636D6C0A698B910FE0BB82D1172FE0E56B7837BEE82731888AD7A775| |BAB32307099B6CF29B39F39FFD9F39BB5BBC31E1FFF8A1700A86EF4CB5D468CC9EA| |E2F3695A7582A57E6DC00BC761CA758B55118B2C3D9A2AA2A959F28D5AF3146393D| |A1AEA85A43E5A76BD717AB35552F5DAA542BCD250466E6E7ABF9A94AF96AB3522BF| |BEDE8C27C7D4ED597BC1C2C287599F305555AA0A2FEC985CA5C7E929A9497668BA5| |46936AD95B1FD988D3FD896E1890CBF200ABE478DC840B6B028F194C3C1178CAB00| |7CF189EFFD786B2DFE94EB74A7E70C95EFC12F8CDF0A2A5D145862DA215AF88BC22| |F28BE82555BA3591E1468E4C9BA01207D629EFD1F7E4C111972DEEC05181630C5D3| |82E7082611F4E326C90B60D5B6DCC36DC329D92DB0CFBB12CB0C210C21D86572469| |D737D78E98614F248401863E2404920C2E7A9E4F13C1879B6CC64D2B01BD5D40667| |54066159159456456AFA9B2531F44A78862228A892826A2387E0AFC61F84ADAA0F1| |EF782D4F10F74DA7E40143020F051E09AC320C628DE10D69BB7537DD5B5B709E3D2| |8B606C5C441F1378A0CCF888E013D5A1BB30753527B56609A6108E7045A12829514| |D0AB1D2A05612EF94661BFBECB7EF84D471C6048A343A053A08B218320C35BD286B| |5366658EC65C45E46EC65C55E169B0CCB642FAABF00518CF30BB049E1803EBD010C| |B91C719AE11086053202598611E418DE9136A9BF4749B13722F646C4D528CE33DC2| |557296D68EE1475764A1C18472F758DB6E0308B92744EC3FA873A8C9CD43AD01E04| |72FA6E73B8C736FDB492D757F2B8C80718A2B663FACA981CED94B9FD1F64454CE89| |765272D0B855DF233A6AEA7BCC1F975EFF6FF94E43FEF92DFD8994FF04CBEEC5C71| |36FC3E4BD3D39E6DFD050762D425| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

I honestly really appreciate people joining my team. I mean if they knew me they probably would not lol. So I try to take the first 8, if you send a tell “i want in alting to Space Cadet” then you get a space. Now if you do not show up for 5 minutes that may change. It takes about a minute to alt even If you have to search the toon out of the thousand spaces allowed.

These responses help a lot thanks. Here I thought I was complaining pointlessly (a hobby) because most folks on the boards know to go the extra step. But you folks gave me the tools to work around the ….errrr tools

I have been leading some TF SF and mostly it has been great. Recruiting is something I have developed patience with. If a team member is so itchy they cannot wait 5 min for recruiting then good riddance. One issue that keeps recurring (and getting under my skin). “I want in! Let me alt!” This happened three times last night on a TF….NONE of them told me who they were alting to. I try to save a spot but I am a vampire not a F-ing Seer. Then I am asking the people coming in “is anyone here that alted?”….crickets, bit it was the three stooges who alted come to find out. Like pulling teeth to get info So I try to be fair but it is like if I am downtown and you are just sitting at a stop sign on a cross street I am passing. I stop. I wait. I go. No control if you do not know the rhythm of the road

Exactly. If you turn off experience and solo repeatable content you are safe in,with patience, you will have an “i/o edge” in all future content you run. Just take some time up front to improve your odds on the back end

Also even if not picking a Brute or Tank with a little planning the content can be trivial. Pick an enemy group to focus on and take a Corruptor that works well against that group. Dark Dark is insane against most normal mobs. To hit debuffs are real. The heals are insane. Armor? Kill everything and heal off their dying bodies as you go

I never got a clear answer on how/if the AH could be used. Like we can buy there but not sell there? Or we can do anything there?

Hmmm. I think i will break out of the zig with a Brute. How it all began for me…

No worries. Its just that some of us old vampires never forget a slight and never forgive a wrong. BECAUSE WE SHOULDNT!

Honestly I am still so angry over this “sunset” that every time the topic rises to the top of General a fresh wave of irritation sweeps over me.

Taken this Dark / Fire through all low level Task Foces Strike Forces up to and including Hess Citadel and Oper Renault. This is just about one of my favorite combos. I ran Brutes for soooooo long. Then on mostly Blasters last year or so. This is like a cross between the two. Played smart it has the survivability of a Tank. (Play like a Blaster, always know what you can do) but has a PBAoE attack chain that is practically a farmer style clearing machine. Granted at lower levels you can only Alpha a room, but that clears so many TF rooms and then everything recharges as you move to the next combat area

Dude you topic stole me! Have you no shame? (i seriously hope not) Happy Holidays. and YES

Dark's to hit debuffs add another layer of defense to Invulnerability's already mostly stellar performance.

Yeah. I have many a starless night to my credit. I have developed a pretty smooth recruiting pattern. I watch the team build for people alting and take great care to let people side switch if they want in. I load the team by the first seven tells and exercise patience Does make me irritated when other team leaders do not do this. A lot. If i ask a team leader for a spot and they say yes, then i reply side switching only to find my spot is gone. Grrrrrr

Giant frost o matic hand cannon. Ice trollers dream

I have started leading TFs. Nothing difficult, +0/x team size for 1-45 TFs. I do this as part of my new strange obsession to take a toon through every TF/SF in the game in level order. So that means if the TF I want is not running I start one I was leading a Synapse and we got the bug of repeated “Defeat Long Tom”. After the second run through I put in a petition. In almost no time, less than 2 min definitely, there was someone on scene to help. ( they told us to everyone log off for two minutes, which works) On a Holiday weekend this all volunteer staff is willing and able to keep Paragon city lights going. Thank you. Thank you all! Now I am headed back Redside. Big Meeting in Grandville. Something about blowing up power plants and shutting the lights off in Paragon city.

Dark Invul is the most tankiest combo there is. The synergy is insane. We all know Invul needs to be considered in "tankiest" armor contests. When paired with Dark and build a certain way you just get laughably strong performance.

Dark Invul https://www.midsreborn.com/builds/download.php?uc=1778&c=724&a=1448&f=HEX&dc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

O. Ya. A lot of this Brute Dark Fire enhancement set building is sideways to the way you would build it in a "normal" use of the powers. The thing plays like a ghetto melee AoE Blaster. With a buttload of armor and health. It's closer to farming than running regular content. Just burn it burn it burn!!!

One of my big issues with costume weapons in game is they disappear. For me I would never run it, just due to that factor.

you want a huge staff? is it enhanceable?

The thing is a beast. Everyone knows an Ice Ice Blaster is a little lower damage and a lot more crowd control. Really almost all ice power sets (all? I haven’t played all) have this trend. Including the Tank. The thing is a Point Blank cannot be moved Crowd Control system!

I found a crazy new way to enjoy an alt. I took an Ice Ice Tank and wanted to get decent with it. I do not play those sets and have been Blasting lately. So…. I farmed him up to 25 to get a decent base. The I ran every Task and Strike Force in the game. In level order. You have to avoid looking at the starting level of the Task Force because ones like Adm Sutter are 20-40 and should be run with the 35-40 group. This way you experience the powers coming in and learn to use them in the build. I just made a new Dark Fire Brute and am starting Posi 1 tomorrow morning. The adventure continues…

Iam considering taking one of these hell beasts thru “the gauntlet”. PL to about 25, then run every task for e in the game in ENDING level order. So sutter is done with the 35-40 not the 20-25. This gives a good long time to develop strategies with the powers as you level. Also personally I sort of drift at 50 lol. I just did this on an Ice Ice Tanker. That was smooth. Not sure this run will be as smooth but it will be crazy. Want something with good damage auras and not sure I like any melee that qualify so thought I would get vicious with Fire. I love Dark and know it well.

I have a Dark Dark Tank all kitted out. It is a beast, built for Resistance Accuracy and Recharge. I think it is incredibly tough and a mediocre Tank. Dark has a non suppressed Stealth that works against crowd control. My opinion. Dark Armor is Brute Armor. My opinion I just made an Ice Ice, I never ran before because I distrust Defense sets. But it is Winter and I am bored. It is miraculous at crowd control. It is relaxing and funny. My build isnt even good, I just threw Winter sets anywhere I could cram them for more defense and a few odds and ends. This thing is hilarious. And the crowd control? Did I mention the crowd control? Fughedaboutit