Snarky

Nein!

not my playstyle. you enjoy that you assassin maniac!

I love Dark Melee, and have run it for years. Of course I enjoy the theme. It goes way beyond that. Dark Melee is a swiss army knife of attack sets. With to hit debuffs, heals, and end recovery. It is not "the best" in that it is not the most damaging or most area covered. But it has solid ST damage and is arguably the best set for supporting the minute to minute combat integrity of a melee toon.

Thanks for the replies. I went Tank, Rogue. Did a bit of PLing to 23 or so. Ran a DFB for badge, Posi 1 and 2. Then I did a Tarikoss, 29 min, and a Synapse 1:07. I like to play through all the TFs in level order. Current actual level 32. Yin is next, then Silver Mantis and Moonfire.

obviously they never been on a team that bumped the level and were crawling through a couple of missions...only to get to the open world map filled with CoT and hidden objectives. Oh yeah, stupid can make anything go wrong.

I have been on my Corr 99.5% time since Dec 27.... But sometimes you want a new alt lol I know I want to use Fire Armor and Dark Melee. The decision is what AT. Brutes supposedly do more damage, yet the AoEs on this thing are a lot of the attack chains. Also the Soul Drain and Fiery Embrace will have more effect on a Tank than a Brute where Fury drives the numbers. The Tank armor out of the box is 50% better or so, and this thing will be a little squishy for a Tank. Though I always build heavies to perform as best as possible to hellish environments. Thoughts before this whole thread gets shoved into another sub forum where few people look? Vote now!

i would guess the only possible change is if we get some type of bio feedback "player one" mmorpgs that require more than a phone can do and offer more immersion. then the gaming world will spin again.

The underlying theme to me that Supers are not popular or enduring as the reason for no big houses running a MMORPG Super game seems iffy to me. Yet there is not one... sooooo But let's also examine the fact that almost all mmorpgs shrivel and die after a year. WoW reinvents itself every couple years and everyone loves hates it but are soooo invested they just keep playing. No one else is that dug in.

I only ran stone armor on live once, on a Brute. I was newb. Really enjoyed the look. Had a rock demon. Then at 32 my costume…. Something bad happened… I never ran it again I have two issues with Stone. The aforementioned costume problem. The power pick problematic perception. If you build for granite it is my understanding you do not need all the powers from the set. So the set to me sounds like it does not work synergistically. I wouldn’t know. Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie. I will never know. I will not eat the MFer. As I understand it Stone is very similar to Invul in toughness. Slightly better in some fights, slightly worse in others. But you cannot move. Of course there is TP. Which did not make thematic sense to me so I never explored I am unsure of how changes have affected it

So had a couple interesting pugs today. No, i did not quit any… There was an ad for a 54 kill most ITF. I LFGd in and …. Missed it. So with local encouragement i formed one. Then had to help one of the team get midnight badge and port in. The TF went sooth then i joined a speed aeon. Were ready to load in when the team leader was like “Do you guys know this?” …record player needle drug across a 78…. Tires falling off the car at 80….buffalo stampede…. Luckily it was not the lead who was new. Just had a newer player. Things went fine. But i swear i am developing a pink panther eye twitch

This is why I am enjoying my Corruptor this year. Honestly it would be hard to go back to melee now. I can sit at deaths door and ignore my health. Because 90% time i will not drop, complete what i am doing, and heal in two attacks to full. If i drop i have a rez with stun. I can heal anyone. I click on them and get near then hit team heal. If they are dying and way split i tp them to me. Heal and/or rez them. I debuff everything at the start of a fight. I ST problems (surgeons and end drainers and such) I AoE in the cheap section of Blaster (which is a nice neighborhood) i do all of these things better around teammates because I alleviate many of their concerns and help maximize their efforts. Basically i am an overpowered MM and the team are my minions…. So much more powerful than eating the Alpha and smashing stuff as a Brute. Oh…I have also figured out how to eat the Alpha in 95%+ of content… combo of stuns and debuffs. Then i go through PBAoE ghetto Blaster attack chain

I am doing it a lot now, and I see that. But when I started doing it I was a carry for the first? #runs (a lot) I also target through the tank if we have one. Just ran one and it was ....okay. And i have run this thing 40-60 times? Well at least 30 and less than 100.... Granted, I am not good at stuff until I am comfortable. too OCD. But this F-er has not been fun for me. At all. So...yeah for new content. Built for a game this never was.... Oh, and Brutes? Really suck in there. The small difference in armor between a Tank and a Brute is huge in this type of content. The ability for a Tank to hard cap 100 on resists plays a big role. Big Edit: what do i mean hardcap 100 resist. yes, Brutes and Tanks cap at 90% res. But Resists is it's own Res Debuff Defense. So 100 gives an unreduceable Resistance value, always 90%. Brutes achieve this WAY less often than Tanks. And the Goldbrickers do resistance debuff. So, on top of everything else I do not like about Aeon it took a cheap shot at Brutes nutsack on the way out. Because this Dev staff wants a Tank and a bunch of Corr. Not a Brute, other squishies, meh, okay, not optimal. But a Brute? Let's just buff the Tank some more... More AoE this time? Or maybe increase the ST damage mechanic this time around?

Another couple weeks and you'll be tanking 4 star ITFs on that monster. You rolled a serious one.

Glad you had fun. Was a good run. Stayed together and the kill zone sizzled. Even Cyclops and Minotaurs just melted. For those curious about the bio but not curious enough to run around trying to find an old vampire... "Yes, a real vampire. No, not like the Council. They make those things in test tubes. No, I do not glitter. No, I do not want to go to High School and start a social life. Go away." A good bio can be right to the point.

I do not use target macros. Maybe I should. But writing one for every thing I want to attack and keeping track of them is more than I want to do. I use the game interface as it is 99% time. Soooooo in the Dr Aeon where the boss flies all over the place through hundreds of Goldbrickers in a warehouse? Yeah, I rarely hit that bitch. So, sure, make the bosses fly. Hell, make them pop in and out of extra dimensional space. Or attack us from under the floor. But I do not run the Aeon much. Once I get the badges for this years toon (hopefully soon) I may never run it again. BECAUSE IT SUCKS.

He may play on Homecoming. Certainly, any knowledge of US is not going to change the question ROFLMAO

One thing stands out about old Redside live. You join a PUG and load into a mission. If you can handle the first group you will be okay. Some tricky areas of the map you may need strategy to pull and the last fight will include a boss/EB/AV. But if you could handle the first group you would prob be okay. If your team is struggling on that first fight just bail. Villains gotta be careful. The modern game is just more lopsided. Either we steamroll everything or you get an hour into a 2-4 star and just get stuck.

Things I will run anytime they are advertised is the gold standard. In no particular order: ITF Virgil Tarikoss Market Crash TinPex Silver, they are good. But I need to be in the mood: LGTF, LRSF, Ms Lib, Speed Aeon, any Inc Trial Bronze; I will jump on one if the server seems light in jumping on and I am bored; Barracuda or Khan, Yin, Katie or Moonpiefire Toilet bowl ring; Synapse, any Shadow Shard.

no enhancers at all. lets just get pure AT and teamwork

I know nothing about the coding. So, as usual, I speak out of ignorance. But with large base parts you can walk around inside them. (once you figure how) and scaling is easy in the game, more or less. It seems all parts are hollow, just a thin sheen of art viewable from one side. So, the code must be creating a full 3D rotatable "object" (bunch of faces) and that is the base / costume part. You can see this in clipping etc.

Enjoy This Hero build was built using Mids Reborn 3.4.7 https://github.com/LoadedCamel/MidsReborn Click this DataLink to open the build! Crackle: Level 50 Technology Blaster Primary Power Set: Beam Rifle Secondary Power Set: Temporal Manipulation Power Pool: Flight Power Pool: Speed Power Pool: Concealment Power Pool: Leadership Ancillary Pool: Munitions Mastery Hero Profile: Level 1: Charged Shot (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage (3) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance (3) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge (5) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (5) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (7) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge Level 1: Time Wall (A) Gravitational Anchor - Chance for Hold Level 2: Cutting Beam (A) Artillery - Accuracy/Damage (9) Artillery - Damage/Endurance (11) Artillery - Damage/Recharge (11) Artillery - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (13) Artillery - Accuracy/Recharge/Range (13) Artillery - Endurance/Recharge/Range Level 4: Single Shot (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage (15) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance (15) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge (17) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (17) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (19) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge Level 6: Disintegrate (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage (19) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance (21) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge (21) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (23) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (23) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge Level 8: Aim (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff (25) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge (25) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance (27) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Recharge/Endurance (27) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance (29) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up Level 10: Chronos (A) Recharge Reduction IO (29) Recharge Reduction IO Level 12: Lancer Shot (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage (31) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance (31) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge (31) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (33) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (33) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge Level 14: Fly (A) Winter's Gift - Slow Resistance (20%) Level 16: Hasten (A) Recharge Reduction IO (33) Recharge Reduction IO Level 18: Penetrating Ray (A) Superior Defiant Barrage - Accuracy/Damage (34) Superior Defiant Barrage - Damage/RechargeTime (34) Superior Defiant Barrage - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime (34) Superior Defiant Barrage - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (36) Superior Defiant Barrage - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime (36) Superior Defiant Barrage - RechargeTime/+Status Level 20: Temporal Healing (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End (36) Performance Shifter - EndMod (37) Endurance Modification IO (37) Numina's Convalesence - +Regeneration/+Recovery (37) Numina's Convalesence - Heal (39) Healing IO Level 22: Stealth (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed Level 24: Time Stop (A) Superior Entomb - Accuracy/Hold (39) Superior Entomb - Hold/Recharge (39) Superior Entomb - Endurance/Recharge (40) Superior Entomb - Accuracy/Hold/Endurance (40) Superior Entomb - Accuracy/Hold/Endurance/Recharge (40) Superior Entomb - Recharge/Chance for +Absorb Level 26: Piercing Beam (A) Artillery - Accuracy/Damage (42) Artillery - Damage/Endurance (42) Artillery - Damage/Recharge (42) Artillery - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (43) Artillery - Accuracy/Recharge/Range (43) Artillery - Endurance/Recharge/Range Level 28: Maneuvers (A) Kismet - Accuracy +6% Level 30: Tactics (A) Rectified Reticle - Increased Perception Level 32: Overcharge (A) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Accuracy/Damage (43) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Damage/Recharge (45) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (45) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (45) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge (46) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Recharge/Chance for Fire Damage Level 35: Body Armor (A) Gladiator's Armor - TP Protection +3% Def (All) Level 38: Time Lord (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3% Level 41: Surveillance (A) Achilles' Heel - Chance for Res Debuff Level 44: Cryo Freeze Ray (A) Lockdown - Accuracy/Hold (46) Lockdown - Accuracy/Recharge (46) Lockdown - Recharge/Hold (48) Lockdown - Endurance/Recharge/Hold (48) Lockdown - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge/Hold (48) Lockdown - Chance for +2 Mag Hold Level 47: Time Shift (A) Absolute Amazement - Stun (50) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Recharge (50) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Recharge/Accuracy (50) Absolute Amazement - Chance for ToHit Debuff Level 49: Assault (A) Endurance Reduction Level 1: Defiance Level 1: Brawl | Copy & Paste this data into Mids Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1677;721;1442;HEX;| |78DA65945B4F135110C767BB6769E905E8859BE552AA150A52C14FA08044A044C2C| |5D7BAB44BD9B8B44D2FC67E0D5F4CD4821A15FD1622F8A61FC5DB83D7C4D4E9CE4E| |3CB59BEC9EDFEE9CF39FFF9CCC9EF57B4BFE0FEFD35741092C5A7AA59259C067D52| |87BB78DEC7EA16815F375C0CBBD58D6B3772CC38D3CEC4CC96CEA85BC914B2D18FA| |4166D3DCB38C0447B66AA552B15C4D6D1B0738EA56665D2F98A59AA557CD62017C1| |BC5A2955AB6CCFC7ED56BF356C93072411B570A77CD8AB96B5A66B5DE6B7F491B7A| |CE2857F6CDD2C0F592994DADD70A664BA782AAAD6CF5213415C7FB7604E4ABA9013| |4709C17E08243862302014F189E1274C133826B491C957F3278EFB8EC881E910398| |400155B3231E10045ED018BA08FCE066F010645046956554F6D9C33E7BD8671FFBE| |C639F21F6B98B329A2CA3B14C8865222C13619901961960992CCAB8A57235373CA7| |7287E005C34B827370CCF08A60045E132CE1AE754B6E946E9801678A0339CCE4930| |DFBD8F0181B1E63C3636C38C686636CD8874D189064F025AADA9138467AA552945E| |4E1D6330D04350AE3608D802ADC804280C2E0695E03C08068D6019AB0DCB326178E| |072A6DC27B880491DB8A538B0437011D186001AEE974BE9877E9AB2880906E50483| |F046388B4F18DE124CC229C319C33B823D2C7758DEF261EED824776C923B36C91D3| |BCD1D3BCD1D1B449F51F99788C21F1C47058431322A4746A181F58705E431F5B85C| |C1383C541DD9470497E0314383E19060168E084E7188CB09E27085222BB84509399| |2B0770C4D7DF5034CC9912938215367B87446363503DF5C4EC2EF0C3F082EC34F86| |5F0CBF096E60EA9424A3A6609522F3B0C69066B84910C2AD9A935DCD41EB38152A4| |C88F613A73922DA4F32FB63B30969D171347593F886683F9AF0C55EF1D1DBB16296| |7AEF5367648A229FFF8B204EA8CE19B98A2F9302BE744E71FADFC3FD7F3CDD5E431| |38F9CB6FFB6B98633E6E40F7F01E95ECEEC| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

I do not Tank. I ran a Brute for years. Redside. Brutes job (Redside) was to take the Alpha then have fun. If you wanted anything else go back to Fing blue. Now I have created many Tanks. Meh. But this Winter season I slow levelled a Ice/Ice Tank for theme. Never ran those sets before. Mein Gott! This is TANKING. Just wander into a room, taunt those farthest away and lazily activate powers. When most are cleared wander to the next big spawn. The dregs will follow you. Every enemy hates Ice. It's like Mind Control. They HAVE to be near you. NEED to be near you. LOVE to be near you. It is taking the Alpha Beta Gamma Delta and looking for more greek letters. Ice Ice Baby. When you want all the agro.

Have you tried not using it?

like explosive diarrhea in a slaughterhouse

i have heard of this tradition. i started redside and not the same as that lol