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Everything is conditional. In a perfect world a blast AoE with the same footprint (base) same damage and same cast time should equalize across sets. That is just fair. But the game is convoluted and creative and messy. More often than not the powers cannot be compared exactly. Then a lot can. And some are comparable on the surface… until you realize they are different enough that it does not work. Take Blaster Nukes as an example. Look through them at cast times, area, damage, ranged or pbaoe. A very simple tier 9 comparison becomes quite wild. yes, things should be fair. But Tanks should not be king of melee dps. And there ya go.

The rumor (complaint?) is that we are entering the era of Regen/SS Tanks….

PUGS!

i am out. this is confusing, annoying, and in the end pointless. They will make it whatever and i will continue to not use it.

it would be Dark, for my Corruptor it might be: 1) Dark Consumption 2) Dark Embrace 3) Bat Storm, ranged AoE (fat circle) minor lethal DoT, fear, -tohit 4) Soul Transfer 5) Spirit Drain

I am done with this topic. Planning on two things happening, 1) HC dropping this thing pretty much like they have it. 2) never taking it Auf Wiedersehen!

specific targets? so, you glance at a large group of enemies, instantly realize who will be immune to the trawling and KNOW you found a way to make sure they are out of the fight. and you KNOW the intangibility will go away right when the team is ready to attack them you are quite the impressive player. most of us will cast it, be a little shocked about who gets trawled, who gets intangible, how pissed the team gets, and will be kicked by about the 5th application

nice review. but, closing the barn door after the horse was out. i stopped playing Brutes 3? years ago. I am not going back. I like Blasters and Corruptors now. If they got rid of the rainbow Domination AT power effect I might run those, might not. But, Brutes? Homecoming smerfed them, as you would say. And what really hurt? Brutes got the major nerf on live because edge case Brutes were slightly outdamaging Scrappers. Then turn around and make Tanks the go to melee DPS? I have been burned enough. I avoid melee ATs now. My fury is real, Brutes Fury is worthless.

America had slavery when it formed. Not everything is a great idea just because it was in issue 1. If the COTTAGE RULE means hanging onto things like intangibility in Black Hole?

okay....

based on casting i think it is 40 year old virgin but i never saw that, so went by imdb cross references

They are blocking your signal with special communication equipment they have hidden in the RWZ Vanguard base!

That map confuses me. There is two possible places for the fight. The story arc is in one and the SF the other and I always get them confused. Then i second guess myself. Basically I ALWAYS go to the wrong damn room

so Regen / Titan?

How would i nerf Tankers? Muah hah hah!!! They get the health of a lvl 1 skull. Play using skill!

my quick take. Regen is very powerful on a Tank. If Tanks were bent over during this patch Regen is their reach around. Every change looks solid, although i have not playtested them. But on a Tank? Fuggedaboutit. This answers some of the questions posed by the tougher enemies of the game who shred defense/resistance. Take Team buffs and ignore it all.

teams of 8 are great. my method to "farm" a new alt is doing every TF/SF/Trial in order (of last level possible for the thing, so 20-40 is considered 40) this gives a great way to learn a character and provides solid experience. there is a lull in the late 30-early 40s. then you need to grab any ITF/Aeon you can get on.

the reactor room. i got that room with an objective in it once on an ouro flashback badge, no travel powers. had to learn the elevators in the room. my heart sank to my feet. and died. how i became a vampire. true story

Fully agree. with 1 2, can be done but the build you get may not be optimal, because 3.... There is so much truth to this. The power codes and how they interact with the game is almost never simple, or well documented. Most have changes 1, 2, 10 times and the revisions make it hard to follow what you are truly doing sometimes

Yes. A lot of stuff. The hard changes were in the first few years with enhancement diversification, invention sets, and agro rules. That would be a lot to absorb

which version of live? the ending version? very very similar to today's game. (thx to HC staff) Major changes: 1) Some more difficult content, some "challenge" levels that take a while to learn. But that is a small percentage of the game. 2) A significant movement to more speed runs. Really fast. That takes a minute to learn.

I see some comments about the oddness and Dark trying to do too many things at once. Heh, welcome to Dark. Nice to see you visiting I will look at this in more detail. From a Brute perspective I see very good stuff, although why a Brute would switch to Dark Sustenance is beyond me. More rambling later.