Snarky

I have started another "solo every contact" run. This one is a Dark/Invul Brute doing all Blue/Red/Gold. By stopping experience and side switching with Null the Gull I can hit all content except 1-20 Goldside. All of Gold is available through Ouro and i will complete it that way.

It all stacks. Brute damage cap is +700%. Enhancements are about 95% and full Fury is about 200%. That gives you another 400% to play with. Build Up is 80% and the proc is another 80%. Without buffs from Kinetics, you're unlikely to get close to the cap. quoting Uun. Thread "Best Powersets for High Damage Brutes" I will add that you can hover at the 400-550 range pretty regular while farming or with a strong team. And with Incarnate Team Inspirations? OMFG

No. Fury used to work the way everyone here expects on Live. Then late in live it was obvious Brutes were out damaging Scrappers. Brutes got the nerf hammer applied to the Fury Bar. On the bright side they did change Fury degeneration so it does not drop like a stone out of combat anymore. (it used to fall....FAST...when the punching stopped) Interestingly Brutes still have an incredibly high maximum damage bonus. Although this is only achievable through a lot of inspiration eating and or incredible team buffs it is quite valuable. Its just that last 15% of Fury will NEVER help you get there.

this reminds me of a scene from the Monk TV show where Monk interacted with another person with OCD. Look, everyone plays differently. I find it more annoying that you kick people than that people complete missions like hamsters on meth.

I find SOs very effective up until mid late 20s. then I?O set bonuses and the number of slots available lead me into slotting more sets. While running SOs on toons I do level them every time I level. Again, making money in game is trivially easy. Once you understand it. Farming 1 hour = tens of millions of Inf. (Not my fav way to make cash, but i think its about 50-100 mil +drops, depending on style....?) Crafting, converting selling inventions. Tedious. Lucrative. Using merits to buy Enhancement Converters, selling on Auction. Average sale 70k per converter. Not the highest income. very fast. There are MANY good guides on the boards on how to make cash. Once you learn a system you like these questions really do become irrelavant.

once you understand the game inf flows like a river. so.....free

I did drop into the second base on Excelsior. Was given a purple. Thanks! so…. A trick at one base and a treat at the second. Pretty appropriate i would say! Happy Halloween and thanks!

I did get the badges. The EB was last. I saw a zombie event in Peregrine. Zoned in. No teams were inviting but there was a scrum by the portal corps. I just waded in and started smacking EBs. Badge.

It is great for anything that hits you Mag 2 or less!

Sooooo Range in this game is a deep subject. Like...What is Ranged? (anything 8+ feet....) And how to build for it is not just an easy walk in the park, unless you just take a Sentinel or a Blaster. A Great up close fighter. I personally love Brutes. Heavy armor, great health, mezze protection, very good damage. Scrappers are also very good, Stalkers, once you learn the craft, excellent. Recent changes to Tanks make them a good choice as well. Getting true ranged attacks on any of these ATs will be tough. I have a friend who made an Elec/Shield AoE Stalker. Really good! I ran a Tank using Kinetic Melee. Danged thing fought mostly in the 10-20 range. Kinetic Melee is a clunky set without a lot of great stuff going for it besides the odd range though. I am unsure what you want to do for attacks. Weapon sets with Melee ATs tend to be very solid choices. Titan Weapons are very good, although momentum mechanic is not a choice that is popular right now. I think it suffers in end game. If you had not mentioned Trident... I will just throw out that Energy Melee is incredible right now. Energy Melee Invulnerability Brute would be a hoot to run 1-50. A platform for a very strong build 1-50 and at incarnate level. Super Strength, I ran for years. Great set. I too finally tired of Fury crash every two minutes. But danged. it is a good choice. Good Luck!

so you are saying you chose those parameters on purpose?

there are record keepers. I am not interested enough to know the details. We regularly squish these out on +0 8 person teams in the 11-14 min range racing each other. spped record is like 5-7 min. something crazy as a speed run you added all the extra time on the F-ing yourself out of debuffs by +4 and limiting insp/etc. x8 means nothing because nothing is a kill all. There are a certain number of objectives. period.

ELLO on excelsior is just two points that send you back and forth. artsy. time waste.

My new badger is only 19. (Exp off currently) So I logged in my farmer and ran ToT doors (in costume....dont forget) and sometimes it took 10 minutes. Once it was first door. Got all of them in a couple lazy hours drinking coffee

makes sense. i had 3 drop. now just need the EB one. i am looking for a zombie event in PI, figure my odds are best there. thanks

I cannot seem to find progress meters for Glimpsed the Abyss, Safety in Numbers, Evil's Resident nor Apocalypse survivor. Level 19 Brute. Any ideas/info/insults?

We rode along beside us, going nowhere once again. It was dark just like before, and the empty place between us, like the empty space inside, still filled to overflowing with sad tears we both had cried alone, together. - Rhey W Hedges

Where have i gone wrong? Did i tell you folks about kidnapping Paragon citizens fir live vivisection by the Vahzilok? A mission from Dmitri Krylov 10-14 in Cap au Diable…. There are many other opportunities to be a true villain. This mission just tends to really…. (Wait for it) …get under people’s skin!

I have heard rumors of control being more useful in end game soon...

The link above might have it. I have not done it but I remember they said you re order it in the CoH files using file explorer not while in game

I slotted my Elec/Temp Blaster for ranged defense and just ignored the secondary effects and any non ranged attacks. Not as much flat out effective as a fie fire Blaster but out damages Sentinels with better damage mitigation. All ranged attacks including Tier 9 nuke and softcapped ranged defense is hilarious. Many of the sets that give ranged defense also give global recharge and/or accuracy. Just sweetens everything up

it says it's an SO but that is part of a set and gives +recharge

Ukase is not kidding. He will hand large sums out. I was in a Costume event with him and forgot I was on a zero inf Alt i had loaded to show costume. I went to tailor and.... So i asked if anyone could toss me a little inf. Ukase gave me 100 million. Unlike the person referenced in the above story I never paid him back 🙂

somehow i always end up fighting him...

I like the Atlas story Arc that has the Hero who does NOT do anything to stop the villains. Hellions I think? Hilarious and so accurate. In my opinion. I wish it was a 'snap' judgement. But it is an accumulation of long decades of watching people do mean and stupid sh....er stuff. Just because they are so self absorbed, WHILE thinking they are somehow the person in the right. At least I know I am a wretched soul. I did get the badge thanks. Another Raid, another 40. I explained the mechanics and we both finished off BOTH badges. I suspect it was another Redsider like me slumming it Blueside. All the cool kids are doing it these days.