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My favorite SS backstory was a guy who started lifting weights. To get healthy. Because he tended to like drugs. Then he started doing steroids. And hard drugs to lift more. Then he found Superdine. Which he turned to Crey to fix and they got him into an advanced Excelsior course of treatment. Needless to say he is now a mutant. With a crap ton of Rage issues. But man can he lift weights!

sound advice. i just got tired of it. the kicker is every character has to have a rage backstory. so tired of being angry.

yeah, you're screwed. i love/hate my SS/invul Brute. I havent played it in two years. But i played SS for years on live and my first six months back. I use Dark Melee a lot. Energy is a possible vegan sub for SS meat. They wont fix the rage crash. They brought it up and ten PvPers rage spammed them for months until they dropped the idea.

Although I do not see much use for Mystic Flight unless you love that little TP which is situationally useful to a Brute or a Tank maybe on e every thousand hours of gaming. Flight with the boost speed gets you through TFs faster by getting across zones. Now that Rune of Protection is immune to recharge it is also less valuable to go for, and with a well built high recharge (Dull Pain) also not really attractive. But my builds have fly, which you can sub out for mystic flight if that lights up your wizard hat

I have started an AR/Dev Blaster Redside with the ....possibility.... of soloing every contact, every story arc, every side mission. Have not decided yet. Still on Mercy island. I do want to run this solo, always been a goal of mine, because the AR/Dev Blaster can set up forts and traps and basically Home Alone entire maps. Playing through the powers and seeing their synergy without having to do "one job" for a team allows me to see what this was built for. For a Team Blaster I just need AoE and a willingness to run when things go socially awkward. AR/Dev, to me, is not built for that, it is built to use a lot of strange soft controls and herding to clump and stomp. Everytime I run (rarely) I end up on teams and TFs and it is meh at that job. I never learn the subtleties. Not sure how much of Redside I will do, but I will solo this thing to 50 to learn how to run each power.

Does munition mastery just use the Rifle of the Assault Rifle to deploy? I am asking because I am experimenting with "green army man" ideas and I want a full green look, not having a late game unchangeable rifle pop in where it is most annoying. Thanks

I need to revisit my “solo redside” which i used to do once or twice a year on a Brute. I think it might be time to do it on a Blaster or Corruptor!!! Gotta have a plan

Behind every great Blaster is a Brute standing around looking confused about what is left to charge....

So….Everything is exactly as it has been forever. Except right after they released each of the above things and there was a brief rush to do that content. Because Goldside has always been dead, Redside has always been dead, Story arcs (except for ones associated with badges /accolades) have always been a solitary pursuit

Willpower is extremely cool. Until you get to 50, het an I/O build and realize Invulnerability can do everything you do backwards while juggling. That is only getting more obvious as the years roll on. The only “easy” fix I see for that is to allow the T9 Willpower be affected by recharge. Which will never happen. Until something major happens it is meh

I made a Brute and broke out of the Zig last night!

I have a Titan weapons Tank that looks like a nutcracker army man

I would kill for a robot toon with shoulder mounted weapon animations substituted for any power in the game, but especially for AR, Beam, DP and the epic weapon sets. Bonus points if there were two shoulder mounted options with different weapon poeces and you could choose which powers fired from which shoulder Look! It’s a miniature giant fighting robot!!!

Interesting. Blueside any baddie = all baddy, so you are them. Redside...no. Much like the Rikti Redside is very faction specific. Almost positive a similar tactic would not work Redside.

I need a Brute to break out of the ziggurat tomorrow night (they killed it but we play on anniversary). I will do this thanks!

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 - 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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.