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CoH is odd. People talk a out enjoying soloing on a controller. Worst dps in game. Or making Tanks into Farmers. in a high end league it is the synergy of many buffs that wins the day.

true for content you outlevel. i posted in the other thread i think a list of a bunch of contacts that offer missions at 50. 35-50, 40-50, 45-50, plus random content available to anybody over level 20 or 30.... this game actually has a lot of content. sigh, i know because i am attempting to do it all on one character lol. sooooooo stupid.

again, i dont understand PvP much but unless the tank superspeeds across the map a Brute can still keep attacking with cheesy inherent ranged attacks and epic ranged attacks, enough to build fury. The Fury change back on live made getting and keeping Fury much less an issue for Brutes, but clipped off the extreme end of it that had them outdamaging Scrappers. But yes, tactics would start to play. However I would like to point out that since the solution seems to be "The Tank needs to run from the Brute" the writing is on the wall....

I never PvP (except on chessboards). And the rules are different for PvP. (I do not know them) but my logic is simple enough: Brutes are 80-90% as tough as Tanks but do a lot more damage. Simple math equation there. Of course things are never that simple

Wow, one on one it will come down to Tanks vs Brutes. I suspect the Dark/Invul Brute would walk away the victor

My Dark/Dark Brute is a standout. Not needing a Tankers extra values to be extremely Tanky, Would benefit from more Aoe (who wouldnt?) /but the damage output when fully revved up is extreme. Likewise my Dark/Invul Brute. Whose real job is to be 1)hit on (I need aoe for this?) 2) Kill the Big Boss (I need Aoe for this?) Again, having Tankers AoE would be great. Just not necessary, likewise health and resist numbers. it does the job better (in my opinion) than a Tank version.

Just need one: Ooh, boy you are tied to that track and that stupid train just kept running over you now, didn’t it? Running over you.

Speaking of volunteerism here is where I moved the ball to. This spreadsheet has one page for Blue and one for Red. Gold will be mixed through both and duplicated. There is no express or implied accuracy. I did my best. There are probably errors. There may be missing contacts. I took this data from my current working project. Although I used the "base" I have been working on another version for two months and cannot remember any changed I have fought through. But my version has a ton of deletions due to Bluesides penchant for duplicating contacts... Anyways, good luck! contacts CoH CoV.xlsx

That list is good. For a starting point. The wiki….suffers from volunteerism I had to compile a list of Blue contacts for my solo every contact in the game ( i have bloodstained copies of redside going back years…). Starting with all Blueside contacts will get you 90% there. But it is missing things like ….Vigilante contacts! And contacts added after that list etc. then….you have to prune the list. Which are Holiday contacts, some of which will never be used again. Which are contacts that if you take one eliminates two with the exact same story arcs( and are now unavailable to that character ). Its an epic project

Willpower ( one of my favorites on live) suffers from not “fitting well” into the CoH paradigm. Def>Res>Heal. Invul fits well into this. Dark sidesteps it with stealth and mezze to make up for low and/or nonexistent defense and no DDR, then great resistance and the best heal in the game. Willpower has weak defense debuff resistance so even if you pump defense (which you should, at least S/L) it can get floored. I do love the concept of a super giant health pool Brute Willpower. But….it will just not see the survival factor of other sets that align with the game better. In my opinion. Looks like great fun however!

You might consider joining a fun SG (shameless plug time) The Cosmic Council on Excelsior is karge, organized and runs both high end content and “learning the lore” runs. Just did a Mender Silos TF with them tonight. 45+ Ouro TF and we did it slow while the leader read all the dialogue and we quipped about how crazy Manticore and the lore is….

Here is a (not quite complete) list of stuff you can run at level 50 by contact: Name Ada Wellington Admissions Officer Lenk Agent Hassell Archmage Hellewise Belladonna Vetrano (Contact) Borea Captain James Harlan Captain Nolan Carson Crimson Daedalus Dr. Boyd Dr. Huxley Dr. Kahn Dream Doctor Ephram Sha Faathim the Kind Fireball Flashfire Gaussian General Hammond Ghost Falcon Glacia Harvey Maylor Heather Townshend Heldenjaeger Imperious Infernia James Harvan Justin Augustine Lauren Levantera Longbow Special Op Lt. Col. Flynn Lt. Volkov Luna Major Richard Flagg Marcus Valerius Maria Jenkins Max Mender Ramiel Mender Silos Midnighter Store Montague Castanella Ms. Liberty Mu'Vorkan Number Six Percy Winkley Police Radio Praetor Duncan Prometheus Provost Marchand (Primal Earth) Sara Moore Senator Decimus Aquila Serge Serpent Drummer Sister Solaris Specialist Greer Taskmaster Gabriel The Dark Watcher (Primal Earth) The Lady Grey The Pilgrim Tin Mage Mark II Trilogy Warzone Agent Goddard Wavelength Mender Ramiel Pillar of Ice and Flame Abyss Ada Wellington Arachnos Technician Arbiter Hawk Arbiter Rein Ashley McKnight Belladonna Vetrano (Contact) Borea Captain Mako Dream Doctor Efficiency Expert Pither Gaussian Ghost Widow Gorgeous Glenda Heather Townshend Imperious Inconspicuous Female 39757 Infernia Inside Information James Harvan Lastri Kayumanis Leo Poggiani Levantera Lieutenant Harriman Lord Recluse Lord Schweinzer Lovely Linda Maharaj Max Mender Silos Mr. G (Primal Earth) Mr. Rodney Mu'Vorkan Number Six Operative Grillo Praetor Duncan Prometheus Protector Z-958 Ractespriel Scirocco Serpent Drummer Shadow Spider Sister Airlia Sister Solaris Socrates Taskmaster Gabriel Tavish Bell Television The Dark Watcher (Primal Earth) The Facemaker The Pilgrim Threatening Arachnos Message Vernon von Grun Viridian Warzone Operative Braun

There is actual content as well. Beyond using Ouroboros flashback (for badges and fun) to exemplar (lower your level) down to do story arcs. There are many contacts that are 35-50, 40-50, and 45-50. That means you can wait until 50 and still get every mission that contact offers. Which….is a lot. That is if you like to solo. For teams there are task forces and incarnate trials and all sorts of things like TinPex and Market Crash, constant Imperious TFs running (on Excelsior anyways) and then there are the serious challenges. The new Aeon TF. Master badges. The SG i run with (Cosmic Council) has a daily calendar with about 10 events a week, including Saturday night incarnate trials kicking off with Really Hard Way Magisterium badge run. Good Luck!!!

Mwah hah hah. The RNG finally got you!!!

I am currently soloing Blue/Red/Gold every contact on a Dark/Invul Brute. Back on Live I soloed Redside every contact once or twice a year. When I started I was pretty Broke. I joined during Good vs Evil, when Redside dropped. I ran SS/Invul a lot. There was no inherent fitness. It was painful lol. When Willpower dropped I switched to that. My current project (now 39) used 95% SOs until after 30. I did lean heavily on P2W grenades in the lower levels. Dark does not have a great attack chain when levelled. At low levels it is missing a lot of teeth. But I did prop it up with Panacea and Miracle and Kismet Accuracy etc. My suggestion would be Willpower. Its End Bar will be always full. It will be "tanky enough" on the settings for standard play. With the current game I would go with an Energy Melee Willpower Brute on SOs. Set at +0/x1, no AVs the character will be near godmode even with SOs.

I blissfully ignore all this. I craft every recipe. I hoard rare salvage but once in a while buy it iff the auction. Then i start converting. Then i sell. I ignore everything except the rewards and i tend to reserve price in the 70-85% of average selling prices. and I am happy

Yeah, i have not downloaded the new MiDs yet. My gaming time is mostly 1) solo entire game project 2) SG events. As I near 50 with my Dark/Invul Brute project I plan on 3 builds. 1) Solo/Stealth 2) team/Taunt 3) master run bulletproof tanky thang I have ideas and old builds that sort of aim at these, will be tweaking and finalizing soon

Oh I love it. Probably one of the strongest Brutes I have. Just not great for being the main agro controller

It does not suppress ( at least all evidence in play indicates it is operating fully)

I have a Dark/Dark Brute I ran as a main for about half last year. Yes, it does a GREAT job at damage mitigation through crowd control. I have penned a couple diatribes on the fact Dark gets more mileage out of mezze than it ever will out of more defense. So I chase resist and accuracy on that build. (One of the mezze auras is garbage accuracy out of the box… Having said that the Dark Armor is not perfect for team agro management. This is due to the other great protection of Dark Armor. Semi stealth. You can be eating 17 mobs 30 feet away from all their friends and no one gives a crap. No one sees you. Maybe with a taunt bot build it would be a little better. Once they are in your circle they are constantly agro’d by 3 auras. But it is not perfect for grabbing attention in large battles in my opinion

I saw him in Fort Darwin when he was just Atter Boy

my goal is to knock out 35-39 by end of January and I am well on that pace or better. I made some New Years resolutions that are time consuming. Then 40-44 by end of February. I am realtively sure it will be done sooner. Once I finish all content in those ranges I PL to 50. Then I start incarnate work and soloing all the 35-50 content....which will take a loooooong time lol. I do have 10 Transcendant Merits on the character and will no doubt have a couple more before I 50. So T4d in a matter of hours lol

I solo’d a lot if the game in a Dark/Dark Blaster. Every Blaster will play different. Dark has great to hit debuffs and if you like cones and take Soul powerset you get total 4 cones. Ut it is not a fast killing set. Just safer. A Perma dom might be able to handle +2, or x8. Maybe if you get good with it even both? But you going to be working hard lol

As is First Ward and Night Ward. My current run is at 39. I have completed all Red content 1-39, Blue 1-34, and Gold 1-30. Any contacts that can be put off are 35-50 will be run at 50…. I have been grinding this since mid-October (got Halloween badges) and it has been…tough. Blueside is long, boring, and annoying. Countless missions with 12+ glowies or save people and when you do they say “now kill all”. Countless “go kill 30-40 x mob”. It’s a slog

yeah, as pointed out that was a pencil sketch build. i am focused more on bringing energy resists up than i am on psi. my final build will reflect that. just showing what sets get you there