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It is an auto power. It is good. Not great. But good. So many other better choices. Any value this power had (coming late in the game and giving a passive bit of help) was thoroughly overpowered by the Incarnate system

Yeah which if you can get 100% is not a problem as I understand it. Which is why I am looking at a build with Rune of Protection and possibly even running Unstoppable for the tougher fights. Need to tailor a bit. Currently mostly just watching the pros and levelling an alt project (that same Dark/Invul)

I been eating this same boulder soup for weeks now. I swear this batch has lost it's flavor a bit. Did they change cooks?

sooo AE can be programmed odd. I see you say bosses off. -1/x8 So you should be facing an army of LTs and minions at level 6? Are you? Is the farm you are on really pure Fire Damage? With Fire Resistance that high and Defenses that high something else is going on. Either that AE mission is level coded odd, or has non fire attacks etc.... Try a Fire Tunnel like 19823. Good Luck.

I have not had much experience with the Aeon yet... But I have a toon in mind for it. Dark/Melee Invul Brute. High Recharge to keep Dull Pain and all the other little lovelies cycling in. Overall this is the toughest character I have run. The Tank version was slightly tougher but I love Brutes...

Nice idea and commitment. I ran a Dark/Dark Brute as a main for half a year. The Fear and Stun cloaks…. I have to write tons about them to get people to even consider they might be good. I do find that global accuracy is very handy on getting them to function better. A main component of Dark’s mitigation in my opinion I am currently levelling a Dark/Invul Brute as my new main. Slow levelling on every game contact. I have a stealth build for solo and a taunt build for TF/Teams. I too am reconsidering my neglect of Taunt on Brutes. Powerful, Fun, and danged useful.

Good Luck with this. Taking a Brute is a good idea. A lot of the ATs power is their health and fury. Take a armor set that has mez prot early if there is one lol. Or take Willpower and all its powers. (Except rez and the tier 9). That would give the “feel” of not having powers since will is set and forget famous. Take secondary attacks from the power pools. The punch from the flight pool is decent. You will never get a big attack but you will do okay. Super strength. You will not get rage but you will get some decent attacks by level 4. Also fits thematically with having no real powers. Again, good luck. Have fun

This is perhaps the most coherent thing said in this thread. Thank you. Knockback, as pointed out already, is part of the core source material for our game. Ragdoll physics is one of the things that this game has always excelled at. Yet using Knockback is often a suboptimal and oftentimes idiotic move. Well played cruel Devs. Well played.

Speculation about improbabilities and then using that as a platform for ideas about growth. Might as well write male enhancement ads.

Makes me want to take the Blaster Meteor set and knock enemies until i can get a GM to show up. If i do it a hundred times is there a badge?

wtf is a strop?

I quit teams with idiots using KB powers. There. Now you got two. (I am reasonably certain more than one person in this thread have said they disliked KB enough to avoid teams with it. No, i am not going to read through and count them. This does not mean you are correct. It means I am not going to spoon feed you data to reject.)

Interesting how things evolve isn’t it?

You havent read anything in just this thread about people avoiding teammates with knockback? You have incredibly powerful filters running. Nice enhancement!!!

I have had another persons nuke hit just before mine. to devastating effect. But at least i could console myself with batting cleanup on bosses etc. KO Blow is a power you quickly learn not to waste on soon to be dead enemies. using Fold Space or a AoE KB power on a large group is an entirely different situation. It moves the mobs. My Nuke or KO Blow would have hit if the enemies had health left. But...now those mobs are over there...still alive. Yet my power was wasted.

Interesting point. Takes the issue from a different angle. Fold Space can be great! Or you can yoink the mobs I am doing a long animation PBAoE nuke on away from me so that when it fires I hit nothing. ANY power that significantly repositions mobs can screw with other players. Why the Devs chose to add another into the game (and an important one at that) is literally beyond me.

where exactly would this data come from? a spreadsheet. or.... people talking about how disliked knockback is? this is the locker room just off the playing field. listen to the chatter my friend.

no controversy? really? wait. really?

We even do this on Excelsior lol. Great idea though! Cosmic Council on Excelsior has a “crawl team” led by Ukase that has been going once a week for since before I joined them over six months ago. I hopped on about level 30 and rolled through Blueside. Now we are on Gold and have crawled to low 30s. Blue also leads a “crawl task force/strike force” team about once a week. The focus of both teams is staying together, killing most. Blue also reads all dialogue and clues on the Force teams (we are on Discord) Great idea and good luck. A dedicated SG with a handful of hardcore regulars who meet a few times a week is all you need to make this happen

Scattering mobs to the 4 corners of the map is NOT a new playstyle. Neither can you "adapt" to it unless you like hunting them down one by one to ST the things down. Some of us do not have 3 extra powers to squeeze in Fold Space because a teammate has a fascination for watching enemies fly across the map.

Superadyne, Excelsior, and so many other pathways to gain real power in the Cities. Slightly altering, or supercharging, or completely altering these and other sources of power are the stuff of many (freaking many many) story arcs in the game. Then.... there is the Well of Furies. Enigmatic, unfathomable, and the most powerful of all. You could write an AE story Arc about the Well being the underlying source of ALL the power that makes magical artifacts, drugs, superscience, and temporal manipulation work in the City. It is written as that powerful in the CoH metaverse. An easy slide into reality as it were.

If the Homecoming Team had made the special effect for the tier 9 the effect of Super Strength Knockout Blow applied to each mob hit I would be as amazed by this set as I am by the Dr Aeon Task Force and the detailed intricacy displayed in the crafting and reward structure thereof. They didn't. I'm not.

Will not play the set. It is 1) ugly. 2) not efficient. 3). I have no earth power stories to tell. This set does not inspire me to look for any either take an ice/cold Corruptor. Not my favorite type of nuke. Not a concept (ice) i have a lot of ideas for. But so danged efficient I worked to create one. give me an ugly set with a tier 9 that launches mobs in all directions and can barely be tamed by sacrificing a enhancer slot…..hard pass

I thought it was higher based on the visual squirts I have seen lol

1) So limit the use of your nuke. (I tend to lead with mine whenever it is up. But okay. Just keep that for...some other time. 2) Energy Blast has 2 circular AoE KB powers. Are there Tanks in each direction on your team. a) do you really need that many tanks b) how do you coordinate throughout the mission so they always encircle mobs? 3) So you only KB nuke easier targets? Interesting strategy. Does that work for you? Or do you only run easy content?