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my dark/dark brute build is on the first page of brute forum still i think. very tanky, very mean....

Welcome back! The Homecoming Team of Devs are really quality too. The community just rocks. And the game....welll,,,,,it is THE game!

My Dark/Dark Brute does fine in Minds of Mayhem. Like, hilariously easy.

this is why i Brute

i am guessing she is not "ignoring taunt" as was pointed out above another brute or tank has already got her attention and is now jumping around while she range attacks him/her.

honestly i never understood any of BMs mechanics. I just try to survive the frying pan and take a few shots. What one of the above posters rightly desribed as "stealing agro and not doing anything with it." This whole thread has gotten me interested in reviving an old Brute from live. it was a ss/will Brute. Going to roll as an Energy/Will Brute incarnated for Damage. Musculature Alpha, Assault Hybrid. He may not be super tanky, but I am guessing it will be a ton of fun.

I am looking for tips on building a Energy Willpower just for smashtastic fun. not tanking. if anything, playing like a fat scrapper. Will be incarnating for more damage rather than more survivability. Alpha will be Musculature for instance. Hybrid will be Assault, I will be trying to eek out survival in the basic build. Just the focus of the build will be as a platform for max smackage asap. I havent run Willpower since live. Any tips are appreciated. Oh, will have Flight as travel power. This is an old ss/Will Rogue I am rewriting for HC!

pro tip. roll any character. on your character select screen rename your preferred name Blowhole1 Quickly go to the new character. Rename Blowhole. Done.

you can use the Lfg imperious tf, solo, lock it. it will port you right to Cim. fast

roflmao tell me it is a wind powerset please

wait.... what?

you have to advertise / educate. one mission that sends people to the garden to pick a flower or talk to an npc in a commonly run chain would inform peeps it was there.

i also heard (random conversation ymmv) this happen when name was pretty edgy. is it possible it is a name added to the updated filter of non usable names?

you owe me 10 inf

There are the known knowns, the known unknowns, and the unknown unknowns to contend with.

The costume nerf on Stone alone makes me flee lol. then there are the curbs. ^shakes fist at sky "Who put this curb here?"

Yet I do feel that Shred Monkey hit the nail on the head. A team of peeps throwing Nukes does make my Brute feel...meh. This bit of board therapy is kind of making me realize why I (and maybe a lot of Brutes) tend to be happy on a team...somewhere not that close to the team. I feel powerful soloing a hundred Ritki to free a hostage while the rest of the team heads for the General on a LRSF. I can do that job lol.

I started redside on SS/Invul Brutes. Mostly giant robots. Then Willpower dropped. Ooooo. SS/Will Mutant human. Brute/Rogue. Wore the traditional Hero costume set (which reminds me of a blaster...) but then used bright lego primary colors everywhere randomly. uh-huh Homecoming I was back on a SS/Invul Brute Rogue, with a build from Hyperstrike. A giant human who started abusing HGH, Steroids, then Superadyne and Excelsior. There were issues. So...many...issues. Now i am on a Dark/Dark Brute Rogue. 1030 badges (my highest count yet!) A Vampire. Not twilight. More like original Nosferatu style by Murnau. Good times. Good ST, heavy armor, bag of tricks, if you kill him he pops back up and stuns the crap out of everyone. He is fun.

i have literally never contemplated this. it took me so long to get used to +4. now all i can think of is teams assuming you are running at +8, or gimpy +6...

Except on 2nd Edition Barbarian from Unearthed Aracana....those things...it wasnt right lol Especially if you combined the light armor pieces from the Asian sourcebook letting the Barbarian hit neg AC wearing just little un magic protection here and there....with Tank Health lol

Yeah, my Darek/Dark main Brute uses Soul Mastery ranged AoE and Cone (I personally like cones, learned them well) I use these two a lot. Dark has crap for AoE. Incredible complex toolkit, powerful, crap AoE. i lean hard into Souls ranged AoE attacks to grab agro and help melt.

that is a useful bit of info.

This is a slightly serious comparison of damage numbers. Beyond that what the damage numbers mean. (after resists, kill rate etc) But beyond that (and so Brutes arent completely crushed into oblivion a foray into team synergy and usefulness. I ran a speed ITF +4 with all Ranged about a week ago. 6 blasters, 2 Corruptors. I was on my shiny new incarnate Ice/Cold Corruptor. It was a speed run. No, really, it was a speed run. We went through that thing like a bobsled down an ice sheet. I remember someone died, there may have been two deaths. Did not slow us. As fast as you could get somewhere everyone was dead. We were all 50+ Now, I have not run this with all 50+ Brutes, but I would be interested. (I never lead, but I may need to set this up) My belief is the Brutes will prob be slower...but more because as Brute players we love to sit in the spawn rather than lack of enough damage. while blasters/corr just want to fly swat and go. I was on a melee heavy TinPex last night. That got me thinking. The Blaster made a Snarky (everyone wants to be me) comment about "team melee." We did alright. Not great time, but okay. We ran it backwards and Battle Maiden was last. I got smushed once (Dark/Dark Brute, Soul Transfer had me back up) But after that I spent more time dodging Blue carpet. It was not the quickest Battle Maiden fight I have seen. But we got through it. Parting shot from the Blaster "Team slowme" Grrrr. It was seriously NOT that slow lol. So, two subjects really. A straight up damage number comparison of Brutes versus Blaster. Preferably with some number geek chiming in on what effectiveness those numbers mean against armored opponents. Second, a delve into team synergy. Has melee slid into second class citizenship in late game content? Was it always second class and those that love to play melee just laughed off the meat shield comments?

only noobs and fresh off the farm alts havent hit up Null for tuning ports

i havent been getting purples lately but i have gotten 3 PvP recipes over the last couple days. but i also made a little over a billion just crafting junk recipes i bought and using merits i earned to get converters and change them to something decent. bought about 15 winters and 12 purps with that. and had a little left over lololol.