Snarky

You look funny and you are a terrible burden on your poor mother.

I think they do Ass Game in a different forum.

It does give me a serotonin boost when someone in game is like “are you Snarky from the forums?” My name i have shifted quite a few times to different characters. But every character that has worn the name for the last year is my Nosferatu. Suit cape etc. as close as I can get ( which is not far off, we could use some limb sliders to really push the oddness. ) My current project takes this concept to the Nth degree. I am soloing every contact in the game (blue red gold) for every mission they offer until they say go away. EVERYONE WILL KNOW SNARKY!!!

Ooooh that mission. Whoever designed that needs to have pliers applied to soft tissue I ran this at -1 on my storyline Brute. I hunted the mobs nearest the enemies exit goal. Then i would race back to see if there were enemies on the move. I picked off the closest group i could find then raced back. It was dicey towards the end as I had less than 30% leeway left. So glad it completed My Brute had no ranged attacks and was using P2W jet as a travel power. With a “real” toon this strategy would work far better

I think some players have a costume suppository. The things I have seen them pull out of their butt....

Its not the vet levels. At 50 (before too but 50 the nitrous kicks in ) there are a number of things that are game changers. Incarnate powers. Choose the right ones snd BAM. Archetype and powersets play a BIG role. The “build”. Having a great build is very important for speed running. Finally, understanding how to use your character and the mission goals. These factors will determine whether you are speeding along or casually strolling

In my opinion jumping to a less populated server will increase your issue not decrease it. This is due to the fact you will have even less options. If you want to team you will need to fit in there I would recommend just keep learning. You said, I believe, that you have not 50d yet. If you want to experience late game mechanics without a 50 pwning the mission jump onto any TF SF or Trial whose level cap is 45 or less. This will not solve all problems but it will help. Our SG does an ITF speed run in 10-13 minutes. After months of practice I feel useful 20-50% time depending on my map luck lol. There is a rock solid community of speed runners in the game. I am not one The SG I joined ( Cosmic Council, Excelsior) does very serious runs almost nightly. But the SG also caters to the casual crowd with “crawl through content” and “learning the lore” type events regularly. Finding a community that is interested in the things you are interested in will be key. This might not mean joining an SG. This might mean learning where the non speed run players hang out and what stuff they do. I would again suggest looking for 45 or less PUG groups advertising “not a speed run”. Good luck

I take the P2W Phase shift on many characters. It is rarely used I often forget it. Two memorable recent uses: 1) last Synapse mission, a Brute running through the mission to get to end. 2) same Brute running through Oranbega on a Treespec to get to the tree and vine room. It is literally a game changer when you need something exactly like it and nothing else will suffice.

The healing badges are easily achievable with a simple system. Get Destiny Rebirth. Join any AE arc. This is so you do not log out. Go to Mercy Island. Near the base portalmpast the nurse there is a bunch of marching soldiers. Stand in the middle of them and put rebirth on autofire. Leave all night

I am guessing (by looking at the pattern) that the Devs just ported the entire list and then populated. If there was nothing to populate it looks odd. But they did a lot of work hack and slash coding.

....unless you are burning a lot of unslotters that is a respec. respecs are not easy. but i like difficult things i guess. i enjoy MiDs craziness, and cramming a "perfect" build on a toon to test it is as fun for me as Doc Buzzsaw putting strange artifacts into Freakshow to see what happens. Difficult sure, but how else can you see how many people it will kill?

I respec because of the Purple sets and Superior versions mostly. Back on Live I had my mids build that I levelled with and just slowly "grew" into it. Unless it had purples, sigh. But now at 50 its a swapout. The regulars go back to base storage for the next toon and the Superiors come out of base storage and are slapped on.

Yeah. I am slow levelling a toon to 50. Real slow. But once i hit 50 the path (for me) will be similar to if i PL’d it 1) do the Ritki War Zone welcome to vanguard arc. Very short. Allows you to earn Vanguard Merits. Contact in RWZ in base area. (Done on the above mentioned toon at 35) 1a) i did slap in my level 50 build on a respec right? Dont forget! 2) do the Ouro arc that opens up Alpha slot. Saves a few minutes farming and knocks out a contact iff my to do list 3) farm to open incarnate slots, get one or two vet levels and incarnate threads. I do this with an alt acct. i load in that acct with a 50 farmer then invite from my main acct. main acct doorsits and farmer works. Before i had a farm acct I would run two-four ITF kill mosts or whatever level 50 pug TFs were inviting. About the same really. More exciting but slightly slower in actuality 4) start running Incarnate trials. This gets components and threads. If you do not do 3 above you can do endless BAF and sLAMBDA runs. 5) there is a story arc in OURO (burdens of the past level 50). Takes about 15 minutes to run once you figure it out. Rewards one incarnate component at end. Random common uncommon rare and very rare. Almost as good a chance to get a very rare as a common 6) oh look My 50 is all incarnated out! Run hard incarnate trials and join level 50 teams grinding hard content! 7) exemplar down and join any content with a kitted out Super ready to kick names and take ass

So that last mission has two parts. Free a few people then fend iff incoming mobs for 15 minutes that first group incoming. Kill everyone. Except one minion. The next group does not spawn until all are dead. You can mezze the little guy. You can ignore him (tanks and brutes) you can Just do not kill him. Then wait 15 minutes. Done

I rarely try to patch the Psi Hole in Invul. It starts to happen sometimes and then I play at it, but it is a fools errand imo. I walk on Hyperstrikes work pretty hard lol, so no worries there. Someone has to take the pure stuff and cut it enough for the street right? Thank you for your work. Right now everything is hypothetical, although I believe I will be finally 50ing this thing in less than 6 weeks!!!!

Any power can prove useful, some remarkably so, in the hands of a player. Any power, no matter how “good” it looks in an analysis, can be a dud. This, again, depends on the player This is actually one of the greatest strengths of City of Villains, err Heroes. I have a project on the back burner inspired by “The Midnight Bomber what Bombs at Midnight” from the Tick. AR/Dev/Munitions Blaster taking all bombs and the LRM. Meme? Sure. But will be fun and I bet I can get a ton of usefulness out of it. Efficient as a Fire/Fire??? Maybe more so for me, I have never blapped. But i will toe bomb and sit iff at range blowing crap up and laughing maniacally

I am interested in this topic. I have run many Brutes. They were my "mains' on live and for the first year back on HC. Mostly Invul, the Willpower, then both. Started off with Invul on HC, then switched to Dark. I have NEVER chased large health on Brutes. Armor? Yes. Recharge? Oh yeah. Accuracy, yep. Health? Huh, what? They have health right? I am currently slow levelling a Dark/Invul. By slow I mean in the 444 hours to level 39 grind... When I get to 50 I will have at least two builds. One to continue my soloing quest. One for teams. Both should be high recharge. Dark/Invul feeds off Recharge. The 30 sec combat boost, the combat heal, Dull pain, it just closes up like an SR71 hitting mach 2. (The SR71 blackbird needs to superheat its skin to expand the metal. pre mach 2 the thing rattles like a junk truck!) I was recently told my old Dark/Invul builds need more health pool. Here is one of my current ideas. Where should I go with this? two notes, I meant to take the tier 2 attack. brain fart. Also the Hamis are placeholding for the D Sync Heal/Rech in Dull Pain... err third note. Will probably drop Sorcery pool. Picking up Taunt. Maybe switching out CJ for Leadership Manuevers. That would leave me 2 choices....Tactics? Touch of Fear? edit 1 choice. I need fly. NEED. This Villain build was built using Mids Reborn 3.0.5.7 https://github.com/Reborn-Team/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 -- SprBrtFur-Acc/Dmg(A), SprBrtFur-Dmg/Rchg(3), SprBrtFur-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(3), SprBrtFur-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(5), SprBrtFur-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(5), SprBrtFur-Rech/Fury%(7) Level 1: Resist Physical Damage -- UnbGrd-ResDam(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx(7), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam(9), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(9) Level 2: Temp Invulnerability -- UnbGrd-ResDam(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx(11), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam(11), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(13) Level 4: Dull Pain -- HO:Golgi(A), HO:Golgi(13) Level 6: Shadow Maul -- Arm-Dmg(A), Arm-Dmg/Rchg(15), Arm-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(15), Arm-Acc/Rchg(17), Arm-Dmg/EndRdx(17), Arm-Dam%(19) Level 8: Siphon Life -- SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg(A), SprBlsCol-Dmg/EndRdx(19), SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(21), SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(21), SprBlsCol-Dmg/EndRdx/Acc/Rchg(23) Level 10: Resist Elements -- RctArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctArm-ResDam/Rchg(23), RctArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(25), RctArm-ResDam(25) Level 12: Kick -- FrcFdb-Rechg%(A) Level 14: Tough -- UnbGrd-ResDam(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx(27), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam(29), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(29) Level 16: Unyielding -- UnbGrd-ResDam(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx(31), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam(31), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(31), UnbGrd-EndRdx/Rchg(33), UnbGrd-Max HP%(33) Level 18: Dark Consumption -- SprAvl-Acc/Dmg(A), SprAvl-Dmg/EndRdx(33), SprAvl-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(34), SprAvl-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(34), SprAvl-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(34), SprAvl-Rchg/KDProc(36) Level 20: Resist Energies -- UnbGrd-ResDam(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(27), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx(36), UnbGrd-EndRdx/Rchg(36), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam(37), ImpArm-ResPsi(48) Level 22: Weave -- ShlWal-Def/EndRdx(A), ShlWal-Def/Rchg(37), ShlWal-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(37), ShlWal-Def(39), LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(39) Level 24: Mystic Flight -- WntGif-ResSlow(A) Level 26: Soul Drain -- SprUnrFur-Acc/Dmg(A), SprUnrFur-Dmg/Rchg(39), SprUnrFur-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(40), SprUnrFur-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(40), SprUnrFur-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(40), SprUnrFur-Rchg/+Regen/+End(42) Level 28: Invincibility -- ShlWal-Def/EndRdx(A), ShlWal-Def/Rchg(42), ShlWal-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(42), ShlWal-Def(43), Rct-ResDam%(43) Level 30: Arcane Bolt -- Apc-Dam%(A) Level 32: Midnight Grasp -- Hct-Dmg(A), Hct-Dmg/Rchg(43), Hct-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(45), Hct-Acc/Rchg(45), Hct-Dmg/EndRdx(45), Hct-Dam%(46) Level 35: Tough Hide -- ShlWal-Def/EndRdx(A), ShlWal-Def/Rchg(46), ShlWal-Def(46), ShlWal-ResDam/Re TP(48) Level 38: Rune of Protection -- ResDam-I(A), ResDam-I(48), StdPrt-ResDam/Def+(50), GldArm-3defTpProc(50) Level 41: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(50) Level 44: Superior Conditioning -- PrfShf-End%(A) Level 47: Physical Perfection -- NmnCnv-Regen/Rcvry+(A) Level 49: Combat Jumping -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A) Level 1: Fury Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A) Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A) Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A) Level 2: Swift -- Empty(A) Level 2: Hurdle -- Empty(A) Level 2: Health -- Pnc-Heal/+End(A) Level 2: Stamina -- PrfShf-End%(A) Level 30: Arcane Power ------------ | Copy & Paste this data into Mids Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1356;636;1272;HEX;| |78DA65934B4F53511485CF6D6FAD9416A848014BDF16680B051CE12B265A20284D4| |84C9C925A8FF5C6A690B618193A70AE6074E2037C4CFD09BE8D3FC6202AF81A5D77| |EF5A220924E5EB5E67ED73D63E272DDE2CF85FCEDC3AA38CF673D552A3B170B6BED| |CD49E62A96295DD4A299F53C7A5D65E29434EB950D455ADF38552FD3ABE462017F4| |555D6BE8FC6CEDC672B5A6EBA5CB56D56AAEA8C0FCE262353F6D55AE35AD5AC5EF5| |41717EB655D5FF1A158D2FA0AF4395D5A1253FFD49255CE4FC92695958562A9D114| |2FB2F5498CB87C3ECB4719AD7FB647AD4BD60953B936C8A7A0F98C7C0E1E7801BEF| |ADFEB563BA20DC9DA0FAC1DFC45FE065FB7ACF41A3BD07CF4FAE8F5D3FB465CAD5B| |13AFE19E14984AF9C94D8187793D932EC7DF719C3C01769D244F81874E835BD2E5C| |5BEA6F78E89B5BBE0E155720D0CDD03DF8ABB8DB9DBA28633632806F625C824E892| |CDDBE155EDB771A65BB400FB039CFB08E71EE0DC039CFB9DB83A395B27BD517AA3F| |446E98DFF24FF80DFA42BE85CB0ED093E44F6F82330F1987C42AE83A90DF0BD7475| |F3DCEE7F19794E8AE7A778DE51E618CB606653E6EB41AFD9334DCF0C390B0E9E275| |B46E15A5AA95EBC83EA0D63EDBB54FDCCDFEF47AEC10038D44176925D6026087E90| |AE307ACD3033649821C30C5966C86E83AB9221C2B78A4CE0ADB6A58AF11E6283D0B| |243E0C8309921B3E0680EFC285D49BE73921946996194678F5D00EFCBD969CCEF4E| |8F28AC9113BDB24944780CDEA4DCEF30F6358673F4906D41A5729C21F70039FCA2E| |5A9E52FE1BE43B2C738B571BEC1B4B9FBDBB5074CC53FBB55DAB69ADBA7CC9BB48B| |6238CAA66FF7174DE5CB3E656BAF92C0445FF76A4CFD292B436377FB2F8062D3C4| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Let me cut through the BS for you. Tanks are tougher. Brutes do more damage

you make a good point and Lord Recluse is quite aware of it. There are cities (Cap au Diable) and neighborhoods (one in Sharkhead!) that are gentrified and orderly. But there is only so much lipstick and there is a LOT of pig...

I always solo’d redside live with no travel powers until mid 30 except vet reward 30sec jump every ten minutes or so and the Ferry system. Oh and the Pocket D vip transport. Never felt it was an issue

there are a couple 35-39 St Mart arcs that send you back and forth St Mart to Nerva back and forth mission after mission. But you have travel powers, etc.

I know you have tired of me. But listen to this if you absolutely have to have tons of info check out the Sentinel forum. They have Blaster attack sets. Gimped to hell and slightly altered. But still. That forum has a thread stickied with every set described in detail. Finally if nothing satisfies then play a Fire Fire Blaster. Nothing matches it. Nothing. You have zero mitigation so you need to kill fast. Really really fast.

The blue side origin contacts in the 25-29 and 30-34. All of them. Like, all. All ten. 4-6 hunts each. Thankfully it is down to 2-4 in the 35-39 bracket. So far

better than go hunt 40 crey. go hunt 40 crey. go hunt 40 freaks. go hunt 40 crey go hunt 40 crey go hunt 40 crey, okay, you want to do a story arc now?

Nooooo. Talking about how much damage a chicken does is off topic. Unless launched by a trebuchet. And are we taking into account any pathogens the chicken might be carrying and the long term damage done to the target area?