Snarky

The responses in here are pretty smart and accurate one thing i want to add is context. It was not always this way. It was changed specifically to make the common 70-80% the natural operating range. The 70-80% is a number i have done zero research on. Just playing Brutes it looks like that is where it hovers in heavy fighting why was it changed? Because Brutes were out-damaging Scrappers. With better armor and health. so if you rolled a scrapper it was for concept or choices not available for Brutes. Not for bring ‘the most effective”. Because Brutes was better. In every way soooooo. The nerf bat swung hard. I play almost all Brutes. I dislike any nerf but i fully agree with this one. Bonus points. They got the math just about perfect and everyone is happy again well. Except can we get it removed? I wont abuse it i swear

I did the first one on my “Arc-er”. Um. Storyerer? Quester? Noooo anyways on the character i am doing everything Redside on. first time i ever did it. It was a little meh honestly. I thought it was going to be filled with odd mechanics like itrials and i was going to flail. It was 3 radio missions with a LOT of npc dialogue. Hopefully there are no oddities i. The later ones i have to research to complete

Okay so Sunday i was on a new alt and did not quit a Posi 1. Although by the end i think everyone on the team prob wished i had. Re-using the name Snarkbone for a new zombie Savage Will Brute. Scrapperlocking with no armor to speak of. It was brutal. the first team wipe. Not my fault. Someone did the doorstep thing. Second wipe. Half my fault. I charged one if the two inside groups. Did not coordinate or anything. Someone pulled the second group. My armor folded like a taco third team wipe was my fault. The doppelgangers and i thought i ate enough inspiration efore jumping in. I was wrong but the fourth attempt we pished through. 1 hour. Happiness. Sadness. And scene

I started a Energy Melee Willpower Brute just because I like it. It fits my concept and i enjoy the powersets animations and ease of use Easy mode is what i want as this toon will be running weekly strike forces for merits i may or may not fully i/o him. I had a ton of useful stuff laying around so i started slapping that on semi randomly. Definitely not optimal. Definitely tons of fun if i was going to build it would be to Barely softcap s/l and then concentrate on healing. Increasing health. And then damage. No recharge. The build just doesnt really benefit from it much.

Things are going well on the Story Arc strategy. Really enjoying the build even at low levels. Level 19 183 badges 36 souvenirs and 458 merits. I am doing Hero TFs for badges and merits but just once. I might repeat a few i like later but Posi and Synapse. No thanks. Just turned on exp and will be cranking 19-24 then turning off again to do all content. Time to jump to Shark one question on the Hyperstrike build above. There is a rectified reticle proc in Invincibility. Why is that better than a Kisnet ACC global? Dark Melee feeds off Acc for heals PBaoe buff and PBaoe end restoration thanks

I can think of exactly one example. You are in an ITF. Running through the 5 generals mission. you leapfrog the team to gather agro at the next General. He is surrounded by 20 surgeons. Grind. To. A. Halt scatter that group. But really far or they still heal. no. Even then smart move is on judgement footstomp and anything to knock them down fast. It would just be nice if we could knock them all to the next map there is no regular combat situation that is better knocking targets everywhere

Thanks folks. Looks like this was way more complex than i had believed. I had thought they were increasing rankers base damage modidier slightly and increasing AoE footprints. Then testing that it appears it is in fact a can of worms. I dislike worms. I am rolling through Redside on a Dark/Invul Tank doing all story arcs and side missions until contacts wont even talk to me. And thats how i like it heh. I will put this down as possible for a future tank but not probable at thos juncture I am going slow. Not that slow

Just wanted to take a minute and be grateful i have gnarly 50 i can rip around incarnate trials and level 50 task forces. Special thanks to Hyperstrike there. i have started and deleted dozens of characters and builds having great fun with costumes and powersets i have a handful of 50s i have started and quit trying to solo blueside two times. I am on my second attempt at soloing redside and i have as much energy for it as i finish 15-19 content as when i started. Going to be a winner i am hoarding enhancers and salvage and burning through cash on the market to get the toys i join in with PUG TF allatime and am usually helpful if sometimes Snarky i have my world back thank you. Happy Holidays

Sooo. I been thinking about this response. I appreciate the input what does that mean. ( do not explain what a test server and a patch is, i’m the Snarky one here) seriously though is this the last step before it goes live and that will happen in a week or two. Or is this part of the development process and uploading to live is months away. the data is nice. It just means nothing to me

This helps as far as what to convert to thanks i qill be converting a few into leveling and/or final sets as well for me it is not “as much inf as possible”. I an not poor by any means in CoX but i live beyond my means and paycheck to paycheck i have one outfitted Level 50. It is a mean build but that is my only comolete build i have a few procs globals and a couple ATO sets as well. But the market just eats my cash and i make rabbit turds off anything i try to sell there

You wont need or want handclap. You have enough recharge that Footstomp Hurl KO blow and Hatmaker are prettt much your attack chain. Once incarnated Judgement is there also

The ank you!!!

I have read the most recent tooics in this. They did not answer this question so i badged Echo Faultline first and recieved the accolade for the zone then i tried Badging Faultline. Yes i know a couple badges were moved to Echo. yes i know where Egg Hunter is what i do not know is where/what the new badges to make up 8 in Faultline are are there not 8 in Faultline and no Accolades no info on paragon wiki of course my vidiot maps was downloaded 3 weeks ago and should be ip to date i will not be clicking on any links provided after reading Leandros comments about odd sites doing some CoX hosting in another thread what would be eeally helpful is a list with /loc of the current actual Faultline Badges and a response if there are still 8 and an accolade thanks

I made a change on real Wiki. ( THE OG Wi Ki) about a page. Lasted two years. It was on an esoteric art topic and it lasted until some actual Doctoral student ‘corrected’ it. Probably way more accurate and i don’t understand what it means. Mine was more fun and obtuse only if you took it serious. But yes you can edit Wiki. Some pages get locked. Political pages have wars on them and are locked except for moderators so if i am looking at Paragon wiki and using it for backup on a two to three hour story arc and notice a huge hole of useful information i would have liked to know in advance i would love to edit it for the next person. Or for myself the next time i run it (once a year?). not everyone will. Not every edit will make perfect sense because it is hard to write even if you have talent. But over time it will br filled out or it could be like wowhead. ‘The location of this npc is unknown’ is real common on that site. Been standing in the exact same place last 15 years. In mmorpg time that is about the big bang. Yet the wiki has zero info

The build is not cheap. But it is worth it. Insanely tough. Lot of damage. I threw all y toys on it and that was the start if the build. Took a few weeks grinding task forces and incarnate trials to scrape together enough to finish it. I see no point in the future where i will shatter it for parts. The thing is near perfect

Okay. Its been more than a month since i posted this. I have a 19 tanker i am soloing Redside with. Invul/Dark Melee. IMO toughest Tank outside Granite. I would even argue toughest if you allow strategic positioning as part of the defensive argument. Patch of Deaths in an Incarnate Trial or the Fist of Doom in Lambda have got to suck on a Granite. but i digress. As usual. In fact i think digression is perhaps the overall point if the entire exercise. Wait. Doing it again okay. So any word on when?

I was told to craft orange recipes and sell them. Since i do not have AH history i have no idea what to sell them for i am getting bought out at low values. Sometimes the sale is less than salvage and crafting costs. I am seriously considering Using my earning to just buy Recipes from merit vendor and/craft convert upgrade oranges for sets i need and only buying off AH when i Have a ton of inf i earned through kills. Selling nothing on AH. No converters no recipes no enhancers. In fact the last week except for experimenting with crafting/selling oranges that is what i have been doing. Since i do not lime to be ripped off i will probably adhere to this in the future. Using AH as a way to get some salvage (i bank a lot in my base) and maybe bid on some enhancers with extra cash. But sell nothing as the market is defacto set up to rip people off who do not watch it and research it like a stick trader

I do appreciate the 1337 team of geeks what has brought us the game back i do want the Tank update. A Brute update. And cookies the find thing does not work for me on AH. I am no marketeer and i grind and make my money that way. Still a little frustrating to know tou are getting ripped for millions by AH gremlins who play the market more than the game and are keeping track of AH niches while you cant even see last 5 bids. i been trying to follow some formulas for making monet on AH but I can tell they are mot working. When you craft an Orange and sell it and it only gets 600k then you know you are upside down. Ut i jave no idea what it will sell for in advance because that feature no longer exists. again i make my money by grinding. I am bery grateful to have a place to get enhancers i would never have easy access too otherwise still it seems a shame to lose money on most transactions due to completely flying blind. I know if i did not know how to grind purples this would upset me a lot more than it does. So pit this post down as a shout out to the new players who are still running on SOs and look at the AH as evil. That is how i viewed it my first year on live because i knew there were peeps scamming every niche and i was just making money for them. Now i am like ‘here if that makes you happy spend hours doing it’. but it seems like such an obvious QOL issue i just wondered what was up with it and if there was a plan

Okay. So now going to go into a lot of detail or grumpiness here you all know what i am saying is there a fix in the works or even a reason it is ....dont be snarky dont be snarky..... the way it is?

I am pretty good at Fast Leveling 50s. Then i abandon them strip of i/o and never play again couple of tips i have for you DO NOT stick to a plan. Have an outline. Throw it out the window if aomething better comes along DiB is a great idea. Very hard to get. The best most consistent leveling 15-35 is hopping into a PI team. Getting Lucky and landing on a Farm is the gold standard. I never beg or actively search for either of these two but if an AD foes out... task forces earn good experience help you learn thhe character organically and het merits and cash 8 person radio teams of your level are never bad. Better than sitting in Pocket D wondering who is the biggest Cat Gurl After 35 as many ITF as you can jump on. Fast consistent levels. Again Farming is better and hard charging PI teams may match it ir even beat it. But ITF is consistent last tip. Do not alt after a day or two. In a few short days using the above plan you will be 50. I have done it literally countless times GL. Ps. The incarnates system is actually awesome. Have fun

So... My Snarky butt quit a Task Force Sunday. It is something i really try not to do. I try to understand when peeps leave for RL reasons. A Synapse on Saturday took 2:35 and we were down to 5 peeps on the last mission. We finished Yeah but Sunday I rage quit lol. Posi 1. I switch sides. I am on my 14 Tank Rogue who is soloing all Redside content. Invul/Dark and with as many procs ATO sets and uniques as you can cram on at 14. Not squishy we fill and start. I have no taunt at this level and so eace ahead if the team to take the alpha. They are all squishies. Team lead is a squid and there is not a melee in the group but me i get pasted. Hit Dull Pain and eat every insp and dead in 15 seconds. The team lead was set at +4. It happens. I have made a mistake before. Just the one the team lead says he will change it after mission. Fair enough i guess. I would have restarted. The team wipes of course. The leader is giving pep talks “we got this” i mau have said something sarcastic. Yeah probably. The team leader responds. “ Why did you run in?” okay. That irritated so i just calmly say “ task forces are usually run at + 0/x1 for speed and merits” and another voice aays “not everyone runs that way.” that was all i had in me. Not going to run a half hour with that team. I quit. Maybe i should have stayed ran a Posi 1 later stull at 14 exp stopped and got through it 59 minutes. Wipe at city hall steps on last mish. Because someone could not stay away from the door while we cleared. Ut we got through it pretty good anyway. Sorry if i pissed anybody off on Snarkrot mu Redside Rogue Zombie Tank.

Thank you all. Just what i needed. I am soloing Redside story arcs on this guy. Grinding through 10-14 Cap content today at 14. The kill all on 7 floors was irritating. Having to never worry whether the build will survive a combat - priceless at 212 reward merits. This is mu reserve lol. Wont be spending until 50. I have a mean 50 (Hyperstrikes build on a SS/Invul Brute and have started a Rad/Fire Brute for farming now at 30. The Invul/Dark will be my focus for awhile. Love relearning the Redside Lore. So well written. I have done this Project on Brutes before. Fun on a Tank After this i will prob do a Invul/SS Tank to celebrate the changes to the AT. That is some weeks down the road since i work heh Again Thank you all so much. Knowing what I am building toward as i level is so much better for me

I talk in LFG and use Help for LFG and random bits of my personal opinions. As well as my battle cry “I’ve upped my efforts. Up yours!” sometimes people complain about this. But i either say something snarky or ignore the complaints. If i see a question in help when i am not teaming ROFLstomp i try to answer it. I have a second comp up with Paragon Wiki cause my memory aint so good. So while i walk on Help i also try to make sure every question gets a response even if it is not a perfect answer i play on Everlasting. The RP server. These geeks is hardcore. I do not use quotes or soliloquy in character. I tell peeps i am Snarky so i dont have to RP that now for all my grumpy weirdness i am very experienced at CoX and when i join a team even with an SO’d lowbie i tend to stay focused and know my way around. Being useful helps. All my characters names begin with Snark. Snarky, Snarkbot, Snarkrot, Snarks, etc. Branding is everything and people tend to pit me down as a known quantity i believe. They may not love me but they get that i belong But rather than get in an argument online about channel etiquette i just point out that Help is being provided or that no one is currently using LFG for any teamming. Again i may be missing a ton of possible love but i try to survive without online fans. If someone pushes it i tend to ignore them. Not on ignore list but just chuckle as i read their comments bouncing off my 90% internet comment resist armor. One time since i been back some one tried to get under my skin. I warned them. They persisted. I pointed a couple things out. They stopped responding. But again i try not to argue with peeps. I chat. Sometimes in Help and LFG. But with an eye on if the channel is swamped or slow. So in essence i show respect. And in essence i have felt welcomed.

I put no one on ignore. I do not do it when i play WoW and i do not do it in the City or Isles. WoW has a mechanism for temporarily putting peeps on ignore when you report them. If it is a time where i am in Orgrimmar for a while i report up to 20 or so people an hour for racism sexism homophobia truly nasty cursing and sometimes pedophilia. That community is not healthy. But i will mot ignore it. Just like a Brute i stand there and deal with it. Maybe my armor will hold. Maybe it wont. But i will not let any nasty ignorant bully push me out of geek heaven. So i stand and watch i have not reported anyone in the City. I think i did a few times back on live but CoX community has never been as bad as WoW. I am not just being sweet either. I dont have a ton of sweet so i got to ration that out

Not having exact percentages is not a problem. I see the pattern you are describing. I have a base for all my alts. I cleared all the salvage out a week ago but there was nearly a hundred orange and all sorts of yellows and whites. I tend to save oranges until i am short on cash for an enhancer lol. i am starting a Rad/Fire Brute farmer tonight. I will stop selling recipes and salvage and start using them as proscribed. This system you lay out makes sense. I am doing all this from my phone. (Typos are free). When i get home i will save this convo to a folder so i have a roadmap. i appreciate the time you took to lay this out for me and anyone else who is struggling. It doesnt help i have really expensive build tastes and love to alt lol. I have a few 50s i really want to i/o and there is the army of alts always trying to claw thier way into the world. So this helps me get more than the one main i can afford and the few frankenslotted SO 50s on the backburner. Should be an interesting weekend. If your method produces results fast enough i may even buy a winter pack. Ich. Just typing that irritated me lol. Maybe i will put that off awhile