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That 4 inch curb though. I can’t believe the team just hopped over it and ran off. Sigh. Lets see teleport? Maybe shed heavy armor and run. Darned. Who put these curbs here anyway?

Were you trying to saw willpower and said dark? Because dark.... its a little tough to shore up due to its 17 toggles and still being a bit squish despite that

Heyas. I have played SS Invul and SS Will forever. With a SO build both are very survivable and Invul impressively so. Of course with SO Invul struggles for End until you get physical perfection Dark added to Invul is insanely tough. I personally believe the Dark/Invul melee is the toughest combination in the game. Almost zero AoE. That will really feel stupid after farming. It is not unless you try to farm with it Hyperstrike posted a very expensive I/O build i am using on my main SS/Invul. The only thing that puts a dent in it are when i exemplar down to 15th level and run a task force. Still insanely good. And the patches of death in incarnate trials. Nothing else mi es either its red or blue bars below 80%. This includes Comic Con Farms fire farms etc. the build is literally bulletproof some peeps love shield defense but it is more work intensive and you mentioned not liking clicky. Invul and Will are both background. I look down every 5 minutes and am like yep still there. I do check my health bar in my main after huge alphas. Usually still above 95%. The thing is scary I have not tried Bio Armor. I hear it is good and fun if you like to shift gears from attack to defense tactics. I think it benefits well from I/Os and as a farmer i know you will be doing that stone...cannot be killed. Curb will mess your butt up though. Just standing there looking at that 4inch mountain screaming whhyyyyyygh most of the rest of the armors are either def based. You will get screwed by the RNG at some point in these. The heavier you run the more often it will happen. Or Damage dealing armors. These tend to be like fire aura. Good in one area or as part of a strong team but more squishy otherwise regeneration.... reminds me of the motorcycle rider in the old coast to coast race movie gumball rally. Ooof. That is a rough choice. Glad they put it in for us concept players Good Luck Brute brother

That response left me confused. Thankfully i am used to that feeling seriously though. How does Kinetic Melee iNterfere with Fury? As an old school Brute player Fury is really easy to get. I can peg the softcap by just walking into a large mob and hitting no one as far as the strangeness of Kinetic Melee with Scrapper mechanics at least one of the attacks (and a really good one). Concentrated strike level 32 extreme damage does not crit. I personally see taht as ...possibly.... interfering with Scrapper mechanics. Instead the scrapper crit it might have got recharges power siphon. I do not know if this is good. I have most Brute Answers memorized even in sets I dont play because i have read through Brute forums old and new endlessly. But i have no idea about Kinetic Melee and scrappers thanks for the input. Sorry i did not understand much of it

Okay. My mistake. I don’t jnow why but i thought the rewards were categorized. You get 1 enhancer. Some weird insp. A pick from another type of thing long story short i did a Posi on my 50 with some lowbies. Real fast of course. Made a little over 10 mil once rewards were converted and wasted it. 10 mil i should havr just given to domrone random really angry i was so gullible. In future i will not buy these things. I may just start doing AE solo as well. The rate of return is higher farming. Why am i wasting my time running task forces. Especially if the money sinks are everywhere bas teleporter. 1 mil. Everyone else used passcode bind 10 mil to buy a few insp? everyone in game telling me its such a good deal. Really pissed at myself forBuying fhat

Yeah i ran one i/o’d on live built for recharge. I am going to enjoy pushing this Scrapper build with modern i/o s and see how mean it can get

Thanks Bill. I know you have playtested this a few minutes and actually know lol

Having my coffee before work and looking at Dark Melee in the standard testing thread. A couple things come to mind. 1) Dark Melee is a ST excellent set. Since this appears to be a more farm like environment DM would not be expected to perform well 2) Dark Melee has the tools of a secondary slapped into a Primary. A good, dependable heal that is part of an attack chain. A 30 sec damage buff! (With no crash!) a PBAoE End Recovery power. This last cannot be overstated. This power will fuel the hungriest of Secondaries. It was designed to. Dark Armor has so many toggles if you die you spend seven minutes casting spells to bring them all back up Basically i am appreciative of the data. I love data. But i love discussion as well. What does the data mean? I slap Dark Melee on a Brute Tank or Scrapper paired with Invulnerability and throw some recharge on the build. That will be one of the toughest Brutes Tanks or Scrappers you will find. Even just in SOs compared with other SO builds you will find few tougher including Stone Armor Yes Titan Weapons deserve top spot on the charts. It was designed to make the company money lol. Steak sells. But DM has been the bread and butter of many tough builds for years. Titan weapons creates imbalances that need to be compensated for. Dark Melee solves imbalances and will do you proud standing againt EBs and AVs

I am not worried anout what people expect me to be. The good players know to inspect a Brute to see what sets they are rolling if they need agro management. i played on live. I was about 2 years late to the party and started on Brutes. We had no inherent health and taunt was a luxury few could afford. So we learned to do without. Redside Bruting is more art than science. And more Jackson Pollock than Leonardo da Vinci. If (big if and teams know this) you are trying to punchboke 17 mobs RQ then get there before the team and herd. Or in my style get there before the team and punch 1) any sapper of any type 2) the biggest boss preferably in the biggest cluster. Let the team figure it out as they roll in. You got a full agro bar i love Bruting. With the changes in Tanks i will be rolling one. Dark Melee Invul. Er Inv/DM. My Brute order is showing lol now i want to build a Scrapper that fits how i roll. I do not like weapons even (especially) the ones that appear and disappear. So that leaves me a few sets to pick at. Trying to figure them out on a Scrapper is a new problem for me. The descriptions in the game when you click on the power appear to be unexited bersions from 15 years ago. Red Tomax no longer exists. So. I am relying on advice and testing appreciate the help. Seriously not worried about team expectations. I can tell after one or two mobs whether a team needs me to gently remind them what i am there for. On Everlasting most of those vets run circles around my Brute literally and i just grind on.

I love this combo on a Brute and am soloing redside with these powersets on a Tank. After thinking about various Scrappers all day it just struck me... i got to see this in a Scrap only done 2 DFBs. Level 12. Of course i like it one thing. I gave inly seen one crit in 2 runs. A couple Dark powers do not have % crit in their detailed info on power screens. Does thus set not crit with many if its powers ?

I get crap for purple drops. Maybe 2 in the last few months. And of course oddball ones like the Mez dom set not Hecatomb. I have one Heca in my base and sold maybe 2 and that is all i have gotten since Homecoming booted up

Could you Scrappy folks let me know exactly how Kinetic Melee actually works with the Scrapper Crit mechanics? i am specifically interested in if this Primary is synergistic with Scrapper AT or if the mechanic conflicts or deflates the Scrapper AT thanks

I am going to take a side project Kinetic Melee and 50 it to give it a real chance and see if I like it. I have palyed a number of them to 30s but tend to alt and they get forgotten is this combo better on a Brute or a Scrapper? I think Scrapper has a weird crit interaction with Kinetic Melee? Is that good? Does it mess up regular crits? Would that make it better on a Brute? thanks for any input and ideas

1st) lets not bring religion into this 2nd) grrrrrrr 3rd) you should probably know. I’ m a biter. Not particularly proud of it. But it happens

Thanks Lines. I do enjoy getting the lore.

I was shopping for a high end enhancer 2 months back. I was trying to bring the bid in low rather than pay 10 million. I bid 6 mil 6.25 mil 6.5 mil etc. working up to 8 mil. No luck. Took a bio or something. Came back and moved on needed a SO accuracy at low level. So I went to auction found it and bid. I thought I did. my computer still had the 8 million bid remembered that is right. Trying to save money I bought a level 18 accuracy enhancer for 8 Million 8,000,000 be concerned. Some of us are really dumb

Ice Blaster is ‘worse’ but I like it for concept and live it for range. Ghetto Dom/Ghetto Blaster

Hate to be annoying. Comes natural. What do you get for the ten or twentyfive mil? The joy of helping with inf sinks?

I play Brites although I may be switching to Tanks with the new rules. There are no ‘broken’ Brute combos. Some are suboptimal. Some have weapon disappearing issues. Some armors are squishier. But if you know what you are getting then it is fine dont buy a fire armor and expect to tank like an invulnerable. Don’t get an Energy Melee and expect any AoE.

Yeah I tend to not even read stuff that says pack (means random in city speak right) at 25 mil so what are these packs and where can you get them. My thinking is I need a couple sets of the Winter super rare sets. Winters bite etc Dropping 10 mil for a guaranteed one (any) would make sense for that

More appropriately Veluna Lunata lore. I think I asked this on live a decade ago. Somehow I forgot the answer is there a connection between these two? Her relationship with Marco seems to parallel Ghost Widows with the Wretch

I suppose some will. Of course some idiots look at a tall icy mountain and think it would be neat to climb it

Thank you Heracles! I am looking at as many of these builds as I can. I will be running all Primary and Secondary except Unstoppable and Fear. I truly love DM Invul builds and my concept is pure CoX. Zombie wakes up in alab with CoT Vahzilok and Dr Aeons scientists fighting. He never knows more but gets out. Only memories are experimenting with Excelsior Superadine and Rage as well as anything else he could find. magic Origin. Very immersive for running Redside which is just so well written i have already started buying the two Tank ATO sets and I have a lot of procs uniques and sets to throw on. We need to earn a little to get the Winter sets but I love grinding TFs. Going to be a fun December lol

Hey folks. I am on to a new project. Really like this one so good chance I will finish it. Soloing all Redside content (story arcs) solo and SFs as part of a team. Never done this on a tank before and never ran a 50 tank much at all i chose the nearly indestructible Invul/DM combo. Slow when it is a clear all but steady as can be. No EB should cause serious difficulty. I am carrying envenomed daggers if they do lol i looked on the Tanker threads and saw a few (4?) Invul/DM builds. Hyperstike’s was the best of these. It was not exactly what I would do but rock solid. The others. Oof. One had hover and no Dark Consumption. Soooo someone does not realize Invul needs to be right face to face and leaving off Dark Consumption? Seriously? I did run a DM/Invul Brute back on live. I forget who authored it but a very smart gamer. Wrote treatises on Tanker theory and such. The Brute was a seriously high recharge build. This brought up Invul huge heal, DM small heal, DMs combat buff and Dark Consumption lightning fast. While still having soft cap S/L def. it was vicious lookiNo at something closer to that in this build. boxing tough weave combat jumping mystic flight and Ghost Widows Dark patron powers as well as Hasten build goals are S/L def softcap, pumping resists a bit and as much Recharge as I can get while building for strength. Global Recharge on this build makes life good see ya in the Rogue Isles

...imagine trying to.... it’s called a wiki. Isn’t the real wiki community built? Like Wikipedia itself? so no I do not want to track and detail everything myself. But if we had a place where we could organize crap we know to help each other? Yeah. I can imagine that