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There are some melees i wont play because of mechanics. I forget which sword set has a super complex chain of attack possibilities with different outcomes. Not for me. Never rolled one. Dark Armor looks complex but it is not if you just Brute through and run everything. If you build on the cheap you may have to juggle toggles. I wont run Bio Armor because the graphics. It has to be managed ti get more effectiveness the most complex i can think of would be a MM/traps. You have to plan and execute plan juggling pets toys and locations to maximize effectiveness

About the only way to get 100% Fury is with the Villain alignment power. A year or so (?) before the big snap they changed (freakin’ nerf bat) the Brute Fury mechanism because Brutes (mostly hogh level but i will still blame you farmers) were consistently doing more damage than Scrappers. They had already launched Going Rogue so except for concept toons Scrappers were not going to be picked by high level players. The new change to Brutes made it easier to keep your Fury bar higher, so slight removal of the harshest part if the nerf. But they also lowered the max damage on Brutes. They give with one hand and watch what the other hand is doing

Okay expanding in my legless and miniature giant mech stuff: legs that are just “hover pods”. Inanimate but maybe glowing or with jet exhaust going. Hiver engine legs of various types. Then for the mage types you can do the same thing but magic theme. Flowing cloth/ethereal streams.

Two things. Ghosts. Floating legless apparitions. Perfect for my hover blasters and doms. Basically floating legless let anyone do what they want from there gun arms. Make a miniature giant mech!!! Again only really useful for gun mostly or ranged attack. Still. O the possibilities

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I have a villain concept toon i have always wanted to run. A pure Redside Blaster. Pure Villain. I am leaning towards a Brain in a jar on top of a robot with Energy Blast powers. I do have a backstory for it. I am getting ready to drop this thing into Mercy. I was wondering if there are any Redside RP groups that I could join?

Let them eat cake. Track them down and eat them. Am i running too many zombie characters?

I would like to see the extra incarnate powers that we will maybe see in a year or three temporarily filled with powers from various pools. And. ... at tier 3 or 4. Extra enhancer slots (builders do the snoopy happy dance here). i could be wrong. I am wrong a LOT. But i am guessing adding powers and slots in this fashion will be much more friendly to existing coding than adding entirely new game effects and powers like the current incarnate powers. (Which are great). i suggest this in humbleness. And hopefulness. We are very grateful for what we have. I would be pretty happy to game away with The current setup for a long time. So would many of us But looking forward to the near future there does not appear to be a ton of new content rolling out. This suggestion allows an existing part of the game to be expanded Game balance will of course be affected. I have not visualized all the ramifications of throwing this boulder in the pond. But i just really like the heft of this rock. And the water just seems a perfect 🎯 target

Great responses. Thank you all. Now i need to let this stew a bit. A lot to think about. Searching for the playable paired with the truly strange. I love me some oddities

Thanks for making me look up PEBKAC lol. Yeah i agree. Maybe if you are really running a horrid tank then you are going to have an issue ( like you built so poor you only have enough end to taunt ). But any Tank (even before the generous changes ) does well in melee. I just soloed redside every contact on an invul (no damage aura ) Dark ( crap AoE at best ) and melee was fine. Maybe boring but doing okay. Its definitely a user issue. I was running my Dark Dark Brute last night. Not particularly tanky. No taunt In two separate TF at the end there was a rush of ambush adds. I veered from the AV lightning fast and landed on them. That let the team concentrate on the AV at the cost of one Brutes assistance on DPS. You just have to always be looking out for how to help the team complete the current task faster. That could be getting 3 struggling teammates in a hall split from the party back to the group or that could be juggling two AVs

So i leveled a Dark Dark to 50 a few months back. Never even fought Trapdoor. Just stripped it and parked it Because i knew I wasnt ready for it and that irritated me I did not remember enough about builds. I had no infamy to even start the build and i had no idea what to throw on it so i ran a lot of other stuff (mostly SS Invul and a Invul Dark Tank) but alted for months today that changed. I had a crapton of enhancers in my base. I had a Billion inf. I searched through the forums and found a build by one of the people i respect. And tore it apart lol. It had the wrong attack set (dark dark builds are hard to find on the forums) but i now knew what i wanted. The theory and the rules. I swapped out sets based on fundamental principles like do not chase Def on a Res set. My Res went up (two purple sets added). My defense down. Especially energy defense from low 40 to 30s. And Energy Res went up to ...50. Hmmm. But i trusted what i had been reading. Was able to keep s/l at 45.5 def. But i really was not just chasing more resistance. I squeezed on those two purple sets, another LOTG and added Haste. 70% recharge before i touch Haste or look at Incarnates my End was horrid. But i would throw some Emps at it and got a tier 3 Cardiac Core Alpha. Prob solved then i bought the enhancers respec’d and went through the incarnate arc. Yep. End was baaaaad after i incarnated i got that cardiac lol then i ran PI for a full level, A Khan, and a Market Crash. this character does not run at all like a refular Brute. It runs like a ghetto melee Dom with armor and HP. I use the little PBAoEs as damage firing them off whenever they are up (they are up very quickly). The Def>Res>Heal leaves out the top level. Mez>Def>Res>Heal. This thing stuns and fears like a champ. Then chews through anything but bosses fast fast. The damage buff is nearly always up anyways glad i finally got to build this out. I meant to post this Saturday night. Sunday i ran Synapse. I was careful in respec as the build leveled it would be playable. It was good. No end issues which was shocking. And i needed a Citadel a Manti and a Numina. Ran well through those. An ITF. This thing is a beast. I farmed two maps s/l the first choice in AE. At +2/x8 went well. i ran a Keyes. Okay. I died there. But the AV caught me in a bunker lol. And i died again. But even tanks die in iTrials. Bottom line. Very happy to have this build in my crew. This will be a go to for some time. Just vicious and unkillable in normal content

Okay. You just reminded me of an alt a ran for a while back on live. Laughy. Yea the name was available. Full clown outfit. The colors ooof. I was looking at art theory and took a long time making every piece be opposed to what it was next to while shifting through all the colors as i moved from piece to piece that was a SS Will. I think we need a mace invul clown. Who is laughing now?

NICE thanks. I do love well written documentation.

Heh. I love a damage aura. But i love just ignoring EVERTHING that is not Nova Fist even more

I am currently running a Tanker for most of my gaming. This was planned and only partly to do with buff. I started the character in late November and had heard rumors About the changes. I had also heard rumors they would not happen. Rumors lol i started the tank and solo arc ran it through Redside. Grabbing blue and red TF and SF. (Rogue). Then the changes happened and u 50’d it and is pretty much my main this has more to do with i wanted an easy badger (this is my badger) than the tank changes i have traditionally played Brutes most of the time and still have a fully kitted out SS/Invul Brute that i pull out once or twice a week so personally i am running tanks more which probably means i will start blasting or bruting soon lol

As stated i have never ran a ‘troller. I ran a grav energy Perma dom back on Live for a month or two before stripping it of the ton of enhancers it took to create What sets work Better in Controllers. I have heard Grav does. Was considering a Grav/Dark. I run a lot of robots and undead. I tried Dark/Dark in a dom recently. I dont like the Dog hellhound personally. The crazy grav ball of death i am okay with thanks

Just for it. Think about how you will feel about this later. Do it

I tried war mace. I am very costume oriented and did not quite live anything that goes with the weapons. i tried TW and was able to drop in a abandoned but liked costume and match it to one of the weapons there i will have to get used to momentum. Of course it really is slow at low levels. But it supposedly rocks at high levels which is the goal

On topic. For a melee character could i get a few opinions of the top three damage dealing powerset

Let say you bave a group of like minded folks. Lets call them villains. But some already want to be rogues. Sigh then you got the tow the line villains ( or pretend to toe the line ) Arachnos then you got cult followers of a specific dream. CoT then you got other folks trying to save the world ... er Vahzilok. Hey full disclosure here that is their party line. Ot even sure how they got there. Drinking their own embalming fluid? then you got the very motivated yet completely off the rails Freakshow i am not even going to try ti fit Carnival in beee point is everyone wants something different. Whether they are fully bought into their gangs way of doing something or are just surfing a movement is individual. But they are all rolling hard to what they think is right

Thanks. I been thinking about War Mace. I normally dont like weapons. But there is just something satisfying about hitting something with a stick. Could be be optimal and primal lol

I e is a weird set. Most controller set of damage sets. So they made it odd to balance. Not sure of exact numbers. It would not surprise me at all

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I got inspired by the min/max thread for a concept toon. Normally i build to theme and end up with an undead or a robot. In fact this will probably be skinned that way But the premise is this: Build not for concept, but for the absolute optimal choices in the game I am leaning toward Invul Armor rite as the base. I know i could get more damage with a set with an Aura but believe that in this situation Invul is the right choice the real question is Primary. I normally roll Super Strength or Dark Melee. But i believe they may not be the optimal choices. I have been looking at Scrapper thread for ideas The concept is for late game content. So incarnate abilities are part of the calculus. Any suggestions about attack set, incarnate powers, and even logical reasons for moving from invulnerability are appreciated also suggestions for pool powers and epics are wide open. I am in the safe CJ Haste and usually Maneuvers rut there. Good chance that will go into this. But again open for suggestions This is not a “farmer” bit a TF and Trial toon, optimized for surviving handily while dishing out tons if damage in a wide variety of situations Thanks in advance for ideas