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I am building my invul dark for teaming. I am dropping my epic pool +acc and going with ghost widows pool for a power or two i am going to take maneuvers from Leadership. Looking at taking the other two buffs as well. Any thoughts in how effective this is?

This is pretty standard now. In a world where Brutes are built for +4/x8 farms the build theory and tools have expanded enough for a Tank to just walk right up to Recluse and pick his nose i had a new incarnate on Lambda trial last night that survived Nova fist 3of 4 times. It was close each time and i finally started jumping away. Once at + 3 prob wont even jumo away anymore. Have to see

Wait... i thought Twilights Son was a refugee from that apocalyptic future? He caused it? and....so min/max on a kheld. Would that look something like just slot squid form and do not slot human or turtle? I would be down with that i make bettrr tanks, do t need a turtle. I could prob roll a better straight up blaster but i like the look of the squid. Again ... Lovecraft lol

Working on a build and concept for a Redside. May go Blaster or my standard Brute or even a Scrapper. But of course the character is not the most important aspect more importantly is finding a group that has regular RP teams that i click with and matches my schedule. Since i game madly during evenings and weekends hopefully that part wont be difficult. i miss my old crew from o er the table gaming (i moved) and it would be neat to find An online team to roll with if anyone has a solid regular group looking for a Snarky teammate my global is....@Snarky

Now i am making an Energy Blaster with this build lol. I am ever searching for a Blaster i like. On live Energy was as close as i got (nrg/nrg) and i incarnated that. Havent found something i love on Homecoming yet

Wait!?! They added location badges and accolades for pvp zones?!?

To create Stan you have to first decide how you are handling the whole project. Everything will flow from that are you trying to stay closer to reality? Impossible but you can take a nod at it with a MM build. are you just using his image and then portraying what a strong beacon he was to the geek community? Willpower super strength tank i/o build would be a fitting tribute going sideways and making him a kheld? You get the human form and a neat transform that maybe you can have some RP fun with so the first step will be settling into how you want the tribute to feel and what you plan to do with it

The Clarions, like many of the League buffs, lose power over time. Therefore it is more important on a job like the boss fight in UG to have a “bucket brigade” of players dropping Clarions at intervals than it is which Clarion they have. All of the buckets are leaking water. Get a steady stream of them to keep the League covered as you battle

After 15 years! What?!? They said it wasnt possible?!? What has science done 🤪

Honestly i see no reason to add difficulty ti a TF or content because a kheld is there. 1) it is prejudice 😆 2 kheld is just not “all that” to the point where something needs ti be added. Seriously who thought these things were monster tough? You see any teams of these things running around (except mebbe some RP teams?)

He was definitely a product of his time. I am not a person who can afford to huck this rock too far but i will venture he was probably a little unbalanced as well people make judgement calls about his writing chops. Definitely their right. I have tried to read a few of his short stories. I swear i set them down to take a nap on a sunny afternoon and have a NIGHTMARE. I never get nightmares and i am a lucid dreamer most nights when i encounter Lovecraftian tropes in movies games or books it definitely has an impact on me. This says a ton about me and maybe not so much about HPs writing skills i will say that when an author has this great an impact he can not be discounted a s “poor” or a “hack” without at least a tacit acknowledging of the inpact the work has had i might consider running a kheld. Problem is i am a min/maxer. (See current thread lol) and khelds sort of are horrid for that from what i understand. Anyways i have my zombie tank project on front burner. (Who is exploring all lore. Sort of how this started)

Well since you are right i will let it slide 😁

Troo is spot on. You will see this most in say a Brute Fire farmer. they will take fire armor. And then get i/o set bonuses that max fire resistance. They will get defense bonuses specifically for the mobs they fight. If all mobs they fight use melee attack why get any other defense? they have minimized with a laser focus what they need and then maximized that attribute

I am not sure of the numbers but from all my years playing invul the only thing i remember knocking me back is Brawler and Marauder and some really crazy explosions that sent everyone else to the moon. Any KB is surprising on a Invul now if i could just get the out of shape old lady walking past me in AP to not push me around like i was her shopping cart...

I make all my characters start with Snark. Branding is everything 🙂. i tend to make names that are derived from the origin story. Snarkrot for my zombie tank. Snarkbot for my robot. Snarkbone for my skull headed wizard. Was making a mage tank the other day and looked at the latin word Arcanus for secret. I could use that. Typed in Snarkanus. Yep available. Hmm. Wait a minute. Okay a little more research. Snarkanum. That was a little close lol

I ran Invulnerability Brutes back on live when Redside had no Tanks. I was new and loved low levels. And was broke for a year or so with no understanding of i/o or the market. Soooo i ran these suckers on SOs. They tanked great! so. You have a ‘real tank’ in a world where a few locations badges and a couple hours task forces will get you a few formally impossible to get i/o and a few more task forces will kit out a low budget build on top of that what i am saying is JUMP IN you cannot mess this up. If you buy and slot the wrong things respecs and unslotters are pretty easy to come by and a few more task forces will fund a rebuild with even more toys. And ANY set bonuses are better than what i used to Tank with. Granted Invulnerability is a great set right out of the box. Other sets benefit madly from i/o. Chase s/l defenses on defense sets and mixed def res sets like invul and willpower. Chase resist on res sets (def is considered a false hope on these sets). More importantly take Taunt. Remember a quote from the old forums “Tankers. First to fight. First to fall. Never fall”. In the modern game where peeps will drop +4/x8 on you without any consideration of whether that is good or not this can be harder to live up to. Still it is by far the most important goal a tank can strive for. Anytime someone on my team starts getting pounded i take it personal. What can i do to change it. Sometimes you cannot. They made a really bad choice or were following a team racing past 100 mobs and they didnt have soeed or stealth (saw that last night on a market tf sigh). But it is important to care about it and try to help. oh. And have fun

I had a coffee table book once “the alien life if wayne barlowe”. Pretty amazing stuff. It wouldnt be the same author by chance???

Okay. This is going to take a hard left into tentacle talk at some point but i am trying for a serious discussion. Looks at sentence considers erasing. No. Just going to roll on so. For me anything that is alien and is put inside a human body thag tirns you into a floating squid or a giant space crab goes right to the Master’s work. And by that i mean H.P. Lovecraft. Beloved researcher lost to us in an untimely demise when sucked through an interdimensional space vortex Does anyone know what the inspiration was for the original concept and art on these critters? Because i am thinking Lovecraft and Villain and they are slapped i to Hero epic archetypes and misunderstood saviors of mankind. I never understood any of it. I ran one up to all of tenth level about ten years ago.

Still trying to wrap my head around this. What the sentence says (basically) is that all tanks are better because all Tanks have more health. Sets with powers like Dull Pain that inflate your actual Health and not just heal are even better But that still leaves the old wisdom Def>Res>Heal sitting on the table. Tanks are not good DPS (not starting a war here just stating an arguable point) but if you take Regen and spend half your time planning and managing your armor how much time does that leave you for DPS? I run Invulnerable Tanks and have zero Defense maintenance (i click Dull Pain maybe once a Task Force and that includes the accidental clicks while searching for another power) yet i still am spending a lot of time Taunting and herding. On a Brute I learned to kill what was nearest me, hopefully not corpseblasting, but just kill kill kill whatever is.nearest. On a Tank I am instead Taunting and organizing. If i was also health bar managing personally my attacks would go to almost nothing

Nice info Sinister. So it does work well as long as you are willing to work the gears like a Goblin snorting Superadine lol i am used to invulnerability. Which performed well for me for years on SOs and now... fughedaboutit. No literally don’t even think about it. Would almost respec out of Dull Pain because i never use it. Except for low level stuff. If anything does get through. MoM trial or Hami then Dull Pain may dull it but gou are still dying. Say hi to my little floor patch

Originally Brutes were designed as Redside Scrappers. Sooooo No Believe it ir not the Devs thought MMs in Bodyguard mode would be Redside Tanks The players immediately ghetto Tanked with Brutes for speed and the game evolved But the argument stands. Regen on Brutes was not a nod to Regens ability to withstand an Alpha and hold agro. Also a good example of why taking the Devs actions as “The Word of How Things Should Be” is not a great idea We all know Regen for Tanking is a iffy idea at best in perfect situations. Try rolling ANY Regen with best i/O build and farming with it. At best you will struggle and get through. The increase in health on a Tank will help Regen but not enough to solve the problem it faces in trying to withstand constant pressure

As has been pointed out this is horrid on a Tank. Regen mechanics only work if you get a breather. Being able to step away for 5-10 seconds resets your entire defensive structure. You cannot do this on a Tank and your team will suffer.

Redside Invader is only easy if you dual box and have a 50 with Heroslayer? Badge to open up the contact for bank missions. Otherwise it is more of a pita than Blueside. Because you have to get your bank mission every 5 levels (not on levels divisible by 5 because that can get you wrong bank) and not miss one You can fly past one fast and since Redside is slow getting someone who is formkng a team to get your bank is... its not unicorn searching but it aint hunting skulz either

Go Hunt Kill Skulz. So glad to have my world back Nemesis plots. Lmfao ouroboros and Dr Aeon and that Doctor (weber?) who allow the plot to twist around itself and us to run any content at any level over and over again with a (logical?) backdrop lot to love. These are some of my favs

A lot of my characters i write to fit CoH/V. For instance the character i used for this project is a zombie who woke in a lab that was a battleground between CoT Vahzilok and DrAeons forces. He has memory issues regarding his past and comprehension issues on what is going on. Although he is not stupid (we all wonder what is going on between paradoxes, nemesis, secret plots, etc) this gives me the creative leeway to let him take any mission at face value. Faction wise he is a Rogue who gravitates to Burke’s philosophy