Snarky

I run a SS/FIre Brute for Farming. It does HUGE Damage. Does not need more Fire armor, see no reason to go Tank with it other than slightly more AoE. (Footstomp AoE effectively does not get larger on a Tank) Slap an incarnate Alpha Assault and a Hybrid Melee on it for MORE DAMAGE. It is plenty tanky enough. (for fire farms specifically) I use a build Hyperstrike posted on the Brute Forums. I might tweak it hard for game content but for Fire Farms? Fuggedaboutit. This Villain build was built using Mids Reborn 3.0.4.7 https://github.com/Reborn-Team/MidsReborn Click this DataLink to open the build! Level 50 Magic Brute Primary Power Set: Super Strength Secondary Power Set: Fiery Aura Power Pool: Fighting Power Pool: Leaping Power Pool: Leadership Power Pool: Speed Ancillary Pool: Pyre Mastery Villain Profile: Level 1: Punch -- BrtFur-Acc/Dmg(A), SprBrtFur-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(3), SprBrtFur-Rech/Fury%(3), Hct-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(5) Level 1: Fire Shield -- UnbGrd-ResDam(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx(5), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam(7), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(7) Level 2: Haymaker -- SprBrtFur-Dmg/Rchg(A), SprBrtFur-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(9), SprBrtFur-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(9), Hct-Acc/Rchg(11) Level 4: Blazing Aura -- SprUnrFur-Acc/Dmg(A), SprUnrFur-Dmg/Rchg(15), SprUnrFur-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(15), SprUnrFur-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(17), SprUnrFur-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(17), SprUnrFur-Rchg/+Regen/+End(19) Level 6: Healing Flames -- Prv-Absorb%(A), Prv-Heal/Rchg(19) Level 8: Knockout Blow -- SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg(A), SprBlsCol-Dmg/EndRdx(21), SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(21), SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(23), SprBlsCol-Dmg/EndRdx/Acc/Rchg(23), SprBlsCol-Rchg/HoldProc(25) Level 10: Temperature Protection -- RctArm-ResDam(A), RctArm-ResDam/EndRdx(25), RctArm-ResDam/Rchg(27), RctArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(27), StdPrt-ResDam/Def+(29), GldArm-3defTpProc(29) Level 12: Kick -- FrcFdb-Rechg%(A) Level 14: Tough -- UnbGrd-ResDam(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx(31), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam(31), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(31) Level 16: Plasma Shield -- UnbGrd-ResDam(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx(33), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam(33), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(33) Level 18: Rage -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(34) Level 20: Consume -- Arm-Acc/Rchg(A) Level 22: Weave -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A), LucoftheG-Def(34), ShlWal-ResDam/Re TP(34), Rct-ResDam%(36) Level 24: Combat Jumping -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A), LucoftheG-Def(36) Level 26: Hurl -- SprWntBit-Acc/Dmg(A), SprWntBit-Dmg/Rchg(36), SprWntBit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(37), SprWntBit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(37), SprWntBit-Dmg/EndRdx/Acc/Rchg(37), SprWntBit-Rchg/SlowProc(39) Level 28: Burn -- Arm-Dmg/Rchg(A), Arm-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(39) Level 30: Maneuvers -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A), LucoftheG-Def(39) Level 32: Foot Stomp -- SprAvl-Acc/Dmg(A), SprAvl-Dmg/EndRdx(40), SprAvl-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(40), SprAvl-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(40), SprAvl-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(42), SprAvl-Rchg/KDProc(42) Level 35: Fiery Embrace -- RechRdx-I(A) Level 38: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(42) Level 41: Char -- SprEnt-Acc/Hold(A), SprEnt-Hold/Rchg(43), SprEnt-End/Rchg(43), SprEnt-Acc/Hold/End(43), SprEnt-Acc/Hold/End/Rchg(45), SprEnt-Rchg/AbsorbProc(45) Level 44: Fire Blast -- Thn-Acc/Dmg(A), Thn-Dmg/EndRdx(45), Thn-Dmg/Rchg(46), Thn-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(46), Thn-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(46), Thn-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(48) Level 47: Fire Ball -- SprFrzBls-Acc/Dmg(A), SprFrzBls-Dmg/EndRdx(48), SprFrzBls-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(48), SprFrzBls-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(50), SprFrzBls-Dmg/EndRdx/Acc/Rchg(50), SprFrzBls-Rchg/ImmobProc(50) Level 49: Rise of the Phoenix -- RechRdx(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), NmnCnv-Regen/Rcvry+(11), Mrc-Rcvry+(13) Level 2: Stamina -- PrfShf-End%(A), PrfShf-EndMod(13) Level 50: Cardiac Core Paragon ------------ | Copy & Paste this data into Mids Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1340;636;1272;HEX;| |78DA6593C94F535118C5EFA3AF56A0A594A965E8004869050BB8531744454C84264| |D488CBBA6816B6942A0792D892C5DB857D4B891514D9C573239248EFF83FA2F18D4| |448DEEEAD7778EC58497BCFC7ACF3DDFD0EFBE9BBC34E27E7AF6F2B0326A4FCF640| |A85F4296BBEA89DC94C3637E950F2B8E46DB3C57452CF689D9898CF6B2B3D51B4F4| |6CB6381DC0D688BEA8670B3A319AD3D642FAE4BC95519ED4DCDC8C08D9E9626E36E| |BB657E33A939785F7DF624A5B85E95CBEC65E4FE4B59EF29DC9E72613A9054BCA65| |0A45C916900622F276198A4FC9A12E486F43A6AABA4BDE03CD5895CD8DB2CDA0F72| |7F77E81077E937FC06E8356F11A6BD00EAE9377C09A38F26E8ACB81BC4E87DBB4B5| |3A0F5907D67BC97AB0C1076E499413B1867317791BBE803DA2BB98D77515FEA66BE| |422D8729DBC01066E82DB1255CDD8EAF2907A652F04B685C94EB0C32F0C0A8F726E| |72BAB58855B557F01F1DA279383B0F6717E2EC429C5D88B3DB1197975E2FBD117A2| |3F446E8ED159FCF9E74C9F0F5295BEB249F0B1AB1A71A4FA00F53FA6866EEE6F28F| |B2BF891CE3D9FD005BC4EBE76CFDF476D31B13B4723EADF731B3EE07E0A187E423F| |231187D02BE90A876E66D3F86BEA2C7419FD40C722FC89A51D68C0BC2AC19BE8D5C| |BD4BE432B902C657C935F065E55B2FA92ECEA74B6AF5B0560FB538F9514610C3F7E| |B8CBD468EC36FC8B7E43BB0FF3DF901FC24B17D8CED5B42BEFE65F0C80AB94AAE81| |03EBE067894DF03F269E21DFC006B9090E6D91DBE40EF84AA20651570DFA04A6438| |D9A953B5BEA302B77BDBC2C95D4F83E256556EEAD326C65B74614E37FE5EB3EE5DB| |9E526574F2769FC7A9B9CFE1967CDFF318C62D9CB67B111C6E14B0CBBF6D0DCD00| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

lol, i grew up in Kentucky. use your imagination. My ex-wife was an English major. For the first year we were together I would use a word. She would say "you do not know what that word means." So i would spell it, define it, use it in a sentence. She would say. "Okay, but that is not how you say that."

It ain't ranged. There are certain odd builds that "approach" ranged. But they are half gimped to start. Ranged is a very simple word. Two syllables. One meaning. Blasters are glass cannons, but they are not fully ranged by design. They are best described through the nickname "Blappers" They have a LOT of PB and Melee ranged attacks. If you make one fully ranged there is about a 95% chance you have completely hobbled the build. If you want to look at one outlier in the entire spectrum of Blasters and say "that one is ranged" therefore Blasters are ranged.... Just, wow. So, again. No matter how many times they say it to you, Blasters were not designed as Ranged. Yes, i know it lets you pick "Ranged" on the character creator. Isn't marketing a beautiful thing? Do you always believe what people sell you? Does that make you happy?

I will say this, no many how many times they try to tell you Blaster is a "Ranged" character it is complete Horse S4$%!

Look. i only have so many more decades to get to Legendary. We inhabit a revived, back to life, iconic MMORPG that people still look at as a trailblazer and high mark in the world, So Legendary.....I would take that.

Undaunted. We are still here.

That is some quality Snark right there.

Sentinels

So, funny as it seems this was a topic in Help a couple days ago. A long time Brute player I tried, for like two sentences, to speak some balance to this. Only to be shot down with wild inaccuracies. Left ol' Snarky scratching my head. laughed. walked away. So, Lets discuss Brutes! How does Fury, Enhancement, Damage Cap, Resists, Health, etc all go into making the glorious battle lovin' AT that so many of us love to rock through content. Oh, and Brutes are BAAAAAAD. (in a very powerful way) M'kay?

Have 1st level NPCs stop pushing my Brutes and Tanks out of their way. Its embarrassing. Have the Vanguard Operative stop telling me to Step over to him so he can check my clearance. Its starting to make my eye twitch. I am starting to put my character there when I am AFK and just beat the idiot with a bat. My hope is he will either die or start to remember who I am.

I have had good luck with Radio teams in PI on Excelsior. Usually my go to after 30s whenever there is no TF I am interested in. Team leaders I have encountered there run quite a regular pattern and do not dissolve quickly. They add as peeps leave. I would guess my avg missions are between 5-10 with each team before I need a break or something comes up

XP Leech. So F-ing derogatory. Look, we are almost all of us trying to get Exp, usually for an alt. Half the time on a 50 you join for a kill badge or getting inf/drops as you have fun. XP leech implies someone not trying or who has a less than toon or who doesnt know fights/mechanics and is not optimal. BS. As long as you "mostly" try to help you are not a leech. When I join a +4 kill all ITF on a 35 Brute guess what I do? Kill Surgeons. All the Surgeons, and Engineers if I get mistaken. It helps. Not leading the charge to Rom, but doing something.

i am horrid at mods. i dont update map overlays because i cant figure them out. however... i have studied art. and the solution is as simple as your icon. Have a blue field with 1, 2, 3, or 4 on it depending on insp size. Some clever person down in the keybinds forum no doubt can tell you exactly where to paste them and how.

There were two LGTFs recruiting last night at the same time. One ad was "Speed LGTF forming" the other "LGTF forming in RWZ" I joined the second. A 50 was leading, so no star passing. I said "Heyas", and asked "Is this Speed?..or...?" No response. No problemo, I already kind of got the read. Turns out I was correct. We killed most on the way to the targets and mission objectives. I was on my Brute. I took off from the group to the next fresh mob every chance I got, never farther than a room away. The team had no heals so I ran Rebirth Core, always making sure to get back into the middle of the pack and hit it whenever it was up. The team was not killing as fast as my SG (Thankfully, those peeps leave me sprinting more than killing half time!) but they were doing okay. We had a alien killing spree from door one to the end battle. It was a hoot. This is another reason I do not lead teams. There are teams available. Doing what I am interested in doing. That would be okay with me on the team. That I can help. That I do not have to recruit, corral, be ignored by, or solve problems for. I can just join a team and Brute! This is what I do to relax after all....

You have inspired me. First, thank you for helping the community. Second, every day or so I see someone posting in help "Where do I buy enhancers" or "I used to play on live, and I just found out Homecoming is running CoH!" I take a couple minutes to track down the poster and slap 20 mil on them. It is not organized like you are doing (I do not have that kind of cash, nor the desire to be that organized) but I have LOT of fun with it. My guess is 6,23 Billion edited! (and edited again)

Thank you. Love some Redside teams.

I would be tempted to join the TF. I wouldn't. I don't want to troll the poor souls that were just trying to join a TF. But it would be so tempting to join and then just start doing the oddest things I could think of. riding elevators up and down. agroing mobs then running madly to the end of the mission all the while asking "what do i do?" So many ideas....

Yeah, this paragraph really starts to bring clarity to why I avoid leading. Even attempting to explain logic and common sense here will start with crayons. I can somewhat handle it on the boards where I can think about my replies. In game? It is like being on a freeway doing 60 and someone cuts you off "because you werent driving right" Passing the star to the person who is high enough level so everyone gets max powers for the TF is SOP (this means standard operating procedure) It is NOT team stealing. If the 50 wanted a team, trust me, they could get a team. I reluctantly take the star in such situations. Before recent changes it used to mean more work as well, when the TF leader had to do a lot of running around in some TFs. But you will no doubt take my attempts at common sense and standard play as a personal attack and referendum on possible hygiene issues. It is not. This is why I avoid leading. The misconceptions and drama are not worth the pay (nothing)

too annoying

There is no order. Time is not a constant but instead is an illusion that so many desperately cling to in hopes of finding meaning. Look deeper into the moments and you will see that we repeat our lives endlessly, existing in someway outside of any discernable pattern.

agree wholeheartedly with both previous posts. But I am getting older (still Snarky! just posted in Ouro "everyone, why dont you stand here right on the portal" - must have been 15 of them lol) But on teams i try to be polite. I wait a good 30 seconds after zoning and unless everyone is there I NEVER start racing through. (unless it was posted speed run) PUGs I assume someone will get their knickers in a wad so I just chill a moment. I will leave the team if it gets over militaristic. I have even been globally ignored (and hunted/trolled on the forums!) for not "sticking with the team" wtf, really? happened to me lol. I will range a bit, just my nature. If I see a squishy struggling I will make a note to stay close to them and try to take agro. I do know teamwork. But, c'mon, most of us are corvettes around a go cart course.

A 'guilty' pleasure of mine is Synapse TF at +0. I love taking a new alt and seeing how they perform in that. down from the 1:30 avg when HC started up thanks to things like TT. Still, an hour or so of 'enforced' teamwork is good for the soul of the game....in my opinion.

This happened to me when I was rolling through characters when I first found CoH was back as Homecoming. I quickly made a SS/Invul main, using a Hyperstrike build. But I could not stop alting. One day a player and i got discussing our alts. I was talking up various ones. THey wanted to see my Dark/Dark Brute in action. I loaded up a farm and in we went. Honestly, I was more impressed than they were. I knew it was good. But the more I looked at it from the "fresh perspective" of what I was showing the more impressed I became. Dark has no inherent defense. It has no defense debuff resistance. It has EVERYTHING else. It has stealth. It has a damage aura. It has two mezze auras. It has resists that get very solid with i/o and perhaps benefit the most from things like Hybrid Melee and Rune of Protection (or even an orange) by hitting caps across the board (except toxic, mine sits at around 50% cold. and sigh, my Energy is only about 55% w/o boosts. Cannot have everything I suppose) It has one of the best heals in the game. It synergizes with dark/dark so well it is insane. Hand in glove. Dark Melee's Soul Drain is a 30 sec buff that is one of the longest in the game. With high recharge it is near perma. The thing is a murder machine. Not the fastest killer in the game, I have a SS/Fire that is stupid fast. But try stealthing to a target with Fire Armor (I dont even turn off my damage aura when stealthing with Dark, I am gone before they react to any hits....when I get to my target area I hit Soul Drain and start the party)

giggling madly. roflmao. no, wait, let me catch my breath. nope, here it comes again roflmao. *a few minutes later so.... Yoou would change Brutes because you do not like the evolution of ROFLSTOMP leapfrog tactics and prefer the staid, orderly, Tank, Taunt, Gather, Kill. AND people that thrive and enjoy cannonballing mobs and ROFLSTOMP tactics are 'bad' players? Oh gawd, here it comes again. rofl. o no, roflmao

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