Snarky

One if the only arcs i enjoy Blueside. Tightly written dramatic and challenging

I started an Ice/Ice Dom last night and this might be my “unicorn” squishy i have been searching for for years. I will be trying to Permadom it and softcap ranged defense. What makes it different is i have evolved in my thinking. Ranged is 8 feet. Not 30 or 60. My head explodes. The fat AoE toggle and big powers aimed at screwing with enemies all around you is excellent. You can be a kung fu master dodger if everyone is moving at 1 foot a minute. Someone gets superclose. ST hold so i will be puttering around with this over the next week or two and seeing if i like it in TFs. I have not 50d a Dom since back on live. Most of my squishies on Homecoming have been Blasters or Sentinels. again it is my thinking that has changed. The Ice Dom is a powerful addition to a team that does not wipe a spawn with their Alpha. Anything not completely locked down is falling over and/or doing nothing fast. That is a ton of power in one little squishy

Two words. Enhancement converters. Are there enhancements available in the ‘type’ that you need? Regular, purple, pvp? Then buy anything in the right category. And convert. No need to seed i see an enhancer i want selling in a set. Say Brute ATO. Making numbers up here but roughly iff memory. Needed one of each. Got 3 at 7-8 mil. Then nothing. Hmmm. Then i realize there is zero or one available. One has 5 avail but are selling at 12-15 mil. NO. I go back to the ones i bought. One has 15 for sale. I but 3 of those at 7-9 mil and convert. Bam similar when selling. I buy cheap yellow recipes and craft convert sell. Generally shooting for a sale price of 4 mil or more a pop. And that keeps the alt mad populace in procs. And the resources used are useles. Yellow recipes and converters i earned through TF. no need to seed on a busy server

I dint really RP but my characters are always willing to discuss lore about halfway in char or more and/or help out where i can. While maintaining an aloof Snarkiness that befits them. (Each ones name starts with Snark...) Had a great time this weekend rolling TFs about half the weekend, working on my story arc redside badger, and creating various alts are we getting busier? I did not watch the server numbers this weekend but seems like a lot of newish peeps were running through. I try to play nice seriously. Some of these geeks are the TF leaders of tomorrow. Cause i aint doing it i got kicked off Posi 1 this weekend though. For being Snarky seriously. Last mission too. I had complained earlier (snarked really) about running the TF at level 11. Because buzzsaw. Then in last mission peeps loaded in. And proceeded to split up and start running around the map everywhere’s. I assume in search of the four objectives. Or litter cleaning who knows. I snarked about them being on the map... and found myself kicked!!! then Sunday night i am on a brand new alt. Level 1 ice/ice Dom.DFB action is dead and someone posts all invited AE. Soooo i load in and start putting away my laundry. Keeping an eye in the screen of course. Some Aae missions are short. And was kicked. 5 min tops. Was told it was not a farm. Now what exactly do they expect an unenhanced unpowered and unbuffed first level Dom to do? My just for fun snowball power is more useful than my attacks. At least it hits. I was irritated but when am i not really? that story ended good. I got 2 DFBs and then a quick PI mission with 7 squishies. We did good the first story ended great as well. It was a wicked new Brute i was experimenting with. dark/will and i threw craptons if exoensive stuff in him from the beginning. I ended up doing a posi 1 and 2 a Synapse and a Yin. All in some of the fastest times ever run by me in random PUGs. The Synapse was 1:36 and the Yin was i think 34. Sunday morning i loaded in on my fifty main and did speed ITF LGTF and Khan. Then a Posi 1 (rough one- oh well). anyways it just seemed like a lot if chaos this weekend. Hope everyone had fun. I did

The enter base from passcode. I still dont know hot to set up a passcode for my base but i use zone-8888 on Everlasting. A taxi hub.

Started knocking around ideas and this popped out. Of course i will be building to s/l def Yeah i know that those defenses have crap debuff resistance. Oh well lol that is still the concept on Elec? S/L def? i randomly got invited to a farm last night with the DFB group i was running with. So level 30 after just rolling up and ready to start slotting stuff or do you chase even more resistance numbers in this build and chase heal recharge? Wild thought just throwing out

I Brute a lot lol. There are still combos i havent tried because i am fixated on SS/Invul. Which is my current main. There is a design in the Brute forums in a build request tooic by me that has Hyperstrikes design posted. It is ridiculously good i started a dark/elec brute last night. Should be interesting. i play by concept and that brings me the most fun. I am soloing redside on a Invul/Dark tank zombie concept. I kind of wish it wasnt a tank sometimes (kill alls) but wow do i love the entire concept and story i recently started a Dark/Temp Blaster that i am really enjoying. Built for cones and ranged defense. So grabbing the extra cones from Soul gl in your search. Alt on!!!

Hoverblasting works better indoors than not hoverblasting. Not an opinion but a fact. Whether caves or office building. Clear out ground floor and team moves upstairs. Just. Hover up a few feet and reorient and continue laying the hate downrange i am currently 6 slotting all powers to obtain the ranged def bonuses. There is a huge ranged defense in holds set so the hold is slotted as a hold. However it is up for possible frankenslotting. It does a crapton of damage. But combined with the hold from temporal i can lock down any one target which is damned useful and ST is not something i am either short on or want to concentrate on so i may leave it. I am building the toon as a firing platform for cones. When i have to drop down to ST it is because the plan went sideways or i am fighting an AV. In which case the first weird attack from Temporal actually becomes useful to spam more than a hold turned into a damage power. The heal is slotted with Ranged Damage set with ranged defense. If i am leaning on it for a heal we are pretty much at run or faceplant or nvm. The plan went sideways long ago again i have a lot if opportunities to tweak or frankenslot at this point. Well maybe not a lot. But dropping 5-10 points back in ranged defense opens up some options. But to get to 55 i ignored all distractions and just slotted for ranged defense. The first cone that does KB is slotted with univsal dam with proc that turns KB to KD. The second cone has Blaster set. The cones from Soul Mastery are slotted to their secondary effects that offer ranged defense bonuses. as i edit the build i can strip some of these 6 slots down and tighten it up. There are opportunities to make the build different but i want to make it better as far as ST goes again it is not my build goal to do ST. I prefer to Insta snipe then hold Anything that distracts me from my hoverconemadness if it is really pissing me off i drop the second hold on it and proceed to burn it down keeping the holds on it and if useful angling around it to make it the anchorman for recharged cone attacks on any friends near it. Freak super stunners are definitely in this category as are succubus. The jump bots ar surprisingly hardy against my attacks as well and make good anchors. There are few things that stand up to a Blasters attack chains when focused on them, and Dark is not well defended or resisted against. I have a Kismet plus ACC bonus in stealth which is always toggled on in combat. I always hit better and thanks to Dark my opponents always hit worse. I will need to post the build at some point. I need to do a first edit from the rough draft. Also i do all my message boards from the phone and the build is on another comp. minor but real complication of having 4 primary computers in my life And not remembering passwords. i am more Brute than Blaster and not familiar with arcanatime dps calcs of various powers. I am going by feel and usefulness at this point. If i am not doing AoE i tend to be sniping and holding. Not saying it is best but i am rolling a disembodied skull and it feels fun and evil

I do not know what to make of this. Curiously it was filed on my birth date 12/4. Since i am slightly weird about coincidences i want to infer something good or bad from that lol my first reaction, of course it to type something very Snarky. Or type something cryptic that infers maybe something bad will happen to them but in truth i must be maturing, finally, sigh. So close to death now. I believe this is most likely a legal strategy, somehow (rightly or wrongly) believed to be very important to NCsoft. there is not enough data to determine what piece of the puzzle this is in whether it moves us closer or farther away from reaching an agreement i play CoX everyday like it will be my last. I have no idea how long we have. I thank all the Supah-geek 1337s that brought Homecoming to us regular Citizens of Atlas and the Rogue Isles and all corners of space and time so, meh, who knows? (Does somebody, really?) who cares? I cannot let myself. And so I continue badging and building alts. See you in the Cities

Taunt was dropped and/or never picked up by Brutes going back to their beginning. The reason was quite simple. No room on the F-ing Build. Remember this was orig CoV. They were THE melee redside toon. No other options. Also a travel power required TWO power choices and there was NO inherent fitness. So people did not take taunt Lo and behold Redside teams figured out you didnt need it. Sure its a great resource. A very powerful power. Just not necessary, and since no one but Stone Brutes took it then it was practically unavailable soooo Brutes learned to race ahead of teams like dogs in a hunt. The goal was to jump into a fresh mob and have everyone attack you before any other team member got there. Like cannonball into a pool. What? NO not to take agro for the team. Screw them. You needed your Fury bar fully charged baby. like it or not Redside teams started building and using the unchangeable Brute tactic developing strategies for using their powers to make the most of an endless line of “ Leeroy Johnson!!!s” and so was born the ROFLSTOMP redside PUG teams. so it is not surprising that Taunt is not used in the Build because Brute players think of it as about as necessary as the fifth wheel bolted to the back of a jeep. Sure it looks cool but when the F will i use it? and since i started as a Redside SS/Invul player i never think of it as missing. I want it on my Tanks. But i hardly even try to do Damage as a Tank. I run Tanks as melee ‘trollers with only one mez power. The best in the game. Mind control better than any mez primary. Attack me. Hard coded into the game but Bruting? Brute smash. Screw taunting anything. Just hit stuff. Then hit more stuff

I am currently soloing all Redside on a Invul/Dark Tank. I have run a fully i/o’d expensive Dark/Invul Brute back on live. Most of my melee run Invul and at keast 25% use Dark. Those are my bonafides lol soooo. Think about this. Before Incarnate powers i ran a Dark/Invul Brute. Heavily I/O’d. Lots if purple sets LOTG and Hasten. Thats right. Not built for res/def. built for permahasten or very close to it. It took Unstoppable the hated tier 9. It was nearly unkillable. The Haste on the build brought up all the needed long recharge powers in a reasonable time. If speedboosted Unstoppable stacked. This will not avert the ceash but will let you ignore it. Think Paragon Protector on very low health. Diesnt matter because you still cannot kill it. If no speed boost just have a green and a blue ready to pop at the crash. People make too much of the drop. Or a purple a green then use Darks End recovery PBAoE and then Siphon Life. High recharge Dark takes Unstoppables crash in stride. so that is on a Brute built not for Def or Res but Speed. This is the meanest combi in the game imo. A brute DM/Invul tanks better than almost any other Tank if it bothers to take taunt The build i am currently going with for my Invul/Dark Tank is just a super relaxed story arc toon and badger. So will be S/L Def capped and Heavy resists. Better Tanking than Stone due to the versatility and giving up practically nothing when comparing survivability if you want to do damage with the build i seriously recommend Brute. My main is a Ss/Invul Brute build for defand res and the only thing that puts it down are Hami and incarnate patches of death. I dont even bother looking at health or end bars. They never move below 90% unless a lot of psychic is hitting. Placing Dark over SS just makes the build more durable. The Invul Brute walks through the +4/x8 Comic con farm like another day in a park whatwver you choose gl and have fun

In my continued search for a Blaster i like i cycled back to Dark with Temporal as the seconday. I will be taking Soul as Epic. I might take Force as a pool. This will give me 4-5 cones which will be the preferred attack chain. Hoverblast ftw. I am playing with a build which most here would prob dislike based on my power choices but it suits my playstyle. The ranged defense as it sits is 55% at 50. Not counting possible incarnate choices. I will prob start Frankenslotting this down to 45% with all toggles off. Toggles are CJ Stealth and Hover i liked AR and Ice but Dark just feels more powerful. The PBAoE nuke is not as problematic as i thought. It is a very situational power which is not up that often

You can really take any toon AT build against Malta and its nit bad. Oh one thing. KILL SAPPERS like they (insert vile act here) to you

As long as you enjoy the game. 50 content for me is a little intense. 24 people spamming AoE and hopping around to avoid patchs of dearh. Meh i enjoy making a new character and running 1-30ish content as long as the task forces are adverting. When that slows i either jump on my story arc toon, or convert all merits to cash (that takes a while to milk properly) or just start another 1-30 run. Sometimes i jump on my 50 but it is not my go to

Emp merits flow like water if you run your 50. Like so many things in game the focus we have on how to maximize is almost detrimental unless you are tweaking a fire farmer. And even that gets silly. Just grab a fire armor throw on some i/o and do not crank it so much your kill speed goes to dog turd. if you run a 50 for a few weeks (20-25hrs a week?) then you will be well kitted out with incarnate abilities. To try to squueze this number down to how few hours in some weird formula is....wait what why. Just run the character in content. Any content you like. Have fun. It will happen conversely if you dont enjoy doing it grab a diffeeent alt you do like and just go do that. The point is to enjoy the game

I don’t know about the other servers but they started this on Everlasting over the holidays. They are serious geeks on that server lol

On the scale of possibilities. more likely: Korea turning into a year round summer vacation destination less likely: NC Soft selling the game least likely: North Korea giving up Nukes

Twice in the last week (on Everlasting) we tried to start a TF and someone was not quite the right level. Both times we ran a couple radios and solved the problem. No drama. I love Everlasting. It is everyone Doing their part too. I was trying to level a lowbie blaster redside and someone was pulling a team in the 45 range. There were some new players in the team and when the mayhem came up they really Wanted to try it Do i have to say it? Team wipe out and trip to jail. I sent a tell i was alting and came back on my main. A Brute designed by Hyperstrike that cannot be killed except by MoM death patches. Went to the jail. Killed everything. Tanked as team headed to the bank. It was a team effort, from Hyperstrikes design to the team leader to the new players rolling with the craziness of a mathem. And we robbed that bank, like real heroes! /em holdchicken

From what i can tell Dr Aeon has always had control of a ‘certain company’ and has been working to amass power through control if it and the soace time continuum. However the Menders have been working diligently to clean the time threads and truncate his evil abuses. Many times they use unknown Heroes, Vigilantes, Rogues, and yes even Villains ti accomplish these tasks we will never submit to evil control of our lives /em holdchicken Homecoming

I am pretty bad about this. In fact as soon as i get a character it starts. I know i want 1 acc 2 dam. So even if i am doing DFB and using the prestige procs from P2W i have to put a training acc in the first slot. Because 1acc then 2 damage. That is how it goes. Everybody knows that there is a great villain or vigilante character that can be born from this somehow ”it really does have ample cargo space” Dexter Morgan while fitting the car salesman’s body in the minivan

Cannot believe i havent tried this yet. But i had not. I am an old stick in the mud running invul tanks and brutes with SS and DM lol i rolled one for an ugly character contest and then just ran them through 4 DFBs. Went to sleep. Got up this morning and ran through (in this order) Synapse, Posi2, Posi1, 1st blue Respec, and a Manticore. I am not disliking it it is possible i might even add it to my narrow list of characters i really enjoy smashing with so... i am taking a SS/Invul Build and trying to slam that into the Rad/Invul. The fit is not perfect but it gives me the basics. I am wondering if the 2 PBAoEs make it easier ti hit build goals or harder. anyone have a Super Tanky build for this? I am throwing all the usual suspects at it

This is very useful information. It appears to be exactly what i am looking for. Thanks now i do not know how to use it i want to set up 2 variations. 1). Drop Blizzard on someones head. Hiw do i bind this? Do not say /powexec_location target Blizzard. Where is the key bind in that? I am not typing it out each time i would rather hunt the cursor lol the second variation is just max range directly in front of me. For when things arent cooperating. Again my confusion here is where does the keybind go in this? Sorry i am new to key binds. I use exactly 1. About 10-20 times per toon. /bind x “pow_exec_name brawl”. And that is the sum total of my keybind knowledge. So i look at the command and do not comprehend where the ‘key x” argument fits again thanks

I would love some help here. I use a Razer mouse and a razer keypad for all my gaming. The keypad has 20 keys on it all available for keybonds plus targeting/jumping/moving. The mouse i use for moving mostly though with turning looking hot buttons for direction etc. what i do not use. Is the F-ing cursor. And that bad boy get lost on a giant monitor in a huge team battle. so when i go to fire iff a location AoE i hit the keybound button...and start the cursor hunt. Even jf i just used it it is gone again. Unless i am doing chain loc AoE then its fine. But fire off a coupke ST and want another loc AoE. Hunt is on again so. Is there a way to either center/dedault location the cursor. And/or default lication the AoE to straight ahead if me max distance at my altitude/on the floor? thanks for any input

Really enjoying this build. At 35 now. Chasing ranged defense and learning my attack chains i have done both Posi 1and 2, Synapse and the first TV respec. Some mission teams as well running doors my only real issue right now is finding a smooth way to target my nuke and ice storm. The mouse is really hard to target with. Because you have to find the curser and then get it lined up where you need it to be. With all the crap that goes on in a big team just finding the cursor is an issue that has a real effect on dps

Well you still lose the resources you boosted it with. I would say simpler is better. Just unboost, are you sure, and done