Snarky

I do appreciate the 1337 team of geeks what has brought us the game back i do want the Tank update. A Brute update. And cookies the find thing does not work for me on AH. I am no marketeer and i grind and make my money that way. Still a little frustrating to know tou are getting ripped for millions by AH gremlins who play the market more than the game and are keeping track of AH niches while you cant even see last 5 bids. i been trying to follow some formulas for making monet on AH but I can tell they are mot working. When you craft an Orange and sell it and it only gets 600k then you know you are upside down. Ut i jave no idea what it will sell for in advance because that feature no longer exists. again i make my money by grinding. I am bery grateful to have a place to get enhancers i would never have easy access too otherwise still it seems a shame to lose money on most transactions due to completely flying blind. I know if i did not know how to grind purples this would upset me a lot more than it does. So pit this post down as a shout out to the new players who are still running on SOs and look at the AH as evil. That is how i viewed it my first year on live because i knew there were peeps scamming every niche and i was just making money for them. Now i am like ‘here if that makes you happy spend hours doing it’. but it seems like such an obvious QOL issue i just wondered what was up with it and if there was a plan

Okay. So now going to go into a lot of detail or grumpiness here you all know what i am saying is there a fix in the works or even a reason it is ....dont be snarky dont be snarky..... the way it is?

I am pretty good at Fast Leveling 50s. Then i abandon them strip of i/o and never play again couple of tips i have for you DO NOT stick to a plan. Have an outline. Throw it out the window if aomething better comes along DiB is a great idea. Very hard to get. The best most consistent leveling 15-35 is hopping into a PI team. Getting Lucky and landing on a Farm is the gold standard. I never beg or actively search for either of these two but if an AD foes out... task forces earn good experience help you learn thhe character organically and het merits and cash 8 person radio teams of your level are never bad. Better than sitting in Pocket D wondering who is the biggest Cat Gurl After 35 as many ITF as you can jump on. Fast consistent levels. Again Farming is better and hard charging PI teams may match it ir even beat it. But ITF is consistent last tip. Do not alt after a day or two. In a few short days using the above plan you will be 50. I have done it literally countless times GL. Ps. The incarnates system is actually awesome. Have fun

So... My Snarky butt quit a Task Force Sunday. It is something i really try not to do. I try to understand when peeps leave for RL reasons. A Synapse on Saturday took 2:35 and we were down to 5 peeps on the last mission. We finished Yeah but Sunday I rage quit lol. Posi 1. I switch sides. I am on my 14 Tank Rogue who is soloing all Redside content. Invul/Dark and with as many procs ATO sets and uniques as you can cram on at 14. Not squishy we fill and start. I have no taunt at this level and so eace ahead if the team to take the alpha. They are all squishies. Team lead is a squid and there is not a melee in the group but me i get pasted. Hit Dull Pain and eat every insp and dead in 15 seconds. The team lead was set at +4. It happens. I have made a mistake before. Just the one the team lead says he will change it after mission. Fair enough i guess. I would have restarted. The team wipes of course. The leader is giving pep talks “we got this” i mau have said something sarcastic. Yeah probably. The team leader responds. “ Why did you run in?” okay. That irritated so i just calmly say “ task forces are usually run at + 0/x1 for speed and merits” and another voice aays “not everyone runs that way.” that was all i had in me. Not going to run a half hour with that team. I quit. Maybe i should have stayed ran a Posi 1 later stull at 14 exp stopped and got through it 59 minutes. Wipe at city hall steps on last mish. Because someone could not stay away from the door while we cleared. Ut we got through it pretty good anyway. Sorry if i pissed anybody off on Snarkrot mu Redside Rogue Zombie Tank.

Thank you all. Just what i needed. I am soloing Redside story arcs on this guy. Grinding through 10-14 Cap content today at 14. The kill all on 7 floors was irritating. Having to never worry whether the build will survive a combat - priceless at 212 reward merits. This is mu reserve lol. Wont be spending until 50. I have a mean 50 (Hyperstrikes build on a SS/Invul Brute and have started a Rad/Fire Brute for farming now at 30. The Invul/Dark will be my focus for awhile. Love relearning the Redside Lore. So well written. I have done this Project on Brutes before. Fun on a Tank After this i will prob do a Invul/SS Tank to celebrate the changes to the AT. That is some weeks down the road since i work heh Again Thank you all so much. Knowing what I am building toward as i level is so much better for me

I talk in LFG and use Help for LFG and random bits of my personal opinions. As well as my battle cry “I’ve upped my efforts. Up yours!” sometimes people complain about this. But i either say something snarky or ignore the complaints. If i see a question in help when i am not teaming ROFLstomp i try to answer it. I have a second comp up with Paragon Wiki cause my memory aint so good. So while i walk on Help i also try to make sure every question gets a response even if it is not a perfect answer i play on Everlasting. The RP server. These geeks is hardcore. I do not use quotes or soliloquy in character. I tell peeps i am Snarky so i dont have to RP that now for all my grumpy weirdness i am very experienced at CoX and when i join a team even with an SO’d lowbie i tend to stay focused and know my way around. Being useful helps. All my characters names begin with Snark. Snarky, Snarkbot, Snarkrot, Snarks, etc. Branding is everything and people tend to pit me down as a known quantity i believe. They may not love me but they get that i belong But rather than get in an argument online about channel etiquette i just point out that Help is being provided or that no one is currently using LFG for any teamming. Again i may be missing a ton of possible love but i try to survive without online fans. If someone pushes it i tend to ignore them. Not on ignore list but just chuckle as i read their comments bouncing off my 90% internet comment resist armor. One time since i been back some one tried to get under my skin. I warned them. They persisted. I pointed a couple things out. They stopped responding. But again i try not to argue with peeps. I chat. Sometimes in Help and LFG. But with an eye on if the channel is swamped or slow. So in essence i show respect. And in essence i have felt welcomed.

I put no one on ignore. I do not do it when i play WoW and i do not do it in the City or Isles. WoW has a mechanism for temporarily putting peeps on ignore when you report them. If it is a time where i am in Orgrimmar for a while i report up to 20 or so people an hour for racism sexism homophobia truly nasty cursing and sometimes pedophilia. That community is not healthy. But i will mot ignore it. Just like a Brute i stand there and deal with it. Maybe my armor will hold. Maybe it wont. But i will not let any nasty ignorant bully push me out of geek heaven. So i stand and watch i have not reported anyone in the City. I think i did a few times back on live but CoX community has never been as bad as WoW. I am not just being sweet either. I dont have a ton of sweet so i got to ration that out

Not having exact percentages is not a problem. I see the pattern you are describing. I have a base for all my alts. I cleared all the salvage out a week ago but there was nearly a hundred orange and all sorts of yellows and whites. I tend to save oranges until i am short on cash for an enhancer lol. i am starting a Rad/Fire Brute farmer tonight. I will stop selling recipes and salvage and start using them as proscribed. This system you lay out makes sense. I am doing all this from my phone. (Typos are free). When i get home i will save this convo to a folder so i have a roadmap. i appreciate the time you took to lay this out for me and anyone else who is struggling. It doesnt help i have really expensive build tastes and love to alt lol. I have a few 50s i really want to i/o and there is the army of alts always trying to claw thier way into the world. So this helps me get more than the one main i can afford and the few frankenslotted SO 50s on the backburner. Should be an interesting weekend. If your method produces results fast enough i may even buy a winter pack. Ich. Just typing that irritated me lol. Maybe i will put that off awhile

Going with a Rad Fire. It is time to Brute forward to the inf dispenser

Very nice thank you.

I am definitely in the minority. I love Dark Melee and believe it pairs well with most sets. Not so much Regen. If i recall Regen has no endurance issues whatsoever. One of Dark Melees big bonuses is a PBAoE that replinshes an end bar from none to full. Another draw is an attack that does okay damage and gives a heal 10% of health bar. So. This Becomes a slow mediocre attack with health benefits you dont need in Regen. Shadow Maul as already pointed out is a long animation during which you have no access to you Regen click powers. So. You have your first two punches that are working for you minir damage and moderate and then waiting for the PBAoE buff power and tier 9 attack. Almost any other set would be better with Regen. I like Dark Melee. Not enough to gimp a build. My two cents.

I have not but that is soecifically the language on the Paragon wiki. I have not looked at the power desription or leveled a scrapper KM high enough to check. Was hoping the Scrapper community would both know and know if this effect is better than a crit. The spreadsheet on scrapper damage specifically says the proc effect of rech power siphon happens 2-3 times a minute. That is what the paragon wiki says it will do. The spreadsheet guys were not overly impressed from the brief read i got

That does help. I never understood how the converters really worked and when i get burned during experiments my Rage bar goes past softcap (like with 10 mil winter buy fiasco) i will start a Farmer tonight. Can pretty much kit one out with procs and uniques and some lower level sets i have laying around. (I do not sell once i buy. I really hate the AH so if i go to the trouble of buying it i own it forever) i will also experiment with the converter tricks you mention. Crafting and selling to buy back attuned sort of makes sense but gives me trepidation. I dont want to lose money there. But i will give it a week or two. I am bery good at math and not good at science. Weird i know but my Calculus carried me thru intro to science for science majors with a B and i understood nothing. The Doctor teaching the course pulled me aside and commented on this. I owned up to it. He still gave me the B. Said my math was perfect. As long as i had a formula i got the answer. Just never understood what the number implied

I hear people talk about casually playing the market as they level up and having ATOs and purples ready when they 50. Then my brain squirts out my ear i dont play casually. I grind pretty hard. A full set 6 enhancers of Winters Bite or Superior Avalanche or the 5 sets of 4 Gladiators Armor i have did not come from casually playing the market. Can you casually play the market and make a billion? If you can props! I Ground task forces for merits. like it is a second job it is not that i do not believe you. I do. So many people say they casually kit out 50s in a few days and make tons of money on the market they must be telling the truth. No one challenges them so people must see it among their community personally that just does not happen for me. I tend to lose on the market much like i lost 10 million on this latest debacle. I do not make millions every minute farming as was stated earlier in the thread. O. A good hour i make enough for one ir two nice enbancers. And then am so burnt i wont go near a farm for days i like task forces and the experience of eating a few maps with teams. I make decent rewards there. But i do not earn lime you folks ut

Nice thanks. I think i willl roll one this weekend and at least olay a stalker for a few hours. Ever found a powerset and combo that ciuld keep me hiding. We will see

This has not been my experience on Homecoming. It took a little over a month of non stop task forces after i hit 50 to outfit my build. And i statrted with procs and uniques in my bank as well as an ATO set and other parts of final build. maybe you are just more efficient than me. I am not the best at this thing i play non stop task forces earning over 50 merits weeknights and almost 200 on weekend day grinding. Converted to converters sold and then used to buy. For some expensive i/os i just spend 100 merits to get and slap them superior sure you can take 300-500 merits cash out and have an okay build. It will not be top rated. Not close. O can play the game on a SS/Will Brute using i/os. With a single task force paying for every SO. For the entire game. Does not make it optimal maybe you could share more on your 1 week strategy? Because i would love to fully enhance 1 character per week

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.