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I think the AT plays great. I have not 50d one yet but a lot of various builds up to 35 usually leveling in task forces. It feels like a hardened blaster. I personally do not like the range gimp but I understand the decision. I always wanted a truly ranged blaster. They were conceived designed and built as Blappers. A Sentinel is conceived designed and built as a stand at the edge of the chaos and help the team. With a few minor tweaks I can get my ranged selfish little Blaster out of that.

So I saw the message about Task Forces now allowing you to start with less than eight and even solo them. Is this feature just for the truly amazing (because I am not one of those lol). For instance if I start a Synapse solo is it still set for 8 with an AV at the end? (And Babbage wandering around because I am not soloing that)

So. I am mainly a Brute player. But always. In the back of my mind. I think. I could be great on a ranged character. Then I 50 one or incarnate one and always end up back on a Brute Back on Live for this ranged dream I wanted a truly ranged character with a secondary that did something besides be a second primary and did not try to drag you into melee when homecoming launched I leveled about two dozen Sentinels from 5s to about 30th. Then back to Brutes Now my Brute main is mostly complete. I think back 7 years. Ranged, I want Ice. It is not perfect but it gets a solid B+/A- for my goals. Secondary. I have not run an Ice/Invul? I go thru all the old toons. Nope. Hmmm 7 years ago I would have killed for a fully ranged character with any version of Invul as a Secondary. Build goals are simple to start. Softcap Ranged Def as a priority. Invul has def debuff resist and mez protection. Ice is fully ranged. Stealth invisibility hover mystic flight which gives a ghetto teleport past things that can see invisible. Leveled to 23 today after I realized I needed one. Going Rogue so stopped every few levels to get bank badge and fix enhancers. Used PI teams after DFB was unprofitable. Will be running task forces this week unless I find a lot of PI teams. I like TF for leveling. Get to know the character and earn merits See you in the city.

There is an option to monitor your damage bonus. I do it for my super strength brutes because if Rage crash. Any % over 300 is very good and what I will see most times in combat. Over 400-500 pops up rarely. Since the great Fury nerf 775 does not happen. I do not have all the articles that explain the math formula and exact numbers. I have a bonus meter on a very heavily I/o’d Super Strength brute who wades into the heaviest Farms and +4/x8 ITF and does not see anything close to that number. GL. Hope this helps

SS Will is cruise control. Dark Will is stronger but you have to work to place PBAoEs and the small melee come. SS Invul is one of the toughest builds in the game. Using SOs. With IO fuggedaboutit. Dark Invul is the strongest build in the game IOd. Don’t talk to me about Granite and you already know why

I am more brute than blaster. But I have run a few as well as some Sentinels. One thing that will be most helpful is a PROC in Umbral Torrent that converts KB to KD. The next step is to decide how much time you will invest in the character. If it’s a lot you can start throwing on expensive sets and chasing build goals. If not then just have fun blasting. GL

I have completed and fully slotted the build. It is a beast. Ran a comic con farm last night as second farmer (I only AE to level and rarely) and it rarely moved off 90% health. Once every 5 min or so the RNG would hate me and I would tap Heal. I have not adjusted anything. I do have all incarnate powers at tier 4 now. I will be working in Accolade Powers. This is a very serious build. Thanks again Hyperstrike

I feel honored. Nothing to do with learning this meme history thing. I just feel really special. It’s Saturday after all

I got mids to work. Basically because they put an easy button on our downloads page. That does not make me a great builder. Is there an easy button for that? I finally 50d my dark/dark. Opened up soul Mastery. Very much a theme character and am looking at some of the obvious Incarnate powers that are Uber dark dark i have theft of essence and unique son it along with a couple randomly placed brutes fury and obliteration etc. I am nearly done with my mains build and can start sinking game grind rewards into a second build. Anyone have something decent? the build goals are survivability of course and then just to agro/debuff more than DPS. Will be taking the Soul Mastery targeted AoE debuff for example. I dropped the single target fear but I hated to see it go. Too many good AoEs in Soul Mastery

I just love that this topic devolved into adding handicapped ramps for the hardiest tanks in CoX

Have decided to finish leveling my Invul/Dark now at 35. Will be interesting to see how much the changes will benefit Dark Melee. I ran this build but in a brute on live with near perma hasten and using tier 9 Unstoppable. It shrugged off its own crash as inconsequential. Then had End replenishment and combat buff always up as well as heavy attacks on fast cycle

Meh many of the issues to find shocking and disturbing are a decade old. I started an issue or so after Redside was added. I naturally gravitated to a redside Brute. I still run Brutes most of the time. The city has has always been a mosh pit for me. I like it. Tactics exist. Brutes have strategy. Kill stuff

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I would play solo. Even if limited to just red or just blue. Gold is too small. But one of the things that truly makes CoX fantastic is that if there were only 6 players who played we would figure out how to schedule TFs SFs Hami etc. would need some beefy toons but we would grind/share/plan and complete. With a few hundred it would just organically happen. We have more than that now. Most teams I see now have 2-3 monster toons on. A couple oddball toons run by vets (toon suspect but player is good. And yes I am very guilty of having a non optimized alt). And then we have 1-2 tourists. I say welcome to all. Let’s do a Posi or Synapse or your first BAF or LRSF. Grind it

For Tankers how good will the changes be for Dark Melee. The cone regularly hitting 5 on test is sweet news. How about the PBAoE dark consumption? I may end up doing a solo Redside on a Invul/Dark Tank. Very immersive. I have done it on 2 SS/Invul a SS/Will and (it’s been a few years) I think also on a Dark/Invul. Alll Brutes. With the changes to Tank I might just do that

Thanks everyone. Thanks Hyperstrike for that build too. I have almost finished the SS/Invul Brute you posted a coupe weeks back. Very mean my general problem with melee weapons in CoX is petty. But a deal killer for me. I hate disappearing and reappearing weapons. The entire time I am watching the toon fight I am like ‘where did that go. Where did it come from?” So petty but my OCD will not let me play one for long lol

There is one mission entrance on Port Oakes from a contact that has a door marker that is 200 ft below the Arachnos building. I used to have it memorized. 5 years ago lol. I think it is entered through one of the doors inside by the war map. How do I get a memory upgrade again?

I ran an Elec/Elec scrapper back on live. I normally Brute but ran him to 50 and piled on the I/o. He was a freaking beast i would pair elec/Elec. That is not broken

I tank about 1% of my CoH time. I Brute 90% and do some crazy Blaster Sentinel Don stuff when I get a wild hair i have mostly run Dark/Invul SS/Invul SS/Will and the random Dark/Will Brutes and their Tank counterparts. Counterpart Tanks? I want to play around on Tanks for a while. I want to run a Invul Tank. I like no weapon sets. But do not want to go dark or SS again. So. The unloved Energy, the odd Kinetic, Rad seem to be what I have narrowed down to. StJ and MA are not for me. Any feedback that that can help me choose would be appreciated from peeps who know what the 3 builds good and. As points are from 1 to 50 to Incarnate to beyond. Will be able to put a moderate number of enhancers in the build. Including a KB to KD if Kinetic is chosen for Repulsing Torrent thanks

So I treated myself to a new comp. it’s not the greatest but it is very solid and for CoX is maybe a bit of a overspend. It has an i7 an Nvidia 1660 ti card w/6 gb. It has 16 gb ram. It has 256ssd as well as a 1T drive. It shows CoX so beautiful. MSR with graphics on high and maybe a slight touch of lag. Or I am still processing seeing everything and so am just stunned. But my load screens. Heh. Prob worse than my 300 econo gaming box. The bar will many times crank through all the way to the end. Then nothing for 10-15 secs. Never had a crash. I am running on an Ethernet cable with minimal comp to server lag. Any ideas if I screwed a button up cranking all the setting up or any suggestions???

I went with an early Black Friday sale item from Best Buy. I did not shop a lot. I hate shopping for high end items almost as much as I hate trying to install the razer devices and CoX and WoW and get everything is a working order. Always stupid roadblocks the comp I got is the Omen Obelisk 875-0034. It has intel i7-9700 a 1t harddrive a 256SSD and an Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti. 6gb. Cheap keyboard and mouse (already on a shelf ready to collect dust) and nothing else 899. According to them this is a huge Black Friday sale. Hopefully it will be smooth gaming for a couple years. Thanks for the tips

Dark Melee is one of my go-to sets. I am pretty good at landing shadow maul on more than one target. It will sure be nice to not have that as a constant fight but more or less standard

Which power sets benefit the most from the upcoming changes? I am pretty set in my ways as far as what sets I will probably run. I still am interested in a discussion of the topic to help me understand how the changes will affect play though for instance. Is the increased radius on PBAoE applicable for damage auras? What about footstomp and it’s traditionally oddball size?

Longtime Brute first time caller. Heh no really though I head some whispers about changes to the Tank AT. Did not see anything on these boards that was easy to find anyways. Are there going to be significant changes to Tanks? Honestly I have always thought Tanks were short sheeted a bit for the amount of extra protection they get compared to the damage nerf they take for it. Just my opinion. Would be nice if the Devs found a different mechanic to compensate for that. Granted they are insanely good at what they do. Just not that much better than Brutes who were outdamaging Scrappers before Fury nerf bat hit

I play almost exclusively Brutes. Many without taunt. Most teams consider me the tank if there is not a better one around. It is not my nature. If there is a solid team with a tanker or Brute volunteer I will zip off to solo the largest mob I can find if a team is unsure of content or not steamrollling I will drop into the traditional redside version of a tank. Get the reveal power from P2W vendor. Almost all CoX maps are the same or put together like legos with standard parts. Knowing where the team should be going is very good do not be married to the concept of leading the team. Unless you are the most experienced player and the captain it is not your job. Go with the team and hold agro to quote the old boards. “First to Fight. First to Fall. Never Fall”. That is tanking in the Cities. GL