Snarky

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

I can stir the pot lol. But personally i jusr remembered from before the snap to get a Clarion. With enough League members dropping them in a semi coordinated fashion things go smooth. The one time i was forced to lead a Underground ( the leaser quit) i gave very strict instructions to the people with clarions. Timed out when to drop them recycle. Took a while in char. Then we dropped the final room in like 30 seconds. But i had the tanks and Brutes organized on where to face the beast etc. (i had just read a looong guide on the forums and none of the strategy was my own) But i have not run one since return. I do have a clarion t4 backup on my main in case and on my new 50 i will eventually get one as well.

I just liked the plot twist at the end where .... okay i aint gonna give it away. There were a lot of things messed up with the arc but that plot twist made it worth it for me

For me Kalinda and Burke (do both!) set the tone for the entire Redside. They spell it out clear as day and work you through a couple examples in missions. Kalinda “be loyal but be careful and be prepared for treachery” Burke “give a nod to loyalty and start stuffing as much as you can in your bag. Screw Arachnos” the Radio in Port Oakes is a long arc but worth it. Not all of the missions are straightforward or easy but it really has fun And puts your character at the center the new content from Graves is good. It is not easy though compared to older content Cap Au Diable i would recommend doing the Arachnos agents missions. Mostly for flavor. You are an outside operative and it is well written to that angle so Marshall Brass. Shelly Percy is mad scientist odd with deep connections to lore as well Archnage Tarixus on Sharkhead. Lore again. I love lore All of Sharkhead does a good job touching on lore but Tarixus goes deeper Nerva is fun. Loooong. Most of the contacts either go for lore angles or good old fashioned drama. Those are so much more fun than “kill all in cave” “kill all in office”. Sometimes you get those but they are story driven at least the Slot Machine on St Martial. Okay you have to have a soft heart a bit because you get a little heroic at the end. I love how they wrapped up the line and it is only 6 missions thats what i have liked best so far a d last update too lol. I screwed up and missed a contact i found out in Ouro. Should have looked there on my 50 sigh. But i was getting antsy to 59 this badger. And i just did. Even now i am about to head to ouro to incarnate him i will run this again later this year. Maybe on a stalker?!? (I never run stalkers lol). Or maybe be smart and get a character that can kill stuff fast. There an idea lol

Yeah it is a luxury Hyperstrike. I am looking at using the Leadership toggles and higher resist values on the tank. As well as maybe more energy def? Then on the solo dropping that in favor of just s/l Def softcap and more damage and maybe only manuevers toggle and the accuracy power from Physical epic. it is expensive but since this is my badger i will have that second heavy heavy build to drop into Also on teams i can stop chasing damage as much and go back to old school herding and battle planning which is fun for me only because i plan to run this thing so much in the next year am i doing it. That and i have the inf lol i am using your builds and guides as the basis for all my Invul. I have those downloaded and saved. Thank you for doing that for the boards. Nice work

As i slow level and near 50 on my story arc badger Tank i realized i want to have two active builds on it. I have the funds and i want it. So it is going to happen the first build is my solo build. It will be the one i do ouro and story arcs with. The second will be my team build. It will have slightly different powers. The i/o sets will throw damage dealing out the window and layer up for as much punishment as the build can support.

Lol. I am having so much fun with it. Just simple fast no complications bruting. I ran a pretty tough elec/elec scrapper back in the day. Never loved the set

Update on solo all Redside campaign This is on a Tank. Invulnerability/ Dark Melee parameters are Rogue. Badging locations Blue and Red (so far but will start Gold soon) and doing Blue TFs for badges as well. Doing all story arcs and side missions (completing each contact until they just want me to go away) This will also be my Badger so setting up for that As I round level 34 to 35 I am like crap I have a lot to do still lol. Glad they added content. Does not make it easier to do this. Also just finding contacts and ensuring everything is getting done is not smooth. Had to autocomplete one mission in this block. I did the mission. A kill all in a cave complex hunting Ritki. Pretty big mission. Lots of alternate routes. Pancake room. NIghtmare. Went through the whole place 3-4 times never found the wanderer. Never got red dots so report card. 86 Souvenirs, 506 Badges, 1491 Merits. I have also transferred over 132 Emp Merits for the off chance this actually gets to 50. No seriously i was alting a lot but am starting to warm back up to grinding this out ASAP. I want to fully build out two high end builds. One for Solo and one for Tanking for Teams. Have two Accolade Powers now Invader and Demonic Aura Ground hard on it this last week and am hoping to keep that up in February. Maybe even knock most of this out by the beginning if March and start level 50 earning

Accepting advice i switched to Dark/Psi anyone have a gnarly pimped purpled winterized proc’d and ATO this one goes to TWELVE Dark/Psi Permadom build laying around? thanks