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What is more effective for late game play. Style is pure ranged with a softcap on ranged def Any feedback is welcomed

I am enjoying blasting again. They fixed some (not all of my pet peeves with Blasters) I am looking to Incarnate a Blaster that fits my play style which is pure range. I can never find a good concept for guns. Too real world for me. For level 50 content. Incarnate TFs tip missions and random radio grinds what plays better Elec or Ice? Conceptually I tend to favor Ice when I run them at low levels. I have not run either at 50 since back on live and never incarnated one Thank you for any insight

Before they were tweaked for the new issues I played an energy energy back on live and had it incarnated I did not have perma hasten but it was close enough. I went for softcap range def as well. I avoided all melee attacks. It was a solid build and played well enough. Having kB as the bulk of your defense is not great at incarnate level or even anything past 40. I do recommend avoiding all melee but that is my play style. Good lick

I always wanted to blast. I ran a few 50. Masters on live and even incarnated an energy energy. Never loved them. They were never what I really wanted a ranged blaster. The design from the ground up is for blapping Blasters still suffer from their genetics. PBAoE tier 9s really? I pass on those. I would take phase shift or anything I will find useful. An invitation to the death zone is not appreciated I am leveling a vampire Snarkula Dark Time at 35 now and loving it. Avoiding all the juicy melee attacks and grabbing hover and sorcery. From sorcery blast power fly+port and Mez prot. Then stealth Inv and phase shift. I need to run a patron arc. (Running this guy as a selfish rogue of course. I think I want dark powers from redside for patron. I looked at the blue power pools and was unimpressed and they did not match theme. Any suggestions here are appreciated. I have not run a blaster past 20 in years lol But I am having marvelous fun. My selfish little blaster has done both poses and a manti and ran sweet. Good teams of course. I am considering some solo story arcs with this type of build Never got a blaster past 29 doing all story arcs. It gets ugly about there with EBs starting to show. Any ideas on that. Powers/build tactics would be welcome Finally the reason for the post. They actually fixed some of the blaster problems. Yeah. Time gives a lot of blue to Blasters and some decent ranged abilities. Rare in a blaster secondary. Most are pure blapping. Except ice. And that gets odd. They fixed the ranges. Mostly. No more 40 60 80 where do I stand nonsense. Okay o need range increase in my dark area Debuff which is at 40. But it is a lot better. In general they shores up some real soft spots in the whole archetype in my opinion

Ice time has great blue power and Ice is the most control happy set of the ranged damage sets in my opinion. If you really want to peg the concept to 11 at the expense of everything else go Ice/Ice. More soft controls and messing with the mobs. It is not a FOTM high damage set. It does okay damage. It is a Blaster after all. But it leans way to control. I like time as a secondary for Blasters because of the End recovery power. No blue no blast. But I ran an I e/Ice a lot back on live simply because I love ranged Blasters. Ice is ranged including the tier 9. So soft cap ranged def and freeze them down

I have not found the paragon wiki page again. Not saying it is accurate but I just saw it a day ago and it said a pvp rating was required to unlock the contact.

And hero side? Has anyone got this to work?

Okay. Where is the contact

Still looking for that wiki page. Are you saying that on live you could get older bank missions with these badges? I did not know that All it an over reaction. But I hate pvp. Actually I loathe pvp. No. I do not like it enough for those words And we still have to hit pvp maps if we want their location badges. And be subjected to morons

Let me research this. I would have swore wiki said pvp specifically. Also if you are correct. How do you get the badge then?

A dark melee Invul Brute built for....drum roll. Global recharge. Shoot for 120% before haste. It is SICK what that does to this toon. I ran one once. The only downside is you feel like you drank 7 pots of coffee by the end of the task force. Everything about the build benefits from global recharge. It is sick what the toon can survive and what it can dish out. It’s 30 second buff becomes perma likewise heal and unstoppables downtime is minimal so you are almost always at maxed out resists and end generation. Crash? No problem hit your AoE end drain and get a full blue bar back then hit your Huge heal and get your green bar back

So. I see they finally made a way to get the safeguard mayhem badges if you missed them leveling. Lololol O.K. no not okay not really no You gotta be a PvP futa catgurl to be allowed to get the badges? Seriously I can see them never allowing it. Neglect was what we became accustomed to from NCsoft. We always asked. And they always pretended to be deaf. But to make the badges available to Pvapers and nobody else? I am guessing whoever flipped that switch sits on the PvP maps with a special toon and a ton of “I pwnz uz” quotes already keybound

I play a lot of SS. The rage crash is annoying but the damage is great Do take as much of the enemies attacks as you can. Another reason for taking tough and weave. As a brute when the enemies attack you, hit or not, they increased your damage by pegging your fury Defenses. Soft cap is 45. If you are I/o the build smash/lethal defense at 45 is a very fine goal. Have fun. Melee is about charging in and having fun. Whatever toon you are on should feel like the baddest mutha in the city

I did it again. I alted!!! I had my SS/Invul to 46. Then as I drove all day (I pay the bills driving semis-talk about grinding lol) I thought about why I kept moving from SS back in the day. It is the rage drops. They are irritating. Combine that with on the fly calculating unstoppable drops and the build is hard to run. I considered Dark/Will. Zero issues, but a little squishier than I wanted. So.... I picked up my abandoned alt DM/Invul sitting at 27 and remade him in costume creatir. Then I started spending merits on various characters and shipping I/os over. I have him at 29 now and has Glad +def. Glad + res. Two of the healing set procs not the third yet, will need to check my other toons for merits or grind more and a Brute Fury proc that I put in his tier one attack. Currently I am just slapping things in places and most of the build is SOs. But a DM/Invul is a beat just in SOs because of the way the two sets compliment each other. This will make a fine 50 and way less stress than SS/Invul. I am actually grateful to be a bit of a newb again and rediscovering things. It makes me more open to altering things and reconsidering what I like and what works

It is not bad. All SS Inv is fun if you learn to manage your crashes. I would suggest (f you can afford the time to get them) some Glad +3 res and def. some Numina procs and things like that. I am trying to remember my old builds. I seem to remember 4 slotting my res powers with a set that had a great 4th tier set bonus. Maybe Aegis I seriously have not looked at sets. I been gaming in the city I love while we have it back. Grind happily my friends

Oh yeah I am a grinder even when running low level alts. I ran a 1-20 stopping exp and got every story arc 1-15 and started working on 15-20 before I alter again. Took me a couple days and I netted a little over 299 merits. I spent 100 merits off my main level 46 now had a good night lol. And got the Glad +3% def. if I flood the market with converters it will bottom out as well. I remember spending a day getting all the crafting badges on a toon back in virtue. What it did to the market price in salvage was stooopid lol. Because of the way I game and min max do it NOAH it tends to leave a wake of destruction. Why I run brutes so much Still I appreciate the advice. I got a drop of Glad javelin recipe last night and sold it for 2.7 mil. Of course I am still outfitting SOs. Yes I know about base I/Os at 39. I just never do it. Easier to hit a store for me. I will probably have to market for some of my stuff but I prefer just grinding especially if I can (and I do) make enough merits over a weekend for 2-4 very expensive I/Os. I can Proc and Purple the thing even when just grinding as I love to do. You could never do that back on Virtue

Thank you. I will use this as a goal to build toward filling in things as fast as I can. I found the merit vendor lol. So I have been Altima a lot but I test my alts in task forces as I level to see how they play. So I have enough to get at least 3-5 100 merit I/o. Gotta start searching. Toon is at 41 after a manticore tf and some radio teams tonite. Grind on lol

I am going to start running a 50 after 4 weeks of going alt happy. I want to I/O the build. I am unfamiliar with the latest tricks regarding the many types of currency and how to spend it efficiently Can some kind folks point out the best ways to obtain the healing and end procs the global resists and many of the other goodies that will help an old SS/Invul Brute start getting healthy? Thank you

Okay I been back 4 weeks. Just as alt happy as a puppy in a room full of toys. But now I want a 50 and I want to start grinding level 50 content and Incarnate stuff. So I am asking for help I have not looked at mids since the servers shut down. I still have not installed it on my cheap gaming comp I got specifically for CoX. I mean I been too busy gaming in what little time I got lol. So please include basic text of builds Data chunk is nice but I might not get around to looking at it for weeks My 1st 50 years ago was a SS/Invul Brute. Even with the End problems of a simple SO build before access to Hero Power pools it has always been my favorite. Just ignoring how stupid what I am doing looks to a team and surviving is just Brutes having fun I have a good memory of mostly what I need to do with the build and even half remember the sets I used to use. But refreshers and pointers are what I am asking for. Also any tricks with the new rules and sets and goodies and stuff So finally. After all the buildup. Does anyone have advice on this build at 50 def soft cap s/l. Healing and end procs. Global resist and global def procs are pretty straightforward. There is a global def proc right or is my memory failing? Please post any solid builds for me to shot for. I have zero cash so this toon will be grinding content to earn his enhancers. Thank you super geeks

I been back 4 weeks. So alt happy I haven’t gotten past mid 30s lol. I been doing Brutes Sentinels and Brutes again. This weekend I tried a dark dark blaster then a ice/time blaster. I am having so much fun My little ice blaster hero is half st dom and still better damage than a Sentinel. This build rocks and is pure range. Just hit 29 after one day. I have to have a story on all my characters so I am on the road server. His is that a time lord upgraded his ice machine which became sentient and went off to fight evil. Explains the ice and time powers and why he is a 4 foot tall robot. Good times

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I have never run an Energy Melee after mid 30s. How does this perform in late game/Incarnate trials. I was thinking of pairing it with Willpower to offset the tier 9 attacks self damage (who writes this crap?) and because Willpower is my second favorite armor behind old clunky Invulnerability. Any thoughts are appreciated.

I believe you will find Dark Melee/Invul to be way tougher with the same slotting, or tweak it for even more performance. Dark Melee and Willpower have no Synergy. Dark Melee gives attacks that give health and endurance, which Willpower does not need. The Recharge bonus you put in will not affect Willpowers Uber Buff Tier 9, nothing does. With Invulnerability you have tougher armors, def debuff resistance, and the global Rech brings your tier 9 around faster, also brings the heals and end recovery faster which Invul + Fighting armors need. Invul is an end hog as we all know. The Synergy between DM/Inv is truly neat.

You have not mentioned the Dr Graves arc which has stuff uuntil at least 19

I have been back three weeks. After an alt mania start I am settling into my old style of play. A lot of soloing I soloed redside a few times back in the day. Never fully siloed blue on one character Since I have the opportunity I am once again going to Solo all Redside content. Every contact every mission. Some things have changed since the old days. I am using the stop exp at every 5 levels. (4,9,14,etc) method I am going by memory (not good) Paragon wiki (inaccurate), find contacts tab (seems a little wonky), and hitting the bank to get all. Rocker contacts until that stops producing results. If anyone can point out any other resources I would appreciate I chose a Dark/Invul Brute for the run. Using Sorcery flight to help TP stealth misssions. I will get a +stealth proc when I can afford it. Of course DFB and DiB bonuses make it easier than the old days. Currently level 14 and finishing up Port Oakes before moving to Cap. Had the Gull switch me to Rogue and will probably run Blueside Task Force content as well as I level