Snarky

This is a weird one for me. I am trying to mesh my “fictional vampire” from some bad fiction i write with a workable AT from CoH/V. The problems are many. The close calls fall around me like artillery shells in no man’s land. Which one will be mine? I started with Brutes. After a long time on a Dark/Invul i was encouraged to try Dark Dark. It was a good suggestion. A very good representation. Tough, a self Rez, very Dark. No ranged powers. Fury. A slave to the CoH melee/agro box and 7 ft attacks. Tanks. More survivable than Brutes. Less damage. Still melee Scrapper less and more Stalker ditto A Corruptor. So damned close. Healing others? Squishy. Sigh, so damned close. A Blaster! So much sweet sweet damage. No self rez. Kind of…. Let’s just say not sturdy. A Dominator! So cool, decent ST ranged damage, controls to not be as squishy. Hmmm. Wait, what? Domination and Dark build up are both rainbow effects? Can we just leave it out for the sun. Let it die, just let it die. A Controller. Very cool. Very Dark. Very cool. No self rez, squishy, no damage. A Defender. It is like a Corruptor. Just… okay, moving on. Hmmm. Now I will own up to smack talking Sentinels. But…. It has toughness. Not like a Tank, but enough for story. Self rez. Okay. Spell caster, ranged damage and things like Darkest Night ( Dark^3 ) Hmmm. Damn thing checks off every box from short story. Anyone know if this Sentinel thing has rainbows coming off its Dark powers or if Netherworld Tentacles are white like Blaster/Soul Patron/ Soul Tentacles, or some other rainbow, bright glow, pretty princess BS?

Yeah a celerity +stealth proc is useful when a character has a power like dark’s shadow fall that gives partial stealth.or Blaster device’s partial stealth. When wanting full stealth just toggle on sprint. Turn it off to save endurance when the need to hide is over. But Concealment Stealth is a “full” hide/stealth. Except against the usual suspects: Ritki drones, Rularuu Eyeballs, a few Nemesis arseholes (they all look alike. ) You’ll know they have when when every Nemesis in a spawn suddenly points their rifle at you…. Some mobs just see through stealth and tell all their friends.

So i was running a Yin with a team today. 5 person team and i am on a Blaster. A very aggressive AR Dev Blaster. Not built for defense. Built for range and damage. Multiple times i get to about 30 feet (devices has a half/hidden ability) from a large group. I throw smoke grenade. (Blasters always throwing shade…) Then i unleash Full Auto. It does not kill all at once. It pisses everybody off. Rarely do i get hit one time even though i do this about 20 times during the Task Force. So… was your stealth on? Do you shower regular? Are you allergic to shellfish?

rozshyrennya is the anglicized spelling of Dilatant in ukrainian. I would look at other ukrainian words that match your concept and see if one fits. sad news, they will never do alternate animations. i wont get an all zombie MM, and Doms are off limits to me because they are rainbow smears across my dark creations. long story short, alter your concept or be forever unsatisfied. Make him a strange polka dot man / cyclops story hybris and use EnergyEnergy on a Blaster. That would destroy a city block in an origin event.... on Live I had one named Zerg. Erg is the unit of energy, as i am sure you know. Z is just a cool sound to slap in front of it. i had never heard (consciously) the word zerg, zerging, etc. making up words is fun. slam a few together. just ask the germans. then when they get too long take the first syllables of all the important words and use that as shorthand! a million ways to be creative.

at least none of the powers shoot rainbows. seriously though, while obviously low dps i do see a lot of value in Controllers. A specialist like Dark Dark brings a ton of value to a team when "working the crowd." to put it in perspective i would rather see a well run controller on a team than a Brute. and i love Brutes. But a Controller can ...well....control. while a Brute herds (if we are lucky) and does dps.

yeah, i only check the forums sporadically in the archetypes. but if you had searched.... i have a few dark dark brute builds in Brute Forum...

I only "multibox" when I use my alt acct Farmer to PL a main acct toon. Or use the Farmer to move products one toon to another en maaase. I am not even sure if the way I do it is "multi boxing" because I use two separate computers. Does this look like two separate comps, or does it look the same as multi accts on one comp client side since all from same IP address? And if so, what if a family of 3-4 different individuals all played in the same house? Multi boxing?

While I appreciate the authority by which you speak (1 post ever) I have run a Stalker and did not encounter this. I would remember. And i would have posted. Doug Graves seems to be saying what I have experienced in my limited time on Stalky MxStalkerton from Stalkville.

Yeah, this is not how i thought it worked. But I generally run Blasters so I snipe. I ran a Stalker for about two-three weeks a year ago. I had great luck killing a Lt from stealth then killing the minions in combat. Very consistent. Then I realized how much more damage a Blaster can do in less time and switched. Kill alls are a bitch after all.

Fear is great on all Dark builds. It is a strange control in that it reduces the number of times the enemies attack. Usually it comes with a fat to hit debuff on Dark. I assume the above reference is the presence pool. Which i would pass on.

if you dont keep this updated at top of brute forums all the short attention span brute players forget it....

thoughts on slotting? well, when i can read matrix code on sight i will definitely get back to you....

Badge Challenge Accepted!

I "somewhat" regularly do the Ouro Badges. I have two main strategies. 1) level to the range you want to do +1 level. This opens that range in Ouro. Then do that content for the badges. In this way you are affected very little by exemplar math. which is gruesome below 30. 2) level all the way to 50. Then custom build an 'alt build" for each level range. make one for level 10. do all 10 or below content. 9most 9-, 7- etc) Then Make a build for level 15, respec to that. Do all 14-, repeat. here is an example of a level 50 corruptor built for level 10- ouro. the trick is to use sets that exemplar down to 7, and globals that work at that level as well. Your damage will be lessened, but your survivability will be way up. Until you get to the "no enhancer challenge" use big inspirations then lol. Corruptor Dark Dark Ouro 10.mbd

How do Controllers do in Incarnate Trials and *Starred content 1/2/4.... ? Everyone knows the meta there is 7 Corruptors and 1 Tank. But other ATs do pretty good. Blasters, um... something else will come to mind. I know it lol. i have not watched/definitely not experienced how the Controller AT does that deep into late game. Any clues? I have run a few Blasters through the mahor Task Forces to get a feel for powers. Mostly Ice and Dark variations. For this project was considering Dark Dark of course. Oh, and as a control I am posting this same thread in Sentinels. If Sentinels are all like "we do great" and Controllers are all like "We do great" I know everyone is full of....um, misinformation lol. Thanks in advance. Your "friendly" neighborhood Snarky.

Is this where I say I run 4 all the time in Summer Blockbuster? If I form a team I want as many as possible. My feeling is there is a "weak floor" and "strong middle management" on teams. Then, if I am leading, an insane CEO. The hope in recruiting is that you get a lot of the Mgt, and less of the floor. But, unless you know the players through experience, you are shooting down a dark hallway. So, get more. Always more. A strong group of 3 can handle +4/x8. So if we get those probably going to be fine with whatever crawls in to fill the other billets. The "comedy element" Some of you may think i am being overly harsh...

Exactly. I tend to take Stealth early in a build. For levelling or when Exemp'd down I have it. Before Leadership Manuevers usually by 10-15 levels. So I put a Kismet +to hit in it. Since I run stealth constantly this gives a great bonus. F-ing Gold. Then when I get more enhancer slots and the build is not tight I add a LOTG.

most of it. I run concealment stealth a lot. With one LOTG 7.5% recharge /defense enhancer at 50 this gives 8.12% defense. When I attack this goes to 2.03%

we do okay

Jim the Butcher? Great name. Is it copyrighted?

On live I had a bit of a go with naming an energy blaster Zerg. I had NO idea it meant anything, seriously. Ask anyone that knows me, it's like I live in a tomb... errr. Anyways I got generic'd, then petitioned for why, and after two weeks got "my" name. Why did i want Zerg? Erg is a unit of energy, and Zs are cool. Zs are one of the reasons i took up studying german lol. i am a glutton as well i guess.

could you please revise and resubmit in the form of a grievance? Thank you.

That is a way different build than mine! Thanks. Yeah, I prefer the double mag 2 stun (total mag 4) and then drive-by PBAoE chain. Then pop out to range for most of my work. I also have a ST Hold attack chain for things like Vickeys or other pesky EBs, LGTF, etc. I die surprisingly little considering I love to drift into a large group then hit Soul Drain/Blackstar. But I know the fights and lean into my inspiration tray.

and the base (as best as I can manage...use TP points to see underbase oranbega cavern) /macro_image "DarkArmor_FearfulAura" "Teleport: Rogue Isles Villains" "enterbasefrompasscode MAYHEM-19149"