Snarky

... I just started a Brute. Who gives a crap about Strategy, Tactics, or what your teammates are doing/thinking?

half the time my blaster hoards his insp and/or forgets to use them. and i just blast away....

You donrealize that your post about Meta is….Meta…?

to be fair, i still do not understand what you want. Yes, i have read it. You seem to want them to be "less powerful" But there are different levels of inspirations. Trust me, if you depowered them all these maniacs would just use the one 2-3 levels up that now gives the same value. And then you would ask.... that we "depower inspirations?"

Well, it would help if every Dev community in succession had not taken turns on the Brute AT...

on my iphone the script shows as a very curvilinear cursive with thin lines stretched, on my old comp in the corner of the crypt....fine. weird.

I am of the opposite view. How is doing a new archetype not as difficult as a new powerset? also, there are some very good examples of what you are asking for already existing in niche powersets within the current structure. And how are doms not ranged dps/cc?

Nice. I can see that even after knocking my drink over, crawling under the table to let the blood pour in my mouth and getting some in my eyes. Thanks

You gotta stop using that script. I am using a dim iphone in a crypt. How the F am i supposed to see that?

The thread name is “costume piece requests”. Not “shit on others ideas”. That is two threads down.

Brains in jars were huge for me. Huge. It opened up a large chunk of science fiction character generation. non standard body types would be a dream. But i know that at least in npcs the game can manage it. There is a freakshow npc with no legs, just a floating torso on a jet/rocket thing. That would be epic Devs use the police bots. If we could have our characters be “droids” of odd shapes (power animations would obviously simplify) then that would be insanely good. not to leave magic out of it, have the “no legs” option for magic be a vaporous trail instead of a rocket butt. Have the “droids” be will o the wisps (glowing balls) or storm clouds or even a flock of bats/crows!!!

…. … Ok. Wait! You almost fooled me! no GDit. You just cycled back to your original request!

We just had 18 pages on nothing. You going for the title champ? seriously though…do not like inspirations? Do not use them. Sell them and make money. Reject them and get badges. Give them away and make friends. inspirations are one of the bedrocks of the game. Factored into difficulty and challenge level and…and…and you are not listening to a word are you? Mist!

I keep a map up 99% time. I casually track team. I usually am on a Blaster and looking to be near the front of the group for best AoE placement. Sometimes I am way ahead if I have classified the team as "casuals" and there are obvious goals of juicy targets. When I game with Justice Superteamers twice a week it is different. They run nearly everything at +2 to +4 kill alls. We stay together to buff/maximize dps/be efficient.

If you ever want me to demonstrate i will. It looks harder than it is

I love Dark. I main a Dark Dark Blaster. Dark ancillary is so bad I use Soul. Which also has issues as the cone has white tentacles so i do not use. Theme baby theme having said the, the poll is unnecessary Fire Fire Fire 🔥 🔥 🔥 is the only choice for the “best” Blaster. DPS wins.

at the risk of seeming redundant. pull. eat a med purple joust into view ST nearest guy, run back. 1 spawn pulled. although my Fire3 blaster would just roll into it and start nuking and dropping rains. F them all. (yes, at +4) just dead burnt bodies.

If I was solo with 3 spawns (or 4) in a maze like area. (say the office bldg S corner with side room spawns....) you can pull. depending on powersets. With Fire3 I might actually wade in. You can kill 2 full spawns and the room might not notice! But with Dark probably pull. That gets you one group. Then charge the 2nd group, but not near enough the room group sees you. Generous inspiration use and a can do attitude!

*coughs. I have most of the maps and spawn points memorized.... Also, the mobs that see thru stealth. And a lot of other minutae in game. It is most exciting for me when a team (usually running at +4) gets overwhelmed. sometimes I die, but i am danged good at getting back up. When it is over more often than not it is my Blaster and 1-2 teammates left standing over a quiet field of bodies. Good times.

I play Blasters way more aggressively than that. I am definitely not perfect. But I am pretty good at looking at a mission/TF and seeing the mobs/levels and saying... "I can kill you all if I use XYZ tactics, but probably not YZX tactics" then i wade in...

When you combine Oppressive Gloom mag 2 area stun with Blaster's native Darkness Manipulation "Dark Pit" mag 2 area stun... you get a mag 4. Toss the Dark Pit (ranged) wander in with oppressive gloom and Aim/Soul Drain/Nuke/get the hell out and start the cone barrage.

i would run with something like: 1) Murky Cloud (no change) 2) Fearsome Stare (no change) 3) Oppressive Gloom (Soul Mastery has it, balanced for Blasters), it is thematic and in other Dark Mastery sets for other ATs 4) Night Fall (a cone DoT, foe -acc) almost every other Blaster epic/ancillary has more AoE than Dark. 5) Soul Transfer, as per Dark Brute, mirroring the option of Rise of the Pheonix in slot 5 for Fire Mastery. and, of course, I would take all 5 on my signature Dark Dark Nosferatu Blaster.

if you do all of Redside the snakes reappear in high level arcs.