Snarky

so i just go ahead and speak my mind. not that they deserve my wisdom. for me it is like hitting the gym. the resistance makes me stronger.

Well... It truly depends on the type of vampire does it not? I have ran nearly every dark dark dark X combo on nearly every AT. I can say this, Dark is very good in CoH. Great toolkit set. I dusted off a Invul Dark Tank last night. If you want the unstoppable master vampire, unfazed by the world trying to kill it, this would be it. A Dark/Dark Brute.... (Dark/Dark on melee reaches it's zenith on a Brute in my opinion) This ball of hate (with non suppressing stealth) is just a hoot. Although complicated, subtle, and expensive. So, challenging to build and run. A Dark/Dark Stalker. Very good. M only issue was ... Dark Dark Blaster was just faster Dark Dark Blaster Very powerful. A vampire that can pull the negative material plane onto earth and destroy enemies with it. Dark Dark Corruptor. On a team a significant step above Blaster in terms of power. And Corruptor, right in the name. Control types ar harder for me. I have both Dom and Controller. A Dark Dark Troller would, for my money, be both easier and more powerful. Only annoying thing is you are basically a petless MM and your team is your pets. You gather a bunch of supers to achieve your goal, or leech off them. Then use some of the biggest powers in Dark to ensure they achieve YOUR goal. If you can stand doing little to no damage and just want to completely ruin the enemies chances of doing anything a Controller is the choice.

This week I have run Dr Q on my two Blasters that needed the badge. Both relatively recent additions to the stable. I looked around and most of the other 50s I had already had it. But… there was this prime tank from 2019 that did not. Now, I do not run many Tanks. I built this as the ultimate. It is Invulnerability, with a slightly tweaked Hyperstrike build (prob degrading it, but it became mine). I paired it with Dark Melee. I believe this to be hand down the toughest heavy melee pairing in the game. Dark has a heal, and an end recovery power. A hard hitting ST chain with to hit debuffs for the kiddos. So I dusted this off. To my dismay there were three if us Tanks. I never inspected them. Not sure what level or powersets they were. Either by level, powerset, or player neither were particularly useful. We stormed through. I took one break at the start of a kill all for about three minutes and the team looked like it was about to implode. One big room of crey at the start of a mission. Two tanks in there. Sad panda. I rolled in and we rolled on. I can only think the other two tanks were not incarnated. It was spectacular how good this was. Once I got comfortable behind the wheel it was untouchable. No matter how big the room, what combo of mobs, if I agroed a room full of a hundred looking for a glowie half the time i could get the glowie without eating even a sm purple. Damn things defense is that good. Truly a joy to run and a fun break from blasting. We finished in about 1 hour 50 minutes. It was laughably easy. The only issue i see in running it regularly is a lot of people play Tanks and Brutes. Unfortunately most if them are like the other two tanks on that Q in my opinion. Not ready for prime time.

I do believe Yomo may still be giving out dome cash. Subject to Yomo’s casual schedule for reply. Might be worth it to shoot of an in game email…

So, joined Oklahoman on a two run through Magi where the league was textbook. Every badge except Really Hard Way and made it look like a cakewalk. Immediately after there was an ad for a TV2 respec. I needed the badge. It went okay, not great. Until... we got to the reactor room. I have rarely seen this thing fail. I cannot remember the last time. I felt like I was fighting the whole room solo (a Blaster) with occasional glimpses of people i think were my teammates being chased by hordes of Freakshow blowing past. An unmitigated disaster, and the reactor inevitably fell...

Here is what I am currently using Blaster (Fire Blast - Fire Manipulation) 2024 v 2.01.mbd

One word per post. Thanks Luminara. My new forum style...

ironic, isn't, it,?

Okay... a little long. But I can Edit the thing to sound a bit more like me... "I appreciate the depth of yuor argument against this thing. But you are WRONG. Artists smudge allatime." There. Fixed.

i can get an AI to do that for me?

He may be right. But I remember all my art classes and projects in pencil, charcoal, and oil where smearing was the solution.

Soooooo……. Glad you like Brutes This is the “entire Brute nerf” in one sock The perspective from a former Brute ( now mostly Blaster/some Corr) player; “Some whiny Scrapper players showed formulas that indicated on edge cases with certain powersets Brutes could do more damage than Scrappers. The Devs rewrote Fury so it was easy to get and impossible to peg the bar to the top” Brutes used to have to use tricks to build and MAINTAIN Fury. Constantly fighting and agroing mobs. It was glorious. Now….yawn. To add insult to injury now Tanks out damage Brutes. Tanks and Scrappers both got great ATOs and one of the Brute ATOs is only useful if you are do bad a player you keep crayons next to your game so you have something to eat.

The old “Master of” is no deaths no temps. Although with new incarnate trials you get master by collecting 4-6 badges. Does not have to be all in one run. But the no deaths still apply to getting things like Master Lord Recluse Strike Force. And it can be tough.

possible he was mid animation into going "untouchable but defeated" with a minor bit of dialogue. HC wiki says afterward he is in jail

I made the same mistake in my head. But it is a LRSF…. So the tanking will be multiple AVs with many different attack types. I have tanked Lord Recluse on a master MLTF twice on my dark brute. Not sure how he would fare against ALL the hate allatime. He is built for one on one, resistance armors are just better for that (his energy resistance is a little over 60 stone cold and he has tricks.) so tanking one mean Energy AV is one thing…. The entire pissed off freedom fuc… phalanx?? And i was checking, the meat shield we had was not impressive. There are players out there who can do it on a SO willpower brute maybe. I seriously doubt they were in this pug

I love the Fire Fire and it is THE hammer. I play it in about 2 sessions a week. I love DPS but i enjoy more tactical play. My current main is an AR Device Blaster built for range and dps. I can destroy a lot of stuff as it tries to close the distance. If i can back up, even a little, the mobs group tighter into my cones.

Sure it wasn’t a gull? Those things are insanely powerful

a great vampire with a great pitch

so, and i quit (surprise!) after the third load in and reform, in 7 minutes.... LFG, MoMC. I need badge. Got the 8th spot. We load in. Not Master. Reform. We load in. No Tanks/Brutes or even Scrappers. No instructions. 4 people stealth to the end. I am like, okay. I got a 95% survival rate on my Blaster for that. I follow. I smoke 'nade and grab the glowie on the way. And a squishy died. laments. Have not been in 2 min. Meanwhile there are all this talk about everyone needing to load into the last mission together, without attacking, and we all get a purple. fine, someone is wrong. The scary part was no one else seemed to know. I told them the deal. The discussion continued. I stayed silent. We loasdf in a 3rd time. Not set to Master. Leader DCs. I just went to my base. You do not need to stand on the tracks to prove a train is coming.

had to do a triple take lol. but that answers my question at least, i want the grav/nrg dom because i want both those sets.

cannot decide between a troller or a dom.... any feedback is appreciated

if you want to keep a pretty smile brush your teeth

soooo...... you're saying i bring you bad luck? lol it's probably skwed by my perception. people have indicated i see the negative in things.

I would like to nominate myself. But I cannot. It would not be right. There needs to be a statue of Snarky in at least 5 zones. Also, Snarky needs to be a contact in Dark Astoria offering a 35-50 TF, with reg, Master, 1, 2, and 4 star alternate badges/special rewards. Oh, and the statues need to be in special buildings, parthenon like so always covered from the sun.

mother ship raids for the badges. yet i do not think i have it on a single character. 4...5...8...never 10 i hate this thing