Snarky

We are doomed the world is dead. Wait, found the coffee. We’re good.

Oh, it is not just me that likes the Corruptor. You have to look at CoH history. Redside was separate, and designed to never mix with Blue. A chance to rebuild the game from the ground up. Brutes were very good. Meant to be meaner Scrappers, they were nerfed…more than once… to fit into the mixed stable. MMs were meant to be the Tanks. But no Redsider had the patience, and Brutes made L Jenkins look like a tourist. Corruptors got the best of both worlds, much like Brutes. But…they have (so far) slithered past the nerf mallet. Due to their very respectable damage, mixed with buff/debuff/healing Corruptors are considered an S class Archetype. The ability to provide so many aspects of the game competently in one package is quite sought after on high end teams. Name any respectable team or league leader in the game. Name three! Give them each a League roster of 24 toons, random ATs. (No Corruptors) This hypothetical league will race against other leagues. Big rewards to the winner. Cookies and bragging rights. Now, pick ANY toon on the league and ask if the leader will trade that for a Corruptor. To each League leader. Now, one at a time, ask them each 23 more times. I suspect you will see three Leagues with between 22-24 Corruptors each. Maybe a Tank or two hear and there. The damn things are that good. 👍

And…. Just pulled a 46 dark dark troller tgat had been parked forever….. and 50d it lol

As I look at building this for ITF teams and Incarnate leagues… How good/necessary are the pets? I really just want to get my cooldowns on the big AoEs down right???

In Germany it is considered rude and bad luck to celebrate anniversary and birthdays early. So let us wait…

i have great organizational skills. it is all right here. uh, except for the stuff in the next three rooms...

this. if i hang back and fear, debuff, and harass the mobs the team are on they feel awesomeness. i just choose to go out on the tip and do that for the mobs i work. some trollers doms and fenders all they do is make the team feel invincible.

usually pre 30, sometimes pre 40, the only "god mode" possibles are tanks and brutes. and even then it can be iffy depending on armors and mobs

Is Grand Finale a new special type of...

The path to success is failure. I started on Brutes and I was horrid. Now i play squishies and I am only bad. I learned the mobs, the maps, the fights, and enough of the under the hood mechanics to grind a little harder. A lot of the 'new crowd" is either very rusty or has never seen a mmorpg like CoH. Some want Tank, Blaster, Healer Trinity. others see CoH veterans doing wild stuff and take an SO outfitted whatever into mobs they are unfamiliar with. "you're gonna need a bigger boat..."

So I just ran on a PUG kill most +4 Market Crash, last mission set to +2. There was a Tank, and a Brute. I was on a Corr. I build for tricks, accuracy, recharge, and DPS. Not defenses, or survival. I was in front of EVERYONE half the time. Because I could. I can stun, Nuke, and make anyone left alive short life miserable. why wait? i died once. And Dark Dark Corr has a combat rez that stuns the bejeezuz outta anyone near them.

ps because souldrain is now spirit drain your eradication set bonuses are gooooooone

sure you will hate my build. this version of mids does not have spirt drain. the 5 empty slots in soul drain fit 5 Bombardment Corruptor (Dark Blast - Dark Miasma) dark3 2024 2.01.mbd

I have been doing housekeeping on my army of alts. Trying to figure out who has what, if they are stripped or built, clean everything up. Also been Alting as I work on best toon (for my undead theme) on new content. While I love my Dark Dark Blaster there is no doubt a Dark Dark Corr is a better team and league toon. In my opinion. So I pulled out a Dark Dark Corr off my page two toons. I respec’d, based on changes Soul Drain to Spirit Drain and my deeper understanding of what I wanted. It was a 30 level vet. All tier 4 incarnated and a few Tier 4 Destinys. But only 500 badges. Sigh. No Accolades. I ran him rebuilt through an ITF. Then a couple i-trials with Oklahoman. I liked the feel. The next day I am cleaning the house, studying German, and randomly putzing with my clean up my alts project. Huh….another Dark Dark 50 Corr on page 5 of alts. WTF? Fully built. 75 vet levels. A little over 1100 badges. So I rebuilt that one, made a power pick change (dropped TP other and picked up Hasten. The build has about +100 rech before Hasten. Lot of big powers with long cooldowns. So, now I have the Lich character I had in my head. (Floating Skull on suit of animated armor). Sickly yellow and black power colors which are just wonderful!!! And only 400 badges or so to go lol… I do not know if I will ever get to all these old 50s. Maybe I should start organizing them by AT and powersets? Why why why did I duplicate Dark Dark Corr?

i threw this together based off a beam/invul i made. not sure if it is right for you. or anyone... Sentinel BEAM Will 1.0.mbd

yeah, hopefully the patch will not screw redsiders of one of the badges they need for accolades. o look, we made it so he only spawns every three days and only if/when someone completes a master LRDF and we give no zone msg, 1st come first served. and there are TWO badges Scrap and his rioters needed. so mult spawns usually. now screwed to hell.

I just rebuilt my Dark Dark Corr. Which in theory is more vulnerable than your Water Dark. Due to Dark Blast having a PBAoE. Water is all ranged. When I rebuilt him I focused on Accuracy and Recharge. He ended up with 15-20% defenses across the board. So… not spectacular. And Dark uses a lot if to hit debuffs. Basically what I like about Corr and keeps pulling me back from Blasters is they are incredibly tactical. I look at what the team is facing. 1) is the team racing in, discussing tactics, or buffing up? 1a) I join in the activity. If racing in I may throw a AoE stun and then Nuke. Or I may hang back and debuff first. Depends. 2) If the team is not racing in I decide whether or not to wait for the team to pull their thumb outta wherever or just tank it myself. Eat a med purple, stun, soul drain, nuke, tar patch, hop out, fear cone, more cones, debuff etc. Really every fight is a chess game as a Corr. Deciding which powers you want to go with and which way to go about it. A Blaster just blasts. So how much defense/armor do you need? Depends on how you play. I preferred investing in a lot of global recharge so my big powers are up and my little powers are a machine gun.

When a contact has multiple level ranges

this is for a request i got in game for completionist redside run. contacts CoV red.xlsx

i had to look that one up, but i love it. still working on grammar and basic chat. but German grammar is easy, a few weeks and i'm sure i will be fine....

This would be a lot easier if you were not just standing there…

Not according to my barrister.

Okay. Now if you see Snarky following a pedestrian in Atlas I do not want to hear a word about it. It was all Scarlet Shockers idea. So talk to them not me.

I have seen them use police drones. Not sure, now that I think, that I have seen them use anything besides police drones. I guess those things have good attacks. They can obliterate a GM.

I dallied hard with a Ice Dark Corr over last few weeks. 900 badges. And it is good. But…. It is not “me.” I need my Dark vampire theme saturated lol. Sooo…. I dusted off my 1300 badge Dark Dark Blaster. Having learned a lot on my various Corr forays I decided to respec and lean into the pbaoe stun aura with the targeted aoe stun attack to give myself some pbaoe Soul Drain/Nuke room. I thought this was rather clever. Mag 4 stun (2+2). Respect! Dark Dark Soul ftw Jumped on a pug that was going to run a upgraded LGTF. Okay, my second one. First was hanging on a rocking pro team. Well, all but me. This time a few people were honest about not knowing much. I knew enough to not be optimistic. So…. The first run was more like a carry than I realized. And I was sure I was weaker than most if the team. Because they somehow avoided our tactic. Kill most. It did make the trips back from the hospital easier. We found a rhythm. Slow tempo, rumbling bass, voice of doom vocals. I cautioned in the Hami that the last team was specifically not killing all the pylons. I killed two from above and the team decided to start on the mitos. I switched to mitos. There was a couple deaths but so far so good. Then the team started on the pylons…. I am like wtf? Okay, reverse the order. I start helping. They kill all the pylons. Not sure if that was the plan. Then we learned why you do not kill all the pylons…. I had yet to die in the Hami mission , but quickly chalked up three and was on my face ( i think falling through the air after the latest drop ship orbital cannon death) when Hami was dropped. Good times. We slogged on. The last mission we plowed to the last room and triggered the cutscene. There was a lot of death. 💀 I think they should kill the cutscenes and just put the Benny Hill music on. We were victimized errr victorious!!!! And git our two badges and w/e merits and crap. So….I started my daily German studies and glared at my MiDs screen. Hmmm. Pulled up new issue and read…. Okay Dark Dark Dark, forget stun aura. Get 3 conceal powers (stealth, infiltration, and phase shift). (What use is infiltration if you have stealth? Seriously…). And also grabbed a Teleport friend/enemy power. Just the one. If i need to grab a team its the slow way. But i can phase shift to get in/out of hairy stuff and then relocate folks. I lost a few things i liked and wanted to work on the respec, but tightened the build and got things i needed. Also, the Epic Dark armor looks much better with the Dark 2nd PBAoE dam aura (soul noir). Style counts!!! I will stay on this guy a few days at least lol. Need to stress test through some hard content, pick up a few more badges and see how it goes. I am loving the damage I must say. Cannot figure out if the Epic Dark +health/end pbaoe would have helped in LGTF. I am thinking not. Maybe in a regular master run where a Tank has the agro and you can sponge up some safety numbers while enemies are distracted. But that new LGTF is just a raccoon city laser grid hallway.