Yomo Kimyata

Praetorian Clockwork have tons of minions that use ranged energy attacks that debuff defense, and they tend to stay at range. As a willpower scrapper, you don't have great ranged (or even energy) defenses and no defense debuff resistance. Scrub bots suck! I don't particularly enjoy Willpower myself, but I used to have that same issue on my BS/INV scrapper before they added DDR. My suggestion is to hold your nose for most of the arc and to hide behind corners and make them come to you.

This topic keeps coming back.

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's not a duck. Ducks don't talk. You're drunk.

I've been told that the PPM in CoD (all hail UberGuy) is correct, not the straight 20% chance. I missed that in the patch notes. The "convert knockback to knockdown" process is or at least was that it takes the current knockback (which is a number greater than 1), divides it by 10 which results in a number less than 1 (which is knockdown). What would happen is that sometimes the proc would activate and the additive value of KB would be over 1 and so most of the time it's knockdown but occasionally you get two triggers and a knockback. I should test this again.

You know what's in toothpaste? Stannous Fluoride (SnF4). You know what Sn is? Tin. You know what else they use tin for? Making hats. Just saying.

How many enhancements in total would you say that you crafted, converted, and sold?

One of my alts wants to know where in Kings Row the bad man who said the words that hurt you is:

I’ve been able to make it work for Ice Melee, but not for Fire Melee. Although I haven’t really tried for Fire Melee. I hate the look of the element swords, but they seem integral for Fire.

Are you kidding me? Why waste a single merit on an SO when you can buy a large inspiration for the same price?

We all know that you are the fool here.

I am sufficiently post-reward enough to say "nothing". That said, there is a lot of the content that I actually enjoy doing for the sake of the content, but if I'm not feeling it, I'm not doing it. And the timing matters -- I like doing TFs but I'm more likely to do the ones that are weekly since I'll certainly have access to a bigger pool of teammates.

Extra digits.

Three Kinetic Melee/Regeneration scrappers!

This is a sticky wicket, because I can see two sides here. The question is: is OP's experience and preferred gameplay more important than the hoverer's experience and preferred gameplay? I didn't really read the encounter as trolling. So, I say no, this is a case of two individuals with equal rights who are in opposition. OP asked; hoverer declined. In my experience, unless you are able and willing to force someone else against their will into conforming to you, that's pretty much all you can do. I used to get uptight at having to go to Null the Gull to make sure that people on my team couldn't boost me in ways I didn't want when all I should have to do is ask them once to not give me a boost and then they would never do so again! And yeah, I realized pretty quickly that was foolish. So in my opinion no one's a jerk here, but I would probably have either left the team or turned my graphics down, because getting someone else to do something that they don't want to do generally doesn't work out so well. Unless it's getting more pussycat pictures.

I enjoyed reading this entire polemic! Some of it I agreed with strongly; and some I disagreed with vehemently. But this is your manifesto, and so I will keep my comments limited. You may be Buff Miser, and although I'm not exactly Nerf Miser I do consider myself Meisterbalance Balancemeister. I also realize that in a not-for-pay model, there is less incentive for the powers-that-be to emphasize balance and plenty of incentive for them to buff the hell out of whatever they themselves like playing. I very much enjoyed your description of the "new" Night Widow, and I think your write-up was great. It sounds like you like tweaks and corrections, as opposed to the dolts who daily lament, "YOUR BLASTER DOES MORE DAMAGE THAN MY CONTROLLER!!! I WANT STRONGER PETS AND MORE DPS!" So that's a pleasant change! I don't particularly agree with this sentiment, but the analogy is a good one. The problem with inflation, whether it be monetary or power creep, is that it does hurt specific groups that do not benefit from earning power from the inflation. Buff tanks and high end CoT for example, but then scrappers suffer against the new enemy groups, and the old enemy groups suffer against the newly buffed tanks. And in an environment where everyone feels their opinion (and their playstyle) is the most important one, then powers-that-be seem to have some incentive to buff everyone, if only to shut up the whiners. And then you get real haves and have nots and you bump up against the math of the system. That is, in my most important opinion.

something I JUST learned is that going to the PvP zone Recluse’s Victory from atlas also gives the badge

I'm curious because this makes no sense to me. Are you hoping to flip them, or are you looking forward to level 50? If the former I doubt you will make a decent profit and if the latter I'd buy the non-proc as a level 50 so you could boost it.

You all keep talking about horses, but I'm not seeing any horses.

I also hate to bring this up, but with no inherent recharge, a Call of the Sandman proc has a 45% chance to give you a 15% heal. That's no joke.

To this point, I guess you need to role play a little in your head. Would Luke Cage be a part of stopping Rikti invasions? Heck yeah! On the other hand, there really isn't a ton of level 50 content that isn't specifically incarnate related. Looking at story arcs, you've got Vanguard and the RWZ, which is good stuff. But blue side you've only got five contacts who will give you story arcs at 50. Red side has a lot more, and patron missions as well, but most of those will come through Quro. I get it that passing on incarnate powers is an individual choice, and it is hard to imagine a significant portion of the 50s out there to do so willingly. I've always thought that it would be great to limit each account to a certain number of incarnates, and that is partly due to the fact that it's exhausting seeing all-powerful god-like heroes named Captain Fartknocker and the like.

My style of playing scrappers is mainly through non-defense based secondaries, and by surviving in part through non-standard mitigation. Someday I might write a guide, but this post is going to be my love letter to Radiation Armor, from worst to best. Alpha Barrier; Proton Armor -- these are the two worst powers in the set, because all they do is what's on the label: provide resistance. Particle Shielding -- the third worst power. Provides absorb, regeneration, and unenhanceable recovery. Boo hoo. Fallout Shelter -- mez protection, damage resistance, YAWN. Oh wait, slow resistance!!! Ground Zero -- Understandable to skip if you have enough AoE attacks, MAYBE! 90 second recharge means you can expect to have it up every 30 seconds or so. Slot it with Achilles Heel for softening up the crowd before your next AoE. Slot it with Glad Armor proc for the same purpose. Slot it with Overwhelming Force proc to put them on their asses while you are doing it. Your proc chances will be very favorable, if not maxed. As you can see, I generally use this as a debuff power rather than an attack. What? It heals your friends? Boo! Who cares about them?!? Gamma Boost -- Regeneration AND recovery, and more of whatever you have least of? Debuff resistance?!? Beta Decay -- Are you kidding me? Auto-hit defense and to hit debuff on your enemies. Periodic resistance debuff from the Achilles Heel you put in there. Scalable recharge for you AND a taunt aura? Why don't they just throw in some unresistable damage as well? Meltdown -- Not only does this do a lot of great things, but on a scrapper you will be resistance capped to most things with just the base slot (although I just slot it with 2x 50+5 recharge IOs). Its "crash" is minor. Radiation Therapy -- I don't know where to start with this, or where to stop. There are so many ways to slot this that I wish I could ten slot it. Just don't bother with accuracy, because it has an inherent 300% accuracy!!! You can put your Crit Strikes proc here for activation every 15-20 seconds. And the Avalanche proc for more knockdown. And regeneration for 60 seconds that is enhanceable but, oh no, does not stack three times. Crap! This set is a power user's wet dream, and the only two downsides are the graphics, and that there are so many good powers that you may neglect your primary.

I went with Kilgore Trout.

More or less. It's not a double-your-money kind of play, but it's useful.