Bill Z Bubba

You really should give it a try, GP. It's pretty much cruise control for cool. Kinda crazy what happens with all the resists backing incarnate softcapped defense when you've got the tanker +damres IO and that other scaling resist IO stacking on top of SR's scaling resists. And, of course, the perma capped DDR.

He's a devil. He kills gods. Edit: Shield > SR. Just by the math. And they won't let us have claws/shield. Which is dumb. I could have another set of claws grafted to the shield. Nrg Melee > Claws on ST damage by far. Much < Claws on AoE. Regardless, the EM/Shield is going to trounce AVs FAR faster and safer than the Claws/SR.

Especially if you're into soloing lowbies? A damn near pauseless attack chain with nothing but slash, swipe, strike, swipe, repeat? And then you get spin? About to snag Integration. Still hate mez in this game. It's a death sentence. Edit: No, I'm not. No mez prot until 16? Have I been away so long I forgot that?

I went claws/regen. Haven't tried out regen since the last round of changes. I assume it's still the worst secondary but maybe tolerable again?

What's not to love? I have too many claws scrappers. I'm gonna go make another.

My crashes cleared up but I'm unsure why.

I like it! Thanks, Devs.

I approve of the random slaughter implied here. To the topic, was planning a solo ITF for breakfast this morning but zoned into "need one more for +4/x8 KM ITF." I joined. Was a good breakfast. Also noticed the lack of surgeons being murdered properly and said so.

Seems that after installing that optional update, I'm in the clear. For anyone that doesn't know: Settings, Windows Updates, Advanced Options, Optional Updates, Driver Updates. Edit: Bah, spoke too soon. But several hours of gameplay before the crash.

Runners are my biggest complaint when I'm playing anything but tanks and brutes. But this is one of the great things about all the new slotting options and extra pools are our disposal now. You can build around problems you experience. Sure, there's trade-offs, dipping into the presence pool locks you out of other pools, but if it makes your playtime more enjoyable, why not? Are there better primaries than dark melee? Yup. Are there better secondaries than SR? Also, yup. Nrg/Shield stomps the crap out of both. So what? Play what you enjoy. I still love my main claws/sr and he's nowhere near the most powerful scrapper I have, but he's still the first and best.

I'm currently playing a bio/ss tanker at level 22. Standard SO build and I gotta say, SS just sucks. It has three good powers. Rage, Foot Stomp and KO Blow. I currently have one of those. The rest of the set is garbage. Massive builds can be made on those three powers utilizing other epic/app powersets, but SS on it's own? Crap. Always has been. Should scrappers still get it? Yea, sure. They can suffer along with the brutes and tanks.

I don't care what AT you run. Pylon killin takes scrapperlock to maintain. My vote is leave the thread here.

I did have an optional audio update waiting and installed that. Haven't crashed again yet but they have been few and far between, so we'll see.

All has seemed well with a recent upgrade (on "unsupported hardware") to Win11-25H2 but I've now had two hard crashes to system restart while playing CoH. I know... odd timing for my return. Going through the normal stuff now, sfc /scannow, win update check, etc, already have latest nvidia drivers for my 3080. Anyone else experiencing this? Danke, -BillZ

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I love that this thread is still goin.

Somethin like this maybe. Bill Z Bubba - Scrapper (Claws).mxd

I remember you both. We're all old!

Poster and the likes. My kindred. Focus is the correct answer. Once upon a time right after the great nerfs in the before times, I spent my time as a claws/sr/dark scrapper that was completely ranged because going into melee was pure masochism. Thankfully the devs saw how far SR had fallen due to their decisions and corrected what needed to be corrected so I didn't have to spend much time that way. But point stands, yea, you want Focus. I once ripped off my wings to get hasten. Gods below, I'm old.

It is. I have a claws/bio scrap on test that already had eviscerate so I changed to the alternate animation and tried it out. Sound FX is still wrong but it always was back when this was swipe's animation but it's glorious not having the silly backflip. I'll probably respec BZB tank into it for the extra cone size and increased AoE output but BZB scrapper's ST DPS would suffer greatly if I replaced Slash with Evis.

I just posted in beta for that. 2.5 mins average before change with BZB scrap, 7.5 mins after. I get it but there's still that bit of sadness for the end of things.

Change from level-less to 54 on rikti pylons is definitely eye opening. BZB scrap's live build took 7.5 minutes to take one down. Average 2.5 mins when level-less.

... Wow. Pretty sure I've been asking for this since live. Would still lose a little DPS (I think) adding it back into BZB scrapper's chain, but it might benefit BZB brute and tank. Especially the tank.

I've been out of the loop. They really fixed fiery melee?

Agreed. I don't ever want to lose Bill Z Bubba as the name of my main even if I do disappear for a year. Life happens and I'd be awfully pissy about it if I woke up from a year long coma to find that I'd been genericed and someone else was running around with my name.