Bill Z Bubba

As for Hami raids, forgive my senility if I'm wrong, but weren't those happening before in game email and the market? How were folks getting EoEs then?

But the mobs aren't level shifted in DA. You are. Fighting +4s in DA while you're level shifted +3 means you're fighting +1s where in PI fighting +4s you're fighting +3s and I would have to argue that Carnies/Arachnos at +3 are more difficult than DA Banished Pantheon/Tsoo at +1 even with their baked in +13%ToHitBuff. Especially given that I'm still getting +4 rewards either way.

Good point. But for any like those, we just go with the straight nerf route. Cut the PPM and buff in half at the base. Proc-ED will layer on top of it.

The only way SR helps with damage output comes from the +20% recharge in Quickness. It has no damage buffs, no damage auras. Compared to say, Fiery Armor, which buffs damage by way of Fiery Embrace, has a damage aura and Burn. Or Bio Armor with its straight up damage buff in Offensive Mode and damage resistance debuff from Evolving Armor on top of a damage aura. Where SR shines is that incoming debuffs either miss or get minimized thanks to the set's Slow and Defense Debuff Resistance and with its ease of hitting the defense soft cap. Throw all that on top of the set's scaling damage resistance in the passives and you end up bizarrely surviving in places where you shouldn't and others can't. Right up until the game throws autohit damage at you or a huge floating eyeball chomps on your head with a 100% tohit buff.

Maybe it's due to how much more tanking I've done since the unsnappening compared to before the snap but I say bring ALL the aggro! Example to follow. We can all accept that procs are only part of the power creep problem. But they are a part of it and just nerfing procs won't be enough. Let's fix ALL the problems at once! For procs, let's ED the issue. Got 1 proc in a power at 3.5 PPM? Great, it's still 3.5 PPM. Stick 2 3.5 PPM procs in a power and they BOTH become 2.5 PPM. 3 procs drops all 3 to 1.5 PPM. For inspirations, purge insp storage across the board outside of your insp tray. Remove them from the markets, no base storage, block them from email completely. No insp stores in bases either. The *only* place you can buy them is the medic in a hospital and they will never sell anything but T1 insps. On the incarnate front, purge level shifting. Completely. Nothing level shifts ever. 54s are 54s and 50s are 50s. And then double the recharge stats on all the incarnate powers.

Yes, but there's a tradeoff. My claws/bio scrapper sits around 1:45 to take down a Rikti pylon where the claws/sr takes around 3:00 with both using the same followup/focus/slash/repeat attack chain. Flipside is that my claws/sr survives at the highest difficulties where the claws/bio can not. Claws/shield would be amazing but you can't use claws with shield.

Nope. Extra maneuverability stays. It's nothin but a mule to me and a completely useless power since I can run hover and fly at the same time anyway.

I don't understand. If it has a red box I kill it. They're all very necessary deaths.

I never felt particularly villainous redside. Far too much time being a lackey to other wannabe villains. So I PL blueside, run Black Scorpion's arc to unlock PPPs, and that's that.

Now having read your post, my initial answer of MOAR DAMUGE makes no sense. BZB Scrap had a bio back before the snap. Pretty sure most of my characters had some blurb about their origin. But now? I haven't invested the time to write much of anything mostly due to laziness but partially because this whole thing feels, I dunno, transitory? I think his current bio is something like, "Yea, that Bill Z" and his many clones have "Yet another BZB clone" but beyond that, I don't think I have any.

Got it. Enemies still cap at 54 so this does nothin for me. 😞

Link? Not seeing it.

I don't use it. Attack chain for single target is Followup-Focus-Slash-repeat. For AoE it's FU-Spin-Shockwave. So it just gets the passive AT IO that buffs crit rates across the board.

Seeing that more and more lately. Current build paradigm is to procmonster everything and choose incarnates to allow for it. My current build doesn't follow that as I chose to chase some extra Neg Nrg DR to better handle Rom's autohit fluffy in the 4th mish of the ITF. Side effect was that my Nrg DR also went up which is helpful in general. Here's what I'm currently running.

And from that consensus on identity, one might be able to move forward with changes that enhance it.

There seems to be a general disdain for it, which would explain its lack of mention in this thread.

I thought so as well until I saw someone's pylon time running a fully proced chain of followup, focus, slash, crosspunch vs my normal followup, focus, slash, repeat. The extra damage procs allow for is nothing short of ludicrous. But what about endurance? Fixed with ageless. What about accuracy? Fixed with tactics and set bonuses. Recharge? Again, set bonuses and less is needed when adding another attack to the chain. And if it's true for one of the fastest sets in the game, it's even more so for all the rest.

Being able to skip DA completely and focus on a much higher damage chain seems to me a boon rather than a problem.

Guess it's time to procmonster my claws/bio scrapper. If history is any guide, by the time I jump on a bandwagon a nerf is soon to follow. So I'll get on that shortly.

I'm guessing you never solo the ITF. I've never had a problem getting drops in Cimerora.

Aye, ran into the same couple days back.

I've long proselytized the many powers of alcohol.

Brutes have a lower mod because of their inherent, Fury, which is a baked in 0-200% damage buff.

What's not to dig? The tankmage is fun. Especially when built and played as a chaos mage, floating around in complete safety, never gettin mezzed, never gettin dropped to the dirt, blasting away one's enemies with complete impunity. Mine probably gets added points since he's my "me" character.

Saved. Very cool and thanks.