Bill Z Bubba

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.

That'd be easy for my fire/bio sent. Replace the KB/Repel/Hold in Blazing Blast with 100% chance Mag 4 Immobilize.

Again, I don't disagree, but in this case I was speaking more toward how a single epic power pool eclipses the others so completely that it becomes the go to for so many.

Are you running any incarnates that apply DoT? Are you fighting many AVs? (He asks, confusedly, knowing who he's asking that question of.) I can't figure out why you AREN'T seeing this behavior. Edit: It's got to be debuff related. I don't see it happen when I'm solo on a melee with any kind of taunt. I don't recall it happening with BZB Scrap and he has zero taunt in play. I do know it's happened with taunters taunting and smashing but only on teams where debuffs would be in play. I do know it happens on my sentinel because he's a hover blaster.

It does but ain't it just viscerally awesome with its crunchiness?

I'm not disagreeing as I've seen the numbers, but does anyone else find such a situation absolutely appalling? It's amazingly bad design. Edit: For the record, I've enjoyed my rad/regen Sentinel. Based him off the ghouls from Fallout.

Same with water and oxygen. Harm no other and do as ye will, kids.

Agreed. WM puts out some seriously crunchy goodness on both the ST and AoE fronts.

That's been a major part of my build philosophy for a while now. The amount of damage that proc-monster builds add to any given build is even more ludicrous than the recent tank buffs.

I quit my system analyst gig at the end of April and have found temporary retirement to be absolutely wonderful. Quite frankly, I plan to continue it well into 2022. As for having my own shard, I'd love it if those smarter than me would set up a package installation for a single player (or something ridiculously small like 5 concurrent players) so that I could have the entire thing on a single beefy-ish server just in case something goes awry with Homecoming.

Not that I'm aware of but that's also incredibly vague. I think my builds are awesome but those that love proc-monster builds think they're all crap.

Hi. I'm on the other side of the equation and often get far more drops than I would expect including purples and pvp recipes. And my main is only at 700andsomethin vetlvls. This thread absolutely sent me down a WTFBBQ spiral of insanity so... ummm... thanks? I mean, chaos is good and all but wow. There is NO drop rate reduction past vetlvl 99. I have at least 5 characters past that threshold and have seen nothing of the sort.

I've pondered the same, but I'm not sure that the extra .01 seconds on followup's recharge is going to matter in the long run.

Probably the pewpew of flares and night fall.

It's actually a great reason to solo Synapse!

This appears to be the case. As long as I made absolutely sure to damage them all at regular intervals, they stayed on me. If I forgot about someone blasting me at range and got too far away from them, they'd wander off. Side note: No, my tank can't survive this ride at +4. One AV at a time, sure, but I might not get it done in the 2 hour time limit. On the herding of them, even with avoiding Malaise and Numina, it just ends up being more than my mitigation can handle. Granted, I never popped One with the Shield as I plan to respec out of it, but even Malaise on his own was a rough fight due to all the psi damage, so I seriously doubt my current build would live long with all 15 beatin on me. Regardless, It's a fun test.