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Just got 3:11 so apparently I'm senile. Thought he was sittin around 4 mins on average. Carry on.

Pylon time with fire/bio sent, 2:56. This puts it on par with my shield/nrg tank and claws/sr scrapper. While hovering above the fight in complete safety. (Edit: In normal content, of course. I know it doesn't matter with pylons.) Also took out a lvl 54 Tub Ci in Mr G's arc in less than 5 mins. Yay. More power creep.

Guess I'm old school. Spidey I knew never had electric blast. I'll second StJ/SR with SJ/CJ ... and maybe a proced out Flurry. Kind of a bummer you'd have to haul out a mace for webbing but it is what it is.

I've got a dark/stone tank that tanks just fine. Fold space + taunt aura + taunt + aoes obliterate the stealth problems.

When you say raw damage, what do you mean? Actual raw damage? Sent Fire Blast (69) > Tank Scorch (50.) Sent Flares (52) < Tank Fire Sword (75.) That's T1 vs T1 and T2 vs T2. Sent damres debuff will help some. Or do you mean raw kill speed clearing everything? Sents cause scatter, like a bad fart. Tanks cause clumping, like kitty litter. Tanks win by a landslide on clear all kill speed. My shield/nrg tank sits around 2:45 for pylon times. I don't see any nrg/* sents pulling that off, (my fire/bio sent doesn't come close,) but then again, NrgMelee buffs + tank overbuffing vs sents generally being a poorly designed bag of crap, fun or not, isn't a very fair comparison. (Why don't sents get shield again?) Been running Mr. G's arc at max diff with my fire/bio sent. Several faceplants but got through carnies, Crimson Revenant and family. Slow going of course. The tank rolled through all that without issue while being safer, faster and vastly more efficient.

It's really not. Scrapper +crit IOs send them way ahead. Brute damage is much closer to the tank side than the scrapper side these days.

Could and should. HP-Max is at 2088, 2410, 3213 and 3534 for the 4 ATs. Base values (edit: and caps!) for the armors should follow the same ratio. That's right... nerf stalkers and buff brutes. Then make sure damage output follows the same inverse rule.

There was a reason that the OG BZB was moved off of Pinnacle and replaced with BZB Brute. And there's a reason now for me having 3 BZBs. I'd have 4 if stalker claws wasn't such a steaming pile of shit. I miss old fury as well.

I'm gonna second the time/* defender. My time/fire can solo max diff and can keep a team happy, healthy and mean.

Yup. I also enjoy AV fights that take longer than 2 minutes.

Only reason I never recreated my ice/nrg tank from live is that I can't remember her name or what she looked like.

Except for AVs going into full flee mode and ignoring taunt/gauntlet/threat completely, the difference in runners for my claws/sr scrapper vs the brute/tank versions is beyond painful.

I've said it before and will no doubt again, but SR is just cruise control for cool. A secondary that provides a heal, Rad or Dark hop to mind, will take you into immortal land and provide a combo where the only clicks you really have to deal with can all be in tray 1.

Wonder how many of us ended up here because of that.

Because tanks were ridiculously overbuffed already and any further buffs are beyond ignorant.

Nice build. Amazing how much mitigation you're getting from just Storm Kick with its +def and the MotT set.

I got tired of the bureaucracy in Hell and needed a vacation. Heard about this place called Paragon City where a buncha supers were running amok. Sounded like a good idea. Crafted myself a new body, gave it some groovy claws and a knack for avoiding damage and went to town. Been tearin through the baddies (and goodies) ever since. What's to say? I enjoy flipping out and killing things while painting rooms with their blood and entrails. The name seemed close enough to my real one and American enough to fit in.

Shield is numerically superior to SR. Shield is subjectively very less sexy than SR. SR on a tank is borderline insanely tough. That's without RoP or Darkest Night or both pushing is even further.

As a scrapper, pretty sure this is the way.

@Cipherhasn't posted since August. But I implore everyone that wants those numbers to go post in that thread requesting them again. Like I did. Several times. 🙂

Get actual numbers from https://cod.uberguy.net/ Figure out attack chain damage for blasters vs corruptors but add 40% to base corruptor damage for the average scourge adds. Edit: Calculate whatever damage buff averages out to for blasters from their inherent. There still is a damage buff for attacking, yes? Calculate in buffs from aim/buildup/etc based on recharge up time for chain. There is no profit. This is for informational purposes only.

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Altruism doesn't exist. If you take a power that benefits you, either directly or because it makes those around you better and since you're on a team you're better for it, it's selfish. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being selfish when it benefits everyone.

Do the opposite of the speed run sometime. Hop into a normal +*/x8 TF and clear everything. Take breaks whenever you want, kill as fast or slow as you like, it's very zen. Being able to start TFs solo was one of the best changes to ever hit this game.

That movie is up there with Airplane and American Werewolf in London in my hierarchy of perfect movies.