Bill Z Bubba

Do I really think some people on this forum have actually stated just those opinions on AE? Yes, because they have. Do I think the devs are silly enough to go along with those opinions? Course not.

I'll put it another way. Assault is always buffing every attack by exactly the % it states in CoD for each AT. You deciding that it doesn't because you want to mislead others on how damage buffs work in this game is not the game's fault nor is it a rational reason to rework how damage buffs function nor even a rational reason for changing the power description of every damage buff in the game to explain how damage buffs work.

Bullshit, no one is suggesting it. Farming in AE needs one well built farmer *soloing* and that's precisely what has the anti-ae crowd all in a tizzy. ""Those" people aren't being forced to team! "Those" people are earning inf/xp/emps/etc far faster than I can outside of AE! "Those" people are letting folks doorsit and level/earn rewards faster than actually "playing the game!" It's quite related.

Methinks "massive" is quite overstated with 1255 people online. 100% agreed when it comes to powerset and archetype balance. AE's not really an outlier if the vast majority of leveling happens there. But I'm game. Let's see what happens to the player population if the devs manage to nerf AE enough so that an ss/fire/mu brute can only get the same rewards per minute in AE that an emp/nrg defender can get outside of it.

Your test was flawed. Go retest with unslotted brawl and no other damage buffs. Then you'll see Assault functioning exactly as described and exactly as all damage buffs have functioned in this game for almost 20 years. For everyone else confused by the way damage works in this game, all damage buffs are added together and then applied. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Damage

We're doing it until those idiotic tank buffs get reverted.

Ever been on an all corruptor team? Every other AT becomes a waste of space. Sentinels would be far less maligned if we WERE playing a SO only game but of course we aren't. And ya know... I soloed a max diff standard no insps ITF with my fire/bio sent and while I'll admit that it was a slog because the AVs took forever due to my complete inability to keep them from running all over the gorram map, it does show that they're not ridiculously weak. And in a race with a blaster buddy of mine where we each took a path in the last mission of another ITF, I didn't fall all that far behind him. Which leads to the apparently necessary reminder that there is a game here that exists before we get a character to 50, T4ed with 500mil inf worth of IOs, and during that part of the game, my fire/bio sent was vastly more fun to solo to 50 than any other ranged character I've done it with. And we all know why. Ya want to completely trounce all the uber-diff content? Bring 1 high aggro controlling brute and 7 corruptors. Nothing else need apply.

All damage buffs be they from fury or buildup or any other source work the same way. It's not misleading, it's functioning as designed and as it always has. Big no vote from me on the topic. There's been too much power creep. We don't need more.

There are those that understand math...

My sarcasm meter redlined.

Puttin my inf on Nrg Aura. Elec is a fun set but it's not known for being top tier on survivability.

DA (all incarnate) critters have +13.75% tohit so the actual incarnate softcap is 58.75% and everyone generally rounds up to 59%. I used DA repeatables almost entirely when I was pushing my claws/sr scrapper to vet lvl 666 and never really had any issues, with Mids telling me he only sits at 50.35%, 44.59% and 49.59% for MRA defense. However, all of those values get bumped by the constant +5% to all from a T4ed barrier core at its lowest point in its cycle so that explains pretty much everything since barrier is also buffing resistance. Edit: That said, the tohit debuffs from dark melee should have been helping you out considerably.

No rule against enflame that I know of. 55 sec on claws/bio is insane. Guess my old build has definitely gone the way of the dodo. Just got 1:45 with my claws/bio scrapper with hybrid running followup, focus, slash, repeat. But it's not clean. Needs more recharge. Adding in attacks like moonbeam and shockwave will allow for increased proc usage and thus better DPS but I still won't let myself do it. Too stuck in my ways.

My slotting is all over the place on my various Bio users. The mace/bio scrapper uses 3 different heal/recharge IOs and a ToE CF+End in both dna siphon and parasitic aura. The bio/claws tank has no parasitic aura and dna siphon has 1 50*5 acc and 5 panaceas. The nrg/bio scrapper goes with 1 50+5 acc and 3 different heal/recharge IOs. I'd standardize on something but I haven't been in game enough lately to retest/respec.

All I know is She-Hulk is gonna make my pants fit funny.

I'm in the 3-slot stamina camp as well. As in, at level 5 it gets the third slot. At lvl 17, the SOs get replaced with PerfShifter: end/rec, end and CFend. On almost all builds at some point, the 4th slot and end/acc or a power transfer CFheal get added.

I think dual pistols have cryo rounds. Tons of work but that would have been awesome from day 1.

Double XP, yo. What's to hate?

Testing was done by @BillyMailman "AR/TA toon, I made a chain of Burst, Electric Net Arrow, Slug, Ice Arrow, M30 Grenade, Flash Arrow. Longer would have meant a power with too long a recharge and needing a real build for global and hasten and whatnot, so it stopped at six powers. Total Arcanatime is 9.108s, and after cycling it ten times, I got 92s. If redraw mattered, it was nothing. That 1s is almost certainly me missing queueing things, or just not being perfect with hitting the phone to stop the stopwatch. I then made a spider, and got a ten-attack chain. Single Shot, Mace Beam, Burst, Mace Beam Blast, Wide Area Web Grenade, Mace Beam volley, Heavy Burst, Poisonous Ray, Venom Grenade, Web Cocoon. Total Arcanatime, 20.064s. I stopped after three cycles took exactly a minute. Like, it's dead on. And yeah, the Bane Build Up requires the mace, which means there's no redraw if you stick to Mace powers. (edited) So, definitively, as long as you queue powers, redraw has 100% no effect whatsoever for anyone, in terms of the resulting timing." So it doesn't matter. Someone can follow his testing methodology with anything else. *IF* a discrepancy can be found, it can then be addressed as a bug through the bug forum.

DAMN you for making me do math! DS recharge 5 sec 1.056 cast Incin recharge 12 sec 2.244 cast FA recharge 90 sec 2.64 cast ... Ok, yea, that ain't EVER happening.... but what can we do? FA, DS, Incin, DS, repeat? Get 90 down to 1.056+2.244+1.056 = 4.356 sec or .... yea, that ain't gonna happen. Disregard! Fuckin AR....

Ignoring procs or leaning on epic pools (I know, I'm a heretic, bring on the bolters,) your best 3 attack chain will be Disorienting Shot, Incinerator, Burst, repeat. But DS, Incin, Full Auto would be prettier. I have not tested these chains nor calculated the recharge needed to make 'em happen. Just going off Mids for the halibut.

Last time I had that happen, the only fix was SUARB. (Shut Up And ReBoot.) Cleared it right up.

My high school mullet was GLORIOUS! All business on top and full Firestarter goin nuts in back! None shall dishonor the power of my semi-fro!

O.O Proof that at least one of the inner cabal doesn't have me on ignore!!! 🙂

Let's see if this works. I like banana sandwiches ... with mayonnaise.