Bill Z Bubba

On a +4 kill 'em all ITF right now. Doin great, slaughtering hard targets, feel's like it's working as described. Melee Blaster. Safe as can be. Kicking ass. Still sucks solo at max diff due to boredom not ability. There's no way around this perception is there?

Which means diff lvls up to +7/x14.

We need quantums to remind us we're playing a sub-par archetype. Edit: Yes, I just stripped/deleted my two warshades. After testing my lvl 50 WS with perma-clarion.

Lvl 50 kat/inv stalker with the build below. Aggroing 2 spawns of +4/x8 arachnos and the poor girl just folds. Granted, it's a slow death but it's inevitable due to the horrific AoE output from only being able to use Flashing Steel and MAYBE Golder Dragonfly for hitting multiple foes. I see the gorgeous ST damage output. I'm sure it'll have a fine sub-3 min pylon time. Maybe sub-2 min. But, wow, the clear all speed at max diff sucks a whole lot. Please explain to me why stalkers are remotely worthwhile. This is well past my 5th attempt to have a stalker in my stable of characters. Maybe past my 10th. I'd rather be able to survive everything and eventually kill the +4 AV than get stomped on the way to getting to said AV. | Copy & Paste this data into Mids Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1370;679;1358;HEX;| |78DA4D93594F135114C7EF3083A58502B540A985422BD88D0EC5E8832B89024AA14| |8D2C4D766B457189DB4CDB4287579F02BE883DF40C5A8CFBEFA0D5CBF831B8B6B34| |2EF5B4FF53609299DFCCB967F9DF73EE6456A73A9E9EB93D2914F769CB289773D98| |A615D91B663C1A8ACD886A50A21DA3286B4CA15DB70D0879F1D72196949A92F9885| |CB462E7BAD68E7879A2B53F2922C94A53E5BB8BA6215A46D5C302DB352151D8BC5A| |2A5CF4BA36416965C8D8F6C49CABCBBF13A632E2D5768A1ABE995977679D92CF9A7| |4BE645FD54315FCD658C7245DAD5A6C67E92334CF77D273D14BA45AD55445A8498D| |0444B941903B5383301EE794EF46A6236B21D2B44AFD2587B40F914CEA7FC66FF3F| |60DB5FE63FB0B306760BB5C134E55311ABA929E41B39C43CCCF4110735113988983| |98A69458CDAFA0DB6FDDF993F99BF401FCDA03E86BA5E4700B687A4D7C97A9D2F60| |73BD64BE023B5E33DF809D6FC1358A6DE7FDB7AF612F612AE0864D712708134E116| |73E8B09D1C55ABB46E825A28958841905E331709EF6E5816F8B2783BDEFCD323FA2| |FE02F978D9C71BC75A30018674B0CF81D1D435F6F28C14B2F9B80FBE1A5DE231EDC| |4CF5DF0AF6A0DAF7D55E67570E006F32618BC059E2315015611E84685712F932BAA| |5471907D0659693C098E8D834F48C3106B183A826E0E1F651E631E0743279893E8C| |422690873FE306B48F6305983461A4639FFE806E20E6C32B7989FC1C817E657D043| |B1513E99D119D862B3E0581A4CCE81A9663D8F10093E09897BD03BF6033D73D09AC| |E27413F8913ADA73179FD3CF72E847C8FA82F299E562A8E9314D0045FB5DAC0CE7B| |FD93A639BFDB1212E890C6BF2AD99486D7BA6BFB4F154A125E9BAE5D7FEF3BD4EF7| |E0FF67C60F2E9EBFBC45C073776E78B22DFD68E4D55EEA007FD7799DC9320F7E4AC| |9700DFDA7F860DCAFE| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Well said.

There have been a ton of design choices that were changed over the years because of folks realizing just how silly those choices were.

Stronger on damage output than other EM users? No. Stronger on mitigation than other SD users? Yes. Cuz of AT modifiers. An EM/SD brute would be "better" for 95% of the content since it would be killing faster and still have "enough" mitigation. Whether it could pull off the sillier stuff at max diff while solo is questionable.

While true, being able to slaughter +4s as +1s in DA seems a bit ludicrous. Granted, it's only somewhat more ludicrous than regular content capping out at +3s when you have just the one. Course, I am in the camp that thinks there should be only 1 lvl shift and you shouldn't get it until T3 Hybrid but I'm obviously mad.

Wit AAO fully saturated, my sd/em tank has a better pylon time than my claws/sr scrapper. /yes, I have a problem with that.

Massive ST damage output for AV fights and massive survivability for everything else.

Shield/EM Tank is the most ridiculous thing I've built so far.

Assault Radial against anything without high NRG DR. If they have it, like Mu Drakhen in MLTF, switch to Assault Core. So far, I'm digging my ET(long)-TF-ET(short)-Gloom-Bonesmasher-repeat attack chain. I fire buildup AFTER TF and usually get the buff on the ET(long.) It's back up every third cycle I believe with 1 recred and the Gaussian CFBU.

Yupyup. My hatred of ice armor is only second to my hatred of stone armor.

Crank up the recharge. It can push out some seriously crunchy goodness when you're rocking Clobber, Shatter, Jawbreaker, repeat as your ST chain and Shatter, CrowdControl, WhirlingMace, repeat as your AoE chain.

On mace, my mace/bio scrapper with her magic pipe wrench of doom is a hoot but I absolutely get why many avoid mace/axe/broadsword. I have zero axes and bs users.

Stone/Any. Far too many negatives for what little mitigation superiority it provides. Edit: However, the stone/ma almost lived just due to the hilarity of granite feet to the face.

I don't grok the EA love. By the numbers it looks awesome but it's always felt so clunky to me. Or maybe I've got hold-over bias from back when it was released and REALLY sucked.

But I'm a devil. We don't even fear the creator. 🙂 I hear ya. I enjoy my squishies when I team. My blaster even made it through a TF without faceplanting the other night! Now taking her to DA for max diff stuff? Painful.

I've always stated that I love defense sets like SR partly because of how much nastiness there is heading our way that just never lands, so I can absolutely grok the benefits of the softcap, but even then, I wouldn't want to run any of my SRs without Practiced Brawler. Mez is absolutely LESS of an issue when softcapped but it still happens enough that it annoys heavily and does so for at least 50 levels since there is no way to perma RoP.

I fail to see the difference between earned inf and earned incarnate stuff. Both take time to gain by killing enemies.

But there's the rub, I see a build without 5 LotG +recharges and 5 purple sets for another +50% recred and I think THAT is self-gimped. But we don't get to make that call for other players.

ERROR?!?!? Don't you concept-shame me! /see? Absurdity has no level cap.

You can get to vet lvl 100 without crafting incarnate powers.

Never underestimate a person's ability for the absurd. I get your point and agree but I could easily make a truly horrible character were the mood to strike.

Damnit, Snarky, I was just snarky at work and my very first thought afterwards was that I owed you 5 inf.