Bill Z Bubba

It should also be noted that the claws' aoe output crushes the em's and there's FAR less corpse blasting to deal with.

Absolutely true. I suspect the biggest change since the snap is that I've become even lazier.

Intended at one time, perhaps. But now we can separate a power's boosts and get them to work properly. Take Personal Force Field for example. It buffs Self +Def, Res(All except Toxic) but only the +Res portion of the power is set to ignore enhancements and other boosts. If it can be done for some powers, it should be done for them all. https://cod.uberguy.net./html/power.html?power=defender_buff.force_field.personal_force_field&at=defender

I just stripped/deleted both my triform and humanonly WS. Even with perpetual mez protection from clarion, the humanonly was painfully weak against hard targets. The triform might have been ok with clarion so that I could drop out of dwarf form and not be instamezzed, but in the end, the constant form hopping was trashing my DPS more than helping and having to wait until 50++ before getting proper mez protection means a whole lotta sittin in dwarf form and doing all other manner of things to get past the constant mezzing. Khels are awesome to watch in action and back before the snap I really did love my triform WS and PB. Now? With the current game? It's like stone armor. Why deal with all the negatives when you can dish out the same or better damage with the same or close to it mitigation with something else with far less hassle and annoyance? I still have a humanonly PB but she's not long for existence either for the same reasons.

Wait... what? I didn't strive for existence. That was thrust upon me. Does that mean my existence has no value?

Start using IOs for set bonuses early... and often. Pairing an aoe-centric primary with what is arguably the weakest secondary is brave and you should go for it if it appeals to you.

I waltzed my tank into @Linea's 802.5 AE mission at max diff. Hit rebirth, shield charged into the first spawn, hit whirling hands, ETed the biggest boss in the face and promptly faceplanted. The ability to create really nasty critters and missions is available and I, too, would like to see more of it utilized across the board.

... cuz the incarnate trials are so intricate and difficult? Hmmm. To the point, no thanks. I like being able to use DA for PLing alts when I get tired of AE.

Yea, I am. I'll keep this one to have one but I don't see getting much use out of her.

Guess you didn't bother looking at the build. Survivability isn't the problem. The problem is the ridiculously boring clear map speed due to lack of AoE. I can give up Body Mastery for something else but I'll be giving up a lot of mitigation to do so.

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.