Bill Z Bubba

It's not a dead end at all unless you want to pretend that there aren't a ton of 50+ builds running around playing the same content as everyone else. There's no point in ONLY considering IOs in a discussion about game balance. They are part of the game balance woes included with IOs and their set bonuses, intra-AT balance and extra-AT balance. But yes please, let's see the data mining on just how many characters are out there that are running SO only builds and fully T4ed. I suspect the answer is 0 at this particular moment, knowing fully well someone will do it just for the hell of it.

Poor Bill would be screwed if I followed that philosophy. There's a LOT out there that outperforms Claws and SR. However, for an all rounder, jack of all trades, master of none, it's still an awesome combo.

I'm still playing the first character I ever created in CoH. A joke character I planned to use to learn the game and then delete. What is it now... 17 years later and he's still my favorite?

I'm pretty sure (maybe, kinda, I'm old, memory sucks) that only BZB Scrap, BZB Brute and Louis Cypher were fully T4ed back before the snap. It wasn't even remotely worth it to bother doing so with any other character. Now? It takes MAYBE two weeks for me to get a character to 50, fully PvPed/Purpled/IOed, T4ed AND have all 4 passive accolades. This is why I find it so difficult to accept that majority of players are still running around with SO only builds. Sure... maybe on the way to 50, but after that? Nah, citation seriously needed.

It's always a joyous occasion when it's the straight shot through.

Pretty sure this is why, last I heard, all scrapper ITFs were in the lead on time. (Edit: For max diff runs. Seems a lot of speed teams run at +0 so that may help all squishy teams.) Split up in the first two missions, do some splitting in the 3rd, team up for the monster group, computer and AVs. Saves a bunch of time. I see no reason why brutes and tanks wouldn't follow the same tactic.

Statement: I firefarm to get new alts to 50. I have never AFK farmed. I think I like my slaughterings to be hands on. Question: Why would I run content without reward?

And give all SR the Master Brawler treatment.

And should stay sailed. Being forced to team for some reasonable level of incarnate progression was ridiculous before the snap and was a primary reason for one of my long breaks from CoH. I'm not saying some middle ground couldn't be found but the old ways were the greater of two evils by far.

Each passive grants 0 to 20% DR for a total of 60 DR if you have all 3 and a ms from death. If scaling resists kicks in at 60% health and you were at 33.894% health, you then should be getting 26.106 total DR which is awfully close to your 8.67*3 = 26 shown in your screenshot. Or am I missing something? Edit: Or are we both agreeing that it actually does kick in at 60% health and not 50%.

Teams would dig having you around.

Drop stealin bastiches, the lot of them!

So that's why I only play here.

I go the other way. Choose a defense armor so you can skip DA completely as its low DPA kills your overall DPS. That said, my only existing stalker is kat/inv just cuz.

Use lots of very tiny bricks and you won't notice.

Are you asking if diminishing returns a la ED should be applied to all buffs from multiple sources? So first layer of maneuvers is 100%, second is 50%, etc?

That plus No Redraw often makes me a happy camper.

Found another claws in my stable. Claws/WP scrapper. I should finish her up.

But then you you found incarnates and better slotting and learned that aid self was nothing but a DPS killer. Cuz you smart.

Ok, I'll do some pylon retests. After pizza. Cuz I need pizza.

C'mon @Sovera give us the summation. What's best on the simple?

My vote is tank.

And I ran an ITF with my time/fire defender where we slaughtered everything because everyone on the team had IO set bonuses. Like I said, I need data from the devs. Anything short of that ain't enough.

Citation needed. Until we have it, this opinion is nothing but that. It may have been true back before the snap. I find it a ridiculous assumption now.

We ain't got no rails here, man!