Bill Z Bubba

There's something beautiful about the passive +crit coupled with the active +crit on triple stacked FU hitting focus. Utilizing eviscerate there instead with its higher base crit value may be numerically superior, but it ain't NEARLY as sexy.

I do go with the full set AT IO on followup, regardless of AT. But unfortunately, I never found Gaussian's CFBU to benefit my pylon times. Did you compare FU-Focus-Slash vs the best DualBlades ST chain on a pylon and if so, what did you find?

Don't forget, the name still lies! It's a tohit buff.

Unsure. I don't think any of my brutes can handle a Werner Rules ITF. But I also can't say I've built one specifically for the task.

Facts is facts.

You make me sad. But I get it.

I'm going back to my original views. The game is not balanced. Full stop. It never will be. But I'm damn glad I can play it regardless.

And I always choose, "No, yall stay here. I got this."

You sound like someone that takes Elude from SR or Eviscerate from Claws. Again, bolters... and heresy.

You're a smart human. I'm still kicking myself for losing WAY too much CoH info during a less than careful system rebuild.

How's your pylon time? Edit: To anyone else reading this, it's from pylon times that I get a very good idea how fast a character will take down AVs and thus affect the solo time of TFs.

Sorry, forgot this part. I am a junkie for numerical balance. It's why I felt pushed to raise the question in the first place. But I get now that A: it doesn't really matter and B: I'm way outvoted. So I'll see myself out of room for balance discussions and instead just enjoy that I can still play at all.

Nothing. It means absolutely nothing except that the tank survives when the brute doesn't. And, honestly, unless pulling stupid tricks like Werner Rules ITFs, it's just not going to matter one way or the other. Then again, in "normal" game play, might as well bring anything because we're all stupidly OP at this point. Even I have vastly more squishies in my stable than back before the snap for no other reason but that I can buy mez protection and I'm rich so why not?

Ok guys and gals, I'm just gonna recant. Tanks are not clearing missions faster than brutes. I was mistaken, mea culpa, my bad. That said, tanks were still grossly overbuffed, are putting out far too much damage for being a damage secondary archetype, their speed at clearing maps is still too close to brutes for all the extra mitigation they have and I'm not seeing any kind of balance there. But these are opinions. And facts are facts. My statement that I was seeing tanks clear maps faster because of the added AoE is not holding up to my scrutiny and testing. Even my claws/sr brute is faster on average than my sr/claws tank so I'm either misremembering what I was doing on beta before the changes went live, or something else is amiss. Either way, I was wrong. Edit: And the brutes are still only 30 seconds faster than the tanks on pylon times. That seems ludicrous to me.

Thanks to the ease of getting T4ed farming Heather's arc, DA has seen far more of my game time than any other zone except MAYBE Cimerora. Cuz I do love me some ITFs.

I found big robot Siege in General Villains. And there's now a big robot on the other side of this asteroid just waitin for a beatdown as a lvl 54 AV. Woot. Edit: Not a woot. This is the BAF version with his rings of death. He doesn't have those in Maria's arc.

Storm Kick is providing +10% base def to all positions on tanks? WTH? For 13.6 seconds? WTF? But that's only for Tanks and Brutes, while Scrappers and Stalkers get nothing? /headdesk-headdesk-headdesk

I'll try again but last time I did it just sat there doing nothing. EDIT: "There are too few players to own the event."

Can't start that solo.

Maria's arc. But he shows up randomly, if I recall correctly, so if anyone knows of a better way to get him in a mission, I'd love to hear it. Or would it be easiest to create a quick AE mission with him? Would he have his real stats?

I don't have a single elec armor user. I should fix that. And go with a secondary that isn't claws, em or mace. Maybe savage.

My BZBs repond with, "Stupid Rularuu." Siege at +4 halted my god tank as I was still getting incarnated out. His heal outdid my DPS. I should revisit that fight after the next respec. And this was with a character that now takes about 1.5 hours to solo a normal max diff ITF. So, yea, exceptions occur. That's a good thing.

That's my experience running DA repeatables at 50+3. All the rewards of running +4/x8 with the effort of +1/x8.

Sounds like a plan.

I couldn't get mine better than that. BU - ET long - TF - ET short - Gloom - BS and BU is only usable every 3 chain, I think. Still haven't figured out if BU is better before or after that first ET.