Bill Z Bubba

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.

Honestly? It's rare that I don't see other people when flying between missions.

That's precisely what I DON'T want to see. Make them harder with more team buffs and enemy debuffs. Make them harder with better AI. Making them "harder" by increasing their meatbaggedness is a nonstarter for me.

I still hate that I have to lean on clarion core for all my squishies to be tolerable.

This is the way.

Claws/SR scrapper Claws/SR Brute SR/Claws Tank Shield/EM Tank Fire/Bio Sentinel Fire/Time Blaster Fire/Dark Corruptor Dark/Time Controller I wouldn't want to face that group.

On the beta server.

/checks underwear. Yes. In all seriousness, I don't get why anyone ignores DA. There is no faster path to T4ing your incarnate powers and for those that want to avoid AE, fighting +4/x8 with 3 lvl shifts means you're getting +4 rewards for fighting +1s.