Bill Z Bubba

Build how ya like. If you're runnin with folks you enjoy hanging out with it doesn't matter at all. It's only when *you* decide that your character's performance matters that it matters.

Time for me to have some learnin. I thought KB < 1 = KD. Is that not true? Lvl 1: Lvl 45: Lvl 50: Other bits: For the Demon Lash, it's called knockdown in the description but becomes knockback where Claws' Focus is called knockback but is always at .67 so always knockdown. It'd be nice if descriptions matched what the powers actually do.

Woot. Fire/Bio for the win!

I've seen well played MMs do cool things. I'm not amongst the players that can pull it off.

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And removing that would make MMs suck so much less!

Is as it ever was. Won't be changing any time soon.

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Ran my earth/earth last night in an ITF with the SG. She needs a respec but even as is, I still absolutely adore playing her.

BF, SS, AS, repeat? BF 1.452 Acast and 12 sec rec SS 1.452 Acast and 11 sec rec AS 1.188 Acast and 6 sec rec To get BF down to a 2.64 sec recharge requires 355% total recharge. 256% after enhancement. 186% after hasten 136% after 5 purples 98.5% after 5 LotGs 78.5% after quickness in SR That is a lotta extra recharge needed. Mids is showing on my db/nrg scrap with 10 foes in range of entropic aura +35% and BF recharging in 2.87 seconds, still short by .23 seconds. With only 1 enemy in range, EA only buffs 3.5% (again, as per mids) and BF's recharge is at 3.1 sec, a dead space of almost half a second. And yet, that's all I run on my db/nrg. Is it possible that BF, SS, AS, .5 sec to .17 sec pause is still better DPS than a clean BF, AS, SS, AS, repeat chain?

While true about the hardmode diff, that's a TINY percentage of content specifically designed to beat the hell out of those attempting to solo it. My eternal (and seemingly wrongheaded) hope is that we never have enough power creep where soloing the HM ITF is as easy as soloing the non-HM ITF is now but I won't be holding my breath on that hope.

Quoting for truth as I'm a recent convert. See the end product first, then decide if it's worth grind X to build it on the regular servers. No muss, no fuss, no hassle.

Yes. But it just shows how obsolete everything is because power creep from the devs provided us a game where the max diff is obsolete and the playerbase demands no nerfs and only buffs so that it might as well be a fucking I Win button unless you're playing a petless merc/ta mastermind unless you choose to play the new ultra-diff level TFs of which there will eventually be two. And people never choose to play them. Edit: Damn, I sound jaded as all get out.

I suspect that there's not a DPS listing that ignores outside powers. The vast majority of the best times for pylons or Trapdoor or whatever include crutching on Moonbeam/Gloom because they are ridiculously OP compared to everything else. Which is why I've tried to avoid them except on characters I willfully chose to go as OP as possible, my shield/nrg tank and my nrg/bio scrap, which are, indeed, both ludicrously OP. But thanks to math, you can use what's out there that includes those powers to get a good idea of what's what. Anything + Moonbeam will give a good idea of how things stack without Moonbeam. Same for Gloom. Hit the threads in question and extrapolate properly, you'll have your answer.

But on a troller, Kin + Spirit Ward + Enflame make my earth pet a flaming bag of poop that kicks ass.

Scrappers don't get the extra defense. For some stupid reason. Thirding on staff/bio. 3 forms and 3 adaptations or just go +body/offensive for max +damage.

This. Controllers can often get triple damage out of arcane bolt.

I was mostly joking. Everything following those rules is gonna be a drag on the way to 50. My fire/regen brute sucked taint on SOs.

Pain has a very solid self-heal at lvl 1 and a ton of skippable powers for a soloist which allows more pool choices. Not sure that's the secondary I'd go for on the worst scale. And corruptor damage is high enough to make soloing pretty easy. So you want something that will dish out crap damage while lacking any useful self-buffs or enemy debuffs that will particularly suck while solo on SOs. That's a Peacebringer.

Meh, they're tanks. They won't notice.

Runnin Clobber, Jawbreaker, Shatter, repeat for my ST chain on a mace/bio scrap. It's up there on the DPS and crunches oh so satisfyingly. Then she switches to Clobber, Shatter, Crowd Control, repeat for AoE.

Fire/emp with a max recharge build.

Yup, it's almost like it's a completely unfair game design. Go melee, get everything you need easily solo, go squishy and be squishy. I have a lot of squishies. It's probably not coincidental that very few if any have all 4 passive accolades. Then again, maybe it is ok design. The squishies team more, don't need the accolades, and nothing in this game is as impressive to me as a full murderball of corruptors.

Several days? Wut? Found some screenies of my nrg/sr brute, she soloed Numina in 1:10 with zero defeats. Manti in 1:30, zero defeats. Synapse 1:30, zero defeats. Yin 1:08 with 3 defeats but you can also take as long as you want, go on break whenever you want, go as fast or as slow as you please. Edit: Obviously, I zerged the hell out of these at base diff. Also, as an example, if a TF gives 100k xp, a soloist gets the full 100k. Each member on a team of 8 only gets 100k*2.5/8 = 31250 but you also have to deal with waiting for folks to join, people dropping, other people, and I've seen full teams stumble along to bad times.

Skip it. Eviscerate is a garbage power and completely unnecessary when you get enough recharge to run followup, spin, shockwave, repeat.