Bill Z Bubba

Yes, but there's a huge difference between balancing a game and self-gimping in an attempt to correct for said lack of balance.

Does the AT IO proc that puts you back into hide function if you don't have the Hide power toggled on? If so, build to cover the non-hidden defense values lost and then just remove it from your tray and never bother with it again. I've been thinking about doing that just so I could have a stalker in my stable.

I've mentioned it in other threads... the loss of my old CoH drive, all those DPS/attack chain spreadsheets, all the .txt files full of random notes, mids builds, screenshots... that shit was painful to lose but I didn't know it was painful until I found out about the SSPS and HC.

The ones that click get T4ed, passive accolades an carefully plotted out in Mids for full purple/pvp/other IO sets. But I'm running a brute redside doing content right now and she just hit 29 all solo except for 1 lowbie TF. There is no end game for me. Hell, my 3 BZBs on Excel combined are at or over 1000 vet lvls. My "me" sentinel is sitting around 130 vet lvls. My new godmode shield/em tank is gonna hit 100 in no time if she hasn't already. My end game with CoH already occurred when the game was shut down. Then I got a second chance for some more CoH love. And, again, my end game will occur when this set of devs decide to close down the shop. Then again, the data to create my own instance is out there now and I've got the hardware to run a single player (or 2 or 5 player) instance here in my house. So maybe... just maybe, there never will be and end game for me.

This appears to me to be the correct course ahead. For any character that I've spent the time to fully T4 and IO out, the vast majority of the content has become trivial. To correct this, I can either self-gimp, or make no effort to improve, or IOs and incarnates can be nerfed, or more content can be added that utilizes the engine to add difficulty. The downside to this choice is that there WILL be, as we have seen in many a thread, those complaining that the new content is far too difficult to manage with SO only builds and thus goes against the age-old "game is balanced around SOs" mindset.

I know someone else mentioned it but that big rez from dark miasma, howling twilight, is glorious on the sound fx. Heard it last night and thought of this thread.

Rad melee suffers from painfully slow animations and crap single target damage and bio is an intensely clicky set with pretty bad mitigation for high end stuff even while granting amazing +damage. I've deleted a lot of both. But I'll keep my claws/bio scrapper cuz pretty pylon times, etc.

Did you mean shockwave? It absolutely needs the KB->KD but focus is already KD.

You'll get more aoe with claws and possibly more st damage with claws as well, depending on how you build. But kat has some seriously satisfying crunch to it.

I would think that's precisely what our fluffies are: stored essence that lingers usefully.

Always reminds me of this:

Defense Debuff Resistance. SR can easily cap it which is why those that use it can cruise through ITFs without a worry while most everyone else will experience cascading defense failures.

Same singer, two different bands.

I came into this thread planning to state that the title has 4 too many words. Instead, yea, the upgrade button is nice. Soloing a new brute redside and click it often.

One can easily argue that thanks to all the melee attacks in the secondary, blasters were always designed with blapping in mind. And one can easily argue how swell that is to give us so many powers to skip so that we can instead focus on ranged mitigation. But then we can also argue that sentinels are better thanks to built in mez protection but that ignores the love of I Win buttons we can buy from the P2W vendor.

I'm confused. I thought every AT and Powerset Combo ended up being Tab, F, 1, 2, 3 (or more) repeat until everything that shows up with a red box is dead.

But then he was deleted and turned into a fire/bio sentinel with powers colored black and purple.

Or you can add hasten, make it perma and use it as a guide for clicking PB since they have the same uptime. This way you don't waste end overclicking it. Different story on shield, of course, where you need to doublestack active defense to get a tolerable level of DDR.

I went ma/elec brute cuz I had neither. Turns out, this is the only electric using anything I've got. Cept for 1 Tarikoff TF, been 100% solo runnin redside content. No PL. Hit 26. Pretty fun so far. No clue how she'll end up.

Anger leads to the dark side?

Truth. I'd hate to see what kind of mitigation I'd have to give up.

Yay degen core and achilles' heel.

Random post. On my claws/bio, using Followup, Focus, Slash, repeat, AT IO +crit proc in FU, Purple and PvP procs in Focus, Purple and -damres proc in slash, triple stacking FU on Focus, gets around 150 LESS dps than @nihiliishows for their heavily proced out chain. I've avoided procmonster builds specifically because I expected them to be nerfed. Course, I no longer expect that but I am left not wanting to try them out.