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I love those. Specially at max diff. KILL SUPER STUNNERS FIRST! Twice for more xp.

Got the new shield/em tank to lvl 7. Probably won't touch her on live again til the patch hits. Am considering doing a full build on beta to see how she'll turn out, though.

This is pretty cool.

I'm finding that after I completed a @Werner rules ITF, my desire to argue about game balance has gone out the window. I don't think anyone should be able to solo a max diff ITF with enemies buffed, insps and temps disabled, with zero faceplants. But what I think doesn't matter. And I'm ok with that as long as I'm able to log into this game and slice apart enemies with my claws/sr scrapper. Getting 3 vet lvls per hour and raking in a TON of inf. 🙂

Correct and yes.

Thanks. I needed that today.

Thank the dark and elder gods that absolutely none of this actually matters as long as I can log in and kill shit.

And this is precisely why I really wanted the Dark Melee Siphon Life change (way back before the snap) to be ported over to the very similar Warshade Essence Drain.

Only thing that I keep noticing is that I get vastly more purples/pvps from farming in DA than I do AE.

None of which is needed today, thus my questioning that it was EVER actually faster to hit 50 than it is right now.

You sure about that? I don't remember being able to hit 50 in 2 hours with just my 2 accounts back in the old days. Granted, I soloed a lot so may very well have missed the whole padding at 45 or whatever shit. Edit: As for other games, I've got 3500 hours logged on Fallout 4 that happened when I had no CoH. And I'm eyeballing Outer Worlds, Borderlands 3, Cyberpunk and Vamp The Masq as my next buys which WILL pull me away from CoH.

Old test: BZB Brute Core and Radial Average: 4:26 Fresh testing: BZB Scrapper Core kicks the crap out of radial Core 2:43 2:55 2:42 Average: 2:47 Radial 3:19 3:13 3:39 (RNG really hated me on that last run) Average: 3:24 Edit: BZB Tank Core 5:54 6:22 5:55 Average: 6:04 Radial 6:03 6:06 6:30 Average: 6:13 Attack chain for all three is Followup, Focus, Slash, repeat with Pyronic thrown in when up. Slotting for Focus on all three: Apocalypse (wo the Dam only enh) + Glad's Javelin CF Toxic Slotting for Slash on all three: Hecatomb (wo the Dam only enh) + Achilles' Heel CF DR Debuff Followup Brute: AT IO Set with + Fury proc Followup Scrapper: AT IO Set with +50% crit chance proc Followup Tank: AT IO Set with + DamRes proc

I believe you!

I've PLed the majority of my alts and play every day. Yea, I like my main that much. I'm about to destroy 24 pylons just for testing radial vs core hybrid assault. Granted, I'm apparently a freak.

It is odd. The claws/sr scrapper, otoh, does much better with core than radial. Guess it's time to retest the tank.

Tis true. See what aging is doing to my brain?!!? /the booze probably ain't helpin

Got my dark/pain troller into the 40s now. Being able to keep the dog buffed with World of Pain and Painbringer, WoP for the Haunts as well, has made this character my goto for a soloing controller. And no, I don't even use possess. It may stay in the build to mule a purple set but it's not going to see much if any use beyond that. My fire/dark troller also rocks solo.

The Power Analyzer from the P2W vendor is an excellent tool for determining if your debuffs are having an effect. Use it on a boss before entering combat and scroll down/expand the section for debuffs, then blast away. As for KB/KD, as @CaptainLupisstated, if the mag is less than 1 it will be knockdown. If you are fighting enemies less than your level or that are weak to Knock (Clocks,) then the mag will increase and become knockback again.

Of course I'll add another claws/sr into the mix but I'd like to also throw out the old school combo of mace/sr. Hits like a truck and you still get plenty of Knock to help SR stay comfy.

It's the combo system. It's playable, yay high ST DPS. But the mechanic of relying on TF to get short ET disgusts me.

Now now... Taint Stank has other origins than farts....

It's weird... I suspect after these changes I'm going to end up deleting more EM users than creating new ones. Doesn't seem to matter how good the buff is, the feel is off now, and I don't like it. But I'll have an EM/Bio scrapper in the list, maxed out and silly.

I know I'm in the minority, but I would love to see more random D20 crit and fumbles added to the game.

I think this is a claws thing. Or perhaps related to low cast time sets. I also got identical times between core and radial assault on my claws/sr brute. Edit: But radial is working out better for my mace users.

Hasten from speed, tough/weave from fighting (you'll have to waste a power pick on boxing or kick to get them,) but I'm pretty stuck in my ways. I'm a flight pool junkie because I can take hover and afterburner and stick Luck of the Gambler +7.5% recharge IOs in them.