Bill Z Bubba

Here's what I know (with what's probably my first post in this forum.. ) backin up the dog with painbringer and world of pain is a gorram HOOT!

I also had to use dog_howl_02.ogg to properly shut him up.

Dunno. I haven't done the math either. I'm just in it for the killin. What I do know is that people ding a lot more when you kill a lot more.

You left out "because it's more fun slaughtering all the things." Also, I don't think you've actually done the math.

We can do better than that. Working on it. Nope. Nevermind. I'm not beating the heavy proc builds. Did an em/bio brute. TF/ET/Gloom/BS/(either ablative carapace to survive or a long ET)/repeat. Still only sitting around 1:45.

Nah. I'll play it anyway. I like massive single target damage and the new EM provides it in spades. I like lowbie EM better than endgame EM as it is on beta but I'll never dig the set with the combo garbage in place. Don't get me wrong, there's some great changes in there, and those changes are better than the combo system sucks... but the combo system still sucks and I'll never not hate it. Still a better set than kinetic and fire melee. 🙂

What attack chain are you runnin? TF/ET/BS/Gloom/repeat?

Was wondering if you had gloom in the mix. Really startin to head that way on a lot of my characters.

I've slaughtered more pylons since Sunday than I'd really like share....

Wow. Considering I was getting 1:45 on the em/bio SCRAPPER I put together, I'd kinda like to see what build you're running. I did watch another em/bio scrapper get around 1:14 but they were using PC in their chain with a damres debuff proc and melt armor.

Haven't been keeping up so didn't even try those. I'm just glad to know it's not my installation that's borked. Thanks, yall.

If this was covered elsewhere, my apologies. It seems that I still have an old remnant of the freebies popmenu even though I just deleted it from data\texts and revalidated my beta install. I'm currently missing the artillery and bombardment sets (and maybe others) but other players are stating that they seem them. Anyone have any ideas on how to correct this?

Cranked up an em/shield scrapper. Street hunted to lvl 10. Bumped to 20. Cruising through radio missions in Talos. Being able to keep SOs green with a click of a button and start slotting them at lvl 2 may well kill my powerleveling days. EM is still a great amount of fun for me in the lowbie levels. I really enjoy the sound and visuals of Barrage, EP and BS. Having a minor cone on top of whirling hands is a nice buff for standard mission clearing. At this level, though, I am noticing the increased recharge time on EP as it's stopping me from being able to Bar/EP/BS/EP/repeat.

Yea.... I've loved claws for a long time. Now if only I could make a shield/claws tank.

I accept slightly lower DPS in order to avoid heavy number crunching these days. When I saw the equations behind the PPM system my response was simply, "nope, too damn lazy for that."

Almost positive that once you catalyze AT IOs, that's it. Done deal. No way to revert them. Even if you bring the set up in Manage Enh screen, they're completely greyed out even if you have boosters and catalysts in inventory. Bout the only thing you could do is covert them to other types of catalyzed AT IOs.

With followup, focus, slash, repeat, I get 3 mins with my claws/sr (no damage aura) and (I think) 1:45 or so with my claws/bio. I really should start a log of those pylon times. Since claws attacks are low on recharge as it is, I've never thought that going proc-monster would work out too well. I generally stick with AT IO full sets in Followup, 5 Hecatomb + Achilles Heel in Slash and 5 Apocalypse + GladJav proc in Focus.

TF and ET do not crit for double damage if that's what you're asking. TF criting grants 2 lvls of energy focus so you can use it to both shorten ET's animation to the pre-nerf version AND buff BS. ET's "crit" heals you instead of taking health away.

Mish completion bonuses do not change. Folks seem to be confusing actual XP/min rates with clear alls vs zerging. Example to the contrary: I get a LOT more XP/min doing clear all repeatable missions in DA than I would by hitting objectives and moving to the next mission. A lot of that has to do with the fact that I'm +3 and getting +4 bonuses for fighting +1s.

EM/Bio and EM/SR will be my two.

I know what the color blue tastes like.

For the ITF, I'll take what I can get but I'd much rather spend an hour slaughtering everything at max diff than spend 10 mins zerging through it at +0.

But in all seriousness... damn, man. That's freaking awesome.

Hop over to beta. Create new EM scrapper. Get SOs at lvl 2. Keep them green with the 1 click Upgrade button. It's pretty dang cool.

I dunno... he's still using enhancements.