Bill Z Bubba

And when I'm soloing pylons/avs/gms/etc ? No, thanks.

Aye, @Vandenmentioned that FX issues early. Would definitely like to see those fixed if possible before go-live.

So... a bug.

I honestly wouldn't go that far. Unless you DO TF then ET, you're still stuck with the ludicrous animation.

How would one get "spare focus?"

Can anyone tighten up this chain? TF\ET-short\BS\EP\ET-long\repeat Needs 261% total recharge in ET and 209% total in TF. Looks like TF\ET-short\BS\EP\Bar is doable with 289% total rec in TF

No, I didn't. My attack chain on all of my lvl 50+ EM users was TF/BS/ET/BS/repeat.

I will say this as a plus for the overall feel: Mandy Marauder feels even more appropriately named when I'm just cutting through spawns using TF/ET/BS/WH/repeat as my chain. Still hate that I'm forced into TF/ET to get the short, old ET punch.

2:50 pylon with EM/SR brute, down from 4:30 on live, using attack chain TF/ET(short)/BS/EP/ET(long)/repeat

Yes, and I'm grateful for that but I was using it anyway.

At least with stalkers (and blaster snipes) I can simply not use it as an opening attack and never have to consider it with its longer recharge time. Not the case here. With AS and Snipes, I don't have to do diddly to get the faster cast time. With this EM I am *forced* to use it directly after TF (thus screwing my attack chain) or stick with the long (ridiculously stupidly long) animation.

Yes, I'm on beta now. Copied over my EM/SR brute: 3:30 average pylon time so far compared to 4:30 on live. Currently running around Atlas on a lowbie EM/Rad scrapper. It's momentum. It's a choice between two different animation times for the same attack. Exactly what momentum does for TW.

Agreed. And -regen wasn't a choice for BS either. Still absolutely hate the momentum mechanic and always will. Why do we have to go this route? Why can't we just find a happy medium on animation time and stick to it for ET? Give EF something else to do for ET for those that want to play micromanagement during battle. I'm not in that crowd. I want a nice static happy AV crunching attack chain that lacks gimmicks.

Except now the choice is between guaranteed stun or short ET animation. More thoughts: I've always wanted an EM scrapper. I am grateful as can be to finally be able to get it. Should be interesting to see what a fully kitted out EM/Bio will be capable of.

Initial thoughts. I really dislike having two different animations times for ET. It completely screws with the flow of attack chains. It makes planning for chains annoying. It *forces* us into making TF/ET a 1-2 combo even if we change targets between the two in order to benefit from EF. It also knocked about a minute off my pylon time with my EM/SR brute. So, there's that.

I got nothin, sorry. Just checked mine and with the new launcher or old I stay at 144 refresh in settings.

No clue how you folks are soloing the likes of Apex in those times.

Gotcha. All three of the Bills go with musculature. Edit: Just verified, so does my SR/Mace tank. Granted, unlike the OP, she only runs 6 toggles. SR + Tough/Weave and CJ.

Well I sure as hell got confused. SR's just fine with Stamina and CP/SC and PP. On a brute that means you can slot three Perf Shifter Procs.

The names won't stop now. Claw Stank on its own is great.... but there could be Tank Stank. Or Taint Stank. Saint Stank.... all the possibilities.

Partially. This will be my 4th or so attempt to keep a savage somethin. All other attempts got nuked. So ... we'll see.

Ok fine. Chaoswolf (poor kid has gone through so many rebuilds) has been turned into a Sav/SR stalker. I just renamed his bio/claws tank build in case this has to get deleted as well. Edit: The rename made me laugh. Bioclawstank1

I like damage. I like soloin max diff ITFs. My fire/bio sent can do it. (Although fleeing AVs makes it a PitA.) This dude really is only 2nd to my three Bill Z Bubbas on the list of what I'd rather play most.

I know. I just can't talk about atrocious blights on humanity like that foul stuff.

So they completely nerf stalker claws' aoe down to a single cone but stalker savage melee gets a cone, a pbaoe and a tport pbaoe? Ummmm, what?