Bill Z Bubba

I would have to note that the fist predates humanity. 🙂

We do. Absolutely. But we also have to keep in mind the folks that can start a character at lvl 1 in Atlas and peruse the powers and immediately have an idea of what the set will be capable of later. Ya know how I know that this game we're playing right now is not even remotely the thing we were playing at shutdown? I've got a time/fire defender that I actually enjoy playing. That would have NEVER happened before the snap.

We're not talking about game mechanics. You can play SS without Rage. I think the OP is going for what do you see the most of in Super Hero fiction. Superman: SS and Inv. Luke Cage: SS or StJ and Inv. The Thing: SS and Inv. The Hulk: SS and Inv or arguably WP. That kinda thing. I don't see a lotta axe wielders in comics.

Cruising at +2/x8 on my time/fire defender (41) and having a blast where in the past I would have deleted her. It's amazing what even just Mag 4 mez protection does for a character.

And this is why I now purchase 8 hours of P2W Def Amp for all my squishies.

It applies IF you successfully hit with it to subsequent attacks.

You don't have to crank it to 11 for the pain to be apparent, but I hear ya. There's plenty of reasons so many flock to the shiny new sets and being arguably brokenly good in 95% of the game and not suffering the silliness of other sets (as above, no KB protection, really?) are pretty high on the lists of those reasons.

I love the +damage on bio armor but, yea, it's got some holes that become very noticeable as you start increasing difficulty. Go take it for a spin in a max diff ITF and once the seafood buffet at the end of the first mission shows up, you'll see exactly what I mean. Can you plug the holes, yea, to a point, but in very similar ways to what you have to do with fire armor. But it's at a pretty heavy cost just like FA as well. That said, yes, my mace/bio scrapper sits around the 1:30 mark for pylons which seems a bit on the excessive side.

Stick me in the OP fire/bio tent. Mine is second only to the 3 BZB's I have.

Is it weird that I don't separate my role playing from my normal conversation while in game? I mean, I don't really run through life disemboweling people and eating babies, but BZB was never a sysadmin either.

I had quit playing. Came back for the shut down when I was told it was happening. Hopped to the beta server when Pinnacle shut down. Were incarnate powers actually locked out if you were only F2P? Or was it a case where if you had enough vet lvls they stayed available?

I stuck one in invincibility and sat amongst a horde and did indeed see a dblstack once.

Am I allowed to just stick with "gamer" because I like playing games?

Wrong thread. 🙂

I know you stated why at some point in the past but remind me again? Because more people choose Degen and you going Reactive avoids hitting the Degen stack cap?

My current:

Backups are always wise but USB? Everyone doesn't have a multi-TB Precision server for such things? Madness.

Unless I'm interpreting this incorrectly, once I've installed the new version, it grabs what it can from the old installer directory and once tested that all is well (sound fx overwrites, keybinds, etc) I should then be able to purge the tequila install directory completely?

<shrug>

My brother is maxed out on his two accounts. I'm still bummed that I couldn't disable badge count at 666 like I did vet lvls. Still wish badges were account wide instead of character-locked.

That'll certainly improve times.

Proof or it didn't happen. If there is proof, please, share the tactics and builds so we can all learn to be so awesome. Edit: Come to think on it, nevermind. It would be easy to create a screenshot with a 30 minute time after the other 7 quit the team.

This is, sadly, the way to go. I've been abusing it on all my squishies. (Where squishy = character without built in mez protection.)

Simply put, on the day we could create/migrate brutes blueside, they should have had their mitigation caps reduced. It didn't matter when the sides were locked away from each other. But you just described yet another in a long list of imbalances amongst the ATs.

I don't see that getting nerfed. If anything the way the current devs are rolling, I suspect that ALL attacks a scrapper can use will be fixed so that they crit.