Bill Z Bubba

Lies. No brute can outdamage any scrapper. Using exact same builds for claws/sr I've proven this time and time again. You are wrong. Full stop. And you can thank the scrapper AT IOs for that. Brutes DO have better HP and higher res caps. That part is true.

It's always plot devices. And we should be able to have them in game.

LOL. Spoken like someone with mez protection.

Let's not forget all the times Batman kicked the crap out of everyone. And I do. I set my melee characters to max diff while all the others get relegated to the "only team to have fun or suck a butt while solo" section of my character list. Most of the time, they get put on that list for no other reason but that I haven't T4ed Clarion and stuck it on auto. Too bad that's still 50+ levels of suck for no other reason but that they lack even minimal proper mez protection due to a silly design choice 15+ years ago. Even then, having to use my melee characters to fund all the non-melee because their inf/hr rate is so horrifically pathetic makes the whole thing kinda stink.

And yet Hawkeye managed to kill the Hulk. Granted, he rezzed, but whatever.

I'd say that ET and TF are great as long as you're solo... but I'd be lying. Caught myself wanting to rename my em/sr brute to Corpse Blaster. Wait... might have been my FA/EM tank. Two seconds, arcanatime included, should be the cap for ALL animation times.

P2W?!? I know they don't get turned off but doesn't that go against the spirit of the thing?

Won't be the answer for long. But warmace keeps 'em on their butts as well. Still don't think we'll see any scrappers pulling this off. Between low HP and the 75% res cap? Nah.

That's funny. I was about to start a thread about a poison/sonic. Just tryin to come up with a decent name. Any thoughts on what APP/PPP to go with and why?

Was curious just what Buffed meant in this case so I went and looked with a power analyzer. Standard 50% tohit chance but with a +50% to damage and accuracy. Going from Base 1 acc to 1.5 is pretty mean. Even at the softcap, minions have a 7.5% chance to hit. But at +4 they're all at 2.1 acc, right? 1.5 Buff * 1.4 for +4 = new acc? 10.5% chance to hit? And the bosses at +4 are at 2.73 acc (1.5*1.4*1.3) so a 13.65% chance to slam you for +50% damage. Ouch. Edit: Ugh. Is that antimez scream of theirs ONLY antimez? Anyone know what else that power may be doing? Oh... scrappers don't get Darkest Night like brutes and tanks can. Ummm, hmm. Ok, I'll be impressed with any scrapper that can pull it off but it ain't gonna be me.

Cold front + rain woke me up. Occurred to me that I've never actually run BZB scrap against buffed enemies. Cranked up an ITF with Werner's rules, ran in, got stomped. That extra damage is frelling brutal. Went ahead and rezzed and decided to play smarter. Still ended up with another faceplant. Soooo, yea, might want to count SR out for scrappers on a buffed enemies run. Side note for @nihiliieven after the antimez scream, I seem to be able to knock them down on occasion with focus, shockwave and a chance for KD in spin while their purple head glow is up.

Rough part for me is that even BZB scrapper is just fine right up until the autohit fluffy. Then he folds like used tissue. On occasion, Rom or Req in the 3rd mission have also had a series of lucky hits and dropped him. I *think* the new build I used on the tank could be used on the brute and he *might* survive, won't know until I try, but I don't think it would be nearly enough for the scrapper.

This is the way. Sure, that scrapper over there keeps firing off barrier. The controller has clarion. The tank is rockin the rebirth or ageless. But now this defender suddenly finds himself also protected from mez and has rockin resists and defense so he gets to do that thing he once got yelled at for doing... he gets to use his secondary to BLAST SOME PUNKS IN THE FACE!

I'm in a different boat. I feel useless on my squishies when I'm solo and trying to get them to do what my melee characters can do. On teams, I actually enjoy them.

Yup... again, gonna need two bolters for that much heresy. Gonna go check my mace/bio, brb. 1:53. Clobber, JB, Shatter, repeat. Assault toggled on. 1:43 on 2nd run.

How about let the game decide the difficulty? It sees you're fully IOed out and T4ed it automatically throws in extra buff/debuffers to the enemy in question? It automatically adds EBs where they didn't exist before? Random AVs with missions suddenly set to Kill All? But if you've got nothing but TOs in your build and running at +0/x1 it adds nothing.

Zone into mission. TAB to target, F to follow, commence appropriate attack chain. Slaughter everything at max diff. Build based from the correctness and flow of the single target attack chain. AoE chain is superfluous, welcome sure, and yay, pretty orange numbers. TAB, F, Kill. Background music doesn't matter. Metal, folk, weird ass Norwegian chantings, goth and acid rock... TAB, F, Kill. My mind is a whole damn lot simpler than Luminara's.

I'd be lyin if I said Skinless Scarlet wasn't heavily influenced by Julia.

We have a winner. Devs, please don't make Energy Melee a set I don't want to play either by adding a momentum mechanic there as well.

Thanks to capped defense debuff resistance, SR actually does better against Cimerorans than probably any other armor. It only folds against the autohit fluffy in the last mission. As for values, a rad defender does -30% res and -25% damage with enervating field. A rad cor with the same power does -22.5% res and -20% damage. Oddly, a master mind does -22.5% res but only -15% damage ... so either that one power is an outlier or it's not just a case of AT modifiers for buffs and debuffs. Considering how easy it is to get +acc from set bonuses and +tohit buffs from everywhere, I'd much rather someone bring more -res to the party.

Having them exist at all in game would be a start.

Nipples.

Fire/regen sent? Easy. MORE RECHARGE. No really, that's all ya need. Slap a kb->kd proc in blazing blast. You'll still have to deal with the repel part but it's far shorter than the repel+kb. Use all the recharge for your regen clicks, take hover and 6 slot that puppy. Try to get Smashing/Lethal and Range defense to 45 or as close as you comfortably can. Blast away in total safety with impunity.

Claws/Bio? I don't believe those really exist. <.< >.>

Now that I've done it, methinks for future stuff, I'll just stick with plain ol' no deaths/max diff for my personal standard. Maybe no insps if I'm feelin salty.