Bill Z Bubba

I don't follow. I was at max diff and there was a LOT of Tab, F, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 goin on. 🙂

I was unsure so I went and ate a buncha reds til the monitor went blue at 600. Well, they do, if you ignore that crits happen, by a whopping 2 DPS.

Claws with Followup, Focus, Slash with a total arcanatime of 3.96sec Scrapper total base damage for those three attacks: 219.5909 Brute total base damage for those three attacks: 158.0722 Scrapper damage cap is +400 vs brutes +600, right? Scrapper: 219.5909*5 = 1097.9545 but scrappers get crits, just 5% for minions, 1097.9545*1.05 = 1152.852225 (291 DPS) and against lts/bosses 1207.74995 (305 DPS) Brute: 158.0722*7 = 1106.5054 (279 DPS) Unless I'm doin something wrong, scrappers win even without the AT IO +crit procs in there and definitely with.

That's actually been my one major gripe about the MCU. They completely screwed over that character. ESPECIALLY with their horrid take on "Professor Hulk."

Incarnate level enemies with a 13% tohit buff that are completely neutered by the level shifts we're granted. Cuz, fighting +1s in DA for +4 rewards ain't no challenge.

There's that edge case thing again. I never ask for anything when I build teams. But I would never prefer a brute over a scrapper unless I really wanted something with energy or stone melee. Especially now with the tank buffs. Brutes are the ones that have become, sadly, superfluous.

There's a retort based on my devil-hood and your magic nipple but I KNOW the forum mods won't like it.

On a team, buffs are flying everywhere so survivability becomes moot. Want a perfect team? Scraps and corruptors. Don't bother with anything else. The above statements are both opinions lacking numerical proof other than that one dude runnin max diff ITFs with quad-teams and scrappers are in the lead on time. EDIT: My claws/sr scrapper clears max diff DA repeatables faster than the claws/sr brute. That's not pylon fighting.

Nah, our country is in the shape it's in because we ALL have not spent nearly enough energy calling out garbage for what it is when we see it. /just the facts, maam. That's all I care about.

Truth. It'll just be slower.

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.