Bill Z Bubba

Convert 50 Emp Merits to a single Transcendent Merit so that you can easily email it to another character on that same account.

I went for permahasten and just run Clobber, Jawbreaker, Shatter, repeat. Adding in CC for more aoe when needed.

So far, degen core for the -HP seems to help my pylon times the most.

Shards and shard related rewards all get converted to threads. I have ZERO use for them as shards and have yet to craft a single incarnate anything with them since HC went live. Shards are simply more useless junk.

No reason that there couldn't be an AT modifier attached as well.

This. Which I follow up with /bind h "powexectoggleon combat jumping$$-up$$-autorun"

I don't disagree with you at all but still fail to see why a power pick should be wasted on a rez when I try to always build to where faceplanting even at max diff is an extreme rarity or when we can get a rez from the P2W vendor or just eat wakies. Leveling up, maybe, but they're often T9 powers. More useful in the days of no IOs and no incarnate powers? Sure. Nowadays? Not even remotely to me.

Katana has some nice crunch.

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?