Bill Z Bubba

You're not wrong. There's a reason I slot attuned IOs as soon as I'm able.

Because they're ONLY used in AE. That's it. Spines sucks everywhere else. Edit: Hell, I don't even use it in AE. My farmer is fa/claws.

Looks like you don't have lucky and evasion fully slotted up.

This is the only thing that jumped out at me. SR gets capped DDR without elude on tanks, brutes and scrappers. Matter of fact, elude is just plain useless. Edit for major typo.

I play for the piles of murdered bodies. I get enough randomness from crits and procs and the RNG.

Random over time becomes not random at all. Still doesn't mean I want to deal with energy transfer sometimes taking half as long as the rest of the time.

I would. But I'd also be one of those arguing against those changes. I'll try anything. Doesn't mean it's a good idea.

How many of those spines users couple it with fire or rad armor and spend all their time in AE?

Probably was but I sure was a happy camper after Castle and BAB did their rework. Nowadays, I'd rather have balance because it often leads to good things for the majority.

Unless they meant cataylzed AT and Event IOs, versus non-catalyzed. Edit: As @tidgealready covered. Oops.

Stygia says, "wut?"

Based on several posts on this page, looks like Power Boost is a problem but that really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that uses it. I only have one request for all future changes/balances/buffs/nerfs/etc... can I get in closed testing? 🙂

Roger that. Just found it. I'm not sure what happened back then anymore either. I once had all the notes but they went poof along with all my attack chain spreadsheets. If I'm going to be honest, based on what happened on beta with BZB and a pylon, and the rework they had to do because of it and other testing, a bad AoE calc makes sense. Edit: Just want to throw this in... (and, no, this is not in any way directed at Bopper) Claws is my favorite melee attack set. And yet I'm ok with a nerf if it means that the underlying equations gain balance and equity. This comes from me not being in the "screw you, I got mine" camp of life.

Either you or @Bopperhave the cast time corrected equations that were used for the claws overhaul?

Took me 4 months to solo BZB to 50 the first time around. And even then, it wasn't 100% solo. Unsure if Issue 2 dropped before I got there or not.

I'm a recharge junkie. Gimme my 50% from 5xPurps-5piece and 37.5% from 5xLotG+recharges.

Except for spines/regen. <shudder>

I've got a tricked out mace/bio scrapper. She does hit VERY hard but it takes lots of recharge to get there. Nice AoE and knock mitigation rounds the set out well.

I min/max to a point. I don't play TW specifically because of the momentum mechanic. It's why I'll be not even remotely amused if that is the route they decide to go with EM. I do not like powers with more than one cast time. Makes building proper attack chains a PitA.

Claws/WP will give you the best leveling experience due to Claws low end cost and WP's quick recovery. But end game? That Kat/Dark can be made into a major beast but it will probably be a rough-ish ride leveling up.

I usually sit around 2 hours, 20 maps of Briggs asteroid map, when I'm pushing it. Well, it was 20, something changed not too long ago which forces me to do part of the 21st map. That's just to ding 50, of course. Takes longer to get a good build in Mids, pull from bins and buy IOs and build them than it does to hit 50. I'm back to just soloing normal content with dbl xp on my latest alt.

Some points to ponder on MMs. This isn't a very good test for them due to: 1: The pylon ignores the purple patch so your T1 minions are even con to it when they aren't to anything else in the game. 2: If hybrid assault is fired off before the henchies are spawned, they apparently get and keep the buff. The information provided here is only based on reading others' posts on the forums.

Decided to pull a @Sir Myshkin on my 2nd attempt. Cleared courtyard and towers at 103 minutes in, faceplanted in 5 seconds with barrier and buffs from T4 Talons. Apparently SR only sucks when the devs have to resort to cheating with autohit bullshit. Edit: Yea, I got a mad at the moment. Next attempt some day. Edit 2: What's really bumming me out is that I bet I could pull this off with my fire/bio sent without issue. Sure... might take 4 hours... but he doesn't die.

Yup. Followup needs 313% total recharge for the followup, focus, slash, repeat chain. I don't think I've ever hit it but but I'm close enough forthat lovely triple-stack of FU on Focus. Really helps claws' damage overall.

SR and EA are great. Ice ... is a very weak armor set. It could absolutely use some love but even at tank values it just fails. I would never touch it on a brute or scrapper. I do have an ice/spines tank and he does hold aggro like crazy but I'm probably going to delete him. Defense sets with low DDR are a very bad idea.