Bill Z Bubba

LOL. Yea, I remember those folks. As I always replied, Multiplayer means you CAN team, not that you HAVE to.

Wow. Would imply that a bio/staff tank would be seriously tough as nails in body/defensive modes.

It doesn't exist with the game that these forums are tied to. Everyone is absolutely welcome to go wherever they'd be happier.

Well, if it worked it'd be a bug that needs fixin.

Back before the snap, I soloed 95% of my game play. I was attacked regularly by the folks that thought teaming was the only way to play this MMO. I was attacked heavily by the team-only crowd when I mentioned how ridiculous Khels were at launch with their massive -damres while solo BS. I was attacked rabidly when I brought up how unfair the incarnate progression was for soloists when it was introduced. And now, when I'm PLing in a way I never did before the snap, I find myself on the side of those being attacked for enjoying the game a different way... again. It's fucking stupid. Is everyone in this thread doing that? No. Absolutely not. There are some trying to simply state that they'd like to play the old way, back when there were no IOs, back when the game was harder. I get it. I get it fully. But that game doesn't exist anymore. You can certainly find like-minded individuals and you can all choose to run with nothing but SOs and no incarnates and have the tank herd and the defender heal and the blaster dish out DPS. And you can do so without whining on the forums when you can't find enough like-minded individuals and you can do it without calls for even more nerfs to AE rewards and you can do it without the snide, sideways insults that those of us who now PL don't know how to play the game.

As true in game as it is in life. Believe something? Fine. Live it. Don't attempt to foist that belief on others because that makes YOU the one in the wrong. As my sig line states:

Ya sure you packed enough insult and condescension in there?

OP has to be talking eviscerate. Which, granted, is 100% skippable unless ALL of the following are true: You are a scrapper You have both +Crit AT IOs in use You have some bizarre fetish for ridiculous flip animations and probably also take elude on your SR characters.

Wut. I do not understand the above statement. It's a 90° cone with a 30' radius hitting up to 10 targets. Are you sure you're not talking about Eviscerate with the silly backflip? It can only hit 5 targets and has a 7' radius.

Nono, I kill them all dead as dead can be. Not my fault the insane medical porters keep bringin everybody back to life.

Nah. Got my modding fill with Fallout 4. I'm just here to kill stuff.

Ya know, PK... a whole lot of us have seen absolutely everything the game has to offer many... many times.

@callador0630Here's my latest SR tank build. It's for mace but should give you some ideas on SR slotting. As always, there's room for improvement. | Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1434;679;1358;HEX;| |78DA8594594F135114C7EF74A67B0B85D20242A145A0A5854A5DC252C0445914212| |16234F1A569F0521B27A5A198C0A389EBAB3EF8E8B33EF8715CBF801B8B6B3451EB| |99FB3F41E23C3869FBBB73D6FF3D77A68B9BD381A773374E0A2D70DA2CD66A850BC| |5CA35B9EE5C2C96CA2B822EF729699A327ED94DEB189C8569B92A2B35995DBE5EA5| |BBF372D5949BB21661EFA234A5CC5E2AD2AAB822856F696DCDCC2E57A5BCE257CB5| |9B35CBABA11C4DA5A962BA580BA5B90C52ADD8467AAE595EC4C45AE97B6A8466D43| |AE6FB551FB3EFA8E44E947B384D57511A245CE108E30E86A017D11F0844FF055A70| |F5D6294B235CED6FE933D42D93A629DFA335DD98CE7CC1760F34BB0ED15F335384E| |7D9CDCD99920E4BCA28726E8463DCD9D81CDC3F493CFCBF1DE0EAB864B4C500D3F6| |BF5B3D6006B0DB0D616D69AA7D820621D4183164943243C60D20B8E514C23EFA771| |163A137360FA0C983B8BDEB979E6397092729B38B76907B6DE5D30BD071EF9C8FCC| |4FC0CE6698E61ECCD191E7340F73818CD83872698936062871823CD941B41AE16E1| |59451F2346A399B5F2CC5AD5E94E91CA76A814ED79824B17E354A183BB772491D99| |9620E800369668659106A623A7588F1AE63AD9A52D4751493EAFAC2FCCA53F80E0E| |FE000DCAEDE6D3EBE6D38BF3E9C5F9F4E27C7A13A4B18735F6DC3454FEE15BCCDBC| |C3B60EF5DE63D70D287F7C2CAED53537389FE9F0EE5EBFFC5FC0D26EB4C018D8F08| |299E608AA7FB242844867567A634556F70DE7A82881735953794407E94F698E5796| |723F08D929E61AE395C43BF4EE3DFF770C0D87F8BEB699B77D866C9D92CC76C96E3| |36CBC2418BF53CB875B1647063B2692ACA1B12D63C94966DDFFEFF037B77FF5A9CD| |A1BECBBE12D187A0736BF07873E30B7C11D5BB53DDF81FF9FFB78DA3C0FC0868760| |E89BA1F8074701E0AF| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

My CoX could use some improved surprises.

I've got the fire/claws tank built but I don't like the build. I did heavy testing with the fire/em tank and while he's ok most of the time, having to flee from Cimeroran debuffs and Kheldian slows is just a nonstarter for me. Edit: Yes, I could probably steal more slots from offense so that I could slot more slow resists and I could go ageless for the DDR... Edit 2: Apologies for the tone... last couple weeks have turned me disgruntled.

I tried. It's fine for my claws/fire brute farmer but fire armor is just too damn weak, like bio, for the things I need it to do.

All 6 incarnate powers T3ed. Was barely outpacing 3rd mish of ITF Rom's regen. Disappointing is an understatement. Never had any threat of death. Took out the entire seafood spawn + 3 cimeroran spawn adds without breaking a sweat. But the damage output is painful with aoe being a little less painful than the st.

Unfortunately, not as much as you'd think. Using SR's powers as recharge mules still had me at 57/55/55 for MRA defense but it let me add Elec Fences and Ball lightning, which, hilariously actually slowed me down in mission clearing rather than sticking with followup, focus, spin, shockwave, repeat as my aoe chain. Yea, you could skimp down even harder, but when your 5 primary attacks are already 6 slotted with purps, ATs and other procs and you've already added assault into the mix... what else are you gonna do?

Based on what I did with my sr/claws tank and claws/sr brute, brutes will always win on ST damage. Tanks now pull ahead on AoE... while being vastly tougher. No, brutes are not midway between scrappers and tanks. They should be. They are not.

Got Alpha to Musc T3 last night on the SR/WM. She's tough as can be as expected but we'll see where the damage ends up after getting fully incarnated. Shouldn't take more than a day or two. It is nice having two perfect attack chains. Here it's clobber, jawbreaker, shatter, repeat for ST and shatter, crowd control, whirling mace, repeat for AOE.

Went SR/Mace. PLing her up today. Which means some other tank is about to get the strip n purge.

This. And Eva Destruction's Praetorian Invasion AE mission is a lovely place to find some lvl 54 AVs just waitin for a beat down.

Considering I have generally only found a use for the microfilaments +2 in sprint or quickness or the like.... yes please.

Going purely off memory, I think that was intentional when SR was ported to tanks. But I don't disagree. Thing is, as it stands now, SR on a tank is already pretty damned ludicrously hard to kill. As much as I would LOVE to see the Sent SR changes rolled over to the melee ATs, the tanks would, once again, come out WAY on top. An absorb click on top of a massive pool of HP that already feeds the passive scaling resists on top of a damres granting AT IO and another scaling resist IO, all sitting with a build that takes such little work to hit the incarnate softcap? Sure. Gimme. I don't mind being even MORE unkillable.

It also allows you to avoid a whole slew of debuffs that have to hit you in the first place. Finding myself constantly slowed, confused and end drained on my non-SR armors has made me appreciate SR even more lately.