Bill Z Bubba

Scrappers don't get mezzed and are therefore superior to blasters cuz a faceplanted blaster's DPS = 0.

I've seen an uptick in claws/sr users and this pleases me to no end. I have yet to see another sonic/dark corruptor but I know they have to be out there.

I suspect you'll find what I found. The tank will do around 90% the DPS of the brute... while the brute will continue to have vastly lower than 90% of the mitigation of the tank. EDIT: Yea, I still have a problem with that.

Oh we gonna fight now, Sovera! You don't notice the higher max HP having the same effect for a brute over a scrapper than you do a scrapper over a stalker? I certainly do. I must run with a pretty screwed up SG. Some of them glorify faceplants and have turned me into a careless moron far too much of the time.

Don't forget that you can increase your AoE with the APP/PPP pools at 35. It does look like ninja blade has even worse AoE baked in than Stalker Claws... which is saying something. I've built and deleted my BZB claws/sr stalker version twice now because of the loss of Spin. Running Ninja Blade with ONLY Flashing Steel as a cone, as your ONLY source of aoe? ... yea, I'd probably give up on it as well. Especially since Savage melee didn't get so screwed over and sits on a cone AND two pbaoes for stalkers.

We were arguing with the use of the term "useless." 20 extra DPS is not useless. Full stop. Not on a blaster, not on a tank, and powersets don't enter into it. It may be useless TO YOU, but it is not numerically useless and especially not so for every Invul using tank out there. Or my Rad tank. Or my SR tank. Or even my FA/EM tank.

There is this. What the hell else are you gonna do with all that excess incarnate junk? That said, I almost always start with Musc Core, Degen Core and Assault Core. I like damage.

Nope. Here's the SR/Claws tank. With: FU- 198.6 Focus- 477.6 Slash- 467.1 Total = 1143.3 over 4.092s or 279DPS Without: FU- 181.3 Focus- 445 Slash- 431.2 Total = 1057.5 over 4.092 or 258 Still a difference of 21 DPS, so if that's what you meant by "it's 20 more damage," then cool but that's not how it read and I still consider 20 more DPS on a tank anything but "useless."

Going purely off Mids with Arcanatime enabled: With musculature on: Followup- 323.9 over 1.188s Focus- 728.7 over 1.32s Slash- 629.3 over 1.584s Total = 1681.9 over 4.092s or 411 DPS With musculature disabled: FU- 291.7 over 1.188s Focus- 665.7 over 1.32s Slash- 569.4 over 1.584s Total = 1526.8 over 4.092s or 373 DPS Difference of 38 DPS is a little different than "it's 20 more damage."

Heresy. Where's my bolter?

Extra damage means things die faster and having 2 powers that grant absorption on top of another that heals self counts up to a lot of mitigation.

I love that mace on shield action as my favorite taunt animation.

What happens when you stick a knockdown proc in a power that does knockup?

Bring them the woe! BRING IT!!!

Please be careful. Down this path leads darkness. Next you know you'll be creating a storm/nrg defender and slotting for extra knockback.

This was true before the addition of the +crit chance AT IOs. Since that change, brutes can no longer reach scrapper level damage output. Where do scrappers live knowing that? Honestly it's flavor. Nothing more. I know stalkers can dish out more ST damage than scrappers, yet I've deleted every stalker I've made. I know brutes can outlive scrappers but seeing the pylon go down in three minutes instead of four is worthwhile to me. I know tanks are disgustingly immortal compared to scrappers and it doesn't matter how low their damage is because they can live long enough to get the job done. A scrapper's place? It's for the players that like to ride that red line. It's for the players that enjoy the possibility of death while dishing out massive damage. We're the melee blasters with the biggest difference being that we can actually pull off the fantastic instead of eating dirt.

Defense. It helps you avoid all those nasty debuffs out there. All the damres debuffs. All the end debuffs. All the tohit debuffs. Very few debuffs are autohit. If they can't hit you, they can't turn you into a puddle of red paste on the floor. SR for the win, yo.

You just explained why I don't have any masterminds. I've tried. Many times. None of them stick because none of them can pull off the dumb stuff I enjoy doing in game.

Ninjitsu comes with a heal and an end boost among some other really nice tools. But vastly less defense debuff resistance than SR, so while you'll still be softcapped, it's far easier for the Nin user to see that defense fail horribly.

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Give tanks regen so I can have my regen/ss tank nerfed.

And that's really all this comes down to. A lot of us have made it very clear here and back before the snap that for whatever reason we may like playing character X, we'd vastly prefer it if we didn't have to self-gimp just to stop annoying other players. Be that gimping by spending a slot in every KB power for a KB-->KD or choosing to gimp our DPS by not using said attacks at all or until Y situation allows for it. Side note: Don't slot a chance for KD in Burn. It often doubletaps and sends the enemies FLYIN!

Kinda defeats the purpose there, not bein able to slot it til 50. It would need to be one of those suckers you can slot at lvl 7.

heh. Here she is now, but I was running Skinless Scarlet back before the snap as well.

Ayup. As would I.