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HA! That's only cuz my darker stuff always got purged!

Woot. Usually when I insult someone I get a couple day ban for it.

I feel like I'm missing something. Did I insult anyone?

About that... In Mids with Arcanatime on, and Max damage selected (meaning all DoT ticks go off:) GFS is at the top. With Average Damage selected, it falls to #3 And with Extra Damage Ignored, GFS is STILL number 3: May not be true for other ATs as I didn't check, but for a brute? Yea, I'd be attempting to go cranked recharge and shooting for the Incinerate, Cremate, GFS, repeat attack chain. Disclaimer: Mids numbers may or may not be accurate.

While true, there are 50+ lvls to get through before you have that.

I hear ya. Trying and failing to come up with a way outside of PvP to test that... Anybody have any ideas?

Should work just like defense and come off the top, not the cap. And since resistance resists resistance debuffs, if you're that far over the cap, you'll probably never see your resistance for that type debuffed by said resistance debuffs.

Nice. Thanks!

I've got one! It's an excellent combo. Edit: Also have an earth/earth dom. So much smashy goodness.

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.