Bill Z Bubba

What the hell do scrappers add to a team that sentinels don't? More damage? Scrappers don't have a built in damres debuff and when improperly built also spend a whole lotta time eatin dirt. A sent, being the tankmage that it is, speeds up hard target kills AND does so with 100% mitigation from melee attacks. I'm not saying sents > scrappers. But they bring the same shit to the team. Killin baddies.

I laughed my ass off at this sentence. THANK YOU! Also, agreed.

That which can solo can team. That which doesn't die while teaming does more DPS than the players wasting time eating dirt.

Just a side note: I just soloed a max diff ITF with my fire/bio sent. Two faceplants from Requiem. Taking him down took about as long as the entire 4th mission. No ultimate insps. Just used what I showed up with and what dropped. Just one point of data. Granted.... it did take 3:22 including a lunch break and some smoke breaks.

The end cost on using SW in the attack chain is huge. Ageless is covering that just fine? My average time with fu/focus/slash/repeat is around 3 mins. I have to wonder how much Icicles is helping you out.

And after seeing the joy of /ah go ahead and add a base code to your base (which costs nothing to build as crazy as you like) and then create a macro button for it using /macro BASE enterbasefrompasscode <whatever your base code is here>

Croatoa and Dark Astoria are my main hangs. Love 'em both.

The other three weren't. And he still wouldn't have been without the video.

Also weird that his current account was created on the same day his other account stopped posting for 3 months.

Justice has not existed in America's legal system for far too many of us for far too long. There are no good cops. They are a gang, protected by the state, protected by their union and protected with silence amongst themselves. The only reason the four cops in question for this ONE incident have been arrested is because 1: It was filmed and shared and 2: Because a great many of us decided that protest on a huge scale was warranted to FORCE the issue. If there hadn't been video? The cops wouldn't have even received a slap on the wrist and George would nothing more than another number murdered in cold blood.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/11/19/rising-costs-dwindling-recruit-numbers-increasing-demands-may-bring-back-the-draft/ https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/military-recruiting-struggles-enlistment-stations-close-69973543 /ex-army.

I was going to go with "well, maybe they wouldn't be in the crosshairs if the cops would quit firing indiscriminately into large crowds while showing off how proud they are of their Punisher pins and car stickers."

Just tanked Recluse on an MLTF with my SR/Claws BZB. Hadn't tried before now. Was not an issue. 🙂

I'm pretty sure this particular issue is a bit more widespread than just on this forum.

That's the second personal insult from you in this thread, but I'm the one lacking in maturity? Your belief is grounded in formulae and equations that have been altered, broken, skewed, changed without documentation, change with documentation, reworked, etc, etc. Yup, you sound like a zealot of any other flavor.

Because we're in a thread about Titan Weapons being altered and some were stating that its performance outside of SOs should not be considered since "the game is balanced around SOs," a falsehood that you obviously seem hellbent on continuing. Oh really? So was it balanced around SOs when we 6slotted damage into an attack before ED or was it balanced around SOs after ED essentially capped us at 3? Or was it balanced around SOs when they became completely meaningless again with the introduction of incarnate powers functioning in the same content that is supposedly balanced around SOs? One of those is a lie since it couldn't have been balanced around SOs in all the cases. And if either period was not actually balanced around SOs it brings into question the validity of the claim. One's belief regarding any given topic doesn't mean much to the rest of us when said belief doesn't appear to be grounded in reality. "Balanced around SOs" may have been a GOAL but it was NEVER a reality. No, just you being smarmy. Generally speaking, it is true that I now power level to 32 and thus slot at that point. I was curious, since that's allowed, to see how this particular character worked at lower levels and thus couldn't slot lvl 35 IOs. It's still true that I don't slot SOs at any point.

You do understand that not a single bit of this matters when discussing whether a given powerset is completely outside the norm *even at SO levels of enhancement, right?* And that's my point. As for the "fixed reference value provided by SOs," the game is also supposedly balanced around +0/x1 difficulty, which is absurd even if just using SOs. No, this game is not balanced around SOs. It's an old and ridiculous belief that was barely true before the inventions system was added. Why do I know this? Because the game has never been properly balanced in any case from any measure of analysis. Edit: Except that it's fun as hell, of course. While I'm editing, I'd also love to read citations showing that the actual game engine itself is geared around powers with SO lvls of enhancement, whatever the hell that actually means, and where the engine had to be drastically recoded across the board when ED was slapped on to it.

And we both know neither of us have those quotes. They haven't been made. This is not NCSoft's City of Heroes. It's not Paragon's City of Heroes. It's not even Leandro's hidden for 6 years and tweaked to his liking CoH. This is Homecoming's. Old rules need not apply and in this case, absolutely shouldn't. Balance should include the entire spectrum of the game and what it has to offer. It shouldn't ignore a vast portion of content simply because of some ancient and arbitrary statement.

Have the current devs stated so? I don't recall that post. Anything the old devs had to say on the topic became null and void as soon as the SSPS was set up by Leandro.

You win for most correct answer.

O.o Someone needs to up their meds cuz the voices are gettin a wee bit violent.

I don't slot SOs. Or DOs. Or TOs. At 32 I get lvl 35 basic IOs or start slotting sets. How can the game still be considered "balanced" around something that isn't used? Even if you go with the argument that most are actually playing the first 32 levels and not doing the two PL me fast lowbie trials how can we ignore the fact that many that ARE playing that content are leaning on lowbie sets? Or P2W buffs? The game needs to be balanced around how it's actually played, not how we once played or wish it was played. We now have many posters stating that an AT's lack of mez protection is meaningless because it's easy to stay loaded up with the defensive amplifier. I'm logged on to a nature/water defender right now with it and she has 19 set IOs slotted... at lvl 23. The rest are lvl 25 basic IOs. "The game is balanced around SOs" was something people discussed back when we had the OLD difficulty settings. It was stated when we discussed HO builds. It's no longer a belief that has relevance.

No dual blades, either. It has something to do with the dual-wield animations but I don't recall the specifics. It can't be because the leaps would look silly since you can do granite/ma and eagle's claws to the head with rooted feet.

Deleted demon/kin. AT just ain't for me. Like stalkers. No biggee. Love what ya love and all that.

While I would never deny that scrapperlock is real regardless of what AT I'm on at any given moment, this statement is false. My demon/kin's secondary is my primary focus because it has to be so that my demons remain buffed and healed and semi-useful.