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It depends on the goal. If you want to be tougher, you go Inv. If you want your damage output to be up in the "unholy frell" range, you go bio. I've got a DM/Inv brute that just doesn't die, but I would never bother going to check his DPS. How expensive are my builds? I'd go with "standard expense for 5 purple sets and a properly considered Mids build." That said, I've run a LOT of Bio users. Some at lowbie levels, some in the 30s with nothing but basic IOs and a Perf Shifter set, some tweaked hard at 50. Bio is pretty dang solid the whole way. Will it ever be as "fark you, you can't kill me" as Inv? No, absolutely not.

I'd like to throw something that wasn't combined by the others. Claws and Bio on a scrapper. Everything dies so quickly that the extra mitigation from Inv becomes unnecessary. When you couple everything mentioned by the others into the mix, and tack on the Scrapper AT IO procs for even higher critical chances, you end up with a beast that can take down a pylon in under two minutes and has an AoE chain that will melt spawns at max diff.

Figured I should ask this here. Claws/SR Brute: 4:48 Fire/Bio Sent: 5:15 (Attack chain is not optimized.) Claws/SR Tank: 5:22 Tank and brute builds are damn near as identical as can be. Did tanks get overbuffed? Late edit: Swapped out assault radial for assault core and improved by 6 seconds. Thought conventional wisdom was that radial was better for those with AT mods under 1.

Some, sure. Others seem to just have a low tolerance for fools. I ignore racists, zealots and spammers.

I love me some gravitational lensing. I also use this one regularly.

Nihilii already covered it perfectly but as a guy with claws/sr in all 4 melee ATs I just have to jump in with a big ol' "THIS!" Claws is awesome. I've tried Savage multiple times but it just doesn't feel right and maybe it's *because* I've played claws for so long. Hell, now I'm even thinking about cranking up a Dark/Claws tank. You know, to go with that new Dark/SR scrapper I need to build.

With the SM and DC changes, I'm seriously considering revisiting DM/SR on a scrapper.

Back before the snap, I had a grav/nrg dom. She was fun but I'm not even sure I ever got her to 50. She's been recreated and still not 50. But then I did a 100% ranged earth/fire dom. She's 50, she's fun but she's in dire need of a proper respec. And while she is effective, there was still something just not quite right. Now, I have an a 100% melee earth/earth dominator and holy hells below, I love this combo. The sounds, the visceral smashing, the pure unbridled melee domination of large spawns. And she's only 37. I can only imagine the freakishly raging beast of destruction that she's going to be at 50 and properly built. So ok... add me to the dominator love crowd. I'm gonna be playin this gal a LOT.

I love seein all this SR love.

Actually, I bet Siphon Life will keep you standing without issue.

Just so ya know, Werner, when I soloed the max diff ITF, I HAD to use ultimate insps. Otherwise the autohit fluffy would tear me to pieces before I could kill it or final Rom. So kudos, mang. Well fought.

Truth. If I really want to, I can go 1 to 50 in two hours. But right now? I am soloing my new earth/earth dom in radio missions at lvl 26 and loving her. As for EA, it sucked REALLY bad when it was created. Then it got fixed. It's pretty damn sweet now and I would also love to see it on tanks.

It's 45 for regular content but 58 for incarnate content. Either goal is fine, I just prefer that extra bit to help when I'm farmin DA repeatable missions. Edit: That and barrier go a long way toward keeping me up and scrappin no matter what is coming at me.

Supremacy is MINE! Muuuhahahah!

Leveling is as fast or slow as you decide it to be. We have 1000 character slots. There is zero need for such a change. Delete and rebuild or just build new. I've already deleted at least as many lvl 50s as I currently have on Excel. It ain't rocket surgery.

Buying my first house for my wife and stepson was an accomplishment. Learning to ride a bike was an accomplishment. Shooting 40 out of 40 on my last marksmanship exam in the Army was an accomplishment. We all have different views on what accomplishment means. For me, in game, soloing the ITF at max diff with my main was an accomplishment. Hitting 666 vet levels on him was an accomplishment. For some, getting all the badges is an accomplishment. Grinding through content instead of powerleveling and never twinking a character with funds from another alt is an accomplishment. Do what you want. Play how you want. Don't try to frell over the rest of us that don't agree with your definition of accomplishment. I buy my purples from the market cuz it's not difficult to rake in the inf, regardless of how one might choose to rake it in. The game continues to be played by me because of alts now in a way it didn't back before the snap. I enjoy how I play it now, just as I enjoyed how I played it then in a different way. In short, to the topic, /jranger.

+spd is only for movement powers. Side note: you can softcap to all positions without Elude or Kuji-In Retsu, so I'm in the camp that skips both.

SR Quickness is +20% rec-red. I'm not seeing a +rec-red power in Nin as per Mids Reborn. Nin also appears to have less +def powers which would mean less LotG +rec-red IOs.

I've always been against the medicine pool for melee characters, so here's my latest claws/sr scrap build for comparison and maybe ideas. Or not. Your resistances and HP are considerably better. More than likely, I'll dump the perfshifter end/acc for one of the new endmod +change for heals. | Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1542;713;1426;HEX;| |78DA7594594F135114C7EF74A6D669595A4BCB4E179602A5A5555FDC13648940B15| |0D4C4C4E0B45CA03A8186428447BF8226FAAA2FC627BF83AFAE5F404D78F385C52D| |D1A77A66FE47DAA47192E677E77FFFE79C7BEE9DDBCCCE78C3ABA9875784D274D53| |4CAE5A55C61D32895E4A63363AC160B821EEF58D134C3B7C363DBF9BC119E9BB8E5| |22B1E59F6F29234D299314FCA01C3A16C7E58A5C2FCB646EDB7A5B902BA6DC9165E| |1C96E6C98C949B3B8BAB6D588B1352CAEAFBAEDB75C49CAE5067B382B8D12E9BE89| |52B1901CDB58DE5DCA18E52DB9B9DB46D513F45BB396613F15213EAA42A43591B13| |4C5D654E1556CCDE1074FB480DE0078CFC55651712A3107BC83A03604B60C835D71| |B0EF35D1AF89398A55B98ECA75B4FFD4F190D7C9EB74F612D2BA304973D9D52B4ED| |75DCDF69D349879D05D602E8341093A2856473E87FE097D873F83912F60963C1EAE| |E989085BBB4F5A23F7DB780EFD349D675EE07E2F82C14BE0E873D49CA7D866F4EB6| |83E408DDE43E637709D3C3ECEEF4B20FE5492390A26529C37CD1C41EC02C5FA915F| |F81358EF75D2025C3330C9B5A6C0BE6950254F2B3CCED69FD0BA7E813DBF796FFE7| |0CC6970C80AE8A6F3A2D8763EC3763EC3888FC96738C06718256F277A533AE3585F| |9899A3B96E5E6737EFCD10EFCD30EF4D893C21DE9BD01BF6BC65CF3BE67B30F1014| |CEF818B141BE51EA39C7F80F30F1C8131AE13FBCEFC010629B61FB14ABFDD932ED2| |0130479641FE4606E3F82E5FD00712E75AF108728C5CC67E8D4C1363C47D5EE7571| |5F9AE59BA2E74AA95E47CC91978445088146B29DECB2EADE6DE56E81121EDF8D656| |86EB6653754ABA4E3953A79CAD5366EB94AC76FC0F20145BD1BD74AFA154F6DD34A| |BD4CE1E5615A7328F6EDA169839B06311ECB9C1BC091ED4653BAA2AAAF208F7A1E1| |31F309D8F11434DCF6AAED75E56BC6776AC6D99AF18C9FC278475F46ABE3C9D6EAF| |899E561FF5F87A9F975| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Failing cuz you suck is a far different matter than failing because the servers crashed or your internet went down or your cat chewed through your mouse cable. Just a thought.

While not a badger myself, I hang out with a lot of them and wholeheartedly agree that time travel should allow you the ability to get this done as it does for so many other badges.

Capped defense means fark-all without proper defense debuff resistance. Claws/SR for the win.

It performs well above the norm. I don't play it. Hate the slow/fast mechanic of it.

Can't put my finger on it but something about this seems fitting.

I get a great kick out of duoing the ITF with my buds.