Bill Z Bubba

Doh. Dark Astoria. The rent's cheap.

As the title suggest, there are two time melee attacks that I never took but my fire/time blaster is in desperate need of a rework and I only have this to ask: Are the melee attacks in /time worth bothering with if I'm going for a full melee blaster build? Crap... guess if I knew their real DPA I'd have my answer. No, scratch that, this isn't about numbers. This is about feel. Is there any benefit at all going heavy melee on a fire/time blaster?

@LuminaraDon't you think for a second that I can't still scrap with the best of them!

Since it's an iTrial, only allow the +1 as with all other incarnate content would be my wish. Don't get me wrong, I'm not hellbent on this change or anything. It's just a consequence of seeing a whole lotta steamrollin goin on these days.

True, but when the incarnate content is EASIER than standard content, a very poor design decision has been made. Edit: And NO I do NOT in any way want to lose the ability to incarnate it up while solo, THAT part of the design change was welcome and glorious. I'd just like to see 2 of the three lvl shifts done away with and the remaining 1 shift only be active in incarnate content.

I live on Excelsior. Just as in the old days I lived on Pinnacle. One server is enough for me.

So there I was, scrapper god, ATI guru, way too man damn posts on the forum, and then CoH was shut down. Then the snap got reverted. I've got a BZB from each melee set at 50 now. Ton of other 50s. Farming is part of my gamin experience in a way it never was before. The shit's fun, yo. Hop in, slaughter virtual baddies, get paid, get that alt on the 2nd account to full power so you can experience how the other half lived back in the old days. So you can finally see why that one dude loved his controller, or her tank, or his defender or her whatever. I get tanking now in a way I never did before the snap. Green Dwarf handled that shit. I'm a scrapper, damnit. Then I played a buncha tanks. Side note here: Don't believe the naysayers, SR freaking rocks on a tank. It's a whole different ride caring about your team, pondering their welfare as you punch stuff, than it is when your entire purpose is destroying that which might be a problem for your team. It seems to create a different game. I find that to be pretty damn cool game design. This is nothin but a love letter to the game. To what it evolved into and the whole damn process of it becoming that. I'm old, jaded, and lucky. I missed this game for every reason that always made it so damn ... comforting. Thanks to all those that brought it back.

Still cracks me up that SR and Claws are bottom of the pack for tanks. Mine's awesome.

Game on gaming rig. RDP from workstation with two monitors into laptop so that I have the same functionality as being in the office. It's been a nice week. Only downside was that my 1st beer of the day kept happening earlier and earlier.

You have forever been quite groovy on replies like this.

But... but... MOAR DAMAGE!!! I can't offer much help to the OP. My DM/Inv brute has an attack chain of MG, Gloom, SL, Gloom, repeat. (4 left handed attacks is very dull.) But the ST DPS ain't bad.

I always 4slot perf shifter in stamina. I dig the set bonuses.

I made Maria Phobia (Maria Franz from Euzen and Hielung with her costume from the video for Phobia) a sonic/dark corruptor.

My staff/bio scrapper hit 47 this morning. I'm posting in this thread because I want to be reminded that I have absolutely no idea what to do with staff. I set the +damage mode for both staff and bio and go to town. Hell, I even took caltrops and web grenade because I'm so damn clueless about where to go with this. It's just fun to watch, like dual pistols.

I would like to see the level shifts removed. Or capped at +1 when you T3 hybrid. There should be no level shift at all outside of incarnate content. I base this on how ridiculously easy it is to solo zerg max diff in Dark Astoria because everything is only +1.

ugh.

100% on board with this. I rather like my skippable T9 and 3 +def toggles and 3 +def/+scaling resist passives. (Or 2 on the stalker..... still don't know if the rates were changed so they get less or not...)

Exactly this. The vast majority of my bio users are so much "shielding" themselves with extra HP as they are just plain avoiding/eating/resisting the damage by X means.

One of my arguments for "rolling with the punches" way back in the day before the passive scaling resists were added was purely based on thematics. Yea, I'm taking too much damage, I'm not dodging as well, so now I start rolling to take less damage. Absorb VERY MUCH fits in with the theme of rolling with the punch when things get rough.

If you really enjoy killing your kill time, sure, go for it. I know that I build for constant murder.... not self-induced time-outs.

You are correct.

Bunch of this. I have FOUR Bill Z Bubbas on Excel. Tank, Brute, Scrapper and Stalker, all using Claws and SR. Elude has been a completely useless and skippable power since long before the snap. The only change that makes any sense for SR is add the Master Brawler choice as per Sentinels. SR is arguably OP as is in 95% of the content. (When built "correctly.")

I still get a kick every time I notice that I'm killing Green Dwarf, my RL brother.

I ran 4 accts the other day and stayed above 60FPS. This is on an Nvidia 1080 with other hardware that was purchased back in 2013. Time for an upgrade RV! Yea, I missed the bit about Hami raids. I don't even go to those. Only HO I ever need is a micro++ for sprint.

I cheated. My fire/bio sentinel definitely out damages my emp/nrg defender. But probably does not out damage the sonic/dark corruptor. She's kinda scary.