Bill Z Bubba

lol... wut?

I'm stealing this.

I looked at her build only to find that it was 75% basic IOs. Too many alts. I'll fix her at some point and try again.

Shield makes everything better. If ya like savage for concept, go with SM/SD.

"Energy Assault: New special mechanic. Most single target attacks have a 20% chance of granting Energy Focus mode. Hitting a foe with Total Focus will always grant Energy Focus mode. While in this mode, Whirling Hands will inflict a large amount of bonus damage. Power Burst will do some bonus damage." Thanks, @Bopper

Does some have a link to what the heck this is? I see that 2ndary attacks can put you in the energy focus state and the energy stored popup occurs, but I can't find any explanation of wth that actually does/mean. Thanks, -BZB

I must admit my amusement at myself for shifting gears so much during the snap. Disregarding my work on my claws/bio scrapper, I went from "DPS is all that matters" to "do I look cool while I'm beatin down the baddies?" Aging. It does things to your brain.

I'm not sure that it's KB. It acts like repel. Does the KB->KD from Overwhelming actually turn it into KD?

I haven't looked at all. Don't think I'm ever conscious of it showing up and certainly haven't been watching the combat logs for it.

It ain't great. Matter of fact, yea, it's pretty awful. However, I never faceplant and the aoe output from fireball, rain and inferno ramp up the kill speed on max diff nicely. Doesn't help that I have both Sent AT IO full sets in Flares and Fire Blast and a full Devastation set in Blaze. Attack chain is Blaze, Flares, FB, Flares, repeat. No hasten in the build. I have no doubt I could reslot for better damage, take hasten, drop flares for blazing blast and improve the time considerably. But then I'd be annoyed by blazing blast's repel during normal combat like I was before his last respec. Edit: Quick side note, if opportunity is up and I fire off flares and queue up fire blast, when both hit, I get both Offensive and Defensive Opportunity. Which amuses me.

Lvl 50 Fire/Bio Sent. At login, Offensive was enabled as was Hardened Carapace. Combat Monitor shows me at 55.50% Damage Bonus. Turned off Offensive, Damage Bonus now at 30.50%. Turned on Defensive, Damage Bonus now at 5.5%. Turned back on Offensive, back up to 55.50%. So yea, +25% damage bonus. Turning off HC while leaving OM enabled does drop +dam back to 30.5%. Edit: Also, 5:45 pylon time.

I can still hit 100% on rare occasions with my claws brute but only because I have the brute at io +fury in followup and only against really hard targets. EDIT: Just went and smacked a pylon. Saw 100% around 5 or 6 times. It, of course, doesn't last long.

Can't be overstated. KB to KD proc in shockwave is a game changer.

Hi. Welcome back.

But... I kinda like myself and see no reason to fully self-gimp. Side note: You all do know you can go min FX on bio armor to get rid of the poop completely, right?

Skinless Scarlet and her blood magic agree. On topic, yea, claws/wp is cruise control. I'd say properly played Kheldians are on the difficult side of things.

<shrug> I can solo in DA with my Sent. My blaster is a painful nightmare solo and she's a fire/time.

I don't die. Hover plus bio armor with fire blast being backed by Bio's +damage... it's probably the top Sent combo. Sure, Sent damage is lacking in the overall... but when you never faceplant, your DPS gets buffed accordingly compared to the other ATs eating dirt.

Kinda. Now I have to delete 5 tanks. I've settled on Shield/Mace and Rad/EM as my mains. Seriously considering moving BZB Brute to another server and creating BZB tank. That'd be 3. Too many damn alts. Also, and a complete side note, my fire/bio sent is farkin OPAF. Powercreep is real since HC and post-snap.

There's probably some truth here. I already had more tanks with HC than I ever did before the snap just because I got older and slower and team more these days. With the changes, some powersets just make more sense to go tank. My new main tank is a shield/mace. Solid AoE and ST, good mitigation and would be less effective as a brute. Even questioning my claws/sr brute now since stacked followup will do the tank more good.

Claws is not a bursty set and because of that, lousy for PvP. However, while it lacks burst, with enough recharge backing a followup, focus, slash, repeat chain, you will chew through hard targets faster than the burst sets. Especially when in offensive mode for even more +damage. Examples: my average pylon time for my claws/sr scrapper is around 3mins. For my claws/bio scrapper, I got 1:50 the other day but probably average 2mins. For a tank, the lack of crits will slow it down but I believe it was Nihilli that posted a 3min time for his bio/claws tank. That's pretty dang good for a tank.

Bio/Mace or Bio/Claws. Both are freaking insane.

Well that kinda sucks.

I had one tank back before the snap. She rarely got playtime but I liked her, kinda. I've got 6 tanks now. Some are soon to be deleted but my play style has changed over the years. Yea, BZB the scrap is still my main, always will be, but as we age things change. We change. That comes out in how we spend our time. Nowadays... I kind of like taking care of the team more than I used to. Hell... I TEAM more than I used to.

Been spending a lot of time workin on my Khels. Pretty much settled on two things: PBs should be triform and WSs should be human only. That is all.