Bill Z Bubba

HA!

Sometimes a mistake leads to something good. Did some tweaking of BZB Brute's build in Mids, respeced him again. Still only 4:30 pylon time which sucks. However, I cranked up a max diff ITF, gathered an aggro cap's worth of Cimerorans around me, set practiced brawler on auto and went outside for a smoke. Then poured a beer. Upon arriving back upstairs I found that I was still alive. I'll take that tradeoff.

If you ever want to push EM, last I checked ET, Gloom, TF, Gloom, repeat was still the attack chain to go for. But that was back before the PPM changes, so perhaps a proc build would do better.

Usually around 2:30 It gets worse... instead of being smart and respecing my brute on test, I did it on live. Dropping hasten for eviscerate added about 1.5 mins to his pylon time. This should have been obvious to me but I'm old and the brain ain't workin like it used to. On a scrap, Evis has an increased chance to crit made even higher by the passive scrap AT IO. On a brute, evis is a complete waste of space and PoS.

Scrappers show all the other melee archetypes how to be better at what they do.

Fark me. I just got a 1:50 time on my claws/bio scrapper. Chain was Followup, Focus, Slash, Eviscerate with Evis getting replaced by either DNA Siphon or Pyronic Judgement. Assault Core WAS running. So... apparently I do need to drop hasten for eviscerate on my many BZBs if I want the best chain. Edit: Damn it.

It would be ideal if we could convert threads to emps in the same way we can do emps to transcendents or merits to hero/villain whatsits.

That wiki damage page has been posted in every single one of this guy's various posts regarding blaster damage. You'd think he'd read it at some point.

I don't disagree. Not a bit. My question is, thanks to incarnates, ALL of my characters are pretty damn OPAF. Even the ones that absolutely should not be. What do we do about that now? I mean, I can always run TFs with random debuffs and choose to hamstring myself... but why would I do that when I can be an untouchable god?

mmmm... hookers and blow...

I got no bitterness toward Jack. Sometimes he amused me but I usually found his definitions of "fun" to be well outside my experience.

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My only 50 defender is an emp/nrg... cuz I'm hard core that way. She only teams. Which also means I rarely ever touch her but will need to get her T4ed for that whole 1 of every AT fully done thing.

I'm guilty of farming Heather's Chapter 1 arc in DA which gives a component chance with no cooldown at arc completion. I usually end up with enough VRs to T4 everything pretty early in the vet lvls.

I no longer even consider using shards or any of the shard side components. They all get converted to threads.

O.o Holy crap. I'm scared to even go look at those bases. I saw one recently that had my jaw bouncing off my desk. That said... mine has 3 rooms, some racks, some porters and a med bay. Also, hard no. Always hated prestige.

Whoa.

Knew someone else would run as I do now. Create character, log on 2nd acct with claws/fa farmer. Invite new character to SG, promote, invite to team, grab 20mil inf from email, buy all the porters and dbl xp from P2W vendor, create base instaport macro, go to base, port to Talos, use farmer to port to AE, PL new alt to 32, give all new earnings to new alt, lvl up, buy some IOs, go runnin radio missions or team or whatever. Oh yea.. total time spent PLing? Bout 30 minutes per alt. Total time spent at character creator? Geez, who knows? Some costumes take a LOOOONG damn time.

That should really be corrected.

While the name may be awesome... Ice Armor is not. Having such low DDR on a defense based powerset is painful. Only way to make it good is ramp up recharge for permahoarfrost and get as much SL damres as possible.

I was able to reliably get and stay in the 90s against a pylon before the patch without the AT IO, so what was the point of the IO then? Same as now, a bit more fury. Problem now is I'm not reliably near the cap. But as I posted earlier.. or later.. I did 5 maps of burn farm with my claws/fa brute and cleared them in 33 minutes with a normal clear time of about 30, and as I know I was off my game, that's well within the normal spread. It's probably nothing that'll matter in the long run.

Make the taunt procs unique. OP prob solved.

Ok... prove it. Go solo an iTrial with a emp/nrg defender. Come back with video.

On hasten, it shouldn't fire off until the existing buff depletes. So if you're cruising with permahasten, that's to be expected I think.

It's 100% repeatable as I'm doing scanner missions in Bricks with my new ice/claws tank.