Bill Z Bubba

I'm not very good at this badging thing...

It would be very nice to have the following and all would be greatly appreciated should any of them be possible. Surgeon for the base. Alternate hand animations for all single handed attacks. Example: My dark melee brute uses Midnight Grasp, Gloom, Siphon Life, repeat as his attack chain. These are all left handed attacks. Gets a bit dull. Another example: Claws followup is only right handed, unless you are flying, then there's an alternate left handed followup that is cycled in. The ability to convert threads into empyrean merits. The Sentinel change to Super Reflexes, Master Brawler, please port over to all SR sets. I will happily respec again for that on all my SR users. Edit: To be fair, do the same for any melee mitigation set that has click mez protection. Please also add the Sybil outfit for characters. That's it. Thanks much.

I sell all my purple drops for 25 inf each. The why of it? Because I sleep upon beds of inf earned from the slaughter of my enemies. My dreams are filled with the sounds of the lamentations of their women. They are driven before me and it is good. Also, I'm lazy. I've already got bins full of enhancements and spending time crafting is time I'm not killin stuff.

I clear 5 maps of Brigg's Rainbow fire farm in 30 mins with my claws/fa/pyre brute. One day, I might even start using the combine insp macros.

In my opinion, claws is the most perfectly balanced melee attack set between ST and AoE damage output. It goes great with everything. Liked whipped cream or beer.

wait wut? What aura gives the pompoms of doom?

"All squishy ATs suck." This was my mantra for 8 years of playing CoH before the snap. Even though my 2nd character ever was an emp/nrg defender and I leveled both Khels to 50 before they ever got remotely fixed. Hell, the mantra was probably BECAUSE of those last three characters. Now I have a fire/time blaster that I'm actually a little freaked out to complete because she's so damned awesome already. I've got a fire/nin Sent at 50 and IOed out. I've got an AR/Invul Sent on her way up. Times change.

Yea, the basics were dumb. I lose nothing and gain. PrevMed is only adding 2.25% SL as per Mids but every bit helps. And more recovery from Miracle (the cheaper option) is always welcome. I did verify that no caps are surpassed as well. I'll fix those in the build shortly. Thanks @Lockpick. This build just keeps getting better and better.

Oh wise one, tell me thy secrets. I'm only getting 3 vet lvls per hour doing clear alls of DA repeatables at +4/x8 when I'm really working at it. How have you managed this? EDIT: Actually, having now read your signature, I get it. 🙂

After respecing and +5ing, I got my best time yet for my claws/sr scrapper of 2:44. Long as I stay under 3mins, I'm a happy camper. Edit: Scratch that. 2:30 is new best time. But I cheated and fired off Call To Justice when Assault Core ran out. 🙂

@Zirilion had another note... why use serendipity in the passives when I could use reactive defenses? Here's the build I ended up with. Didn't fix it in the build yet and for whatever reason Mids won't import the live buildsave, but everything that can be +5 is. Procs are not unless they proc and buff the power. AT IOs, of course, are also not +5ed. BZB was already a powerful blender. Now he's immortal and stuck on puree. Thanks to all that gave guidance on this. Total side note: I'll be checking later to verify, but it appears to me that having two builds, one all attuned for exemplaring and another maxed to the gills at +5 is a colossal waste of inf. But... I had it so why not use it? In the future, I'll be +5ing purples, basics and pvps and attuning the rest on a single build. EDIT: I checked. It was a horrific waste of inf. But oh well... good learning experience. | Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1542;707;1414;HEX;| |78DA7594DB4E13511486F7B433D6B61C8AA52DE71E2814281D5AF5C673821C12A05| |8286A6262705A36509D404321C2A5AFA089DEEA8DF1CA77F0D6E30BA8890FC041D4| |44AFEAEAFC4BDA64E24E9A6FCFBFFFB5D63E36BB3BD1F47AFAD135A1B45C378D4A6| |5395FDC32CA65B9A5658DB5525150F38D974C33722732BE53281891F9C9DB2E12DB| |FFF996B3D29452A7E08795F089382157E54645EAF99DDAD7A25C35E5AEAC086F6E7| |3D3D4A7CCD2DAFAB6C7EAE7CB52AE3443AEA9A58DB526EB6B4E1A65FA689B2C978A| |FAF8E6CADE72D6A86CCBADBD0EAA9EA2DF7A6D1A56AB0AF1C929444615D99AA6589| |A53F8144B73F8C153EDA02F00DE77B155543525E18077085487C1F611B02709C6DF| |10FDAA98A75827D771721DF53F75BCE4D5789E5A3F21E31626692EAB7A5573DD532| |DDF698359003D4530B802C62518A358376A2BEE24F27998391AF3722D6F5458FE07| |A435F33A9B2F601D2D179997789D97C1E01570EC056A2D506C2B6A395A0FB0C7FD8| |7CCEFE00679DA387F5B0AF16774E618984A73DE0C7314B18B14EB477EE14F61BE37| |480B70CDC014D79A06E333A0833C21D474843E43EBF9020E7E059DE4E9441EADF31| |7B4BE9F60E40F183DCBFC0D0E8728A097CE9262BBF97CBBF97C237CBE113EDF289F| |6F9EBCBD3CDF5EDEA361DEA311DEA33279C2BC47E1B7EC79C79EF7CC0F60EA2398F| |9062E516C8CD711E3FC839C7FF0084C709DC431F30718A4D801BE2B03D6BCDD2213| |00F36419E2BB32C4F7E7255D9424D74A469163F42AF66474869820EEF33CE388C93| |0DD544BE77CFA2C3C2228449AB534EF578FDAF06EABD444583D79B5D511DB68DAA6| |646CCA399B72DEA6CCD9949C7AF20F20144B71FBE85D43A9EE7B6854691C3DAC2B9| |AB280D5742C32F360D712D87793790B3CB0653BAA2B4EE531DE45D313E653B0EB19| |68786A278879151AFA771BFAB986FEAC9FC2B8FF2A56EF4F85EAFDE7350FAFF52F2| |C7FF8A3| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

I'm on Mids reborn 2.6.0.7 and for my fully built Kat/Nin Scrapper, I'm only showing 34.6% DDR without Kuji-In Retsu and 69.2 with it. Compared to SR's 96.7% DDR without Elude, that seems awfully low. From an in game standpoint, last ITF I took my Nin on she struggled to stay alive where my SR cruises through without issue. I'm not trying to knock Nin because it comes with a lot of cool tools and may be perfect for what the OP is seeking at early levels, just wanted awareness spread on the DDR topic.

But with the very low DDR levels from Ninjitsu, it can be a rough ride depending on that defense against some enemy factions.

Again, though.. give eviscerate swipe's original animation as an alt and I'd be all over it.

Going purely off memory eviscerate was never changed. Swipe used to be the cracked out cat against scratching post and slash was the baseball pitch of doom. Strike was always the gut punch. Then swipe was changed to the quick swipe it is now and slash was given that glorious 1/2 punch that I love so much in EM's barrage. Again, though... this is purely off memory which has proven to be faulty as of late.

Unsure how when my aoe attack chain is already a pauseless folllowup, spin, shockwave, repeat. With the KB-KD in SW and a chance for KD in spin, I'm groovin along.

I voted skip it. I did so even after determining that the best ST attack chain I can muster on claws is followup, focus, eviscerate, repeat because the scrapper AT IOs turn eviscerate into an absolute monster. But it's SOOOOO damn STUPID!!! I begged and pleaded for the old swipe animation to be an alt animation for eviscerate. I'd much rather look like a tweaked out cat on acid clawing away than that backflip idiocy. Sooo, yea. Skip it. Followup, focus, slash, repeat is good enough.

I honestly don't know how much my regen slotting is based off of reality or memory of a belief that regen was what was keeping me alive when otherwise I'd be dead. As per mids, swapping out PrevMeds for Numina's would still leave Hasten perma if it is still slotted with 2 50+5 recharges. Seems like another good call. I suspect you could probably steal 2 slots from Physical Perfection, leaving just the 4 uniques there, utilize those slots elsewhere for even more goodness, and not notice the difference in actual gameplay. Edit: Looked that this... don't think I'd do it depending on whether the loss of +acc is noticed and I need to steal a slot for the karma +tohit.

Quick update. While I'm capable of 3 lvls/hr, I wanted to come back and share the real world average. In 8 days I've gone from 333 to 375. That's only 5.25 lvls per DAY. Real life does interfere....

I've hit the fury cap ONCE. And that was while on a full team of exceptional buffers. You will NOT get there solo unless you eat a whole buncha huge reds.

It's better in all the areas I care about. Very nice and thank you.

Claws/SR will always be my favorite combo but I'm trying to branch out. DM/Invul is very nice. I'm starting to really enjoy my bio/em tank but now that I grok bio a little more than I did, I suspect my em/bio brute will win in the end depending on how the tank buffs work out. I suspect that the claws/bio scrapper I got to 50 and T4ed but then stripped and shelved will get a new respec and rebuild. My "me" character is a StJ/WP brute but unfortunately that combo bores the hell out of me. Not sure what I'm gonna do there. I may just have to become a chaos mage instead.

Those are all very nice tips. Since I have afterburner, I don't need to boost fly's regular speed. I do have all basic IOs in the build at +5 now. And a Microfilament++ in sprint so I don't have to bother turning it off. Thanks!

Have any time for this testing, Munki?

And the SL farms I've tried out also included some KB. Sticking my claws/sr in a fire farm, however, lets me completely ignore my click mez protection thus increasing my damage output.