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I take fly on 90% of my characters.

I'm not sure. I took it out first due to blind hatred, not logic.

I did it by chomping huge reds and a couple ultimate insps. Yea, felt like cheating but I considered that fair since an autohit fluffy against super reflexes is ALSO freakin cheatin. Edit: Yes, I attacked and killed the autohit fluffy 1st, then Rom.

Inherent fitness was one of the better decisions the devs made. But don't make me go back to hovering over the Hollows.

I am corrected. And as always, I like it.

If this is true, then it's a bug. All scrapper primary attacks should have a chance to crit. Have you sat in front a target dummy in RWZ with this power on auto to verify that it never crits?

Gotta say on the dm/inv brute... yea, that sucker is HARD to kill. Much more so than I expected.

The DM attacks should be critting as expected on a scrapper. I've got a DM/Inv brute and a DM/Bio scrapper right now, love them both. Oddly, my scrapper is a pure concept build and her attack chain is nothing but Smite, SP, AirSup, SP, repeat. AirSup, of course and unfortunately, never crits but the other two do and more so since she has the scrapper AT IOs. The no crit on pool powers is an oversight that should have been corrected LONG before the snap occurred. This may not last, however, as there's really no reason a skinless woman kept alive by blood magic couldn't use said magic for another self-heal or a major hold. But that's my one major gripe with DM these days... the best attack chain for the brute is MG, Gloom, SL, Gloom, repeat. Nothing but left-hand jutting foward over and over. Gets boring. I don't know if the dark snipe for scrappers is left or right handed.

Ya think we might get an acct wide shutoff for those? Can't stand them, to be honest.

Tis a strange and wondrous thing that a video game could create a void in my chest that lingered unchanged until a fellow player pinged me on steam to tell me it was back. I also moved to the test server when Pinnacle shut down and sat there, beer in hand, staring at the disconnection screen for I don't know how long, knowing there was no other server on which to connect.

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.