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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.

I keep hasten on auto. As it's perma and lasts 2 minutes, it is the indicator of when I need to click PB.

I love SR. It had its ups and downs over the many years but right now it is absolutely glorious on every AT that gets it. Now... if only the devs would port over the PB-MB change that was given to Sentinels....

Negative. As soon as you ding 50, if you even have some banked they go byebye.

After the servers were available again, I built BZB#1 Brute on Torch. Got him to 50, relearned a bunch stuff I had forgotten, ended up with a real mess of a character. Fully functional, all T4ed, too many T4s, but then most of the folks I used to know from Pinnacle ended up on Excel. So I cranked up BZB# 2 Scrap. Got to work on him. Then my brother decided to live on Ever... so I figured, ok, fine... I'll do a nice clean BZB #3 Brute over there, make him perfect and clean. And he was. Then my brother, for reasons, ended up on Excel. So, I had this clean groovy brute that I still liked playing, sitting on a server that I never went to. Transferred him to Excel. Thus, BZB Scrap and BZB Brute live on Excel. And I play both. Scrap more when I solo, Brute more when I team. A stalker was created on Ever, the tank on Indom, for no reason other than name grabbing, and I just haven't been able to delete BZB #1 from Torch cuz... well, he's the first since the rebirth.

20+ years ago when I first started in my career with computers, I had a manager call me a pitbull with a goatee. I'm thankful for that mindset as it has funded my life and addictions well. I've around 50 alts right now, some fully T4ed, some just T3ed, some barely in their teens. But there's only one BZB Scrapper. And two brutes. And a stalker. And a female tank version. All claws/sr.

To Shred Monkey: +3 in DA. Bosses on. I like the extra XP and claws tears through everything. To Yomo Kimyata: Seems to be the case give or take certain variances.

They're only 30 incarnate threads a pop from the fairy in Ouroboros.

I'm at 333. Goin for 666 then xp gets disabled. But I seem to recall that the devs said someone hit 1000 vet lvls a long time ago and I've seen a guy on Excel in the 400s.

Thanks for the thoughts, yall. I hit the halfway mark this afternoon, so I'll just keep trucking along and running team stuff with the grind gets to be too much.

Their performance increase versus the side trips to load up on them and in comparison to just eating/combining that drops seemed negligible in the long run. They sure as hades were needed to solo that +4 ITF, though.

Goes to inf which means no vet lvls.

Tried that. With XP getting cut in almost half by 2 ppl on map AND already nerfed in AE, it was actually faster to solo the same burn map with the claws/sr which in turn was still slower than DA. A lot of that is due to 54s being +1 while in DA instead of in AE where 54s are +3 with nerfed XP.

Another thing I'd love to know is why I used to get 4-5 purples a day doing this and over the past week or so I've dropped to 0-2/day.

Yea, it's a little painful at times.

I'm involved with a lot of ITFs (still my favorite tf) but as you point it, that too, is slower.

So, I'm trying to get to a stupid number of vet levels on my main claws/sr scrapper and I'm almost to the halfway mark but this is taking forever. I'm running DA repeatables from Ephram Sha at +4/x8 w/ bosses. I've tried to go the super pack route for extra Experienced buffs, but the time it takes to buy them, open them, sell the garbage, and only getting 1-3 charges per 100 mil spent just ain't worth it. I've tried farming Brigg's AE mission, and it turns out I'm faster on the fire map than the SL map because I don't need to bother with practiced brawler, but even that is slower than DA repeatables. Does anyone have any tips on how I can get these vet lvls faster than the 3 per hour I'm pushing? Thank you for your support.

Should be noted that the no redraw option, seems to be more-so on katana than claws, often causes the next attack after where a redraw should occur to not animate at all. You just stand there while watching the effects of the attack happen. Some folks don't like this. I can't stand redraw, so I live with it.

You're not over thinking it. While I have no end issues since I click conserve power when it's up, there's nothing wrong with changing the def/rech to def/end/rech. Matter of fact, finding more melee defense for the build would be a very good thing since the softcap against incarnate enemies is 58% instead of 45%.

Followed that up by running a master run with my brother, Green Dwarf. Which unbeknownst to me meant no ultimate insps. We did it anyway. +4/x8 no temps, no deaths. WOOT! His stone/axe tank and my claws/sr scrapper.

Oh... ok.... here's my live build. I will happily take guidance. Received another build that lost HP and regen for more damres... not sure I'd wanna go that route. | Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1536;700;1400;HEX;| |78DA7593496FD3401886C7B14DC8D225A44DBA67E992667313E0C256A4D21689369| |036C0010915279D9680D5464D2BDA237F0124B8C20571E23F7065FD0DDCD80A4888| |0317C2177F6F9B080B4BD6337EE75BDE99F1147667FD2F2EDE3F2F94CE0B9659AFA| |F942A5B66AD26B7F482B95EAD087AFC3355CB8ADE88CEEC94CBA69B849E83989582| |B4A43428F15E3D7228CECA35B951974669A7F9B52CD72CB92BEBC257DCDCB48C79A| |BBA7E7BDB6B8F4B3529573B586EAAD58D75BFFDB528CD1A7D04E66AD58A31B3B9BA| |B75230EBDB726BAF8FBA67E9AD366DD84F4388F7AA10794D149A9A626B9AE8566CC| |D15601EE96176F732871638E78E1B29A2A12B0917E74C32B524B327C51C4A33C75E| |12839AB84CB92AFAA9E8A7FDA7DFC84FEEE7A31C1DBEF551616B16696EDB454377D| |FD26CEDA8099699DE0A33B4CA1C93CC38E57AD883E249733D2F58A4391F7AF962AC| |DD25AD03EBED38C5EBE93C0D9EC17ACF3243E798534FB9D712E576712F57D71F424| |213A30DD0A5D8DCA09800EA07B29C7FCC00A798D91CEAE6C10CEFCD32E506B9BE08| |66D9EF15D27AD1B3F79F9E63E8E9A29830D6196ED0235452FA394BEFFFC5D5A3BF9| |9B1E36088028635910C33F3D314AEA942A3DC41CE550771AA519C6A14A71AC3A996| |287618EE86E12E097729B8AB514C043B1279C5BD93AF99A937E05B66FE1DF881799| |572E3F012879704BC24E025012F218A1D47EC386227103B81D88903DF547E123B36| |89BFE519FD1669EC593AC6FD33D3BC37994BBC96CC12E767AF81D7991EEA6DA09E8| |1BF5A8484C841CB411BD2DA6EAD7D5211EDF0CE36528ED99C43C93B94130EE5A443| |59742845EDF0DE0BC5563CDD749B5969EC7B6956699FFDDE5274E523EF4EDF27F03| |373E00B73E42BB8CFFCE6A8F6A3A5A8CA03BE05FE87E023E6C063A6E9B55DDBBECA| |6DE39B6DE362DB78214869D8D1E7F1D6783EDC1A3F69C620FE2F844EF503| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Agreed, but I couldn't spare the slots on my current build. Really should just dump it on the scrapper forums and get ideas for an overhaul.

I got the passive in swipe. It's the only slot there and swipe isn't even in my toolbar. Got the proc in followup to buff focus and slash. Or spin and shockwave. Or focus and spin. Depending on what's around me.

I'm waiting on verification from another brother who has been at Dell since '97 but I'm already 99% sure that uninstalling the Dell Support software will NOT void your warranty. Having worked there myself from '97 to 2000, I can assure you that most of the extra software ANY manufacturer installs should probably be uninstalled as soon as you pull it out of the box. Edit: Verified by Dell employee. No problems with uninstalling Dell Support Assist.