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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.

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.