Bill Z Bubba

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.

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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.

Woot. Claws/SR Scrappin for the win. (+4/x8 ITF solo run)

Cuz I like seeing other characters' info and I can't use the power analyzer on 'em.

Gonna be honest... I slapped together a rad/fa brute for farming and hate it. She's due for the deletion pile. Rad's animations are just too long and clunky to deal with for me.

I want the SR change on Sentinels ported to all SR sets. Farkabuncha click mez protection.

I'm still old school. On a 32" Curved 144Hz 1080 single screen. Got dualscreen for the workstation, though. Don't think I'll jump to a 4k monitor until video cards can actually push 60+ refresh properly on them.

Much nicer. But I don't think I could game on 3 monitors like that. Think the black bars breaking up the screens would be way to distracting for me.

It amuses me to no end that there's some variant of "AT X is now irrelevant" thread for every AT. There's also "I can solo at max diff with my X" threads. We're all irrelevant and we're all awesome. What's the frelling problem?

No. FocAcc would be nothing but a waste of end after everything you already have going. Edit: If you team a lot, you might consider Gaussian's Chance for Build Up in tactics. Nice occasional bump.

Sudden Acceleration: KB to KD does not appear to be unique as per Mids. Course, this doesn't mean everyone is going to or should slot them in all KB attacks... but the choice is there.

I have one tank that gets playtime. SR/FM. Doesn't get hit, AoEs and Evasion's taunt aura + actual taunting allows me to tank very well for teams (regardless of some naysayers incorrect beliefs) and once I got some damage love from incarnate buffs became tolerable when hitting DA at +4/x8 while solo.

Which is why they gave us KB to KD IOs.

I find that I must respectfully disagree. My current build is pushing ~186% global recharge and it allows for very tight attack chains on a scrapper. Brute a bit less because the base recharge on spin and shockwave are higher. ST chain is Followup, Focus, Slash, repeat which means a triplestack of Fu on Focus. For tight crowds, the chain becomes Fu, Focus, Spin. With a CFKD in Spin, mitigation in the middle of a pack goes up. For really large groups, or being at the edge of a group so Sw can come into play with its KB turned into KD, it's Fu, Spin, Sw, repeat. AoE output at that point is pretty freaking huge. There's a reason that claws is hanging with the other big boys in the farming thread. This said... I have been tempted to totally rework the build into a proc monster just to see what, if anything, might change. I really should spend some time on the test server.

The KB to KD IO in Claws Shockwave is absolutely a game changer.

I've been meaning to ask someone about this whole procmonster business. It seems that the proc build mindset is as follows and please correct me where I'm wrong. Get max global recharge. Don't slot recharge in attacks. Use 3 or 4 procs per attack and use the other two slots for acc/dam. Or even as you point out here, 5 procs and a single acc/dam. Then I guess ageless as the only possible option for Destiny cuz you're damn well gonna need all that end since you're not slotting end-red in your attacks. And that with this philosophy, the old mindset of max recharge for tight attack chains (read: claws with fu, focus, slash, repeat) needs to go the way of the dodo because procmonstering is the only way to fly if you want max damage? Edit: Also, very cool find on infrigidate.

Don't think Mids is updated, then, because it's considerably shorter now. Unsure what patch changed it.

Heh. Mine is just named Stretty.

This. The set sucks now. There's no way around it. It was broken when they tried to fix it. Until the animation times (see Dominator Total Focus) are put in place across the board, same for ET, the set isn't worth migrating.