Bill Z Bubba

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.

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.

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