Bill Z Bubba

Long as I get a weekend's worth of heads up to crank up my own server, what shall be will be. I was without Bill Z Bubba for too damn long. That won't be happening again.

Funny how we all see things through different lenses. I got a fire/nin sent to 50, fully IOed up, think T2 on alpha, and all I can think about her is "tankmage." "Needing a buff" makes me do the doggy head tilt thing in confusion. Agreed on the inherent bit, thought, it kinda sucks and I just ignore it.

I didn't farm much back in the old days but now I'm 47 years old, full time systems analyst job, got 40 alts, playing characters I never would have bothered with before and I can make about 2mil inf/min in AE not even counting drops sold. The gorram content hasn't changed and after playing for 8 years, I've seen it. To put it another way, perhaps some people should get off OUR lawn.

Tricked out my Kat/Nin scrapper today and what I noticed most in comparison to SR is that the self-heal just can NOT keep up with the lack off defense debuff resistance. The nin has around 35% versus sr's 95% and the cascading defense failures I'm seeing are proof to me that DDR rocks. Granted, I noticed it most on a DA mission with nothing by Peacebringer cops ... but ... ouch.

Not sure what most folks are doing, but I've gotten to the point that I sell everything (if it's common I sell it at normal store) on the market for 1 inf. I get charged 5 inf and the highest bid at the moment gets it. So I'll sell a purple recipe for 1 inf and get 15 million inf back... minus that next market fee, of course. Then, I buy everything attuned except AT IOs and Purples. Purples I buy and leave unattuned, AT IOs are half price compared to the catalyzed version, so cheaper if you catalyze them yourself. All this said... my brother just did a secondary build for his main where he boosted almost all his enhancements to +5 instead of attuning them. Based on his observations, I may have to give that a go sometime on my main.

Which IOs are you not seeing for sale? Is it that it actually shows 0 for sale, or that there's no history? If the first, unsure. The vast majority of my IOs have come from the market. If the second, if you keep clicking between IOs in a set, eventually history comes up.

A good point. While I do make choices that gear toward damage output, I've never built something purely to the task. Even the claws/bio scrapper I built just to see what it could do against a pylon was built "normally" and performs as expected throughout all content.

This doesn't sound good.

My main farmer is also a claws/fa brute. Followup, spin, burn, followup, shockwave, fireball is the primary chain. I throw in pyrotic and melt armor when available. I have no doubt that a respec would make it faster but it's doin just fine as is.

This is what first caught my eye about SR on a tank. Lvl 21 and just shy of the softcap on MRA def with nothin but SOs.

My guess? Old beliefs not quite bound to reality. Some don't think SR has a taunt aura, for example. SR is amazing.

Nice to see some SR love in the tank realm. My SR/Fire/Pyre tank is 50 with several incarnate powers slotted but I haven't looked at him in a bit. The tank's normally anemic damage output isn't that bad after being backed by musculature, degen and assault. And he does not die. Ever. Woot for SR!

Degen does seem to be the go to for max damage output. Along with Hybrid Assault Core if base dam modifier is 1 or higher or Hybrid Assault Radial if < 1. So Radial for brutes. That leaves Musculature for Alpha. If any of these are incorrect, please explain why so that I can go fix my builds... again.

I did. End usage on sw is just too high to be sustainable. And I prefer the KB -> KD proc in there instead.

And I'm not sure how moonbeam would play with claws, even with no redraw selected.

Hybrid assault toggled on. Here's the current build. I'm 20% short on recharge, which blows. For a seamless fu, focus, slash chain, you gotta have 186% global and permahasten. EDIT: The recharges in hasten are at 50+5. Hero Plan by Mids' Reborn : Hero Designer 2.6.0.2 https://github.com/ImaginaryDevelopment/imaginary-hero-designer Click this DataLink to open the build! HK-666: Level 50 Magic Scrapper Primary Power Set: Claws Secondary Power Set: Bio Armor Power Pool: Speed Power Pool: Fighting Power Pool: Leaping Power Pool: Leadership Ancillary Pool: Body Mastery Hero Profile: Level 1: Swipe -- SprScrStr-Rchg/+Crit(A) Level 1: Hardened Carapace -- UnbGrd-ResDam(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx(3), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(13), UnbGrd-Max HP%(17), GldArm-3defTpProc(48) Level 2: Slash -- Hct-Dmg/Rchg(A), Hct-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(3), Hct-Acc/Rchg(15), Hct-Dmg/EndRdx(33), Hct-Dam%(42), AchHee-ResDeb%(42) Level 4: Inexhaustible -- Prv-Heal(A), Prv-Heal/EndRdx(5), Prv-EndRdx/Rchg(5), Prv-Heal/Rchg(40), Prv-Heal/Rchg/EndRdx(42), Prv-Absorb%(43) Level 6: Spin -- Arm-Dmg/Rchg(A), Arm-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(7), Arm-Acc/Rchg(7), Arm-Dmg/EndRdx(9), Arm-Dam%(25), SprAvl-Rchg/KDProc(43) Level 8: Environmental Modification -- ShlWal-Def(A), LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(9), ShlWal-ResDam/Re TP(13), Rct-ResDam%(17) Level 10: Follow Up -- SprCrtStr-Acc/Dmg(A), SprCrtStr-Dmg/Rchg(11), SprCrtStr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(11), SprCrtStr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(23), SprCrtStr-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(23), SprCrtStr-Rchg/+50% Crit(25) Level 12: Adaptation Level 14: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(15) Level 16: Ablative Carapace -- NmnCnv-Heal/Rchg(A), Mrc-Heal/Rchg(40) Level 18: Focus -- Apc-Dmg/Rchg(A), Apc-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(19), Apc-Acc/Rchg(19), Apc-Dmg/EndRdx(33), Apc-Dam%(37), GldJvl-Dam%(43) Level 20: Evolving Armor -- UnbGrd-ResDam(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx(21), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam(21), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(39) Level 22: Kick -- Empty(A) Level 24: Tough -- HO:Ribo(A), HO:Ribo(31), StdPrt-ResDam/Def+(34), ImpSki-Status(36) Level 26: Weave -- LucoftheG-Def/EndRdx(A), LucoftheG-Def/Rchg(31), LucoftheG-Def(34), LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(36) Level 28: DNA Siphon -- Obl-Acc/Rchg(A), Obl-Dmg/Rchg(29), Obl-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(29), Obl-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(31), Obl-%Dam(46) Level 30: Super Jump -- Jump-I(A) Level 32: Shockwave -- SprScrStr-Acc/Dmg(A), SprScrStr-Dmg/Rchg(40), SprScrStr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(45), SprScrStr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(45), SprScrStr-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(45), OvrFrc-Dam/KB(46) Level 35: Genetic Contamination -- FuroftheG-Acc/Dmg(A), FuroftheG-Dam/Rech(36), FuroftheG-Dam/End/Rech(37), FuroftheG-Acc/End/Rech(46), FuroftheG-Acc/Dmg/End/Rech(48), FuroftheG-ResDeb%(48) Level 38: Parasitic Aura -- Pnc-Heal/EndRedux(A), Pnc-EndRdx/Rchg(39), Pnc-Heal/Rchg(39), Pnc-Heal/EndRedux/Rchg(50), Pnc-Heal(50), Pnc-Heal/+End(50) Level 41: Combat Jumping -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A) Level 44: Assault -- EndRdx-I(A) Level 47: Conserve Power -- RechRdx-I(A) Level 49: Physical Perfection -- PrfShf-End%(A) Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A) Level 1: Critical Hit Level 1: Prestige Power Dash -- Empty(A) Level 1: Prestige Power Slide -- Empty(A) Level 1: Prestige Power Quick -- Empty(A) Level 1: Prestige Power Rush -- Empty(A) Level 1: Prestige Power Surge -- Empty(A) Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A) Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A) Level 4: Ninja Run Level 2: Swift -- Run-I(A) Level 2: Health -- NmnCnv-Heal/EndRdx(A), NmnCnv-Heal(33), NmnCnv-Regen/Rcvry+(34) Level 2: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A) Level 2: Stamina -- PrfShf-EndMod(A), PrfShf-EndMod/Rchg(27), PrfShf-EndMod/Acc(27), PrfShf-End%(37) Level 12: Defensive Adaptation Level 12: Efficient Adaptation Level 12: Offensive Adaptation Level 50: Musculature Core Paragon Level 50: Degenerative Core Flawless Interface Level 50: Assault Core Embodiment ------------

Got the claws/bio T3ed and made a few changes. Getting there. 1:47 for 486 dps.

I think you ARE breaking the game! Ok, time for me to see what I can do with that claws/bio if I build for a single purpose. Awesome stuff, yall.

So 65 sec average? That's still 718 dps. My best claws/bio time so far is 390 dps.

@jshmoe1236123 Are those times in minutes? Cuz that's freaking outstanding. Average 39 seconds for a pylon? That would put your DPS at 1111. Is this even possible?

I only played on Pinnacle. And the forums. I spent a LOT of time on the forums.

Remade my em/fa brute into a dm/inv brute. I am already beginning to suspect that this is a very potent combination. Sure, aoe is lacking, but I'll be buffing that a bit with dark obliteration. I've no doubt that it would be just as groovy for a scrapper.

Oh yea, I nuked him. Saved his costume first, though. I've never been a fan of keeping things around that I don't use. In games or RL. And considering I can PL a new one to 50 in 3.5 hours of doing something I like doing anyway, it's no biggee.

Storage bins are ready to go on the rebuild. Took two quickie respecs to pull and store everything. Much better than the ... what ... 10 we had to do in the past? Oddly enough, I seem to recall scrapping Louis during live as well. I know at one point he was dark melee but I can't remember what secondary he had. For the time being, I've remade him as a dark\invul brute. We'll see if possible EM changes can take him back to his former glory. It's not like gettin to 50 is a rough ride these days. @BloodofcaineI absolutely get where you're coming from but in the mythology I built for my devils and their Hell, Lucifer was most assuredly a front line general in the war against Heaven. Thanks yall.

Ran it at +1/x8 w/ bosses and AVs so they'd be even-con with BZB - Scrapper. Finished with 9:05 left on the clock, zero faceplants. Nice map and mission. Also, HI, EVA D!