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What they said.

Time to sharpen my claws.

For a second there I thought you completely mad until my brain registered the "sent" part of the post.

Everything @Stormwalkerstated is true. My only dig on NRG aura is that it's far more clicky than SR and that can occasionally become problematic when you need to click energize or energy drain right in the middle of the ridiculously long cast times for total focus or long energy transfer.

Both ITF with enemies buffed and 801 at the higher levels. But c'mon... I had to work at it. That's the damn point. The tanks I've leveled normally have been able to push the diff up FAR higher FAR earlier and thus leveled FAR faster than my brutes with their greater damage output. Shit be broke, yo. Edit: And I love you, too, and you know it!

Nope. Tanks are never in danger. False request. I stand by the statement that where tanks survive when brutes can't, while doing near brute damage, tanks are OP AF. Tank damage should NOT have been raised to where it is now. Full stop. Edit: And by now we should ALL know I'm coming at this from a soloist mindset. Brutes on teams backed by buffs > than tanks and scrappers. Also, full stop.

None of them are bad. Especially compared to non-melee ATs while solo.

And yet the trapdoor mission doesn't test mitigation values at all.

Blasters still faceplant all around me. I've watched some amazing blasters but ... nah. Edit: Not to say they don't shine hard with all 3 amplifiers, rune of protection and demonic/etc.

Not denying it at all, Sovera. I buy 8 hours of all three amps on most of my lvl 1s. Just because I don't like something ridiculously OP doesn't mean I don't use it. I do run a shield/nrg tank after all. 🙂

Been saying it since the tank buffs. Tanks were ALREADY OP... and the devs made them even worse.

And yet you had to make her a focal point. Obviously due to some past grievance. She's not a god. She's just a human better at this than you ever will be.

I'm gonna go on record here... I am NOT a fan of the P2W amplifiers. Just as I'm not a fan of the new origin pools and their ridiculousness. The day I take Rune of Protection on a a melee character is the day I probably quit playing.

.......... Dude. That is SERIOUSLY some double bolter level heresy. I'm not arguing the level speed portion of it... but damn.

Nah, man. I'm just smart enough to recognize who's smarter than I am. And who's stupider.

She is absolutely smarter than me. She is absolutely smarter than you. Liar.

@Luminara That was well fucking said. I chose to not respond simply because it pissed me off way too much.

Happily, I can always cut myself to handle both sides.

Add me to the camp that wishes for MinFX on Everything. Edit: Doesn't mean I'll use it on everything, but being able to just makes sense.

You know as well as I do... take the evil chompin eyeballs of doom out first and you're good to go. Especially at tank values. I honestly think the OP is only concerned with scrapper SR. Again, though, with all the tools accessible to us, be it from pool powers on the way up to 50 or incarnate powers after that, SR sits it a very fine place in the hierarchy of melee armor sets. I AM biased and I do place it higher than many, and I know fully well that my time with it has given me a particular feel for the set and how to use it. This fact is what gives me pause from the mockery of regen lovers cuz many of them have the exact same outlook/experience/etc with regen as I do SR. Doesn't fully stop the mockery, of course. Cuz.... regen. I mean, c'mon, if you need Rune of Protection on your melee character, you're either doin something wrong or trying to solo Linea's 801 stuff.

Hide is a huge part of why I don't play stalkers as well.

Mine fizzled out mostly due to the runners issue. No clue if I'll revisit later.

Also, yes. A TON of eyeballing, throw shit at the wall, make changes and hope for the best have gone into making this game what it is today. That's WHY it's a mess.

Again, that's a mighty assumption. When Castle and BAB initially put the Claws changes on beta, they thought they had it right based on whatever tools/testing they had in place. Arcanaville knew they had it wrong and I was lucky enough to be a case proof that she was right when I tore through a pylon with Castle watching, unknown to me at the time, with a time that shocked everyone... except Arcana.