Bill Z Bubba

Welcome back.

Hell yea.

Fire/Ice scrapper with Medicine, Experimentation, Leadership, Leaping and Weapon Mastery.

I'm gonna go with this. It's a game. If you don't want to deal with the random, don't PUG.

Folks that play Warhammer 40k? It's a damn fun combo.

Nrg Aura with Entropic Aura.

Checking. I might be wrong. Yup, I was wrong. 6 of 14 have taunt auras unless I'm missing something.

The majority of them do.

Really? CoD says you're quite wrong.

Yes, I know fully well why some scrapper armors lacked a taunt aura back before redside existed. Back before Bio, Shield and Rad armors existed. So I stand by my statement: It's Fucking Irrelevant Now.

Irrelevant now. Don't pretend otherwise.

But it's fine to ADD effects that don't exist at all. Ignoring that some powersets ported didn't have taunt auras so they just got slapped on willy-nilly. Ya know what? Don't give scrappers that lack taunt auras the taunt auras. Fine. Just unass the bullshit recently added that's now causing everything to run away on a whim. One or the other. Fix what was broken recently, or fix what was wrong in the first place. It's bullshit for some scrappers to have a taunt aura while others don't and also blows your whole "unique effects that aren't for your AT" line out of the water.

I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about me. I played Khels from golive until now. Hit 50 on both back before the snap by mostly soloing, most of that back when Khels still had the penalties for being solo. I came back to the game after the Khel updates and respeced both of mine to utilize the changes. Both were tri-form. People play human-only kheldians for the same reason they play any other non-optimized anything. I ran a freakin swipe-only/invul scrapper to 50 for fuck's sake.

OP and I had a long discussion. He watched me faceplant against +4 IDF a couple times and slaughter a bunch of them as well. I wasn't allowed to use incarnate powers and in my defense, BZB scrap is designed for Barrier usage. We discussed the Rad armor scrapper that managed it. We discussed fair testing. There's, of course, common ground in our views. We both see the leveling process as a bit unfair for SR. Thus the need for the power order change. We both agree that the newer sets are OP AF compared to the older sets. We agreed that even giving SR the Master Brawler treatment from Sentinels would be a good thing. I'm sure he'll add his takes on the events later.

Just to make sure, you do know that attacks typed range are still typed range even if you're in melee, right?

I don't know what the hell this means. I'm not allowed weave or CJ or maneuvers? Why are you allowed pool powers if I'm not? I can be on now. Fire up an IDF mission. Just logged on. Damn typos.

Much tougher enemies is arguable since they're only +1 instead of the +3s you face in PI.

Or Dwarf form could be changed so that its mez protection lasts a few seconds after dropping from it so that you're not stuck in a permaheld state that all other melee archetypes avoid with ease.

Beyond being the stupidest use of that meme.... SR is SR. If Evasion can taunt enemies for 2 archetypes, it can do so for a third.

It's not jealousy, <text removed>. I have a tank and brute and scrapper version of Bill Z Bubba. There's no damn reason for the scrapper to have to deal with the idiotic runners when the brute and tank don't.

Rant to Follow: Time for a relevant story. Back before the snap, before the AT IOs, I did all the math and found brute damage was so damn close to scrapper damage while brutes had more HP (and thus more benefit from the scaling damres in SR, that it made absolutely ZERO sense for Bill Z Bubba to be inferior by being a scrapper so he got moved to another server and fully replaced by BZB Brute. It wasn't until the introduction of the scrapper +crit chance AT IOs that he was able to go back to being a scrapper. And now, with the tank AT IO granting 20.1 damres to all when triple stacked, BZB Brute has become completely superfluous. And then the SuperSecretPrivateServer or Homecoming introduced changes making everything run in terror all the fucking time so even BZB Brute with his inferior mitigation and inferior damage becomes more appealing than the scrapper just to avoid the nuisance created by the devs. I've no fucking clue WHY they changed mob fleeing mechanics but it sucks. It's NOT fun, it's NOT rational and it quite frankly drives me up the fucking wall with their silence on the issue, ESPECIALLY when coupled with the "let's rehash and propagate stone armor but we'll make sure it doesn't have a taunt aura for scrappers" mindset. Yea, I'm pissed about it. Just as I'm annoyed at the origin pools and their BS powers like Rune of Protection. But why NOT use the hell out of the Sorcery pool? It's freaking incredible for a controller with a single pet. Slap the revamped Enflame on Poopy the Animated Stone, keep him buffed Spirit Ward and let him go to town. Power Creep For The Win, Baby!

The same can be said for anyone not playing a tank. Massive unkillable mitigation, huge AoEs with damn near brute damage output while solo, constant mez protection, everything in this game is contemptible easy mode when you're a tank. So why play anything else? Cuz sometimes not being an immortal god is fun. I've seen ONE instance of a kheldian surprising me and he was a tri-form warshade running the Trapdoor challenge as posted in the scrapper forum. Every other interaction I've had with them, either as one or teamed with one, I've found them an inferior AT on the whole. Why on earth would anyone bother? The answer is the exact same for going human-only.

Or Rad/Claws Or Bio/Claws Or Inv/Claws with the Gaussian Chance for Build Up in Invincibility

Every single human only build out there, yes.

Meh. It's been an hour. I'm gonna go watch The Boys.