Bill Z Bubba

What he said. And now I'm sad.

Lumi, I know not why, but all your images save the last one fail to load in both Firefox and Edge. Hyperlink too long maybe?

So why haven't Scrapper EPP Gloom/Moonbeam/Shadow Meld and Sent EPP Mind Probe/Dominate been nerfed yet?

Still seems like the best course of action, and one I see the regeners that dig it lean on, are the big buff powers. Eye of the Magus/Demonic, Rune of Protection, Unrelenting and the like. You know... crutches like blasters use. <grin>

Back on live I had an AE arc that ended with the player fighting an AV level BZB. Apparently AV level SR is kinda difficult to punch through. I get what Warpact is shootin for, I think, where it'd turn into a constant Red vs Blue, eye for an eye retaliatory strike, and it would be something else to liven up zone X... But it could also easily be a zone event that gets completely ignored like the building fires in Steel.

I'd fight 'em! ... Or just as likely hang out with them for a beer.

Can we have perma-night in bases these days?

I just watched Spider-Man: No Way Home last night and had moments that made me feel as I did when I first saw Sam Raimi's 1st Spider-Man thanks to Willem Dafoe. I don't feel overhammered by the comic book movies. Compared to the total shit of reality on this planet at the moment, even the crappy stuff is a welcome distraction.

I only quit when the devs made decisions that pissed me off. Not playing out of burnout/boredom appears to be a new thing. Sure! But I can still be incredibly grateful to them all while still being annoyed at decisions they make. I don't really feel the need to do anything. I don't care about the player population. I have an SG I run with and a team of devs that are gonna do what they do as long as they want to and I can either roll with it while enjoying some good game related arguments, go elsewhere or just let it go. If the devs ever let us know that they're gonna let it go, hopefully they'll give us some tips on setting up our own instances and we'll do so or not.

yea, I don't trust Lumi either.

Controllers can't get Laser Beam Eyes. Sorry, I failed.

You get Defense, Heightened HitPoints which automatically equates to more Regen, static DamRes that can be built up with SetIO bonuses, +Damage from AAO, a Team Defense Buff, an Extra AoE and the second best DDR in the game if you doublestack AD. Little bit different than you describe.

Mmmm... sweet, sweet seafood buffet. @VoidSpawn2 Keep it up. I'm curious how your Kheldians turn out.

Thanks for lookin, @Bopper I did hop on beta (so as not to offend the zone crowds) and tried out ageless instead of barrier. Saw no substantial difference in kill time. And yea, small gaps I don't notice since I silenced the not ready sound.

Can someone explain to me how clearing pylons before a raid starts is in any way detrimental to the raid? They have less to take down before the shields drop and pylons offer no rewards for defeating them. Edit: I came up with only one way I'd consider it griefing: if I dropped the shields 10 minutes before they had the league built. That'd be rude. Ok, each pylon does grant 3 vanguard merits. And due to the way timing is, it can be a pain for a league to take down all the pylons if the first one was taking down way too early. As per folks in game.

No Ageless. Barrier since Bio is squishy. The heactombs, armageddons and apocalypses are all +5ed in game. Just not in Mids for either build. | Copy & Paste this data into Mids Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1464;701;1402;HEX;| |78DA6594596F125114C7EFC0606DA19BA52B5DA12D14DA81FAE696B8B47DB09DD88| |4C4571CE116272290A14DECD7D0075F8C262E0F3EEAC770FD02EE4BA231551335D6| |C43A1EE6FCAF509D047E9CFFBDE7CC59EEC5BCB8105A5B5B3A2AB48E1325AB56CB6| |5F38E55AD4A27605A453B2FE8E930ED726173DCB41C6BA3209D1692226A57CE9425| |298DC5B2748A9B6C44FFAE2DC83559AE49E3B85DC99D728A56D9CEE78E39172A8E0| |8AE562A2563A96417CFADB779BFB355290BED2CD755BB5C0C79D68AB4AA640C2E56| |EDBC915DB74AE72972B6B251CA99566D5D3A9B0394CF147DAE26E94BAB272C5C219| |EF88598D7C5D358430C886F2CEEFB0E6E33FB7E3227F783FDE431A28B6B145153CE| |DA7D5EF43D001F32F547E063E69E1C6D8FEBE219BDD9AF9CFDEFB1F881B9770BBCE| |4F3D87619BCC20C52930302B50422BCF939456C51115BBA344F0CF5303BC2602F73| |72999DA6BF325F90732B9CDD28850FC2D08229C27CAB0881D7A9EA76BC5B6B8798B| |9C389BDA2309D58F4757EE4D85D597E6797C9BC4111BA115EEFFEC59EF11D66F237| |73CE65A60507794D917BE0E4EFC1A4C29854F807268589695440AFEA4FAF4B8FF09| |3D4AFFCFBE13F00FF01F8C7E07F93321C54AD1C8C732643097086399C0453CC514C| |F60D651A516F8A0C71834651FB287A11476F744A6B446D1EC1D026768477C062613| |E68310CED16A535A6D21A3BA37BE2B8059E05F3CC890228996F29ADA8EA7AF400E7| |3C7B103C041E46F78F30DFC5F8F278E94DA19669D432FD4F2DF5439CC0E64062962| |3CC18601ACC60CEF3E02C3B6F878448A96395EAE6C8060AEFA32E196A9E4A6C2531| |A3C40CC431BD71A1DD615DA8C7ADDB740C56FE975675E54192E6495B6DCDFF15735| |CF6A75D6282C5CF4DA24F4C702DE9D39C4CFAA4E69D882FBB36E14ECFE14E1BB8D3| |B7938DCCDCE564A336F76EFD6E2AE365B371AFD9107D8D3F05F70FF998E4C2| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

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And I just got bitched out in broadcast for soloing pylons cuz they decided to start forming a raid. Fuck em.

Before slot changing, I had 3 runs. 78 secs, 73 sec, 77 sec. After swapping Sup Crit Strikes into ET, the Hecatombs and ToD proc into TF, and pulling the Def/End/Rec LotG from Weave and replacing it with the Kismet +6% chance to hit, I killed three more pylons: 75 sec, 78 secs, 82. This last run has an odd number of misses. Tests were all identical. Hit barrier, hit hybrid assault, fly in, start timer as I click 1st ET. Buildup is used after TF in the hopes that it covers all of ET-MB-BS-ET. Now, obviously I need to do about 50 more pylons with each config to get proper data, but I'm not seeing any gains here.

I got it in my head somewhere that it was just the final chance to hit the target that determined the snipe's damage... 😞

Ugh. Of course you're right... lemme guess, all the extra +Acc I currently have is doing absolutely nothing for the fast-snipe's damage, right? Could have sworn I tested swapping ET/TFs enhancements and it made things worse but I can't trust my memory anymore.

I think I may have forgotten that ET doesn't cost end. Mine's basically the same. Energy Transfer-Long (5 Hecatomb (no damage-only) and the Touch of Death Proc) TF (Full set of Super Crit Strikes) ET-Short Moonbeam (5 Apocalypse (no damage-only) and the Glad Javelin Proc) Bonesmasher (First 5 Super Scrap Strike and another ToD Proc) The passive crit bonus from Super Scrap Strike sits in Energy Punch and isn't on my tray unless I exemplar down enough to need it. Chain is probably tight enough that replacing the Dam-Recs in ET and MB with Dam-only will work but I never got around to checking. Also never +5ed my purples apparently. How many seconds does that knock off for a pylon run? Edit: Can't go to dam-only on ET. Just barely has enough recharge now for ET-TF-ET. Edit2: +5ed my purples, swapped out the dam-rec for dam-only in moonbeam, smacked a pylon: 1min 18sec. Will have to test more but think that's 10-15sec gain.

And the HP buff increases your regen which just chugs along all the while.

I love 'em for letting me take a side in an argument without becoming part of it.

No, not really. That should be fixed too.