Bill Z Bubba

That was corrected recently I believe. It's got a shorter check period. Edit: Found it. Happened with page 3. Lowered the activation period of powers with scaling resistance from 2s to 0.5s (all ATs). The duration of these effects have been set to 0.75s to compensate. NOTE: This affects PvE as well. Also: Added Toxic Resistance to all scaling resistance powers So SR now only has the psi hole to deal with.

Nah. SR is in a fine and strong place. It ain't shield but it still rocks. Sentinel SR goes up to 80% resist at 0 health, of course, but they have a much smaller HP base to work with, so that's probably ok, too.

Perusing builds and reading about the things we're getting away with now shows me that ship sailed a long time ago.

I had that happen once on my bio/claws tank. My absorption line from the team window suddenly stretched across the screen.

Some thoughts I had regarding DB this morning. Nothing wrong with just ignoring the combos and after 50, you're better off without them.

How can I deal with the constant HP debuffs from the crimson prototype when I'm solo other than running away to let them drop off?

Due to my recent foray into style over substance, I have a StJ/WP brute named Bantam Betty at 42. Being a boxer (granted, a dirty one since heavy blow is sometimes an elbow to the face) she doesn't have access to the powers using feet. Soooo, yea, no rib cracker, shin breaker or spinning strike. Skipping the three best powers in the set, yay! But what it left me with was an easy setup to utilize the combo system. IS-Boxing-HB-IS- (3 levels are up) then either sweeping cross or crushing uppercut. If I miss with either IS or HB, no combo buff on SC or CU but it just doesn't matter as my chain doesn't change. I also have a StJ/Inv brute that will follow my normal max recharge/tight AF attack chain using the best attacks method but I've yet to sit down to see where she'll end up but it's very doubtful that I'll make any attempt to leverage the system there. It'll either happen on its own or it won't. And that's the kind of combo system that makes sense. It shouldn't shoehorn you into any specific chain, ever. They absolutely should NOT be forcing players into sub-optimal chains that might also happen to look/flow like shit.

Yeeeaaaa. I was on a break for the same. Only came back when I heard about the shutdown. To the topic: I'd still like to see level shifts purged from the game completely and have zero desire for more incarnate powers to ever be added.

That's actually why I can only play dark armor on a tank. Just feels way too squishy for me on a brute or scrapper. Haven't tried it on a sentinel yet.

<.< >.> Are there any that aren't?

I don't disagree on the combo side of it, but in the end game, lethal resists aren't as bad as Galaxy Brain's chart leads one to believe. I went scoping around with the power analyzer amongst all the enemy groups I normally face (carnies, CoT, DA Tsoo, Knives and BP) and they just aren't loaded up with lethal resists. And if you do manage to crank enough recharge, as with my db/nrg scrapper, you end up with a triple stack of BF buff on SS in exactly the same way we get a triple stack of FU on Focus with claws. And you know I don't think claws sucks. Even if you're only doublestacking BF and going with BF-AS-SS-AS, AS can take the Achilles' resist debuff and you'll have two chances to keep it persistent. What's really odd about DB is that the highest DPA attack in the set, SS, is a cone.

Random early morning ramblings time. Got the new sr/db tank to 50 and all IOed up and have run into something that makes me think of this thread. Her current chain is BF, SS, NS, AS, TE. The last three are the Weaken combo and if I drop TE when going single target, it grants the Empower combo. Far as I can tell, Weaken does a 7% tohit and defense debuff. Fighting +4s, that's going to be reduced further and made even less meaningful. Empower is +10% damage and 3.3% tohit. This means that if I'm bouncing between the two, skipping TE every other chain, I can keep both buffs up and happy but I am SERIOUSLY kneecapping my damage output for what amounts to nothing. The other choice is to leave NS with a single basic Acc enhancements and delete it from the tray. I lose both combos, 10% damage buff and we'll call it around 7% total tohit buff equivalent but my attack chains become BF, SS, AS, repeat for ST and BF, SS, TE, repeat for AoE. Vastly superior damage output with the downside that it takes a ton of recharge to get there and costs a ton of end to keep running. So the plus side of the combo system in this example is that I don't have to lean on other sources of tohit/acc *as much* if I go with the combos and don't have to chase the recharge/end mgmt dragon nearly as much versus shooting for the meanest/leanest/nastiest attack chains. But it sure was nice seeing all those WEAKENED messages pop up when buried in the horde. It almost feels like the combos, at least with DB and the way I've chosen to play it, are feeding that gratification button in my head but are doing so while lying to me about their actual usefulness. I don't much care for that. Back to chasin the dragon for me then. Edit: Oh, right... I'm only able to get close to that ST chain on my db/nrg scrapper due to the +recharge from Entropic Aura. No way in hell am I pulling that off on the sr/db tank. Guess it'll have to be BF-AS-SS-AS ... bah. ugh. Even that chain needs 313% total recharge in AS and also means no triple stacked BF for SS. Oddly, 313% is the exact value needed in followup for FU-Focus-Slash. Hmmm. MORE bizarre... AoE chain of BF-SS-TE needs exactly 313% as well in TE.

That's precisely the basis for the scaling resists in SR.

Use the shadow clone code to always add the team leader as a cranked up AV?

I know that while leveling up, the difference between max diff council and max diff carnies is pretty dang stark. But CoT feel like they're right in the middle. Why aren't there any Rikti or Malta radio missions in PI? If there are I'm gonna feel dumb but I don't think my blinders are that heavy.

Nah, he was old. Let the dude rest. And we are his replacement.

Negative. Crit on scrappers only means extra damage (not anywhere near =+100%) and it heals you instead of costing you health. I don't remember if TF *HAS* to hit to grant focus and turn ET to short animation.

I have to assume you're leaning on the mace attacks. Go pure rifle and the ST damage is ... well, bad. On the support side with double maneuvers and assault? Hell yea.

I think a lot of it is our builds. Much like Kheldians, there's a right way and a wrong way. My soldier is a bane with only the assault rifle attacks. No mace anything even buildup. So I went double assault. It's fun, it's servicable, it gets the job done, but it's a weak AR/SR Sentinel with no DDR. This is a FAR cry from the crabberminds I've seen in action. My widow is a pure claws/sr clone just to see if the hell my SG gives me about widow claws being the superior version had any merit. It doesn't, of course, but that's because the widow claws they're talking about includes all the glorious psi shit that mine lacks.

So, ummmm, does anyone else have their main's name on every shard? Or is it just me that's vain enough to do that?

Are you stating that you don't think ET gets its base Crit chance improved by the scrapper ATO procs? I'm not sure that's even possible.

For others, please yes! For me, I'm as much stuck in ETlong-TF-ETshort-<Gloom or Moonbeam>-BS as I am Followup-Focus-Slash. 🙂

yea... I can't do that. Not with my chain.

DOH! That makes perfect sense. Swapping the sets. Edit: But wait one... won't the much lower base recharge of ET negatively affect the proc chance?

You made me look. On my nrg/bio scrap, I have the +50% chance proc in TF. The full Crit Strike's set actually. ET has 5 Hecatomb and a ToD Neg proc. Could easily swap them but now I'm curious why I did that in the first place. Since my chain is ETlong-TF-ETshort-MB-BS-repeat, makes more sense to have it in ET, doesn't it? And a side note, I think you're doin the Devil's work, mang, and he approves!