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I made a note of that here:

I still love my 1080, it handles what I need it to for the most part, but I've been itching for a 3080 since Sep of 2020 or at least since I bought Cyberpunk.

Holy crap... a scrapper build with confront! Defense is good, HP is good, regen and recovery are fine. 10 sec downtime on hasten is a bit ouch in my brain. Only thing really making me go huh? is the slotting on Aid Other vs Aid Self. Why not 6 slot Self with Numina and 2 slot Other with the Panacea? Other side note, with that much recharge, you absolutely don't need the recharge IO in PB. It has a 2 minute duration. Edit: Another note: Guessin for ST you'll be shooting for BF-AS-SS-AS-repeat which is fine but having only SS for AoE? Not too sure how that's gonna work for ya.

This has been my plan all along. Unfortunately, with the state of chip manufacturing/delivery these days, I'm not looking forward to the price tag on a new rig seeing as how vid cards are still sitting at 2x MSRP. I'd be ecstatic if they were down to 1.25x.

Yall're obviously not usin enough blood in your rituals.

Is there any way to make the vines for Wild Fortress permanent? They fade out after just a sec or three. I changed it to show floaters but it made no difference. And I've still no clue why my screenshots are blurry. Game doesn't look like this.

Same here. Which explains to me WHY I don't remember how my mains were fully tricked out back before the snap. I wasn't in a big SG. I never had alts tucked away with 2B inf laying around. I think I hit it once on BZB. I never played the market. I can only assume what wealth I had came from the same sources as now: killin shit and sellin everything for next to nuthin.

BZB (claws/sr scrap) can't do it. No heal, they're obviously packing major tohit buffs. Zariela (shield/nrg tank) faceplanted on 3rd spawn. Might do better with rebirth but then I'd probably get sapped to death on both. I could certainly respec completely to get the jobs done but I wouldn't want to play those builds.

Is there any power in this game that actually follows the equations laid out in the OP? I ask because none of this is making any sense to me. Looking at Midnight Grasp in Sentinel Soul Mastery... A 34 second recharge single target attack should be doing 5.8 base damage and costing 30.16 end. With Sent AT Mods, that means it should be dishing out 306 damage (5.8*52.8297 at 50) which, of course, it most assuredly isn't.

Welcome to my views on game balance.

Side note regarding enemy resistances. After seeing Galaxy Brain's thread again, I'd been curious as to why I never really felt like slashing was being all that resisted and got to wondering if it was because of the enemies I most commonly fight. BP in DA; No SL DamRes KoV in DA: Minions and LTs - 10% SL DR, Bosses 15% SL DR Cimerorans: No SL DR. Which surprised me. Even more, Kheldians in ITF are also showing 0 as does the Minotaur until he hits unstoppable and it goes to 70%. Soooo yea. While the chart may be accurate for the entirety of the game, I have to wonder if it's accurate for 50+ enemies. Edit: Tsoo in DA: Minions and LTs 10% to Smashing, no Lethal DR. Bosses 15 to S and no L.

Some strive for it.

I see the problem. Lumi's point was that the community has intelligent and helpful players. This should not be read as "all players are intelligent and/or helpful." So, no, the claim you think was made was not made.

Every (almost?) zone should have an information kiosk. There's one in Talos directly across the street from the tram. Edit: My bad... it's on the same side of the street. I was thinking of the merit vending machine. Huh... there's actually two in front of the tram.

Pretty sure those questions are precisely why it won't ever happen. The only option is to make everything hurt more. And the devs are already doing that with optional added difficulty. @Haijinxmentioned it in another thread. That's the only option available. (Along with buffing specifically badly performing power sets.)

How much does a +5 recred reduce the Gaussian chance?

Those points prove the statement. People don't know what's in the patch notes because they choose not to read them. People don't know how to craft IOs or build with Mids because they choose not to. Or they know exactly how to do it and still think it a waste of time. The information remains available to everyone.

As it always should be.

Yea, that ain't helping. And originally it was supposed to be THE goto AoE set, so the gimped ST damage was by design. I had an ice/spines tank once. Was awesome at holding aggro...

For me, I found the single target damage to be abysmal. And the animations ugly.

Just for giggles, I cranked up a max diff ITF with my time/fire def. She made it all the way to the seafood buffet before faceplanting. Those novae tore her up fast. Don't think she has the DPS to handle the AVs but she was built for teaming. Only thing I ever really miss on her is a rez but that just makes me work harder on keeping others alive.

Everyone should experience the max diff DASF.

Rune of Protection is available at level 20 and works as a break free and there's always the P2W cheatcode Defense Amplifier for 4 mez protect. Hell, just gettin 8 hours of it at lvl 1 for 8000 inf and you can solo mez-free to 20 and still have hours left before it runs out.

On top of this, if you do choose to just AE solo from 1 to 50 with anything, I'd be shocked if you only had 100mil by the end of it. I usually start with tunnel witches for a round, then bads in the city, both at +1/x1, then move to Brigg's when I'm high enough to handle +1/x8, slotting as I go until +4/x8 is achieved.

I have one dom with hasten-less permadom. Log her on, go street sweep until domination is up, leave it on auto and it never goes away. But that takes gearing completely for global +recharge and kinda blows for other build choices. The others are regular permadom with hasten. Hasten is set to auto and I bound dom to V. Same thing I do with my SR and Shield builds where V is set for practiced brawler and active defense. Tray 1 is click attacks/powers I use often. Tray 2 above 1 is toggles and other long recharge clicks. Tray 3 above 2 contains powers I usually bind. Hasten will be on auto, then Dom/PB/AD, other heals or click buffs, etc. This makes it very easy to see when something is about to be ready again. Generally speaking, T, Y, U are self-buffs, V, B, N are click mez and heals.