Bill Z Bubba

There's always soloing.

Whatever did happen to that Nemesis Horse?

It's for brutes, so should be easy to translate.

Feel like I should note that my sd/nrg tank is my best soloist. It's a particularly brutal combo against AVs. While a brute and scrapper of the same might dish out more damage, I have to wonder if the lessened mitigation would slow them down. Been kind of wary of finding out, to be honest. Edit: Granted, in my brain right now "solo" is defined as fastest solo ITF or other AV laden TFs. BZB scrap still kicks the crap out of anything else I have laying waste in DA repeatables.

Cuz shield locks you out of claws and dual blades. 😞

And now I'm talking myself out of SR/Rad because of all the goodies that come with /Dark. My problem with dark is I always end up back with the all left-handed combo of MG, SL, Gloom, Smite, repeat for ST.

SR/Rad? I only ask because I just rolled one up the other day, pondering how with SR I always miss a damage aura, which RM grants with IG, and the occasional heal from RS will be nice. I have no idea how the AoE compares between Rad and Dark Melee, though. Used to not be a question, but the change to ToF in DM and SM's larger cone, made even larger with tank buffage, has me wondering.

CoD seems to imply that the defense is enhanceable, as it's missing the lock for ignores enhancement. Mids appears to be thinking that it does if you hit two or more. https://cod.uberguy.net./html/power.html?power=scrapper_defense.ice_armor.energy_absorption&at=scrapper Granted, ain't much. But I was more thinking of finding a way to get some end reduction in there.

That's debatable. It's what I shoot for but I've seen better ST times with fu, focus, slash, shockwave, repeat and on scrappers, eviscerate has a higher than normal crit rate that can be leveraged against the Crit Strike's proc. Gassian in Followup sounds awesome, but at 1 PPM, it's not. You could stick another damage proc in there and you might get more out of it but that'll be something to test. Biggest thing jumping out at me, and others will need to speak on it, is Energy Absorption. That's where Ice gets its extra defense from. As it is, you'll be firing it off every 20 sec for almost 13 end. That's gonna eat your bar pretty fast.

Not a badger, not sure, but I'd seriously doubt it.

Truth. I bust out my claws/bio when I know I'm going to team. Sure, he can solo, but it's a high-clicky and stressful ride. Probably why I lean tank these days. Can slip into autopilot mode and never worry about green and blue bars.

I see it much more than I used to across the board and even more so on characters with debuffs. The amount of runners my dark/stone scrapper sees is quite the PITA.

Copied my main over and built ageless radial to kill any gap I had between slash and followup. 2:51 2:46 3:17 Ugh. Ugly run.

My "me" character shares my skin tone. The rest range cross the globe (or dimension, I do have a ton of devils and demons,) race-wise. I'd have to say I'm far more sexist than racist in my character design. The female to male ratio is heavily weighted to the female side.

Sittin on beta with a db/bio scrapper running empower, ss, repeat. Getting around 1:20 to 1:40 on pylons. Times are being hurt by the need to fire off DNA Siphon from time to time. And by that damn rikti gunboat. Really don't know about the Gaussian CFBU in BF. At 1PPM, it's just not firing off that often. Also nowhere near the damage cap so Assault Core should be the way to go. All in all, was interesting to see and I may look at Empower, SS instead of BF, AS, SS on my db/nrg scrapper. Here's the build. I'll be stickin with my standard way of doing things. I'm not pushin out the big numbers but the builds feel much more stable.

2033 HP on current BZB Scrap with 283% regen not counting what comes in from procs. Gotta get that healing in there somehow.

Should be 5% Res/Def in Barrier. Looks like CoD shows 10% for last minute on Ageless. https://cod.uberguy.net./html/power.html?power=incarnate.destiny.ageless_radial_epiphany&at=tanker I run with Musc Core, Degen Core, Pyronic Core, Assault Core and I do click Assault at the beginning up my pylon runs and Pyronic when I can.

DM/Bio brute. Everything recolored to blood magic.

It's a sexy baseline.

Dunno about DE, but I'm a big fan of balance between damage output and mitigation, where possible. Here's my main's current build. Leaned into Nrg/Neg DR for ITF runs. Late edit: This build sits around 2:45 for pylons. Not great but functional.

It's listed in the 50 category as The Future of Freedom. Gotta be villain or rogue to start.

We can ALWAYS gimp up a build more for more recharge. Don't forget day jobs and base buffs to push for even more if needed.

And a chain that's unsustainable without ageless means no master runs and no exemplaring, but still, it's cool to look at. I may play with that idea some on beta with a db/bio to see what I can do. Edit: I still won't be going procmonster on claws. I don't like using shockwave in my ST chain due to its end usage and eviscerate is right out due to its ridiculous animation. Someone tried to pull that move on me would get a boot to the spine halfway through it.

Is CoH actually writing to a diff dir than you would have it?

Claws can't do that. I haven't seen anyone talk about using anything but BF-attack vitals or BF, AS, SS, repeat here on HC. Edit: I never considered it and run BF, AS, SS, repeat for no other reason but that I'm stuck in Followup, Focus, Slash, repeat mode.