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His actual total is +147.5% with hasten up. 11 second downtime. Ya gotta disable the force feedback +recharge in kick.

I had to giggle when I noticed that Arcanaville's rank was.... Arcanaville.

I suspect @Luminara's is worse. And @SeraphimKensai, you made me go look. I started playing CoH when I was 32.

... That couldn't have been me. Most of my 20s was a drunken bender. And most of the last two years as well. Edit: Ok fine... there probably were a few during my 30s and 40s.

Sure. Accolades, incarnates and extra buffs should be off. Edit: ST chain is ET-long, TF, ET-short, Gloom, BS, repeat.

Negative. https://cod.uberguy.net./html/power.html?power=scrapper_defense.energy_aura.entropy_shield&at=scrapper It's got the same redirect to the standardized 13.6 second mag 4 taunt as the rest. https://cod.uberguy.net./html/power.html?power=redirects.inherents.fury_proc_aura&at=brute Edit: Theory pulled directly from my posterior... I suspect that all these extra entries and redirects added when they normalized taunt auras are playing a roll in things taunt related going wonky.

I definitely see the difference between my claws/sr and my db/nrg scrappers when it comes to runners, just as I do between the scrap and brute BZBs. While it does appear that sometimes debuffs override taunt, the taunt auras scrappers have are functioning as designed just as all brute and tank auras function.

Skipped through but that was a fun watch. Very nice job, yall!

I hope that's not the case. As I mentioned to my SG just now, /jranger is very useful for posting disagreement without exposition which helps avoid further argument, something, based on GM interaction so far, they seem to want.

Counterpoint: BZB Scrap still manages clear all DA repeatables faster than BZB Brute, regardless of the 2nd having a taunt aura and the 1st not. Granted, that gap would become wider if scrap SR had the same taunt aura as brute SR.

That's the sad part... the vast majority of them were either game balance or tech related. What the hell else was I supposed to do at work? Work?

Did I miss a memo? Is it typing /jranger that has suddenly become verboten? Or the pic? Which, granted, was on the large end of pics. Considering how close I am to a perma-ban, inquiring minds want to know.

Probably just as well. I don't think think I want to farm that badge again.

I've got one. The self-damage was never an issue.

But here's a side note that occurred to me while running content with my new dark/stone scrapper. This game was designed specifically to drag out the leveling process as much as possible to keep subscriptions around for as long as possible. I saw it in every "go defeat X# of group A" in a different zone and then go talk to so-n-so in yet another zone, blah, blah, blah and then couple that with no movement powers until lvl 14 (or whatever level it was back then,) no double xp, just slog on slog on slog. We don't pay subs anymore. We're all here because a group of people enjoy having a CoH playground to fart about with and share with other like-minded folks. There's just no good reason in pissing off X% of those people because some still get their panties in a wad about farming.

I can grok that. There's TONS of stuff, and more since HC started making changes, from a game/powerset/archetype balance standpoint that drive me up the freakin wall, but in the end, even that is meaningless. A ton of the changes I think should happen won't and in some cases they won't because it would tick off a ton of people even if it's the correct thing to do. Same case here. I'm in the middle of the lane because I utilize both styles of play and if something were to happen that makes it take me even longer to PL an alt to 50 when I'm of the mood to do so, there's other CoH groups out there. By the same token, if I *really* wanted my numerically pure CoH to exist, I could always build my own cluster and put in the time to make it happen.

That's pretty awesome.

But why is it an an issue? Because some people get annoyed at other people for not knowing the game as well as they think they do? So what? Because of the spam in broadcast or general chat? We're ALL here to play out our little power fantasies or just to escape reality. Why does it frelling matter a pair of fetid dingo kidneys if people farm to 50 or solo to 50 or use knockback or whatever else is the gripe of the day?

But then the nerf bat came with ED and GDN on top of it.

I'm not a fan of granite so I'll never play it on a tank or brute but the revision for scrappers/stalkers is fine. Easily permable HP buff. Damage buff. Get out of debt free card with the T9. Dark has DC for end issues, a very strong attack that also heals, the shadow maul buff was solid. Haven't picked up the new touch of fear yet but it seems to also have been quite the improvement. And of course, Dark's tohit debuffs help out Stone's defense. Solid combo, really. Last update, since we all know how this turns out: Spelunker badge on accident Lvl 13 at 2 hr mark, bumped to +0/x6 Lvl 16 2.5 hr mark, bumped to +0/x8 Lvl 20 at 3.5 hr mark. Lvl 22 at the 4.5 hr mark. Vahz Wasting disease is nasty. Still sittin on +0/x8 but could probably start increasing the level side without issue now. As with most scrapper combos, soloing to 50 is a breeze and would be even without amps and dbl-xp.

Can't cheat if there ain't no rules.

After soloing a swipe-only/inv scrapper to 50 with nothing but street sweeping and radio missions, and now soloing a normal dark/stone scrapper with nothing but the normal content contacts, to the OP and those that support the idea... /jranger.

Point of order! All of the T9s in Nin, SR and SD provide +recovery! (Don't take Elude and Kuji-In Retsu, people. Bad juju there.) Also... didn't know until just now that stalker Nin doesn't get Seishinteki Kyoyo. Shows how much I look at stalkers in Mids.

Truth. That's why claws/sr is so freaking awesome. Dead sexy slice-n-dice, nyah, nyah, can't touch me. I do have a claws/wp scrapper as well, but she's been stuck in the 30s and untouched for ages.

I'd play it.