Bill Z Bubba

I will throw this tidbit out there, though. If you go shield/dark, you'll have shield charge to shore up DM's low AoE, you'll have more HP and better static resistances, and double-stacking active defense gets you enough DDR to avoid cascading defense failures. On top of all that, you'll have a constant damage buff from AAO to add to soul drain.

I'm just glad to know I'm not the only one that leans toward the armor sets because I don't like having too many choices in tray 1.

Not that I'm aware of in any way. I just turned it off ... well, honestly, no clue why I did that. Something to test further, I guess. I'm not saying that shit ain't wonky. We have AVs running away from taunting tanks for fark's sake, but from what I can tell, at least Nrg Aura's taunt on scrappers functions.

After the very first time I experienced the difference between SSD and HDD for load times, I began replacing most of my HDD. I still have a few older and huge HDD hooked up and in use for static data I want to keep around, but no game I actively play exists on anything but SSD. So, add me to the "yea, it's worth it" crowd.

Siege. The big robot Siege you run into from Maria as a separate mission from her normal arc. One little area, buncha new clockwork and glowies to click. That bastard was the ONLY AV my, at the time, up and coming shield/nrg tank couldn't solo. Couple of the others required ultimate insps but even those proved useless against Siege's big heal. I don't even remember how long I wailed away on him before finally calling in some sg-mates to help finish him off. And of course, Aeon in the MLTF. He's been the stopping point for every solo attempt I've made.

There ain't nuthin wrong with this combo. Go soul mastery, end up with MG, SL, Gloom, Smite, repeat for your ST chain, have darkest night for -damage to stack on SR's scaling damres, and with SL's heal going off regularly... you'll be crazy tough.

I second this but only because we don't have a shield melee powerset.

Or that that particular redirect just plain doesn't work because it's actually flagged for brutes? I honestly don't know. Checking something. Will edit shortly. Took my db/nrg scrap to Atlas, turned off the cloak, and went running around. Gathered up a sizable group and they're following me around like good little enemies. Every now and then, one goes running off randomly but then comes back. Turn off entropic aura, and after a bit, they just give up and wander off back to their spawn points. So the taunt IS functioning. Leave entropic off, I can stand next to them and they completely ignore me, as they should since I'm +48 to them.

Need 313% for pure gapless fu, focus, slash, repeat. The BZBs only get 99.88 (enhs) + 186.25 (hasten+global) leaving a whopping 26,87% global recharge low and a .206sec gap. 😞 I usually try to remember to log out in Cime or Ouro for the recharge buff there. Always forget about base buffs. Can't really see spending the time bouncing to PvP zones for the +recharge day job buff there.

Wut? I run at max diff on both. That's kinda drowny. Edit: But yea, higher DPS > loss of DPS from runners. Scrapper no taunt still beats brute no taunt, as stated.

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.