Bill Z Bubba

Seconded.

I still hate it. Even last night, running a TF with a couple SG mates, I had just pulled everything to me with fold space when BOOM off everything goes flying. My initial reaction was cussing inside of my head but as you state it takes almost no time for the higher brain to kick in, shrug it off and move on.

No, the selling point is just how well it holds aggro. To the OP, be sure you go ageless radial for more DDR. Ice armor's low DDR is the primary reason I won't touch it. Or you can lean on hibernate.

Interesting. I still use Q and E for turning coupled with mouselook so I turn even faster.

I've seen Rom and Req both rabbit quite often even when I'm on a tank and punching them in the face.

Honestly, the only people I put on gignore are folks that let me know that they're racist or overly religious. I have never put anyone on gignore or kicked anyone from a team because of their playstyle or build. And I suspect... hell, I expect, that this is the prevailing MO amongst the vast majority of those that play this game.

You should. Mostly because: I see this thrown around the forums often and I think it's total BS. We are a % of the total population, yes, but by that very statement, it's likely we are all together a very accurate representation of the entire playerbase in our opinions.

The only thing SR has over SD is Quickness and its +20% recharge... which you can get from a couple day jobs or base buffs or different slotting.

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.