Bill Z Bubba

the horror... the horror...

Somewhat hilariously to me at least, this is my scrapping theme music now.

Ok, my SG talked me out of this one with this point: If it only takes two hours to PL to 50, why should the devs waste their time on coding something like this just to make other issues with being able to PL to 50 even worse? I accept that logic and will now add my /jranger.

There's lots of ways to get that feeling in this game. I got it when I soloed a Werner rules ITF with a character I PLed to 50 and loaded up with trascendents just so I could T4 her out as quickly as possible specifically FOR that ITF. I'll get it when my swipe/inv scrapper hits 50 and I can respec her into a real build. I get it when another PLed controller handles a max diff spawn solo. You may only get that feeling from hard sloggin to 50. Good for you. Means precisely nothing to those that got bored with it. Edit: Side note regarding that shield/nrg tank.... she's well over 100 vet lvls and has contributed vast amounts to the market. So it's not like she hasn't been played.

Ridiculous. I don't even make 500mil inf for the 2 hours it takes to PL to 50.

Because some people do. As for the I Win button to 50, I can PL an alt to 50 in two hours if I really crank it up. I wouldn't mind getting to skip that two hours of farming. It's not that fun but some alts are so damn weak before their final builds, there's no way in hell I'm going to waste my time leveling them normally. Says the guy soloing to 50 using nothing but swipe. We play the game we want to play. Don't want to insta-lvl to 50? Don't.

I have to recant this. I do wish they all either had it or didn't. Why is it thematic for SR to have a taunt aura on Brutes and Tanks? Because the enemies get pissed off at how often they miss. This would remain true for scrappers. It's ridiculous that ALL tanks and ALL brutes get a taunt aura but SOME scrappers don't. It's an unfair and idiotic design decision. That said, I don't care which way it goes. Give the appropriate taunt aura to those without it, or remove it completely from all scrappers. That would be fair. That would make sense. The halfway shit annoys me.

<shrug> My ambivalence is high on this one.

Going off memory, I think I always used powexectoggleon instead of powexecname because sometimes I'd doubletap a key and drop back out of the forms when I didn't want to. I think they went like this: /bind v "powexectoggleon dark nova$$gototray 5" /bind b "powexectoggleon black dwarf$$gototray 6" /bind n "powexectoggleoff dark nova$$powexectoggleoff black dwarf$$gototray 3" And I left hasten on auto so it would fire back off whenever I dropped back into human form.

Random notes: One pylon, 2:25 with claws/stone scrapper on beta. About to hop into max diff ITF with ageless radial to see how that goes. Ooops. Forgot Master of now turns off incarnate powers. Having them flee mud pots increases mitigation quite a bit. Perma scrapper HP cap, Geode is a get out of debt free card. (Or was before I was too slow to click it when I aggroed 2 spawns.) Could probably go leadership instead of fighting pool. It's a very nice set redo. It doesn't feel OP at this time but that may change when I can see it in Mids and tweak it properly. The min fx are also great. Yea, I'll play this when it hits live. Wonder how Green Dwarf is going to deal with the changes for his tank.

Slapped together, very non-optimized build, all T4ed up, 2:25 pylon time for claws/stone scrapper. Definitely lots of room for improvement. Ageless radial will have to be in play for more DDR and Recharge. End suckage from 8 toggles should be tolerable with the 3 available spots for perf shifters if you go body mastery as well. Heh... even building blind, just going off other builds, I landed at 181.25% global recharge.

Did you mean brute?

Might even go crank one to 50 on beta tonight. Curious to compare the extra damage from brimstone vs bio armor. And of course I'm suspecting that stone armor was over-tweaked like tanks and nrg melee were.

Ummm, we can do claws/db/kat with scrapper stone armor? Holy crapsticks on a crutch.... well farkin A for no granite on scrapper stone armor. Claws/Stone it is for me then.

Sadly unpossible since recharge time doesn't start until the animation is done. But Mids is stating it's at .68sec recharge. It does make me wonder about cranking up a pocket kin and running focus/slash/repeat on my main. Hmmm, 12 sec base recharge on focus, needs to be 1.584 for slash's Acast time... 656% total recharge needed... caps at ... well that ain't happening. Slash/Swipe? 4.8 down to 1.056... 355% total recharge. Well that's downright doable.

There's no easy answer here. I've always been a scrapper at heart but checking my woefully out of date character spreadsheet shows I have more tanks and brutes and tied on sents. I seem to find I get the most enjoyment these days from my earth/earth dom or my dark/stone tank. But I'm also teaming most of the time these days when I am on but lots of my game time gets used up by State of Decay 2. Apparently I really am wishing for a post-apocalyptic wasteland. CoH is a bit too happy sometimes. But did Bill Z Bubba the scrapper choose me? No. But he did become another me over time.

Executioner's Shot always makes me say, "dodge this." My favorite combo? Same one I've watched countless times... followup, focus, slash, repeat, probably. Seismic smash, stone spears, heavy mallet, stone spears is way up there, though. And a nod has to go to blaze, flares, blazing blast, flares.

They're sound opinions seemingly based in logic and rationality. So ramble on. I dig the discussions. I've got some hopes for the new hardmode stuff. Oddly, those hopes are all based on teaming related ideas, which we can all agree is kinda weird for me.

Over the cap on defense and capped on resists is NOT difficult for most tanks these days. I see it all the time on my SR tank with better DDR. Sooo, not seeing a problem.

I've mostly agreed with every mod-smack I've received. Still don't feel at all in the wrong for posting what I posted, though. They have their rules, I have mine. I'm in their playground, so I have to follow their rules or deal with the consequences. No different than many other areas of our lives. I am finding that I'm less likely these days to point out when someone is being stupid/ignorant/illogical/insane but that's only due to accepting that 2/3 of our species fall into those categories and it's just no longer worth my time. Moving to the legal pot and taking a year long vacation may also be playing a role.

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Yup. Same story here. I knew many of my current SG mates from Pinnacle back before the snap, but back then I soloed 95% of the time. With HC, the BSOD SG somehow got me to move to Excel from Torch and I've been running with them weekly, if not nightly, ever since. I blame aging to be honest. Or maybe the covid lockdown. Or both and many other reasons. While I can still go on a solo spree of death and destruction, as I did when getting BZB Scrap to 666 vet lvls, I have found that it's more fun to crack open a beer, hit the vape and log onto Discord for a TF or three with the SG.

I concur. And ice armor is garbage. Even new tweaked stone armor is even better than ice across the board.

With a lot of the weakening coming from the very low DDR (which would be higher on a tank but not enough to matter.) And it's not like nrg drain is a fast cast time. Honestly seems pretty dang well balanced for what it does.

How'd you get past Aeon? /he asks, pondering his many failures