Bill Z Bubba

My time/fire defender is pretty awesome. Solos better than most of my squishies, too.

Nuthin. Playin a db/nrg scrapper right now. It's strong, sure. Kinda fun. The animation time on Nrg Drain is a bit of a downer but Energize is freakin awesome. It also sits at 51.9% DDR. Tank's would scale up to... something, but my shield tank sits higher thanks to dbl stacked AD, so we can't blame that, either. There's a whole nuther discussion about the numerical superiority of shield over sr and adding another into the mix just means sr should get the master brawler change. Too bad the rule's already been broken with NrgMelee. Now the flood gates are open to balance however they want through single power tweaking and it's just a matter of time/priority.

Why? If they were properly balanced sets then no tweaks would be needed at all for either.

I'd have to argue that the players not interested in the mechanics of the game that allow for stupid-X tricks will not be getting themselves involved in hard mode in the first place. I hope they do, I hope hard mode is a raging success story, but I'm also a realist and a cynic.

It's a game forum. We'll FIND something to argue about! Hell, I'm still annoyed that I was never invited to the SSPS.

Besides, ya know, them actively helping set up HC's servers after the first failed go-live when someone shut everything down out of fear of NCSoft. That and writing some of the patch notes early on. And if you don't think some of the current dev batch were playing on the SSPS and/or part of its changes, you're out of your mind.

This. They were all vaporware.

It's an eye-opener for sure. Hit AE, searched 801.2, found Linea's, set for max diff, waltzed in like I do with my Shield/Nrg Tank, commenced kicking everyone's ass, faceplanted. Thought, hmmm, that was interesting. It's doable solo but it is no walk in the park. I have to assume the .3 and up versions will just turn me into a fine red paste unless I grab amps and lean on insps, etc.

This is odd to me. I recently re-tested Assault Radial vs Core to see if the old belief of AT Dam Mod 1 or higher gets Core and <1 gets radial, and my pylon times improved by 30ish secs with radial's doublehit on my claws/sr brute. Course, claws has to dish out a ton more attacks than em/fa to get the same job done so that may be a factor. EDIT: Retested with my shield/nrg tank, radial 3:03, core: 2:53. Hell, now I have to retest the claws/sr tank. EDIT2: Claws/sr tank; 5:57 with radial, 6:04 with Core. That 30 sec spread mentioned above must have been a complete fluke. I'm also embarrassed by posting these times.

Stop, evil doer, or I shall die and punch you a second time!

+1 I'd love to see a stone/earth epic pool for doms. My earth/earth would dig it.

Two bolters. AND a dreadnought for this heresy.

Oh yea. Many older MMOs had already enshrined the holy trinity of damage/aggro/heals. It was even true here to a point back in the days of tanks herding entire maps for blasters to wipe out. Thankfully, changes were made to do away with that playstyle and CoH was able to become the "&^!@ the trinity" game that we all love.

Maybe not if you plan to hover blast all the time. Going into melee the majority of the time? Then yes. The heal click helps a ton on this front. And you could always go ageless radial for more after 50. Can't help with the rest, though. Haven't even played my fire/nin sent in quite a while.

Ok, cool. Long as we're all on the same page. Edit: Then we can talk about moonbeam and gloom..... /runs

And no one else considers this ridiculous?

Someone want to tell me why a pool power attack has better DPA than the entirety of the sonic blast set? Oh.. my bad. Mind probe is a better DPA attack than every single primary attack power there is for sentinels except zapping bolt, blaze, and bitter ice blast. I realize this probably isn't news to a lot of you but I find it horrific.

Your em/sd scrapper will be tougher with better single target damage but your aoe output will be drastically better on the claws/sr. I need to revisit all three of my claws and sr builds. Right now they're basically identical, excepting the AT IOs, and I want to tweak them back to being AT focused instead. May not end up being all that different than what I have now but I'm curious.

@VoltorEdited for kids: Dude. Madness. Nice #*$&#*$ job!

Picture BZB hovering over RWZ after we found out the game was being shut down. Figured I'd have one last solo run up north killin rikti. This was the soundtrack.

😞 There's a reason there is no BZB Stalker. Such BS.

Well that'd be silly. There ain't no debate, obviously. <.< >.> .

Was this ever fixed?

I know but I'm old, too.