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Damage lands before projectile hits target. Quite maddening. Thanks much. -BZB

I have three claws chains. Single target is the same for the scrapper, brute and tanker: Followup, Focus, Slash, repeat. Scrapper AoE is Followup, Spin, Shockwave, repeat while brute/tanker AoE is Followup, Focus, Spin, Shockwave, repeat. For me, even though the ST damage is less with claws than it is with nrg, claws wins for two reasons: Claws spends FAR less time corpse blasting and it remains dead sexier by far.

My chaos mage is now and has been a fire/bio sentinel for a long time now. There's no getting around the facts: Kheldians suck. Human only, tri-form, bi-form, it doesn't matter. Whatever you end up shooting for some other AT can do it better.

My brother only logs on to make sure he's at capped badges. After T4ing several alts, I generally only log on Wed night for SG ITF runs. Everyone posting here and in game are coming at this revival in different ways and getting different things from it. I'm happy as all #&$^ that BZB exists again but I don't actually grok why I'm not playing him more. I honestly spend more time on the forums than I do in game and while that made sense back in the old days when I wasn't temporarily retired, it makes very little sense to me now. To the OP, make this game what you want it to be. I think @Erratic1hit it on the head. Be the game you want to play. Edit: Ok, that's not a bad sig line.

Knowing you have zero experience with claws.... Oh... wait... seriously you haven't done this yet?!?!

I get the immobilize hate. I also get why those that have them use them. Would you as a blaster decide to not use fireball? Would you as a scrapper not want to fire off spin whenever it makes sense? Same goes for aoe immobilizes. It's usually the best DPA AoE in the set and should be used often because of it. I don't care when I see a spawn locked down. I'm all about the Tab-Follow-Kill mentality and care not at all if I'm not hitting every enemy cuz they got spaced out by an immobilize. And because I don't care, I especially spam the hell out of my one good aoe.

DoTs solo can be a pain causing an increase in corpse blasting with sets like Nrg Mel. But they sure are a sweet extra against hard targets.

And damage auras coming off the secondary don't crit so brute 2ndary damage auras > scrapper 2ndary damage auras. Edit: And knowing that whether a power can crit is an attribute easily added to said power and could be done in a single pass makes me think the powers that be still don't want scrapper 2ndary damage auras to crit but I absolutely think otherwise.

They could try, and it would be amusing, but I ain't got no soul to suck!

As a devil, it seems like only The Circle want to talk to me, but if I were allowed to choose? I'd also probably go Devouring Earth. I mean... humanity IS the biggest problem on the planet after all.

On this bit, those people are dumb. They should be allowed to start and fail miserably at said 40-man raid but the raid should NEVER be dumbed down to allow solo success. I'm honestly happy that every solo attempt I've made at the MLTF has failed. Gives me something to keep shooting for.

The damage comes from the preference. It comes from creating a hostile environment to those that, while soloing 99% of the time, might just sometimes enjoy hopping on a team, but if pushed out of the game by asshats, even that won't happen. I team a lot these days. Most of my game time, actually, but that's because I chose to hang out with an SG and they've given me absolutely no reason to regret that choice. If they were pushy about rules, times to be on, etc, I'd be back to my soloing ways in a heartbeat. But there's absolutely no reason to slant the game toward one playstyle or the other as doing so only causes bullshit. It has never and will never make things better for everyone. That's where the harm comes from. And I'm all about one rule: Harm no other and do as ye will.

I'm certainly in the camp that everything should be *attemptable* solo. Meaning I should be allowed to start an iTrial just as I can a TF without anyone else. Whether I can ever accomplish it solo is completely up to me and at no time should the devs ever water down existing content to help soloists out on that front. I've run the MLTF solo many times and have never succeeded and that's a good thing. But there are still people that think even being able to start TFs solo was a bad move even though getting TFC solo is a walk in the park. And, yes, given any thread on the topic, someone will pipe in with the aforementioned "this is an MMO, you're not supposed to solo" as if choosing to do so was some crime against humanity while forgetting just how much soloing was done in the comics from where this game originated.

Nah, I've seen the posts. Same folks here as from before the snap. "It's an MMO. That means you team. If you want to solo, go play another game." It's a mindset that has caused a lot of damage over the years. Thankfully, a concern I had regarding the how the devs were going to move forward was recently alleviated so I'm in a happy place around here at the moment on that front.

Always?

Considering how ridiculously OP my shield/em/soul tank is... yea, this.

Yuuuuup. Edit: I find it very interesting that your times are so close on average. 10 second spread? Nice.

/puts on argument hat //checks characters ///takes argument hat off Alpha Musc Core Inter Degen Core ... sometimes Reactive Core if fire is called for Hybrid Assault Core for scrappers/stalkers/blasters and Radial for everything else. Lore Carnie Radials cuz Dark Ring Mistresses Judgement Pyro on 90% of them. Min/Maxers do what they do. As for the system's difficulty? Ummmm... it ain't rocket surgery.

Like this?

Oh c'mon, what would the CoH forums be without constant tirades against farming and soloing? ... Oh. They might be far more pleasant.

I don't care because I know it won't make any difference at all. Farmers will farm, soloists will solo and the people that hate one or the other or both will continue whining on the forums that they can't find teams. Or that the teams aren't playing like they want. Or whatever. It would save me time on new alts, thus giving me more reason to make more alts and keep me interested longer, and would give me something worthwhile to do with the vast amount of threads my many already T4ed alts have rather than dumping them on inspirations I never use beyond selling them for inf that I don't need.

Then make the conversion rate something silly. 200 threads per emp sounds good.

That's a ridiculous reason not to do this. My characters get most of their incarnate garbage from farming Heather's arc in DA at the highest diff they can handle while clearing it solo. Me being able to convert threads to emps is NOT going to change your inability to get on a team one way or the other.

Someone else likes Tenacious D. This is good.

And this is why we need Shield Melee!