Bill Z Bubba

I will! Or would, but you're at 667 at the time of this read. Regardless, Gratz! And Hail Satan.

Right up until it meets debuffs. Then it folds like wet tissue.

Based entirely off of "no incarnate powers slotted" TFs with otherwise cranked to the gills builds I've been involved with, I'd have to argue that the power creep from IOs has been far more detrimental overall, even considering the ridiculousness of Judgement overuse.

I'd be happy with just SOME mez protection. Otherwise, meh, I'll build a sentinel and deal with the lower damage. I hate faceplanting.

That plus the scrapper AT IOs bumping up crit chances push the scrapper way above the brute. Another note on that, brutes may have more consistent damage once they've ramped up, but against hard targets, those crit chances become VERY consistent; to the point that you can math it out on paper and see damn near identical values with pylon times. Before those IOs were added? Sure, brutes were close enough that there wasn't a reason to roll a scrapper instead. It's why my main claws/sr was a brute when the servers shut down. Now? Scrappers win on the damage front. Course, it's all become enough of a mess that BZB has three bodies on Excelsior.

Willpower would. The thing that jumps out at me most with mace/regen is that mace does have some long animations and for a click-happy set like regen, that could easily mean faceplants. With WP, otoh, you won't have to worry about that and you'll be tougher all around.

Yes, tanks were overbuffed at last pass. But it don't matter cuz nuthin's gettin changed. If you team all the time and aren't concerned with solo gameplay, the brute will often shine thanks to all the incoming buffs from your teammates on either the damage or mitigation sides of things. While rare, sure, a brute at the caps is a sight to behold. Solo, however, a brute falls behind both the scrapper and the tank. Who the hell wants almost tank damage with almost scrapper mitigation values? Yes, the taunt auras and the ability to take Taunt are nice. EDIT: Yea, that's a glass half-empty view. You could say that the brute has slightly better damage than the tank with slightly better mitigation thanks to higher HP and caps than the scrapper but you're still dishing out less damage than the scrapper and taking a hell of a lot more damage than the tank. That said, chasing fury can be its own reward. It's a nice reason to fully give in to the scrapperlock.

To the topic of teach a man to fish or give him one... does it really matter which one if we just go on our own path not caring what others do afterwards?

I respond when I feel the desire to. I have absolutely zero rules on handing out builds, although I have noticed that I'll throw out my main's if the requestor is asking for anything claws or sr related far more than other builds. I look at a lot of builds if I'm seeking info and ideas so the more builds posted to the forums, the better. We can't help but learn from each other and learning is good, yes?

Just ran a solo ITF and even when laying down darkest night, I didn't have a single AV go into skidaddle mode. This was on a shield/em tank.

1hr23mins Max diff, no temps, no insps edit: and no amps! I guess that's still mildly tolerable. And I got lucky pull on 2nd mish with the straight path map.

You people just don't get it. I'm old! I yell at clouds! I'm resistant to change! I miss having an onion on my belt! My gaming rig's motherboard is dead and the replacement is stuck at some port! I moved my 1080 to a freakin precision server just so I could log in! I'm getting 24FPS in Cimerora proper on a good day! Dogs and cats are LITERALLY living together in my new house which was built in freaking 1898! /breathes Yes, I can still do it with no changes to the build. Yes, it takes longer and is less fun due to the whiffing. Yes, I can change tactics and slow myself down even more to at least see less whiffing but the end outcome is the same. Or I could respec a bit (it's never a bit, it's time consuming.) But gods below... the extra effort... That said, gonna go solo a standard max diff, no insps, no temps and I'll report back with the time. Best time so far with my shield/em tank was 1.25 hours. Sorry, Werner, enemies were not buffed and they won't be this time either!

It's worse than you think. AVs are running away even IF taunted. If it was intentional, seems it was done to make those with immobilizes more useful.

On that topic, my memory is failing. Was being able to start TFs solo ever a thing on live or did that happen with the SSPS and carry over to HC?

You are weird. Solo the TFs as well!

I've never stopped being sad at just how bad Khels have always been. (I'll throw in the caveat of "while solo" to be nice.) And I mostly soloed both to 50 back when they were released. Oh, the tantrums I threw then...

Specifically to this, I never store recipes. Since I'm selling everything or storing good stuff from alts, I just buy what I need for new builds as I need it. It only cost me like 300 mil to fully kit out my last respec for my emp/nrg defender but again, that's fully due to having so much stuff already stored. For recipes you already have, craft and sell or just sell or craft and store for later use. You'll get more inf if you craft it first but you'll have to decide if it's worth your time to do so.

It's ONLY basic IOs that I keep around at lvl 35 and that's for quickly slotting into a build I've powerleveled to 32 so I can go out and get a feel for it. Edit: I do have some 50+5 basic IOs in the bin as well for slotting into finalized builds like end-red, rec-red, run, jump and fly. All the rest of my IOs are attuned so that it doesn't matter what lvl I slot them at, except for PvP and Purple IOs which should be +5ed instead. On the archetype IO front, I'll use a non-catalyzed set while leveling up and then unslot them during a respec for storage to be used by a new alt and slot a catalyzed version at 50. Granted, this method really only works because I have zero issues stripping and deleting alts if I decide they're never going to get maxed out.

That's not what I meant earlier. There's a difference between catering to soloists and actively choosing to nerf them for the benefit of team play. That isn't what happened here, of course, this was just a fix after all. And as mentioned, a fix like any other change has consequences. But it does appear to be a mindset for future changes that I'm certainly not too keen on, especially if it's utilized for changes to existing content rather than ONLY being used for new content.

I can't tell you the right way because I have no idea what you plan to do with yours but here's what I've done. Max number of bins in base. 1 each for Converters, Unslotters, Catalysts and Boosters. 5 bins for the high usage IOs (performance shifters, luck of the gamblers, numinas, etc. 1 each for PvP/HOs, Purples, Archetype, Winter and lvl 35 basics I don't store any crafting salvage anymore as I sell all white/yellow to the store in my base along with most recipes. I'll sell purples, pvps, orange crafting salvage and other known good recipes on the market for 111 inf each. All that said, when I was just restarting with Homecoming, I did spend more time crafting but it rapidly turned into what I've stated above because I'd rather spend my game time killin than craftin.

If only it were true, Doc. Last time I decided to broadcast and lead a team for an ITF, I specifically stated over and over that it was a max diff kill most run. Halfway through the first mission the whining that it was too hard and taking too long started. Two folks dropped. Others wanted the difficulty dropped. Too many folks don't read or understand or care what's being requested.

It's almost like powercreep was a bad idea in the first place.

This should prove interesting. The fact that most folks will quit a TF as soon as they realize insps have been turned off or enemies have been buffed, makes me suspect that this new content won't be utilized much at all except by the hardcore and even then, if they realize there's no greater reward for the extra difficulty, they too will move on to other pastures. But I'm curious to watch it play out. At least for a time you'll have folks diving in to master it.

Thus the Disable Insps button when forming TFs.