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You are most definitely not misremembering. V is always my self heal or most important click mitigation. For the BZBs it's Practiced Brawler since Hasten is on auto. T, Y and U are buffs like aim and buildup or conserve power. B and N go into play on heavy clicky sets like bio where there's 3 "heals" in play.

Tab to new target and hit F for follow. As mentioned, this fails when hovering but not when on the ground. Thus my heightened run speed. Edit: I really should remap Tab for targetenemynear.

I have long stated, regardless of the times that SR just plain fails (Rularru (sp?) and autohit fluffies and the like,) that the greatest strength of SR was never getting hit with debuffs. And then shield came along with its 87% DDR with double stacked active defense and +damage aura and better HP and then I got a sad. Edit: And people wonder why I bitch so much about intra-AT balance.

MANUALLY?!!?!? What kind of psychotic heresy is this?!!? You're losing SOOOO much DPS! 🙂

Interesting. I'm guessin you loaded up on slow resistance? When I attempted it with rad armor, I found it was just as squishy as fire armor but in both cases I wasn't built for max slow resist nor was I chugging ageless for what little DDR it provides.

I use hover for fighting things that fly and as a mule for an LotG +recharge. But 99.9% of the time, I'm on the ground. *IF* hover actually got me into melee range properly after a Tab-Follow, I'd be far more likely to use it more but as that will not apparently ever happen....

Nope. My sr/claws tank is amazing. Only problem I have with SR is its complete lack of +damage. If I could build a shield/claws tank, I would.

If I was triggered, you'd know it and I'd get another ban. What we're attempting to get you to see is that the desire to socialize in game rewards is BAD game design because all it accomplishes in the end is a very boring game where no one bothers to push the limits because there is no worthwhile reward for doing so.

And yet speed runs are specifically done so that those doing them can farm merits at a vastly accelerated rate compared to those doing the content "normally." Why should the speed runners be punished?

All playstyles include running no enhs at base diff versus fully loaded T4 with accolades running max diff. You are stating that one should get the same rewards over time as the other. So, yea, no strawman, this is what you are saying and it's absolutely ridiculous.

In what games are you seeing this "rewards are equal regardless of effort put in" concept?

Yes, you must complete missions, get badges or defeat enemies to get rewards. What other playstyles are you speaking of? Are you stating that standing around pocket d roleplaying should grant rewards? Or are you stating that the guy running at +1/x1 with SOs should get the same rewards over time as the guy completing the same mission in 1/10th the time? And if so, how is that remotely fair to anyone? Why should I be punished?

Harm no other and do as ye will. <- Chaotic Neutral Once I see tangible proof of harm being done to the community at large from farming, I might listen. But "wahh, I'm poor cuz I don't farm" ain't gonna cut it.

What, exactly, is arbitrary about getting xp and inf for defeating enemies? And what, exactly, is wrong with being rewarded more for being more efficient at dispatching said enemies?

There are server transfers...

I am on Excel...

I like how my earth/earth dom makes me feel dirty. No clue why, of course.

I definitely use the macros on my doms for exactly that but is there any way to get macros to animate the recharge time as the normal icons do?

If I was forced to delete 2 of my 3 BZBs, I'd end up keeping the scrapper as things stand right now.

Grabbed some Amps for my shield/em tank and went back in. It was a touch better on the whiff-fest front but I felt so dirty for having amps on a 50.

Tanking is a mellow thing for me.

In all seriousness, I do remember playing with no KB->KD in Shockwave for many a cycle... it's so much better with the proc.

More and more it seems the answer is to respec out of both.

Here's my current build. Hope it gives him some ideas.

My earth/earth is my favorite dom so far. Also have earth/fire and fire/earth.