Bill Z Bubba

Powers menu, Combat Attributes, Base, about halfway down will show you what you have. Edit: Oh, wow... am I ever late to this thread.

This is part of it but on the subjective side, for me, It's the difference in feel and when I brute, the difference is much wider between how it feels solo and how it feels on a team heavy with buffs compared to how the scrapper and tank feel solo or teamed. That wider disparity is why I think brutes shine on teams more. Granted, you have to solo just as often to feel it and some folks just don't do that.

We have ALWAYS been at war with Eurasia!

Brutes shine on teams more so than scrappers and tanks. This isn't to say they're in any way bad at soloing.

I wish my brain would grok this but the fingers are in control. Can't yell you how many times I've used ET on a minion with 1% health left just because it was the next attack in my chain.

I really dig seeing some solid Sent times in here as well. My fire/bio Sent sits right at the 3 min mark with my claws/sr scrapper, so awesome job there!

Will share one thing I've learned from this thread: Next time, start with video. 🙂

This is my only character with moonbeam. I have never seen this behavior with gloom which I have abused like a good boy. I don't get it either. Nothing I know about the game's mechanics explains it but my knowledge is *extremely* limited.

Course, when I *am* on a tank, I taunt more. However, my secondary is still damage and I use it cuz I'm not a moron.

Cuz I'm a scrapper.

So, my statement that this is 100% repeatable is categorically wrong. My statement that there is a bug present that needs to be fixed is still correct. Mea culpa on the wrong part.

Got it. And in getting video I'm noticing something else. If I'm far enough away, projectile and damage numbers coincide. As I close distance and then fire it off, damage numbers appear before projectile or enemy health bar disappears before projectile hits.

You're on a stalker. See the hide power there? I'll post a vid shortly.

Another option is the Midnighter's Mansion in Night Ward, accessible from the Tunnel portals or base porter setup, so that you can get the badge without having to run the arc, then LFG to Imperious Strike Force.

Also, unless EVERY insta-snipe in the game also lands damage as soon as the power is clicked, then it makes this a functionality bug on TOP of being a graphical bug. 🙂

Oh sure, why not? Go for it. Here's the whole damn build.

I'm not ignoring it. I'm betting you tested nothing and have chosen gaslighting as your preferred mode of forum PvP and since we don't run unenhanced characters around here, it's a damn moot point. But it's easy enough to test and get a video even though it will STILL be meaningless just like your opinion on what a bug is or isn't. Says the pot that entered the thread with such crap from the get go.

Pretty sure he said a lot of silly things. For work, of course, I've had to support everything, but at home, I pretty much went from DOS to 98SE to XP to 7 to 10. Server 2000 and 2003 were in play for a while to learn stuff at one point.

Broken games become less broken when broken code is corrected. PvPers whining about broken powers being corrected are not a concern of mine. As you say, wanna PvP? Don't use builds not suited for this game's PvP. The bug that needs fixing has been logged in the bugs forum as requested by the devs. The bug is repeatable and constant in builds people actually use. Are we done now?

Under Options, Config, Effects & Mths, be sure Arcanatime is enabled for Animation Times. Gloom's cast jumps to 1.32 and Smite to 1.188. Arcanatime will give you a far closer approximation of your in game DPA.

Ummm, no. This happens while solo or teamed, in radio missions or TFs. It happens 100% of the time with insta-snipe. No need to try to downplay the actual broken code by blaming it on me "doing things I'm not supposed to be doing" while trying to get the fix stopped because you enjoy utilizing broken powers for undue advantages.

It's only with insta-snipe. Regular snipe, damage shows up with the hit as expected. Also, yea, yea, standard code rant. I'm not telling the devs how to prioritize their fixes. I'm asking them to get it on the backlog and if the powers team already have corrections like this in the pipeline, then they have another task to add to the list.

Nrg/Bio/Soul Scrapper ET(slow)-TF-ET(fast)-MB-BS-repeat T4 Musc, T4 Degen, T4 Assault (clicked) Edit: All Core side. 3 runs average 1min 21secs

If it's broken, it needs fixing. It's broken. Any other powers in the game broken in this way should also, of course, be corrected. Edit: And it seems I should add that gaining advantages from broken code tend to be frowned upon in general.