Bill Z Bubba

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!

I prefer to fly my freak flag all day long.

... Maybe if you're bouncing between icy bastion and shadowmeld it's tolerable. Other than that, I put ice armor right above regen.

This ^ Spent part of the day runnin my nrg/bio/soul scrapper and between barrier, shadowmeld and all the absorption, she's damn hard to kill in normal content. ITF will still kick her ass with her current build, though.

I'm guessin it's the normal +damage is more beneficial to scrappers and tanks since, especially in your case, the +dam from offensive mode is drowned out by fury and rage. You're not getting nearly the same usefulness from it. However, a brute can say screw that, and run in defensive mode, be tougher by far than the scrapper and fury/rage will counter the -damage quite well.

Figured this would be the best place for this question. Do the debuffs from the Achilles Heel Chance for DR Debuff stack or do they just refresh the duration? Say, if I had them slotted in all of Rad Melee's ST attacks...

I'd be quite happy to turn on player debuffed, enemies buffed and no insps far more regularly... if it improved rewards at all.

A fair argument for the current dev team to embrace any free/freak work done to the game.

Not surprised. But local client mods don't have OTHERS seeing your awesomeness.

Because sometimes it takes 70 of the #*&#$*#&$*&s until I get what I want.

Still waiting on my fishnets for men and leather straps/nipple rings for women. EQUALITY NOW!!!

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.