Bill Z Bubba

See my first post. 🙂

Thanks to the tank damage buff that occurred here recently definitely improved the solo ride for tanks, so I'm not at all surprised you're digging that fire/staff. Doesn't hurt that you're dishing out a lot of AoE from both sets. On the topic of what's fun to solo, for me, it's anything with mez protection. Tanks, brutes, scrappers, stalkers, sentinels will all fit under that category, all have armor and all do enough damage to fly through missions at a good pace. That's not to say the other archetypes can't also solo at decent clips but as things ramp up, getting mezzed becomes such an annoyance to me that I'd rather just not bother with them. My favorites to solo are my claws and super reflexes using tank, brute and scrapper, my fire/bio sentinel and my shield/nrg tank. I've got plenty of other alts but those are my goto combos.

Nah. Just different. Nin gets the click heal and click end recovery but if you have to use those you're cutting into your DPS. Nin also provides far less Defense Debuff Resistance so it HAS to use that heal while SR doesn't need one.

Unable to recreate on any of the instances I have available. Do you have any mods installed?

This. I always slot the AT IO procs in single target attacks specifically because I want them capped out against hard targets.

I got around this by going black nrg pompoms and the dark shield.

Considering how much corpse blasting I still do when teaming with my shield/nrg tank, I can agree with this line of thinking.

Two issues with DM, I have. Shadow Maul's hit fx continue on the target after the attack animation has already completed. The best single target attack chain is MG, Gloom, SL, repeat, which are all left handed attacks. It gets REAL boring after a while. But yes, 100% agreed that having a self-heal as part of the attack chain and tohit debuffs adding on to Inv's defense is a very powerful combo.

Planned obsolescence. Useful for more than just the manufacturing world!

Nah. I suspect my lifestyle choices will take me down first.

Just dinged 49 at the end of June.

Damnit, @tidge ... Now I have an ear worm to purge. Too early in the day for that! On topic, fun is that thing going on when I'm not angry and the pursuit of fun is often utilized to get rid of anger.

Scrapper Evasion, at least as per old design, was never supposed to taunt, while brute/tank evasion was. It's all still quite wonky and I completely agree that some standardization should occur. However, I suspect there'd be whole lot of pitchforks if all taunts were removed from the scrapper armors that have them. Might be better just to fix scrapper evasion instead. I see no reason for tank/brute evasion to have a taunt aura but scrapper evasion doesn't anymore, especially if we're defining SR's taunt being that enemies are so pissed off that they can't hit you that it taunts them. Thanks for the added eyes, yall.

As shown below, and this is the same case for brutes as well, why isn't Evasion actually taunting? Here's Tank Evasion: Here's Tank Against All Odds:

Shield/Nrg is a fine pairing. It's my goto whenever I want to solo something that should kill me. Excessive survivability and single target damage output.

I had a KB->KD enh in mine for a while which was nice (the repel portion is pretty short) but in the end I swapped it out for a damage proc. Just wish the repel and KB were strong enough to affect AVs so I could lock them in a corner to keep them from runnin all over the damn map.

I'm still playing and enjoying my new AR/Nrg Sent. Granted, the 8 hours of amps I bought for her at lvl 1 should be running out soon so we'll see if the enjoyment continues. Regardless, I look forward to firing off full auto every 25 secs or so.

I still miss pre-nerf EM. My hatred of the long ET animation verges on the infinite.

Because it often gets wiped.

Maybe, but what's the "net worth" of all 110 characters if you were to strip them all and sell everything? I rarely have more than a couple billion stray inf laying around but I also buy at "give it to me NOW" prices whatever I don't already have sittin in the base bins. Now the question is... did I open all of those winter packs already? And if not... who has them? To the OP, it's nice what you do. Had another forum goer thank me here for dumping a bunch of inf on them and helping them with info WAAAY back before the snap. Giving help, info, inf, yea, even money is nice when there are no strings attached. Especially when it helps someone enough that they then go out and help others.

Goes back to my testing with my claws/bio scrapper. Sure, I can rework a great deal to cover the holes made by going procmonster instead of keeping set bonuses... or I can keep the set bonuses and stick with alpha-musc, dest-barrier and hybrid-assault and have a much more well rounded character while still pushing out high damage. Don't get me wrong, I'll continue procing the hell out of powers that are not supposed to do damage, cuz ... why not?

I'd happily delete my demon/thermal for some carnie time. Mmmm, dark ring mistresses.

And Assault/Armor...

This thread made me crank up an AR/Nrg Sentinel. Seems much is different over there. For ST DPA, as per Mids at least, the best three are Dis Shot, Incinerator, Burst, so I skipped Slug. For AoE DPA, it's Buckshot, Flamethrower, Full Auto so I skipped M30. Ran her to 6 in Atlas then PLed her to 32. Hit 33 after first test spawn at +0/x8 so Full Auto is now 4 slotted. I did buy her 8 hours of all the amps at lvl 1 so she's got all those cheat buffs making her far more awesome than she really is, but regardless, she's a hoot.

/jranger