ScarySai

The problem with the piercing rounds change is it does nothing to make the power worth taking for people who were already rightfully skipping it. It's too slow, and it doesn't even stack -res like it's much stronger cousin - piercing beam, anymore. I like the mez change though, I'm able to use it more rotationally. The lost of duration for fire ammo doesn't bother me much, I already played on +4, the mez value was already questionable there. DP's weakness still remains - it has woefully low single target if we ignore procs.

I'd just read it more like the AV being smart enough to not stand in your obvious deathtrap. As vehemently against the ignite train as I am, I at least understand it to a degree. What I will never understand is people who want to keep beanbag over aim.

In order for ignite to be made as good as incinerator out of the box, it'd have to root your target, make things standing in it convert all knockback to knockdown, and work on fleeing mobs reliably. That's the bare minimum, and I really doubt we're getting anything like that. The novelty of ignite is fun, we all love lighting our friends on fire, but in terms of function, it's unrealistic to expect "just buffing" ignite to work.

Ignite was a garbage power that was anti-synergistic to the mostly-KB set it belonged to. Incinerator would be perfect with a shorter dot duration (and more damage), a shorter cast, and the loss of the -def conditional. If people wanna light random things on fire for the luls, some kind of temp power could be made to the same effect, I'm sure.

AR changes are insanely good, I'm not as familiar with psychic blast as a comparison point, but this new version definitely slaps too. Won't miss ya, beanbag. Rip bozo.

One of my wishlist sets happened and it's actually really good, it's a good day.

Ice blast and fire, depends on the build.

Death assault and titan manip (picture devil may cry air juggles as a powerset) Definitely real.

No new build was pushed since the patch dropped. Why would it be different?

The main problem with Savage on scrappers is that there is no good place to put the ATO which carries the archetype in.

Damage typing, long cast times, poor ability tuning, no build up and lower target caps would be the major issues.

I'll take dom buffs, but anyone who says they are bad is a fool.

Haven't played it that much, aside from the Fire/dark. That ain't a tanker. 😛 I wouldn't be surprised if it's like, a top tier set now, though.

When I finish this build, I'm pushing for sub-3 mins. Need to grab some boosters and +3 some hamis.

Trapdoor is honestly a terrible metric for gauging mm performance. That ai in hallways and controlled jumps. Ew.

I tried combustion before slotting rain of fire into my blaster's build. Let's say I was very disappointed.

I really wanna get the axe/shield to work because it looks so badass, but might have to settle for another secondary there, yeah. As for fire melee? Gonna have to give that a pass soon, same for combustion in general.

Damn, if I can't reclaim that tank record, I might have to try that combo, lol. Anyway, tried axe today. I like it, sadly don't think shield can work that well with a proc build, just too end hungry. I'm going to try to make it work, though.

Currently tinkering with this character on beta, the leveling changes and the fiery aura changes kinda pair off really well for it. Amps are up because I just wanted to post a quick run with a good time before bed.

I think that overcomplicates it. Regen is HP/s, and scales with the HP of the character in question. A minion regenerating 3% per second is nothing worthy of even noting. Same for an LT and boss. Where it actually becomes a big enough problem to swing things would be AVs and gms, where 5% health a second is like, tons of HP per regen tick. Hence why, it's technically accurate to say that -regen is like added dps, but -regen is significantly less valuable than raw DPS in the majority of cases. It's also one of those things where, once the -regen is bottomed out, there's no real point adding more. It's a valuable thing for av/gm kills, but many people overvalue it.

Poison trap wasn't used, why are you lying about a video everyone can watch and verify? It's number one on the bars. there.

Mortar was used, but that's the -res and -def. Poison trap is what you're thinking of. I misfire photon a few times due to zoning out, but it didn't really change the point of the video. I wouldn't bother replying to people who don't pay attention past this point, in any case.

Sets without -regen but more front loaded -res would perform better than this under the same parameters, too. In any case, the entire argument that bots can't solo GMs/avs now without their precious -regen is 100% debunked.

You do realize they weren't rebalanced with the assumption you'd take all the personals, right? If you don't want them, don't take them. You can big game hunt just fine either way. (Vids should be done processing in 20ish.)