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Ele is a scrapper. I don't know how I can be any clearer. You should see him IRL, he's like WOAAAAAAAAA!!!
*ninja kick*

I cannot quote this enough.

I don't think I ever push my ways on other people; HOWEVER, if someone wants in on our uber speed runs, they'd better be ready to perform. It's not always necessarily about IOs either, on our fastest STF runs, my toon's only IO was a Numina Unique. Being uber is more a mindset of being intense.


But I'm usually chill I enjoy solving Rubik's cubes and playing minesweeper. My default gaming posture is something like this.


Mostly I just want the program to help my decisions on burn and flares, but I'm sure I'd fund other times to use it.

WAY too early. i don't get off work till 1:30, and Ele might get off when I do, but has a long drive afterwards. It'd hafta be midafternoon or evening if we're to be coming. Also I <3 kinning. Just did a respec on Kincicle and I'm itching to try it out.

That would really really suck. We've had a few people with over 1 million prestige (on a single toon) branch off to found their own SGs in coalition with ours and taking most of their alts with them. I'm glad it doesn't happen that way :P

Absolutely! I'm free pretty much all afternoons as long as Brin doesn't stop by to hang out, and Ele will be free on Sunday afternoonish. Dibbs on Kin spot!

I know this was accidentally leaked a while ago, but I'm not sure why more people aren't excited about this. This is the 'the last glowie or two will show up on the map' and 'the last 10% of enemies will show up on the map in a defeat all' addition. I wouldn't care if we got nothing else from i17, this is all that I want.

Firstly, I'd like to take the time to take credit for this idea; started doing this to cut down on time waiting for toggle debuffers (stoopid rads!) to switch between targets. Lesson: when herding mobs (or Patrons) toggle debuffs on the LAST one you're gonna kill!

Secondly, (opinions incoming!) using defenders as buffers/debuffers is always better than trollers. (ducks punch thrown by Voodoo) They have higher values and ... well that's just about all you should need right? Also Gloom/Bitter Ice blast > ring of fire/propel. When we ran speed/power STFs, we only brought a single therm controller and a mix of defenders for buffs/debuffs. Depending on the week's flavor, we had one or two colds, a rad, kin, and the therm, playing with the number of scrappers/blasters for optimum efficiency, and always Ele or me on our stone tanks.

Almost always running the Kin Defender on these (I have three now at 50, /Dark /Ice /Archery, with /Rad on the way), I was always a firm believer in the importance of offensive buffs as well as debuffs. Because of the way AVs in particular resist debuffs, a solid Damage buff can be more important than Resistance debuffs, so I make it my number one priority to keep everyone at damage cap, which is why I'm always ******** at people to get IN the mobs instead of firing safely (and more weakly) from outside. I know people (including me) hate the 'we need a kin!' attitude, but a good, aggressive kin on a team can make these runs so much easier.

On Shamsters team last night:
(This is all according to Mids)
-Res/+Dmg: Strongest debuff on the team, with -92.5% if no resists (Sarrate can clarify how much this actually gets through).
*Potential unresisted numbers: -40% Res from TA, -22.5% Res from the Rad troller (assuming Fallout wasn't used), and -30% Res from the Storm Troller.
*The +Dmg was weak on this team IMO, while Blasters and Scrappers have good damage output on their own, a superemp with Fortitude on everyone gives 31.3% +dmg, with +20% +dmg from Rad (assuming they had AM perma and hit everyone with it). That's only 51.3% damage buff if nobody was running assault. My initial diagnosis would be just that the Damage buffs were low, but people do beat this TF without them.
*The -Def looks alright to me (people do need to stop Dogging on TA, it actually has alright Debuff numbers.
*The -Regen could have been the issue. Except for the occasional EMP Arrow or EMP Pulse (if used at all), Lingering Radiation is the only -regen power, which does -500% regen. [A Strong (high recharge) Dark Defender has the strongest -Regen IMO, with -500% from Howling Twilight and -50% every time Twilight Grasp is fired. Also, a Kin firing Transfusion every couple seconds with the same -50% helps a lot.]

Sorry I can't give any concrete evidence on what's going on currently; I haven't run STF in a couple months or so. From the information in this thread, it just sounds like Shamster's team had alright -Res, but with a lower -Regen and +Dmg.