Bill Z Bubba

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

The one thing I don't understand about wanting perma-hasten nowadays is that Hasten combined with the recharge bonuses you need to get hasten into the perma range well reduce your attack recharge times to the point that if you don't have someone buffing your endurance recovery, you'll run out of endurance faster than a Gunstar after Death Blossom.

Originally Posted by Shadow State

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't anyone who's played with the elemental weapon powers technically seen it?

Originally Posted by Siolfir

They're both bad at it, was what I was getting at (at least, if you just count the attacks themselves and not what you can add through procs). In that situation, DB will hit a plateau much earlier since most of its powers do similar DPA, but it actually has a slightly lower single-target DPS than Electric Melee, because the only two higher-than-normal DPA attacks are Ablating and Sweeping; BillZBubba's thread with the high recharge attack chains had these numbers - and keeping in mind that every other Brute primary except Battle Axe (@~187) in the thread got numbers around 200+:

Brute Electric 169 4.69 EPS
Brute Dual Blades 168.3 4.42 EPS

In that thread, Dual Blades was dead last among Brute primaries in ST DPS - that particular thread also included using pool powers (notably patron powers, and Gloom in particular) in the attack chains. Note that just using SOs or common IOs and not using any pool powers, Dual Blades will outdamage Electric Melee in single target (Brute Dual Blades 134.8 3.5 vs Brute Electric 106.6 2.9 in the other set of calculations) because Electric Melee's only "good" DPA powers are Chain Induction and Lightning Rod (but I'm not going to count something with a base recharge of 90s as an attack chain power). But adding a lot of recharge doesn't help DB as much (note that at low recharge, FM has the highest damage followed by EM; with high recharge it's DM* (*assuming 10 targets for Soul Drain), then SM, FM, SS, and EM); the key to getting ElM up there is cycling Gloom and Chain Induction - the best DPA attacks available for the primary - as often as possible, and the chain used cycled each roughly every 4 seconds - this is one of the cases where not having redraw means that Gloom helps the chain a great deal since it has a higher DPA than any attack in either primary).

So no, neither one is "good" for single-target damage, but Electric Melee can get slightly better DPS on a dedicated build for it as well as having a less-resisted damage.

Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler

Good news everyone, I think I have figured out a way to bypass weapon redraw in combat. I've tested it with with various non-weapon powers or weapon powers from completely different sets, and it seems to work out. This means that you will be able to use any power in a chain with a weapon power, and not have to redraw the weapon...even completely different weapon powers. It will just instantly appear in your hand and play the attack animation. If you're not in combat, out of range, or have no target selected...then it will play a non-rooted, interruptible version of the weapon draw animations.

Some minor issues with consistently playing a weapon draw animation outside of combat, or the weapon draw animation playing when it really does need to...but that shouldn't interfere with combat.

Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to get to every powerset at once, but I was able to get the following powersets done.

• Broadsword
• Claws
• Dual Blades
• Archery
• Battleaxe
• War Mace
• Trick Arrow
• Thugs Mastermind Dual Pistols
• Robotics Mastermind Pulse Rifle
• Arachnos Widows
• Arachnos Soldiers
• Patron "mace" powers
• Munitions Ancillary Pool

The rest will have to wait until sometime after GR:

Originally Posted by Ironblade

And for every one of those teams, there will be five that just say "Bring whatever you want."

Originally Posted by GuyPerfect

Of course black is a popular color. Half the people who play the game sit in their rooms with the lights off and they can't open the window because they're in the basement. Either the bright lights hurt their eyes, or it's cool to be evil even if you're a good guy.

Incidentally, based on conversations with people, I believe more people are likely to roll a Warshade as their first kheld rather than a Peacebringer. Why? Because dark is cooler than light.