Bill Z Bubba

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  1. Quote:
    (Bill, eclipse offers psi resist last I checked)
    Looks that way. RES(All Types) +11.25% for 90s

    Yet another reason WS's trash PBs.
  2. I think our fellow readers can look back through this thread and determine who the bridge dweller is. Come back with proof or don't bother. Your word means absolutely nothing to me.
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    I need to prove nothing to you.
    I shall try, but dont expect me to youtube it.
    Infact I doubt I'll even screenie.
    I have nothing to prove.
    Precisely the response I expected. You'll come into a thread calling out someone that had the balls to post proof of what they did manage but you run away with your tail between your legs as soon as you're called out.

    How sadly predictable.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper View Post
    What version of Chrome are you running? I remember a little while ago someone posted a screenshot of Paragonwiki being screwed up in Chrome, but it turned out the be a problem on pretty much all MediaWiki websites for the beta version of Chrome he was using. In other words, a problem with an unstable version of Chrome, rather than with the website.
    Just installed it, so whatever current version is.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Debtlover View Post
    with a isp tray full of 20 bfs i dont see that as much of a "challenge"
    just saying
    arachnos is NOT that evil if you have a breakfree
    Let's see it. Talk means nothing.
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    As for the RWZ scrapper stress test. They have mez prot.
    The test for them is can they out dps before they die.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh3d0wjbu4c

    Human/Dwarf warshade does RWZ challenge.

    Mez in this game is stupidly put together. Far as I'm concerned, if any AT can pull off the RWZ challenge and use nothing but breakfrees to do it so that they, too, can ignore the idiocy that is the way mez functions here, I call it a win.

    So there's my challenge for any kheldian out there.

    Even if you must use breakfrees, and ONLY breakfrees to do it, if you head into the RWZ, find a level 54 spawn with 3 bosses and take them out, including all associated LTs and minions, I'll give you a cookie and say challenge well done.

    No pulling the spawn apart. No running away. No temp powers. Vet attacks are acceptable but generally frowned upon.

    Once you pull that off, go for the gold.

    +4/x8 Arachnos spawn WITH bosses, again no insp use except breakfrees allowed.

    I know I can't do either with my warshade but he's running on basic IOs. I know I can do both with my scrapper. Hell, unless I get cocky and stupid, I can make it through a whole mission without insps but I WILL be playing it damn safe because psi hurts like hell against SR.
  7. Psi isn't a weakness? And what power for either WSs or PBs offers psi resistance or defense?

    For the record, I chuckle at the thought that you even bothered to use council as a stress test. They're almost as pathetic as freakshow.
  8. He already has. Fact of the matter is that for a human-only kheldian, mez IS our primary weakness. next up is our lack of psi mitigation.

    That means Arachnos and Carnies fit the bill.
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    16 Claws/Regen Scrapper
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    For a while now, I've been running with bosses turned off while solo because I got fed up with the hassle.
    /headdesk


    No clue about the portals, Sam. I bet the no boss setting would make all boss objects turn into LTs. I have no idea why that would effect the object's graphics and would hazard a guess that the two items are unrelated.
  10. Quote:
    And with that painful, ear-splitting sound that PB powers make, it's even thematic.
    That sound has been done away with on my computer and I'll never have to hear it again.

    I was surprised at just how easy it was, too.

    Create directory, create subdirectory, copy in silence.ogg, rename to peaceeyes1.ogg

    Enjoy the complete lack of the worst sound effect in the game while all other sounds function normally.


  11. Somethin steampunk!

    I like the large clip sawed off shotgun thought as well. I just need SOMETHING steampunk.
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    Would that not have satisfied everyone?
    That still leaves all those people choosing to use the rep system wasting moderator time with PMs about nastigrams in their UserCP.

    You missed the point entirely about why they've done what they've done. It wasn't for OUR benefit.

    In the end, it was fun while it lasted, I got capped rep without farming for it, moving on to the next forum thing.
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    The problem - playing devil's advocate with myself - with nuking the defense debuff in favor of resistance debuff is invention sets. There are two IO's I can think of that are commonly slotted in PB attacks from def debuff sets, both of them procs - Achilles' Heel's chance for damres debuff and Touch of Lady Grey's chance for neg energy damage. Some sets like Touch of Lady Grey and Undermined Defenses can give +damage and AOE defense, and some folks may have those slotted as well.
    Which is why I mentioned nerfing the existing defdebuff values and adding damresdebuff of an equitable value.

    Then no one would be forced to lose their defense debuff based IOs.

    I think, having run a few sonic blast set using characters up the flagpole, that I would accept that change. It would add team benefit and would increase damage output.
  14. Knock = Mitigation
    Defense Debuffs = More efficient termination of foes

    Claws scrappers get 100% knock with both focus and shockwave.

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    I tend to judge a class by what it does most reliably, and damage has not been the most reliable aspect of Peacebringers in my experience.
    The only 100% knock power a PB has access to is Dawn Strike. The human and dwarf Flares have an 80% chance. Rad Strike has a 60% chance. The human and nova detonations have a 50% chance. The human and nova ST Blast only has a 10% chance.

    All of these attacks Always do damage when they hit, and thanks to the defense debuffs, they usually do.

    Still sounding like a pure damage dealer.

    I think I am beginning to see the true difference between our viewpoints.

    You want to push the PB further into the realm of team based AT and I want to pull it further away.
  15. I'll hop into the put up or shutup group.

    Don't get me wrong, I found the lack of bosses and necessity for a full loadout of insps to be disheartening to tell the truth, but unless you can offer up something to prove your "l33tn3ss," it'd probably be best to keep the criticisms civil, at least.
  16. Worked for me after a I logged in. Site structure is a little farked up in Chrome, but functional.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Qurios View Post
    All you have to do is look up one of the threads about how easy it is to think up names. They have tips offered by the same obnoxious people who get their knickers in a knot when someone mentions server merges.
    You didn't answer the question.

    I have the name Bill Z Bubba in use on every US server. I only play one of them. My other mains don't exist in that way. I have zero desire to lose the names I have and would be highly ticked off were the devs to arbitrarily tell me that I was suddenly Melcor2 or Louis Cypher2 or generic0126875.

    Would I quit over it? Nope. But it would be added to the list of "dev farkups." When that list reaches a certain level, that's when I bail as it will cause me to say, "You no longer deserve my money."

    Merging servers at all at this point in our population level would get a entry on that list.
  18. I must admit I'm finding the notion that the defense debuffs present in PB attacks are enough to push anyone into thinking that PBs are anything more than damage dealers with a few extra tricks.

    Every broadsword attack has a 7.5% defense debuff on it. Same for katana. Less than the PB attacks? Sure. But still stackable. Are we are calling those two sets debuffers?

    Now IF half of the defense debuff was nuked and an appropriate amount of dam-res debuff was added in its place, I'd probably change my tune. Or if each blast had a different debuff attached. Either way.

    As it stands, I build for hitting 95% of the time as soon as I can after SOs. I may be in the minority there, but I don't see a bunch of NPCs packing the kind of defense that the arguably overkill to the point of silliness PB defense debuffs would be needed to hit regularly.

    I guess I need some more info, because I'm still failing to see how a PB is anything but a damage dealer with a situational tank form.
  19. It's interesting to me how vastly different are the views LX and I have regarding PBs.
  20. Quote:
    Villains just simply say "no" to teaming MORE than heroes do, it's that simple. At least that's been my experience. And teaming is ENTIRELY based on someone ELSE'S willingness to join you.
    That couldn't have anything to do with the fact that villains are designed for self-sufficiency far more than their hero counterparts.

    I solo. I'm known for soloing. Yet even *I* can build a small team in little time redside on Pinnacle should the mood strike me.

    And I'm dealing with the drunkards.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by AAQUI View Post
    So what would you suggest? far as card goes?
    I don't know yet.
  22. Dispari,

    Do you REALLY think that the rep system has ever, in any way, actually caused someone to change their normal behavior on this forum?

    I've only stopped posting my mind as I see fit because I don't feel like getting banned yet.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by AAQUI View Post
    so i have a 9500gt (new to gaming) will I be O.k.? and does my card suck? it seems to work fine but from what i've read maybe mine...is crap?
    It'll work, but it's a midgrade card so don't expect much from it. For the record, it's not even listed over at Tom's Hardware on the VGA charts. The 9600GT is listed, and it's down toward the bottom of the chart. You may get ultra mode to look pretty, but your FPS will probably be shot to hell. That's my guess.

    here's the link
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by brophog02 View Post
    Don't fret with these replies. This board is full of Ostrich's who will discredit anything that may suggest the game is losing population. The mere mention of a server merger is seen as a negative for them, and therefore they cannot discuss the idea rationally.
    Ok. Get transferred to another server and give up all your character names.

    I don't give flying rat's buttocks if every server drops to 100 players. I'd rather the servers be shut down completely and the game closed than deal with the fallout of a server merge.

    I know fully well that player population is falling. I've made it a habit of doing counts when I log in. It's generally 2 heroes per villain. Even accounting for all those that use Hide From Searches, like me, populations are dropping across the board.

    I don't care. It doesn't matter. Merging servers won't be beneficial. I'm not teaming with people that can't form and find teams anyway because they're all losers.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
    Indeed.
    It's so very onerous, having to do the job you're paid for.
    That's a bit over the top and unnecessarily insulting. Par for the course with you, we know.

    If someone handed me, as a sysadmin, the job to monitor what nastigrams were being sent between my employees using, oh say yahoo messenger, I would just block the messenger executable from functioning on my domain.

    It makes sense to nuke the comments as a waste of moderator time. It makes more sense to nuke the ability to comment at all. Doing one without the other is silly unless they CAN'T remove the ability to comment at all and want to keep the pretty red and green dots.