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  1. Bill Z Bubba
    doh! Oh well. next freespec.
  2. Bill Z Bubba
    Came home for lunch. Pulling the trigger on this build as per the last post. Looks good enough. And I wanna fly!
  3. Bill Z Bubba
    I run +2/x8 right now since I'm farming. +4/x8 is for when I'm feeling mean.
  4. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sarrate View Post
    I'd take a slot out of a passive (Dodge?) and put it into Health as a lvl50 Heal IO. That'd be a net +30% regen boost.
    Hmm.
    Current HP and Regen and AoE Defense: 1848 and 26.5 and 45.5
    With your change: 1838 and 28.7 and 44.3

    What would I notice more? The regen gain or the loss of HP and AoE defense?

    Oh... that's taking it from Lucky. If I take it from dodge instead: I stay at 46% melee def gain the regen, and lose the 10 HP. That I could see doing.


    Side note: I'm worrying about the loss of shockwave. That's a LOT of mitigation I'm giving up and I won't know until I do it whether keeping enemies close for spin/eviscerate will increase death dealing time enough to cover that loss of mitigation.


    EDIT: Oh hell... thanks Sarrate. Having me look at the passives made me realize that I had only slotted 4 of the 5 LotG +recharges I have. Hmm.

    Put the 5th set of LotGs into Agile.
    Dropped lucky to a single basic IO.
    Melee: 46.7
    Ranged: 45.9
    AoE: 44.1
    This is still without turning on Hover.
    28.9 regen
    1842.6 HP

    Niiice.

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  5. Bill Z Bubba
    ... That's why I posted the build. Fixed and thanks!

    And if I find that I'm overkill on recovery, I can always 3 slot phys perf with 3 miracles, too.
  6. Bill Z Bubba
    As stated in private, I love seeing a warshade in action. Good job.
  7. Bill Z Bubba
    Howdy my brothers and sisters in scrapping,

    After a bit of soul searching, and not finding one, I decided that the days of Bill Z not flying needed to come to an end. I had planned to wait until I got the 60 month vet badge but that's too far off and I'm itching to respec.

    My current playstyle with Bill has shown me that for the time being, it's time to dump shockwave and go with eviscerate.

    The build has the following points going for it:
    Softcapped without turning on hover
    26.5 HP/sec regen
    1848 HP (a lost of about 20 HP from my current build)
    3.91end/sec recovery without clicking on conserve power
    17% S/L DR
    95% recharge buff with hasten removed from the build
    12.5 global damage buff

    Mids isn't showing me any overslotting.

    The attack chain for this build for hard single targets is Followup, Slash, Focus, Eviscerate. If I did the math correctly, I should be pushing 205 DPS. (fingers crossed)

    Followup has a chance for buildup
    Slash has a chance for dam-res debuff
    Focus has a chance for buildup
    Eviscerate has a chance for dam-res debuff

    Here's the data chunk. Please yell if anything jumps out at you as broken before I pull the trigger and respec tonight.

    Thanks much,

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  8. Bill Z Bubba

    Ss / sr ?

    POST-ACTION

    From CoD:
    Defense -0.2 for 10s (after 120 second delay) [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs]

    I'm mostly sure that the "Ignores Enhancements and Buffs" portion of that also means "unresistable."

    I wouldn't even TAKE rage on an SS/SR brute until I knew that it would stack and avoid the defense debuff.

    Otherwise, you're asking for a death sentence or tucking your tail and running before every crash. Either choose is silly.
  9. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Posittron said there will (probably) be both markets in Praetoria they have some sort of cross dimensional trading ability.
    Does anyone else think that this makes even LESS sense than merging the real world markets and have Praetoria have its own market?

    I love this game. I love 90% of what it offers and how it functions, but this split-market idiocy has to go away.
  10. Bill Z Bubba

    I is back!!

    POST-ACTION

    welcome back. see ya in channel.
  11. Bill Z Bubba
    EG, I'm betting that the best outcome you'd possibly get is for PCs to give the same chances of recipe/enhancement/purple drops as NPCs. Merits are too easily farmable.

    A 1 in 5000 chance to get a purple off of another player doesn't seem to bad.
  12. Bill Z Bubba
    Just in case someone gets confused by that last point:

    A Vigilante can travel to the Rogue Isles, and can team up with the Villains there. They can not use the markets while they are there however. They must be a full Villain to use the markets.

    A Rogue can travel to Paragon City, and can team up with the Heroes there. They can not use the markets while they are there however. They must be a full Hero to use the markets.

    Vigilantes can still use Wentworths. Rogues can still use the Black Market.


    /end clarity rewrite and please correct me if I'm mistaken.

    Followup question: What market will Praetorians use when they are starting the game in Praetoria for 20 levels?
  13. Bill Z Bubba
    Maybe I'm wrong. What are the reputation rules?
  14. Bill Z Bubba
    With your plan, I could have 4 PvP recipes every night while I sleep.

    Edit: That's on top of any that might drop randomly.
  15. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Blood Spectre View Post
    More power to you. Enjoy your SO builds.
    The hyperbole is strong with this one. Took me 100 hours to solo my brute reroll from 0-50. He's already got 90% of the IOs he needs for his final respec including the 5 of 6 armageddons I plan to slot. (Clarity: I have the 5 I plan to slot. Don't need the 6th.)

    This doomcyring about the death of redside is even more stupid than the doomcrying about GR killing off AT X, Y and Z.
  16. Bill Z Bubba
    I thought Ouroboros and Pocket D looked like the Shard because the devs used the existing floaty-open space maps instead of creating new ones.
  17. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    What exactly is causing you to be confused or frustrated to the point where you delete the character?
    The following are why I've deleted my PB twice. Once at 50, again at 30.

    Bug: Tray swapping causing all powers to grey out when bouncing between forms.
    Annoyance: PB powers persistent sound effect (that high pitched whine)
    Design: Passives not functioning in forms
    Design: Long animation time when shifting to forms
    Design: Nova gives up too much mitigation for damage buff; Dwarf gives up too much damage for mitigation buff; human gives up too much damage and mitigation for what it's left with
    Design: Buildup from human form useless in forms due to long shift animations
    Design: Buildup doesn't buff Photon Seekers
    Design: Photon Seekers still mostly useless outside of point blank pbaoe usage where they do shine nicely
    Design: Dwarf form acting as a breakfree fails when a mez lands during animation
    Design: All forms have weak continuous attack chains unless massive amounts of global recharge is added to build. In order to get a functional attack chain without that you must do the shapeshift dance which grossly lowers your DPS due to long shifting animation times or spam gleaming bolt between attacks if attempting human only build
    Design: Average PB performance falls below average WS performance while max WS performance is vastly higher than max PB performance.

    For me, peacebringers are not fun. They are annoying. I no longer care if they are changed. I've added them to the list of ATs that I just won't bother with. No biggee. Other folks like them. Cool.
  18. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    That's what EVERYONE will do. Leave the Rogue Isles and never look back.
    As stated several times throughout the forums already... ummm, no.

    I spend 90% of my game time villain side now. That won't change. I'm not alone in this.
  19. Bill Z Bubba

    Disappointed

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MageX View Post
    I might bring some hate onto myself by saying this but sadly this is not how game developing works. There is no list in any of their offices with what players ask on the forums.
    I'm amazed at your ability to be so ridiculously wrong.
  20. Bill Z Bubba

    So much suck

    POST-ACTION

    They can't. The engine can't handle it. They could use that to get around this fact but won't because BAB can't animate that.
  21. Bill Z Bubba
    Never thought about it, but yes. G for GO!

    I'ts really about finger placement.

    F = Follow
    G = Sprint
    V = Self Heal
    T = Unbound in CHV. Used for push to talk in ventrilo

    If Jumper
    H = powexectoggleon combat jumping$$-up$$-autorun
    J = powexectoggleon super jump$$+up$$+autorun

    If Flier
    H = powexecname fly
    B = powexecname hover
  22. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    /bind T "powexecname Sprint"
    NOOOOOO!!!!!

    I use G.

    Tab, F, G, Attack, G, Attack til dead, Tab, F, G, Attack, G, Attack til dead.

    I'm not against lowering the end cost, but I see no reason to do so.
  23. Bill Z Bubba

    Disappointed

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    A lot. In my opinion it is a very nice feature but definitely not a needed one and even more not one that will add to gameplay.
    You apparently missed the part where someone found out the demo was being played with an ATI card.

    This means old incompatibilities must have been corrected.

    This means far more changes are happening under the hood that "a buncha reflections" being added. For all we know, there could be performance BOOSTS for those not running in ultra-mode. We won't know until beta.

    In other words, way too early for doom crying.

    Quote:
    Great animations, but unless you can queue power after power and make it fire continuously, to me would look a bit weird.
    Why would this set be unlike every other set? We build for constant solid attack chains now. ("We" here meaning those that give a damn about such things.) We'll do so with any new set.

    A little too early for crying doom on this as well.

    Same goes for the last bit. The only thing I'm irked about so far is the fact that they've so far decided to leave the markets separated.
  24. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
    Their wrongheaded insistence on segregated markets looks even more ridiculous in an expansion explicitly built around factional permeability.
    Sadly, a whole buncha this.

    Merge that damn markets already.
  25. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    If you're all about the reward, then you *don't* want to increase difficulty under the 4XP system.

    A team of 8 for a TF has spawns for a team of 8 whether you have the 4XP system set to x1 or x8.

    If you're bumping the level of the foes to +2 for reward... it does nothing for reward, just makes the TF harder and longer.

    So, the 4XP system applied to TFs has little to do with greater rewards.
    This is all completely false.

    A +2 minion gives more XP/inf than a +0 minion.