Bill Z Bubba
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Quote:And EA looks cool as #$&*^# in black.Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot
Well, you can make the effects different colors now...
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If you don run one, Eva... get video. I'd love to watch that and bet yall would rock through it.
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Yea, but then the <smirk> tanks will want in on it.
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Quote:Same rules will apply, Werner. Gotta have normal pad#s to start, then have all but one quit. The last one logs off but stays in TF/SF.Originally Posted by Werner
I thought we still weren't going to be allowed to run task forces solo? If we can, I may finally get to experience the half of the game that I haven't experienced. That would be cool.
At least with the new diff settings, however, you can still have everything spawn at +4/x8 even though the TF/SF only has two teammates.
When I reattempt my solo ITF run, I'll be set for +0/x8. -
Quote:I turned you green again. Still wish BAB would give claws the sweeping strike animation as an alternate for eviscerate.Originally Posted by Nihilii
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KB hole, huh? While 2 KB protection IOs is fine for most of the game, it's not enough against Pylons, Nemesis staff and a few other bits of nasty out there.
Still, though... DM/Nin with two self heals and other toys? Nice. -
My first run-in with these guys was a massive wake-up call. They ripped Bill up in pretty short order because I expected them to be the same pansies the rest of the game is filled with when it comes to melee vs AI.
The Rogue Vanguard were specifically designed to beat the tar out of meleers. And to this day, they're one of my favorite groups because of that.
They make me think. The make me scrap defensively. They're FUN.
I know that "The Coming Storm" has pretty much fallen off of everyone's radar, but I have a feeling that the next batch of baddies we face are going to be really freaking nasty.
And all that does is make me wipe the blood from my mouth and grin. -
I haven't really looked at Nin seriously because I can't do stalkers. What does SR have over it? Better DDR? More scaling dam-res?
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Gratz, Novawulfe!
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At +4/x8, I DO use insps. Don't have to, but I'm in it for the money not the glory!
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On weekends, I'm always up for an all scrapper ITF. However, I have a request:
Can we make them all scrapper/brute ITFs? My DM/WP brute is starting to shape up nicely.
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I have to be careful with Arachnos at +4/x8. Psi attacks and heavy acc assassin strikes hurt a lot. It was nice to be challenged by normal content again.
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Quote:Cuz I played claws/elec from 1-16, 35-37 and 50 on test. Elec still sucks for the way I play. EA fits more.Originally Posted by Organicide
Billz,
Why EA when ELA is getting the "fix". Think how teh sexy Claws/ELA will be with the Talsorian Claws in red. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze
You gonna need those defense on the cap BillZ... ;-)
Edit:
First thing I'm gonna be rolling when i16 hits
I don't know if that's true, Iggy. EA has one thing that SR doesn't that I plan to lean on heavily after 38. Overload gives a massive HP buff. Crash hits, pop a blue, pop CP, no problem. SR can't touch that level of HP.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that being at/over the softcap all the time is ideal. And I'm well known for hating tier9s with crashes. But I intend to utilize EA in a way I never could with SR. -
Quote:Where they're slotted in a power doesn't matter.Originally Posted by Fantomas
I might be reading some of this incorrectly but I didn't realize that it mattered where you slotted things...first, second or third.
I have the end proc slotted fourth in QR and Stam...should I move them to the first slot?
What the others are talking about is as you're leveling up and adding slots to the power.
I go with 4 perf shifters for the set bonuses. -
Those are pretty cool changes. I think I'd have to play that.
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Neg, BH. No changes to EA. Other than the fact that I'll be using it as the secondary for my claws brute.
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I'll be in Grandville on my brute. I expect to hit capped Inf on top of a fully tweaked to the gills build within 2 weeks. He's 47 now. Trying to hit 50 before I-16 go live.
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Quote:Pain > Empathy for soloists. Teams that need healers suck.Originally Posted by Prez1
Now I know that this has been mulled over before. I just made a Ice/Pain and at the char. creation screen I realized something.
Most of the people that I've talked to think that Empathy is superior to PD. When Going Rouge comes out do you think that PD is going to become a gimped AT when stacked up against Empathy? -
Quote:A scrapper built for maximum damage output has zero effectiveness when laying face down on the floor.Originally Posted by Shred_Monkey
A scrapper built for maximum surviviabilty is peforming his job less effectively then a scrapper built for maximum damage anytime the damage scrapper has at least 1 hitpoint.
Both of those statements are true. What we also find to be true is that when it comes to scrapping, it doesn't actually make any difference at all how you choose to build your character as long as the end result leaves you standing over the fallen body of your enemy. -
Quote:I almost fell out of my chair when that flashed into my chat box.
Memorable quote from that run:
[NPC] We're under attack
[Player] Really, ya think?
[Player] "Hey, there's only six....oh sh#%"
Oh... and Aliana, awesome that you soloed it. I gave up on my only attempt to do so thanks to the autohit, but you've made me want to go back and do it again. -
Here's my very first pass at a claws/ea build. Even looking at it now, there's a lot I can do to clean it up further.
Points of importance:
Overload up more than 50% of the time.
And without OL:
41.5 def to s/l
44.5 def to f/c
46.2 def to e
36.1 def to n
19.6 def to p
29.2 damres to s/l
1740 HP with 25.1 HP/sec regen
This is without any purple sets or accolades. When I tweak it further, I'll post again.
As for Invulnerability's psi-hole... it can be heavily mitigated with IOs.
Using St0n3y's new v6 I-16 Mids' builder:
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Quote:Originally Posted by Nethergoat
I rarely agree with BI about anything, but there is absolutely a clique of regulars I alternately call the Kontent Kops or the Purity Police who leap around cheering and chest-bumping like drunken louts at a college football game whenever they think a balance change is aimed at the farmers/exploiters/dirty wrong people who don't play right.
They think everyone should play the game exactly as they do, and anyone who doesn't should be driven out of the game for the good of the community.Agreed. While we're at it, we should also be ignoring:Quote:Originally Posted by Ignatz
Not denying this...just pointing out that they are a vocal minority, and should be ignored accordingly.
All the people that think any kind of balancing move by the devs is on par with genocide;
The folks that run four accounts simultaneously in a PvP zone and act like they succeed at one on one;
Everyone that states they're being persecuted by evil forum cabals;
Posters that spew nothing but negativity about the game while failing to realize that they could just cancel their subscriptions;
And Especially that cadre of "special" posters that have been claiming that the game is doomed since it went live.
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Yes, I'd use the feature suggested by the OP. Yes, I agree with Nihilii about removing TF/SF min team size requirements. Yes, I would continue using Ouroboros for the same reasons I do now.
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Why no self heal?
1: My claws/sr has 20% DamRes to Smash/Lethal without even considering the passive scaling DR.
2: He sits at the defense soft cap to melee, ranged and aoe defense at all times.
3: He has capped defense debuff resistance.
4: He has Over 1800 hit points and regens at 27 hp/sec.
5: The only self-heal option open to him would be aidself which has a stupidly long animation which cuts into his damage output.
I solo AVs without a self heal. Therefore, no need of one.