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  1. Bill Z Bubba
    Spiritchaser, I did have that gorram PvP flag on. The numbers I posted earlier are all frelled up on the first build.

    Here's the corrected numbers:

    Defense:
    S/L: 41.5
    F/C: 44.5
    E: 46.2
    N: 36.1
    P: 19.6

    DamRes:
    S/L: 29.2
    F/C: 1.6
    E: 11.8
    N: 9.5
    T: 14.9
    P: 2.5

    HP 1741
    Regen 25 hp/sec

    /grumble... gonna purge that setting from Mids one of these days
  2. Bill Z Bubba
    On the workstation, Antivir, Spybot, Adaware. No software firewalls.

    On the gaming rig, still clean and pure. Nothing but OS, drivers, games.

    On my 10 year old son's rig that he infected with PAV.EXE ... probably everything listed here.

    Twice.
  3. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    If leveling the toon ain't fun, I'll play another toon
    Agreed. That's why I don't use stone armor or play tanks and defenders.

    /yea, I've already decided my SD/DM tank is boring as hell.
  4. Bill Z Bubba

    Plugging the Gap

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    Guinness is nice but it has unfortunate side effects on the digestive system
    Considering the damage I once did with Jack and Cokes, I consider that particular side effect to be a blessing some days.
  5. Bill Z Bubba
    All,

    Does anyone have any idea why my once mostly transparent crystal shield is now completely opaque?
  6. Bill Z Bubba
    ...

    Now look...........

    I...

    damnit. I approve of this message.
  7. Bill Z Bubba

    Plugging the Gap

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    Come to think of it, what is Americans and their obsession with us Irish people?
    You gave us Guinness Stout. That alone is worthy of worship.
  8. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MissInformed View Post
    I do agree. I think saying "Thank you" or a message saying, "Hey, I really appreciated your help/time/effot/link to www/etc is recognition enough and, for me, will often count more than a poll or contest.

    As much as I agree... I miss my Tech Devil title.
  9. Bill Z Bubba
    Base level shields, SR, Elec, stone and even FA, you mean.

    I've played them all. Stone's a little better thanks to rooted's regen, but the speed debuff kills it for me, as mentioned earlier.

    In the end, I'm not seeing a case made here that warrants a further buff to EA.

    You had ET and TF, you say? Hmmm, yet another case of EM making someone hate the secondary they paired it with. Just like me and FA. Interesting.
  10. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by EU_Damz View Post
    Evil or not they drop good salvage so they must all die
    I approve of this message.
  11. Bill Z Bubba
    And just for giggles, here's nothing but basic IOs:

    DEFENSE:
    S/L: 35.1
    F/C: 38.6
    E: 41.6
    N: 31.5
    P: 14.9

    DAMRES:
    S/L: 29.7
    E/T: 14.9
    N: 11.9

    HP: 1499
    Regen: 11.2

    ED without hasten is a 3-30% heal every 30 seconds
    ED with hasten drops the recharge to 22 seconds

    With Overload:
    HP: 2099
    Regen: 15.7
    Swap out the 3 recharges for 3 heals:
    HP: 2693
    Regen: 20.2

    And, of course, the defense buff on top of that.
  12. Bill Z Bubba
    Just slapped together an EA build in Mids. No P IOs. No PvP IOs.

    DEFENSE:
    S/L: 41.5
    F/C: 44.5
    E: 46.2
    N: 43.2
    P: 21.5

    DamRes:
    S/L: 39.2
    F/C: 29.2
    E: 39.4
    N: 37.1
    T: 42.6
    P: 30.1

    There goes that Psi hole.

    HP: 1741
    Regen: 25.1

    Less than my purpled out Claws/SR, but he doesn't get:
    Energy Drain: Healing 3-30% every 20 seconds.

    And then there's overload which bumps HP and regen to:
    HP: 2799
    Regen: 40 HP/sec

    Anyone stating EA is hurting these days is nothing short of delusional.

    EDIT: Oh yea... and that was without turning any accolades on.

    EDIT: Saw error with Psi Defense.
  13. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    Given how cavalier they are about causing evil and mischief and how much they enjoy the suffering, I would say that is a conscious choice. You can't feign inescapable fate if you delight in fulfilling it to its fullest.
    You don't enjoy eating? You don't get pleasure from it?

    I do. Even to the point of reveling in all the dead cows, fish and whatever other meats I've eaten.
  14. Bill Z Bubba
    Aye. The current chain only needs 79% total recharge in gloom, and global covers that completely. Good stuff. Thanks, man.
  15. Bill Z Bubba
    Quick question there:

    You mentioned that I was over the cap on HP. I know that originally we all thought that you couldn't have more than 5 of a specific value buff, but I could have sworn one of the devs came in and corrected us stating that it was no more than 5 "named" buffs.

    But that's where my understanding ends.

    I see what you mean on the build I posted.

    I have 6 Sets granting +16.9 HP but they come from 3 different kinds of Sets.

    I had thought by "named" the dev was actually talking about the descriptions we see in the combat monitor as per small buff, large buff, etc... but how do we tell that from Mids? Is there ever a case where an identical value has a different "name?"

    My concern on this comes from the loss of enhancement values on Gloom.

    Your slotting gives 57/81/39/39 where mine gives 63/89/43/64 and that extra recharge may be necessary.

    I do like the extra damage there, though.
  16. Bill Z Bubba

    RWZ challenge?

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    Are there any rules to it? Similar to RWZ Challenge, or is it anything goes?
    If I remember correctly the rules were the same on the no temps/no insps but Arcanaville threw in the aside, (paraphrased, of course) "do what you feel is necessary."

    Or something along those lines.

    Quite frankly, if you can get through the whole thing without dying, I'm gonna call it a massive success. I don't care if you use temps, insps, shivans, warburg bombs and smash those pain users upside the head with a kitchen sink.

    I need to run it again. I expect to die at least 27 times.
  17. Bill Z Bubba

    NPCs and EM stuns.

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    Not even that. Just annoying. Thus the deletion of a multi-year old level 50.
  18. Bill Z Bubba
    Agreed. But some of the posters here need to remember this little tidbit:

    EA will have equivalent mitigation to a post-granite stoner when /stone gets a pbaoe end drain with a minor heal and conserve power in the set.

    There is a huge difference between asking for more out of a logical need and asking for more out of greed.

    Too many in this thread are doing the latter.
  19. Bill Z Bubba
    My worst is still my favorite:

    Melcor the Warshade: "FEAR MY HENTAI SPECIAL!"
  20. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    I'm not sure what you mean about devs and arguments. As far as I know, the devs datamine for performance.
    Yes, they do. And that same datamining is what led Castle to add the minor per enemy health buff to energy drain.

    The set has already been buffed. It was buffed due to calls from players and based on datamining.

    What makes anyone think further datamining is going to cause Castle to buff the set further when the datamining has already been done?
  21. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    There are team expectations of a Brute. If other ATs can bring the SMASH and survive better than the non-ezmode sets, what's the point in having the hardmode sets? The only use I see for them are aesthetics and e-peen brags. If that's the case, we need a new AT for them so we can avoid them.
    Your expectations are not my expectations. /stone is the WORST mitigation set in the game for me. Why? Because the mitigation it offers is less than pathetic for 37 levels. It's mez protection kills your movement. Lack of movement kills fury.

    Even after 38, it's locked into teleport or it gets destroyed by curbs.

    I had a much harsher reply to your post than this, but I find that it's not worth it to me anymore.

    Believe whatever you like. The devs aren't listening to arguments like yours anyway.
  22. Bill Z Bubba
    Male player. My melee characters are predominantly male. The one exception off the top of my head is the very tall female shield/dark tank. All others are predominantly female. Looking at around a 70/30 or 65/35 split.

    Apparently I have it stuck in my head that men should get more blood on their hands.
  23. Bill Z Bubba
    Had a new player hit me up with new player questions not too long ago. They were polite, inquisitive and thankful.

    Then the person asked about wings and how much they wish they could have had them at character creation.

    I took that as an opportunity to teach a little something about the market and crafting. Bought the player their wings of choice, bought the salvage, explained how to use a crafting table and the tailor once done and sent them on their way to wherever they ended up going to find a crafting table. They were in their teens on lvl and still hanging around Atlas, so I'm pretty sure I sent them to Steel Canyon.

    About 30 minutes later, I received a very happy thank you.

    Why do I share this story in relation to the OP?

    It's not what you ask for, it's how you get it.
  24. Bill Z Bubba
    Thanks much, OF2.

    I could drop kick and tough for assault and tactics. I've certainly got the end to spare and the tohit buffs from tactics would be welcome with dark melee for when soul drain is down.

    This character is only 41 now so I'll see how his survivability is with darkest night and without tough running rather than DN+Tough+everything else.
  25. Bill Z Bubba
    Hey all,

    This is the rework on my main villain. He used to be an EM/FA brute, but I go so fed up with that combo, I nuked him even though he'd been 50 since shortly after the level cap was raised on the villain side, he had all the power buff accolades, and he was pretty well IOed up.

    Now he's a DM/WP and already superior in ST damage output and survivability.

    Below is the data chunk for his no purple set build. It's 9 seconds short of perma-soul drain and uses MG, Smite, SL, Gloom, Smite as the attack chain which deals out a respectable 223 DPS while under Soul Drain and at 90% fury.

    He's got 2529 hitpoints and with 1 in RttC regens at 74.5hp/sec.

    Can anyone see any tweaks to increase damage and/or hitpoints without the use of purple sets?

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