Bill Z Bubba

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Are these two posts basically saying that against a single target opponent, as MA, you should just cycle through SK, CK, SK, CAK?

Is EC right out then on single targets? Since it has no AE value, should you even take it?

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Two items to consider: The chain listed needs something like 225% recharge in storm kick. Let's face it: The VAST majority of players are not going to see that level of recharge in their build.

Also, as was pointed out to me last night, unless you're fighting an enemy with KB protection, crane kick will often be knocking your opponent away from you, thus killing your attack chain.

It can't be stressed enough that when I made these spreadsheets, I had AVs and pylons in mind.

Wow, Barata, hyperbole much?

To strip your argument down a bit, you're stating that there is no difference between achieving the minimum team requirements in order to do a task force and farming for days on end to get purples.

I believe that's called a straw man fallacy.

Fact of being punished: Child falls down stairs and must be rushed to ER. Parent unable to stay with team and gets kicked from TF. Parent is punished.

There was no reason to post a definition. Especially when doing so proves my point.

It is my belief that a person should be forced to get a license proving training has occurred before they are allowed to breed. Not having such a license and training has shown to lead to much lousy parenting across this planet.

I agree that all drivers should have license and training to prove that they know the rules of the road and won't be a danger to those around them.

Castle has stated that the minimum reqs for TF/SFs are in place for no other reason but:
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Seriously, though, to the best of my knowledge we won't be changing minimum sizes of TF's/SF's. The minimum sizes stand as "warning labels" to newer players that these missions are more difficult/time consuming/whatever than other missions. It's a small, but important function.

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So leave them in place. New players won't be able to handle running around with their difficulty set to a team of 5/6/7/8. They'll learn this long before they get to positron unless they're doing nothing but getting powerleveled in the AE. In which case, fark 'em.

I'll state this again: What makes the TF/SFs special is NOT the minimum requirement. It's the content. Content that is being blocked to:
A: People with lives
B: People that don't like people
C: People that have life happen

There is absolutely no relation, AS STATED BY CASTLE, between TF/SF min req and having to get a hero to 50 before unlocking Kheldians. Or get fully loaded out with purples before you're a PvE god. Or any of the other tripe you listed.


EDIT: And let's not forget that the devs have CHOSEN to leave a known exploit in the game allowing a team to drop below the minimum requirements down to two players and have one log off.

What's better? Utilizing known exploits and bugging people to pad, or utilizing the tech we're about to be given to make soloing TF/SFs on the up and up?

I know which one is more honorable.

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Bam there it is, yet another reason NEVER to PvP.

I don't PvP. People like that have turned me off of PvP for quite some time now.

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And this time I get to agree with P_P.

Doesn't that already exist?

Offline SG invites and promotions.

I REALLY disliked having to ask for help when I decided to delete my main villain, the leader of my VG, and promote that help to overlord so they they could promote my newbie.

I was lucky in that the player that helped me I knew to be a good person. Other folks may not have that.

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So why punish the soloist or the married couple that wants to take their time clearing all the missions and reading all the text?


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What punishment? Why do people, as soon as they're told they have to meet a certain requirement for something, think they're being punished? If you want to run a task force or strike force, start a team. The very name of them ("task force" and "strike force") implies a team.

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Having to waste X amount of time trying to put together a team is a punishment for people with little time to play.

Having to leave a TF/SF due to real life issues is a punishment both to the player and the team. Being able to start a TF/SF solo means that you can turn off your monitor, go deal with real life and come back to finish at your leisure. No put out team mates, no feeling bad for letting your team down.

Often times you WILL hear from players, "if you can't commit to this now, you can't join." No one is taking multiple days to run these things. They dive in, burn through it, skip as much as they can, and that's that.

As for the name of the arcs, there's a common word: Force. If I can bring enough force on my own, that's that. I'm a force of one. Go the other route and it stands for forced teaming, which we've already covered as a bad philosophy.


To the thread: This concept that allowing these events to be started solo will somehow diminish their worth is hogwash. If anything, they'd be worth even more to me if I could run them by myself. I'd do them more often and I know that I am not even REMOTELY alone on that.

Again: you want to team for them? Great. Do so. Find those of like minds and speed through them all you want.

But why fight against those of us that want to do the same content as you for the same rewards but wish to do so without hassling others or being hassled by them?

Only because "this is an MMO" and "it's always been this way?"

This game has seen a metric ton of changes since I started playing. This is something else that should be changed, Especially with the advent of the virtual team size scaler.

I honestly have to wonder how many of those against this change predominantly play characters that wouldn't stand a chance of soloing TF/SFs and are against it only out of fear that they will no longer be able to find teams to do them.

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Therein lies the issue of the solo mindset.

They don't care. They don't care if there's nothing in the game that can't be soloed. They -want- to solo it. They don't want teams so they don't want team oriented content. Appealing to the side that accept there's stuff in a game which encourages teaming is a waste of time. It's not their playstyle so why should they care?

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This argument does fall apart when you watch the vast majority of teams speeding through these TFs skipping as much of the content as possible.

They're not doing it for the teaming. They're not doing it for the content.

So why punish the soloist or the married couple that wants to take their time clearing all the missions and reading all the text?

This isn't taking away anything. This wouldn't stop the teamers from being able to team. It wouldn't stop the speed runs through the Croatoa or Cimerora TFs.

But it WILL give folks MORE oppotunity to run the content at their own pace.

Forced teaming is meaningless. Leaving exploits in place to get around forced teaming accomplishes nothing but creating a nuisance. This has always been true. This will always be true.

Leave the minimums in place as a guideline and a warning of TF/SF difficulty. Allow the virtual team slider to be recognized by the minimum team size check.

Everyone wins.

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She was hot.

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Was she Smokin' Hot?

(Actual DM/FA character I have.)

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He tracks of land weren't quite so predominant... but they probably will be.

She was hot.

I play like Werner. When I didn't have hasten on my SR, PB was on auto. Now that I have hasten, hasten is on auto. However, PB is on my attack tray so that I can tap it whenever I see it blinking up top right.

I will do the same with my SD regardless of the potential for doublestacking defense resistance.

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But. Claws... Shouldn't it be Claws/WP ? (my FM/WP scrapper is very good, my DM/WP Brute is very good, I have to imagine a FM/WP Brute would be superb).

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Claws will get its own brute. New concept. New costume. Louis had to be a puncher of some kind and magic based.

The claws brute will be... something new.

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My guess...BillZ in a skirt...claws/wp. But it's only a guess.

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Her name was Belle Z Bubbette... and she's existed several times.

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I do have to wonder if one of the aoes is being pulled.

FieryMelee lost one before it was ported to brutes.

We'll see.

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I thought the reasoning for combustion getting pulled was that FM was lacking low tier faster animating ST attacks that brutes usually use to generate fury. Claws has plenty of those.

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Ya know... I hadn't looked at it like that. That's a pretty good explanation.

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But. Claws... Shouldn't it be Claws/WP ? (my FM/WP scrapper is very good, my DM/WP Brute is very good, I have to imagine a FM/WP Brute would be superb).

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Claws will get its own brute. New concept. New costume. Louis had to be a puncher of some kind and magic based.

The claws brute will be... something new.

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DM/WP, both bloody red!

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That's what I did and plan for.

That's the 2nd level 50 I've deleted, but the first that had all the accolades. gahhh, getting all those again is gonna suck!

I'll never touch FA again. It's too damn squishy and I don't like being knocked back by pylons. Apparently they do more KB than 3 of the -4KB IOs can deal with. Pretty much rules out /DA as well.

Logged on my main villain. The EM/FA I started with CoV go live that hit 50 right after they raised the level cap.

This thread reminded me what must be done, so I've got two respecs to use to pull out his IOs and then hit delete.

I finally accept that Castle is not going to change EM or FA to my liking, and quite frankly, he probably shouldn't.

Now I've just got to figure out how to rebuild him.

What are yalls thoughts for Satan?

FM/Dark?
FM/WP? (Probably where I'm going.)

I've already got a FM/SD.

I *could* go DM/SD and change the color of the DM to red/orange when I-16 hits....

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As a side note, I have no problems with build copying, and I'm sure very few Scrappers here do. We're here, after all, to help one another, and when someone posts a build that looks optimized to the teeth for what you want to do, you might as well grab it.

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Congratulations! That is really impressive. I never really understood why people never liked sharing builds. It isn't like someone is stealing your costume.

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I refused to post my builds for a time... but that was because I didn't want Castle to see them.

And then my brain started working again and I realized that Castle could get my build whenever he wanted.

I'm still waiting for the day when Castle catches me on the test server and drops a planet on my head.

Just for kicks.

I refuse to be

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I view SD as more OP than weak.

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With Shield Defense I have no inclination to make Super Reflexes characters.

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Why? Because it grants more HP and static dam-res? Because it gives a dam-res buff?

pfft. It makes you have a shield. How very droll.

/likes SD
//likes SR
///even likes regen on non-weapon sets
////won't discuss PvP. It's still ridiculously broken. But I like that as well.

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I still don't see what people are complaining about, it does the most DPS behind claws on scrappers according to bill's chart.

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Those charts ignore AoE. They ignore mitigation. They're of no use for powerset balancing. They were nothing but a fun little exercise to show myself which set was the best for pylons and AVs.

Nothing more.

I do have to wonder if one of the aoes is being pulled.

FieryMelee lost one before it was ported to brutes.

We'll see.

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I assumed that was the plan after they gutted the set and turned it into en....er.....gy.......me..................le...... ........

But now you can color it, so it has that, lol.

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It's not that bad.

It's more like BAM, BAM, BAM, ...................BAM, ...................BAM


With teammates often killing your target while you're in ET or TF's animation on said target.

EM is a good set against AVs and pylons while you're solo. Otherwise, it's total crap.

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I soloed Math at +1.

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Try the AV 'Calculus Sucksicus'...

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He's kicked my [censored] twice in a row, but, strangely enough, I had no problem taking out "Mega-Statisticon" or "Calculus the Discrete".

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I managed to take down Stringus Theorius... but there was a heavy price.

I don't think that there's anything to be worried about.

There's been discussions that brutes will wipe tanks out of the game, but I don't see it happening.

Folks like what they like. There's more ATs that I can't play than those that I do and it has nothing to do with which side they're on.

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You already know the answer, it will be basically the same as your dark melee toon.

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But with massive aoe and knock instead of tohitdebuffs and a self heal.

The blendering will be blenderific.

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So, my big question to Bill...

Claws/Inv or Claws/WP for your Brute?

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itll be wp

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Looks to be true. There is a part of me requesting claws/dark, but /dark isn't really the best choice for my normal playstyle i.e. AVs, pylons, etc.

However, I've never gotten a /dark to 50 and claws' mitigation does make everything better, so we'll see.