Bill Z Bubba

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And you thought there was drama before?

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No, I thought there was action/comedy buddy movies. Like lethal weapon, but with more Rene Russo in her underwear.

Please allow me to be the first to say:

doooooooooooom

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The zerg is the cause of more defeats than anything else.

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Only when it's done incorrectly.

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If you zip to 50 inside of 2-3 hours, you'll likely raise some eyebrows.
If you play efficiently (read 'playing smart within the confines of the game and your archetype), there should not be any issues...

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That's an awfully large grey area there.

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Not sure if it's been mentioned before regarding EM, but the damage listed for ET in the ingame numbers ALSO includes the damage done to self, that's why the DPA looks alot higher than it should be

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I used city of data's numbers for all of my calculations.

Brute. Tanks are for team players. Like defenders. I solo most of the time. When I do team with my brutes and the team lacks solid debuffs/buffs, I find my brutes hurting far more than I see tanks hurting on similar teams.

Of course, when the brute DOES have good buffers, he'll have tank mitigation and scrapper damage.

That being the case, I foresee the brute mitigation cap lowered sometime around Going Rogue's go live. Probably to 80%. Maybe scrappers will be raised to 80% at that time as well.

Then to even things out and to get folks like Johnny to quit their perpetual crying, tanks will get a slight damage buff.

EDIT: a correction was done.

On tough, I'd drop one of the Impervium's and slot all three steadfasts. That'll give you another 22.5 HP at the loss of a bit of end.

I'd also steal a slot from lucky, slap it in health, and slot the regen tissue unique.

Other than that, if you've already determined that you have enough recharge slotted for that chain to be smooth, go for it.

90% was the other run with maxed IO build values. This run was at 75% fury and basic IOs.

And staying capped on fury is not generally workable until your build has enough endurance to handle it or you continue to pop blues to keep yourself moving.

However, I do build all my melee characters, scrappers and brutes, for non-stop carnage. Downtime kills my enjoyment completely.

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Ah, now I think I understand... Doom is a Nemesis plot!

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It's not always a Nemesis plot ya know.....

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Still one of my all-time favorite coh inspired pieces of art.

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I'll tell you why, because Scrappers are so awesome already that giving them actually useful APPs will make them uberly over powered that Castle's head would implode.

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I don't think brutes should have been given access to darkest night for that reason. Mind you, it certainly helped my EM/FA out, and for that I'm happy, but I also know exactly what it's going to do for my FM/SD brute as well. And my SM/WP.

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I think it made a lot of sense for Brutes to get Darkest Night. Personally, rather than seeing the devs get rid of it, I'd rather they gave some of what it does to all of the Scrapper, Brute, Tanker, and Stalker APPs.

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I'm all for equality, but being equally overpowered makes little sense to me. WP tanks are already ridiculous. Giving them access to a tohit and damage debuff just seems dumb.

But hey, whatever. It'll stack nicely on SR's scaling dam-res.

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Rather than getting proliferation, I'd much rather get an overhaul. There are too many largely useless things in the Scrapper APPs imho.

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I'll tell you why, because Scrappers are so awesome already that giving them actually useful APPs will make them uberly over powered that Castle's head would implode.

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I don't think brutes should have been given access to darkest night for that reason. Mind you, it certainly helped my EM/FA out, and for that I'm happy, but I also know exactly what it's going to do for my FM/SD brute as well. And my SM/WP.

Eviscerate:
Max targets hit 5
15% chance to crit
124.5 lethal damage
90degree 7' cone

Spin:
Max targets hit 10
Normal crit chances
98.85 lethal damage
360 degree 8' circle

Shockwave:
Max targets hit 10
Normal crit chances
65.69 damage
90degree 30' cone

The odds are that you're going to get 10 enemies with spin and shockwave far more often than you're going to get 5 with eviscerate.

After giving eviscerate/spin a try on test, I came to the conclusion that the loss of shockwave's mitigation was far more detrimental to me than the gain of having another non-KB small aoe.

So now I use shockwave to bunch enemies up and damage large chunks of spawns while doing so and when they are gathered nearby I slip into my FI, Slash, Spin, repeat chain until the spawn in question is dead.

My honest vote: dump eviscerate and take spin and shockwave.

No longer able to play the character I've been playing for 50 months give or take a few months?

I don't have enough Hell No to throttle the OP with.

Degrading rewards are no different than capping them. Either way, players utilizing the MA for the majority of their playtime get screwed.

Therefore, unacceptable.

I fear pyre mastery for the following reasons:

1: A little fire manipulation would fit Bill's concept, just as dark does.
2: Followup, spin, fireball is WAY to juicy for me to pass up.
3: Melt armor + Achilles' Heel chance for DR debuff sounds nice
4: I'll have to respec again, and I'm 1 vet respec away from being all out of respecs.

Lady_Myrmidon,

I know your heart's probably in the right place, but when putting forth any idea on any topic, we have to ask ourselves "who does this screw over?"

Sometimes the answer is surprising.

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It is your right as long as it falls within the acceptable parameters that are currently being enforced in the game. If you just want the challenge of the fight then you need to ask the Devs to allow overloaded missions as long as you get no reward out of it except the fact you can defeat the mobs.

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Both of my missions are still active. I do not advertise them. If I could, they would be published and hidden. Risk does not equal reward if the missions I build give me nothing for the challenge I'm creating. Your solution is not a solution at all.

As my missions are still active, they must fall into the territory of "acceptable parameters." Since this is the case, I should be rewarded normally for running them. Take away the rewards and the challenge loses meaning.

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It does not take a rocket scientist to see the main purpose of the MA. It was so the customer could create their own content - STORIED content.

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You must not be a rocket scientist. It's not that difficult to understand. The main purpose of the MA is to allow for player generated content. Nothing more, nothing less. My content will differ from yours. Deal with it.

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The limits for tickets being enforced now are no more restricting than the limits that WoW has for daily quests. You hit your daily limit, you can't do anymore until the next day. Shrug, seems fine to me.

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WoW is steaming POS of a game that I played for a week trying to find some redeeming qualities in it. I obviously found none. If this game turns into that, I won't be around for it.

I was in I-14 beta. I let my account lapse while it was still on the test server. I came back only because of the freebie week and decided that, yes, the MA offered enough to keep me around. I'm having fun again.

Take away the fun, and gone again I'll be. I have no doubt that I'll be back for Going Rogue for a month, but wouldn't the devs prefer to get 12 months of sub money from me rather than 2 a year?

Bill Z Bubba was created back in Sep of 04. It was Jan or Feb of 05 when he hit 50. Around 4 months. There was a LOT of soloing during that period.

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Pix or it didn't happen!

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From cohfaces

The hair is longer and even more grey. The goatee is at least twice as long now and 50% grey.

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Your grey? You dont look any older than me.

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Saw my first grey at 18 about a week after I got to Germany while in the army. I'm 36 now. Should be solid grey by around 40-42. And looking forward to it.

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Pix or it didn't happen!

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From cohfaces

The hair is longer and even more grey. The goatee is at least twice as long now and 50% grey.

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Yes, because you are really Playing Mission architect to play the stories.

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No, I'm not.

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BillZBubba, you're missing the point of Mission Architect if this would make you want to quit...

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The point of the mission architect is to allow me the ability to create the content that the devs don't put into the game.

Missions that actually challenge the characters that the current build system allows for. Missions with 12 different types of bosses from 12 different factions and nothing else.

Missions with 25 ambushes of nothing but huge spawns of multi-faction LTs.

YOU may wish to see it as nothing but a story telling tool, and that's your right. It's also my right to use to to create content that my main characters won't be bored to tears with.

Or are you in the camp that thinks I should remove all my enhancements if I need a challenge?

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With 9999 possible tickets per day

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Ticket cap isn't really 1500. If you complete the mission, the count resets. I get 2000-2500 per run of one of my missions.

So I get to run 4 MA missions and then I'm locked out of rewards for a day?

What an abjectly ridiculous idea. "Hi, Bill, you've played for 1 hour and 45 minutes. Since you have no desire to run regular content, and you've already hit your allotted MA rewards limit, you might as well log off."

"Hmm, since I can only play for less than two hours a day, I think I'll cancel my subscription instead."

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Wish I could share and impress. There's a reason I keep pictures off me OFF the Internet. Then again, I have a picture of myself on my desktop.

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I keep pictures of me off the Internet, too. It's not too difficult, since cameras start crying when pointed at me, and few people are so cold-hearted as to force them to actually take a picture. Except those yearbook photographers back in high school. Man, those guys were cold.

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Am I the rare gamer that likes the way he looks? I've got a messed up nose, I'm at *least* 20 pounds overweight, I've got a full head of hair but it's been likened to a grey afro, a troll-doll and/or a monchichi, and I STILL think I'm sexy.

I ain't skeered.

What scrappers do I have? hmm

Claws/SR 50
DB/WP 27
FM/Reg 15

Brutes
EM/FA 50
SM/WP 50
FM/SD 28

Can't think of any others.

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I think I understand now, that 20% from Builtup plays directly against my defense if I understand well ParagonWiki

so they all had 25% chance to hit me, more since I'm playing at invincible level, for the duration

Am I correct?

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45% defense - 20% tohit = 25% yes. But a +2 minion also has an accuracy buff of 1.2

1.2*25 = 30 chance to hit

The +2 LT also gets the LT acc bonus of 1.15

1.15*1.2*25 = 34.5% chance to hit.

Arcanaville's Guide to Defense has all the info.