Bill Z Bubba

Point of contention: Adding Gloom to a claws attack chain reduces ST DPS due to redraw.

FU, Slash, Focus, Strike, repeat > FU, Slash, Focus, Gloom, redraw, repeat.

FU, Slash, Focus, repeat with 313% recharge in FU for no pause with a CFBU in FU and Focus and the damres debuff proc in slash is still the top dog for claws ST DPS.

The statements above were accurate last time I checked.

That is cool.

I found it better in PvP than PvE. But I deleted mine at 50 so I've no build to share with you anymore.

Cottage Rules, anger from those that like the lackluster powers as is, etc, etc.

Easier (and thus more likely) to add more in so that they don't have to mess with the old.

I agree with Microcosm. Quite frankly, I will continue to believe that the devs don't touch Khels for no other reason but how badly they were slapped together in the first place.

Khels *should* have access to the ancillary power pools and patrol power pools. Khels *should* have access to the flight and teleport power pools. Until they do.... the devs hate kheldians.

EDIT: Yes, I know that Castle did what he could to address some of the Khel concerns awhile back. Having dwarf act as a breakfree was a nice touch. This doesn't change the fact that blocking pools from only kheldians is unfair at best.

If you take all 6 SR defense granting powers and slot them with 3 defense SOs, you sit at around 31% defense to melee, range and aoe.

If you take no other defense granting powers and don't have any SetIO bonuses giving you more defense, the 45% defense from elude will be incredibly beneficial. Well... kind of.

For 95% of the game only 14% of elude's defense will be beneficial and you'll have to deal with the end crash. While it's up, though, you'll also get very nice recovery and run speed boosts.

If, however, you take weave and combat jumping and stick the Steadfast +3% to all defense IO in tough, get a bit more from other SetIO bonuses and are sitting at 45% defense to all without elude, there is no reason to take elude.

In PvE.

Especially since you can get massive recovery and run speed boosts from other SetIO bonuses.

In PvP, however, it's not a bad idea to go with a max recharge build which includes elude because of all the tohit buffs flying around in there.

I haven't had elude in my build for a very long time. And I do ok in PvP.

I went with a fire/fire tank name Big Bang Boy.

Hmmm, stone melee with all that mitigation from knocks and stuns and a hold or katana with all that mitigation from divine avalanche.

Perfect for FA and its abject lack of mitigation!

Just to throw out more ideas:

I use the following for my jumpers:

/bind j "powexectoggleon super jump$$+up$$+autorun"
This toggles on SJ and sends me flying up and forward so that I only need to steer with the mouse.
/bind h "powexectoggleon combat jumping$$-up$$-autorun"
This toggles on combat jumping and stops me dead once I hit the ground.

For my fliers:

/bind h "powexectoggleon fly$$powexectoggleon hover"
/bind n "powexectoggleoff fly$$powexectoggleoff hover"

First one bounces between fly and hover, second one turns them both off.

I also leave F for follow, use G for sprint (powexecname sprint) and B for ninja run (powexecname ninja run)

Watched it. Still excited. Possibly more so.

The problem with FA is player perception. It should not be considered a mitigation set. Its mitigation is *JUST* enough to keep you alive in *SOME* situations. There is a reason that its tier9 is a self-rez. You're *SUPPOSED* to be squishy and weak because the set puts out more damage than any other secondary.

On a tank, FA gives scrapper level mitigation.
On a scrapper or brute, FA gives stalker level mitigation.
(Only consider SO strength on the above statements.)

FA is not for those that wish to stand tall and stay upright in battle.

FA is a bomb. Change your battle cry to "Stop or I'll Die at You!" Rush in, hit FE, BU, any aoes in your primary, burn, RotP.

BE THE BOMB.

Having readjusted my mindset regarding FA as described here, I'm now considering making one after years of naysaying the set and even going so far as deleting my first level 50 villain which used EM/FA. If I do, I WILL be slotting RotP to the ED cap for recharge and damage.

Let's see... base recharge 300 seconds... down to 150 or so with just 3 SOs, but we'll need to get as much global recharge as possible for FE and Burn... say permahasten levels... need about 110+ hasten's 70.. 180+95... 275 total in RotP... 80 second recharge... niiiiice.

I can die a LOT every mission! WOOT!

My "moral code" is fuzzy at best, Marcian. I see absolutely nothing wrong with permanently removing problematic individuals from society.

Being in IT, MH, I can attest to the recent spike in nastiness floating out there. My workstation had been running clean for about 3 years with nothing more than the random bit of spyware and then 2 weeks ago *BAM* trojan. I won't even try to describe the hive of scum and villainy that became of one my remote sites. I spent well over 80 hours fighting viruses and spyware all through remote desktop on about 12 machines. Lots of fun.

My assumption is that during my cleanup phase of my workstation something got itself borked that has yet to be corrected.

The output from home appears to be identical for everything as the output from work except for the IP address as expected.