Bill Z Bubba
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Brutes. Their superiority at soloing is mathematical fact. Scrappers are, of course, a VERY close second.
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Quote:Grossly overpowered abilities are always fun in a game like this.
And I've certainly never claimed it's not the best attack power of the defensive sets, it definitely is, and it's the main reason the set is so fun and popular. IMO, this game could use more SC-like powers, not less.
You didn't read this thread, did you?Quote:They should have taken the time to look at the damage it was doing when they ran it through beta, if indeed they had the wrong numbers set for the power. And even if they missed it there, they sure as hell should have caught it after they buffed the power later on.
The power wasn't grossly broken until they decided to go in and "fix" it so that it would do appropriate damage for the archetypes using it. They "fixed" it incorrectly. Eventually the incorrect alteration will be corrected.
No, this game doesn't need more broken powers. I will agree that the devs need to be more careful when implementing changes for no other reason but to avoid threads like this.
However, if you absolutely must have SC left as is, I'm sure Castle will be happy to nerf everything else about Shields in order to keep the set balanced with the other mitigation sets. (Actually, I know he wouldn't do this, so accept the nerf to SC now.) -
Sweet.
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I'd prefer that BAB continue working on removing redraw completely. He almost had it but something went kablooey regarding shields.
Beyond that, I don't know enough about what causes redraw to say whether your idea is even possible.
Based on the way power customization works, however, I do not have high hopes that it is possible. -
Quote:Ever heard of the Repeat Offenders?Originally Posted by Mattwo7
I highly doubt defender, corr, or blaster would fit this description. Doms MMs and Trollers might though
I'll put it this way: 8 defenders will waltz through a +4/x8 mission faster than 8 scrappers.
Of course the scrapper will win while solo. EDIT: Moot point, as I did state ATs with mez protection. Most buff/debuffers don't get that.
The reason that someone probably neg-repped you, which I countered just for the halibut, is that usually when someone pops out the "tankmage" statement they're looking to get something nerfed.
There's nothing that a SoA can do solo that a scrapper or brute with a comparably expensive build won't do faster and/or with less faceplants.
SoAs are well balanced for what they do. I found that all of mine weren't a whole lotta fun until 24 and the branches. So, tankmages? No. Just fun and now in that "I Win" button kind of way. -
Quote:Be pretty silly if they did.Originally Posted by Mattwo7
did some one negative rep me for this topic?
Anyway, tankmage = massive damage output in complete safety.
Honestly, that describes any AT with mez protection and IOs playing at base difficulty.
SoAs are ok solo. Cranked to the gills they're great solo. Get a team of them together and they'll slaughter everything in front of them.
But that's true for some others as well.
As mentioned, lack of DDR keeps them in check. -
I don't see the rocket propelled chainsaw. Guess it could be number 6, but really... that'd be a tier 9.
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I was pondering last night migrating out to a different server for some new alts and a change of pace.... hmmmmmm. Oh, and Infernal Marquis, the wife says, "ummm, thanks?"
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I had no idea mine had become so washed out... (15 years old, I think...) time for a touchup and something new to add I guess. Here's my one and only:
And for giggles, here's my wife's latest while it was Very fresh.
Edit: Yea, I know, I don't play on Liberty, but I hadn't seen any other tattoo threads! -
He tried to cover it in one of those links. His assumption is that the devs can divorce all aspects of a character completely from the character name.
All communications will be based on the globalname. Meaning that there would no longer be server friends, only global friends.
Any specific character name would be meaningless.
This ignores the fact that if they did so, we could have 10000 "Bill Z Bubba"s on at the same time, all filling up teams and making communication a nightmare because the character name would still have to be the one that shows up in team chat.
So regardless of the attempt, it fails to correct for the issue at hand by creating more problems.
In other words, it's a crap idea no matter how you look at it. -
Bill Z Bubba exists on every server. As a placeholder only on all but Pinnacle, but he exists there nonetheless.
Will I be given a free rename for every one of those Bill Zs with this server merge? Will I have to be stuck with BZB, BZB1, BZB2, BZB3, etc?
As usual, a poster posts without thinking through the consequences of their request. -
Quote:I've got 95% DDR. Cimerorans don't phase me. I'd give you Recluse and his tower, but I've never encountered an STF where I was the one tanking Recluse while the others took out the towers.
Except against Cimerorans and tower buffed Recluse. -
Quote:Because when you're running around at the softcap, more defense won't do you any good at all.
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Quote:Oh, c'mon, A, even *I* have more faith in some of us than that.
In fact, I bet I could personally buff the players by 30% or more in a wide range of normally encountered situations, then several issues later nerf them by an even larger amount in the same situations, and no one would notice either change. -
For the most part, meaning the entire ride from one to 50, the two will have similar levels of survivability.
Dark's tohit debuffs pair well with SR and provides the self-heal SR lacks.
Kat's melee defense will help WP's regen considerably.
But at the end game fully IOed up? I think Kat/WP will win in both overall survivability and damage output. Either way, both are damn solid. -
Quote:Been done. I respeced. All is well.Originally Posted by Santorican
Nerf BillZ!
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tags on this thread made me chuckle.
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Quote:Which leaves what? Badges, and only some of them. So what's the point in bothering with it at all then?
Yeah... Keeping INF and Accolades would be a big no-no, definitely. As someone who's against veteran/purchasable powers in general, I agree with you there. I would be against keeping anything that is of a practical benefit, such as powers, slots, stats, boosts, accolades and the like. I do not, however, have any problem with keeping items which do not have any direct contribution to performance. -
I'll burn that bridge when I come to it. Not speculating beyond that.
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Quote:Yea, I've never soloed a character to 50 with just SOs.Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
A character without IOs is certainly not crippled. And they certainly don't need "good teams" to get them to 50. IOs are better than SOs, sure. But SO only is nowhere near crippled.
/sarcasm off
Oh wait, I'm doing it right now with my new MA/SD scrapper. And my lvl 36 blaster. And my 30somethin corruptor.
As stated, SOs are the baseline. I don't bother with IOs, even the basics, unless I happen to be in the base and happen to have the recipe and salvage needed to make them AND they're level 35 and higher. It's just not worth my time to bother with them beyond that until 50. -
Yup, I have an extremely low tolerance for certain types of posts and those that post them these days.
You admit that changes to powersets are common around here. Good. That'll help you deal with all the future buffs/nerfs coming down the pipe.
"Ominous." Oooo scary, get out the torches and pitchforks. The dark is out there. -
Quote:energy drain from energy aura off the top of my head has a blue third layer effect that I could never get rid of.Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
Would you mind giving an example? For the life of me, I cannot think of one.
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Quote:Way to ignore the huge buffs DM recently got. In other words, the DM that exists today is not what it was at launch. Just like everything else in this game. **** gets changed.
Also nevermind that the apparent leap in logic being made here is nerfing a set that's been around since launch would not have as widespread an effect as nerfing a set that's only been around 18 months. Seriously, WTF?
Castle won't be nerfing DM because of this thread. On its own without saturated Soul Drain it's still nothing special.
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I was only comparing the difference between the CFBU in Tactics/FA versus Followup/Blinding Feint.
Whether the adding tactics/fa to a build and dealing with the extra end cost for the constant tohit buff and 2.5% defense to melee, range, aoe with a full gaussian set is a different discussion.
My current build has FA slotted that way while followup has 3 crushing impacts and 3 mako's bite enhancements.
I don't much care for my current build. -
There are many powers across many powersets that currently use a third color. That third part isn't tintable there either.