Bill Z Bubba

Please do. I wasn't aware of any IO that increased the the total endurance on a character.

They give us the tools to trivialize in combat endurance management with IOs and Insps.

There are three stages while solo with endurance management:

1: 1-21 The boring suck-fest stages.
2: 22-whenever you start utilizing IOs
3: Fully IOed

There is NO way to avoid running out of endurance mid-combat before 22 unless you either alt-tab to internet surf between spawns or get on a team with some player that has an endurance buff. Forget insps, they run out, and hell yes I use them. My insp tray on lowbies is never full.

Stating that it's my failure is idiotic and laughable, Sam. It's the way the game is designed and it's a poor design. Stamina should not be as good as it is and base recovery isn't as good as it should be.

Base VEAT recovery is closer to where base should be for everyone.

This absolute limit of resources concept is also silly even while true. I have an absolute limit of 110 endurance once I have the accolades, correct? That limit has no meaning when I'm recovering end faster than I can burn it while running 7 toggles and using a non-stop attack chain.

Which bring me right back to the first point:

That disparity between 1-21 and 50 fully IOed is insane. It makes creating new characters a hassle instead of something enjoyable.

My choice? Buff base recovery, nerf stamina. Even out the ride.

Arcanaville once stated something about the way I use shockwave...

Yes, it provides wonderful mitigation, especially against +4s where it becomes knockdown instead of knockback.

As for Nemesis, I haven't run into a mission with them at +4s. It'd be interesting, but I always work backwards against them anyway. Minions first, then LTs, then bosses. Lessens the pain considerably.

The problem is the term.

My ma/sd scrapper is 13 now. He has an end-red in each attack. He has an end-red in battle agility.

He runs at +0/x2 w/bosses.

After each spawn, he'll be at no more than 25% end by the end of the fight. Usually far less. Due to how slowly health/endurance rebuild, I'll easily be at the next spawn before I even have 50% end back.

This means I have to sit. And wait. And waste time. And be bored. EDIT2: This would not change if I were to drop it down to +0/x1.

It's bad enough that we have to do it for 22 levels. I truly can't understand the people that do it from 1 to 50.

Edit: In contrast, my two mains can run at +2/x8 w/bosses and never stop to rest. The only thing that stops them is death.

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Side note on shortcuts: Don't try to powerlevel a lowbie using a stone/axe tank.

/shudder
didn't even make it through a single spawn before deciding soloing scanners was faster

30-45 FPS with ultra mode cranked to 11 at 1920X1200 and 4X FSAA.

Your computer sucks.

Side note: All existing ATI issues on live are gone on test. ALL of them. They wouldn't have bothered fixing those without ultra mode coming down the pipe. Course, now there's the new issue with FSAA and Occlusion not playing nicely, but I've a sudden newly rekindled faith that even that will get dealt with.

Time, and money, well spent by the developers.

It's the stupid pets and their base 75% chance to hit. I really wish castle would fix that.

It's Arachnos and Carnies that beat the crap out of me at +4/X8. Longbow have to hit to be a problem.

I decided that I also wanted an EM tank. So I built an EM/Inv brute that I'll cross sides with. Even if I don't take ET, I'll be dishing out more damage than a tank and I'll have enough mitigation, especially on teams where buffs will be flying, to get the job done.

Sorry, Werner, they won't let me push it past +4/x8.

I'll still be running faster and have more regen. Health also gives me a spot for all the health uniques.

What can be slotted in hasten apart of straight recharge enhs?

Don't get me wrong, I'll also take hasten when I'm going for max DPS or max mitigation from long recharge buffs, but that will be on top of fitness.

The fact is simple: Any build that lacks the fitness pool will never be as efficient at accomplishing the one thing that advances a character through the levels as the same combo with the fitness pool.

Honestly? Not against groups like Council and CoT at +4/x8. Against other foes, maybe I would have. I'm sure if I had been given more time, I might have noticed it.

However, my latest build on live has Bill sitting at 47% melee defense and I feel like I'm getting hit MORE than I was when I was right at the cap...

In other words, I don't trust my perceptions.

Actually, mine wasn't free but showed up as it should have. Coincidental, but joyous anyway.

And have really weak, long recharging powers.