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Originally Posted by Judas_Ace

They aren't gonna make July. My guess is mid September.

Originally Posted by Ravenswing

You didn't read my post, did you? A 90 minute TF should reward around 29 merits. This gives 50. The justification for this is the PvP element, which is no justification. The existing TFs which give large merit rewards take significantly longer than 90 minutes.

It could be made to work if the losing side got about 5 merits each. That puts it on a par with existing TFs, but I think the aim was to encourage PvP by creating an enormous incentive to do it. It isn't an incentive to PvP, however, it's an incentive to run this TF.

Note: Possibly you definition of 'farming' is different from mine. I'm talking about repeatedly performing the same mission because it produces disproportionately large rewards. 'Sitting at the door' is not required; that's actually more of a PLing tactic.

Originally Posted by LISAR

They said with the patch they were working on a more elegant solution to come out either with or after GR is live.

If you can't handle that then "F you" no one is making you stay.

Originally Posted by Nihilii

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At level 50
Disregarding secondaries
Ignoring crits (with the same crit rate on everything it wouldn't add anything)
Assuming +100% damage from enhancements/set bonuses
Averaging BU as +30% damage for sets with BU

Scrapper Footstomp with perma double-stacked Rage : 355 damage in a 15 feet radius, with a 80% chance to knockdown.
Scrapper FSC with averaged Build Up : 255 damage in a 10 feet radius.
Scrapper Spin with 2x FU : 272 damage in a 8 feet radius.
Scrapper Spine Burst with averaged BU : 163 damage in a 15 feet radius, slight slow.

Scrapper KO blow with 2x Rage : 890 damage at a 13 feet range, with a guaranteed 12s mag3 hold and knockup.
Scrapper Midnight Grasp with saturated SD : 604 damage with a 18s immobilize.
Scrapper Greater Fire Sword with averaged BU : 405 damage.
Scrapper Headsplitter with averaged BU : 374 damage, 60% chance to knockdown, small defense debuff.

Average tohit
Doublestacked Rage : +64%
DM with saturated SD : +30% (+48% if slotted for tohit, but SD needs to hit)
DB/Claws with 2x FU : +20% (+32% if slotted for tohit, but FU and BF need to hit and are attacks, hence are better with damage)
Other primaries : +32% while BU is up, a third of the time.

Yes, that's looking at specific numbers in a vacuum, but if KO blow dealing more than twice as much damage as other typical scrapper T9s or Footstomp dealing more than twice as much damage (considering the radius), and for both powers also offering superior mitigation than the scrapper counterpart, strikes you as "in line with other scrapper primaries" then by the same token, FF or emp defender damage is "in line with scrapper primaries".

SS is already quite good (I would argue too good) on brutes, and this is an AT with lower damage buff mods that also get proportionally less from damage buffs as their base damage is balanced around Fury giving them a much higher average damage % than other ATs.

Sure, people will point out Rage has a crash, that the rest of the set isn't stellar (although it isn't anywhere near as bad as people want to make you believe) and so on. Me, I'll stick with the same conclusion in any SS scrapper discussion : port the set with the same values, even with no crits, and I'll instantly roll a SS/SD scrapper and, while obliterating everything standing in my way, proceed to laugh at everyone who thought it was balanced. My most played character right now is a FM/SD, I certainly don't mind being overpowered and I certainly wouldn't mind the upgrade SS/SD would be.

Originally Posted by Ironblade

Okay, not sure what you mean there. Are you asking:
1) What, in your experience, is the primetime for this server?
2) What is your experience in the primetime for this server?

1) Primetime seems to start some time after 7PM EST and extend past midnight. I'm not sure how late it extends because I'm not on that late on weeknights.

2) My experience is that I never have trouble finding a team, but my situation is not typical.
- I run a top 40 SG (and associated alt SGs).
- We're in coalition with (and I have toons in) an SG that has scheduled events 4 nights per week.
- I'm on 3 of the biggest global channels and am an operator on one of them.

Originally Posted by Postagulous

There are two pretty cheap IOs that will get you -4 on that KB. They're unique, but you can slot one of each if you're really concerned. One is def and the other is resist.

I slot the def in Obsidian Shield. Seems normal to put it there since that's where it's lacking.

I couldn't take Acrobatics. Seems very inefficient. I might be wrong.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison

I think BillZ has the final word on how well EM is performing.

This is his chart of single target damage set comparison.



Notice that EM is only behind fire for damage with brutes, and would be the top performing scrapper set.

EDIT: Curse you Bill! You beat me to the topic.

I don't argue that EM is near worthless to teams, but if a set is top dog in one department and offers good mitigation, it has to suffer somewhere else.

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

That is part of the problem. The group I like playing with most of the time is small. We sometimes fill outside the group and then the problems begin.

Originally Posted by BlazingTiger

I disagree. A solid core of 4 people is all you need to do any MoTF. Ive done many many MoSTFs with semi pick up groups. It is all about comunication and making sure people listen to the leader about the more dangerous areas.

Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake

you know, the one thing that stuck out to me was that the instructor told them to intervene...i dunno, the muggers could have had concealed weapons and just telling your students to go get involved with a life threatening situation, that seems kind of irresponsible. Now had the instructor himself been the one to hop in with a "watch how i handles x situation" then it would have been less troubling, but this strikes me as some macho that fortunately didnt go badly, but could have.

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

That is part of the problem. The group I like playing with most of the time is small. We sometimes fill outside the group and then the problems begin.

Originally Posted by Psylenz

A fully slotted forcefields defender "heals" 95% of incoming damage. It also has a toggle mez protection power.