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Statistically noteworthy perhaps, but unless it is intended behavior I don't think it carries any relevance to a comparison between Scrapper and AT X performance.

Pretty much all of your experience seems similar to mine with both TW and Fire. There are just a few things I want to ask:

1) Hover. I'm under the impression that you can't use Burn while flying. Is this true, and if it is, do you detoggle Hover when you want to use Burn or do you just skip using it altogether?

2) How did you find Build Momentum? I thought it always messed up how Momentum worked and in the end just screwed with my attack chains so I dropped it.

3) How do you deal with ranged enemies without taunt? Did you pick a ranged attack from an APP or do you just run over to them and hit the in the face?


P.S. I think you could drop the disclaimer here. It is about as long as the part of the post that is actually about these sets, and it distracts people from the actual topic.

You missed the point of what I said, sorry if I wasn't clear. What I wanted to say was that you don't need to have your text 100% correct by an arbitrarily chosen ruleset (there are as many rulesets as there are communities using the language), but it needs to be readable. If your audience says they are having a hard time connecting with your text, you need to do something about that.

There is a reason words are spelled the way they are, and that is so that other people could also understand them. To really make this gap between the author and the audience apparent to you: would you understand me if I started posting in Finnish, Swedish or French? Basically just switching to a different ruleset of language. Nope, and that is why I'm taking the effort to try to make myself clear in English.

It's not double standards, it really is pretty much this order of magnitude: you claim 1+1 equals 100, person X claims 1+1 equals 2.00000001. To most people, your error is huge while person X's error is meaningless. Sure, you can point out that person X made the same number of errors (one in this example), but their error doesn't have much of an impact in any outcome compared to yours.

Sorry to be so blunt about this.


EDIT: I'd like you to think about the following: do the errors in the posts of other people jump at you and actually hinder your ability to read it, or are you intentionally looking for them? The difference between those two is huge.

They could just let people start TFs with one person, and have all missions spawn for however many people they require currently. Obviously the contact should tell this in big red letters and recommend you to bring at least that many people along when starting. For example, Manticore which currently requires seven people to start, would never have missions at lower than +0/x7.


I think TFs can't go to -1, but I never tried...

Personally I don't think any of this is necessary. We don't need to have our cake and eat it too. I like the existence of choice that this kind of change would remove: do I want to slot the attacks I actually use more efficiently, or will I use the slots for brawl to get a bonus I otherwise can't?

If you ask me, your proposal actually just narrows down the differences from what they are now. "Creative" slotting is no longer needed when I can just swap the set bonuses to basically whatever I want. Then there's also the balancing question, should some sets be left out of this, so it might be way more effort than it is worth.

Just giving an example of a character: 5x 6 slotted sets that have the bonuses from Coercive Confusion for +20% Recovery, +20% Damage, +50% Rech, +25% Ranged Def and five powers six slotted with 4 of anything with bonuses swapped to Kinetic Combat and 2 of something with bonuses swapped to Rectified Reticle for +7.5% HP, +28.13% S/L Def. And pretty much perfect enhancement values on top of that.

Even currently you can get very powerful characters if you shell out the inf, but they won't be anywhere near as ridiculous as that example I thought up in about one minute. Why? Because most of the time you have to choose between set bonuses and enhancement values.

I think using Air Superiority might be a tad better if all you need is an extra melee attack. AFAIK Kheldians will have free access to Flight and TP pools in I24.

You really need* to change up some of your slotting. Two quick tips:

1) Attacks: drop the KB, disorient and defdebuff enhancements. Most of the time these won't give you any benefit over having 3x damage SO in your power. With just one damage SO, you're basically doing two thirds of the damage you could be doing, 133% vs 195% of base damage.

Also consider adding an endurance reducer into all your attack powers. Pretty much all builds have way higher base endurance consumption from their attack chain than from their toggles. You seem worried about endurance considering you have two slots of EndReds in all your toggles, but yet your attacks are still draining your blue bar at full steam.

3x Dam, 1x Acc, 1x EndRed, 1x Rech is seen standard slotting for most attacks. Many people will use all kinds of variations on the acc/end/rech slotting depending on the attack and the build. For example, very fast recharging powers won't need the recharge enhancement, so they might go with just five slots or maybe with an additional accuracy enhancement.

2) Defensive powers: concentrate your slots on the powers with the highest base values. For example, you have 3 slotted Incadescence but only 2 slotted your toggles for resistance. I'd move two of the slots from Inc to your toggle shields for a third resistance SO.




*That is just what I think, and, IMO, KBDist etc. are 99% useless in attacks. Very few exceptions do exist.

Personally I think that brutes with resistance based secondaries get the edge on the set IO changes in I24. Anything with resistance past 50-60% currently will easily be able to get to 75%+ which obviously benefits brutes more due to their higher resistance cap.

For reference, unbuffed numbers from my TW/Elec brute on beta. By unbuffed I mean no outside buffs and only what I run all the time while playing: toggles, Hasten, Energize, T4 Agility and the passive boost from T4 Melee Hybrid. These numbers will get slightly higher if I24 goes live as is, my ATO1 set isn't catalyzed yet and I will get a set of the new healing IOs in Energize (more +rech and another S/L and F/C res bonus).

I think it is silly that anyone is in such a hurry to get to 50 they don't even have the time to learn the powersets they are dealing with. Judging from the build you posted, it strikes me that you don't have a good idea about how you're going to get what you want from it.

In an earlier post you mention wanting +recharge, yet I don't see that much of it in the build, even though there is so much potential for more . You're almost half a minute off perma Hasten - nope, not heavy on recharge.

By their ability to learn from and react to different situations.

If you react to different situations correctly, you'll never be great. With a good build you can be, well, good, but when that build needs different tactics you won't pull it off because you don't know how to react to that situation.

If you can't learn from different situations, you will never react correctly under those circumstances that took place.

This goes above and beyond observing combat situations like "gee, my defense is getting debuffed, maybe I should pop an insp!". It goes to planning your builds (I don't use Brawl much, maybe I shouldn't slot it), planning your tactics (pulling when too many spawns are grouped together) and team play (locking stuff in as opposed to out of debuff patches).

Most people aren't great at something they just picked up, but they can usually learn.

I don't see what's wrong with the current model. We get more releases than we used to, and now you get to pick which ones of them you want. As a subscriber, your points are still enough to buy you more things than what your subscription got you before. And I emphasize: you only get to pick things you actually want. No more of that "two powersets a year, neither of which interest you", but rather seven powersets a year of which you can pick those that you want.

Honestly I think it is just stupid to claim VIPs should get everything for free. You are spending the same money as you did before, why should you get anything more for it?

Sounds good to me, but I might make mez just a little bit more powerful. It shouldn't need to be mag 24 mez to take away all your powers, but rather something closer to mag 10 I think. I just can't think of any situations where you would actually end up hit by mag 20+ other than fighting GW or intentionally going solo x8 against an enemy group that only uses one type of mez.

There's only one thing I really haven't found a good solution for. How do you differentiate the different types of mez? Immobilization and fear could surely stay as they are because they still allow you to do something, but what about hold and stun?

It does self-stack if the activation of Hasten happens in a different zone from the one where the previous activation happened. Even then the self-stacking is usually brief - a couple of seconds at best.

If you're willing to throw enough inf into it as well as use slotting you wouldn't normally have, I'd put my money on any primary set being able to get ElA to the S/L soft cap. Using the scrapper ATO set (catalyzed and split into two if you want), five sets of Kinetic Combat, Weave, Maneuvers, Combat Jumping, and the +3% def unique(s) will get you to a good start. It might require four slotting stuff like Boxing/Kick and Brawl, but you can't have the good stuff for free.

Before getting your build done, though, I would plan it with I24 in mind. I did that with my TW/Elec brute and he will have a few points under capped S/L resistance (87% IIRC) as well as being one luck away from the soft cap to S/L/E/NE def. It was a bunch of work going manually through all the changed set bonuses on the beta server, I have to admit...