GavinRuneblade

I sold a grenade for 1.5 million.

While emailing inf is handy it's not really a big one for me. In order, my wishes are:

1. PvP Minigames (capture the flag, etc)
2. Huge body style for females.
3. All outfits (including dresses and skirts, tattoos hair cuts, etc) available for both sexes.
4. Offline SG invitation/promotion.
5. Infinite market slots for all characters or at least 30-50 per character

I'm still curious to see how a fire/rad corrupter fares on this one. If the AI stacks the AM auras, they'll be devastating. Pretty much infinite health, infinite endurance, super speed, and damage capped. that's why people make whole teams of fire/rads for storming through content.

Makes me wonder if there is a damage cap for NPCs. If not... ouch!

I dunno the uptime on my heal but it's definitely not every 30 seconds. My defenses are all under 25%, and I don't think actually over 20%, I'd have to check. My status protection is not perma (I have one working and one expired SO, so it probably will be once I drop a second generic Recharge in there) and let me pause again to mentally wish the developer who came up with the idea of click-based status protection a naked trip down a waterslide built of rusty razors and filled with lemonjuice. F$%^& bas@#$%^. ok, back on topic now. I have no resists to anything, and spines gives no mitigation except knockdown from ripper and is the lowest damage primary filled with dots so things stand there hitting me longer than on say anything else that exists.

And primaries do factor into it really. Even with buildup and 6-slotted ripper (my highest damage attack other than AS), I can't one-shot minions. With my crappy defenses that one extra attack I need to make per enemy means they are doing a lot more damage to me than if I had, say Ninja Blade or Dark Melee. At least both of those have some built in mitigation on top of the higher damage. Even your energy melee has both stuns and higher damage.

Probably did build it horribly wrong. =) Also, I am a completely crappy player. Given the exact same character you may be able to do what I cannot.

Per my combat tab, on the rad/mm blaster I'm working on right now, she has the aoe damage to drop an entire spawn in 2 shots. With no significant defense (hover), the enemy has about an 75% chance to hit her. Against my /Nin they have about a 50-64% chance but they get many more attacks off due to my massively lower damage. this is the crux of the problem.

My 35 fm/sd brute is way tougher. Tanked an ITF for level 50s with only a ice/cold defender for buffage, and no heals. Died a fair bit. But we pulled it off and I did ok. FM is so high damage that things actually die before they can hurt me much. Spines however = total suckage. My stalker can't tank a single -1 boss. It is AS-placate-Ripper-run like a scared little child until placate is back up. My brute was able to tank deathsurge solo for about 40 seconds at level 16 with mostly unslotted powers. My stalker can't survive three attacks (note I mentioned attacks not hits, it only takes 2 hits for deathsurge to drop him, but he has not yet missed two out of 3) from deathsurge at level 41.

so, yes he's much squishier. much much squishier. Regen is not fire and forget, but with the toggles going and dull pain you're really tough. Just push the click heal once in a while as needed and focus all your attention on killing things. Higher level, mog before a fight, shadowmeld during if needed, heal now and again.

One of these days I might make a character who is capable of making a legitimate effort on the pylon test. As it stands nothing I own can survive three shots and I only have two that will make it to the third volley. And as for damage... all my scrappers and brutes are reliably out damaged by tanks. And I'm not joking and it's not even close either. Doesn't help that my best scrapper is broadsword = all lethal = majorly resisted (and I believe per The Results Are In, nearly tied with Spines for the lowest damage scrapper primary available).

Luckily, I just play for fun and I enjoy most of my characters. If I were competitive I'd have given up a long, long time ago.

I forget the %, but you don't need it full. At 65% I think you're doing the same or more damage as a scrapper after crits. at 100% you're doing a fair bit more.

That is a change, I forget which issue added it. You still need one on each side, but now you don't need them on each server.

Few new costumes in GR also.

Pffft. Logic. When has that ever been relevant?

]the trick is that if you had any other primary, you would be doing even more.


it is the lowest damage primary. This is a simple fact. It deals the mist commonly resisted damage type. This is a simple fact. It has lower defenses than robots, lower resists than zombie, etc. It is not the best at anything and it is numerically near the bottom or the bottom at everything. Literally anything you want to do another set does better. Can you make Mercs work? Yes. Will you be more powerful with another set? Always. And twice on sundays.

Put the stealth into sprint instead of SS and if you exemp below SS you at least have something still available. Plus, it frees up a slot for -knockback or -slow resist.

Jealousy is ugly. It corrodes your morality and clouds your judgment. It also steals your ability to enjoy what you have.

If I am at a gourmet 5-star restaurant and the couple next to me got a free meal but I have to pay full price. My food still tastes exactly the same. My waiter will treat me exactly the same. The restaurant still has the same atmosphere, furniture, decorations. If I let jealousy steal the pleasure from my dinner, that's my fault, my problem, my weakness.

In short, grow up and don't blame the developers for your own character flaw.

If you are looking for the best "cheap" damage attack chain you want incinerate-scorch-cremate-scorch. The two swords are actually bad damage for their activation/recharge times.

But if you must have them then you must. I know I think they look awesome.