Gearford

yeah, the devs really got it in for res, no ezpz positional res that i know of, no res debuff res powers/bonuses that come off the top of the dome either.

i think it has to do with res (assuming you could do with it the same things you can do with defense) being alot more consistent.

you will want scorch lvling, but once you get enough attacks to make a good chain without it drop it.

you can skip taunt =P
BoF
i think you can skip fire sword circle too, it takes as long as BoF to animate, meaning -fury gen. while its a good attack, fire isnt really an aoe set to begin with.

cant really think of much else you'd wanna skip though...

well while he isnt the hardest, id imagine that if all the GMs had a tournament scrapyarder would win, cause all the mobs can hit GMs due to programing.

however in a big clash scenario they'd just get washed away by a wave of AoEs

i think celeb would be the last one alive cuz he never show up.

what is the general opinion?

i think fire melee is sick damage, and that build + firey embrace will be hawt... but besides for that little moment of glory, i dont see much for the set.

anyone wanna correct me?

same

the scrap is better, but in that particular matchup the brute will take top

if there was a way for your scrap to lower fire resist tho id give it to him.

i take purple con EBs solo without insps.

but i must admit ele is better for groups. (although the target caps on CI and the narrow cone on jacob's make it less good for that than i think it should be.)

dm shield

its good, some people claim it to be the best synergy for SD even over the fotm elec/SD

as for the other one, SR is good, but when you make a topic with nrg melee in the title you will hear very little praise over the AT and a ton of whine

elec/shield

Mmm, tastes like june...

im thinking my end attack chain will look something like

charged brawl, chain induction, charged brawl, mu lightning, charged brawl, boxing.

dunno though might use havoc instead of boxing for the secondaries.

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claws would be easy to bring over
Focus - half the range 40 to 20
and 75% KD
Spin - move to 26 up the damage
Eviscerate - move to 6 low damage
Shockwave - remove and replace with ST attach that does superior damage with 2.0 to 2.33 cast

Btw dual blades has 1 pbaoe and 2 cones just like claws

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Those are NOT very good suggestions.


There is absolutely NO reason why Focus's range should be halfed. None at all.


There is also no reason why Evis would nead a damage reduction either.

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All the ranged attacks brutes / tankers get have a long cast time and focus is short. I dont see them giving us a fast cast and recharge ranged attacked.
If evis is a lvl 6 attack lower damage is called for but if you read it to make for spin at 32 it needs a damage increase to comp. Now if the dev well give brutes a fast cast and recharge ranged attacked that would be cool but i dont see it happening

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if evis gets a -dmg, then at the end game what lvl you got it at wont matter, all that will be important is that it's a low dmg long animation attack of suck.

i say just remove it, something's gotta go for taunt any way.

lethal gets the short end of the stick for damage, but in this case i think its made up for with animation speed. only match for it in fury building would be DM when you get gloom <shadow punch, smite, gloom, boxing, lather, rinse, repeat, profit>

claws could get that kinda fury gen by itself, methinks...

use elec fence first.

the cherry coke of hold powers.

in my opinion -to hit is better.

they are in effect, but each has pros over the other, - to hit having more.

+def wont get resisted by the mob

-to hit helps everyone
-to hit has an effect on all damage types

alot of enemies will debuff your defense, which if you rely on it alot will be catostrophic, while enemies can buff their hit, its not nearly as many.

scenarios

a monster with a 100% to hit attacks you with a smashing attack, you have 50% smash def. you, over time, are taking 50% damage from this attack. you are using no to hit debuff at this time.

1) someone hits you with an attack that lowers your defense by 5%, this is actually a net total of 10% more damage taken, and while it works the same way with -to hit and acc buffs, thats a lot less common.
2) someone else gets aggro and he is back up to full damage
3) he buffs to hit, which is less than debuffing defense because your defense applies to how many sides of the die were replaced with hit rolls, meaning his +10% hit buff only gives him 5% more damage over time.

the same mob has his to hit debuffed by 50%, he is doing a total of 50% damage over time. you have no defense at this time.

1) he debuffs your defense by 10%, 10% of nothing is nothing, so this does nothing and there is nothing to stop you from making this mob into nothing by killing him like it were nothing.
2) someone else gets aggro and he does 50% damage
3) he buffs his to hit by 5% because 5% is 10% of the total (50%) he increses his damage output by 10%

scenario 3 for -to hit is the same in effect as scenario 1 of +def, but both the others are in -to hit's favor.

looking at this... i feel like im wrong somewhere... im sure someone will pick up on it though, im not very good at this brainy ****

ok so my question is about electric fences:

will a range buff increse both the range of casting range and area of effect, or just casting range?

on a related note, for a ranged cone, buckshot for example, would a range increse increse the range at the cone degree, or would the cone go straight when it fans out as wide as it normally would?

and how do you pronounce Mu, moo or mew?

how do those guys eat in their straight jackets of awesome pop culture fassion and poor combat functionality?

how do they go to the bathroom, use their magic powers to unzip their fly while hovering in front of the john?

Issue 15: What's the issue?

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Um... Spectral Daemons? 40% smashing and 30% NE resistance. BP zombies, 50% NE resist. Razorvines, 40% smashing and NE.

Admittedly Banished Pantheon doesn't exist villainside and Spectrals can be hunted down with the Ghost-slaying axe, but still.

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read it again, i was agreeing with you.

DM does well in arena 1v1s if you pick up touch of fear. its pretty good anyway though.

elc can be... ok. dont expect more than that.

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If you think 20% fire resist is that annoying I advise you to stay clear of.... well every other damage type in the game really.

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im sorry, but it is that annoying!

pick DM, just stay away from the skulls on mercy, they are soooo annoying!

lol

yeah i got you. i dont like elec much either, although for different reasons (anything pre-power sink makes me want to rip my eyes out!!) but its you opinion, state it however you wanna.

im not a big fan of SR either, its basically broken among casuals IMO (meaning you dont need time or money to make it great) while still being competitive among hard cores (meaning it gets ever morer awesomer when you IO it out)

but please dont let that make you think that "i love challenge i play poo/poo" i just prefer something in between, strong enough to not go bald, yet needs enough TLC that you feel as if you accomplished something when you do well.

not hatin on SRs, just me.

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I suggest another animation 'fix'

Instead of Palm to the Head (Old) and DBZZZZZZ (New), your toon should just reach over and touch one finger to the target.

End Cost: 10
Recharge: 20
Range: 7
Cast: 2s
Accuracy: 90%
Stun: Mag3, 10s
Self Damage: 10%
On Foe Death: KB mag50

Yes, it hurls them backwards at terminal velocity if it finishes them off. Use the big flash and boom from the new animation.


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/Signed But first they have to build up energy by putting on bunny slippers and rubbing their feet really fast on the carpet.

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omg i saw someone in a bunny costume yesterday using en melee.

I had already failed it when i posted... stupid freakshow kept taking hits and kept trying to run up on him, which he couldnt because of the bug... all the other ones de-aggro'd so i coulda snuck around with them all if he had done that, but oh well.

angus, angus steak.....

oh... now i feel quite bad...

you see I had an accomplice in this mission, a Villian Group member even, and I got all pissed off at it. I didnt say anything mean to him, i just told him that I was butt hurt about it and was logging off. We were supposed to do his missions after, and I abandoned him. I mean im sure he is more than capable of handling the missions, but that dosent make it a nice thing to do.

im logging in, good things to all this day.

ok so this morning I was on a mission with my new toon in sharkhead. i forget what its name is but its the one to get 3 freakshow tankers (allies) and escort them back.

I breezed through the mission until the end, where we had one last ambush to complete, and in the ambush of vortex, nebula and penumbra cor liason units, a nebula cor liason force unit got lodged into a pillar

his gun was sticking out, and while neither I nor the tankers could hit him, he could shoot out. because he hit the tankers they wouldnt lose aggro so i couldnt lead them to the entrance. eventually one died and I failed the mission for it, now im left with the souviner saying i failed, at no fault of my own, bugging the **** out of me.

I am aware this is the player questions forum, so here goes... Interrogative:
Who do i report this (insert happy things) to?

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Its not just him. Your sentence structure is off big time and it makes it hard to understand what you are actually trying to get across

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How does "not just him" belong to "it"? I find it hard to understand what you are actually trying to get across.

u c wat i did thar!?

now before we get into the whole "ignorance as an attack" trolling stratagem, I would be inclined to ask, based on this posting, if you understood my last post (my root point)?

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any woman who thinks they are proving women have what it takes to be a success in the video game (or any) industry by taking advantage of their womanhood are not only degrading themselves to a point where even if they were a confirmed female I wouldnt want anything to do with them, but are also only proving that they dont need to meet the standard because some guy with a hard on will carry them (duh).

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What a fascinating treatise. When you get around to your point, and if it doesn't boil down to "GIRLZ HAVE TEH COOTIEZ," do let me know, won't you?

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my point is this:
i dont think girlz have teh cootiez, just you.

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I, and many of my other female friends who play this game, hate the fact that most people actually want PROOF that we're girls. What a shame.

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double standards suck, dont they?

but, they exist, get over them.

i want no proof that you are female, but i do not want an unproven female hitting on me either.