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People have been saying that for six years.

I don't personally count lore pets as my damage when it cannot be consistent. It feels kind of like counting Eye of the Magus as my defense because I can use it every 5 minutes or whatever against AV's.

That's certainly true.

Not to downplay that, but it tells far more about the defender buffs than defender damage. Do we get a cookie if we can show a faster scrapper time?

It's a super idea, however, I believe the devs are too wed to their lore to ever do something like this. I too, as big a proponent of form shifting as I am, sometimes get tired of looking at the butt of a space squid.

Arcanatime for dark extraction is 3.432, which makes time between summons 51.432.

Because this is a continuous cycle, its actually 5.728 (after fixing activation disparity) out of every 51.432 seconds, which is 11-12% time without 4 fluffies, or an 88-89% uptime. That is so close to 90% that it practically is, except it relies on the user being at the recharge cap constantly and executing Dark Extraction perfectly and no lag. The realities of it make something like a 60% uptime more realistic (even if a player managed to stay consistently at the cap), which certainly might 'feel' like 90% uptime, but hitting that 89% isn't going to happen, at least not consistently.

Heh, I tend to have this conversation a couple of times a year it seems. I think, before you, Alien One had made a claim to 7 fluffies or something like that (think he saw his Orbiting Death balls too )

Right, but at the cap he still can't have 4 out 90% of the time unless something is bugged.

If you really have figured out a way to get 4 fluffies out that much, please let us know. That would be a bug that I would like to 'test'

The problem is if you did Judgement>Stack Mires>Quasar>Dwarf Mire>Nova AoE'sx2 you would do more damage per time. You will simply clear spawns faster. The second problem is you will only be able to use Unchain on every third mob or so, unless you are taking forever to clear a mob. A lot of people like Unchain, but it's not consistent enough or omglookatthatdamage enough for my uses.

Ok, so um, it looks like, using those + fully slotting resist shields + tough + Shield Wall unique + Cardiac alpha, I can hit 85% resist against a single target with eclipse...

New build challenge to self: 45% s/l defense, 85% resist with one eclipse target, solid single target chain, three fluffies, perma eclipse.

Well kudos on an interesting find. Using these actually makes it possible to cap your resists with 4 enemies instead of the standard 5.

A) That's not possible. Even at the recharge cap, which you are not at, you cannot keep 4 fluffies out 90% of the time. For the build you posted, if we add in Spiritual Core paragon and you summoned a fluffy absolutely instantly every time it recharged, you will have 4 out for 4.004 seconds before your first one expires.

B) For your build, I was referring to the 34.8% damage slotting in the fluffies, not its recharge.

It's got nothing to do with not being able to target a body. It's damage per activation time is lower than Dark Nova Emanation, and, on top of that, its recharge is prohibitively long.

Or, to look at it a different way, I could use it every time it is available on your build for 4.08 damage/recharge+activation per target hit. I could replace it with Human Dark Detonation (not that I like it) and get 15.2 damage/recharge+activation per target hit. The fact that it has the chance to stun and does the damage all at once is the perk of this power. But you cannot rely on it for human aoe damage, if that is your intent, nor will it help your single target chain if you actually have a chain slotted.

You call it essential, I call it highly skippable; to each his own.

Good money says that will never be fixed.

Edit: wait, do Nucleos actually work there? Mids shows no enhancement to resistance with them...

It should be a bug, but it might just be the way the devs plan to do stalker AoE powers now. I don't think anyone would really complain if it was.

Rage in Super Strength will give you the tohit you need.

Yes.

No. Learn to love the drift; it adds all sorts of good tactics to nova form.

The price tag will burn your eyes if you look at it, but that's partially because it is also softcapped to s/l in human form (or will be when they fix shadow cloak to have typed defense as well as positional). My last project cleaned out my bank, stalling this one, which is why I only have hand calcs for you.

Remember, the 200 dps is without the pets. If you are able to keep three of them out (no easy task when facing a lone target), that could jump to over 300.

If you want AoE damage too, you will have to do a compromise build so you can have Nova and its AoE's. Single target dps will take a small hit to fit that in, but it's worth it.

In a human form build I have, with t4 reactive radial and tons of recharge, against a single target I'm seeing ~200 dps not including damage from the pets. If I include Essence Drain in that for "every tool available to survive," that drops to ~195, again without pets. Should be slightly lower than those, though, as I am not counting activation times for eclipse, hasten, or sunless mire.

I haven't calculated the pet dps contribution in a while, but I would guesstimate that three of them with the soulbound buildup proc would pump out about 150 dps?

Edit: For AoE, you can look at the spreadsheets here, though Joe's numbers are a tad off at the moment.

? If your chain uses Blinding Feint (which it should), that's 10% tohit unslotted for a tank. If your chain double stacks BF, that's 20%. Regardless, I recommend tactics for most electric armor builds, because it offers some mez protection that the set does not otherwise have.

Attack Vitals is ok, but it's not the best. For scraps/brutes, the best chain is BF>AS>SS>AS. For tanks, the best chain should be the same, except every ten seconds or so you slip in bruising.