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It depends what you call a bug. Is it behaving the way the programer intended? Yes. Did the programmer anticipate this circumstance? I doubt it.

Fact is, Rikti Bombs are stupidly easy to kill for a level 50, and have around a 1/10 chance of dropping a shard. The only drawback is I have to wait for someone to complete a LGTF then scramble to the zone as quickly as possible. But if it's still like this for the next invasion event it will be easy to collect hundreds of shards.

Trust me, the bombs drop shards.

So do invasion rikti, although at the usual rate for thier mob rank.

Probably a bug.

They aren't buffs. The alpha slot functions as additional enhancements. So, if you have Musclature slotted, it functions as if you had an extra damage enhancement slotted in every power that can be slotted for damage. This, of course, includes pets.

You don't have to unslot anything. Consider Suppression again. Say you have is 6 slotted with a purple damage set. You can't slot if for defense debuff, or range, without loosing your set bonus. Now you can.

The nice thing about alpha slots is that everyone can get some benafit from them, but a really skilled builder can get a massive boost. It really rewards a clever build.

The simplest thing is to just go for the +20% damage on all damage powers.

However, if you want to get clever, powers which you would have previously slotted with three common IO (or +3 SO) enhancements, you can now slot with two, freeing up enhancement slots to use in different powers.

There is a huge range of posibilities though. You might go for Nerve Radial. If you had Combat Training: Offensive, you would never need to slot another accuracy enhancement in any power, and you would be able to push up your defense total as well. Or consider Musclature radial. Ever slot Supression for Defense Debuff? No? Well, it is now, and it does more damage as well. Or with Cardiac Core Paragon, forget about slotting those powers for end reduction, your damage resistance is increased, and all your ranged attacks have increased range. Very nice for cones like Supression.

Yes. It doesn't work.

Indeed, this has been in issue 18 for a while. Repulse also benefits. You can have your toggles on, but they ahve no effect so long as you have Hidden status, and therefore don't knock you out of hide.

Actually, you can see all three tiers of demon. But the highest tier is only visible as a siluette in the background. it looks - craggy.

Sure she does. She is a European after all.

Exactly. Twitter is full of this kind of carp. WHO BLOOMIN WELL CARES!!!?

In my experience, pets rarely last more than a couple of seconds against an AV.

Banes are great. I love my bane. It is great in teams, and can do serious solo damage in fights that last less than 20 seconds. AV killer is not what it is suited for though.

Even ignoring the redraw, this is a painfully slow attack chain. Even Poison Ray has a 2.0 second animation time.

OK, some maths for survallance. Let X equal the AV damage resistance, used to resist resistance debuffs.

Relative damage change from Survaillance (1.0 = break even):

D = 20*100/((100-0.925*(20*(1-X)))*22.5

Best case scenario. X = 0, using Survaillence increases your DPS by a maximum of 10.54%. Hardly earth shattering. Increases LuxunS DPA calculation to 0.62.

Break even point, X = 40%. If the AV has greater than 40% resistance to whatever damage type you are doing, then using Survaillance will actually lower your DPS.

I can't tell you much about Widows. I don't have a massive amount of experience of playing them, like I do for Bane Spiders.

Good grief, there aren't some people who still believe this are there?

That used to be how it was supposed to work when the game first launched, but some powers never worked propery, and over a year ago BAB decided to remove the pauses between attacks, and have redraw count. It took a while for the changes to work thier way through, but redraw slows your attacks on all weapon sets now.

This means that Survaillance has an effective acitivation time of abount 2.5 seconds. The duration of the effect is 20 seconds, so using it in a long duration fight reduces your DPS by around 12.5%. Thats not quite enough to cancel the benefit of the -res, but once you take into account that Survailance isn't autohit, and that many AVs have smashing resistance, which resists resistance debuffs, it works out that you are better off not using Survaillance mid fight.

Venom Grenade is even worse, since it has two redraws, one for the rifle, and one to switch back to the Mace, causing it to blast a hole in your attack chain of over 3 seconds.

NB, Widow claws also have a redraw, but it is much much shorter than the Mace or Rifle.