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What is with all the inherent bashing lately. The only one I can say that is justified to bash is the defender inherent.

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I was thinking the same thing. I had just read the gauntlet thread yesterday.
The stalker thing was done due to fact that stalkers pretty much had no roll on a team. Even less when Veats came out who where able to do pretty much the same thing and add buffs to the team. At the same time, I think another buff should have been given other then criticals. Then again, I'm sure some brute players said the same thing about blasters.
Hmm... What if the crit chance raised as the target's health dropped? But that would piss some corr players off. Oh well.

ToF got me through croatoa and them red cap bosses. I later respected it.

I would also like to know about the proc % chance in caltrops. That power can slot the slow IO procs and the target aoe procs. That could be transformed into a nasty power worth more then one slot depending on what the % roll is.

Fire/fire sucks! It kills the mobs way too fast. You can get a real fast recharging healing power. Who wants to keep seeing green all the time? And what's the point of having two build up powers? And why? Why in the world would you want a 2ndary with damage powers in it? That's what the primary is for!.... I can't keep this up. I'm laughing too hard. Fire/fire rocks.

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Hmm...how about a critical taunt providing fear?

"I insulted your momma so bad, you cower at my presence!"

Can also crit by smacking people and standing close enough to them and breathing heavily (I know that works against me)!

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I luv this. I don't see it happening but I luv it.

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My bad, he is at 2700 hp and cap is 3200.It has been some time since I completed the wp brute.I forgot I could not manage to cap him.Just got as close as I could.
Will edit my previuos post.Again sorry for the misinformation.



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I got to about 2800 something with the off the wall build that I tried. No worries, though. Think ill make a invul and SD build on mids to see if it can be hit with DP and owts.

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did you include accolades?

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Always

I don't solo AVs but I have that power on one of my scrappers (dm/regen). Everybody "tries" to run. AVs and EBs don't seem to be bothered by the slow effect so they tend to move off of them a lot faster. MG and web will keep them in check though.

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my wp brute is max hp and crazy regen.


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How did you do that? WP tank was easy to hp cap. Scrappers need a little creativity and a lot of frakenslotting. I can't figure out how to hit hp cap on my wp brutes at all. I even tested a gimped build with a buch of crap powers just fit in all the IOs with hp bonuses and still came up short.

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I know with the vanguard weapons, if you use black/black, they become transparent seeing only the outline. Maybe that will work.

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Wonder what the impact of dark armor's COD would be with this - if you turned practically invisible, PVPrs might cry foul...

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I doubt it. If they are supposed to be able to see you, your name will still be over your head allowing you to be targeted.

So that's what's gonna be hot for i16? Black flame fire scrappers and cotton candy balls of doom? I wonder how many regen auras will be made red? I wonder if its gonna be a per power thing or do you have to keep the full set the same color. I've never been a fan of the multi color aura of unstoppable.

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I hate the pink aura around the head so I might actually play a DA Scrapper now. I'm really hoping we can select "None" as a choice for color.

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I suspect it won't be, though. I'd expect a selection like our current color palette - so no clear/none. Even if available, that seems a bad idea. Last thing I need is a lack of visual cues that I've forgotten to turn my armors on!

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Yeah, I doubt that “none” will be a color option. However, there is often some color that makes an effect very subtle.

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I know with the vanguard weapons, if you use black/black, they become transparent seeing only the outline. Maybe that will work.

If you can't take the hits, turn it off. If you can take the hits, keep it on. If the tank can't pull aggro from you thus making them feel like less of a tank, tell them to get their weight up. A tank should be able to go in and get all the attention even if the mob was already engaged and the tank came in the room last (well, that's what I expect out of my tanks). You ever get that complaint again, tell them they are doing it wrong.

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A 1% increase in hp is the equivalent of a 1% increase in resistance to all damage.

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I would really love to see this broken down a bit. I've seen this claim made several times but I have yet to see it explained. I rather skeptical but I would love to build for resistance instead of defense for once.

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Base: You have 1000 hit points. You get hit with an attack that does 300 damage. You take 300 damage (30% of your total) and are left with 700 hit points (70% of your total).

Resistance: You have 1000 hit points and 20% resistance. You get hit with an attack that does 300 damage. You resist 60 and take 240 damage (24% of your total), leaving you with 760 hit points (76% of your total).

Hit Points: You have 1000 base hit points and 20% in hit point bonuses, giving you a total of 1200 hit points. You get hit with an attack that does 300 damage. You take 300 damage (25% of your total), leaving you with 900 hit points (75% of your total).

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I always knew the more HPs you have, the more attacks you can take. I never thought of it in relation for another form of res all. Interesting outlook.

On any alt, I find myself taking build up powers before the heavy hitter. On my BS, I took it at lvl 24. On blasters I try to get aim and BU to be ready for the nuke. I can't remeber any time I took BU the level it opened up.

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The post in which he was referring to: Positron spills the beans

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I got that. What I didn't get was how he apparently got from color customization to "Scrappers need more epic pools."

Look, I'm with you on Scrappers wanting more choices for epics, despite the fact that Scrappers are one of the best-balanced ATs and generally have few complaints.

But thousands of players have been begging for color customization for years. Imagine the reverse of this complaint: "Color customization was possible this issue, but we've pushed it back indefinitely to add a Scrapper epic pool." People would go nuts, and rightly so.

Scrappers will probably get more epic choices eventually. In the meantime, it ill behooves us to use everyone else's moment of great joy to air a complaint about what's already one of the best-designed ATs.

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Well....

1) Posi's post was about Issue 16. The big draw of Issue 16 is probably going to be color customization. So, it's fair to talk about what ELSE might be in there.

2) More epics for Scrapper would not likely hold anything up, especially just adding Pyre Mastery like they should have done this issue.

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You beat me to it. Lol

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I got that. What I didn't get was how he apparently got from color customization to "Scrappers need more epic pools."

Look, I'm with you on Scrappers wanting more choices for epics, despite the fact that Scrappers are one of the best-balanced ATs and generally have few complaints.

But thousands of players have been begging for color customization for years. Imagine the reverse of this complaint: "Color customization was possible this issue, but we've pushed it back indefinitely to add a Scrapper epic pool." People would go nuts, and rightly so.

Scrappers will probably get more epic choices eventually. In the meantime, it ill behooves us to use everyone else's moment of great joy to air a complaint about what's already one of the best-designed ATs.

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Whoa... I just asked a question about what people think the odds of this issue giving both. As I said earlier, I'm looking forward to this as well. No flames or doom cries over here. That's why its posted here, on the scrapper board, and not in that announcemnet post. I'm sure I'm not the only person that is wondering "what else" is going to be added just like everytime a new issue is announced. I don't see the problem with asking other scrapper players the odds of new scrapper app sets or powers be a "what else" for this issue. Someone mentioned making a pink ball of doom. What's wrong with wanting to be able to fire off a pink fireball from that pink ball of doom? I'm sorry if you feel I'm trying downplay the annoucement. That is not the case.

Regardless, I will still keep my hopes up for new app for scrappers, Energy melee, energy aura, and electric melee for scrappers, Sicrocco's sword as an option for BS users, a darkness control set for trollers and doms as a primary, and dark miasma as a troller's 2ndary. Everytime a new issue comes, I'm going to wonder if this is the issue we get one of those. I dont fuss and cuss when we dont. I just say maybe next time.

So no bashing or downplaying. Just hopes from a player. And when the next issue comes out, I will wonder "what else" again.

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Yellow ice blasters.

Finally.

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The yellow snow cone gag came to mind after reading this. "Would you like a yellow snow cone?". Lol

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My question is, do you all think scrapper epic pools will "finally" get the needed attention its requires? Or is this just wishful thinking and I should just look forward to editing the colors of the powers of the "one" scrapper that I have that will benefit the most from this?

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I understand that changing the colors of your powers may not seem like a big deal to you.

But it is to a helluva lot of people.

In fact I can't think of one request that I have heard more over my three years of playing. The short of it is that the devs simply can't please all of the people all of the time.

If Posi's hint really does mean power customization I am thrilled, in spite of the fact that there are plenty of more useful changes I would be thrilled with also. This game isn't just about battles and leveling and min/maxxing to me. I really enjoy the conceptualization of my characters.

Bye bye green regen! Bye bye.

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Don't get wrong. I lov the idea too. I cant wait play my fire scrapper and scream "sword of the darkness flame!!"(I miss Yu Yu Hakusho. That was a great show). My other ATs will have much use for this just like everyone else that play this game. The chances of us getting new app was simply a question that was on my mind. I now they are not related to power custumizations (Replying to an earlier post). I play on virtue. So I know much of a big thing this will be for RPers and heavy concept theme atl rollers. I'm into theme alts myself. Yes, players have been asking for this a long time and this great. Players have also been asking for new scrapper APPs. Comming off a light content issue, giving two things players have been asking for isn't asking for too much, IMO. Just wanted to know what others players thought the odds were. This is by no means a doooom cry. I have no plans of canceling my account over it like I see people say when change comes that they don't like or didn't get what they want (peep the dom boards lol).

Well, if you don't want any of the sword attacks, you will be loosing a good aoe attack and you will left with 3 single target attacks and a tiny cone attack (breath of fire). With this, I'd say you best bet is shield def. Just don't skip shield charge and against all odds.

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All I can see Scrappers getting regarding epics is Pyre Mastery from Tankers to complement their existing fire powersets

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I'd take that. Melt armor would be helpfull as an IO mule and with mob dropping and AV slaying.

I don't think you can make an easy AV. Even if you made the AV with two standard level attack sets that are weak vs your armor (like FM/fire assult vs a */fire scrapper). They still have AV res and HP and high dmg output. If you don't have the build right, the best you can hope for is a draw.

Positron just hinted that we will be able to edit the color of our powers in i16. I would place the link but I don't know how to from a mobile phone. For lazy people that don't want to go look for it, he posted pics of a fire troller with purple imps and a fire dom with blue imps and using a blue fire attack. He said more details in July.

My question is, do you all think scrapper epic pools will "finally" get the needed attention its requires? Or is this just wishful thinking and I should just look forward to editing the colors of the powers of the "one" scrapper that I have that will benefit the most from this? I'm sure the subject of scrapper epics has been talked about into the ground but its sicking knowing how much my favorite AT is getting hosed on this issue of the epic pools.

(Edited to... make more sense. I really do need to stop posting early in the mornings.)

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Wouldn't a DB/Invuln Scrapper have endurance problems? I run out on my DB/WP Scrapper now and again, and it has Quick Recovery to lean on. Granted, I also spam the heck out of Sweep combo....

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I was afraid of the same thing with my DB/Invul. I held off on temp invul for a while because of that. Lets just say Dull Pain got a real good work out. My DB invul is just lvl 37. ill be looking at that guide myself.

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Sorry about that I just assume everyone is a 300 LBS Man till I'm told different



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Lmao!! Me too!

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Nice to hear that guys!

A couple of questions, is burn worth it? I might take it for defensive purposes, or for an IO mule, but is it useful?

Same thing with Temperature Protection?

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I use temp protection as one of my KB protection mules. I did this build pre BotZ but still would keep the power since it has -slow/-rech protection. As far as burn, that's a playstyle choice, imo. If you have a way to lock the mob down, you will get more use out of it. As far as an IO mule, you have 3 pbaoe powers in your prime. I would see about other powers first then go back to it. That is if using it as a mule is the only reason you would get it.