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You only think you do. <.< (But thanks. ) There are certain kinds of wrong some posters persist in where i know it's pointless to point out they're wrong because they have repeatedly and aggressively made it clear they aren't interested in learning. At all. And yet i can't resist occasionally telling them they're wrong even though it's a waste of my time. Now i won't ignore someone just for being stupid/clueless and obnoxious (more obnoxious than me that is), but when it becomes clear that it's a case of terminal n00bitis and not just being a newb sometimes the only way to avoid facepalm-related headaches is to ignore them.

Yes. Yes it is.
Who else could it be? (Don't answer that.)

Nemesis? Quite common in the late game too.

^What Dechs said.^

Welcome back A_C! The forums have been a bit less interesting without you.

i think that is a very likely explanation for the impression of Claws having low damage.

Of course the easiest (but not best) way to correct this impression is to survive and keep fighting when the rest of the team wipes from a debuff toggled enemy bringing extra spawns in. If your secondary can handle it Claws achieves very impressive solo kill rates when surrounded by enemies. It happened a couple times on my Claws/SR several months after the Claws and SR revamp and made several teammates reconsider their image of Claws' damage output.

That would've been my second guess. TYVM.

Number three was my first guess, but my phone doesn't always do drop downs.

He has a point. Difficult to read and buried in arrogant posturing, but a point anyway.

The biggest comparison for me is Broad Sword and Claws. Broad Sword has several attacks that hit with a nice meaty thunk and throw up big numbers, but it's a bit slower overall and overkill is not uncommon, which is basically wasted damage/endurance. Claws buzzsaws away with faster attacks that cost less and dispatches entire spawns quickly. Individual attacks don't do much damage, though Eviscerate with double-stacked Follow Up isn't bad at all, but Claws puts out more in the same time frame.

Claws' Follow Up works well with Fire, Dark and Electrical Armors' damage auras. Scrapper damage auras are very useful since they have the same damage and end cost over time as a standard single target attack, but are AoEs.

Patience.

That's just dumb. Now, opening or viewing the files, and especially posting about it is against the rules, but looking at the file names is not, and it's kind of dumb to even suggest that it is.

Read the rules about .piggs again. Looking at file names is not against the rules. Looking inside them is.

Scrapper primaries played to 40 or higher: Katana, Dark Melee, Fiery Melee, Spines, Broad Sword, Claws, Martial Arts. i haven't merely compared Claws to other Scrappers, i've compared it to my own Scrappers. The fact that i have three Claws Scrappers and a Claws Brute with two at most of the other primaries means that i don't consider the damage lacking. It could just be that Claws suits my playing style.

Neither. i'm not the type to drivel around using terms like 'noob' anyway.
Your overall tone is starting to suggest to me that is just another troll thread, but i'll wait on deciding that until i see how it goes for a bit more.

Since Jack had nothing to do with how the marketing of the game was done at that time i fail to see how it's relevant in any case.

Hyperbole>facts. i wish it was otherwise, but that's just the way it is. (For some.)

And yet with your shorter-to-the-point-of-nonexistence green bar you continue doing so. At least Pine has one.

Quick tip: Don't bring a muffin to to a gun fight, and don't bring your natural acumen to a battle of wits. Sure, it's amusing for a few seconds, but after that it's just pathetic and slightly depressing.

Devil eyes = awesome. Or that's what i keep telling myself.

He looks like a regular greyhound to me. As i recall Italian greyhounds and whippets are generally quite a bit smaller than standard greyhounds.

Drugs.

Considering the title is requesting something that i'm pretty sure cannot exist in the current game environment. Being that there is no godmode that will recharge before phase suppression kicks in. (Time limits on phasing and all.) So, drugs.

Of course i'm basing this on the silly assumption that any power keeps you from doing anything useful/offensive while it's active is not a godmode in the videogame/MMO sense.

Crap. Whenever it's Win-Win i always lose.

i wanted a set of those, but the last email i got from her said that she'd been hired by WETA and that WETA was planning to start selling a more polished version. That was many months ago and i haven't heard anything since then. Not that it matters since i currently don't have the budget for the old versions, and i don't expect the WETA version to be much cheaper.

i remember that shortly after the respec trial went live my Force Field Defender became EXTREMELY popular with respec teams. i agree that the current respec trial can be too easy and tedious at times now, but i'm hoping for a return of the difficulty settings by the time GR launches. Until then it should stay fairly easy so that those who really need a respec can get them.

They did, but at times it seemed like the Dev team then didn't have access to the real numbers either. The time they effectively bumped bosses up a level while keeping their visible stats the same was amusing. The uproar was amazing, and it didn't take long to roll that change back. Which made the massive regen buff to AVs a year or so later all the funnier. Especially considering how many people were posting in the test forums with actual hard testing data and analysis as to why each change would not be fun for the casual players.

At that point i'd taken to playing with some very competent players, so it didn't affect me much. The AV buff happened at a time when my main was a D3 who had a -5000% regen debuff and a stacking -50% regen debuff, so it was good timing from my point of view.

There have been a lot of beneficial tweaks and adjustments to the game since it launched, and many of them while Jack was still in charge, so it's not like he approved nothing but bad things, it's just that he seemed determined to make poorly considered changes almost as often as the good changes, and he seemed to have far less understanding of the game mechanics than some of the players.

When i think back to all the hijinks that happened with Emmert at the helm today i'm just happy that the game has come so far since then. No anger, just a bemused shake of the head.

(IIRC the BS/Regen slaughtering +7's was because the code branch they used lacked the purple patch. Not exactly the same as making +7 critters the same as +0, but it does make them much, much easier.)

How would that work, exactly?

Tear down one of the war walls and combine into one IP-sized map?

i'll have to dig up one of my city maps and see how much terrain they'd have to add between the two to make it work.

Yeah, that was already posted in this thread, but you know... words are easy to skip over.
It's not like the game itself requires reading. You can if you want, but it is optional.

Dual Pistols will only be usable by those who pre-order Going Rogue. Not sure exactly when, but they unlock by the start of double XP.