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My understanding is that Electric Melee is more about burst damage and AoE than sustained DPS, though I haven't looked carefully at the set myself. Claws can put out good DPS, so seems the more logical choice to me.
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Quote:So with 8 points of knockback protection, you've been knocked back by pylons?Originally Posted by Santorican
My spines/dark has 8 points of knock back protection and in my 2 years of playing him I have yet to encounter anything outside of Fake Nemesis/AVs/Pylons that knock me back. So yes 12 points of knock back is over kill for 99% of the game. -
Wait, now that I think of it, Sergei has no travel power, and takes the Swift+Quickness+Sprint approach. Sounds like I should get my ninja on. Curse you, devs!
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The only way you could drop Health and keep Stamina would be to have both Swift and Hurdle. I'd much rather have Health. That's not really a direct answer to your question though. Just pointing it out in case you missed it.
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Quote:Ah, well, not very long. I think about five hits each at 12 and 8, then two at 4? So if there's an extra chance for knockback that would occasionally knock back at 8, I could easily have missed it.Originally Posted by Nihilii
How long did you test ? I just ask because I remember pylons have a chance for extra KB on top of their 100% KB, but I don't remember which total mag it ends up with. I remember on my Kat/Fire with either 1 or 2 KB IOs I was getting knocked back occasionally, while with one more KB IOs (ending up with either 2 or 3, again I can't remember) it was fine 100% of the time.
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I'm generally not a fan of corner pulling. Most groups are pretty well clustered when they start, and good lord do I not want to twiddle my thumbs while the Tank makes (maybe) an ever-so-slightly-better cluster. Jump in, get aggro, and let me cut loose. And if there's a minion on my Blaster, don't freak out and try to "fix" things. That minion will be dead a second from now.
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Yeah, I remembered ValBlademaster, but I was pretty sure that four wasn't the highest. Six, huh? That's a lot of AVs.
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The last thing I want on a Blaster is for a Shield Tank to either chase me to try to grant me some defense, or to insist that I huddle up close for the defense. My defense is MOVEMENT.
Helpful for some scrappers, though. And I suppose helpful when I'm being a blapper. Come to think of it, my Fire/Fire Blaster spent a lot of time next to the tank.
Guess it depends on the squishy.
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Dev-created AVs or player-created AVs?
I believe it's a handful of dev-created AVs, or maybe up to the aggro cap of player-created AVs. But I can't remember numbers.
Trying to go for the record? Think you've already achieved the record? -
If Scrapper Death Shroud taunted, my life would be complete and I could die happy.
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Council Empire on my Katana/Dark Armor scrapper - not a farmer, but not a single-target specialist either. My hour includes travel from and to Unai for vendoring so that the hour is theoretically repeatable indefinitely. Only checked influence at beginning and end so don't have the breakdown of defeats vs. drops, so I'm not even meeting the minimum requirements of this, but I thought I'd toss my numbers out there anyway.
+0x8 no bosses: 8,234,670
+1x8 with bosses: 10,369,528
+2x8 no bosses: 11,939,051
+2x8 with bosses: 12,492,560
+3x8 with bosses: 12,743,295
+4x8 with bosses: 12,068,485
AE farm, same scrapper, assuming tickets traded for level 50 damage IOs for vendoring:
+2x8 with bosses: 11,898,582 -
Quote:I'm somewhere in the middle on this. I agree that money for benefits can make you feel like you're paying twice for the same game. And it can make people who don't want to pay extra feel like they're missing out. So you can end up with a situation where both the people who pay the money and the people who don't feel a little cheated. That's not something you want.Originally Posted by Jabbrwock
Hey, he's a paying customer. One path to ruining a pay to play MMO is to go berserk with micro transactions so you have to pay the monthly fee and then shell out more to get the perks that make game play fun. That business model works for free MMO's, but it's dangerous for a pay to play MMO. I don't think Ninja Run is stepping across the line personally, but it's definately closer than any of the other boosters.
But I don't think an additional pseudo travel power steps over any line given the existence of the temp travel powers, and the fact that I often use those well into my thirties. I've actually bought most of the booster packs so far, and I don't think I'm going to buy this one. Not out of protest, but just because the shown costume options don't tempt me, and I don't need another pseudo travel power. -
My guess is get wailed on pretty badly, but I haven't actually poked at Electric Armor to be able to say that confidently.
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Quote:I actually did the same. The heal is enhanced 84.4%. That's probably enough for most AVs without resorting to minions, but I think it'll be stronger with minions. Figured I'd give myself options.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
That's why I slotted my Dark Regen the way I did. The only fuel I need for it is the AV itself.
It heals back half of my health off ONE target, so I can kill everything else off with impunity and it doesn't hurt me that much. -
Quote:Getting hit 20% more often can make a difference when you are specifically trying to find out just how much you can survive. There's always SOME way to get near your limit, and that extra 20% damage makes for a lower limit.Originally Posted by Brynstar
That 20% more may sound like a lot but because you get hit so seldom it really isn't much of a difference.
If you get hit 5 times out of 100 attacks adding 20% is only 6 out of 100. That's pretty negligable.
If you don't try to play to the limits of your and your build's ability, and don't care about where those limits are, then no, 44% vs. 45% will never make a difference to you.
(Edit: And on second reading, like I said, "when you crank up the end game difficulty.") -
Quote:How many point of knockback do pylons do? I can't remember a number, but I thought I'd heard something that was more than 8 and less than 12. I can't seem to find anything on the topic now, though. I suppose I could just copy over to test and figure it out for myself, but I'm lazy.Originally Posted by dave_p
Oh, and I don't believe there's any difference bet. 8pts & 12 pts of KB protection, which is to say no mobs do more than 8, but less than 12 pts of KB. Not 100% on that last though.
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I agree with Gambler's Cut in general over Sting of the Wasp, but I'll want to take a closer look at the attack string potential we have available.
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Quote:Might not want to do that, since as stated, I'm only bidding 150 million for the 52s. Mind you, if I don't get them for that after a while (no takers yet), I'm getting my "buy it nao!" mood on.Originally Posted by The_Bronx
When I get home, if the percs haven't put me in a coma, I'll list some 52s for what you would have bought the 53s for.
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My build is nearing completion, so my impatience... uh... my eagerness to get everything slotted is increasing. I've put up 150 million influence bids for three level 52 Enzyme exposures, and will be taking down the 200 million influence bids for the level 53s as soon as I've posted this.
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I would recommend Gambler's Cut over Sting of the Wasp for your end game attack chain. You'd benefit from a Theft of Essence proc in Dark Regeneration. You'd benefit from a Kismet unique. I'd slot Divine Avalanche as an attack, use it in your attack chain, and pick up the remaining defense from elsewhere - Cloak of Darkness, Weave, set bonuses. Defense would do you a lot more good than slotting Cloak of Fear for the to-hit debuffs, I'd say. Attacks seem generally underslotted. I occasionally five-slot an attack, but I try to avoid it. I wouldn't personally run both Cloak of Fear and Oppressive Gloom, but just one or the other. On the surface, endurance consumption looks pretty brutal, though I didn't check anything carefully.
Mind you, I'm not saying start over with another combination. Katana/Dark Armor has amazing potential. Let me point you to a thread where ClawsandEffect works out his soft-capped Broad Sword/Dark Armor build. Some of the fine details could be different for Katana, as it would have different required recharge in the attacks for the optimal attack chain, but the broad swathes are the same. This should give you an idea what the potential is, and this is on an inexpensive build. Make sure you scroll down to the second build. On the surface, it looks like about the same price range as you're considering. -
Quote:I'll go tell him. Hopefully he'll recognize the error of his ways. Won't surprise me if he goes on a killing spree instead of improving the spreadsheet, though. Alexei needs new shinys, and spreadsheeting doesn't pay for them.Originally Posted by NeonPeon
So who wants to be the one to tell Werner he has to update his Claws DPS spreadsheet since he didn't use the buildup procs?
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Quote:Then pop a purple, and you're an unkillable damage machine.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Anything/DA is a beast with around 30% defense on top of the already respectable resists and the monster heal.
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Quote:I agree. Specifically, I believe that a fully soft-capped Katana/Dark Armor or Broad Sword/Dark Armor is the sturdiest scrapper possible, at least for no-temps no-insps play. Claws not AS much, but with AoE knockback and IO'd to the gills for defense and recharge, it should be very solid.Originally Posted by dave_p
DA is insanely survivable if you can get the defenses up through IOs... potentially the sturdiest set of them all.
(Edit: I should point out that when I say "very solid" I mean for the crazy stuff like the RWZ challenge and AV soloing. It doesn't have to be IO'd to the gills to be very solid for normal missioning.) -
Quote:The horror... the horror...Originally Posted by StratoNexus
So Lith Mebs then.
