firespray

An interesting point. I do have Mids show me the average damage for an attack, so the effect of procs and DoTs should be averaged out over time. I would think that soloing a pylon would take long enough that my damage would be fairly well averaged out over it. It took me about 9 minutes. My attack chain is 3 attacks, and takes about 6 seconds to execute, so that would be something like 250 attacks or so. That's not a huge statistical sample, but it is large enough that my DPS shouldn't drop 25 points just from procs and DoTs not going off.

Lol, thanks for reminding me of that, but not this time. It's in build up and I don't calculate DPS with build-up running.

If that's the case then I'm still confused as to why my DPS is so much higher than on paper. I'm calculating DPS from the mids numbers and not doing anything myself to account for the level shift. I had assumed that if you were level shifted, then mids gave damage out as if you were attacking a -1 enemy instead of an even-level.

And don't forget 8x accelerated metabolism running constantly, 8x maneuvers, 8x tactics, 8x assault, and for hard targets, 8 sets of rad debuffs.

I account for arcanatime in calculations and keep attacks queued so I'm not losing damage waiting to click a power.

On another (but similar) note, is there a way in Mids to have it show the global enhancement effect of a T3 or T4 incarnate boost without showing the effects of the level shift?

I know it used to be in the launcher. That's why I said we didn't have to click it in the game. I wish they'd put it back in the launcher. It was less intrusive there.

There's not? I have a pretty good preconception of what a mind flayer does. Not that you'd be able to make a mind flayer anyway, since it's copyrighted.

Why waste the time to fix something that isn't causing any problems?

They got along fine without us needing to click on it in the game for 7 years. Suddenly we need to?

Very much agreed. Praetoria is pretty cool, but it's becoming like a song you like that gets overplayed on the radio. Yeah, it's a good song, but if I have to hear it again I'm going to puncture my eardrums with fondue forks.

And I'm a bit disappointed that either 1. The coming storm is being pushed back even further or 2. It's just the praetorian invasion. I was expecting something more interesting to be honest.

Neither really.

You make some good points. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with tanks. However, as far as farming goes, the difference is quite one-sided. For what the OP wants, a scrapper is clearly superior to a tank. In other situations, it's not as clear-cut.

I don't think this is true actually. As far as I know, higher level enemies do not have a higher chance to drop anything, they're only worth more xp and inf. I'm pretty sure that the chance to drop a recipe is the same regardless of what level they are.

One other thing that needs to be considered is recharge time. For an electric/shield, most of your AoE will be in lightning rod and shield charge. You'll probably also have fireball or ball lightning to help out. You're limited in how fast you can move from group to group not only by how fast you can kill things, but by how fast the powers you need will recharge. At best, you'll probably have LR and SC recharging in around 30 seconds, and ball lightning or fireball recharging in about 10. Assuming your standard tactic is to use LR or SC at each group (alternating between the two) and following up with fireball or ball lightning, then at most you can take on a group about every 15 seconds. If you can kill a group that includes bosses in 15 seconds, then there is absolutely no reason not to include them.

One other thing to consider is the soft cap. A softcapped shield tank will not be all that much tougher than a softcapped shield scrapper. There will be some difference, but it won't be as much of a difference as between say a willpower tank and a willpower scrapper. Just something to think about.

Scrapper, definitely. Farming is all about killing as many enemies as quickly as you can. For farming, you don't need to be that tough. You just have to be tough enough to kill the enemies before they kill you. A scrapper can easily reach that level of toughness, and the added damage will mean you can kill things much faster than a tank can. Ergo, scrapper is the natural choice.