Bill Z Bubba
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Here are what I expect the numbers to be:
Toggles: 18.5% base
Passives: 7.5%
ED capped value for M/R/A = 40.56% defense w/ SOs.
Add tough for more S/L dam-res to stack on to the passive scaling dam-res and weave for another 7.8% w/ SO defense and you're over the softcap. -
Quote:You forgot maneuvers and hover.Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
Not on a Scrapper or Brute it can't. (Not without Elude, anyway, which softcaps you all by itself with zero enhancements.)
With Weave and Combat Jumping added, all defensive powers 6-slotted with Defense SOs and no additional buffs from other powers (such as Parry) or Elude, the maximum defense you can get on a Scrapper/Brute is 41.5% on all positions.
(Of course, 6-slotting all those powers that way is a bad idea for a lot of reasons. A traditional 3 Defense SOs in each power caps Scrappers and Brutes at 39.2% to all positions.)
3slotting each:
Toggles: 21.645
Passives: 8.775
Hover: 2.925
Combat Jumping: 2.925
Weave: 5.85
Manuevers: 3.549
Total Defense: 45.669
Softcapped without IOs.
EDIT: I am available to assist in testing out Tank-SR and Blaster-Dark/Dark. -
Honestly... I'm with ya. I've wanted a dark/dark blaster for years. I'm surprised it's actually going to be added to the game.
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Quote:I think it's more accurate to state that with all the incarnate stuff the entire concept of game balance has been tossed out with the bath water.Originally Posted by Auroxis
Ice Armor is better than SD below 50 as well. That doesn't mean it doesn't need a buff.
Sorry, with all the Incarnate and level 50 content that's getting pumped out, I can't accept the "better below 50=balance" argument anymore.
I might even crank up a second tank with SR being added. Talk about a cakewalk for solo leveling... -
I'm betting a straight copy/paste from Brute SR. The ease of softcapping "should" be offset by the additional aggro tanks generate.
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Quote:And regen. Not that I really care for regen that much... but interesting.Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze
Katana on a Brute???
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I did. It just went from laughable to well now that's interesting.
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Quote:SR scaling dam-res is going to be very interesting with tank base HP.
I'm kind of worried at how absolutely easy this will be to soft-cap, too... though it'll be pretty damn funny to watch SR Tankers get one-shotted by an AV the way my SR Scrapper and Stalker always seem to.
Dark/Dark for blasters? I was also told that wasn't ever likely. I'll be sure to make one.
On the EA changes.... interesting. -
I can't count the number of times that I was told that tanks would NEVER get super reflexes because it would be ridiculously overpowered and far too easy to softcap.
So I'll throw in a nice HAAAAha. -
Not going to happen. See cottage rule. Also, on #2, it's a solid mule power for the steadfast IOs.
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Quote:Until the rage crash nerfs your one trick pony mitigation.Originally Posted by Airhammer
SS/SR just saying...
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Quote:Interestingly enough, I have found over the years that our heightened inability to shame those that deserve it into silence due to overzealous moderation has created a far more negative environment here than we had in the past.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Er, how about not. Give the mods a break. je_saist is wrong in this case, but that's no reason for a mass pileon "just because it's je_saist."
These boards are - or should be - better than that. -
EM's mitigation isn't great. SR has no HP buff. Energy Transfer eats up your own HP.
DM's tohit debuffs stack well on SR. Siphon Life closes up SR's lack of a self heal.
DM wins without even trying.
That said, I've got an EM/WP brute that I've been running quite a bit solo. I have no plans to team with him because I HATE firing off TF or ET only to have some team mate kill my target before the animations finish. -
Shockwave is awesome for exactly the reason you stated: Knock whole spawns on their butt and they can't attack you. Coupled with Focus, bosses can be taken out of play.
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Quote:This. 1000 times this.Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
No, the number should be 1. For trials, Hamidon, TFs, the CoT trial, everything.
Minimums are stupid, irritating and pointless.
Eco
LET US START AND FAIL WHATEVER CONTENT YOU CREATE.
Minimum teams sizes have always been stupid. They are stupid now. They will always be stupid.
LET YOUR PLAYERS FAIL AND MAKE BAD DECISIONS. Losers don't deserve trophies.
While on that topic, reopen the flight and teleport pools to kheldians. If some tool chooses flight pool: fly on a peacebringer that already has energy flight at level one, that's his problem. -
I find myself near speechless at the concept of pets having higher DPS than my main did before the incarnate powers.
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I see. Thanks for the post, A.
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Quote:Arcanaville, I'm not following your post here. I'm guessing that you mean that shards were a bridge from standard content to the incarnate system and not the invention system.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I'm afraid I cannot support this suggestion no matter how many times it comes up. Shards were put into the game in the first place as a compromise to allow a bridge from standard content to the invention system. Shards have properties threads were never intended to have, such as being earnable everywhere. If the devs knew - if I knew - that the end result of shards being created was that they would effectively be used to justify eliminating the distinction between the Alpha bridge reward system and the Incarnate system I would have opposed shards right from the beginning, declaring them a slippery slope trojan horse.
There comes a point where I stop arguing against this tactic, and decide to toss my hands up and start *using* it instead.
But what's the purpose of the bridge when you can skip it completely by farming the baf/lam/keyes to slot up your alpha?
For the rest, are you implying that the whole thing should just be ignored? That there's no point in trying to fix it now? -
Quote:And I've found I die less at +4/x8 w/bosses w/AVs now that I've got the incarnate slots loaded up. Imagine that. But I don't "need" to run at max diff either, right? Just like I don't "need" enhancements at all, right?Originally Posted by BrandX
This is true.
That said, I've found PuG trials go smoother when more people have them, and they fail a bit more with out them.
At least, that's how some of those "Hey 16 people on this lamba and only 4 at +1, everyone else is 50" have gone. -
Quote:You're right, it did. My apologies for that.Originally Posted by Oliin
I kind of figured you meant it something like that. It came across as very over entitled spoiled brat though to me. Very, "Every time I disagree with something I complain and end up getting things MY way." What you wrote just now there was much better.
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Quote:I have no doubt that it is being addressed. How they address it is still a concern and should still be addressed here.Originally Posted by Furio
Or, tell the avalanche to continue heading down the slope, and claim responsibility when it does just that.
Seriously. Look at the track record of the dev team, and tell me you honestly don't think there's damn good odds that this concern is already being addressed internally. -
Quote:I was in no way belittling the effort that went into the learning phase. I was discussing what it is now. And how long did it take before the core players on Pinn were sleepwalking through it? Less than a day.Originally Posted by Blacier
yeah and now you just totally belittle the efforts to train organize and figure it out initially. Yes NOW it is pretty easy. In the beginning Before everyone had their incarnate powers when Pinnacles three main SG's banned together to make it workable it wasnt a walk in the park. IT is now. Fairly easy but still inexperienced teams fail it quite frequently. Both the BAF and the LAM.
You can tout/slam/demean all you want but there is something to be said for Teaming vs soloing in the difficulty category. -
Quote:All the way to Marauder. Then he'd punch me into a fine paste on the ground.Originally Posted by Indiramourning
Perhaps if the minimum players for Incarate trials were dropped to 1. I'd love to see how far BillZ could get in a solo Lambda or BAF. And you still earn Threads and such even if you fail it so...
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Quote:I know how it should sound: "Say and do nothing, watch nothing happen. Work towards change, often get it."
You realize what that sounds like right Bill? -
Quote:Those two players that duoed the lambda duoed basic PvE content. Wait, you say, the lambda isn't basic PvE content! It takes 8 to start!Originally Posted by BrandX
Not at all!
What I'm saying is the soloist doesnt need to have it HERE AND NOW, since you know, it's just awesome stuff to work towards, more than "this massive player trial would go alot smoother and have a better chance to succeed if we all had some Incarnate powers"
The soloist is doing basic PvE content. Yes! That content would be made even easier to the point of one wondering if they indeed had their difficulty up, if the soloist had the tier 4s.
Now, if they had incarnate content that could be soloed, I'd understand all this. But...they don't!
So untill that time, I don't see the slow progression as a problem at all.
Like the LRSF and STF. The LRSF has been soloed. Is it part of your basic PvE content?
I "need" the incarnate powers to solo the lambda. I'm looking forward to the attempt knowing that I'll probably never succeed. But there's your reason why soloists want and "need" the incarnate buffs.