Bill Z Bubba

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Same as prior years. I man the door while the wife and son go out T&T. However, at 9pm, I sit down to watch The Walking Dead. My lady will take over door duty at that point.

How you view the character in question can have a lot to do with where you find redraw on the "nuisance" to "oh, gods below, the horror" scale.

Example:

I min/max my main a lot. As he uses claws, anything causing redraw is downright earthshatteringly detrimental. During pylon runs I bounce between not allowing PB to fire off at all or only allowing it to fire off as it's crashing and then only by skipping the lowest DPA attack in the chain and letting PB fill that hole.

On my dp/storm corruptor, I couldn't care less about redraw. She's all about style and her performance is based on "can I solo this mission? well, goody, her performance is fine."

The OP specifically asked about combat performance.

The answer is "redraw is almost always detrimental to combat performance."

Redraw adds time to an attack chain without increasing the damage of the chain.

DPS is calculated by dividing damage by time. As time increases, DPS decreases.

Possible exception: An attack that will cause redraw is so good that adding it and the associated redraw time creates a higher DPS situation than leaving the power out of the chain.

Example: It was my hope that a claws brute would be better off with the single target chain of followup, focus, slash, gloom, redraw, repeat than he would be with followup, focus, slash, strike, repeat. After calculating the DPS of both chains, I found my hope dashed.

I tried to skip fitness on my new claws/sr brute. I snapped at 22 and respeced into swift/health/stamina. Now he's the sickening blender that he should be. I'll respec him again come I-19.

My mains are already incarnates of themselves. Have been since level 1. I-19/20/21 whatever will be nothing but them coming more into their own.

Thus staying true to the superhero comics genre.

Example A:


Example B:

I'm sure I'm among those adding to her issues. When I make a female character, most of them, unless concept dictates otherwise, work like this:

Shoulders to the right
Chest to the right
Waist to the left
Hips to the right... or left... but all the way either way
Legs go all the way up. (Cuz she just had them lengthened.)

Hmm. I'd have to say that someone else, then, is overly sensitive regarding this topic and your response of telling her to "f off" should probably be given sooner than later.

Is it not possible that she's giving you grief because she knows it gets under your skin?

If you're concerned, use the slider. That's what it's there for. Shove it to the left and you probably won't ever hear about it again.

Ohhhh, yea I misread the hell out of that. Thought you were saying that your connections to the drama types were why you watched it.

I thought they were called controllers and dominators because they controlled/dominated the enemy.

No. I need them to look good, be fun and lack annoyance.

Dumb people believe dumb things.

I see where my error in all of this has come from. I foolishly overlooked that the farming tests would be using missions specifically designed to benefit ss/fire.

In order to compete, I would need to design a mission full of enemies weak to lethal that used nothing but fire attacks and had ample knockback protection so that I could add shockwave to the mix.

My bad. Sorry to intrude.

Good stuff, Fiery-Enforcer. I doubt that the damage difference between death shroud and blazing aura is enough to make up that 40k inf/min difference. Were you using fiery embrace on your SS/Fire? If so, that would make a considerable difference.

The brute forum is the wrong place to look for that.