JayboH

My wife's DB scrapper is a monster, that's all I have to say. I'm pretty sure she uses 3 combos - the build up one, the sweep, and the heavy hitter.

Is Bill still around? I would love an update to this with Street Justice and Titan Weapons added in.

See, this introduces a possible problem. If Fiery Melee doesn't do more damage in general than the other primaries, we may need to hit up the powers team for possible buffs/nerfs, simply because of the lack of any mitigation in that set.

The ghostly effect is part of the story - they are from the Well if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah I went with Spectral on one character since I use Oppressive Gloom and dislike wandering mobs - same goes for fiery aura scrappers using Burn - immob them in that patch. The DoT of Spectral is the same as Reactive but doesn't get the yummy resistance debuff. Spectral is also thematic for dark armor anyway.

Well, would you get more out of what Vigor Core or Vigor Radial would give over Cardiac if your goal was to have a bunch of end cost cut down (since Vigor gives 33% end cost red in either branch?)

I agree about Destiny - Clarion or the new Incandescent are highly sought after for the UG trial, especially Clarion.

Many of the new Interfaces are getting doubled in strength and are currently on the beta server for us to test:

The damage of the Degenerative and Cognitive branches was intentionally lower than the damage of Reactive, Spectral, and Preemptive. However, the damage difference ended up feeling like too much of a penalty for doing Psionic or Toxic damage. We’re increasing the damage of both Degenerative and Cognitive to be closer to the other DoTs, without completely eclipsing them.

Speaking of Degenerative, the –MaxHP has been retooled to correctly apply to all possible targets. Against most enemies in the game, Degenerative will apply a fairly sizeable –MaxHP debuff. Against very high-health/strong targets, Degenerative will apply a fixed debuff of 150 hp per stack. This helps keep the ability on par with reactive when fighting targets like Hamidon Mitos, Reichsman, etc.

The Endurance Drain over Time component of Preemptive has been significantly increased. Preemptive has also gained a chance for a –Recovery debuff of slightly less magnitude than that of Gravitic Interface. This power should now be a very attractive option for builds with sapper-type powers, or for characters who want to help their teammates sap a target more easily.

The duration of the Immobilize and Confuse procs was erroneously being affected by Archetype modifiers for those effects, in many cases making them so short as to be useless. The duration of these effects should always be 4 seconds in PvE, and 2 seconds in PvP.

The proc chance of the status effects in Spectral and Cognitive branches was too low to be useful to a solo player, without really gating league power at all. We’re doubling the chance to confuse, and increasing the chance to immobilize by 2.5 times its current value.

I'm not sure how many 'actuals' are required for a person to believe a set of numbers tested in a very specific scenario with a specific build that could have affected a specific time period vs the dev's intended design, but I bet it is high.

EDIT: nevermind - it took over an hour for the NCSoft emails to come

EDIT: Nevermind - it just took an hour for them to get the email

EDIT: nvm

Ok, now they are going to just buy the VIP starter kit and forget the points, but now it is getting to a point where it asks them to confirm it via email and they haven't received the email, even after using the Resend button, and even though they have already received email from NCSoft already.

Those numbers are also wrong according to Arbiter Hawk's spreadsheet data.

Should be noted that Assault is end hungry by itself, but typical slotting using SOs would be 2 acc/3 dam/1 end reduction when running hasten for your attacks - might get by with 1 acc with fully slotted targetting drone (put at least one end cost in targetting drone.) Personally I never slot acc for nukes - most nukes have higher accuracy than most attacks in the game and nearly everyone will hit aim+buildup OR in this case be running targetting drone and eat yellows and reds before full auto. Combat Jumping is overslotted. Maneuvers is unnecessary - all of those combined won't really keep you alive. Using Body Armor + Tough together might get you some additional survivability by a little bit with decent use of Aid Self here and there.

Question: when a friend of mine clicks on the 'become a VIP' in the game character select screen, it is listing it as 14.99 - does it change at the end of the transaction or something?

EDIT: nvm, got my answer