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You've got BU activated, and Mids considers the Gaussian proc in BU to be always on.

Higher recovery gives you more ticks. Only increasing max endurance can increase the amount given per ticks.

While Kat/ lacks BF/FU, it just does so much damage on its high end chain I think it'd be first, at least it seems so on my spreadsheets (my closest experience is on a Kat/FA which can reach ~260 DPS... Assuming I pop insps so I don't need survivability).

The pylon results topic shows DB/Elec far above anything non-Shield, but I think Shadowsylph put far more effort into maximising his DPS than anyone else - including Shielders. You can see his build here, the focus on damage is extreme.

Stuff like Assault and global dam bonuses stack better on Kat as this primary operate at lower damage% values to start with, without BF/FU (but tend to have higher DPA on attacks and faster animations making for higher proc usage). That said, I could be wrong and maybe DB/Elec is in fact the top dog.

As for scrapper Claws, its high end chain starts a bit under DB, and unfortunately lags further behind because it can't slot the PVP -res IO. Never looked too much into Brutes so can't comment on that. We're still talking about 230-240 DPS or above, while also enjoying Spin and Shockwave.

Just tried it in game on an alt with 105 max end so I could be completely sure about it (activating Unstop, no toggles running, monitoring end) : it crashes to 0.

The best thing you can do is get as much recovery as possible, as the higher your recovery the faster you get end ticks.

It does get better. It's arguably the sturdiest combo out there for S/L situations without significant debuffs.

Sorry, that was tongue in cheek. I was just refering to the larger-than-usual fontsize your whole reply had.

Strictly speaking about the font size.

CMA sounds angry...

I kind of want to go with a snarky answer everytime someone sends me a "need team?" tell, 'cause, yeah, my characters aren't some helpless bystanders who *need* a team, thank you very much.

It's not like "need" saves space compared to "want". I know most likely it is just ignorance, but sometimes I wonder if they purposefully want to be annoying.

I know that's just semantics but for me a +HP buff is just frostworks. "Buff" is already descriptive, saying a "+"HP "buff" for stuff like heals is redundant.

HP buff = heals
regen buff = +regen
+HP buff = maxHP buff

IMHO, YMMV.

Quills is actually high DPS and DPE... Like any aura. The slow is tiny and slotting for it only enhances -movement, I'd strongly recommend against slotting slow over damage.

As for Cloak of Fear, I'm not a big fan of it so best to let someone who actually uses the power speak.

As far as I can tell, his math is right ; the 37.5% figure is after AV resistances to debuff are considered.

100% -regen does make most things unable to regen for as long as the regen debuff is on, including Giant Monsters.

Archvillains, on the other hand, have about ~85% resistance to regen debuffs at level 50 ; which is why Envenom's -250% regen turns out to be a -37.5% debuff.

He's low level, so he has much lower HP (which results into lower regen). While you also do lower damage, the damage/enemyHP ratio is in your favor compared to fighting at level 50.

Looking at the big picture involves considering the negative impact ET has on your survivability, the overkill damage on teams because of long animations, and so on. Ideally, it also involves playing the set as some flaws might not be immediately obvious.

For example, I used to believe EM/DA would make a good combo, thanks to stacking stuns and DR nullifying ET's -health. As it turns out, after playing it, it's not so hot ; using DR efficiently involves waiting for your life to go yellow/orange, and using ET in these conditions can sometimes make things go very bad very quickly. Either I waste damage output by not using ET (which can eventually lead to my death, if I do too low damage and die before my enemies), waste heal potential by using DR too soon (which can eventually lead to my death a few seconds later, given hard enough foes). Add to that the long animations on ET and TF can make it easy to take too much damage and die before having the time to hit DR.

Cue in "you don't know how to play blah blah blah" people. Thing is, I wouldn't need to "know how to play" if I picked any other primary, and I would put similar if not higher damage numbers while enjoying superior survivability.

On top of the huge -regen (considering this is an easily obtainable temp), it deals 160 base damage with a 1s cast. That means it stacks very well with damage buffs/insps you might have.

Extreme example : DM/SD with saturated SD, AaO and 20% global damage bonus. That's +250% damage buff, so each dagger hit is going to deal 560 damage.

Elude lasts 3 minutes, all old godmodes have that duration.

The 2 minutes godmodes are the new ones like OwtS (Shield) and SoW (WP).

Agreed with Finduilas. While psi is more common in CoV, buildings for psi res/def involves too many tradeoffs.

Personally, I like Unstoppable on brutes. With a 90% resistance cap the power really shines, and unlike Power Surge there isn't a -recovery period ; so when it crashes, you can just pop a blue and keep on trucking.

Googling "CoH target furthest mob" (I don't mention this to be snarky, but rather to say I don't have personal experience with the following) gives me this link to paragonwiki ; making a bind or macro with the target_enemy_far command might be what you're looking for (or maybe target_enemy_prev).

Yeah, I can see your point, especially with their stacked grant covers making Parry not always as reliable as it is against everything else. I kind of went with a black&white argument here and forgot it's perfectly possible to have too much mitigation for the task at hand while not having enough to overaggro.

How's this for another approach ? *A-hem* :

See, that is where a ranged/armor AT could have it's use ! Romans don't hit so hard at range, and with ranged attacks you could just shoot a targeted AoE on them and lure them to the tanker in relative safety.