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More, actually. SB is a 50% recharge buff, equivalent to 5 purple sets of recharge. It also grants 2x the recovery buff of Stamina at base, provides slow, -rech resistance and high speed movement that doesn't suppress in combat.

It animates in 1 second, recharges in 2 seconds and lasts 120. Honestly, the more I look at the SB numbers the more I realise what a stupidly good power it is.

Seems to be working now. Good times.

Edit: and haha, we're all such addicts

I'm wondering about this myself. Server status page says all the servers bar the Training Room are up, but I can't log in.

I'm getting the 'Game client was unable to connect to the login server' message. Server status page says the daily maintenance is on Thursdays from 7-9am. Which translates to 3-5pm Central Silas Time. It's only 20 past 5 here, so I assume servers are still coming back up and the status page is just dumb.

Okay, perhaps it's a bit extreme because a Kin who skips SB only vastly hampers their ability to contribute to a team, whereas a Scrapper who skips their mez protection vastly hampers their ability to contribute to a team and their ability to solo.

Your comparison is better, I agree. Kins without SB can still contribute a lot to a team, they'd just contribute so much more by being on the ball about SB. For me, since SB requires so little time, thought or effort to maintain even on a full team, it's a no brainer.

Corruptors are a hybrid AT. That means their focus should be on damage and support.

This doesn't mean you're reduced to a buffbot, but it does mean if you skip one of your best buffs you will be rightly chastised. I wouldn't kick someone without SB from my team, but I would chalk them down as a bad Kin. If you want a Scrapper analogy, it would be like skipping Active Defense or Practiced Brawler because you didn't like being locked into activating the power every so often.

SB is incredibly powerful and requires minimal effort to keep it up on a whole team. Yes, it can be tedious. I personally wish SB had a 4 minute duration like the buff shields, but I've learned to live with it. It's not a big deal.

Besides, it's not like you have to keep everyon SBed at all possible times. Kinning is busy. Sometimes it'll lapse on someone for a minute or so. Not a big deal. If you're on the ball with Transference/FS and are generally good about keeping SB up, you're doing a good job.

I personally don't think it's a question of peoples builds being bad or whatever and needing SB. The way I look at it, SB is a fast animating, fast recharging, incredibly potent buff that allows the team to go as full throttle as I want them to go.

I can suffer buffing people every few minutes for that. You can even break it up so you're not SBing the whole team in one go. Just SB a few people at a time between your AoEs, FS and all the rest of it.

Glad you like 'em Aura_Familia

Update: Am currently working on a melee guide. Shock horror! It won't be powerset specific like the guides so far, it's a guide on playing melee on teams.

How to not suck, basically. How to not do all the stuff that makes me hate on melee as a whole

Should be interesting, to say the least.

An accurate depiction of the negotiations:

Aaaand I got one. Horus was kind enough to sell me one. He let me pay for it entirely in saying nice things about Scrappers

What's the going rate on these outside of the market these days? Over 150 bids and 0 for sale on the recipe and crafted, somehow I doubt putting in 2b bids is going to get me anywhere

If you mean one million inf, I will gladly pay that much

As in the subject, I'm in the market for one of these badboys. If you've got one you're willing to sell, let me know how much you want for it.

Chaos Creator, Hehe yeah, my SS/FA is largely an agricultural tool though

BellyButtonJelly, I do want to use inspirations all the time. You know why? Because they drop like candy and turbocharge my killing machine of a Brute. I don't need to use inspirations to stay alive on normal farm maps, only on shenanigans-y ones where I'm going to be almost permanently at the aggro cap of +4s.

If there is that much incoming damage, being at the resist cap won't cut it. I know, because I've experimented with it. Eating a medium orange to put me at the res cap and just relying on HF I took far more damage than eating a couple of purples. Which translated into more time healing, which meant less time killing. Less efficient.

So whirr click buzz, I'm an efficiency-crazed robot powergamer but my squishy human brain also finds having to spam Healing Flames tedious when I could just chomp the inspirations that drop like candy.

You're right though, it is a game of give and take. Temp Prot wasn't enough give for what it would take from my build. It's simple. Yes, if you're fighting fire enemies you want to get good fire resistance. But if 70% is enough, (which it is), why would you waste a powerslot on Temp Prot?

Which, for the record, is IMO most desireable for the slow protection, not the additional resists.

I would have thought an Elec/Fire build would have even less room for TP than a SS/Fire one, since your AoE is divided up into several lulzy semi-AoEs and one pseudo-nuke.

But uh, Candlestick summarized it pretty succinctly right there, so I guess I'm done here.

Haha, oh man.

I've created a monster with the image-response thing. A hilarious monster, but a monster

Temp Prot is for taking in i19.

For normal fire damage farm content, 70+ is more than enough combined with killspeed, FS mitigation and Healing Flames. If you die with 70% against fire dealing enemies, you're bad.

If you're doing an AE farm with fire dealing enemies, (which can be a great deal more incoming damage depending on the mish), 70% is still fine because you'll get tonnes of inspirations. Plus, at that point you're more relying on the purples that drop rather than your damage resistance.

My SS/Fire build didn't have a powerslot to waste for superfluous fire and cold resistance. Why did yours?

Given my sig, you think I believe the endgame content is only for Tanks/Brutes/Scrappers?

lol, okay.

Well then daaaaaamn, learn something new every day.

I stand by my second point though It seems RT is undesireable in just about every way a power can be undesireable.

With respect to those whose names have been put forward already, (as many have made great contributions to the server as a whole), I don't see how this can be anything other than a popularity contest.

...oh, a farce. As you were.