Aldo Hanso

oh my god, been waiting for this one! I can run heals or DPS.

Bringing damage!

If we can get 16, I wanna play! I can bring some melee dps.

Oh boy, those machines don’t know what’s going to hit ‘em! I played this once on Imp side so I have an idea of what’s about to happen. Gonna watch a tutorial video on it.

I'm gonna run some smuggler DPS and work on that renown. I can also do Commando heals, if needed, but prefer to run my smuggler to get renown.

I'll be a backup rDPS!

29 minutes ago, hunterhead said:

Arsenal does tend to meld better with the Apex Predator set piece than it does with CF, mainly because Apex Predator (4) set piece boost the crit chance on your next tracer missle up to 5 times (it falls off at 6 stacks) along with the (6) set piece helping with energy management. There is also the fact that Arsenal does tend to perform worse on the dummy compared to other even with AP. On the Parsely leaderboards, the highest Arsenal Merc/Gunnery Mando parse was 23.9k while the highest IO Merc/AS Mando parse is 25k. If you are running CF I would recommend swapping to IO mainly cause the CF set piece works with IO Merc much better than it does with Arsenal.

And I have not seen any site that has a complete breakdown of what mod/enhancements are best for each spec, but I believe the Theorycrafter's discord does explain the stuff well.

Two things: 1) I will take that under strong advisement, never ocured to me to switch to a different spec, and 2) YYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

That was still Arsenal Merc but i did it! I'm so happy!

3 hours ago, hunterhead said:

The enhancements and the mods having a higher endurance stat may be hurting the parse mainly, and could push you above 15k if modified to better ones.

I’ll take a second pass on them after work. I bet I am holding up my accuracy and crit with enhancements when i could be using some implant base stats and letting enhancements do the heavy crit lifting. Or maybe that’s backwards. Does anyone know if there is a mod breakdown for various builds. Merlyn’s only has general numbers, but I’ve never seen a build site that breaks down every mod for a given spec. That would be super nice (and sad to find now that it’s almost for nothing after the patch).

4 hours ago, RaVem said:

What spec are you running?  If IO, perhaps I can help

Hi! Arsenal Merc, lots of long range pew pew.

14 minutes ago, hunterhead said:

Could it be the amount of power/crit/alacrity/accuracy you have in your gear? I doubt the blue augments are causing the issues, and if you are focusing on the rotation that should be fine as well.

Hi @hunterhead, happy holidays! I just logged off (I do have to work, haha). My accuracy and alacrity match Merlyn’s recommendations, so i am good there. Everything else I could turn to crit I did, and I think it was around 34% chance, and 64% hit. I double-checked my crystals, and did upgrade them to +41 crits. As for power, I am not sure what a good number is. And I am certainly not perfect on my rotations, but I was focused on ensuring I hit my adrenals, I was running my recommended stim, and then trying to proc every crit I could as fast as I could. I was even trying to use my set bonus proc for rail shot. I have never touched amplifiers, though. I am not sure how critical getting those changed before everything else is. I ran four parses, and made little adjustments, but that so little impact, I went from 13.4 to 13.9. Grr. I wonder if it’s my mods, I am certain they are not all set to unlettered lethals, and could be getting more crit out of them.

8 minutes ago, Aldo Hanso said:

Dangit! i can't break past 13.8K with a shattered armor Ops dummy with 3.25M HP, argh! I was really focusing on my rotation, too. But three parses and the best I did was 13.8K.   Well, I guess I'll be a backup if I can't get a prime spot. Im gonna keep trying.

GAAARAG! With a crit adrenal only 13.9K. I suck. Well, i wonder if it's the all-blue augments . . . 

44 minutes ago, Aldo Hanso said:

I have not tested my BH for damage officially but I feel like he does a good job, more or less. I will put my hand up to do rDPS and I’ll do a test as soon as I get off work to see what my numbers are. If that doesn’t sound confidence-inspiring, put me down as a backup, I’ll check in before the Op.

Dangit! i can't break past 13.8K with a shattered armor Ops dummy with 3.25M HP, argh! I was really focusing on my rotation, too. But three parses and the best I did was 13.8K.   Well, I guess I'll be a backup if I can't get a prime spot. Im gonna keep trying.

I have not tested my BH for damage officially but I feel like he does a good job, more or less. I will put my hand up to do rDPS and I’ll do a test as soon as I get off work to see what my numbers are. If that doesn’t sound confidence-inspiring, put me down as a backup, I’ll check in before the Op.

4 hours ago, Tibault said:

Hey @Aldo Hanso you can have my DPS spot if you want.

Thanks @Tibault! Bringing some melee deeps!

Son-of-a!! I forgot to sign up, and I’ve never done this one. Well, put me down as a backup for DPS.

Bringing the heals again! 

I'm in for some DPS, ranged or melee whichever is needed!

I am coming anyway, let's do a 16-man! I can heal on pub side, DPS on Imp

Son of a crap, I'm too late! Well, I can bring DPS of any caliber, just say the word. 

You’ll believe a Commando can heal!

Bringing mDPS!

Since we have so many scheduled events, I declined to schedule an Imp side gree event, but maybe we can run some gree stuff here!

Put me down for melee DPS (I don't like my ranged options on pub side)!

Put me down for two runs on DPS. I'll be running Arsenal Merc and Deception Assassin.

Note that 9 PM is not a hard stop, just a guideline, since I might run this at least once more this week.