The Zero One Taskmaster

HACKER TESTING OF CR2

Testing the TaskMaster with Hacker.

Okay the other day I loaded up a full hacker tree and tested several different things out.  We'll start with the load out.  I took All of Ballista and then Network Attacker down to Codeshock and the first ability 'Hostile Programming' in Vector.  My attributes are set up as follows.  Belief 30 / Perception 8 / Reason 5 / Focus 25 / Vitality 30.  My bonuses with the various HyperDodge, Hacker buffs running was as follows.  Viral Accuracy +111 / Viral Accuracy Bonus 20% / Viral Damage +156 / Viral Damage Bonus 74% / Ballistic Defense +120 / Ballistic Defense Bonus 29%

As far as the Taskmaster after about 5 minutes of trial and error I was able to solo him fairly regurlarly by just using Logic Barrage 4.0 and logic blast 3.0.  He would deflect perhaps 1 out of every 3 Hacks from me, and was able to hit me 1 of about every 2-3 shots, but I was able to sustain the damage and continue hacking.  Most times he would have me at about 25-40% health before I killed him.  Only problem was he never interlocked or attempted to interlock.  If he had I'm sure I would have been in trouble. 

Testing NPC with Hacker. 

With the same loadout I hardlined into CrestonHeights and proceded over to the boss area in the park.  Surprisingly most of the NPC's were one shot kills with Logic Barrage 4.0 or Logic Blast 3.0.  They would  deflect I'd say 1 out of 3, sometimes less.  The Boss and all three chevron NPC's in the area were two shot kills with Logic Barrage 4.0 and Logic Blast 3.0 or one shot kills with Logic Cannon 2.0 (Logic Canon 1.0 and 2.0 did insane damage to NPC's).  Damage on the high lvl NPC's in Creston maintained at a regular 1800-1900 for both Logic Blast 3.0 and Logic Barrage 4.0 However damage for Logic Cannon 2.0 went through the roof at over 6k a shot.   I was hit farily frequently with ranged attacks but with never enough damage to concern me.  I used the same build on a Pandora's Box 3 with pretty much the same results, though I was in a full group.   I was hit much more frequently with ranged attacks with the PB and took more damage.  I easily would ahve been killed by the ranged damage if I had not been in a group

Testing PVP with Hacker.

Again with the same loadout I dueled a few faction members who were loaded up as Akido Grandmasters, and then took the build described above to Mara C where I battled a few other hackers and duelest.  The logic Canon 2.0 did significant damage when getting through on people, for the most part almost halfing their health with about 1300-1400 damage.  The logic Canon 1.0 did about 300 damage less.  The timer for the Logic Canon 2.0 and Logic Canon 1.0 are both about 10 seconds reuse.  In the same amount of time you can use the following attacks Logic Barrage 4.0 followed by Logic Blast 3.0 followed by another Logic Barrage 4.0.  The damage difference between the Logic Cannon 2.0 and the three attacks described with Logic Barrage and Logic Blast was negligible and seemed extremley balanced.  It seems that players who had Viral Defenses loaded up deflected about 1 out of every 3 perhaps 1 out of 2 of my hacks.  However those who had no defenses against Viral Attacks died quickly within 2-3 hits or in about 20-30 seconds.

Interlock

Both NPC and Players seemed to have a harder time interlocking me with CR2. With an Akido Grandmaster taking about 3 hits to break my Evade.  I could not find my Evade score but my bonuses were Combat Evastion 15% and Evade Interlock Bonus 13%

Debuffs

I didn't test debufs much but it seemed like by the time I hit someone with a debuf they were out of it before I gained any benefit from casting the Hack.

Inner Strength Regain

Inner strength Regain was a problem with it running out in a prolonged fight.  My stats for IS was as follows Max IS 77% / IS Regen Bonus 55% / IS Regen Bonus 62 % / IS Cost Modifiere 5% / Max IS 20 pts.  I could however throw on the Skript Kiddie buff and get another 10% IS Regen Bonus.