Akhillius

I agree with this. 32.5% s/l def is very reliable in terms of survivability for a WP brute. I'd also try to slot about the same amount of n/ne def too though, as WP doesn't have so much resist to it as far as I remember. At least ne won't drain so much end if it won't hit!

But of course it's definitely more survivable if you have the softcap to s/l, but you can do without it if you're ready to pop purples to survive.

I would definitely go with Fire Blast. I doesn't require much attention as the animations are fast and fluid.

I don't see why Arch/kin wouldn't be bad though. I never saw overkill as a liability :3. It's like a ticking clock of doom for your enemies. Your RoA is the countdown to death! Even if your team is fast with SB and all, if you're quick enough (which you are with Siphon speed), you can start your RoA animation just before the tank gets in and the damage will reign on your enemies as the others in the team start laying their debuffs on the mob (Haha, poor Rad debuffers!) and scrappers/blasters think of taking out the minions with AoEs. When the team knows that you can take out everything except the bosses they will start targeting only those. This happens in good teams only though. So get ready hear lots of "plz don't kill ze debuff anchors, focuz on ze others first!" etc.

I wouldn't be concerned with redraw issues. In good teams the only powers you have to use frequently are FS and SB. FS only once per mob and you don't have to spam SB anymore as it's an AoE buff now. I don't think redraw would be annoying in this case.

What I could think of as a better combination is Dual Pistols as its' Hail of Bullets is a PBAoE that you can fire off immediately after FS. Also it only has a tad less damage than RoA.

I've come to the conclusion that trying to be uber in the low lvls is just not worth it. The low lvl content isn't so hard that you'd need to IO for it. I don't see why you shouldn't rely on Incarnate powers in this case.

It's up to everyone to decide that for themself obviously! Just my point of view :]

Unfortunately for you (or not) my Emp/archery Defender can solo +0/x8 very efficiently. RAs, RoA+AoEs, take out stragglers, if any, and repeat.

As for Electric armor, my Elec/Kinetic/mu tanker is indestructible. It can solo labs/warehouse in lambda incarnate trial for example. I literally took out almost every box of sweets in one lambda trial run by itself. Energize is also a much better heal than Dark's and Fire's because it increases your regen greately and also reduces your endurance consumption for 30s or something like that.

Something that's extremely gimped is EM/dark stalker. Sure, it can take out anything with its' huge burst dmg but that's it. After you take out one enemy the rest swarms you and swat you like a fly. Tried and true.

Sorry for the confusion. In fact, I'm going to respec the toon and I'm just wondering if it'd be worth the proc and slot. I don't really have any lack of slots in other powers but I was just thinking if it's worth the 100 mil that Javelin volley costs. I'm mainly just trying to get as much recharge set bonuses as possible in this build. So far I've got 80% global recharge and it seems I can't fit in anymore powers that can give me more. With T4 Spiritual Alpha I will have hasten at 118s recharge, so I think it's definitely enough for an empath.

I tried yesterday a mission at +0/8x and I was able to solo it very fast. RAs, pop some purple insps, RoA + AoEs, next mob! Just can't wait to get all other iPowers and this toon can even farm! :O I don't farm! What! Farm is evil!

I'm still mainly an Empath and I play like this: First I buff everyone and let the tanker/brute/scrapper aggro and then I use RoA and heal up. Rince and repeat! In this case I don't need more than 20s recharge in RoA. Neither is the damage worth the animation time without Aim/PBU.

Hmm... so I guess that shuts Mind Control out. What I can choose between now is Illusion (I already have an uber slotted ill/rad), Ice and Grav. I'd maybe choose Ice in this case for the nostalgy of my first toon ever being an Ice/Emp. Only got him to lvl 18 though!

I think Grav has the upper hand as it has a stun, Dimension Distortion, while Ice has the slow/confuse field.

Any thoughts about this? Ice vs Grav! What are your opinions?

It's unfortunate then because I already have a lvl 50 plant/thorns dominator and a plant/storm troller :P

Yes, I think Elec/emp would be quite fun too. I don't care too much about damage, but i think it might lack some control as the "AoE stun" is in this case an AoE sleep, which will be broken quite easily with DoTs and AoEs. Also I don't think it's worth jumping into the mob and drain them as it might cost me my life which is contradicting to what an emp wants to do; keep your team mates alive.

Well from my own experience with a stone/DB tank, I was able to tank Lord Recluse in LRSF without a scratch just with Granite Armor+Rooted. If you really want to get everything out of your survivability, also go for fighting pool; Tough and Weave.

As for slotting I'd just go for as much Global Recharge as possible to max out your own damage as Electrical Melee has some capability for that even with Granite's Dmg and Rech debuff. I would 5-slot all Single target attacks with Crushing Impact for the +5% rech bonus and 6-slot Lightning rod and Thunderstrike with Obliteraion. Jacob's ladder can take 5 pieces of Positron's blast. You can leave out Dmg/range as it's not needed and you get a proc on top of that. As for resistive powers I'd probably 4-slot Granite armor with Reactive Armor, if you want everything out of it you can 6-slot it and put in the 2 last slots LoTG: Def and loTG: +rech. Defensive powers you can go with 4x LoTG with the +rech. The LoTGs are quite expensive though but you can get the +rech without spending any money by doing morality mishes. One LoTG:+rech costs 2 hero/villain merits so it takes 4 days to get one. You can also convert normal merits to hero/villain merits and get them like that, so you can get them much more frequent of course.

I agree with you. Even though they are melee/close ranged control sets, it doesn't mean that they don't fit well with Empathy since it has many powers as the Healing aura and PBAoE buffs since you usually go close to the mob anyway to heal tankers/scrappers and other suicidal team mates.

I already have a lvl 50 Illusion controller so that's out of questio to me. I don't see a point playing the same primary set twice to lvl 50. I'm probably going to go with Mind control, maybe even gravity, as it's the only one I've never taken past lvl 10-ish. Mind control could probably go well as a concept with Empathy too. I'm usually quite picky about concepts as I usually get bored playing a character without a one.

Aww *sympathy* =P

ur too slow