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Do the zombie invasions happen in the Galaxy Echo too? It seemed weird since everything else is gutted from the echo zones, so I figured that would be as well.

Suddenly a KM stalker using their ATO proc to guarantee crits on Concentrated Strike and have Build Up recharged instantly every 10 seconds or so sounds like a terrific idea.

The splash actually counts as a separate effect, meaning if you have two targets near eachother, you can alternate between them and get an amplified effect on both (fighting Romulus, the LRSF, the patrons in the STF, etc.).

So, with that in mind, Poison is around...

-63.75% resistance (83.75% if you toss in an Achilles proc in Envenom, and 103.75% if you can nab the PvP proc - add an extra -18.75% from Poisonous Ray in Mace Mastery for a potential grand total of 122.5%).

-60% damage.

-75% to regen (50% ST).

-55% to defense, unenhanced. -75% with Poisonous Ray.

Poison Trap isn't -regen by the way, it's -recovery. It's -1000%, sure, but that's not quite as useful for hard targets as -regen is. It's also got some secondary effect neutering in there, some heal resistance, a few ways to hold a target, and some -recharge. None are of outstanding use, but they're still good.

For primaries, Earth Control is great for tons of -def. Electric is terrific at flooring endurance. Ice will help lower their recharge. Corruptors have Sonic, as mentioned, which will add silly amounts of -res. Radiation is great if you hate defense, Fire if you hate things living, Ice if you hate things living but also hate an enemy having recharge, etc.

Special mention goes to Beam Rifle: you'll be able to squeeze an extra -150% regen out of Disintergrate, an extra -15% damage res, and a bit of -def. The regen is helpful because of Poison's rather anemic regen debuffs, so if you're looking to solo hard targets, that might help you out slightly.

And a super special mention to Masterminds. They have slightly worse debuff values for everything but -res, which is actually a tad better since Poison's t9 is put on a pet for them. It also has the benefit of making people vomit when that pet is in range, which is for technical purposes a mag 4000 hold for 4 seconds. If you're thinking of going the MM route, I'd recommend either Demons or Bots. Demons come with even more -res in the pets and the personal powers, and Bots come with ample amounts of -regen in the Assault Bot's attacks. Both are very good - Demons will help keep you alive with a bit of resistance, Bots with a bit of defense in their forcefields.

They vaguely do. Things like AE reference your "battle classification" as your AT or something like that. There's still a reference to archetypes in the SoA's fight against Statesman where he's giving a speech that tries to explain powerset proliferation as being an in-universe thing, referencing the "archetypes of Paragon City" or something like that (I'm paraphrasing a bit).

Aside from the Epic ATs though, there's nothing in the lore that I can think of that dictates any of them adhering to any one source of power aside from any given player's lack of creativity.

Well, actually...

There we go. That's better.

It is their movement speed. The howlers have a self buff that makes them move pretty quick, probably to help chase down runners.

Simply enough, it's as mentioned, a +33% crit chance on Scrappers. Whether or not that 33% is getting boosted by the Scrapper ATO is something Arcana and myself pestered Synapse to check on, but I dunno if he ever got around to it. On Tanks, it's a 33% damage buff instead.

For practical usage, just queue up the attack you want to benefit from the boosted chance during the EC animation. It's very noticeable in Dragon's Tail on my MA scrapper, but I believe it doesn't work in ancillary pool attacks for some reason. At least, not in Fireball from my objective and highly unscientific testing.

But, you're right. With the advent of the combos stuff, there's no real reason (that I can think of) that it couldn't give the increased crit modifier for your next attack instead of such a small window. I'd wager that a change like that is fairly low as far as priorities go, either way.

Visually too, I meant. Aside from the big red text cue, I don't recall there being anything special about Nova Fist. I could see it being used as an animation for an awesome looking judgement, but I'd rather see a weapon based judgement before another hand to hand natural one. They'd probably have to let you pick from any weapon depending on what it was, or do something totally different like a placeable aoe warburg nuke judgement or something.

For now though, I use a purple/pink colored Void as my psychic stand in on my Fortunata. Mixing up the damage types a little doesn't hurt either.

Was just about to mention this myself. Wasn't there a big enough stink about selling rare sets?