Adeon Hawkwood

Regarding defense you only count the highest single value, you can't add typed and positional defense.

For general advice here's a link to an old thread which has several people (including me) posting builds for AR/Traps Corruptors and Traps/AR Defenders.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=211713

There are two ways to convert characters with Going Rogue:

1. Create them as a Preatorian. They start neutral then at level 20 become either a hero or a villain

2. Run a series of morality missions/arcs to change a characters alignment in the following sequence: Hero -> Vigilante -> Villain -> Rogue -> Hero. Rogues and Vigilantes are the in between alignments. They will have access to both the Rogue Isles and Paragon City (we don't know yet how much access) but will still be considered a member of their previous alignment for most purposes.

Overall I would say the villain arcs aren't villainous enough (except for Westin). That being said my main villain is an out and out mercenary so that suits me fine. As long as he gets paid he doesn't care to much about the job itself but at the same time keeping a low profile decreases the risk of heroes knocking down his door in the middle of the night.

*slides gas can behind a conveinient bush*

What? I wasn't doing anything.

Welcome to the forums

My attitude on this is the same as when the RealID thing was originally announced: it strikes me as a very bad idea.

Cyberstalking is already an issue on the internet and this sort of thing potentially makes it much more dangerous. Add in the fact that the collective maturity of the internet is somewhere around that of a 13 year old guy with a serious hormone overdose and it makes it worse. A lot of females on the internet choose to hide that fact (especially in online communities related to gaming) simply because of the number of people who can't act rationally around girlz and forcing them to (effectively) reveal their gender is only going to exacerbate the problem.

Here:
http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/modifiers.php

based on what the devs said any inf you've placed as bids SHOULD remain in the slot until you claim it. That being said I'd suggest withdrawing it and mailing it to an alt just in case.

Very nice team for an STF. But yeah the tree is in my experience the most likely place to fail an Mo Run. You can't taunt the tree and unless oyu've got a couple of tanks/scrappers/khelds who can clear the front side vines on their own quickly enough there is a good chance of losing a squishy.

PS. Was it on Virtue? If so I bet I know who the tank was .

EDIT: On the subject of support heavy teams rocking. I was on an all defender ITF a few days ago. It was amazingly easy although the almost unplayable lag in the last two missions made it a lot less fun. We actually managed to hit the hard cap (175%) for defense due to having three trappers, a force fielder and a cold domination.

The main thing I can see is that agaisnt an AV it will basically double the amount of -recharge you can apply from 12% to 25% which increases his recharge tmes from 114% of base to 134%.

Alpha pretty much hit it on the head. TA has several patch based debuffs and unless you have a convenient wall you are risking knocking enemies out of them with the kb. In the case of glue arrow this doesn't really matter since the debuff lingers after leaving the patch but for oil slick and disruption arrows it does make them less effective.

One solution is to take hover and fly above so that you deal knockdown instead of knockback.

I agree with Kobolt. Since it is teid to a villain accolade there really needs to be a method for Preatorians who end up as villains to get the accolade without needing to rely on finding people in the right range (especially since the number of people in the right range will probably decrease due to them also leveling up new characters as preatorians).

It's not possible to add critical damage but it could be turned into a build up clone which would work (Power Build Up is essentially a combination of Power Boost and Build Up).

I'd like a weapons/gadgets mastery set for Defenders as well but I'll admit I'm not a huge fan of your version, the powers are all ok, it's just not how I'd build the set

My suggestion would be along the lines of:
Cryo Freeze Ray
Crane Kick
Body Armor
Wide Area Web Grenade
Gun Drone

Admittedly like Munitions Mastery this is an Assault Rifle based set with two powers that are fired from a gun although from a practical point of view renaming if you renamed Cryo Freeze Ray to Cryo Grenade you could give both it and WAWG a variation of the Web Grenade throwing animation and get the same basic effect without the assault rifle.

Defender Epics seem to mostly focus on Control and Damage with a few self buffs so I think this would offer a nice combination of powers compared to other epics. The one power I'm not really happy with is Crane Kick. I think it works with the set since like Thunderstrike in Electrical Mastery it provides a way for Defenders to get an enemy out of his face while dealing a bit of damage and it sorta fits thematically but it feels out of place.

Yeah Virtue was pretty bad last night. I was on an ITF and the lag made it almost unplayable for the last two missions (and that was even with us avoiding the really high lag areas of those maps).

The other thing to keep in mind is that Maneuvers has a much higher endurance cost than Combat Jumping. Assuming you can manage that I'd lean towards Maneuvers just because it benefits your team as well as you.

In the settings thing there is an option to lock powers in trays, that solves the problem for me (I activate almost all powers with the mouse as well).