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This gave me Lols... and a /facepalm... and a *sigh*


Slotting up your attacks on a defender is just one more way to add more recharge to your build via set bonuses (even if you're not an offender)

No "defecbers" are NOT for "heeling". Healing is what takes place after a defender fails at their primary job of BUFFing. Even Empathy. Keep Fortitude on the entire team at all times and you won't even have to heal most of the time. But then again you get people who don't slot Fortitude for defense and that's just fail to begin with. Add PBU and kaboom, you're golden.

Without any Sets and not using your pool powers you're going to have roughly mid 20% defense. It actually is extremely easy to get to soft-cap with cheap sets. What people try to do is hit soft-cap defense while at the same time squeaking as much recharge, hps and other bonuses into the build as possible. Depending on what your goal is that can be pretty rough and pretty expensive. Picking up Weave, Combat Jumping and Maneuvers really helps the less stupidly wealthy reach the softcap mark even more with minimal IOs.

For example: With the build from the data chunk I've posted below I've just softcaped defense while using extremely minimal Set slotting. It is as I stated before, insainly easy to reach softcap while not spending alot of money.


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Hovering your mouse over Hasten will bring up it's power info in the "Info" section. Bottom left-hand corner of Mids. There it tells you the Recharge time of a power between activations as well as the duration the power lasts before the effects wear off.

Easy fix, don't worry about the ST Damage. Anything that survives your uproar of AoE's just drag to the next mob with you. They'll go down eventually without you so much as having to look at them. Keep pushing it forward so you're AoEs are hitting as many targets as possible with each activation.

Ah, well then I miss read your post. I thought you'd said Blizzard/Ice Storm were the sole sources of damage... It must be late and I must be tired..

If I liked sonic I would have one. I like Ice so I work with what I enjoy.

There is ALWAYS another fight.

I'd say it depends on your primary, if you have to re-toggle your debuff toggles or miss crucial buffs because you have no endurance recovery then...let's not and say we didn't.

But on the other can, if you have no toggles like a Cold for instance it's easy enough to recover with enough speed to never miss a beat.

/signed