Arbegla

Not to my knowledge. It has to be a 'natural' critical, not a placate or hidden one. Now, being a stalker, your 'natural' crit rate improves with more teammates, so team more and you'll have build up more

The way i built my claw'elec brute was basically high recharge, high resistance, and to have energize up as often as possible. Yes, its a brute, so its not quite a tanker, but with follow up, and fury feeding lightning field and spin, i have a feeling things will just melt and my high resistance will be enough to counter act any incoming damages. Plus, if you can get energize near perma, you have a nice heal, plus a pretty nice +regen to back up the damage your resistance won't cover.

Added a sprinkle of lethal/smash or melee defense (i think i have like 15% melee def) and liberal inspiration usages, and it should work out to be a pretty nice beast.

Comparing elec armor to shield armor is comparing fruit to meat. Shield defense relys on defense, with a sprinkle of resistance to help out in those tight spots when things get though, and a T9 that suppliments everything (+hp, more resistance +recovery) where elec armor relys on resistance, -end, and has a nice heal/+regen to cover the holes.

If you spam power sink enough, with lightning field helping you can be a pretty decent sapper, and then your resistance can do its job of only having to soak 1 or 2 hits that the mobs can use, instead of entire attack chains. Then energy doesnt have to be used as often, and you can basically just use it for when those big hits get through, and let its +regen heal you up while you drain everyone end down.

Plus if you out distance your pets by i think 150yds (or something similiar) they automatically teleport to your owner of the pets. So on speed runs, you can be teleported by a player, and your pets come to.

Or you can SS ahead, and the pets catch up.

Are you counting 12.21% for the protector bots? and enabling hover? then again, i could have lethal/smash monitored in game instead of Melee, so my positions may not be softcapped. I'm at work now so i can't check to see exactly what is softcapped on that build, but i know i achieved something with the vet pet out..

Does she rewards XP like a level con EB even when shes set at +2? Or does the XP scale up to? Its kinda weird that shes like a fake GM in the regard..

If i use my vet pet i hit soft capped on all 3 positions, but i normally hover(both with the power, and figuratively) around 41-43%. I figure with the seeker drones plus my resistance shield, plus bodyguard mode its about good enough.

I only just picked up hasten, due to i19 (grabbed assault, hasten, and repair) and im loving being able to have 3 acid mortars out at a time, and double stacking triage beacon is just pretty.

The thing about poison is its all single targets, and sets like /traps, /thermal and /dark have AoE debuffs that are far more valuable. Yea, the -special from poison is nice, but its pretty situational.

I play like a tankermind on my bot/traps, and between my protector bots and my FFG basically everything is softcapped. (the protector bots themselves aren't but they can heal, and i have repair now with i19)

Also debuffs help out when i don't feel like hitting provoke. I sit in melee range a lot, for the /traps, so attacks just end up hitting me more often then they hit my pets. If i know the enemy has AoE attacks, i'll use provoke first.

on my demon/thermal (shes just level 22, but still) I play like a buff bot with 6 damaging beasts of doom. i keep them all buff'ed and healed and pretty much just let my pets do their thing. I'll focus fire on some of the bigger mobs, and usually send the pets in first, but with thermal shields and my heals, and the demons heals, i hardly ever lose a pet.

If price is no option, then heres what im currently running on my bot/traps. I can solo any AV thrown at me, and i solo Gms just for kicks. Granted, i highly recommend you get used to how bots/traps runs before throwing money into it, but it is a fairly fun build.

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Arbegla 2.0: Level 50 Magic Mastermind
Primary Power Set: Robotics
Secondary Power Set: Traps
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Presence
Ancillary Pool: Mu Mastery

Villain Profile:
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Level 1: Battle Drones HO:Nucle(A), HO:Nucle(43), HO:Nucle(43), EdctM'r-PetDef(46), SvgnRt-PetResDam(46)
Level 1: Web Grenade Enf'dOp-Acc/EndRdx(A), Enf'dOp-EndRdx/Immob(11), Enf'dOp-Acc/Immob/Rchg(11), Enf'dOp-Acc/Immob(40)
Level 2: Pulse Rifle Burst Apoc-Dmg/Rchg(A), Apoc-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(3), Apoc-Acc/Rchg(3), Apoc-Dmg/EndRdx(9), Apoc-Dam%(9)
Level 4: Triage Beacon Panac-Heal/EndRedux(A), Panac-EndRdx/Rchg(5), Panac-Heal/Rchg(5), Panac-Heal/EndRedux/Rchg(7), Panac-Heal(7)
Level 6: Equip Robot EndRdx-I(A)
Level 8: Caltrops Ragnrk-Dmg/Rchg(A), Ragnrk-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(19), Ragnrk-Acc/Rchg(19), Ragnrk-Dmg/EndRdx(21), Ragnrk-Dmg(21)
Level 10: Hover LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 12: Protector Bots HO:Nucle(A), HO:Nucle(13), HO:Nucle(13), HO:Enzym(39), HO:Enzym(40), HO:Enzym(40)
Level 14: Fly Frbd-Stlth(A), Winter-ResSlow(15), Zephyr-ResKB(15)
Level 16: Force Field Generator LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(17), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(17)
Level 18: Repair RechRdx-I(A)
Level 20: Hasten RechRdx-I(A)
Level 22: Poison Trap UbrkCons-Hold/Rchg(A), UbrkCons-Acc/Hold/Rchg(23), UbrkCons-Acc/Rchg(23), UbrkCons-EndRdx/Hold(37), UbrkCons-Dam%(37)
Level 24: Acid Mortar LdyGrey-DefDeb/Rchg(A), LdyGrey-DefDeb/Rchg/EndRdx(25), LdyGrey-Rchg/EndRdx(25), Achilles-ResDeb%(36)
Level 26: Assault Bot S'bndAl-Dmg/EndRdx(A), S'bndAl-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(27), S'bndAl-Acc/Rchg(27), S'bndAl-Build%(34)
Level 28: Seeker Drones DarkWD-ToHitdeb/Rchg/EndRdx(A), DarkWD-Rchg/EndRdx(29), DarkWD-ToHitDeb/EndRdx(29), DarkWD-Slow%(33), Amaze-Acc/Rchg(34), Amaze-ToHitDeb%(34)
Level 30: Assault EndRdx-I(A)
Level 32: Upgrade Robot EndRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(33)
Level 35: Maneuvers LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(36), SW-ResDam/Re TP(36)
Level 38: Tactics GSFC-ToHit/EndRdx(A), GSFC-Rchg/EndRdx(39), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg/EndRdx(39)
Level 41: Charged Armor GA-Res/Rech/End(A), GA-End/Res(42), GA-ResDam(42), GA-3defTpProc(42), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(43)
Level 44: Electrifying Fences GravAnch-Immob/Rchg(A), GravAnch-Acc/Immob/Rchg(45), GravAnch-Acc/Rchg(45), GravAnch-Immob/EndRdx(45), GravAnch-Hold%(46)
Level 47: Electric Shackles BasGaze-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(A), BasGaze-Acc/Hold(48), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(48), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(48)
Level 49: Provoke Zinger-Acc/Rchg(A), Zinger-Taunt/Rchg/Rng(50), Zinger-Taunt/Rchg(50), Zinger-Dam%(50)
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Level 1: Brawl Acc-I(A)
Level 1: Sprint EndRdx-I(A)
Level 2: Rest RechRdx-I(A)
Level 1: Supremacy
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift Run-I(A)
Level 2: Hurdle Jump-I(A)
Level 2: Health Panac-Heal/+End(A), Mrcl-Rcvry+(31), Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(31), Mrcl-Heal(31)
Level 2: Stamina P'Shift-End%(A), P'Shift-EndMod(33), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(37)



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I'd go MA/nin/weapon stalker for bats,

MA/SR/weapon scrapper for batgirl

and prolly archer/EM blaster for robin.

Also try verifiying your files, that might work as well.

I found the encounter pretty entertaining on my bot/traps. I noticed her debuffing me, but with the fact i kept her immobilized, and debuffed down to pretty low, my bots just ate her up. Between double stacked triage beacons, triple stacked acid mortars, and 6 stacked seeker drones (2 from me, 4 from the protector bots), she was just this huge blue woman who did a nifty aura thingy that covered my UI in icons.

Her rain thing caught me off guard, as i really didnt know what it was, just that i was suddenly surrounded by frozen rain (which usually means ice storm, freezing rain, or blizzard, all of which can tear a MM to pieces) but once i realized it really wasnt doing much, i just soaked it.

Granted, only time i fought her was with a grav/kin buddy of mine, but he wasn't slotted very much, and i did all the heavy lifting. He couldn't get within 10 yds of her without being overrun by debuffs/damage.

Well, to be fair, some Mobs have build in scripts to target squishier ATs (think manticore, he targets corruptors and MM first, then goes for the brutes, unless taunted) and healing can pull aggro (think old school hami raids, were empathy defenders died first after absorb paining the tankers) the thing is, they arent very high on the threat bar, and most scrapper/brute/tankers taunt auras will out taunt it pretty easily.

Debuffs also pull threat as well already, but its not very much.

If they did add a means for NPC to keep track of healing/buff/debuffs etc, then they need some form of threat 'meter' to keep track of whose pulling what threat, especially when certain mobs can 1 or 2 shot unprotected ATs (minotaurs cut my blaster in half, and a well placed hit on my earth/rad will flatten her in a second)

Its also pretty nice in seeker drones (assuming it procs) due to the fact each drone already gets a high -tohit bonus, and each done also has the chance to proc this proc for more -tohit.

Or they can add an 'Are you sure' popup when you quit teams, i know its there for TFs, but maybe add it for general teams as well.

When rages crashes it takes 25% of your end with it, which can hurt. On a willpower brute, inhernet stamina, and quick recovery should help out some. In the event those aren't quite enough, double check your endurance reduction in KO Blow, and foot stomp (those are HUGE end eaters) and if you have taunt, use that during the -dmg debuff. It costs 0 endurance, and you can put a psionic damage proc in it, so you can still deal some damage (and its free)

Outside of that, slotting performance shifter +end procs into both quick recovery and stamina might help out, as they return about 10% of your endurance everytime they proc, and they have a 20% chance of procing (so in 2 passives, your bound to get atlest 1 of them to proc around the time rage crashes on you)

Also, keep an eye on what powers your using during the -dmg part. I used to use sands of mu and nemesis staff (as those did full damage) but the extra endurance cost of those powers really hurt my end more then they benefited my damage.

Elec/fire would work, I was thinking maybe a elec/fire scrapper (LR for that 'burst' boom, then /fire for burn, blazing aura, and RoTP (nothing sayd fireworks like being resurrected with fire)

Is your benumb perma? Try throwing benumb on him just as he summons his clones, that way the -regen will work while your clone hunting, and then you can go back to pounding his face in.

Basically, lead with LR, then hit SC and beat on the boss thats left standing. By the time your done with him, LR + SC into the next group

Really? If your spamming taunt on a tanker, YOUR DOING IT WRONG. Punchvoke is more then enough to hold aggro on not just 1, but up to 5 mobs at a time, without touching taunt at all, and thats not even counting the taunt aura just about any tanker has. Heck, Ice tankers don't even need to use punchvoke, Icicles and Chilling embrace gives them all the aggro they could ever want.

Tankers are doing upwards of 170DPS on pylons, which means they are performing as well as some SCRAPPERS for sheer damage. PLus they have the HIGHEST hit points in the GAME. So really, suck it up. Tankers can't be highest damage and the toughest AT ever, its just not gonna happen. You want to be able to look lord recluse in the eyes, and shake off any of his attacks without a second thought? Play a tanker. You want to be able to actually kill Lord Recluse before old age finishes him off? Play a different AT.

Eh, thats steadfast +3% def is at most 5 million inf. Yeah, it might be a lot for some players, but anyone who has a level 50 can make 5 million in their sleep afk running into walls with a damage aura on.