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Assault Rifle/Electric Blapper would seem quite difficult to keep alive.

Crab ain't a great single-target attacker. If that's what you want, look someplace else.

I don't think there's many Crabs who take the melee abilities. Heavy Burst is definitely a part of their attack chain, though.

*Also, what he meant by Crabs having better grenades is that they animate a little faster.

Stamina is 3 wasted power picks. The few times you need an END reduction, it's more efficient to just use your saved inspirations. Do be sure you slot Web Grenade well, however, as spamming it without END reduction can be quite tiring and there are many situations in which you'll want to spam it.

Force fields add defense, not resistance. Besides that, this set is a near-duplicate of Energy Aura, except that it has way too many toggles.

Pet combat attributes.

75% if the numbers haven't changed from Mids'.

*That should be the base accuracy, I mean.

I'd really like to see the difference in experience rewards diminished between -4 and +4 in the later game. Once everyone's about 35 or so, the game starts to get a lot easier for most to take down +3 and higher enemies. I think that the experience rewards ought to reflect that a bit more than they do. I don't mean to reduce overall experience, but to tighten the range. Currently, from -4 to +4 it varies from 20% to 190%.

2x 6/6 Touch of Death (Punch and Haymaker)
1x Steadfast Unique (Deflection [prefer OwtS if you take it])
1x 6/6 Mako's Bite (Knockout Blow)
1x 6/6 Obliteration (Shield Charge)
2x 3/3 Blessing of the Zephyr (travel power and Combat Jumping)
1x 3/6 Aegis (Tough)
1x 6/6 Red Fortune (Weave)
1x 6/6 Gaussian's (Rage)

Probably not ideal, but it works for me until I can get a PVP defense unique.

Be Better off getting 6/6 Obliteration in Icicles. The defense you're getting to Fire and especially Cold isn't worth short-capping S/L.

Also note that your Foot Stomp is going to be fairly expensive compared to most. Haven't played a Cold Tanker, so I don't really know if this is a huge issue.

*I totally spaced Energy Absorption. Apologies. I do think you'd be better served by using Obliteration over Multi-Strike in Icicles, but more for the ancillary bonuses than for defense reasons. On the other hand, frankenslot Foot Stomp for DMG/END/RCHG! It's an expensive power, and one that will be used frequently.

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Did you notice how dark or rocky looking all the colors available for Stone Armor are? Or how crystalline light the ice power's palate is? Thankfully no Yellow Snowman! People can now make their much desired green lantern clones but I have the feeling that these color palates are the last bastion of the customization control philosophy.

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Considering they aren't out yet, no - no one has noticed these things.

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Maintaining 6.5 targets is an astoundingly high figure. By your own assessment, Regen delivers superior regeneration.

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Read his post a little more closely. That number is required to be better than /Regen when /Regen uses IH constantly. In reality you're not going to use IH anywhere near constantly.

That's not even getting into the point that if you love the regen stat you don't want it doing massive extreme fluctuation like IH causes.

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All those are considered, and all those point to a regeneration advantage for Regen.

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The +regen dominance issue is pretty much a non-point: */WP wins; RttC is simple better than Integration and Instant Healing combined.

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Bovine feces. If you want to consider the downtime of IH, then you also got to consider non-saturated stats of RttC, and that can fluctuate any number of times while idle, running from mob to mob, or in the middle of a spawn. Numerically, Regen beats out WP when it comes to having the highest +regen rate. There's really no way to deny that.

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Interestingly enough, I did. I specifically mentioned that, in order to equal the average +regen of a */regen Scrapper, it only takes 6.49 targets. Any number of targets above that, and you've got better average +regen than a */regen Scrapper. RttC saturates at 10 targets, and I never even brought that value up.

The other problem you're bringing up is that you're specifically referencing peak +regen without referencing "normal mode" +regen at all. Without IH, which is not a normally activated power for most */regens, */wp beats out */regen hands down simply because, if there is more than 1 target in RttC, RttC is bigger than Integration. With IH, of course */regen is going to win out simply because it's functionally the "tier 9" equivalent for */regen. You might as well argue that */SR doesn't need IOs in order to softcap because it has Elude available to it. You have to consider IH from an averaged perspective. When it's averaged in, even assuming that it sees optimal use and doesn't get eaten by downtime, */regen manages worse +regen than */wp if the */wp can manage to get 7 or more targets in RttC (which isn't anywhere near a difficult prospect).

Plus, there's no such thing as "+regen rate". There is "regen rate", which can either be read as the speed at which you receive the 5% health ticks or the average rate at which you recover your hit points, and "+regen" which is simply the modifier for your base regeneration.

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Downtime works in favor of Instant Healing as much as it works against it. Moreso, since you can choose when you need the extra healing and when Reconstruction is fine. It's also laughable to call Instant Healing a tier 9 equivalent. It's a unique power, and powerful.