Adeon Hawkwood

Ravenstorm is a Martial Arts/Dark Blast character and of course you already mentioned Ghost Widow. Caleb also makes a lot of use of dark blasts (like all CoT ghosts).

For Earth Control there aren't really any Earth Controllers I can think of other than the generic Ruin Mages. Faultline and Baron Zoria aren't Earth Controllers but do both use Earth Control powers.

They are primarily cosmetic but they are also used as mission doors for events in Pocket D (mostly the Valentines Day event).

Lore-wise DJ Zero is a mutant who has the ability to create portals between dimensions so presumably those portals are used by club patrons from other dimensions. DJ Zero prevents us from using them as part of his policy of neutrality.

Yeah I don't see any major issues with Traps on Controllers. Even powers like Time Bomb and Trip Mine aren't really excessive when compared to powers already available to Controllers such as Oil Slick Arrow and Tornado.

That's a good question. Thinking about it logically if the store allows you to purchase a new license while you still have one running then I would think that means that the time stacks but that's not really proof.

Have you tried sending a question to customer support?

It depends a lot on how you are using Trip Mine. On my Blaster I tend to drop a trip mine before combat as a last line of defense, knocking enemies back into my caltrops. So for him the proc would make the power worse.

On the other hand I know some people who use like to drop them in the middle of a group during combat (mostly Traps users since they have high Defense) and for them the proc can be very useful for keeping foes clustered up.

I still use Cytoskeletons (Def/ToHit/End), Membranes (Def/ToHit/Rech) and Ribosomes (Res/End) with some regularity on my builds since they do offer a better total enhancement than IOs for quite a few power. I've also used a few Lysomes here and there (mostly for To Hit debuffs which need accuracy).

Nucleolus Exposures are useful when I'm frankenslotting an attack and Centrioles are useful in Cones if I have room. Endoplasms and Peroxisomes aren't great but if I'm frnakenslotting a power that's both an attack and a mez they are useful.

Golgis, Enzymes and Microfilaments I don't have a whole lot of need for.

Both Tina Macintyre and Unai Kemen have them in a few of their missions. In both cases they are from an alternate dimension (Epsilon Tau 27-2) where the Clockwork King wiped out humanity.

You also encounter Psychic Clockwork from Primal Earth in the first mission of Lady Grey's Task Force (losing Penny makes the King go even crazier and his powers manifest during his rescue mission).

I'll be skipping the set entirely, the play-style doesn't appeal to me which is a pity since I do love the visuals .

As near as i can tell it's a recurring thing where debuff toggles don't produce redraw (at least for Dual Pistols) since I noticed the same thing with Storm Summoning, Snow Storm did not cause redraw but other powers did.

Just a heads up though, Challenge will be getting replaced by a single target placate power in Issue 24 so don't get attached to it.

Yeah to some degree. there's a few things I've found to to keep in mind build resistance versus defense:

• In general you're building to cover more points than with Defense so the bonuses are more dispersed (4 types as compared to 1-3 for Defense)
• Bonuses are actually more common in the 2 and 3 positions than for Defense making Frankenslotting potentially more valuable.
• Purples and Superior ATOs make a HUGE difference, quite a few of them have 6% bonuses to multiple resistance types if you 6-Slot

Nah every Defender knows that the correct reaction to a teammate dying is to cast Vengeance and keep fighting.

Actually now that I think about it that holds true for almost all of my characters regardless of AT. I may have a problem.

I'm strongly considering dragging my Inv/Axe Tanker out of retirement for I24 (and given how little I enjoy playing melee that says a LOT). In I24 you'll be able to get a LOT higher Psionic resistance (potentially 35% with 5 x Impervium Armor and 1 x Aegis globals). Fighting is much less important, you can hard cap S/L Res without Tough and building up more Resistance in general means less need for Weave.

The one issue I do see at the moment is that Energy/Negative Energy Resistance bonuses are a little lacking in I24 at the moment. It's relatively easy to build up F/C/T/P resistance, especially if you can afford purple sets but E/NE bonuses are a little short.

EDIT: I just noticed that the new Gauntleted Fist Tanker set has an E/NE bonus for 3 slots. So if you upgrade that to superior and split it between two powers that's 12% E/NE res. Of course 6-slotting it also gives you a bonus to S/L/F/C so that might be a hard choice to make. That being said both of the Tanker ATE sets are excellent for Inv looking to build up their resistance, especially if you upgrade them to superior.

That's some nice IOs you have there. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to them.

Someone stocking up on them in preparation for I24 maybe?

It will work but only while the toggle is turned on (Mariner's comment about working for 120 seconds after you turn it off used to be correct but they changed it a while back).

Personally I tend to stick my stealth IO in Sprint.

That is not an option (and to the best of my knowledge was never an option baring some sort of bug).

However you can get a 30day Invention license for 160 paragon points (about $2). If you don't play enough to justify $15/month for VIP access but still want IOs then this is a cost-effective alternative.