Amy_Amp

No access to globals, or channels. I have already seen multiple Incarnate level characters with purple names, ie "Help Me" and I see no way to change the flag.

Yep, I already miss the old ones. Something I would LOVE to see is the really old origin graphics they use to have as part of the character screen that went bye bye as part of CoV.

Yep, any /storm gets an instead nod for Cardiac and I just focus on other stuff and mostly recharge in terms of IOs.

Level 24 dual IOs can be frankenslotted to be just above +3 SO level. I would mostly do it for attacks since you are looking for more aspects to slot, but a number of my new guys are doing this. You can also get 3 set bonuses from two sets if you 6 slot a power. Not bad for doing something on the cheap.

Build for ranged def.

Brutes are awesome once they get going and can remain going. I find playing one 1-20 one of the more unfun ATs to do so. I have a love/hate relationship with fury. Scrappers are pure unadulterated "Go." I have a number of scrappers, but I'll only ever have a small number of brutes.

CC is absolutely skippable on a Rad/sonic due to the more ranged nature of the build. Maybe the best known Rad/sonic player took it and defended the decision, but there really is no need for it. Like you said, if there is something there to stack with it, see Fire, Ice, and Elec controllers, then it becomes much more useful.

Aim is mostly about +tohit and that tends to be easy to get elsewhere. Defenders don't gain as much from +dmg as other sets. If you do want +dmg, go Dark epic. I haven't done my build for i19, but I might fit Aim in. Aim + Soul Drain with stacked -res just seems rather nice.

Man, I could go out and start teams and thus solve my problem, or I could go on the forum and endlessly debate the context of words to mind numbing levels and tell people how wrong they are on things completely irrelevant to me getting on teams. What to do. What. to. do. Oh right....

Logged onto Freedom trying to do a Renault SF. I poked around in broadcast and in two channels. *crickets* I tossed on my team leader cap and about two hours later I finished the SF with an 8 person team. Yeah, Freedom is just so overcrowded everywhere that you can't find teams to do what you want.

Dark/shield is the answer. If you are set on redside ATs, go brute. A scrapper gets bigger benefit from the combo in vast part because scrappers benefit more from +dmg. You can soft cap both easy enough so there isn't much benefit from brutes being more sturdier. You can also make a scrapper and just take them redside post level 20 if you prefer that as well.

4 slotting Hasten is overkill. 3 is all that's needed. Screech's damage is horrible, so you are basically slotting it for bonuses versus what will actually help the power. I see zero need for Phase Shift unless you are building for PvP. You could take Vengeance instead and 3 slot for def. Assault does good with one slot, so 2 slotting Tactics would at least get you something more out of it. CC is rather light on end slotting since 3 slotting for end is fairly standard base. I would look at subbing in Siren's Song. You can get a cheap purple set in there if nothing else.

Just about all of my staple level 50s that I sell via stacks bottomed out recently. Some came back at their normal price, but I couldn't sell them for the life of me. I even tried pulling one and reselling it lower only to see it sit despite it still selling at it's old price. I basically caved and resold everything. Oddly enough a lot of them sold at the standard price, but I was listing them at half of what I usually did. Eventually those prices dropped as well. You can make a profit from them, but not like I was use to. I changed the recipes that I targeted and business is back to normal if not better.

My namesake has SJ and SS. Siphon Speed isn't SS. IR can need to be cast again before I actually get to where I'm going. Yes, it's a character I made way back in the day and thus if I had to do it all over again I would likely do it differently, but for some reason it feels like second nature on that build.

If somebody requires you to have a travel power, then they are an idiot. Period.

As somebody who started a base when they first came out, rent is just annoying at this point. Yes, it's so cheap compared to when it first started(shudders), but the simple fact that I have to go pay a whole 300 prestige for a base is just a badly implemented idea. Fun fact, there's virtually no reason to use a base outside of ease of use getting to hazard zones via beacons. I have taken breaks that lasted for months only to see the base rent left unpaid while I was gone. What this tells me is that bases are generally not needed. Great idea, horrible execution, ignored for way too long, and now what little features it does do have been streamlined elsewhere to where the base's version of it is hardly used. Ever.

All of my level 50s are IOed out with level 35 common IOs. I have one very lightly IOed level 42 Ill/rad and that's basically it. Eventually I'll get around to updating some builds with sets, but it takes time to plan a build and time to acquire the funds of the build depending on how crazy I want to go with it. I would rather just go play a character.

A scrapper should win this one in terms of DPS unless I'm really missing something. The brute will be sturdier though.

1. There was no question so it's a misplaced rant about server downtime.

2. If you don't like server downtime, I hear that one big named game has far more downtime than we do and CoH is actually rather low in terms of server downtime.