Adeon Hawkwood

When you open the purchase window there's a scrollbar at the top. Adjusting the scrollbar will change the level of the recipes offered.

A Time Defender isn't a bad option either so long as you can keep aggro off them. You get Temporal Selection for Damage/Regen/Recharge, Farsight for Defense/ToHit and as long as the buff bot sticks close Time's Juncture to debuff any enemies in melee range.

Yep I'll regularly burn out and take a break until something makes me decide to come back. I rarely play other MMOs in the interim but I tend to catch up on single player games that I haven't had time for.

Something to keep in mind for Devices users is that even if you use Boosters to get TD up to 22% a Kismet is still a very good idea. TD has about 55% To Hit Debuff Resistance so every point that you get above 22% is effectively 2% worth of To Hit Debuffs you can handle without losing FastSnipe.

No and Sort Of.

Buffing your HP will have no impact whatsoever on healing power.

It will affect regeneration indirectly. At base level regeneration restores 5% of your Max HP every 12 seconds. Adding regeneration bonuses decreases the time between pulses (in the same manner as recharge decreases recharge times). Increasing your max HP doesn't change the time between pulses but since the pulse is 5% of your Max HP having a higher max HP does mean more HP per pulse and consequently a higher HP/Sec regeneration.

The other option is to "store" it in enhancements. I have a solo SG base and I convert a lot of my excess inf into expensive enhancements (purple sets, global IOs, hamidon enhancements etc.). I don't have to worry about the inf and it saves time when I make a new character since I only need to buy the cheaper enhancements.

Personally I don't think that the redraw is going to be that bad. The only really spammable powers are Corrosive Enzymes and Regrowth. CE you probably won't use a whole lot except for AV fights anyway and if you're having to spam Regrowth to keep your team alive then you're not going to have a lot of time for blasting with any secondary.

Now I probably won't recommend NA/DP due to redraw but Archery and Assault rifle both have quite fast redraws which I think will be manageable. That being said, I haven't tried it on Beta yet.

Honestly a lot of it depends on what you want Personally I LOVE Defenders so I'd go for one over a Controller in a heartbeat. On the other hand there are plenty of other people who feel the opposite.

For the specific combo of NA/Elec Defender it's not going to be a damage machine but it probably isn't awful. The main issue is that NA is intended as a mid-range support set standing a bit outside melee range whereas Elec Defenders really want to be in close to maximize the endurance drain from Short Circuit. In theory you could use Entangling Aura to help out there but like Choking Cloud it's not that great a power.

And I still haven't decided what Nature Affinity character I'm going to make. I'm pretty sure it'll be a Defender (since I don't have any combos I want to play for Masterminds and am not a huge fan of Controllers or Corruptors in general) but beyond that I just don't know.

Actually with a Time/Fire I'd probably just stick it in Fireball. Time has a pretty good AoE heal already so I wouldn't feel the need to maximize the healing proc. Given that I'd probably stick the set in Fireball since it has a very good enhancement values.

Something to keep in mind is that in I24 Recharge that is slotted in the power or granted by the Alpha slot (but not Global Recharge) will be used to calculate the recharge time for the purpose of PPM calculations so the proc chance will likely be going down for most ATE sets.

So I24 has got a whole lotta changes. Between Blaster Sustains, Blast Set updates, Resistance IO bonuses there definitely room to change how things work.

The issue name (Resurgence) strikes me as extremely appropriate since it's restoring my interest in several characters that I'd given up on before. So is it causing anyone else to take a renewed interest in characters that you never thought you'd play again?

Speaking for myself I've got two. First I have a level 50 Inv/Axe Tanker that has been sidelined for some quite a while for two reasons. Part of it is that I don't really enjoy melee characters as much as ranged ones but the other side of it was that I was never able to design an IO build that I really liked. Oh sure I could design a nice build with high S/L Defense but that wasn't really what I wanted. I wanted high resistance. So with I24 I'm strongly considering taking her out of retirement and giving her a nice, solid resistance build (including Psi resistance). It probably isn't optimal but it should be fun.

The second one is Kheldians. I LOVE the VEATs (I have a level 50 Crab Spider and am working on a Fortunata) but have never felt the same way about Kheldians. I have a level 50 Warshade but he never really gelled for me. Whenever I look at builds I feel compelled to build for perma-hasten and Tri-Form both of which really, really annoy me for a variety of reasons. However between Overwhelming Force and the I24 changes I'm considering giving Kheldians another go with a human form Peacebringer. I like the idea of a high resistance Blapper and I think I can make that work.

So, what characters do you plan to restore for I24?

Don't forget you can also use the Defender's Bastion and upcoming Vigilant Assault sets.

The big benefit of this is that it effectively increases your endurance recovery. Recovery gives you back 6.67% of your maximum endurance every few seconds. Recovery bonuses decrease the time between pulses while Max Endurance bonuses increase the size of the pulse.