Biowraith

More magma.

When there's knockback on the team you get those larger cave maps.

When it comes to specific powersets, I usually see requests for Kin, Emp and Rad. Also somewhat often, requests for a Granite Tank or Brute.

Maybe "demand" is more appropriate than "request" - they generally won't start the tf (or whatever) unless they get the powerset(s) they want.

The only areas I can really think of where I've been influenced (at least knowingly influenced) were silliness on the forums providing the names for a couple of my characters: Pretty Strong, and MURDERDOOM. I guess the general wisdom of building for the defense soft cap has been incorporated into a lot of my builds too.

Otherwise I'm a pretty self-contained loner type (though paradoxically I *far* prefer teaming to soloing...) in my own little world, and while I'm sure subconsciously I'm influenced by other people and external factors to some extent, on the surface at least I've always just done my own thing regardless, in real life and the game.

It's an aoe, so it'll affect any of them that are within range of the one you cast it on (assuming no obstacles between them blocking it).

A point of -res is generally worth more than a point of +dam, because +dam works off the base unenhanced damage of your powers, while -res works off the final enhanced + buffed damage of your powers. So generally that point of -res will boost your final damage by more than the point of +dmg.

However, Kin usually pumps out a *lot* more +dmg than just about any set does -res, so will usually boost overall offense by more (esp. since it can also buff recharge to get bigger attacks up more often).

Edit: also worth noting that once at the +dmg cap more +dmg obviously does nothing, while -res will continue to boost the damage (I think there's a -res cap, but it's a lot harder to reach).

It won't take Knockback sets. It is incorrectly flagged to take Endurance Modification instead. A bug to be sure, but seems to be pretty far down the list in terms of it ever being fixed.

Same is true of Power Blast in the same set.

Running on Victory, Virtue, and Freedom I still see quite a lot of Lambdas forming. Keyes not so much.

In my experience it's about 2:1 ratio of BAF:Lambda, with Keyes only forming a couple of percent of the time (I've never seen Keyes form on Victory during the hours I play).

Tbh, all the Lore pets are pretty good. Some are better than others, and some are stronger in aoe or single target, but they're all worth having for cracking hard targets etc. Stronger than almost all non-incarnate pets (well, the Boss tier ones are, the Lts give a more average performance).

From what I remember the Toxic Tarantula is roughly middle of the pack for single target dps (someone did some testing vs a Pylon), and comes with a toxic damage aoe. Whatever the comparative strength vs other flavours, I've got it on my Crab Spider and it definitely tears things up.

There's not a lot I'd change (I disagree with a lot of Creamcat's post) and a lot of that build is similar to my own Necro/Dark.

A few minor suggestions though:

Swap the Glimpse of the Abyss in Fearsome Stare for Cloud Senses. This isn't a 100% definite better slotting, but personally I find that Fear has a decent duration unenhanced to the point that unless you're fighting deep purples you can pretty much perma it. So I like to combine that with an even bigger -tohit debuff. It's kinda a personal preference thing though.

If you're never actually using Black Hole may as well swap it for another power that could at least be an IO mule. Good option for that is Combat Jumping - low cost, decent benefits in its own right, and can take a LoTG +rech.

I'm not sure why you have Acc/End in Tar Patch? It's autohit and not especially endurance intensive (esp. when you have two End/Rech/Slow already). I'd suggest just moving that slot elsewhere.

I'm also not sure Hover needs the Endurance reduction IO - I'd probably move that to one of the pet upgrade powers, or replace it with another End/Fly (Zephyr) if you really feel it's burning endurance.

I don't think Tactics is overslotted, but I would switch it to Gaussian's for (imo) better set bonuses.

Personally I went for more -tohit and +heal on my Dark Servant to further eliminate incoming damage - the only proc I kept was Cloud Senses since it'll fire off everything except the hold. But that's probably a personal preference thing.

I do agree that Twilight Grasp is maybe a bit overslotted. But more than that, you've not soft-capped the healing value. All my Dark Miasma characters (I have 4) are currently using the first 5 pieces of Touch of the Nictus and I rarely have any issues with it missing - you still get a good chunk of accuracy from the 5 pieces, and then accuracy set bonuses from elsewhere in the build (and +tohit from Tactics in your build) so I don't think the extra is doing a lot for you. I could see you keeping it to 6 slots for the extra recharge though - maybe change the generic Acc for the Nictus Heal piece. If you really really want that accuracy - though I don't think you need it - change the generic Accuracy for the Thief of Essence Acc/Heal, due to ED softcap you'll still get almost as much accuracy (about 4% less) but gain ~20% healing enhancement.


Some of the above is just personal taste, and I don't pretend to be the most hardcore minmaxer out there so there's probably better tweaks available, but a few of those I definitely think would benefit you.

I'll re-roll City Hall, my Grav/Sonic Controller (level 22) as a Grav/Time.

I *might* re-roll Grarg, my Axe/WP Brute as Titan Weapons when it goes live, but I'm not sure.

And I'll probably make a third version of Biowraith as a Dark/Dark Blaster.

That's about it. For the other sets I have placeholder characters (some that have been sitting there for years) that I'll be using (I suppose technically that's a re-roll, but it's a level 1 re-roll ).

I'm gonna hold onto mine, in case something better appears in the beta store later on.

It's because they were born with hearts full of neutrality.