Bloodspeaker

Hmmm, could actually START the whole thing with the flyer landing in the yard (anyone who's done the villain tutorial knows the spot ), and spawning a swarm of Arachnos troops who storm INTO the Zig. A few minutes later, out they come with their new Project: Destiny "recruit", with the prison leaking standard prisoners the whole time.

I want!

Actually fairly similar to, but more depth than, a similar "breakout zone event" my wife and I had discussed at some point. Like the idea of one or more EB/AVs and a Flyer spawning. Our original idea was more along the lines of a swarm of prisoners in the minion to EB range storming around the zone until subdued.

If I'm not mistaken, "instant" status effects (tp, kb/d/u) have a stackable "window duration" of 4 seconds (though I'm likely using the wrong term). In other words, if I attempt to WH someone, and another player attempts to WH the same target within the 4-second window, the effects stack. I've seen this apparently work fairly consistently with knockback/down/up attacks, but am not sure if it applies to tp.

A bit of an assumption that I haven't tested: your POWERS are capped at +5 over the exemption level; the CHARACTER is still at the zone cap. In other words, in SC your character is capped at 30, but you have access to powers up through the one you acquired at lvl 35. I'd have to (for example) take a lvl 31-35 character into SC to actually see if my hp dropped to lvl 30 equivalent to be sure of this.

Edit: Yup, lvl 32 brute with 1098.0 hp dropped to lvl with 1020.7

They really need a /nerdrage_quit command in the game that deletes all your characters, deactivates your credit card on your CoH account and uninstalls the game. That way, all the so-called "nerdrage quitters" could "put their money where their mouth is" rather than spending weeks raising a useless hue and cry on the boards.

I want to slot all my powers with contagious confusion

As opposed to...

Couple of notes of my own.

Oppressive Gloom: Granted, may not be worth as much on a brute, but on my necro/dark/soul mm (cliche', be not proud ) I frankenslotted this with the procs from Absolute Amazement (big -to hit), Stupefy (kb) and Razzle Dazzle (immob). I parked him next to Reichsman and watched him miss... a lot. It's a handy way to help a team deal with an EB/AV surrounded by minions: set to follow the BigBad, stun/immob/kb his friends, and grind him down. And with 2 slots from each set, I'm getting (iirc) +8.5% Recovery; all three sets have that as their first bonus.

Also, this is very similar to my dark/dark/soul corruptor. The one who solos red Ballistae without batting an eye because, although the fight tends to be LONG, they hit back (successfully) maybe 3-4 times. I've slotted almost entirely toward +acc, -end and -to hit. The damage takes care of itself in a rather inexorable way, especially when scourge joins in the dance.

Having dozens of characters who are "developed" enough in my head to do this with, figured I'd start with my 50s.

Bloodspeaker - The Unfettered, Time Abyss - An immortal avatar of cosmic entropy, trying to cause the end of the Universe.

Banestar - Magnificent Bast***, Utopia Justifies The Means - Just trying to improve humanity as a whole... by getting the species to weed out it's own weak...

Agent Sharpe - First Person Smart***, The Unchosen One - The quintessential flirt and bon vivant whose been driven into the ground enough times now to know that it's really NOT all fun and games.