BunnyAnomaly

How about Radiation Blast recoloured?

When I look at Bio Armour / Titan Weapons it appears that the momentum and defensive adaptation options are on top of one another and I can't activate either.

Thanks for the great previews of the new sets !

Brooding characters and anthropomorphs are a pretty big part of the superhero/comic genre. I don't mind them at all.

Oh this was meant to be about not liking things? I don't like that you don't like it!

Your role is Support, and that is not perfectly analogous with "guarantee the survival of everyone regardless of playstyle, powersets or build".

You can help people only so much. The AVs hit hard and two lucky strikes against a defence based powerset and it's all over.

-PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE- make the costume sounds fade. I want to play a Coralax and I bought the costume to find that the sound effects linger permanently with an annoying high pitch ringing sond. Please take that away!

If defences are your concern I would consider the way you slot your PBAOEs and Ranged Damage sets.

This combination provides significant energy/negative energy defence:

3 cleaving blow / 3 eradication: 4.38% e/ne defence per PBAOE.
6 thunderstrike: 3.75% e/ne per ranged damage.

You will lose some recharge and s/l defence by doing this but given the diminishing returns I think it's worth it.

In other areas of your build:

Gaussian's, Obliteration and Touch of Death are not optimised for a typed defence set. They use positional defence and their typed benefits are quite marginal. Consider changing that. Good substitutes are Rectified Reticle (s/l defence), cleaving blow/eradication (e/ne defence) and kinetic combat (s/l defence).

Your health/endurance abilities are far overslotted. Energy Absorption provides enough management on its own so that you wouldn't even need Stamina back in 'ye olde days' and everything else is waste. Icy Bastion adds endurance recovery too (+5.3 end/sec in your build) and is up ~40% of the time. It is probably impossible for you to actually drain yourself of endurance - everything else is overslotted and a waste.

For Stalker's Guile I feel you have mismanaged the slotting in Assassin's Strike. The endurance reduction as mentioned above is not needed and you are losing smashing/lethal resistance. Further the converters are easy to acquire so I am surprised not to see this as a Superior set. Finally, if defence is high on your priority list, consider splitting the set into two - 3 superiors into two seperate powers gives 10% s/l defence which is nothing to scoff over.

On the mention of smashing/lethal resistance, I should note that Icy Bastion + Tough = capped resistances. If you choose to rejig your power selection and slotting - particularly around the endurance tools that you have taken - you'll find you have quite a number of extra slots to throw around for this.

I think I did it at +?/x6, solo'd on my SS/FA brute. I don't recall it being troublesome but it's a heavily min/maxed character.

If you're looking at the end game content then I'd suggest the best option is for layered defences. A set that absolutely excels at one type of thing (regeneration or defence for instance) tends to be a little weaker at the end because of the way that IOs work.

In very loose terms, it's fairly easy to build anything to a high amount of defence through IOs, but it is nigh impossible to get even a small improvement to resistance through IOs. For this reason the most survivable will be a set that begins with a good amount of resistance and you shore up the weaknesses with IOs.

Luckily every set is viable with IO investment.

It's already up

I simply can't agree that Psionic is 'Not Exotic' but you list Cold damage as Exotic.

2. strikingly unusual or strange in effect or appearance: an exotic hairstyle.

This is really where we get into semantics and qualitative judgements, so I understand if opinions vary.

I'd suggest that Psionic damage is exotic for the two major reasons:

1. That as a damage type it is not consistently mitigated by defence sets where as most other damage types are. It is treated unusually - most sets provide a respectable measure of protection to the major types - smashing, lethal, energy, negative energy, fire and cold. Some may provide this protection in differing forms and some thematically may vary in their degree. But on the whole, those types of damage are significantly mitigated by defence powersets. Psychic and toxic are treated very, very differently.

2. That amongst enemies their resistances are quite polarised - either with very high resistances (robots for example) or very low resistances (most of everything else). This is from the ancient (and perhaps outdated?) spreadsheet where Psychic damage had a surprisingly high 'average' rate of resistance due to a few enemies having extreme levels while many others had normal (0%) levels. I say average because it was not a weighted average so is not representative of this.

Conclusion (TL;DR): Psychic damage may be becoming more common, but it is still treated by both player and enemies very differently to the other types of damage.

Well... I won't be buying that.

Thanks for the insights!

I think you are right that the toggles appear to be fairly endurance heavy but also they have a lot of abilities with long recharges. I wonder how 'active' the set feels when played?

*wants my Plant/Nature Controller already!*

LMAO

Johnny Butane you got a mention!

It's 57% I believe?

My baby /ice will be soft capped to that against smashing, lethal, energy and negative energy with 1 application of Energy Absorption (0 for s/l).

I don't want to see it, there's enough clutter on the screen already from unwanted and overzealous visual effects.