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As you can see for practical purposes his Energy Smash will one-shot code a tanker with 23% resistance... if it hits you'll be left with 1 hit point and I hope you can eat some greens in a hurry. Your best bet is to bump your defense to 75% (until the Blue tower dies) and eat some orange candy to get your resistance above 60%.

Once the Red tower dies it becomes a lot easier since that drastically cuts his damage output. He still hits like a truck, just not like an 18 wheeler anymore.

If I'm tanking him with CMA, I'll have my defense at 75% (purple pills, 45% naturally) until the blue tower dies and I'll always have 90% S/L resist and ~34% E/N. Until the red tower dies I keep one or two medium/large oranges active to get my E/N into the 50-70% range. If he connects with Energy Smash he'll take me down by approximately 60%... if he connects twice in a row he can drop me. That's why I keep a couple of big greens in my tray and Dull Pain ready to fire.

I'm not really an expert at either WP or SS since I've never played SS and my only WP is a Brute. With that said I can tell you what's going to be pricey in your build.

Pretty much all of the Numina set is expensive with several IO's approaching 100 million. It DOES have decent availability at higher levels but you're going to pay for them.

Kinetic Combat is a double whammy... first it's extremely hard to come by with a couple of the IO's being practically non-existent. As a side effect of this they're highly expensive. There's a couple of them that are reasonable and in adequate supply but two of the IO's are in the 100 million range... if you can find them at all. They're nice to have, but unless you've a ton of inf and a lot of time to wait you may want to go with the cheaper and available Smashing Haymaker set.

The Miracle Unique is expensive... around 75 million the last I bought one but that's been a couple of months ago. The Numina unique seems to run in the 70-120 million range although I haven't looked recently. I haven't bought a Regen Tissue unique for any character so I don't offhand know what it's going for but I'd be very surprised if it wasn't fairly close to 100 million.

Luck of the Gambler is generally not TOO bad except for the 7.5% recharge... that tends to hover around 100 million, plus or minus 20 million.

I frankly can't understand the two Mako's in your attacks... that set bonus is utterly worthless and they're more expensive than something like Pounding Slugfest that will ED cap your attacks with the Kin Combat (or the MUCH cheaper and more available Smashing Haymaker)

Perfect Zinger is cheap for the recipe but needs a few pricey pieces of salvage... Mocking Beratement is for all practical purposes free since it doesn't need any expensive salvage. The most expensive thing about the Mocking Beratement set is the crafting cost, you should be able to get the recipes for under 10,000 each. Still, either set is quite affordable.

Personally I wouldn't bother enhancing KoB's hold; it's really not necessary. If money's tight I'd slot your attacks with 4 Smashing Haymaker and 2 Pounding Slugfest, the Acc/Dam and Dam/Recharge. You should be able to buy all that for 5 million or less per attack.

Footstomp I'd go with 4 Eradication as you have and finish with 2 Scirocco's Dervish. It won't exactly be CHEAP, but it shouldn't break the bank; maybe in the 12-20 million range.

Looking over your setup I would suggest more slots for HPT; it can use more heal and resist. IW is really fine with the base slot unless you really need another IO mule. You may want to consider another set of Reactive Armor for MoB for a bit more defense.

You could make a basic build for probably around 50 million with roughly 33% defense to nearly all types. Your current build will be really close to a billion and improves your S/L defense to around 41%. Yeah, it's more effective, but it's REALLY going to cost you.

You'll need to decide what you want to budget for this toon but unless you're able to spend 500 million or more you can pretty well forget the Kinetic Combat and Luck of the Gambler Recharge. It wouldn't surprise me for a set of Kin Combat to cost 200-300 million.

Frankly I can't see any reason for a Willpower to need the Miracle Unique... you shouldn't have much end problem. Likewise the Numina and Regen Tissue uniques are less valuable to you since you already have considerable regen.

You always used to get that every time you hit 50 since that was the "unlock" level for Kelds/SOA. It didn't matter if you were hitting your first 50 or the 15th, it still always gave the "Epic AT unlocked". Now that they've moved the unlock requirement to 20 you'll see that every time you hit 20.

The fact that they unlock at 20 is another story altogether. Good, Bad or Indifferent that's what we have now. I'll confess to skepticism myself since they are considerably more complex to play and build.

Yep, I get it every time I log in and occasionally on zoning; it's generally kind of a loud rumble for me. It's not as loud for me as for most of you, but then again I generally play with SFX turned down to 15%... and this is at least twice as loud as a battle.

Win7, Asus mobo with onboard SoundMAX Digital HD Audio. It's an annoying bug, but I have to admit it's lower priority than many other bugs I've run into since it only lasts 1-2 seconds.

Hmm, I've been running dual monitors for over 8 years now so I had them from the beginning of COH... I haven't ever had any issues.

I AM running Win7 64bit now with an Nvidia 275 but I haven't heard anybody complaining about dual monitors and i17. Many, many other things yes, but not dual monitors.

Are you playing CoH on one screen and things like web browser, herostats & so forth on the other? Or are you stretching the game across both monitors? I can't really see that causing problems but you never know.

I've run this twice since issue 17 hit and both times I've gotten that bug... it DOES work, you just don't have any indication of how many Lost you have to go. Ran into it the day after i17 hit and again tonight with the same results.

Bugged it both times... it's only a display error but it's annoying and you're not sure if you're making any progress.

There's several methods, depending on what you're playing. One that's a favorite of one of my friends is Deceive/Confuse on the Sapper so he drains his buddies instead of you.

The short answer is you want to find them before you attack the group, target them and neutralize them first unless you have significant end drain resistance or a lot of ranged/energy defense. If you're a blaster you want to kill them first and fast... fortunately they're only minions so that shouldn't present a problem as long as you see them first.

So Mez, Confuse or kill them ASAP. As long as you find them before they attack they're easy to deal with. Oh, if you're playing a character without status protection I STRONGLY recommend at least one row of Break Free's in your tray... Malta stuns have an absolutely stupid duration and you WILL get hit by them.