ClawsandEffect

Okay, I'm going to be blunt, so please don't take it as an insult, as it isnt my intention.

That is, to be perfectly honest, one of the most asinine ways to build a Willpower character I've seen in a long time. I'll explain why that is so.

1) You wasted a LOT of slots chasing positional defense. Your Melee defense is sitting at 31.2%, Ranged at 23.7%, and AoE at 20%. Every single one of your typed defenses is higher than those, with the exception of melee and smashing/lethal, meaning all that positional defense you dedicated those slots to is doing precisely nothing.

In case you don't know how it works, I'll tell you WHY it is doing nothing: The game only checks against whatever defense is highest. So if you are attacked by a ranged/energy attack it will check against your energy defense of 35.3% and completely ignore your ranged defense of 23.7%

2) You didn't slot High Pain Tolerance for Healing, instead choosing to boost the tiny amont of resistance it gives you. Willpower survives by regenerating. More HP means more regeneration. High Pain Tolerance boosts your max HP, which you do by slotting for healing. See the problem there?

3) You slotted Follow Up with a full set of Gaussian's. Nice bonuses, and it will boost the hell out of your accuracy, but how exactly do you expect to hit with Follow Up consistently when the set you slotted has no accuracy enhancement in it? Since you wil be using Follow Up a lot, you should make sure it is actually worth using as an attack too. Doesn't make much sense to use a power that boosts damage if using that power lowers your damage output because it isn't slotted for damage itself.

4) You slotted Focus with 2 Thunderstrikes.....and nothing else. Focus is one of your best attacks, and you completely gimped it.

5) Why the bloody hell did you 5 slot Combat Jumping with Serendipity?!? Combat Jumping gives you 1.875% defense. Those 5 slots boost it to....2.936% You spent 4 slots and a full set of Serendipity to get 1.061% defense. The set bonuses aren't even helping you either. 4% regen is not even noticable on a WIllpower, and the AoE defense is doing nothing for you because all your typed defenses are higher than 20%

6) With your current slotting, you don't even break 1,000% regeneration with 10 targets in range of Rise to the Challenge. I shoot for at least 1,100%, and my currently planned build will break 1,200%. 1,000% regeneration in a crowd is a minimum for Willpower, and you're the first person I've seen in a while that didn't hit it by accident.

7) Your Hit points, with accolades turned on, is sitting at 1984.8. My Dark Armor scrapper has more than that, and Willpower should be able to blow Dark Armor out of the water on HP total without even really trying to.

About the only thing you did right in that build is slotting Reactive Armor in your resistance toggles, and you slotted 1 too many of them. More than 4 slots of Reactive Armor is a waste, because you don't get any more resistance for the 5th slot, and I've already explained why the 1.25% AoE defense bonus is useless.

I'm not trying to be mean about this, but what you've done here is completely ignore Willpower's strengths to chase a bunch of set bonuses that are doing absolutely nothing. Seriously, the game is outright ignoring all that positional defense you wasted all those slots getting.

To be perfectly frank, I'm wondering how much support you had when you were tanking that ITF, because I have serious doubts about this build's ability to do it by itself. In fact I would go so far as to say there is no way in hell this build is tanking an ITF without support, and a lot of it.

It's been Zukunft ever since the list merge.

It has not moved from it's position under Pinnacle yet.

Black Widow

Iron Man or War Machine?

This is an exchange between myself and BackAlleyBrawler from a year or two ago.

I have a Sonic/Devices hoverblaster, and he's just beastly.

I went with Mu Mastery for the AoE immobilize, and between that and the 2 cones he lays down some decent AoE carnage.

I also have him sitting at about 32% ranged defense, with the potential for around 37-38% when I get a couple more sets slotted in him.

Pretty much any combo can hoverblast, and it isn't just blasters who can do it. I've got a Rad/Sonic defender that is softcapped to ranged defense....he solos GMs (very slowly). Corruptors can do it well too.

There's a slight delay from mob to mob, but it jumps really fast.

Do you mean Trials that will unlock Incarnate slots, or just trials in general?

Cavern of Trancendence, Cathedral of Pain, Eden, the Abandoned Sewer and all 6 respec trials are what are generally considered trials.

Lambda Sector and the Behavior Adjustment Facility are the only trials that unlock Incarnate content, and you must be level 50 to run them.

That answer your question?

You're going to want some typed defense in there.

Relying on pure regen isn't going to keep you alive in difficult content. When you're in a large spawn, having little or no defense means you're going to be getting hit a lot, and if 10-12 things are beating on you at once, it can and will overwhelm your regen.

You should be able to get around 30% to all types without sacrificing a whole lot of recharge. Also, Recharge is less valuable for WP than some other sets. The only benefit it has is in speeding up your attacks. Personally, I'd rather be more survivable and attack somewhat slower than attack faster and be squishy.

Having all the recharge in the world won't do you much good when you're faceplanted....unless you want it to bring your rez back faster.

There's nothing especially wrong with your build, but I think you are drastically overestimating how well pure regeneration is going to keep you alive.

NCIS

Marvel or DC?

I suggest Invulnerability/Dark Melee.

You get all the plusses of Invuln, and the added survivability of DM.

I would suggest Dark Armor, but that's really more of a set for when you know the game better.

Cell phone.

I use a phone to talk on, I don't want or need all the extra crap the phone companies are trying to convince us are indispensible parts of our lives. If I want to check my facebook, I'll wait until I get home to do it, instead of on the interstate.

Drano or Liquid Plumber?

BS/SD.

The extra damage and more AoE will make all the difference. SR will be chaper to softcap, but if you find yourself on a tight budget, you can use Parry to keep your melee defense up and focus on Ranged and AoE (which are usually cheaper to buld for)

Also, Shield gets +HP, and some resistance, neither one of which SR gets.

I am REALLY surprised Techbot_Alpha hasn't posted in this thread, since Photonic is pretty much an exact description of the orbital railgun he wants.

Thanks for the input guys. This guy should end up being damn hard to kill.