ClawsandEffect

Some powersets would work. Kinetics and Time coming to mind here. Maybe Traps as well.

Some powersets would be the biggest example of FAIL this game has ever seen.

Have fun leveling an Empathy/Martial Arts defender. Or a Trick Arrow/Katana (redraw hell anyone?)

Ooh, how about a Force Field/Street Justice Defender? A melee powerset combined with a support set in which half of the powers are designed to push things away from you. No, that doesn't sound frustrating at all.

Can't support this one. Maybe if someone designed a new AT that is actually balanced around this concept it could possibly work. Shoehorning melee sets onto support/ranged ATs would not work well at all.

Haunt isn't really a pet. Not like Umbra Beast is.

Haunt is a long duration distraction power, much like Illusion's Phantom Army. And just like Phantom Army, you can't prematurely dismiss them.

On the plus side, they only last 60 seconds, so you don't have to wait long for them to go away on their own.

You may want to reconsider where you're putting your ATOs.

I've heard reports of secondary powers not accepting them.

If you want to exemp a lot, it's hard to beat a Rad/Sonic defender.

It gets all the debuffs in the set by level 12. And since two of them are toggle powers, you don't need nearly the amount of recharge a trapper would need at that level. Between Enervating Field and your Sonic attacks it's pretty easy to consistently have ~70% -res on a single target.

If you're already level 50 (which you are), you can easily put together a build like that as you play.

Just set up the powers and slot allocation and swap out slotting as you acquire the pieces you need.

I frequently build characters as I go, adding a little bit at a time as I get the stuff. The cool thing about that is you get to watch your character gradually get better. I don't know about you, but that makes it a little more rewarding for me.

That's awesome TA! Congratulations!

My wife and I met in CoH as well. I was in Ohio and she was in Iowa.

We've been together for 5+ years and we celebrate our 3rd wedding anniversary on April 25th.

She doesn't post on the forums much at all, but I'm sure she'll extend her heartfelt gratz as well.

Level 25 LotGs are still a safe investment.

Alternately, you could convert them to Alignment Merits and get much more bang for your merit.

50 + 20,000,000 influence becomes a Hero merit. 2 Hero Merits becomes a LotG. So, 100 merits +40 million for an IO that would cost 240 Reward merits and should net you at least 100 million is a pretty good deal.

It's time gated, but it's the best deal you're likely to get for your merits if you want to make money off them.

Sonic/Devices makes great use of it when solo.

Siren's Song + Time Bomb = a spawn that you can walk away from and have it just disappear.

I fail to see what is wrong with powers that do not fit the "ZOMGFASTFASTFAST!!!!" mentality that seems to permeate every facet of this game nowadays.

It really isn't about how fast you do things. It's about having fun. If you're having fun, speed is irrelevant.

Would it be fun to go faster? Maybe. But maybe not.

When is the last time any of you played the game in no hurry to do anything? Just wandered around city zones that no one ventures into now that we have a zillion ways to avoid travelling at all? Stopped and did an emote somewhere just because it amused you to do so? ANY of those things, or dozens of others that I used to see people do all the time?

Kind of makes me sad really. A gigantic game that goes unappreciated because people are teleporting directly to their mission door so they can rush through the levels to get to the "good part".

It's slowly becoming exactly what I dislike about most MMOs, and every time I see threads like this deriding a power that some people enjoy because it isn't "good enough" it just reminds me of it.

Don't like Time Bomb? Then maybe Devices isn't the secondary you should be using.

I'm probably one of the rarer type of player in regards to this issue.

I......don't really care one way or the other what the pace of acquiring rewards in Dark Astoria is.

Incarnates aren't what is keeping me here, the game as a whole is. I look at Incarnate content as just something else I can do with my favorite characters now that they've done everything else.

Incarnate stuff has been out for, what, about a year now, maybe a little less? My main has a tier 3 Alpha, tier 2 Lore and Interface, and tier 1 Destiny (which I just unlocked over the weekend) He is the farthest along the Incarnate path of all my characters.

So, yay, stuff I can do on my main that will progress me forward in Incarnate crap.

The pace doesn't matter to me in the slightest, because I'm not focused on rewards. I'm focused on playing the game.

And isn't that what we're all here for in the first place?

Looks much better Riius.

There's still a couple things I would tweak, but it's a far better effort than your first one.

Things I would tweak:

I'd still slot HPT for healing first, and add some resistance in as an afterthought. The Max HP it gives you should not be overlooked.

Don't worry so much about Smashing/Lethal defense. The defense you should be concerned about is Energy/Negative. I'll explain why. You have probably over 50% resistance to S/L damage, but it is doubtful that you have more than 8% or so resistance to E/N damage. Energy is the 3rd most common attack type in the game, and there are quite a few attacks out there that are pure Energy, which means no other defense you have will apply to it. What that means is that when youi are confronted with pure Energy attacks, they will get through a lot easier, and they're gonna hurt.

I'd put 4 Eradication in all of your PBAoE attacks for the E/N defense it gives, as well as the Max End and Max HP. You want your defenses to be at least balanced so you don't have a huge hole to an attack type that will faceplant you when you encounter it. 35% or so is very doable for a Willpower scrapper. (it is technincally possible to soft-cap all types, but you'd have to gimp other aspects of the build)

Also, the new Scrapper's Strike Archetype enhancement is really nice. You can use a Catalyst on them and they become a purple set. When you catalyze them they give a S/L defense bonus of 5% for slotting 3 of them, which you can get twice if you split them between 2 different powers. You could, for example, put 3 each in 2 of your PBAoEs and fill the other 3 slots with Eradication. That would give you 5% S/L defense and 3.13% E/N defense out of the slotting of just one power.

The key to building a solid Willpower character is balance. If you focus on one aspect of a build to the exclusion of other aspects, you leave weaknesses in it. If you take a more balanced approach, your build will be stronger overall. In other words, don't obsess so much on defense if it means you neglect Max HP, and don't worry so much about resistance that you neglect defense, and so on.

Ultimately, what you do with your character is up to you, but I'd be willing to bet you'll be happier with it in the long run with a more balanced approach to your slotting.