ClawsandEffect

Have you never heard of powers like Transfusion, Short Circuit, or Power Sink? You know, powers that require a to-hit check (hence needing accuracy) and debuff your enemy's endurance and sometimes give it to you?

Those are the powers the End Mod sets were intended for.

Use 2 generic End Mod IOs and the Performance Shifter proc in Stamina and you're good.

Certain powers won't take sets. It's by design.

Active Defense only accepts recharge and endurance reduction, because there is nothing else the power does that can be enhanced by anything. It's juts your mez protection, and part of your defense debuff resistance, both of which are things that IO sets don't exist for.

You'll find other things that won't accept sets as well. Hasten can only be slotted with Recharge enhancements, and Against All Odds can only be slotted with end reduction, recharge, and generic Taunt enhancements.

It's supposed to work like that.

This does not match my experience with the set.

I cannot think of a single instance in which my regeneration saved me when my other layers of defense failed. Usually, when my other layers of mitigation aren't up to the task of keeping the incoming damage manageable by my regen, the damage starts coming in so fast that 1,000,000% regeneration would not save me.

Regeneration's new regen debuff resistance IS enhanceable up to 50% or so. That's because regen doesn't get defense, or significant amounts of resistance to stack with its regeneration. But even at 50% resistance, a 1000% regen debuff will still floor all but the most beastly builds. The bonus there is it will floor your passive regen, but popping Instant Healing will get you to where you start healing again.

Simply put, if Willpower's regen debuff resistance were enhanceable and could actually prevent regen debuffs, the set would become more overpowered than it is already.

I think it's highly likely that your regen debuff resistance has been helping you more than you even realize. There are a significant amount of smaller regen debuffs in the game as well, but with as much as Rise to the Challenge makes your regen rate fluctuate up and down you aren't going to notice the smaller ones that your debuff resistance is actually helping with.

The name of the AT they are used by is right in the name of the enhancement.

Dominion of Arachnos can be slotted by Arachnos Soldiers or Widows. (hence why it just says "Arachnos" instead of Soldier or Widow. It can be slotted by both.

So, since I'm currently a Premium player, I shouldn't be allowed to play any of my 7 level 50 characters?

The model they adopted is working fine in my opinion.

Basically, you get the core game for free, but you have to pay to get access to anything introduced after 2007.

Inventions? Subscribe or buy a license.

The auction house? Subscribe or buy a license.

Incarnates? Subscribe or subscribe.

Going Rogue? Subscribe or buy the content.

Basically, the people they never get any money out of are people they never would have gotten money out of in the first place, so they lose nothing.

But the people they get $10-$15 out of are very often people they wouldn't have gotten anything out of before. It's a lot easier to convince someone to spend a few bucks here and there than it is to convince someone to subscribe. They have the illusion that since they aren't subscribing to the game, they are actually saving money, even though they may have spent more than $15 on stuff they would have gotten for free with a subscription.

Street Justice and Willpower actually pair very well together, as well as being pretty good for thematic matching.

Titan Weapons has the potential for insane damage, but I'm not sold on the Momentum mechanic yet. I'll have to level one enough to have more than a few attacks and see what I think of it then.

I don't recall ever writing a guide, though I have contributed some fairly long threads on various subjects. Either way, if anything I posted helped you out, glad I could be of service.

There were a bunch of people who helped me out when I first started playing, so I try to pay it forward as much as I can.

Shields are fine. I like to run 2 end reductions until I get some recovery bonuses, but 1 is fine. Later on you'll want to put some resistance in Obsidian Shield too, Psi damage gets more common in the high levels and Dark Armor can get more resistance to it than any other set.

Slot some Damage in your damage auras too. Common sense: the fewer ticks you need to kill enemies = the fewer other attacks you need to hit to kill a spawn = fewer attacks used = less end usage.

Put end reductions in your attacks. They burn more end over time than all of your toggles combined.

planet j makes a good point about Dark Regeneration. The Theft of Essence proc is the single most important IO you can slot in a Dark Armor character. If you use only 1 IO at all, make it that one.

Work on building some defense as well. The fewer attacks that hit you, the less often you'll have to use your end bar killer (Dark Regeneration) A Spines/Dark should be capable of hitting 32.5% defense to Smashing/Lethal/Energy/Negative attacks, which will put you within a single purple inspiration of being softcapped.

Cloak of Fear is an inaccurate end hog, but once you have your end consumption under control it might be useful for cutting down incoming damage (it will also give you a place to slot Siphon Insight for the 3.75% S/L defense it gives)

It is possible to build a Spines/Dark without IOs, but Dark Armor gets 10x better when you add appropriate IOs to it, so you might want to look into going that route.

You need a significant amount more recharge past perma DP to get perma Hasten.

My Claws/Regen has perma DP. I have to hit Hasten and DP the instant they recharge to keep it perma, but I can stay at scrapper HP cap permanently. It has to do with the average amount of recharge Hasten adds with it's up time. I have about 25-30 seconds of downtime on my Hasten, and I found that I'd need an additional 40-50% recharge on top of what I have now to make Hasten perma as well. I could do it if I swapped a few purple sets into my build, but it's really not important enough to me to want to spend that kind of money on it.

My recharge is actually at 53.75%, so it's not exactly 55%, but 55% is a nice number to shoot for.

I seldom actually keep DP on permanent status, but it's nice to know I'm capable of it when I want to.


My thoughts exactly.

Touch of Death is a Melee Damage set. You can't put it in Quills.

You could put Multistrike in Quills, but not in a ranged attack like Impale. You could put Thunderstrike in Impale, but you could not put it in Throw Spines. That power takes Positron's Blast or Detonation.

Not to be a jerk about it, but if you're going to give someone advice on what sets to slot, make sure you know which ones go where first.

You can make any AT on any side now. You can have a heroic brute, or a villainous defender. There's no "this AT must play on this side" anymore.

Street Justice is a very fast street fighting based set.

The way the combo points work is: you have 2 types of powers: Combo Builders and Finishers. You attack with Combo Builders and it builds up to 3 combo points. Then you attack with a Finisher and it uses the combo points to buff the damage of the attack.

It's a lot simpler than it sounds once you start playing it. You don't have to use the combo builders in any particular order, and you don't have to build up 3 of them before you use a finisher. The Build Up power in the set gives you a 50% damage boost instead of 100% (or 80% for a non-scrapper), but it gives you 3 combo points instantly.

Titan Weapons is a little different. It has the Momentum mechanic. That means your first attack is going to be slow. REALLY slow. But your next 3-4 attacks will be really fast. It has a lot of AoEs in it, mostly cones.

This.

My Sonic/Devices is rarely even attacked, let alone defeated. But he can also fire Siren's Song from hiding as well. Cloaking Device + Stealth IO in Hover = total invisibility.

Unlikely.

Stalkers are getting the buff because 3 of their available secondaries have powers that are all but useless with a cap of 1606.

Blasters, on the other hand, only get one power in a single APP that being at the cap makes redundant.

Blasters are also not expected to spend 100% of their time in melee range where things hit harder like stalkers are either.

Regen can get away with it though. The only toggle native to the set is Integration, and it gets Quick Recovery at level 4.

I don't think I'd put a full set of Obliteration in a damage aura with any other secondary, but it's not really a problem for Regen.

Boxing may not work for the character, but I've noticed that Kick is a perfectly appropriate attack for a Street Justice character. What says "street fighting" better than kicking someone in the gut?

If this is all the case, you'll get more mileage out of the Numina's I think. It'll boost your regen a bit.