ClawsandEffect

If you slot the Build Up proc in something, slot it in the thing that attacks the most frequently to give it the most chances to fire.

In this case that would be the drones. Since each attack from all 3 bots makes it's own attack roll, it will check to proc on every one of them, and if if goes off it will affect the damage of all 3 of them (since you can't slot the 3 bots individually).

It's also worth slotting in Fire Imps, and in Phantom Army (the only way other than slotting you can use to increase their damage output)

I would consider positional defense if you're going to use Electric, since Electric doesn't have any native defense to build on.

Defensive Sweep, unless I'm mistaken, gives Smashing/Melee defense. That would leave a hole to ranged/lethal attacks, which would be annoying as hell with all the machine guns in the game. If your lethal and ranged defenses are lower than the rest, the machine guns will hit you pretty often, and they'll debuff the rest of your defense into the dirt in the process. You'll find yourself cruising along and then all of a sudden it's "What the hell just happened?" What happened is your defense got debuffed and all the guys who had been whiffing at you started landing everything.

It sucks to get your defense debuffed when you're not expecting it.

Right off the bat I see a tweak that the build could use.

You're a little lacking on Energy defense. This is bad for several reasons:

A) You don't resist Energy damage very well, you'll get at most 10-12% Energy resistance if you slot HPT for resistance. If you start getting hit by a lot of Energy damage, it will overwhelm your regeneration pretty quickly.

B) A lot of pure Energy attacks come paired with an end drain secondary effect. Guess what you have little or no resistance to? Yep....end drain.

C) If you plan on doing any Incarnate stuff, the Energy damage will be flying at you fast and furious.

S/L defense is nice to have, but you resist S/L damage a lot better than you do Energy.

I try to get all my defenses into the 35% range on a WP, but I focus on Energy defense first. A good set to use for that is 4 Eradication and 2 Scirocco's if you want some extra HP and regen out of it as well. If you want as much energy defense as possible you can slot 3 Eradication and 3 Cleaving Blow. You can also slot 3 Thunderstrike and 3 Maelstrom's Fury in Focus for some additional typed defense.

I slot for survivability first and then whatever extra damage I can fit in. I do that based on the simple theory that dead characters deal zero damage. My character built for survival will outdamage the one built for damage if I;m alive and still fighting while the other is eating floor.

Your build looks pretty good otherwise, but I would seriously consider adding some more Energy defense.

I didn't have any particular chain in mind, I was just commenting on the fact that every chain you had posted so far included Gloom.

Edit:

Actually, now that I think about it, I WAS curious about something.

Could you calculate the average DPS of Shadow Punch, slotted with 2 level 50 Acc/Dam/Rech IOs, 1 Dam/Rech and Cloud Senses: Chance for NE Damage, Touch of Death Chance: for NE Damage, and Hecatomb: Chance for NE Damage?

I had an idea I wanted to try out. Remember that Shadow Punch will be keeping a permanent 20% -Res debuff on my opponent. I was considering slotting Reactive Interface 50% -res/50% Chance for DoT.

I was curious as to whether it would be possible to AFK solo an AV by putting Shadow Punch on autofire. To that end I may slot the -regen Interface instead. The tank in question is a Shield/DM, so he'll be getting a 15% damage boost from AAO as well. Was shooting for at least a tier 3 Spiritual Alpha to round it all out.

How about some ST DPS chains that DON'T lock you into only one possible choice for an APP?

Or better yet, some chains that contain powers only found in the secondary?

Because my tanks are all blue-side, and I'm not going to side switch just to take a power that has nothing to do with my concept. I min/max a bit, but I do it within the boundaries of my character's concept.

I might take Gloom if my tank is Dark Armor or Dark Melee, but I'm not going to take it on an Invuln/StJ for example.

Put some IO investment into a Blaster or Dominatior and you'll have your answer.

The devs aren't going to create a brand new AT based on ranged damage and survivability because:

A) It already exists in VEATS.

and

B) You can build a Blaster to be very survivable and pump out tons of damage already.

Example: There's a video floating around of a Fire/Mental Blaster soloing a Giant Monster. Yes, a GIANT MONSTER was soloed....by a BLASTER.....before Incarnate powers even existed. Now if that isn't survivable and damaging enough.....I don't know what to tell you.

Okay sure.

Doubt you'd find too many people playing it though. Most people want to win, not lose in an impressive way.

My skill level is moderate to above-average.

I've had no major issues with regen at all.

But I've heard from a great many new/unskilled players about how much it sucks.

Regen rewards player skill more than any other set in the game. You know that when you pull off something crazy with a Regen, it wasn't your uber-expensive soft-capped build that got you through it. YOU got you through it.

Go to villain side and pick up Mu Mastery instead of Electric Mastery.

You still get Static Discharge, you still get a hold, you still get the armor....

.....and you get an AoE immobilize to keep them inside Ice Storm.