ClawsandEffect

I don't mind knockback when the person using it isn't a complete idiot.

I have a couple rules regarding KB users on my teams:

1) If you hit a mob with a ST KB, you better keep hitting it until it's dead. Do NOT KB a single enemy and switch targets to KB another single enemy. You KB something, make sure it's dead before you move on so we don't have half dead mobs scattered all over the place.

2) If you see my Dark Armor character with low health in the middle of a spawn, DO NOT hit the spawn with an AoE KB. I can't even count the number of times someone has used Energy Torrent on the spawn surrounding me leaving me with no targets for Dark Regeneration, which I just fired. Then they stand up and riddle me with bullets. I can forgive it if the person is genuinely ignorant of how my power works, but if they keep doing it repeatedly after I've explained why it's bad, they get booted.

Energy blasters are usually the worst offenders, but I've had horrible experiences with Fire Controllers who think Bonfire is the greatest power in the history of ever. I mean, really, do you HAVE to drop that power the second the tank reaches the spawn?

I've had a handful of great experiences with Energy blasters who hover on the outskirts of the battle knocking things toward the tank. Those players are always welcome on my teams.

You could make the set pretty easily.

Take SR, replace Practiced Brawler with Indomitable Will. Voila, precognition with Psi defense.

Maybe add some sort of power that buffs your to-hit for enemies in melee range of you, and debuffs their damage.

It's not a bad idea for a set, it's just functionally too close to something we already have. That's the only real problem I see with it.

It reminds me of Michael Keaton-Batman era Danny Elfman.

Unfortunately, your build IS going to need a complete overhaul. It's not good. But it's not horrible either, I've seen much worse.

The biggest mistake you made is your defense slotting. You appear to be slotting for positional defense instead of typed. The general rule is if you have typed defense already or no native defense at all, you want to slot for typed defense. This falls into the latter category. There are exceptions to that rule, but this isn't one of them.

I'll go power by power and tell what (if anything) is wrong with it.

Here goes:

Fire Shield: You have this 6 slotted with Gladiator's Armor. Have you LOOKED at the prices that set commands in the market? You're looking at a 6 billion influence power there if you slot it exactly how you have it here. The 3% defense will be 2 billion by itself. It's also overslotted, very seldom will a resistance power call for more than 4 slots. I recommend 4 slotting it with Reactive Armor, skipping the pieces that don't enhance resistance.

Initial Strike: You woefully underslotted this power. For tanks, it has a guaranteed 20% resistance debuff that takes effect every time it hits. That means you'll want to be using it a LOT. Also, the IO you have slotted in there is currently broken and doesn't ever actually take effect, so it's a completely wasted slotting. I would slot 4 Kinetic Combat in it and an IO from a different set to shore up the weakness of the enhancement in the power.

Blazing Aura: Normally 6 slotting Obliteration isn't a bad idea, and if it were a click power there would be nothing wrong with it. But....Blazing Aura is your most expensive toggle endurance wise, and it doesn't help much with the goal of getting more typed defense. I recommend 4 Eradication and 2 Multistrike in it (for the end reduction). Eradication gives you 1.8% max endurance, 3.13% Energy/Negative defense, and 2.25% max HP.

Healing Flames: There's nothing actually wrong with how you have it slotted, but 5xDoctored Wounds would be a better choice here. The 5th slot gives you a 5% recharge bonus, and if you skip the Heal/End you will be ED capped on recharge in teh power. (because you want it up as quickly as possible)

Sweeping Cross: Nothing wrong with Obliteration here, BUT, you should consider slotting this with Eradication as well. I'd go with 3 Eradication and 3 Cleaving Blow. That will give you almost 5% E/N defense between the two sets.

Combat Jumping: You'll want 3-4 slots in here, but not for the defense. Luck of the Gambler +7.5% Recharge, Karma Knockback Protection, Blessing of teh Zephyr Knockback Protection, and a Kismet +Acc.

Hasten: It's slotted okay, might want to get a 3rd recharge in it though.

Plasma Shield: Woefully underslotted here. Plasma Shield is your only source of Energy and Negative resistance. You want 4 Reactive Armor here as well.

Boxing: Don't bother actually buying the enhancement for this power unless you plan on actually using it, just a waste of money othewise.

Tough: Way overslotted. You get 1.25% S/L defense out of Titanium Coating for 6 slots. Reactive Armor gives you teh same amount in 4, and it gives you 1.25% E/N defense as well.

Burn: Yup, you guessed it. 3 Eradication and 3 Cleaving Blow. Obliteration is okay, but the Kinetic Combats you will be slotting elsewhere will give you more S/L defense for fewer slots spent.

Rib Cracker: Slotted just fine. I'd add one more slot to beef up the damage and accuracy of the pwoer though.

Weave: Another set that is INSANELY expensive. You're looking at a minmum of 4 billion influence in this power, half of which will be the unique. And just like Fire Shield it's overslotted. 3 Luck of the Gambler will do fine here, including the 7.5% Recharge.

Super Jump: Blessing of the Zephyr KB Protection should go here. You want at least 12 points of KB Protection, and I haven't seen any at all yet in your build, unless there is some in the PvP sets that are way too expensive to be 6 slotting.

Acrobatics: If you slot the KB Protection IOs I suggested, you can skip this power altogether and save your end bar. Take Temperature Protection in it's place and slot a Steadfast Resistance/Defense in it. That will take you to 90% Fire resistance, which your build here is probably not hitting. Also gives you 20% Slow resistance.

Spinning Strike: If you can afford the purple set, it's slotted exactly how I would slot it, nothing needs changed here at all. If the purples are too pricy, go with Positron's Blast instead.

Combat Readiness: I'd slot 2 Rectified Reticle and add a generic recharge enhancement.

Taunt: I would take this MUCH earlier personally, but if this is an end game build and you don't plan on exemping it'll be fine here. I'd go with 4 Mocking Beratement just to save some slots.

Shin Breaker: Leave it 6 slotted, but switch it to 4 Kinetic Combat, a random IO to shore up Acc/Dam, and the Achille's Heel Chance for -Res

Crushing Uppercut: 4 Kinetic Combat and 2 Basilisk's Gaze, since you can slot it for hold as well. The Baslisk's Gaze will give you an additional 2.5% E/N defense.

Focused Accuracy: I'd slot this like Combat Readiness, but swap the recharge with an end mod if you plan on actually running it.

Physical Perfection: The Miracle is fine, but I'd replace the Regenerative Tissue with a second Performance Shifter +End (it's not unique, you can slot as many as you want if you have room, and they stack)

Fiery Embrace: Needs more recharge. I'd also take it earlier.

Consume: If your end problems are gone after taking my advice elsehwere you can replace this with Maneuvers for more defense. Slot it with LotG.

Health: Another 2 billion influence IO. Replace it with a Numina's Heal. The Panacea is insanely expensive.

Stamina: Slotted just fine.

Hope that helps you with your slotting issues. If you follow my advice (or a good chunk of it you'll find that you're a lot sturdier.

Interesting comparison.

It actually turned out more or less how I expected it would, with Street Justice and Martial Arts actually being so close in terms of performance that the only real difference between them is which aesthetic you prefer.

Me, I like Street Justice's aesthetic better. It just feels "crunchier" and more like an actual fighter would fight, as opposed to Martial Arts' more tournament martial arts style. Sseriously, you're never going to see a real martial artist throw a Storm Kick in a serious fight, and Eagle's Claw is impossible for all but the most acrobatic practitioner. Tony Jaa or someone similar could probably pull off something like it, but the hang time in the middle of it defies the laws of physics.

Your comparison is actually encouraging news. It shows that Street Justice is competitive with Martial Arts, and Martial Arts (after the most recent buffs) is one of the better DPS sets available to scrappers (but not quite the best)

And actually, 131% recharge is not difficult to obtain at all. You'll be getting 95% out of enhancement slotting if you slot heavily for recharge, and the additional 36% needed is pretty easy to get. Electric Armor and SR get 20% of that built into their secondary, and Energy Aura gets 40% in a crowd (so EA can do it with no IOs required if you can stay in a crowd all the time).

More to the point:

The devs are aware that their revamp of Atlas Park and Mercy Island has made it so there is very little variation of the content from 1-10.

They also understand that players are not going to want to run the Habashy/SecondContact/Thiery/Twinshot story arcs over and over with every character they ever create, so they gave us a means that is NOT in AE to bypass those arcs if we so choose.

Why did they do that? Simple, they could only cram so much content into one issue release. They gave us (if villainside is equivalent in number) 10 brand new beginning story arcs, that's more new story arcs than we usually got in TWO issue releases previously. And they are actually fairly well written, as opposed to the "Collect a Clockwork piece from a random person in the park for a reason that is only vaguely explained" style of the original beginning contacts.

I strongly suspect that the devs are working on eliminating a large chunk of the original content and starting from scratch, leaving all of the original content in Ouroboros so you can still play it. Which means, basically, that anything released before Striga Isle and Croatoa will probably be replaced in the fairly near future.

Some of the story arcs could easily be revamped a la the Positron TF, but given the devs' track record they will probably just replace it and put the old content in Ouroboros.

The mobs in DFB give no more rewards than the same mobs anywhere else in the game.

If a Fallen Gunner gives X XP in DFB, then it gives X XP outside of it as well.

Unless you want Hellions, Vahz and Lost to have their XP nerfed in general.

You will level no faster than running 3-4 missions on a large team, it just goes a little quicker because there is no travel time between the missions.

Shield/Street Justice might be a good one.

Actually, Anything/Street Justice might make a good AV soloer.

Street Justice has the potential to hit 70% -res, 30% consistently, with an attack chain of Initial Strike->Shin Breaker->Rib Cracker->Sweeping Cross (with -res procs in Shin Breaker and Sweeping Cross)

The primary choice is largely a matter of taste, but Shield gives you added damage without sacrificing survivability, so it's a good compromise. Fiery Aura would be the top for damage, provided you can meet the survivability requirements with it.