ClawsandEffect

Major problem I see: You are slotting sets that give POSITIONAL defense bonuses on a power set that gives you TYPED defense.

For the record, if you aren't sure the soft cap for defense is 45%.

I can't open the build from work, but I'm not seeing a whole lot of sets in ther that give you decenttyped defense bonuses, most of what I see is giving positional.

(yes, positional bonuses also give typed bonuses, but at half the amount)

Your 6 Red Fortunes are giving you 2.5% ranged defense, but only 1.25% Energy/Negative defense.

You WAY overslotted Combat Jumping. Your 6 slotting of that power is giving you less than a 2% improvement to your overall defense. Pull 4 of those slots out and use them somewhere they'd be more useful.

I can tell just by looking at your build that you are not soft capped. I think what you probably did that is giving you that perception is you set Energy Absorption to 10 targets and left it on when you calculated your defense. Since you only 2 slotted it for end recovery, I'm guessing you are not using it proactively to boost your defense in a fight.

You are getting out of your existing defense set bonuses:

2.5% E/N defense
roughly 2.75% F/C defense
about 3% S/L defense

That isn't enough to soft cap your defense without heavily relying on Energy Absorption to make up the difference, which it doesn't look like you're doing when you play the character (though you probably DID in Mid's and it made you think you were softcapped).

I'll try and take a look at the build when I get home from work today, if no one else beats me to it. I'm not the best with Ice tanks, but I know where most of the set bonuses you want for it can be found.

Best offensive I believe is a Fire/Fire Dominator, if you're talking about sheer DPS.

Best defensive? Stone/Ice tank in Granite, hands down. You aren't going anywhere in a hurry, but that's okay, neither are your enemies, and they aren't going to kill you. Ever.

In the same AT? That one is a very tough call, and a legit case could be made for dozens of different builds.

Finish the 6 slotting of Oblits in Spin, and do the same with Eviscerate.

Drop Focused Accuracy altogether, replace it with Tactics. Because A) It's cheaper on endurance, B) It benefits the whole team instead of just you, and C) You already have Maneuvers anyway.

Also, are you going to USE Boxing? If not it's a waste to slot it. If you add Obliteration to Eviscerate and put all 6 in Spin it should make up enough of the difference to keep you at at least 32.5% S/L defense.

Put the slots from Boxing in Instant Healing and put a set of Doctored Wounds in it. That will cap you on your 5% recharge bonuses. Never mind, I just noticed that you have a set of Doctored Wounds in Fast Healing. Put that set in Instant Healing and throw a couple Numina's in Fast Healing.

Your build is actually pretty close to what I'm running right now.

Slotting 3 Performance Shifter Chance for +End will ease a lot of your end problems as well. It won't look like it in Mid's because Mid's doesn't calculate the average benefit of it, but each one adds roughly .2 to your overall end recovery, and a WP tank can slot 3 of them. Contrary to common belief, they are NOT unique. You can slot as many of them as your build will hold.

I'd reconsider the GA 3% defense and the SW 3% resistance. They are insanely expensive and/or time consuming to acquire. I'd only plan on putting one in a build if I already had one to use.

Also: Put the Miracle and Numina's Uniques in Physical Perfection instead of Health. If you're going to fully slot one and set mule the other, Health gets more benefit from slotting because it's base value is higher.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=265194

I put a build in that thread that demonstrates how I slotted a Willpower for softcap to all 6 types, while still having good HP and regen.

It's WP/Electric, so I don't know how well it will translate to SS, but it's a start.

Interesting thread.

Apparently Rial has someone standing behind him with a gun to his head forcing him to do the same thing over and over. Because that's the only way it would not be his choice, and his choice alone.

You know what? I need all that crap to advance my characters too.

Guess what I'm NOT doing? The same thing over and over again. Because it is MY decision what I spend my time in the game doing.

No one is forcing me to do anything I don't want to do just because I "need" the carrot I get for doing it. I'll do it when I damn well feel like it, and not a second before.

And if you try and tell me I have no choice in the matter....well, you can watch me turn the computer off altogether and walk away.

But that does suck that the devs took away all your gameplay options and left you with nothing but the trials to do........oh, wait.

You can create any type of personalized mission you like in AE, with any dialog you like.

Just sayin'.

This is EXACTLY the kind of thing they created AE for in the first place (not to be a giant farm/PL-fest like a lot of people seem to think)

Gee, glue grenade sounds an awful lot like Glue Arrow from the Trick Arrow set.

You're right, it is completely unfair that they can do the same thing to us that we can do to them.

Edit: it is EXACTLY like Glue Arrow, even down to the duration. I bet you'll find the radius is the same as well. Glue Arrow is 25 feet.

The NPCs don't get to complain when we do stuff like that to them. And to be honest, if the NPC powers weren't similar in effect to our own, the game would be far, far easier than it is now. I kind of like the fact that there are NPCs that are problematic, it makes the game less of a buttonmashing grindfest when you have to stop and think about what you need to target first in a given group of enemies.