Crysys

Journey started: Level 1 Yesterday 7:22P Central US Time
AE Mission: Fire Cave!
Journey ended: Level 50 Yesterday 11:54P Central US Time

End of story.

Somewhat depends on whether or not you are one of those "Pure Healer" types. If you are, then I agree with the premise....Empaths just aren't that relevant end-game. If you balanced secondary powers with your primary, then you still have some contributions left to make.

In many ways, a Healer is just like a real-life lifecycle. When you are young and full of energy, you've got a lot to offer. As you age (level) you enter your twilight years and people still carry you along out of respect for the contributions you once made.

The critters do seem to stand around idle a bunch, however. I wonder why nobody noticed this before releasing the set live?

I think the best Scrapper new inherent should be a special Prestige sprint called "Swagger." This and by default any trip to the tailor involves a new scaling feature for breast size or crotch lumpage that is far bigger than what can be obtained by all other AT's.

Hey, its about as useful as EG's idea and far easier to implement.

^^ Not bad! 40%+ to S/L/E/Ranged (higher for a few secs with PowerBoost), which means with your -TOHIT you'll be effectively softcapped to to all of those. 140%+ in both Recovery and Recharge is pretty good as well.

I like this more than the OP's build. The first one posted was softcapped for S/L but everything else was much lower, with recharge only at +50% or so.

Just saw a creepy clown running around Talos named "Mobile Petting Zoo" LOL

Its a tough choice between /Dark and /Time on any MM build. /Time, in my opinion, only has ONE skippable power is Time Stop and MAYBE Temporal Selection. I really hesitate to drop either however as that's the only hold you get in the /Time set (other than chance to hold) and Temporal Selection on your T3 pet is pretty handy. For /Dark, I see two skippable powers, three if you really had to: Howling Twilight, Black Hole and Fluffy.

Yes, I said Fluffy. Do I want to drop him? No I don't. But I'd do so if I found my other primary attacks doing enough stacking to matter. Not sure yet. Black Hole almost everyone skips (with good reason for an MM IMO) and Howling Twilight, even when used as a Stun, is just "meh" in my opinion. I'd rather use Fearsome as my opener instead.

/Time really begs for the Mace Mastery pool so you can grab PowerBoost and the Shield, while /Dark gives you more flexibility in epic/villain pool choices in your 40's.

It is very hard to beat the +DEF you can obtain with a well-slotted /Time MM however. Softcapping everything but PSI for yourself is stupid simple to do with Perma Powerboosted Farsight. Oh and with /Time, you can ignore the Presence Pool for Tankerminding. Times Juncture generates more than sufficient aggro to pull the alpha onto yourself, and dropping Distortion Field at your feet once you've done so keeps them from leaving.

I ended up going with "Heavy Petting" for my Beast/Pain MM. I wonder if I'll end up getting Generic'd over that?

Make a Plant/Fire Dom first.

Then just stop. There's no other comparison sets out there.

Well, the build I posted you are softcapped S/L/E for iTrials, which is what you'll run into there. That 65%+ DEF makes it possible to tank the AV's (I have many times). I also get super high recharge @ 181% vs yours at 71%. That makes perma Power Boost and Perma Chronoshift possible, which also jumps my recovery up to 252 vs yours at 195. Mine also is a fraction of the cost of yours. While I have the billions to buy purples, I tend to put those on my other alts (I've literally over 50 level 50's still taking most through iTrials). MM's just aren't worth that kind of investment to me but YMMV...it's your money.

However, I do depend on the Protector bots bubble to get me there, along with the permas and Power Boost (which you didn't take). Your build will get you there without the extra clickety-click that I have to play so its a personal playstyle preference.

As for TP, I never used it as a travel power. It was just used for Tankerminding, as TP'ing into the spawn insta-debuffs the To-Hit of the spawn via Times Juncture (which I never turn off) and forces the Bots to open up their attacks at range. They do some great damage at range and I take the alpha, not them, which is great as I don't get hit. As for Hover/Fly....I don't usually take either these days, but you should double check that all your powers work with Hover on. I think TJ does but not sure and its set defining IMO.

Otherwise, I think you've got a great build. Good luck and have fun with it. Bots/Time/Mace is just begging for nerfage.

You don't even need purples to softcap Bots/Time.

Below build provides following:

-Softcapped DEF to EVERYTHING BUT PSI for PVE content
-Softcapped to S/L/E for iTrial content

My Bots are 55%+ DEF to everything but Psi (38% there)

The above accomplished via several permas and IO bonuses:

-PermaHasten
-Perma ChronoShift
-Perma Powerboosted Farsight (that's ~22% DEF to EVERYTHING right there...was exploiting Enzymes for ~26% DEF boost, but just put in recharges now, still freaking awesome boost to DEF).
-Several bonuses from IO's
-The shield from Bots

I've not even added in the -TOHIT (which is virtually same as +DEF) from TJ.

Although you will get a boost from the Protector shield, with the -TOHIT of Times Juncture, you really won't need it to softcap.



| Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Hero Designer to view the build |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MxDz;1495;712;1424;HEX;|
|78DA6594494C136114C7BFAF9D8285022DA5EC140AB2155A6 9F4685C104484DA863|
|67A24B50C3849B7D092E8D1BBBB895E8C7A50918B07C54070 891EF5A2375051EF2A|
|8B5BE2AD3EE7FD6D9BB469F3EBBCEDFFDEFB66C67F7AC8F26 0E4EC7E21AD8762917|
|47AD21F4967D4D9B8969832F923335AD42884B00F06C2A1F0 A87F78321838313C31|
|180884C2A5646FCC074F86E6E2F164C23B913C99CC68D1B4A BC03538373DED0D6B7|
|1958A27B4D45C2C92D1920951154C2663DE713532A5CEA64F 69A932FD3A9452D5A9|
|6AFD6F588DA9A9E46C460FB7FC8F4E698999E6E19416F5164 8F8235115AD9FA9A7C|
|EBAE8B76212F8644DE22BA15B11866FE017A24F11CA06B8C9 2CD962AE3A72B952CC|
|4BDDE65A60AE914F4ADDA7C831B695F8993B8E8101665990F 98E728CE8C5F8C4C0B|
|E25A6759959BD022E326B1E72EE539A8347C90A938BFBB3D1 FA4BB90763A983E36A|
|6A98B556F00FB95B14F19EB4CDC837F771FE732A588E7ECAF 7B19EE500B897CC8A5|
|1541EE4EB4A27E758C10ED2AE606D5161E6980FA451857A55 AB065DB77E0DBC2575|
|3A6F33DB6E823798D554CF867A36CCB74EF5EC5C4FB18FB24 6DB11A66B043CCCEC1|
|862DAA98E83EB981C0BF0DD07E7993BEF82F7C03BCC6ECAAD C38EEAD6D9F68276D4|
|80991AB6B9AFC6EFE00F66F34FF037D3F98BF991FA6FE25E0 C4D381F0FCEC76363B|
|693660BC7C8169C8B137C49DAADE8A7153BF94435DBB193F6 D7E8FB0DEFB8F72DD8|
|C8B1EE57ECFF4C399DD849E779B6755D002F829750EB32788 EB94C376C0F66E8C10|
|C6EDC5BFD9865D322441F66E843EFFDE0339AC18B7EBD8FD8 B66B117C0C2E317DCB|
|CC5ADAC9003407A0E983A60F9ACD4AEED9A42F7D84BBC832F 0CF220B2DBEA298DD4|
|5963D4596F1228B3F6FC90615889057EA5EB335F79C6737CA 72EF09213D3CDF56DE|
|26E551A9BF8BDCC7B1CBC2F81E8EDFCEDB8CF23A9F4BEF156 6FF35A6E72A738C1E1|
|81FB4FF02045AF6D9|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Ok I'll try editing.

I'm doing Knives of Vengeance now and getting my *** handed to me. I really need to drop all SOs and get some defense.

...until you can't use it.

I've got a Dark/Fire/Fire at 50 and just started Incarnates. I'm really struggling with hitting softcap for Ranged or Melee on this toon. Since I took the Fire epic I only have a resistance shield.

I know how to slot my Fire secondary well coming from a stable of other /Fire doms. But I just can't figure out the best sets to help me pick up some defense on the Dark primary.

Any suggestions?