Dechs Kaison

Notice my edit. I haven't touched my sig, so I'm not sure how it happened, but I'll be working on that for the next however-long-it-takes.

And the bonus is you don't even have to slot the power for accuracy or damage because it doesn't help.

Yet.

You're paying to use the garden in approved methods. Overseeding and other aggressive harvesting techniques will ultimately cause damage to the garden, and must be prevented.

What? You said what I was thinking. You just used the wrong name.

This.

I have mine, which will be posted with the guide. But it's bloody expensive and maxed all to hell.

To take out an AV you really don't need that. Let me give you the important parts, though.

Provoke
One damage dealing attack, even if it's just Nemesis Staff
All robots and upgrades
Acid Mortar, Poison Gas Trap
Force Field Generator
Scorpion Shield or Frozen Shield

This much puts you at 45% defense to S/L, making you more than survivable enough, and provides the offensive tools required to tackle AVs.

Now add:
Two Defense IOs in Protector Bots
Maneuvers
+5% defense for henchmen IO

That will cap most of your bots to everything but psionics. This really reduces the AoE damage they take on normal missions and such, or accidental AV AoE damage if you can't keep them sitting still for a while.

Nah, that's pretty much the most important part. I'm in the process of writing a guide for Big Game hunting with a Bots/Traps.

The AI can be difficult, but with enough micromanagement, they'll stay put. Bodyguard range is the same as Supremacy range, which I believe is sixty feet. I know that I can keep my bots on one fringe of a Triage beacon while I stand on the other side and bodyguard is still active.

So you can leverage bodyguard mode.

When your pets are in defensive/follow, /goto, or /stay, and in range of supremacy, you will share damage with your pets. You take two shares of damage while each henchman takes one share.

Example: 1000 point attack hits you in bodyguard mode. It gets split into 8 parts, each 125 damage. Each of your six henchmen will take 125 damage and you will take 250.

This doesn't work in reverse, though, so you have to keep the enemies from hitting your henchmen. Thus, Provoke.

I think it will so long as your computer is idle. Unless my cats are running around on my desk, I should be fine.

Thanks very much for the update. I feel like I have to mention that this follows my predictions perfectly, but it is only the first week. My predictions were also only based on the draft picks, and there's a lot more at play here than that.

Yeah, I'd call that a bad beat. Nothing like sitting pretty on a full house and getting beat by a straight flush.

So does the one billion influence that's been bet on you. Some people have more faith in your team than I do.

Unfortunately, with that much influence on your team, I have to put my hopes against you. I'll pay it out for certain, but I won't like it one bit.

... I think I'll also adjust your odds for future bets. Just to be safe.

That is the correct global to send it to. You're 100m in a pool that's over 2 billion by now, believe it or not. Since I'll be receiving the influence after I've changed the odds, I'll write you down as having the higher payout.

Good luck to you, and everyone else that's playing.

Go to the dentist.

Go to work.

Come home and log in.

You can solo AVs on SOs alone with Bots/Traps.

All you really need is [Provoke] and one of the two defensive shields. Webnade helps a lot by keeping them immobile too.

And yet no one's got influence on you yet...

You.

You're alright.

The rest of you, what's your problem?

Looking back at it, yeah... The debuffs last 30 seconds, so it's the same story as Lingering Radiation or Sonic Siphon.

I think I might do /Poison, to be truthful. I've got another concept that also works with that.