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I think they are trying to fix it according to this thread in Announcements

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=277337

If I understand your question you are first asking if you loose out in total enhancement values by using Invention sets vs. single origin enhancements. Second you are saying are the set bonuses worth it.

To the first question. Not really. Usually you can do what you need to do with invention sets in fewer slots then similar single origin slotting. It depends on the invention set but if you mix and match the pieces differently you can achieve good enhancement values with 4-6 slots rather then taking a full 6 slots every time.

Now if you are slotting just accuracy and damage as in your example then no you can't achieve that with a single invention set. However, you can use fanken slotting (using pieces from different sets in a single power) and still save slots:

6 Slots - 3 acc and 3 damage = 94.93 to acc and dam
4 Slots - 4 acc/dam IO set pieces (Ruin, Decimation, Devastation, Thunderstrike) = 95.19 to acc and dam

Now when slotting attacks you also want recharge and endurance. Most attack sets in of themselves give a good well rounded slotting and max out damage or come close enough to it.

To the second question. Yes set bonuses are well worth it. Especially those that give defenses, global recharge, regeneration, extra HP, recovery, and damage. Also some of the PROCs in invention sets are very nice. The Numina +Regneration/+Recovery and the Miracle +Recovery PROCs in Health will eliminate most endurance woes as an example.

I would say get Mids hero designer and titan sentinel. Sentinel can export your character build to a Mids build which you can then use Mids to analyze. That should give you the info you need if you want to plan a respec for the character.

No single enhancements besides the two you mentioned but there are set bonuses.

To Hit Buff
Adjusted Targeting (6 slots) = 7.5%

Hold
Basilisks Gaze (5 Slots) = 5%

Accurate Defense Debuff
Shield Breaker (3 Slots) = 2.5%

Accurate To Hit Debuff
Cloud Senses (2 Slots) = 2.5%

Pet Recharge
Expedient Reinforcement (2 Slots) = 2.5%

These are the non PVP ones at least.

Personally I just create a icon tray with macros for each costume using the CCE command. You lock in the emote you use but you can edit the macro to change the emote pretty easily. Doesn't even have to be a visible tray you can just switch to it when needed.

Of course you have to have a tray available which on high level toons may be a problem.

Assuming you are going for just the Ranged sets:

Thunderstrike is nice, cheap and gives good set bonuses including ranged defense. To get max benefit you need to 6 slot it

Entropic Chaos is nice, set bonuse includes 10% Regeneration, 2.25% Endurance and a nice 6.25% Recharge. It also includes a heal PROC but at 10% chance to fire it doesn't fire enough to be your only heal.

Decimation is very simular to Entropic Chaos for set bonuses (has HP rather then the 10% Regeneration), includes a build up PROC which is nice.

Devastation gets put into my blasters a lot. Like Entropic Chaos and Decimation it doesn't help with defenses but you can 4 slot it and have good enhancements while picking up a 12% regeneration, 2.25 HP, and 3% damage set bonus. Has a chance for hold PROC but I don't find myself using that much, would probably need to goto five slots to use that and keep the good enhancements.

Other then the purple I really don't consider any other ranged damage sets to be worth it in a final build unless frankenslotting.

Well the CEBR map is designed for Claws/Electric Armor brutes so any blaster would not do well on it. No mez protection and little defense or resistances (especially to energy which is what that map is designed for) will mean you won't stay around long enough no matter how much damage you put out.

Dark blast is a good set. I view the -to hit as a nice addition but it alone will probably not help with survivability. First, there is not enough, the powers that have it only do 5% unenhanced. Second, most are single target except Umbral Torrent and Tenebrous Tentacles which are cones so delivering the -to hit to a mob can be very tricky, stacking it and keeping it up can be very difficult. Only Blackstar will deliver a significant -to hit to a entire mob but then that leaves you drained of endurance so killing everything is more important then debuffing them. Against a single hard target you will be fairly successful, against lessor things you had better be killing them faster then you can stack -to hit or you are already in trouble.

About Death Shroud, it is a good power but unless you are survivable it won't do much good. Unfortunatly it doesn't have the -to hit in it and the damage is low. Over time it will chew minions and Lt. up but you have to live for that time.

A Dark/MM will be nice. Drain Psyche at level 20 and life drain at 26 combined with some defenses and the -to hit will increase your survivability.

If your goal is to power level without using the invention system I would suggest blasters are not the place for you. Scrappers and Brutes do that much better. Blasters are the king of damage and good build with IOs can be very survivable but at low level and without IOs blasters are more of a low number of hard targets toon where power leveling takes a large number of equal or lower enemies. Blasters have good AOEs and can take out large numbers but they can't really do that at low levels like CEBR is designed for.

I assume something like this will work:

"cc 0$$powexec_toggleon Super Speed"
"cc 1$$powexec_toggleoff Super Speed"

not sure if the toggleon/toggleoff thing works with Super Speed like works with other toggles.

if you want a costume change emote use "cce 0 ccevillagh" or whatever emote you want in place of "cc 0"

Using NVidia GeForce GT 240M card and had the flashing after the patch. I saw this post and the comments about updating drivers so I went out to Nvidia and saw I had the lastest ones. Reinstalled them anyway and the problem went away.

My suggestion to those having this problem is to install the latest drivers for your card even if you already have them, see what happens.

For those on Nvidia cards they just released new drivers in the last couple days.

only one person on each team needs to set the bomb. Everyone on the team gets credit and can't set another one until the cool down period expires.

Usually I just concentrate on killing. Tanks and brutes usually do the bomb setting just blast the stuff around the grates and then run away so the bomb doesn't kill you.

Anything with mental manipulation is good for solo. Drain Psyche slotted for heal can give you 30 seconds of 40-100 hp regeneration per second turning your blaster into a mini regen scrapper.

I love blasters and solo them mostly. Get their defenses to 20-25% and some decent smashing/lethal resistance and you will do your job of killing them before they kill you. Blasters just rock the damage and if you can get them some survivability you will have no problem running them solo. I solo +0/x4 to x6. I die occasionally but as someone said that is what have rise of the phoenix for; dying is just another high damage attack my blaster has!

I think the answer will be the dreaded "It depends"

Unstoppable give you resistance not defense.

More then likely Invulnerability toons will have their resistance to Smashing/Lethal at the cap so hitting unstoppable for that does nothing. However unstoppable gives all resistance except psionics so it still may be useful for fire/cold/energy/negative/toxic. Invulnerability gives you a good base for these but more then likely you are in the 20-40% range so hitting unstoppable would make a big difference if you are fighting those damage types.

In addition it will boost your recovery and status protections (while this may seem unnecessary there are some big mag powers out there that can burn through standard status protection).

Of course this all comes with a crash after 3 minutes.

It is a very nice "Oh No!" power and can function fine with the base slot. If you are not hurting for power choices then by all means keep it. If you need powers however this is a good one to drop since its benefits are very situational.