GavinRuneblade

We already do. It is the pocket D teleport that comes with good vs evil. You appear in the tiki bar right below and to the right of the tailor.

If he was freak enough to have powers then he'd be tech, otherwise he's natural. Magical Temp powers are not an origin. Crabs are still natural.

The cybernetic replacement later on is the interesting bit. Per banes and crabs it seems they're still natural. Anyone know what the official take on Tarantula Mistress/Queens is? They are natural as fortunatas then replace their whole body. If they are still natural, then that's pretty convincing your dude would be natural per cannon (but you are absolutely 100% free to run any how you want).

I also wonder about Burkeholder. But that's just one arm, not a lot of cybernetics.

it is only every 10 seconds, not every second.

Neat. But it does bring up the question of the kheldian lifespan. If it is still in light form while in the computer, does it age? One of the appeals to the khelds of merging is they can live a lot longer. I can see the argument from both sides, all the computer circuitry sending constant new light into the kheld keeping it renewed just like a living being. Or, it's still in light form so still ages.

I assume that you've decided the former?

Two things: #1 False advertising. Nothing in this process is free, you are just running a business and taking a cut for yourself. You still have operating costs.

#2: This is also risky. I have tried this strategy and taken a huge (as in multi-hundred million inf) loss as I went with frankenslot fodder no one else wanted. This ONLY works for IOs that sell, not for everything you want. Just a recommendation, don't waste your time using this strategy on stun sets other than purple and stupefy, or any of the sleep sets, etc.

I think that I have found the difference between corrupters and defenders to be quite large. What I think it comes down to is that corrupters were more geared to soloing and defenders to teaming. As a result, when I pug (and I pug alot), villain side, I rarely see 1 corrupter make a huge difference to the team performance. Adding one defender to a hero team is a massive change. Caveat: "healers" who don't know how to buff etc, not included.

I have very seldom see a corrupter who made missions as easy as defenders do in pugs. Either it's just that little bit harder, or the small bonuses really do add up, or it's the quality of pug players blueside, or a combo of all of the above, I don't know. But in my experience, there is a big difference that comes with emphasizing the buff/debuff powers over the blasts instead of the other way around.

It could also be player mindset now that I think about it. Hmm. Have to watch a little more closely.

Purely solo, I think you're right, the differences are not as extreme.

one out of 3 is not unreliable when you're running x8 spawns. In a group of 12 that's 4 of them reliably not attacking back. Procs hit for 65 damage-ish at 50. Minions have 430+ hp, lieuts 850+, bosses 2k+. Damage procs go off at 20% instead of 33%. So of the 12, instead of 4 held you have 2 with 65 damage, sometimes three. I'm voting on the hold here.

That said, I do like to do 5 posi's and my Gravitic anchor for fire and plant. For the others the base damage is so low I can see going with dual damage procs just to get some out of it, but if I wanted the mitigation I'd go gravtitic.

Here's my advice: you have two builds. Take your current one that you are playing right now and call it build A. Keep using it. Take build B and put the slots in for Umbral's build. If you have a few of the IOs for it, put them in. As you play on build A slowly fill in build b. About the point when it is 85% finished, you will be able to toss in a few cheap generic IOs and play build B. Then you can retire build A or make yourself a PvP or exemplar-to-15-for-posi build or whatever you want.

This way, even if the build is too expensive for right now, you can play your character and have fun, and you will eventually fill out the build and have it. Just playing in teams at level 50 you will be surprised how fast you make money.

False premise.

Also, for the story. For the challenge. For the badges. For the accolades. Because the supergroup is doing it. etc.

your two may be the most common, but to say there are two reasons, is a gross oversimplification.

The point is that you have been given the math how a forcefield could have kept you alive, but no healing could. Even level 12 forcefields can be maxed out with just 3 slots it doesn't take level 50 and IOs.

This means of the 12 guys ATTACKING you, only 1 or 2 will be HITTING you. Forcefields are really that good even at level 12. Healing is never that good even at level 50. You can additionally stack maneuvers, or run your AE mission in the Rikti Warzone and borrow a VEAT or two. Even at level 12.

Also you seem to be confused about the different types of shields. Sonic and Ice give resistance. This reduces incoming damage by a percentage. Forcefields give defense, this causes attacks to completely miss you and is quite a bit more powerful than resistance alone.

About three times as often.

Never

Pretty much always.

Almost never. Only if it is something confusing, like using the temp powers on reichsman.

I use the edit note option on anyone who is a good leader or roleplayer or otherwise fun. I don't look them up specifically later.

Every day.

I was talking about the psychic powers. Per the CoH universe all humans have some degree of natural psychic talent inborn, hense psychics being of the natural origin. At the same time, some psychics are mutants who have particularly powerful psychic powers.

It's easier to find people willing to pickup leadership villainside because of synergy with the VEATS. Everyone knows how cool it is to have one or two on your team, and quite a few of us are smart enough to pickup a leadership toggle or two to help out.