Griff Mender

Don't need MOAR recharge?....
*wheeze* *huff*
Panic attack!
*huff*
Can't breathe!
*hack*
But if I don't find a way to get moar recharge ninjas will kidnap the president! I need to be a bad dude!


And Fritz, you are a pet pusher! lol.

From what I've gotten from this thread is, that while yes anyone can do the Apex and complete it with standard tactics (its not that hard of a TF to get masters on), this is another way of doing it. And frankly it sounds fun. I can't wait to track down Dechs and try it out over on Virtue. If anything it'll spice up the humdrum TF grind that has been going on since i19 came out. But then again, this is coming from the guy who got the exploration badge under Hamidon by having a buddy teleport my dead body into the sky and try and fall onto the badge marker. (got it on our 27th attempt im proud to say )

You ran into that too? I had the same situation before about a week ago where there were 3 Paladin's spawned at the same time. I had actually grabbed a team of people to take them down since I thought it would be selfish to nab all those merits and not share any. Had posted in Virtue's LFG channel about it and assembled a team but then an antsy blaster went and pulled one by itself instead of the teams foolhardy yet fun intent to bumrush all 3 at one time. Kinda deflated the fun of the moment but was still nice to get 3 times the normal merits for a GM spawn.

Good point. Sometimes my perspective is skewed since im an Ill/Rad and my recharge time on deceive is the time it takes for the animation to finish..... That, coupled with contagious confusion proc from coercive persuasion set and longer range from my Cardiac Core alpha slot I never run into issues when quickly confusing an entire spawn when stealthing hero tips. Totally valid point for flash arrow tho when stealthing, i was just trying to save the OP a power pick.

As illusion however its a very simple matter of superior invis and using deceive to stealth objectives. You can save the power pick by using that combo. It's foolproof even against rikti drones and other anti stealth types cuz you can simply deceive them before they attack you and walk on past.

Well to start I can see that a few of your powers are underslotted.....
Lol, ok sorry had to get that one out of the way. As far as epics go, Local is right. Fire works perfectly with oil slick arrow. Once your recharge gets high enough (which is very easy with Illusion) Blind>Spectral Wounds>Fireblast>Spectral wounds>Fireblast etc etc etc is a great chain with solid damage (for a controller anyway). Even tho this is a TF/team build, I question the uses of the medicine pool. You are going to be very very busy between Ill and TA already and using aid other is going to be very difficult. You wont be able to use it in combat reliably since people move quite a bit and it gets disrupted easily and has a relatively long casting time. As far as Aid self goes it may just be easier to carry some green inspirations instead of spending 2 power picks for a self heal. As an Ill/Ta you are going to be a VERY long range toon and with Spectral terror, PA, Phantasm, and your arrows you really shouldnt be getting hit much anyway once you get used to the long range lifestyle. Also, if you are going to be taking the leadership pool and only taking 1 power from it, I would recommend manuevers instead of assault as the damage boost wont be noticed nearly as much as the defense buff and it can be used as a mule for a Lotg +recharge. Even then, since you are going to be in the back firing arrows and throwing down controls, the buff may not affect your damage dealers who more often than not lately seems to be scrappers who run way ahead of you in search of tasty bosses and Lts. For incarnate I'd probly go with spiritual since you wont have AM like an Ill/Rad and keeping the debuffs going in TA will require as much recharge as possible. I've never seen an Ill/TA that can do Perma Pa, but I imagine if it did it would require a serious inf investment. Thats all I can think of for the moment, hope it helps.

The Warshade one. Not the Dark Armor link. Cuz, ya know....Dark Armor sucks.

Not trying to give grief or anything, so please dont take this the wrong way. But what are you having a hard time soloing? My peacebringer is running a triform build with a very (very) modest budget (aside from some Lotgs +rech i got from hero merits) and I solo +2/x3 solo on regular missions all the time. I could imagine it being an issue for an all human build but running on SOs but even without an IO'd out build you should be able to solo the regular content without much of a problem. Now sure, it cant solo like my ill/rad or bs/sd scrapper. But that's not really necessary. I play my PB to have fun. If I wanna drop a GM solo. Ill grab the ill/rad. If i wanna farm Ill grab my scrapper. But the PB is just fine for having a good time with some relaxed gameplay.

Out of the sets you mentioned, I think Mind/Kin would be tons of fun. You can get your recharge goin pretty well and get those AoE controls firing off. But have you considered /rad? An earth/rad is an amazing toon. You dont have to worry about buffage at all which can be annoying in a support toon. Earth/Rad gives you great support options, you can floor the defense of an area of mobs from lvl 6 oneward with cages+rad infection. Plus you get -res, -regen, slow, etc. You won't be doing damage in any real amount but your team will love you. You can heal and you get a great rez. An all around great toon. Another option would be the toon I'm trying to put together in mids and then lvl up. A Mind/Rad. If I can get perma Hasten/AM I'll be firing off those ridiculous controls and what I've been giggling about is a combo of enervating field (-resist) and mass confusion. To watch the group of enemies do an even better job of beating each other up while i cackle with glee .

Tex, he corrected himself and apologized in post #6. Cut the guy some slack. jeesh.

Anyway. My obsession would be Luminous Blast. Matter of fact every last one of my peacebringers has taken that set.