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Yeah, constructing Notices is obnoxiously difficult, but note that Alpha powers can also be constructed from the Trial/thread components, as StarGeek said. Select the power you want in the crafting screen, then use the scroll bar on the right (or just expand the window vertically so you can see both recipes).

Edit: Just for the sake of thoroughness, you go to Incarnate Powers -> Convert -> Incarnate Shard -> Rare to make Notices, if you for some reason wanted to do so.

Burnout has a thirty minute base recharge (!), so even if you somehow cap your recharge it takes six minutes to come back (and with a practical/realistic build it will take longer). You could certainly use it to IH twice in a row, but you couldn't do it three times in a row.

Cardiac makes your powers cost less. But nuke crashes aren't a power cost, they directly modify your endurance. Conserve Power doesn't mitigate nuke crashes (although it makes it easier to get by with no recovery when you pop a blue afterward), and neither does Cardiac.

Also, a 45% discount doesn't mean your powers cost 55% of their normal costs. Endurance reduction makes the power cost 1 / (1 + endredux) of the original cost. So 45% from Cardiac would make a power cost ~69% of the normal cost, assuming you have no other endurance reduction slotted in the power.

You can indeed do patron arcs at 35. You still need to talk to Arbiter Rein first, he'll introduce you to the patron of your choice.

When you switch sides, your villainous accolades stop working, and you gain the heroic version of the accolade instead. For the auto power accolades, they just show up on your buff bar immediately. The click power accolades like Demonic Aura get grayed out; the new version is in your powers window, but doesn't automatically replace the old one on your bars. The same is true in reverse for heroes turning to villains.

So no, you can't earn double Crey guns, although if you know you'll be side switching you can cherry-pick which accolade to earn where, based on which you find easier.

The Steadfast 3% runs, what, 30-40 million? Not only is that far cheaper than the LotG 7.5s, it's cheaper than the full set of Gaussian's you're using, and gives more defense. It's also cheaper than some of the other LotG pieces you're using, the Oblit quad, the Numina unique, and possibly even some of the uncommon sets you've got once you account for salvage and crafting costs, and gives more benefit than any of them. In bang per buck, the Steadfast 3% def is one of the best pieces you can find. I'm slightly puzzled why you seem to be trying to avoid it.

If you're going to use Fly and Afterburner, they should be slotted for speed imo (or possibly used to mule IOs - you could swap the slotting in Grant Cover and Afterburner for example). You won't be attacking while using them anyway, so endurance should not be an issue.

I think it's a little silly to slot and use Maneuvers, and then use Hover as a mule because of the end cost. Maneuvers costs twice as much as Hover and gives almost exactly the same defense. You could slot Hover instead, completely skip Maneuvers, and get an extra power slot to take Hasten or something.

You can put a Performance Shifter proc in Physical Perfection as well, it's much better there than a plain endmod. You might also consider a full set of Numina in True Grit, rather than the Titanium Coating (and then trade the Mako's set for a Touch of Death, or something). I prefer the +hp to the minor resistance, anyway. This also lets you use the slot in Health for a Miracle unique.

Simply turning Phalanx Fighting down to 0 and adding the Steadfast to OwtS puts you at 47.7 ranged defense, so you could afford to (for example) drop the Red Fortune set in Deflection, and instead mix some sets to get both res and def from it.

Well, for one thing it lets you pull the LotG: Defense from Phalanx Fighting, since the base part you get when alone is not enhanceable. Using that slot to add back the Steadfast unique fixes the problem.

No, it provides a base unenhanceable amount of 3.75% when you're alone. Mids reflects this when you set the slider to 0. If you set the slider to 1, you get the 3.75%, plus an enhanceable 2.25% for having another person near you.

The 60% regen debuff is I believe affected by AV resistance, so it works out to a trivially small amount. Reactive is stronger, and also remains useful against enemies of lower ranks that don't have such huge regen. If you want to avoid the stacking limitations of other team members with Reactive, you might be better off waiting for one of the new DoT Interfaces coming in i21.5.

Yeah, but then it's not much of a Follow Up, it's just a Build Up with a tohit check.

In case anyone is actually still worried about Ice's effect on Fury, my Frost Giant brute uses Arctic Mastery and the Cryonic judgement with -rech, and I have so far resisted the urge to delete him in a fit over his uselessness. No, wait, that's not totally accurate - the thought has never even entered my mind, because I have never noticed any difficulty with Fury at all.

You mean the new trees in I21.5?

Total Focus hits hard, but is very slow, so its DPA is not exceptional. Energy Punch is much better for a DPS chain. I think you'd have to use some filler attacks still though.

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The one night I go to bed before midnight XD

Interesting ideas... but I'm not sure what space this is supposed to fill thematically. You mentioned a Hulk-like theme in your second post, but the Hulk isn't protected by his anger, he's protected by his superhuman toughness and healing factor. (Those in turn increase with his anger, true, as do all of his powers, but in game terms that would just be his Fury bar. An undamaged Hulk is certainly not a calm Hulk.) SS/WP Brute already captures the Hulk very well, I think.

I try to avoid speaking strictly ill of suggestions. Usually they are things I can see why someone would want, even if I don't, and it wouldn't hurt me to have it implemented. So when I say this, it is because I feel very strongly: directly tying personal power (incarnates, IOs, 14% maneuvers??) to SG membership and activity is a terrible, terrible idea.

One of my favorite things about this game versus other MMOs is that I can log in and play without being penalized for not wanting to make complex social ties and commitments to a game. And if increased personal power is tied to membership, you can say it's a bonus to membership, or a penalty to non-membership. They are functionally the same.

There is already a rather extensive system of SG advancement available through prestige, SG badges, and base building, and it has the kind of features that group membership should confer - travel, convenient crafting locations, general quality of life stuff. Expanding that is great and I approve of almost any suggestion that does so, even though I don't want to join a supergroup and don't care enough to create a solo SG. Adding stat bonuses or powers or equipment that are tied to group membership is not great and would greatly decrease my enjoyment of the game.

And if the benefits of being in a supergroup are available to those not in supergroups by adding a universal supergroup, why make them SG perks in the first place? It would be much simpler and less annoying to give them to everyone automatically.