Hopeling

Personally, I don't mind sometimes being shown that there are still bigger fish out there. Even characters like Superman, or better yet Thor who is an actual god, still sometimes have to finesse their way around problems that outclass them. But they also get chances to solve some of their own problems using their absurd power - Superman doesn't have to hop over to Gotham and help Batman with street crime to remind himself and readers that he's really powerful.
Currently, the ONLY real thing to do endgame is the iTrials, where the main enemies just plain outclass us and it takes a dozen people to accomplish something. Hopefully Dark Astoria and other future content will let us feel more personally accomplished. Even Tin Mage felt good to me, despite needing eight people and fighting enemies stronger than myself, because although I was outclassed, it was still made clear that my team and I were the only ones who could hope to complete the task - as seen when the whole Freedom Phalanx and Vindicators wait at the portal as the backup plan.
Edit: By the way, as to the thread's original question, I think that a demigod should be able to do SOMETHING that a mere mortal cannot. Exactly what that is can vary for each one, but there should be something about them that stands distinctly apart from lesser beings.

Degenerative is -2% per stack last I heard, up to 4 stacks, how do you get 14%?
I'd be happier with Degenerative if the -hp wasn't arbitrarily gutted against hard targets, but it's still decent. Not as good as Reactive, but decent, and it does stack better than another Reactive.

You don't need Norse mythology for that. The parents named her Hel because of a deformity (definitely not a good-parent thing to do), so unless they waited until later in life to give her a name, presumably she was born with it.

Well, it clearly explains that she IS crippled, and named after a mythical character crippled the same way. I'm not sure it explains WHY she's crippled, if there is supposed to be a particular reason beyond an unfortunate trick of biology or something. Of course, from just this excerpt out of context I don't know if this is the actual Hel of myth, or just someone named after her.
Somebody who doesn't know Norse mythology still wouldn't know this is a reference to that just from your excerpt, though, since you specifically avoided saying what mythology she's from. "An old Viking legend" could work for that instead of "a Northern European legend" perhaps, still without feeling like you're beating the reader over the head with it.

Mids says Panacea is a 20% chance for a 5% heal, and 20% for 7.5% endurance. So that would be .15% end/sec, 3/4 as effective as a Perf Shifter proc, and .1% hp/sec, although if it works like most heals that's a percentage of base hp, not max hp.

You have a 20% chance for 10% endurance every 10 seconds. Averaged over time, 20% of 10% is 2%, every ten seconds, so .2% per second. With 100 end, that means .2 end/sec as Rangle said, and proportionally more or less for different amounts of max end.

Base recovery is 1.67% end/sec, so .2% end/sec is basically a roughly 12% recovery buff, when averaged over a long period of time. In short time frames, it might not proc at all, or it might proc three times in a row.

Right, the -res caps at 10%. The DoTs also cap, but at 8 applications.

Preemptive I think drains 1% end per tick, for up to 4 ticks? Or is it 5?

I wouldn't say Reactive is the only worthwhile one. Preemptive and Spectral do just as much DoT damage, and are less likely to run into the stacking limit with teammates; their secondary effects are less useful than -res, but the proc rate on the secondary effect is low anyway in the Radial path. Cognitive and Degenerative DoTs are also ok, although 20% weaker and somewhat more commonly resisted.

The regen and tohit debuffs are pretty insignificant against AVs because they are mitigated by AV debuff resistance (which goes as high as 87%, for a level 54). Just take one of the DoTs.

Most tanks can probably get by without Fighting. But at that point, you're probably not much tougher than a brute with Fighting, and no power pool choice will give you brute-level damage. Personally, I think if you're happy with brute-level survivability, and want to do brute-level damage, you might as well just play a brute. Yes, wasting a power choice on Boxing/Kick is annoying, but with no prereqs on travel powers and free Fitness for everyone, it's much less annoying than it once was.

Also just speaking from personal taste, when I build and play a scrapper or brute, I make them to be able to survive anything short of extreme/ridiculous circumstances. That's not good enough when I play a tanker, though. I expect my tankers to survive even in extreme and ridiculous circumstances. High-level TFs and Incarnate trials are filled with extreme and ridiculous circumstances, so it matters more than you might think.

It would be nice for snipes to be less terrible, but I'm not sure what you're suggesting. Momentum and the upcoming AS change do different animations under different conditions (Momentum/no Momentum, Hidden/not Hidden). What would the condition be for Snipes?

It's a decent stand-in for a Rularuu weapon I suppose, but it doesn't look like the other Rularuu weapons. Hopefully we'll get a real Rularuu TW sooner or later.

Edit to reply to ShadowMoka: Assuming there ever is one, and that it's unlocked by the Overseer badge, yes it should unlock immediately if you already have the badge.

Just did test it, and Ultimus is correct. The slow version of Defensive Sweep applies bruising, the fast version does not. Used DS on a hellion, orange shields appear. Tab to another and use DS again, now with Momentum, and orange shields do not appear.

You really necro'ed a month-old thread to post that?

Besides, according to dictionary.com, for example, "nimrod" has meant "stupid person" in slang for more than twenty years. Since this isn't academia, slang is perfectly valid here.

In that case, Banes can't even become Banes until 24, so I'd go Widow.

Banes also have pets, and can do significant -res. The mace ranged attacks are pretty terrible, except Poisonous Ray.

In an IO build I'd much rather slot a Kismet and acc set bonuses than put tohit in Invinc, except possibly for Rectified Reticle (and that's really just for the set bonus). I might feel differently with an SO build that doesn't have other easy ways to boost hit chance.