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Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano

If we're judging by the way the slot originally worked in GR closed you do the following.

There are several IO style recipes you can pick from and craft to fill the slot, coming in common, uncommon, rare and purple flavours of recipe, the rarer the recipe, the more it costs to make but the more powerful it is and the more powers it enhances.

Level 50 enemies drop 'incarnate shards' which are used to craft the slot and to make the other salvage needed to make the more common/uncommon/rare/purple salvage you need to make the power.

One of the examples was a power which enhanced damage.

The Common version enhanced damage by, I think it was 25%

The Uncommon version enhanced damage and endurance by 33% or Damage and Hold duration by the same amount

And so on.

The purple version had one option which increased Damage, Hold duration, Confuse duation and Immobilization duration by 33% as well as giving 33% Endurance discount to all powers.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Mender Ramiel will give an arc that will unlock the slot, similar to the way Monatgue Castanella gives an arc that unlocks the Midngihter Club.
The slot probably won't be able to be bought with merits, as that was one of the things people complaiend about during the GR closed beta - it made the slot seem less special or tied into the game lore.

Originally Posted by Radmind

Issue 19: Alpha Strike OverviewThe

Mender Ramiel in Ouroboros guides players on this journey.

Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja

This is my main Angel Red, just sent to me in the early hours of the morning by BAKArt. He did a great job in portraying Angel Red closer to how I see her.

Originally Posted by SaintJohnNB

I will update this information as I get it...


For spot # 8... another taunt toon that can stay back and collect/taunt the spawns would be good in my opinion... Just a thought...

Team 1 (Team Leader @DRAYGOS)
1. Melee @ParagonBrawer (Elec/SS tank)
2. Heal Source: @DRAYGOS (empathy Defender)
3. Debuffs @Laseracid (Dark/Thermal Corr)
4. Ranged Damage @Camo_Fire (Fire/Ice Blaster)
5. Ranged Damage Ukaserex Ice Blaster
6. Ranged Damage The Ocho
7. Scrapper @Naa (BS/Shield)
8. Scrapper @Pagen-Steel (Kat/Regen)

Team 2 (Team Leader @Amygdala)
1. Melee @Paul Metcalfe (Tanker)
2. Heal Source @Tempest Teacup Empathy Defender
3.Debuffs @American Valor 2 RAD
4. Debuffs @Amygdala (Millicent Volt Rad/Electric Defender
5. Ranged Damage @Frozen Burns Ice/Fire Blaster
6. Ranged Damage @PhillyGirl Kin/Corruptor
7. Scrapper @ClanXanathos Claws/Regen
8. Tanker American Valor 1 Tanker

Team 3 (Team Leader @DaSlaya)
1. Melee @DaSlaya DaSlaya aka Chris DM/Fire Brute
2. Heal Source (Empathy/Pain Domination/Thermal/etc.)
3. Debuffs @Illuminati Ice Cricket1 Stone/Rad Controller
4. Debuffs (Rad/Dark/Cold/Thermal/Traps/etc.)
5. Ranged Damage @Kailey Cat Fire/En Blaster
6. Ranged Damage @Electro Illuminati Elec/Elec Blaster
7. Scrapper @StatoNexus
8. Scrapper@Gabriel D. Archange; Dark Van Shadow DM/Regen

Team 4 (Team Leader @M2 Is Deadly)
1. Melee: @Sweet Vengeance
2. Heal Source @Mr Mac Jolene Healer
3. Debuffs @M2 is Deadly Sick Minded (Mind/Cold)
4. Scrapper @Pagen-Steel Ket/Regen
5. Ranged Damage: @Major Jolt - Elec blaster
6. Ranged Damage: @Bloodstar
7. Shield Buffs or Debuffs: @Geo Glo - Ill/rad
8. Scrapper @Big Bud (MA/Regen)

Team 5 (Team Leader)
1. Melee (Tank/Brute/Scrapper)
2. Heal Source
3. Debuffs
4. Debuffs
5. Ranged Damage (Blaster/Dominator/Corruptor/etc.)
6. Ranged Damage @DevilYouKnow Shadows Ghost (DP/Mental)
7. Shield Buffs (Force Field/Sonic/Cold/Thermal)
8. Scrapper @Hellion Angel (Dark/Dark)

Team 6 (Team Leader)
1. Melee (Tank/Brute/Scrapper)
2. Heal Source (Empathy/Pain Domination/Thermal/etc.)
3. Debuffs (Rad/Dark/Cold/Thermal/Traps/etc.)
4. Debuffs (Rad/Dark/Cold/Thermal/Traps/etc.)
5. Ranged Damage (Blaster/Dominator/Corruptor/etc.)
6. Ranged Damage
7. Shield Buffs (Force Field/Sonic/Cold/Thermal)
8. Any AT

Originally Posted by Biospark

I believe its 240 merits.

Originally Posted by Biospark

It will be very difficult to run all of those toggles unless you invest in IOs that improve your recovery. Without IOs, you might be better off without the fighting pool.

My own personal FF/Energy (at level 30) went with Dispersion, Maneuvers, and Hover
This gets you to around 25% defense to all with just generic IOs.
My character has 4-slots of thunderstrike in each of his single target attacks, which puts ranged, and energy a little higher. Since he is a hover-blaster, that works well. And finally, instead of getting steadfast +3% defense IO (like most of my characters do by this level), I used my first pile of merits to get the Miracle +recovery IO for health, and that gets my net End recovery right around 2eps. Thats a number that a veteran told me awhile ago as a good target, and it works very well for all my toons.

Originally Posted by Pinkpup

Possible, since we don't know your slotting. Actually I would go with only Weave, since your bubble gives defense too. You could also not take Tough & Weave, since you have PFF (I hope). If a mob gets tough, hit PFF and use the med pool self heal before getting back into the fight. That's what I do with my bubbler, and I won't be taking Tough and Weave when i19 comes out.

Originally Posted by Neogumbercules

I'll offer my ideas/thoughts of the poster children for the whole AT spectrum. Keep in mind, these are "poster children" not "most numerically superior" choices. These are the combos that come to mind when I think what exemplifies X AT, and why.

Scrapper - Claws/SR. Hits hard and fast, tough as nails

Blaster - Fire/Energy. Ranged AoE death, great melee and utility

Controller - Mind/Rad. Controls the battle and weakens the enemy in so many ways

Defender - Emp/Sonic. The buffs in Emp are simply amazing. Sonic adds damage with -res

Tank - Invuln/SS. Takes it in and dishes it out in spades. Works thematically and in practice

Stalker - Energy/Ninjitsu. Great burst, can scrap, tailor made secondary

Corruptor - Fire/Dark. Debuffs and controls the enemies, burns them wholesale.

Dominator - Plant/Fire. Tailor made (and awesome) primary, all damage secondary

Brute - SS/Fire. Burn, smash and wreck everything that comes near you. Damage, damage damage! No finesse, no technique. You're strong, you're angry, and you're ON FIRE! LITERALLY!

Mastermind - Bots/Traps. Construct mindless minions that do your every bidding without question and use insidious devices to
control/debuff/blow up your enemy and buff your army.

Originally Posted by ObiWan

Mister Fantastic...that's just silly.

Originally Posted by TrueDarkLord

if u already have the stalker just use him he'll be fine, but currently the top stalker setup is elec/wp due to broken thunderstrike and HPT allowing u to be great running on just SOs and a stealth PROC...
and yes starting on a squishy does help u learn to pvp better, I reccomend psi/em blast,sonic/therm corr, or mind/fire Dom